Late 19th Century Paintings

Beautiful and timeless portrait .It represents a half-length male portrait, with the sitter seated in a chair, slightly in profile. He is a young man, belonging to a prominent politi...

Wonderful turn of the century oil portrait of old civil war soldier circa 1900, by an unknown artist. Soldier is depicted wearing the Medal of Honor...

Gustave DURAND (1863 – 1938), Still life with a pearl necklace, late 19th century – early 20th century, oil on canvas, signed upper right, 60 x 73 cm Good general condition of the c...

Artist: Thomas Sidney Cooper (English, 1803-1902) Title: "Cow and Chickens in Stable" *Signed and dated by Cooper lower left Year: 1871 Medium: Original Oil Painting on Wood Panel Fr...

George Raab was born in 1866 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. In 1889, Raab and Herman Keiker opened a photographic studio called Feiker and Raab. Less than a year later, Raab would start up...

This captivating oil portrait by Albert William Holden (1848-1932) depicts a jovial cavalier, raising a glass in a dimly lit tavern interior. The composition has been signed 'Albert ...

Beautiful small Barbizon oil on canvas painting of two peole walking down a country road with dark stormy skies. Housed in a Whistler style period frame. Faintly signed lower left bu...

Artist Unknown, Second Quarter Nineteenth Century Ruins of the Theatre at Taormina, Sicily oil on board, partially arched top unframed: 26 x 36.5 cm (10 1/4 x 14 3/8 in) framed: 31...

When you gaze upon "Yacht Wanderer (Slave Ship)" by William Gay Yorke, you're not just looking at a maritime painting; you're peering into a fragment of history with profound and com...

American Impressionist

This painting, titled A Creek on the Maas, is by George Stanfield Walters (1838–1924), a British artist known for his maritime and coastal scenes. Walters’ work often captured the se...

English 19th century River landscape farmers harvesting the hay in an English Summer. A stunning late 19th/early 20th-century oil painting by the highly collected English School lan...

This dramatic Scottish Impressionist 19th century oil painting is by noted Scottish artist Joseph Henderson. Painted in 1876 it was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy the same y...

KARL KAUFMANN Austrian, 1843 - 1901 VIEW OF VENICE signed & dated "K. Kaufmann 1894" (lower right) oil on canvas 38-3/4 x 56-1/8 inches (98 x 142 cm.) framed: 41-1/2 x 59-1/4 inches ...

Horse in front of the barn. 19th Century English by Edward John Hoy signed, dated 1899. Beautiful custom (Richard Tobey) gilt wood frame, canvas 18x24 ...

This captivating painting from around 1890 depicts a Swiss Golden Eagle in a dramatic mountain landscape, fending off Carrion Crows. Oil on canvas, signed F. Furet. Francois Furet...

Children at the Stream By T. Stevens, British 19th century Signed, oil painting on canvas, framed Framed: 12.75 x 19 inches canvas: 10 x 16 inches Condition: The painting is in very ...

This late 19th century European School oil painting captures a serene woodland scene with a lone stag grazing amidst slender trees. The composition draws the viewer's eye through the...

Wilhelm Ritter (1860-1948) German, oil on canvas. At the village well in a Rhineland village, a horse and carriage beyond. Signed to the lower left. Pre...

An original landscape painting by the Dutch artist Edward de Looz-Block. Leeboard barges on a broad river, probably the Schelde. Signed to the lower right. Well presented in a decora...

Signed and dated in the right hand corner. Beautiful and impressive painting by the italian painter Giuseppe Raggio, both in size and atmosphere, representing a Lake in the countrys...

A charming depiction of a still lake with white sailing boat drifting past rolling hills. The artist has used a stipple technique with their brush to depict much of the ground cover ...

Hermanus Koekkoek the Younger was part of the famous Koekkoek artist family: grandson of Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, nephew of the landscape painter, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek...

This artwork might be one of two versions, the other one being in the Museum in les Invalides Paris. Note. This version has a more accomplished academic style. Dimensions with original gold frame 107 x 87 cm Conditions Excellent overall, supported by an original frame withan antique glass. EDOUARD DETAILLE The emperor is accompanied by his aide-de-camp, Colonel Castelnau, and Marshal Canrobert. In a gilded wooden frame, under a Marie Louise blue background. Life and time Born in 1848 into a close-knit bourgeois family, Édouard Detaille, the eldest of eight children, displayed early talent in drawing. “He was a prodigy,” notes François Robichon. By the age of thirteen, he exhibited an astonishing surety of hand and a phenomenal sense of composition. His father, connected to Horace Vernet, encouraged him. At seventeen, after passing his baccalaureate, he entered Meissonier’s studio. This relationship, which developed into mutual affection, spared Detaille the academic detour through the École des Beaux-Arts. Rather than dictating an official art style, Meissonier, at the peak of his fame, traveled with his students, introducing them to the nuances of Titian, Rembrandt, and Rubens in Brussels and Lille. In 1867, the Paris of “free trade” dominated the world through the technological revolutions of the Universal Exhibition, and the amiable young man, striking in appearance, discovered the salon of Princess Mathilde and the theater of Dumas fils. He even approached the Empress, noting in his journals, “Not bad, the Empress.” This observation encapsulated Detaille: he had no doubts about his talent, cultivated panache, enjoyed the company of beautiful women, and aimed to conquer the circles of power without sacrificing his freedom. From childhood, he listened to his calling: “Before I could read, I could guess the subjects of battles, the names of famous generals, the weapons of officers and soldiers from the images I admired in the books of Norvins and Laurent de l'Ardèche.” He mingled with collectors and regularly attended military reviews on the Champs-Élysées. His first painting exhibited at the Salon in 1868, “La Halte de tambours,” was praised by critics who immediately recognized “a remarkable truth of observation and simplicity of effect.” The purchase of this work by Princess Mathilde, cousin of Emperor Louis-Napoleon, made Detaille, at twenty, an envied celebrity known to Sainte-Beuve, Théophile Gautier, the Goncourt brothers, and Flaubert. The young artist’s humanistic vision contrasted with the compositions of his predecessors, depicting soldiers in maneuvers, contemplative and resigned as war loomed. **The Combatant’s Vision** The Siege of Paris, where he nearly lost his life in 1870, and the deaths of two brothers in that defeat darkened his outlook. From 1871 onward, Detaille no longer concealed the cruelties of war: German riflemen mowed down by machine gun fire, cavalrymen and panicked horses caught in ambushes, fields plowed by shells strewn with dead animals. The unvarnished tragedy: “It is an absolute fact that no painter has ever rendered a battlefield covered with corpses as it is,” commented Jules Claretie. The fallen bodies still bear the appearance of life in their frozen rigidity. Detaille’s testimony of the devastating defeat and the catastrophic effects of the first total war in history was not a celebration of heroism but a lament, a “lesson in darkness.” “From war, once considered the supreme effort of human genius, we now see only melancholy and horrors,” judged one writer in response to his canvases. “Detaille experienced the reality of combat at a young age during a war that foreshadowed the two world conflicts of the 20th century,” explains François Robichon. With great realism, Detaille painted war from the perspective of the combatant. He introduced a humanity and a critical lucidity regarding the evolution of warfare. His works intensely captured the violence and firepower of new weapons like machine guns. Before he turned thirty, Detaille had become a chronicler of these painful years. He exhibited, as a critic noted, a “striking portrait of modern war” that both French civilians and soldiers had experienced firsthand. He embodied a youth humiliated and eager for revenge. Yet this scrupulous artist also remembered, in his expansive landscapes—from the chalky plateaus of Île-de-France to the Russian plains—the lessons of Corot and Courbet. Manet was not far off. “I wouldn’t want my art to be reduced to mere patriotic art,” he asserted. “A system I often employ and love is to first execute the landscape, very effective, very tight, based on nature…” Echoing Meissonier’s advice: “Always nature, always nature!” Detaille remained close to this father figure, constructing a grand townhouse next to his mentor’s studio at 129 boulevard Malesherbes at the age of 26, having purchased 425 m² of land from the Pereire brothers. He even chose the same architect as Meissonier: Paul Boesvilwald. A bachelor and incorrigible seducer, the painter welcomed his conquests, including Valtesse de la Bigne, amidst his collections, having built his studio in the courtyard. Diplomatic Actor As Detaille’s fame grew, his Malesherbes townhouse quickly became a gathering place for foreign princes, politicians, and heads of state, where Juliette Adam, Léon Gambetta’s muse, offered him valuable advice. The Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, developed a genuine friendship with the painter. “This fervent patriot, friend of Déroulède, was extraordinarily open to the world,” recounts François Robichon. In just a few years, he gained considerable social, cultural, and international stature. Received at Windsor, at the English court, he was close to Tsar Alexander III and a great friend of Félix Faure. In this capacity, Detaille played a decisive role in the Entente Cordiale, signed in 1904 between England and France, and in the Franco-Russian alliance of 1894, thereby contributing to the Triple Entente among the three powers. An engaged witness of his time—associated with the birth of the “Ligue des Patriotes” alongside Alphonse de Neuville...

Portrait of an Elderly Fisherman Italian School, 19th century oil on canvas, framed Framed: 14 x 12 inches Canvas: 10.5 x 9 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: several s...

Signed, lower right: Fantin Provenance: Gustave Tempelaere (1840–1904), Paris; possibly by descent to his son: Julien Tempelaere (1876–1961) and with F. & J. Tempelaere, Paris, prob...

Winter Scene English School, 19th century oil on board, framed framed: 13.5 x 19 inches board: 6 x 12 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: good and sound conditi...

Artist/ School: English School, late 19th/ early 20th century. The painting came from a large collection of works by one artist. A very few of them are signed what looks to be 'F. Wardle'. Title: Falling Tree...

This scenic painting captures the raw beauty of a mountain valley with a winding river cutting through dense forests and rugged peaks. The artist's skillful use of perspective draws ...

Charles M.C Kinley (late 19th/ early 20th century) signed oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 23 x 33 inches canvas: 20 x 30 inches provenance: private collection, England condit...

Charles Thomas Bale (British, 1845 - 1925) - Still life of fish and shrimp. 30.5 x 60.5 cm without frame, 50 x 80 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in wooden frame. -...

I’m selling this Beautiful Luminst Sunrise painting by Edward Moran (1829-1901) , a famous American Marine Hudson River painter and artist The Luminescent Glow from the rising sun i...

5158 Antique American oil painting straberries in a basket interior scene Late 19th century

Outstanding English Victorian 19th century Harvest landscape. Thomas Simon Dingle was the son of Thomas Dingle (1818-1904), known as a London landscape painter, but who, according t...

This charming British Victorian genre oil painting is by attributed to noted exhibited artist Henry Turner Munns. Painted circa 1870 the composition is of a baby by a hearth, asleep ...

LEBAS Léonie (19th-20th) - Paris Belle Epoque Genre Scene - Oil on wood in pair - Copper leaf frames. Wood Dim (each) : 22 X 16 cm - Dim frame (eac...

Como pueden apreciar, la obra va firmada en la parte inferior y fechada del año 1873 Se presenta enmarcada la obra (el marco presenta algunas leves faltas) El estado de la obra es ...

Fabulous late 19th or early 20th century oil on canvas. It looks to be in the style of the Barbizon School moving into impressionim. Most of the earl...

Pieter Caspar Christ (Dutch, 1822 - 1888) This Romantic painter of cityscapes and landscapes received his artistic education from his ...

An original 1891 watercolor painting by noted American landscape artist Charles Partridge Adams, titled "Spring Blossoms." This serene composition captures the Platte River at sunris...

Self Portrait of the Artist French Impressionist painter of the late 19th century oil on canvas canvas: 11 x 9 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and ...

Original late 19th century, oil on canvas. Unsigned. Well presented in a gilt-effect frame. On canvas on stretchers.

Athenian Woman Carrying a Water Jar In a White Dress Beautiful painting by a Central California artist circa 1890s (American 19th c). Oil painting of a Athenian woman holding a blue water vase on her shoulder with a red and orange shawl draped over her white dress. Painted on late 19th century Academy...

Amedee ROSIER (1831 - 1898) This is a classic example of Rosier's work featuring the Doge's Palace in Venice, Italy. Venice is a reoccurring theme in hi...

A gorgeous floral still life which marries the depth and the richness found in the work of the Flemish old masters with the elegance and light of French painting. As you will see, th...

Signed lower right: F.A. SILVA.

Mountain Lake Oil Painting by 19th Century British Artist David Hicks, Active Circa 1873–1902. Presented in a high quality moulding with a cream coloured insert. Excellent Condition...

Well painted and very decorative oil on panel Painted on a mahogany panel and monogrammed L.B Well framed in a new English handmade gold leaf frame. The...

Paul Savigny French, 1858-1916 Martigues, France Oil on canvas 25 ½ by 36 ½ in, w/ frame 31 ½ by 42 ½ in Signed lower right

Harrison Bird Brown (1831 - 1915) Birch Tree in Maine, New England, 19th Century Oil on canvas 25 x 13 1/8 inches Initialed lower left Provenance: Portland International Galleries, Maine Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, Jr., Saratoga Springs, New York and Lexington, Kentucky (President of Brooklyn Borough Gas Company) Private Collection, Chicago Exhibited: Portland Maine, Portland Museum of Art, 58 Maine Paintings 1820-1920: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, Jr., May 20 - June 20, 1976, cat. no. 11. The above catalogue listing this vertical landscape will be included with your purchase. "Mr. Brown has succeeded fully in accomplishing that which Mr. John Ruskin, in speaking of J. M. W. Turner's sea views, said no painter had yet accomplished; that is, the representation of the creamy foam which the storm lashes up from the waves along a rocky shore." Harrison Bird Brown was born in 1831 in Portland, Maine, and is best known for his White Mountain landscapes and marine paintings of Maine...

George Goodwin Kilburne landscape horse/equine hunting scene 19th century oil painting A fine painting by the renowned artist George Goodwin Kilburne .oil on panel, framed the size ...

Oil on canvas "Cupid" circa 1900 after Anthony van Dyck ** Sold without the frame ** additional info: Title: cupid Style: baroque Medium: oil on canvas Signature: unsigned Provenan...

Charles HERRMANN-LÉON (born Léon Charles Sigismond HERRMANN) (Le Havre 1838 - Paris 1908) Portrait of a Young Woman Oil on canvas H. 54 cm; W. 41 cm Signed and dated upper right - 18...

Conditions: In excellent overall conditions, with no repaint under UV light, original canvas and frame. Signed Lower left "Ls Reinhardt". Dimensions with the frame are approximately...

Artist/ School: English School, late 19th/ early 20th century. The painting came from a large collection of works by one artist. A very few of them are signed what looks to be 'F. Wa...

Emile VERNON Blois, 1872 – Blois, 1920 Oil on canvas 44 x 61 cm (57 x 74 cm with frame) Signed lower right “Emile Vernon” Very beautiful 19th century frame in carved and gilded wood ...

Georgine Lara English Village landscape A painting by Georgina Lara depicting a 19th-century English village scene offers a charming and evocat...

Romantic, pre Raphaelite painting titled 'Cinderella', this oil on canvas painting is a study of the main figure in a painting noted to be in the collection of Sir Andrews Lloyd Webb...

The deposition of Atala Follower of Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (Montargis, 1767 - Paris, 1824) 19th-20th century Oil on canvas 47 x 65 cm. - Framed 67 x 84 cm The propos...

Italian painter (19th century) - Portrait of a gentleman with a book. 92 x 71 cm. Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame (not signed). Condition report: Lined canvas. Good ...