Late 19th Century Paintings

ERNEST BLANC-GARIN (1843-1916) Portrait of a Young Lady around 1880 Oil on wood panel signed low Old Original frame gilded with leaves Dimensions wood : 40 X 30 cm Dimensions frame : 62 X 53 cm ERNEST BLANC-GARIN (1843-1916) Belgian Painter 19th Century Born 8 October 1843 in Givet (France) Died 1916 in Brussels (Belgium) Painter of Portraits and Urbanscapes. In Brusssels he was taught by Jan Portaëls (1818-1895); then in Paris by Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) He took part in the Salon de Paris from 1868. After a trip to Italy in 1870, he came back to Brussels for creating a private Art Academy providing a very liberal teaching. His portraits are made with a lot of freedom and gracefulness. Bibliography : Dictionary of Artists E. Benezit Book II / 373 Gérald SHURR : Les petits Maîtres de la Peinture 1820- 1920 Book V

Signed impressionist figurative pastel on board circa 1895 by sought after French impressionist painter Jean Louis Forain. The piece depicts a man asleep in a bed while a woman stands at the foot of the bed getting dressed. The room is dimly lit by the bedside lamp. Signature: Signed upper right Dimensions: Framed: 22"x26" Unframed: 15"x19" Provenance: Galerie Jean-Claude Bellier Jean Forain was the son of a painter and decorator and was apprenticed to a visiting card engraver. He studied briefly under Gérôme and Carpeaux at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and regularly visited the Louvre, where he copied works by the masters. It is said that for a time he made a precarious living by selling small drawings in the style of Grévin. He went on to collaborate on various publications as a draughtsman and columnist, starting in 1876 on La Cravache and then collaborating on the newspapers Le Journal Amusant, Le Figaro and L'Écho de Paris. This introduced him to the diverse worlds of Paris society - the world of the theatre, of shows, and of literature - where he wryly noted the habits and shortcomings particular to each. This led him to follow a route very characteristic of this period, already seen in the work of Steinlen, Caran d'Ache and Toulouse-Lautrec in the journals La Pléiade, La Vogue and La Revue Blanche. His work draws a picture of the society of the period, not in a strictly imitative fashion but in the form of the 'dessin-charge' or mild caricature. In 1880 he illustrated Parisian Sketches...

JOAQUÍN PALLARÉS ALLUSTANTE Spanish, 1853 - 1935 PLACE DE LA CONCORDE signed & located "J. PALLARÉS / París." (lower right) oil on canvas 13-1/4 x 18-...

GUILLAUME SEIGNAC French, 1870-1924 Fuanesse Signed 'G. Seignac' Oil on canvas 32 x 26 inches

A fun genre painting with students in a classroom being students by American artist George Henry Story (1835-1923). Story was born in New Haven, CT, and after studying a year in Euro...

Oil On Canvas, Hunting Dog by Alexander Clarys Belgian School German Shorthair Hunting Dog Exceptional paintings seen the large format, sold without the frame. Alexandre Clarys, bor...

Robert D. Gauley (American, born Ireland, 1875-1943) Lake Como, Near Menaggio, 1892 Oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches FRAMED: 25 3/4 x 35 inches Signed and dated at lower left: “Robert D Gauley/Menaggio 1892” Born in Carnaveigh County, Monaghan, Ireland in 1875, Robert Gauley was a portrait, figure and landscape painter. Around 1884, his family emigrated to the United States and made Boston their home. Gauley began his art training under Denman Waldo Ross in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1890, he received formal instruction at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, studying under Edmund C. Tarbell and Frank W. Benson. In Paris, he studied at the Academie Julian under William Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier...

Antique 19th Century Orientalist watercolors on paper depicting middle eastern landscapes executed with skill and confidence. Signed by French artist Emile Boivin...

KPM Porcelain Historical Plaque of 'Jesus in the Temple' LATE 19 Century After a painting by Johann Michael Ferdinand Heinrich Hofmann (German 18...

In his gouache painting, “Autumn Melancholy,” François Rivoire paints a dead songbird lying in a small clearing on the forest floor; the foliage surrounding it is beginning to displ...

Oil on canvas, 8 x 12 inches

Italian, ca. 19th century Odalisque Signed illegible Oil on canvas 51 in. x 21 3/4 inches Framed: 61 1/2 x 32 1/4 inches

Guerrino Guardabassi (Rome 1841 - 1893) Portrait of a Young Lady Oil on canvas 24 x 20 1/4 inches (61 x 51.5 cm)x` 32.5 x 28.5 inches framed (82.5 x 72.5 cm framed) Signed lower left...

Charles Lewis Fussell (American, 1840–1909) These five undated, small grisaille illustrations of daily life in Hong Kong and Singapore are styli...

Albert Lebourg French, 1849 – 1928 Le Moulin a Vent sur le Canal a Rotterdam Oil on canvas 15 x 21 ½ inches (38.1 x 54.6 cm) Framed: 24 ½ x 31 ½ inches (62.5 x 80.3 cm) Signed and i...

Watercolor on paper executed by German-American artist Richard Veenfliet "My Old Kentucky Home" references one of the ballads written by American composer Stephen Foster in 1852.

PAIL Edouard (1851-1916) Landscape with pond and gooses. Oil on canvas signed lower left and dated 1884 Old frame gilded with leaf Frame size: 50 X 65 cm Dim frame: 70 X 85 cm. PAIL Edouard (1851-1916) School of Crozant - Post-Impressionist. French painter born in Corbigny, October 17, 1851 and died in Villeneuve-le-Roi on December 6, 1916. Student of local painter and engraver Hippolyte Lavoignat at the School of Fine Arts in Nevers. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1870, at the age of nineteen, two landscape paintings: Le Ruisseau de Varennes near Corbigny and Les Chaumes de Corbigny. In 1877, he became a professor at the School of Fine Arts in Nevers. Then he abandoned this position to join Paris in 1880. He then undertook trips to England, Egypt, Palestine and Algeria. He exhibits every year at the Paris Salon. In 1888, he was a member of the Salon des Artistes Français. He obtained a medal in 1893. In 1896, he was appointed Academy Officer. In 1903, he became an Officer of Public Instruction. In 1912, he exhibited at the Salon Le soir at Mont Sabot and in 1914 L'Éang aux bruyères. His favorite subjects are pastures and heather, backyards, shaded rivers, pink and misty panoramas. They are treated in clean tones and a palette dominated by greens and browns. Museums : Brest, Clamecy, Clermont-Ferrand, Nevers, Perpignan, Cannes. Bibliography : Bellier and Auvray, General Dictionary of Artists of the French School, Paris, Renouard, 1885. - E. Bénézit, Dictionary of painters, sculptors, designers and engravers, Paris, Grund - C. Rameix, L'École de Crozant: The painters of Creuse and Gargilesse. 1850-1950, - Marion Vidal...

This beautiful oil on canvas painting of two sisters playing by the famous American Artist John G Brown has been lined. There is a slight touch up, and i...

With exquisite detail and sparkling color, this portrait of a young woman is a remarkable example of reverse glass painting. Lending the finished work a subtle three-dimensional effe...

SERGE FERAT 1881-1958 (Le Comte Sergueï Yastrebzov) Moscow 1881-1958 Paris (Russian/French) Title: Theater Interior Design Technique: Original Signed Gouache Painting on paper siz...

Edward Antoon Portielje (1861 - 1949), C.H. Hermans, possibly his second wife Rosa Hermans Dutch riverlandscape with windmill Signed upperleft corner 'Edward Portielje' and lowerright corner C.H. Hermans 1880 Oil on panel Dimensions excl. frame: 17 x 26 cm. Dimensions incl. frame: 34 x 43 cm. Edward Antoon Portielje (8 February 1861, Antwerp – 18 December 1949, Antwerp) was a Belgian genre painter. He was born to the painter Jan Portielje and his wife Eulalie (née Lemaire, 1828–1903). His older brother, Gerard, was also a genre painter. His first art lessons came from his father. Then he attended the Royal Atheneum and, from 1873, took after-school classes at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Edward Dujardin. From 1877 to 1881, he was a full-time student at the Academy under the tutelage of Polydore Beaufaux, Charles Verlat and Nicaise de Keyser...

Portrait of a Chow Dog "Pagoda Mah Gye", 19th Century by Monica Gray (19th Century British) 19th Century English portrait of a Chow dog called Pagoda Mah Gye, oil on panel by Monica Gray. Excellent quality and condition example of Grays work, a popular turn of the century painter based in London commissioned by dog owners to capture their beloved pets. Presented in its original ebonised frame. Signed and titled. Measurements: 15" x 14" framed approx Artist Biography Matthijs Maris was the brother of Jacob and Willem Maris. He was awarded a retainer by the Dutch Crown. He moved to Antwerp around 1855 to be with his brother. There, he studied under Nicaise de Keyser...

Walter Blackman American, 1847-1928 Young Beauty Oil on canvas 20 by 16 in, w/ frame 32 by 28 in Studied under Gerome, Paris Exhibited: Society of American Painters 1878 Paris Sal...

Depiction of a butcher's apprentice against an undefined brown background. He is balancing a large wicker basket filled with ham on his head. He wears a cap with a red tie, brown ves...

Date: 1898 Medium: Ink and Gouache on Paper Affixed to Board Dimensions: 16.50" x 12.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Carter's Monthly, March 1898, cover illustration. Decades lat...

Classic British Officer at Sandhurst oil on panel by A.J. Crowther 1891 (LR) Art Sz: 14 3/4"H x 11 1/2"W Frame Sz: 18 1/2"H x 15 1/4"W

Gustave David (British, 1824-1891) Tasting the Soup Oil on paper, mounted; 9 1/2 x 7 inches Signed at lower left: "G. David" Inscribed on verso: "GUSTAVE DAVID 1824-1891"

CUGNOTET Edgard (19th Century) Portrait of two Children Oil on canvas signed low left and dated 1884 Frame gilded with leaves Dim canvas : 138 X 100 cm Dim Frame : 162 X 122 cm CUGNOTET Edgard Ferdinand Ludovic (19th Century) French painter 19th Century born in Dijon Figures, Portraits, Landscapes He was taught by François Édouard PICOT (1786-1868) royal Academy of Anvers. He exhibited at the Salon de Paris between 1868 and 1884. Museum : Langres « the hurdy gurdy...

Erland Oscar Otto Leonard Ohlsson, born September 19, 1847 in Linneryd, Småland, died May 22, 1912 in Borås, was a Swedish singing teacher and landscape painter. He was the son of bank teller Gustaf Mauritz Ohlsson and Carolina Wickström and married to Hanna Carlsson. After Ohlsson took the oath. degree in Uppsala in 1870, he switched to studying music. He then studied art with Alfred Wahlberg...

Harry Humphrey Moore led a cosmopolitan lifestyle, dividing his time between Europe, New York City, and California. This globe-trotting painter was also active in Morocco, and most importantly, he was among the first generation of American artists to live and work in Japan, where he depicted temples, tombs, gardens, merchants, children, and Geisha girls. Praised by fellow painters such as Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Jean-Léon Gérôme, Moore’s fame was attributed to his exotic subject matter, as well as to the “brilliant coloring, delicate brush work [sic] and the always present depth of feeling” that characterized his work (Eugene A. Hajdel, Harry H. Moore, American 19th Century: Collection of Information on Harry Humphrey Moore, 19th Century Artist, Based on His Scrap Book and Other Data [Jersey City, New Jersey: privately published, 1950], p. 8). Born in New York City, Moore was the son of Captain George Humphrey, an affluent shipbuilder, and a descendant of the English painter, Ozias Humphrey (1742–1810). He became deaf at age three, and later went to special schools where he learned lip-reading and sign language. After developing an interest in art as a young boy, Moore studied painting with the portraitist Samuel Waugh in Philadelphia, where he met and became friendly with Eakins. He also received instruction from the painter Louis Bail in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1864, Moore attended classes at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, and until 1907, he would visit the “City by the Bay” regularly. In 1865, Moore went to Europe, spending time in Munich before traveling to Paris, where, in October 1866, he resumed his formal training in Gérôme’s atelier, drawing inspiration from his teacher’s emphasis on authentic detail and his taste for picturesque genre subjects. There, Moore worked alongside Eakins, who had mastered sign language in order to communicate with his friend. In March 1867, Moore enrolled at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, honing his drawing skills under the tutelage of Adolphe Yvon, among other leading French painters. In December 1869, Moore traveled around Spain with Eakins and the Philadelphia engraver, William Sartain. In 1870, he went to Madrid, where he met the Spanish painters Mariano Fortuny and Martin Rico y Ortega. When Eakins and Sartain returned to Paris, Moore remained in Spain, painting depictions of Moorish life in cities such as Segovia and Granada and fraternizing with upper-crust society. In 1872, he married Isabella de Cistue, the well-connected daughter of Colonel Cistue of Saragossa, who was related to the Queen of Spain. For the next two-and-a-half years, the couple lived in Morocco, where Moore painted portraits, interiors, and streetscapes, often accompanied by an armed guard (courtesy of the Grand Sharif) when painting outdoors. (For this aspect of Moore’s oeuvre, see Gerald M. Ackerman, American Orientalists [Courbevoie, France: ACR Édition, 1994], pp. 135–39.) In 1873, he went to Rome, spending two years studying with Fortuny, whose lively technique, bright palette, and penchant for small-format genre scenes made a lasting impression on him. By this point in his career, Moore had emerged as a “rapid workman” who could “finish a picture of given size and containing a given subject quicker than most painters whose style is more simple and less exacting” (New York Times, as quoted in Hajdel, p. 23). In 1874, Moore settled in New York City, maintaining a studio on East 14th Street, where he would remain until 1880. During these years, he participated intermittently in the annuals of the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, exhibiting Moorish subjects and views of Spain. A well-known figure in Bay Area art circles, Moore had a one-man show at the Snow & May Gallery in San Francisco in 1877, and a solo exhibition at the Bohemian Club, also in San Francisco, in 1880. Indeed, Moore fraternized with many members of the city’s cultural elite, including Katherine Birdsall Johnson (1834–1893), a philanthropist and art collector who owned The Captive (current location unknown), one of his Orientalist subjects. (Johnson’s ownership of The Captive was reported in L. K., “A Popular Paris Artist,” New York Times, July 23, 1893.) According to one contemporary account, Johnson invited Moore and his wife to accompany her on a trip to Japan in 1880 and they readily accepted. (For Johnson’s connection to Moore’s visit to Japan, see Emma Willard and Her Pupils; or, Fifty Years of Troy Female Seminary [New York: Mrs. Russell Sage, 1898]. Johnson’s bond with the Moores was obviously strong, evidenced by the fact that she left them $25,000.00 in her will, which was published in the San Francisco Call on December 10, 1893.) That Moore would be receptive to making the arduous voyage across the Pacific is understandable in view of his penchant for foreign motifs. Having opened its doors to trade with the West in 1854, and in the wake of Japan’s presence at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, American artists were becoming increasingly fascinated by what one commentator referred to as that “ideal dreamland of the poet” (L. K., “A Popular Paris Artist”). Moore, who was in Japan during 1880–81, became one of the first American artists to travel to the “land of the rising sun,” preceded only by the illustrator, William Heime, who went there in 1851 in conjunction with the Japanese expedition of Commodore Matthew C. Perry; Edward Kern, a topographical artist and explorer who mapped the Japanese coast in 1855; and the Boston landscapist, Winckleworth Allan Gay, a resident of Japan from 1877 to 1880. More specifically, as William H. Gerdts has pointed out, Moore was the “first American painter to seriously address the appearance and mores of the Japanese people” (William H. Gerdts, American Artists in Japan, 1859–1925, exhib. cat. [New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1996], p. 5). During his sojourn in Japan, Moore spent time in Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Nikko, and Osaka, carefully observing the local citizenry, their manners and mode of dress, and the country’s distinctive architecture. Working on easily portable wood panels, he created about sixty scenes of daily life, among them this picturesque vignette of a Japanese tea garden...

LEVIGNE Théodore (1848-1912) The Flower Girl and The Puppy Oil on canvas signed and dated 1883 low left Old Frame regilded with leaves Dimensions canvas : 120 X 70 cm Dimensions frame : 137 X 88 cm LEVIGNE Théodore (1848-1912) French Painter 19th-20th century Lyon School Born 1848 in Noirétable (Loire) - Died 11...

Frank Dean 1865 - 1947 Evening Drink Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1894 Image size: 29 ½ x 49 ½ inches Handmade frame Dean was born in Headingly, near Leeds, in 1865. He was a pup...

Giovanni (Nino) Costa (Rome 1826 – Marina di Pisa 1903), The ‘Alba’ study for The awakening of nature Oil on canvas cm 25 x 53 signed lower left. Provenance: Reverend Stopford Br...

German school. Name and date lower left "Siena Juli (18)83". Illegible signature lower right (monogram) "A.S. ou J.S.". Provenance: A private collection from the Rhineland.

Charles Rowbotham was the son of the British painter Thomas Leeson Rowbotham. Charles specialized in landscape views executed in watercolor and gouache. He is best known for his imag...

Antique American school modernist landscape sunset painting. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.

DESCHIENS – ASTRUC (1861) Table settings with Orchids Oil on canvas signed down right Frame gilded with gold leaves Dim canvas : 82 X 116 cm Dim Frame : 107 X 141 cm DESCHIENS – ASTRUC Pauline Hélène (1861-NC) French school 19th - 20th century Born the 25th of August 1861 in Angers Painter of flowers and marines. Pupil of Pierre Bourgogne...

Balmer Paul Friedrich Wilhelm (1865 - 1922) Three Children in The Garden (1890) Oil on canvas signed and dated low right Old frame regilded with gold le...

JUAN GIMÉNEZ MARTÍN Spanish 1855 - 1901 THE MANDOLIN SERENADE signed & located "Gimenez-Martin, Roma" lower left watercolour on cardboard 21-1/4 x ...

Approximate Date: 1895 Medium: Gouache on paper laid to card Signature: Signed and dated 'R.F. Zogbaum/ 95' bottom right Size: 18 x 13 3/4 in. Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, New York, December 28, 1895, vol. XXXIX, no. 2036, (cover illustration). The present painting represents a battle fought August 9 and 10, 1877, between the United States troops and Chief Joseph...

English Native School, 19th Century, still life with fish Oil on canvas 54x63 cm frame included. Beautiful native English painting, representing an elegant still life of fish, cabba...

Giuseppe Cellini (Rome 1855 - 1940), Portuguese Landscape Mixed media on cardboard 68 x 96 cm signed at lower left, on back: on frame inscribed "Giuseppe Cellini/ (passeggiata di Ri...

Georges Croegaert 1848-1923 Belgian The Letter Signed "Georges Croegaert Paris" (lower right) Oil on panel A cardinal pauses while composing a letter in this oil on panel by Belg...

GARAT Francis (1870 - NC) The Farm of The Donkey Oil on canvas signed and dated 1883 low right Frame guilded Size canvas : 50 X 76 cm - Size frame : 60 X 76 cm GARAT Francis (1870 -...

ANTONIO RIVAS Spanish, 1845-1911 Sultan’s Concubine Signed 'A. Rivas' Oil on canvas 10 x 15 1/2 inches Framed: 15 1/2 x 20 3/4 inches

Signed lower right and dated lower left August 29, 1893 Little is known about Fritz Vogt until 1890 to 1900 when he earned a reputation for doing nearly 500 graphic architectural drawings near Sharon Springs and Ames in upstate New York. These were rural agricultural towns of German immigrants. His renderings were precise and detailed and indicate he had studied architecture either in Germany or America. His work resembles drawing produced for the Beers Company of Philadelphia, publishers of atlases, but extensive attempts to research his life before 1890 have not been successful. It is known that when he did his upstate New York drawings he stayed with farm families and worked with paper, pencil, and ruler, and that he often worked outdoors. He played musical instruments and sometimes worked as a farm hand. His drawings, many of them in color pencil, showed the types of crops planted, the animals, and details of the buildings. He also did several drawings of churches...

Signed and dated lower left: W.R. Miller. 1877.

LEVIGNE Théodore (1848-1912) Landscape With Washerwoman Oil on canvas signed low right Old Frame regilded with leaves Dimensions canvas : 55 X 73 cm Dimensions frame : 70 X 85 cm LE...

Mark Milloff (b 1954) is an internationally exhibited American painter and art professor. He is best known for his heavily layered oil paintings. Beautifully rich layers of thick wh...

Tony Nell’s captivating portrait, "Katy," masterfully captures the innocence and charm of a young girl dressed in blue and red. The painting portrays Katy with a sense of joy, her ex...

DIANA COOMANS Belgian, 1861-1952 The Fruit Vendor Signed Diana Coomans Oil on canvas 32 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches Framed: 39 3/4 x 32 inches

Dario Santini, an Italian painter born in Ancona in 1874, largely focused on subjects of the west in his practice, making an orientalist painting by him rather rare. Skillfully rendered in watercolor, a young man reclines in a stately home, fanning himself with a peacock feather fan...

Oscar Regan Coast was an American landscape painter. This artist was trained and studied in both Paris and Rome. After his studies, he moved back to the United States and spent a maj...

"Oil On Canvas, Art Nouveau XIX Portrait Lady With Oval Frame" Oil on canvas Portrait of a lady, Art Nouveau style, signed Gustav Julius GRÜN (1823-1896) German school of the 19th c...

Charles Caleb Ward was born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, the grandson of a New York Ward who had left for New Brunswick around the time of th...

Szymon Buchbinder 1853 - 1908 Portrait of a Young Girl Oil on canvas Image size: 19 x 13 inches Original frameSimon Buchbinder (1853-1908) was a Polish painter. Most of his works we...

Finely painted after Rembrandt with a self-portrait of the artist and his spouse, Saskia, in a tavern, in the guise of the Prodigal Son LATE 19TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED MONOGRAM AND SCE...

“I Will”, Marie-Joseph-Leon-Clavel French, 1850-1923 Septembre, La Meuse a Dordrecht Oil on canvas, Signed 13 ¼ by 19 ½ in. W/frame 23 ¼ by 29 ½ in. Marie-Joseph-Leon-Clavel took ...