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Period: Mid-19th Century
Thomas Sidney Cooper RA, Livestock In A Landscape With River Beyond
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This fine mid-19th-century oil painting by British artist Thomas Sidney Cooper RA (1803-1902) depicts two cows and a sheep in a landscape. Cooper was a distinguished painter of the n...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Letter, young lady in her boudoir 19th Century majestic miniature painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A majestic miniature painting by Victor Mongodin. Painted with extraordinary detail, it depicts a pretty young lady writing a letter in her boudoir. Mongodin clearly delights in painting fabrics... the silk of her skirt, the cotton of her camisole, as well as the luxurious velvets of the curtains and drapery. And then there is the mystery: who is she writing to?
Born in Vire in Normandy in 1819, Victor Mongodin had studied with de Rudder. Working in the French Capital...
Category
French School Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Heron by the River: atmospheric 19th Century Naturalist school landscape
Located in Norwich, GB
One wonderful thing about this painting is its light. It’s pitch-perfect: if it were a tad
darker, it would be gloomy; a tad lighter, and it there would be less to discover. The joy ...
Category
Naturalistic Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Oil Painting of Thomas Fairfax & Battle Horses English Civil War
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘The Baron’s Charger’ by John Frederick Herring Jr. (1815-1907).
The painting – which depicts the Cromwellian nobleman with his battle horses and attendant hounds – is signed by th...
Category
English School Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Birdseye'. A Racehorse. Antique oil painting on canvas by William Malbon
Located in St. Albans, GB
William MALBON (1805 - 1877)
A classic mid-nineteenth century oil painting of a racehorse.
Painted on canvas.
This statement piece is wonderfully titled and clearly signed and dated....
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Victorian English Oil Rural Cottage Landscape Figures & Animals in Lane
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Rural Lane
English School, mid Victorian period, circa 1860'1870
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 21.5 x 27 inches
canvas: 18 x 24 inches
Provenance: private collection, England
Con...
Category
English School Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,618 Sale Price
30% Off
1850's Large Mid 19th Century French Portrait of a Young Gentleman Signed Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The French Gentleman
by Paul Goubil (French mid 19th century)
signed and dated 1855
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 30.5 x 25 inches
canvas: 29 x 24 inches
Provenance: private collecti...
Category
French School Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,370 Sale Price
30% Off
A Pre-Raphaelite Beauty. A Portrait of a lady by Josef Arnhold. Oil on canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
A wonderful painting of a beautiful woman in the style of the Pre-Raphaelites.
It is signed Arnhold.
It is in very condition and in the original frame.
Picture Size: 21 x 21" (51 ...
Category
Pre-Raphaelite Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
19e century Holland school Winter scene Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Winter scene⬅️
Watercolor from Johannes Franciscus HOPPENBROUWERS (1819-1866) (see wikipedia)
⭐Structural Analysis⭐
This painting depicts a winter scene in a rural village, possibly in the Netherlands or a similar European setting. The composition is well-balanced, featuring:
A central building with a distinctive thatched roof covered in snow, creating a focal point.
A frozen river or canal, with a person ice skating in the middle ground, adding movement and human presence.
A windmill and houses in the background, reinforcing a Dutch setting.
Figures engaged in daily life, such as the man near the building carrying a walking stick and a bag, adding a narrative element.
The overall scene is tranquil yet lively, capturing a nostalgic winter atmosphere.
⭐Color and Light⭐
The palette consists of muted earth tones, including warm browns, ochres, and soft grays, giving a rustic and aged appearance.
The sky has an orange-yellow hue, possibly representing a sunrise or sunset, casting a gentle glow over the cold landscape...
Category
Romantic Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Watercolor
$620 Sale Price
78% Off
19th century American Folk Art of a Seated Lady in her Sunday best clothes
Located in Woodbury, CT
Unknown Artist (American School, 19th century)
Portrait of a Lady in Blue, c. 1835–1850
Oil on canvas
This painting is unsigned
This quietly elegant portrait captures a mature woman...
Category
Folk Art Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Lord Wood of Inchyra 19th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. On the back is cartouche with attribution and title of the work.
Sir John Watson Gordon established himself as a portrait painter, producing portraits of a great many ...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,574 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century French Realist Oil Profile Portrait of Lady Beautiful Quality
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French realist artist of the 19th century
oil painting on board, unframed
board: 12.5 x 10.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: ...
Category
Academic Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$930 Sale Price
30% Off
'Berglandschap', Mid 19thC Oil on Canvas of a Mountain Valley in Switzerland.
By Alexandre Calame
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th Century oil on canvas view of a Swiss valley and mountainscape by Alexander Calame. The painting is signed bottom left. The canvas is on a fine stretcher with 'keys'. The painting has been in a private collection in the North of France since the early 20th Century. The painting is currently framed but needs extensive restoration, the frame can be included at no additional cost if required.
A very beautiful and expert rendition of one of Calame's iconic Swiss mountain views. Atmospheric view of light and shade, a moody sky with the sun just breaking through over a small mountain cottage retreat.
Alex Calame was born in Corsier-sur-Vevey, today a part of Vevey, Switzerland. He was the son of a skillful marble worker in Vevey, but because his father lost the family fortune, Calame could not concentrate on art, but rather he was forced to work in a bank from the age of 15. When his father fell from a building and then died, it was up to the young Calame to provide for his mother.
In his spare time he began to practice drawing small views of Switzerland. In 1829 he met his patron, the banker Diodati, who made it possible for him to study under landscape painter François Diday. After a few months he decided to devote himself fully to art.
In 1835 he began exhibiting his Swiss-Alps and forest paintings in Paris and Berlin. He became well known, especially in Germany. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. In 1842 he went to Paris and displayed his works Mont Blanc, the Jungfrau, the Brienzersee, the Monte Rosa and Mont Cervin.
He taught in Geneva, where Adolf Mosengel was one of his pupils as were some of the children of the Russian Imperial family of Nicholas I.
Alexandre Calame...
Category
Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Jean Adolphe Boucé (French painter) - 19th century landscape painting - Hunt
Located in Varmo, IT
Jean Adolphe Boucé (1818 - 1875) - Deer Hunting.
33.5 x 43 cm without frame, 38.5 x 48 cm with frame.
Oil on paper applied on canvas, in a contemporary 19th century frame.
- Work ...
Category
Naturalistic Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
Russian German Romantic Painting BREDOW Fairytale Landscape river 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Albert BREDOW
Garnsee, 1827 – Charlottenburg, 1899
Landscape with a young girl crossing a river near a cottage
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left "ABredow"
35 cm x 45 cm (48 x 60 cm wit...
Category
Romantic Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Saint Ignatius of Antioch attacked by lions in the Circus and Emperor Trajan.
Located in Firenze, IT
The Martyrdom of Saint Ignatius of Antioch in the Circus during the Celebrations for Emperor Trajan - Russian School of the Mid-19th Century
Signed on the lower right. TITOV? Dated 1...
Category
Academic Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Escuela española (XIX) - Óleo sobre tela - Retrato de caballero
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Estado de conservación aceptable
Se presenta enmarcada la obra
Medidas de la obra: 62 x 51 cm.
Medidas del marco: 75 x 65 cm.
Category
Old Masters Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Neapolitan Vesuvius Gouache
Located in New York, NY
Original hand-painted Neapolitan gouache entitled "Eruz de Gennajo 1839." An excellent example of the classic Neapolitan School view. Unsigned. Displayed in an archival mat with an o...
Category
Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$1,250 Sale Price
28% Off
A young poet or artist, French Romantic period portrait of a sensitive figure
Located in Norwich, GB
You will find this young man good company! It is a pleasure to study his thoughtful, sensitive face. He has a benevolent and real presence. To my mind, he certainly has an artistic nature - he looks like a thinker, poet and/or musician.
Dating from what the French call the Romantic Period, the early 1800s, our painting is monogrammed AG and may be attributed to Auguste Glaize.
Born in Montpellier, Auguste Glaize studied under the painters Achille Devéria and Eugène Devéria.
He came to be one of the great French Romantic painters of the early 19th century, marking his career with important history paintings and cycles of monumental religious...
Category
Romantic Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Fine Victorian Scottish Oil Painting Loch Lomond with Ben Lomond Mountain
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
19th Century Scottish Landscape
Scottish School - Ben Lomond overlooking Loch Lomond
oil on canvas, framed
signed with initials and dated 1867
inscribed ve...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$3,132 Sale Price
30% Off
ORIGINAL 1860 Famous American Artist Henry Peters Gray (1819-1877) oil on canvas
By Henry Peters Gray
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is an amazing original antique oil painting on canvas by Famous American Artist Henry Peters Gray (1819-1877), depicting a portrait of a W.P. Wright Esq.
Some of his paintings are exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.
The painting has a commemorative inscription on the verso: "For W.P. Wright Esq. Portrait from Henry Peter Gray. Painted at Pittsfield MA August 1860.
Please read some interesting information about this Artist from Wikipedia.
Henry Peters Gray was born in New York City he was a pupil of Daniel Huntington...
Category
Impressionist Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Robert T Stuart, River Landscape, Evening Mood
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This evocative mid-19th-century oil painting by Robert T Stuart (XIX) depicts a picturesque river landscape illuminated by a setting sun.
A silhouetted wood stands before a majestic...
Category
French School Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a French 19th century lady in a gilt and ormolu hand made frame
Located in Woodbury, CT
Gustave Jaquet
Jacquet was born on 25th May 1846 in Paris. He was a pupil of Bouguereau and for his debut at the Paris Salon in 1865, he exhibited 'The Reverie' which was very much i...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Mid 19th Century French Signed Portrait of Gentleman with Letter & Quill Pen
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman
French School, mid 19th century
signed to the letter and dated
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 36 x 28 inches
canvas: 29 x 20 inches
Provenance: private collect...
Category
French School Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,564 Sale Price
30% Off
Portrait of Gerardina Van Osch by Dutch artist Johan Hendrik Neuman (Dutch)
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful realist mid 19th century portrait of Gerardina Van Osch (Dutch, 1819-1898) by Jan Hendrik Neuman (Johan Heinrich Neuman) (German, 1819-1898). S...
Category
Realist Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Large Victorian Signed Oil Painting Lady Artist Seated Sketching in Garden 1862
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Female Artist Sketching in the Garden
by Arthur Rankley (British, 1819-1872)
signed and dated 1862 with monogram
oil painting on canvas, in antique period gilt frame
canvas: 24...
Category
Pre-Raphaelite Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Edward John Cobbett RBA (Attributed), Portrait Of A Girl In A Landscape
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming mid-19th-century oil painting attributed to English artist Edward John Cobbett (1815-1899) depicts a seated girl carrying a wicker basket within rolling scenery. Cobbett was a skilled English painter of landscapes and genre who exhibited regularly at London’s Royal Academy.
This piece from around 1860 is emblematic of his rose-tinted escapism and celebrates the honest endeavours of rural life. The details are rendered skilfully, particularly the hands, skin tones and head. While the composition, with the horizon line crossing just beneath the shoulders, creates interest and permanence. He fathered twelve children, including eight daughters, so it’s plausible that some of them appeared in his portraits. The girl bears some resemblance to his depiction of ‘The Crofter's Daughter’.
Born in Westminster, London, Cobbett was initially trained as a wood carver, probably by his father, who was a skilled ‘carver and gilder’. Evidently, the young man adopted the trade with considerable vigour, as some of his early carvings can be seen at York Minster.
Around the age of 20, he began to pursue a career as an artist, and it's presumably at this point that he undertook formal tuition with the landscape painter Joseph William Allen (1803-1852). Allen was a founding member of the Society of British Artists, and his influence is evident.
Following his 1833 debut at London’s Royal Academy, he matured into an artist of considerable merit, particularly popular among the rising middle classes. He was known by the Victorian press as one of the last great ‘bohemians’, thus associating him with a social and cultural milieu of freedom-loving, anti-establishment creatives. As a member of London’s Savage Club, his circle was a most intriguing one and included writers, artists, and musicians who sought to live on the fringes of society.
This liberal sense of ‘joie de vivre’ translated through his work into depictions of ebullient country folk undertaking wholesome daily activities. Via his numerous rustic characters, he celebrated a simpler, albeit idealised, working-class utopia. The urban-dwelling bourgeois lapped it up, escaping into the abundance of an imagined moor, and vanishing into a community unplagued by formal rigour.
Aside from the Royal Academy, his works were also shown at the British Institution, Liverpool Academy, and the Society of British Artists, where he was elected a member in 1856. He’s known to have collaborated with both William Shayer (1787-1879) and George Cole (1810-1883).
He’s represented in numerous public collections, including at Glasgow Museum, the Walker Art Gallery, Worcester City Art Gallery, and York Art Gallery.
Provenance: Private collection, UK.
Artist’s auction maximum: £20,052 for ‘Rural Idyll (1859)’, Oil on canvas, De Veres...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Antique Oil Painting Three Terrier Puppies Dogs In a Stable With a Caged Rat
Located in Portland, OR
A wonderful & whimsical 19th century oil on panel painting of puppies in a farm stable, by the celebrated artist George Armfield (1820-1893), the painting circa 1860.
This lovely oil...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The blue bow: a little boy with tousled hair naturalistic portrait oil painting
Located in Norwich, GB
This sweet little boy sits quietly like a well brought up child, but you can see in his eyes how much he likes to run and play. In this sensitive portrait painted in circa 1860 by Fé...
Category
Naturalistic Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Shade - 19th Century Oil Painting of English River Landscape Lancashire
By Henry Dawson
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Summer Shade’ by Henry Dawson R.B.A. (1811-1878).
The painting – which depicts cattle in the shade of a large tree on the river Ribble in North Yorkshire – is signed by the artist...
Category
English School Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$5,538 Sale Price
20% Off
Panorama on a cathedral
Located in Paris, IDF
Louis Étienne WATELET
(Paris, 1780 – Paris, 1866)
Panorama of the river, a cathedral in the distance
Oil on canvas
24.5 x 32.5 cm
Son of a merchant haberdashery, Louis Étienne Wat...
Category
French School Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Hudson River School Landscape Cows Oil Painting Gilt Frame 19th
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Quintessential American Hudson River School landscape by an unknown Hudson River School artist.
This painting features its original period gold frame, and a charming scene o...
Category
Hudson River School Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,872 Sale Price
41% Off
Portrait Beautiful Woman SALOMAN Gouache Danish Swedish painter 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Geskel SALOMAN
Tonder (Denmark) 1821 – Bastad (Sweden), 1902
Portrait of a woman with a book
Gouache on bone
8.8 x 8.5 cm (16.5 x 15.5 cm with the frame)
Signed lower right “G. Salom...
Category
Academic Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Gouache
OIL PAINTING 19th Century By Robert E . Roe British old master Gold Gilt Frame
Located in Ferndown, GB
VERY RARE Oil PAINTING Antique 19th Century By Listed artist British old master
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING BRITISH SCHOOL 19th Century Gold Frame
Description
Late 19th century
“Good...
Category
Realist Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Etude de Ciel - Impressionist Landscape Pastel Study by Eugene Boudin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed pastel on grey paper circa 1860 by Eugene Boudin. The piece is a study of clouds in a blue sky.
Signature:
Signed with the cachet of the artist's estate lower right
Dimensio...
Category
Impressionist Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Listed Artist Samuel West (1810-1867) Antique oil on canvas, Dated 1860 Portrait
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an Antique oil painting on canvas 19 century depicting a portrait of a British Gentleman by Listed British-Irish Artist Samuel West (1810-1860).
C...
Category
Impressionist Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 19th Century English Victorian silhouette portrait
Located in Harkstead, GB
A finely detailed silhouette of a Victorian gentleman.
Attributed Frederick Frith (1819-1871)
The Reverend James Metze, bust length, turned to the left, wearing coat and cravat
wate...
Category
English School Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$244 Sale Price
30% Off
Large French Impressionist Oil Warm Windmill Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School/ Date:
Douglas Stuart Allen (American/ French 1923-2021)
American born artist from Chicago, retiring to France during his latter years to become a full time painter.
Title: Windmill Landscape
Medium & Size:
oil painting
canvas: 18 x 22 inches
Condition:
the painting is very sound and good.
Provenance:
private collection, France
The painting is for auction with...
Category
Impressionist Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$538 Sale Price
30% Off
Very Large 1840s English Portrait of a Country Gentleman Holding Times Newspaper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Corn Bill"
English Artist, circa 1840's
oil on canvas, framed in antique gilt scrolled and swept frame
framed: 45 x 37 inches
canvas: 36 x 28 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and sound condition; please note the frame is very vulnerable and fragile and as such we are happy to include it free of charge with the painting but cannot warranty its condition on arrival.
Historically significant portrait of this early Victorian...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Dandy a Salon in Paris 19th Century portrait of a young man French painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful depiction of a dapper Parisian dandy, dating from 1848. I love his air of decadence! It is a work by F de Korff, a mysterious French aristocratic portrait artist who had ...
Category
Academic Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century English Oil Pastoral Landscape with Woodcutter and Cattle Grazing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pastoral Landscape with Figure and Cattle
English School, mid 19th century
signed lower front corner
oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 18 x 24.5 inches
Canvas: 14 x 21 inches
Provenance:...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Romantic Italian painter - 19th century figure painting - Historical scene
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (dated 1853) - Historical interior scene.
29.5 x 43 cm without frame, 50 x 65 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on panel, in a contemporary carved wooden frame, l...
Category
Romantic Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
$2,147 Sale Price
28% Off
The Venetian Backwater Canal Fine Period c.1850's Oil Painting Gilt Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Venetian Backwater
British School, c. 1850's
circle of Joseph Mallord William Turner (British 1775-1851)
oil painting on panel, framed
panel: 23cm x 18cm
Very fine quality period British oil painting, depicting this quiet Venetian backwater canal. Painted with delightful light...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$12,481 Sale Price
30% Off
Full length portrait of a child with his dog
Located in Paris, IDF
Benjamin Théophile CHARON-LÉMERILLON
(Paris, 1807 – Bouzareah (Algiers), 1873)
Full length portrait of a child with his dog
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
36 x 28 cm
18...
Category
French School Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
BREDOW Snow landscape moonlight night German Russian school romantic 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Albert BREDOW
Germany, 1828 – Moscow, 1899
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right "ABredow"
43 cm x 62 cm (67 x 85 cm with frame)
Albert Bredow is a German-Russian landscape painter, lit...
Category
Romantic Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
C. H. Renneman - 1867 Oil, Unwanted Attention
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking genre scene depicting a man trying to embrace a woman in a dimly lit interior. The woman attempts to push him away as a bystander watches the scene unfold from the doorway...
Category
Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
VICTORIAN 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH OIL PAINTING - CATTLE DRINKING FROM WOODLAND POOL
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: English School, 19th century
Title: Cattle Watering from Woodland Pool
Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed
Size: painting: 16 x 24 inches, frame: 18.75 x 26.7...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
FEREY Snow landscape sunset hut hunters French wood panel 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Edouard FEREY (middle of the 19th century)
Oil on wood panel
19 x 35 cm (34 x 40 cm with the frame)
Signed lower right "E. Ferey"
Nice 19th century frame in gilded wood
Category
Romantic Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of the Bergsee - Oil on Canvas by Josef Brunner - Mid 19th Century
By Josef Brunner
Located in Roma, IT
View of the Bergsee is an original modern artwork realized by the Austrian artist and painter Josef Brunner in the middle of the XIX Century.
Original Oil painting on Canvas cm. 72 x 3 x 102 (canvas).
A beautiful original XIX Century decorated frame is included (total dimensions: 100 x 5 x 130).
Both the work and the canvas are in very good conditions.
Beautiful and intense oil painting depicting the Austrian mountain lake Bergsee. The painting is characterized by a particular play between lights and shadows: the light indeed is distributed in an extremely suffused but homogeneous way on the view but it is also able to create that sense of magic that characterized the whole landscape. The color of the lake therefore assumes a transparency and an iridescent blue that tends to the green and reflects the color of the surrounding mountains. The sky appears full of rainy clouds but they still allow the rays of the last sun to shine on. The general vision conveys calm and tranquility thanks also to the refined use of color and the play of lights and shadows, the turquoise and the pale opaque blue of the lake is perfectly emphasized by the various green tones of the trees. The white, gray and light brown rocky mountains embrace the lake and the cloudy sky in shades of blue increases the feeling of tranquility.
The landscape is desolate; the only signs of life are the three fishermen on the shore: they are three small figures painted in different poses and illuminated by the light too. The surface of the water reflects in a spectacular way the surrounding landscape, it is similar to the surface of a mirror.
The style, fantastic and almost dreamy, is into the full Germanic Romanticism. Mindful of Caspar David Friedrich's memoirs (Greifswald, 1774 - Dresda, 1840), the author certainly took his cue from the style of the German and the Austrian Romanticism; tangible signs of Romantic painting are the choice of the subject, an uncontaminated Nordic landscape, and the almost fairytale atmosphere that we find in the composition.
This wonderful Romantic painting was created by the Austrian artist Josef Brunner (Wien, 1826 - Wien, 1893). Joseph Brunner was the son of Joseph...
Category
Romantic Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Study from Nature Made in Montfaucon 1846" François Bonvin (1817-1888)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Study from Nature Made in Montfaucon 1846
(Etude d'après Nature Faite à Montfaucon, 1846)
François Bonvin (French, 1817-1887)
Oil on canvas, original hand carved wood frame.
Signed, dated and inscribed F. Bonvin 1846 a Montfaucon (ll); inscribed indistinctly Etude... F. Bonvin...montfaucon on the stretcher
6 3/8 x 8 5/8 (9 1/2 x 11 1/2 frame) inches
Provenance:
Ex Collection Auguste Péquégnot
Paul Prouté
André Watteau
Charles Sadler
Galerie Berès, Paris
Exhibited:
Paris, Galerie Beres, Francois Bonvin, Nov. 20, 1998 - Jan. 9, 1999
Literature:
International Herald Tribune, Nov. 28-29, 1998, p. 9, illus.
Bonvin's work has been compared with that of the eighteenth-century artist Chardin, whom Bonvin greatly admired, and from whose work he often borrowed particular motifs. Amongst the artists he personally encouraged were Théodule Ribot and Fantin-Latour.
He was one of a group of artists who challenged the idea that still-life was a mode of artistic expression inferior to the lofty genre of history and religious painting. Bonvin championed the Realist conviction that everyday subject matter was the trues form of artistic expression.
Bonvin was known for keen observation skills and great restraint. In his paintings, you can almost feel the moment between breaths as the subject matter is contemplated and then committed to canvas. This a superb, very personal and very quiet study of the village of Montfaucon on what appears to be an afternoon in the Argonne region in Northeastern France known its deep valleys and dense woodlands.
François is one of the most interesting painters of the 19th century. Bonvin was born in humble circumstances in Paris and had a very difficult childhood. He was the son of a police officer and a seamstress; when he was four years old his mother died of tuberculosis. Young François was left in the care of an old woman who underfed him. Soon his father married another seamstress and brought the child back into the household. Nine additional children were born (one of whom was his half-brother, the painter Leon...
Category
Realist Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century English Portrait of a Young boy in a Cavalier costume
Located in Woodbury, CT
This elegant English 19th-century portrait of a young boy dressed in a Cavalier costume, painted circa 1860, is a striking example of Victorian portraiture that seamlessly combines h...
Category
Old Masters Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Isidorus Van Mens, 1890 – 1985, Dutch, Ghardaia – The Capital of M’Zab, Algeria
Located in Knokke, BE
Isidorus Van Mens
Berlicum 1890 – 1985 Oosterhout
Dutch Painter
'Ghardaia – The Capital of M’Zab, Algeria'
Signature: Signed bottom right and dated 1957, placed and signed on revers...
Category
Impressionist Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of Ship Captain George Buckman
Located in Milford, NH
A fine oil on canvas portrait of Captain George Buckman, identified lower center, indiscernibly signed and dated 1860 lower right, with a tall ship with an American flag in the backg...
Category
Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman nestled in an armchair
Located in Paris, IDF
Joseph-Désiré COURT
(Rouen, 1797 – Paris, 1865)
Woman nestled in an armchair
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left
81 x 65 cm
1834
Exhibition: in all likelihood, number 50 of ...
Category
French School Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
'The Young Courtesan', 19th Century French School, French Romanticism, Large Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'P. Lagiere' (French, 19th century) and dated, '1868'. After 'La Jeune Courtisane', 1821, by Xavier Sigalon (French, 1787–1837), held in the permanent collection o...
Category
Romantic Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,750 Sale Price
50% Off
'Forest at Fountainbleau' Original Oil Painting on Board from Barbizon School
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This small painting of the Forest at Fontainebleau in France is an excellent example of the Barbizon School. The Barbizon School of artists were working in France roughly between 182...
Category
Barbizon School Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of baron de Roisin - Gendarmerie general
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Flemish school of the 19th century
Armorial portrait of Baron Henri de ROISIN (1787-1846)
in the uniform of a general of the gendarmerie (1835)
Oil on canvas
H. 108 cm; W. 90 cm
Bar...
Category
French School Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed Impressive 19th Century Venice Italy Original Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Italian oil painting of Venice. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 31L x 21H.
Category
Impressionist Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,796 Sale Price
20% Off
"Geneva Countryside" by J-P George - Oil on cardboard 16x31 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on cardboard sold with frame
Total size with frame 24x39 cm
Jean-Philippe GEORGE-JULLIARD is an artist born in Switzerland in 1818 and died in 1888. His works have been sold at ...
Category
Realist Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 19th Century Oil - Returning from Morning Service
Located in Corsham, GB
This atmospheric landscape painting depicts a rural scene with two figures walking along a country path after a church service. The composition is dominated by the lush greenery and ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
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