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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Old Masters
Style: Street Art
18th Century portrait oil painting of a lady in an ermine trimmed cloak
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Circle of Sir Godfrey Kneller
Dutch, (1646-1723)
Portrait of a Lady in an Ermine Trimmed Cloak
Oil on canvas
Image size: 26.5 inches x 22.5 inches
Size including frame: 33.5 inches x 29.5 inches
A well-executed half-length portrait of a lady painted in a feigned oval, circle of Sir Godfrey Kneller. The use of a feigned oval was a device used in portraiture to give a sense of depth and add an intimacy to the painting, drawing your attention to the sitter.
The subject, posed without her wig in the undressed fashion of the day, wears a blue ermine trimmed blue cloak over a white silk robe...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century by Evangelista Schiano Saint Gennaro Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Evangelista Schiano (attr.) (active in the 18th century)
Saint Gennaro
Oil on canvas, cm. 102 x 74 - with frame 126,5 x 100 cm.
19th century carved, sculpted and gilded wooden frame
...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Portrait Lady Pulzone Paint Oil on canvas Old master 16th Century Italian Roma
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Scipione Pulzone, called Il Gaetano (Gaeta 1544 - Rome 1598) - workshop of
Portrait of Bianca Cappello (Venice, 1548 - 1587) Grand Duchess of Tuscany, second wife of Francesco I de 'Medici
Second half of the 16th century
oil on canvas, cm. 70 x 56 cm., Framed 103 x 87 cm.
The proposed painting illustrates the portrait of Bianca Cappello (Venice, 1548 - 1587), a noblewoman of Venetian origins, second wife of the Grand Duke of Tuscany Francesco I de 'Medici, whose expressive power is wisely highlighted by the composite cut of light three quarters, with the head and gaze directed at the observer. The beam of light coming from her right brings out the volumes of her face plastically and lingers on her features, highlighted by the large white lace ruff that surrounds his neck and by the details of her precious clothing.
Bianca wears a dark red dress, perhaps a zimarra, embroidered in gold with a plunging neckline and a raised collar of the shirt curled in a ruff and also edged with precious lace, embroidered with the motif of the Florentine lily.
The favorite jewels of the noblewoman were pearls: we see them on a choker that adorns the neckline, in the earrings and again in the hairstyle, which sees the hair gathered at the nape of the neck and adorned with a string of small black pearls and embellished with a clasp.
It is a high-quality painting that can be confined to the workshop of the painter Scipione Pulzone called Gaetano, representing at best a pictorial genre, that of portraiture, in which the master excelled. This attribution would be confirmed by comparisons with the numerous portraits that Pulzone dedicated to the Medici family.
Our painting, in particular, could represent one of the versions that the workshop has replicated, at the request of the numerous art collectors who wish to have a portrait of one of the most influential personalities of the Florentine scene.
The characters drawn by Pulzone were icons of incomparable elegance: noblewomen, knights and religious lent their faces to the eye of the artist who was able to grasp every meticulous detail with his superb technique. A photographic wealth and surprising material attention that trace the pictorial prototypes of Flemish inspiration, in particular of Antonis Mor...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Bats the Matter" Large 36x24" Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 2022
By Chris RWK
Located in Southampton, NY
We are please to present the larger works on canvas of Chris RWK. While his street art painted on buildings around New York City and Brooklyn are very large, most of his fine art pa...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
18th century English portrait of a lady beside an urn, with a basket of flowers
By Tilly Kettle
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of a lady wearing a white gown with a red cloak, pearls in her hair and draped over one shoullder, standing beside a classical urn with a basket of flowers, c.1765.
The portrait is believed to be a companion portrait of a John (1741-1816) or James (1751-1807) Durno which is housed in an identical frame. The sitter is possibly either the wife of John who was Janes Byres of Stonywood or John and James's sister Elizabeth. (James never married). The Durno family were based around the Aberdeen area of Scotland and John was an advocate in the area and then later a customs official in Jamaica. James was a successful timber merchant, spending time in the Baltic before being made His Majesty's Consul in Memel, Prussia.
The portrait is likely to have been painted before Tilly travelled to India in 1768, when John, Jane and Elizabeth would have been in their twenties.
We are gtrateful to Mark Beattie for sharing his family knowlege and research on the portrait.
Provenance:
With W. C. Beattie in the mid 19th century, and by descent through the family
Private collection, Kent
With thanks to Hugh Belsey who has confirmed this to be the work of Tilly Kettle from photographs.
Tilly Kettle (1735-1786) was born in London, the third of six children by Henry Kettle (c.1704-c.1773), a coach painter, and his wife Ann. He attended William Shipley...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century Portrait of a Lady, Attributed to Sir Frank Dicksee
Located in York, GB
Portrait of a very attractive Lady, head-and-shoulders in length
monogrammed FD, inscribed to verso, oil on canvas, 50cm x 40cm
whilst overall is 59 x 69 cm .
In overall good condition some craquelure. Has been relined and cleaned.
original frame some minor losses (self coloured)
Frank...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
SOAK UP ART WHEN YOU CAN
By Kunstrasen
Located in Aventura, FL
6-color screen print on 300gsm Somerset fine art paper. Hand signed and numbered by Kunstrasen. From the edition of 100.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenti...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Screen, Paper
Manner of Guido Reni (1575-1642) Saint Joseph and the Christ Child Oil on Metal
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Saint Joseph and the Christ Child"
Manner of Guido Reni (1575-1642) Italian.
Oil on Copper, Unframed
painting: 9.35 x 7.25 inches
Condition ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady, Maria Virginia Borghese Chigi Princess Farnese Oil on canvas
Located in London, GB
This exquisite portrait, presented by Titan Fine Art, belongs to a type of portrait known as ‘Les Belle Romanes’. Voet is perhaps best remembered for his series of them – a great set of portraits...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ALBERTO BLANCHART - Your Ending . Darth Vader
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Title: Your ending...
Technique: Graffiti
Material: Acrylic paint on canvas mounted on a wooden rack
Size: 100 cm x 70 cm x 5 cm
Philosophy of the artist:
Graffiti from the wall...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Portrait of Lady Bagot - Niece to the Duke of Wellington
Located in Miami, FL
The sitter is Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesly-Pole, eldest daughter of William, 4th Earl of Mornington and niece to the Duke of Wellington. This is one of Hoppner's best works. The sitt...
Category
1780s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
A painting of Sappho by Ettore Forti
Located in London, GB
A painting of Sappho by Ettore Forti
Italian, c.1900
Frame: Height 85cm, width 38cm, depth 2.5cm
Canvas: Height 73cm, with 26.5cm, depth 2.5cm
This excellent portrait painting depic...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Madonna Correggio Paint Oil on table 16th Century Old master Italian Religious
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
School of Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio (Correggio c. 1489 - 1534)
Attributable to Pomponio Allegri (Correggio, 1522 - Parma, 1593)
Madonna and Child, Two Angels and John the B...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th century portrait of a lady
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of a lady by Dutch Golden Age painter Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693). Half-length, within a feigned oval, the lady wears a pearl necklace and earrings, an ivory silk gown adorned...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
William Wissing (follower) 19th Century Portrait Queen Mary II
Located in York, GB
A 19th century oil on canvas, portrait of a young woman.This portrait is believed to be of Queen Mary II
taken from an engraving of the painting, Halswell Park Sale, 1948, lot no.1323,
Housed in a decorative gilt frame.Size overall being 70 x 86 cm high (27.5 x 33¾ inches approx)
size of painting 54 x 68 cm (21 x 26 inches approx)
To the rear of the portrait is a newspaper cutting of the engraving ,also a typed note regarding the provenance of the painting (see photo)
Condition overall is very good, the Canvas has been relined, under UV there are areas of overpaint to bosom.Frame overall
very good some minor self coloured losses
Mary II (30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694)
Mary, born at St James's Palace in London on 30 April 1662,eldest daughter of James, Duke of York (the future James II & VII)
, and his first wife, Anne Hyde. Mary's uncle was King Charles II,
her maternal grandfather, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, served for a lengthy period as Charles's chief adviser.
Mary married William of Orange.
Willem Wissing,
known in England as William Wissing...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ecce Homo Christ Paint Oil on canvas 17th Century Old master Leonardo Italian
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Lombard painter of the seventeenth century
Ecce Homo
Oil painting on canvas
56 x 43 cm. , framed 75 x 63 cm.
Provenance: Florence, Pandolfini, 5.10.2021, lot 209
The proposed canv...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
15th Century by Circle of Nicolò Zafuri Madonna with Child Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Nicolò Zafuri (circle of) (documented in Candia between 1487 and 1500, died before 10 July 1501)
Madonna with Child
oil on panel, cm. 49 x 40
This precious panel depicting the Mado...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Cotton, Oil
“Driot dams Les Yeux - Right in the Eyes" Abstract Portrait Street Art on Canvas
By J.M. Robert
Located in New York, NY
This particular piece depicts an anonymous portrait of a beautiful woman. Inspired by the every day, JM Robert strives to create paintings that mimic the fla...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Send the Jackal (2020) by street artist Ekundayo, surrealist watercolor painting
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Send the Jackal" (2020) by Ekundayo (aka Sorrow Becomes Joy)
Surrealist portrait, expressive, figurative, watercolor painting, illustrative, street art, muralist, Hawaiian street ar...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Portrait of a Young Gentleman, Pieter Van Der Dvssen; by Jan van Haensbergen
By Jan Van Haensbergen
Located in London, GB
Portrait of a Young Gentleman, Pieter Van Der Dvssen c.1664
Jan van Haensbergen (1642–1705)
This charming portrait is an excellent example of late 17th century child portraiture and is from one of the most prolific periods in art history – the Dutch Golden Age. A vast number of artists produced work to fulfil the demands and tastes of a broad Dutch society, and many cities in the Netherlands developed into distinct artistic centres, characterised by style and specialities of subject. The quality of our portrait is similar to the works of the highly specialised ‘fijnschilders’, who were working in Leiden at the time; these artists executed meticulous small-scale paintings. As with the artist’s other works of children, Haensbergen painstakingly recorded many details including a fine depiction of the face, and the surface effects of the materials and the pearl clasps.
The young sitter is Walther Bernt Pieter Van der Dussen. He was born into a wealthy noble Catholic family in Delft in 1654. In this portrait he would be around ten years of age, dating the work to circa 1664, which is also the year before the artist’s marriage to Johanna van Heusden. The Van der Dussen family were great patrons of the arts and commissioned a number of major works from eminent artists in Delft & Amsterdam. Van der Dussen died in 1716.
The wooded setting, the lamb, and the “picturesque” or “Roman” dress...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of Thomas Smythe (1514-1577) School of Hans HOLBEIN (1497-1543)
By Hans Holbein
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Thomas Smythe (1514-1577), 16th Century
School of Hans HOLBEIN (1497-1543)
Fine huge 16th Century English Old Master portrait of Sir Thomas...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
DRIP REMOVER
By Kunstrasen
Located in Aventura, FL
Three color screen printed figure & varnish on 300 somerset paper. Hand signed and numbered by Kunstrasen. Form the edition of 125. Frame size approx 26 x 26 inches.
Artwork is...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Paper, Screen
Mirada à la Tierra (2018) by LNY, oil painting portrait of youth, horse, earth
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Mirada à la Tierra" (2018) by LNY (aka Layqa Nuna Yawar, formerly Lunar New Year), oil painting, portrait of youth with horse, earth landscape
Oil painting on canvas, figurative, indigenous healer portrait with succulent aloe plant with flowers
24.25 × 20 × .75 in
Oil Painting / Graffiti and Street Art / Figurative Art / Portrait / Human Figure / Landscape / Flora / Fauna / Animal / Pastel Colors / Earth Tones / Surrealistic / Cosmic art...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Canvas, Oil
18th Century by Antonio Mercurio Amorosi Portrait Little Girl with Cat
By Antonio Mercurio Amorosi
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Antonio Mercurio Amorosi (Comunanza 1660 - 1738)
Portrait of a little girl with cat
Oil on canvas, cm. 42 x 31.5 – with frame cm. 56 x 44
Shaped, carved and gilded wooden cassetta fr...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait Gentleman Nattier Paint Oil on canvas Old master 18th Century French
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
French school of the eighteenth century
Atelier of Jean-Marc Nattier (Paris 1685 - Paris 1776)
Portrait of a gentleman in armor
Louis XV period - early 18th century
Oil painting on canvas, 81 x 65 cm., In frame 97 x 80 cm.
The painting examined here, depicting a gentleman in a knight's armor, presumably a noble officer, can be dated to around the beginning of the 18th century and is evidently a work to be referred to the prolific and prestigious Parisian workshop of Jean-Marc Nattier (Paris 1685 - Paris 1776), one of the most significant portrait painters of his time and a great interpreter of the French school, one of the leading portrait painters of the reign of Louis XV.
Thanks to his numerous pupils, he produced a large number of splendid portraits, such as the work we are offering you, which fully exhibits the formal and aesthetic elegance required by the master's atelier for the demanding aristocratic clientele. Note the meticulous rendering of the facial features and the sharpness of the contours highlighted by the light, both in the details of the face and in the reflections of the armor, rendered with great skill.
Behind our portrayed, presumably to evoke his military exploits or to honor a recent victory, a glimpse of a battlefield is depicted, still in the midst of combat, with the fumes of the cannons that are dispersed in the sky, with the typical colors gray-blue used by Nattier in his works.
The pose of our lord is royal, canonical to all officers of rank, following the favorite formula for the portraits of the members of the French aristocracy, presented in half-length to three-quarters and with a proud gaze towards the observer, as illuminated by the glow of his own prestige: in our case he wears the parade armor and is immortalized with the classic hairstyle surrounded by a bow on the back from which a long lock of hair starts.
The work is presented in an excellent state of conservation, with a gilded wooden frame.
For more information, please contact us. It is also possible to see the painting in our gallery in Riva del Garda...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th Century by Giovanni Stefano Danedi Madonna and Child Crowned by Angels
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Giovanni Stefano Danedi, called Montalto (Treviglio 1612 - Milan 1690)
Madonna and Child crowned by angels
Oil on panel, 58x36 cm without frame - 83x61 cm with frame
19th century sha...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
17th/18th century portrait , Circle Godfrey Kneller, wife, Earl of westmorland
By (Circle of) Godfrey Kneller
Located in York, GB
Portrait Circle of Sir Godfrey Kneller Bt. (British, 1646-1723) of Katharine, wife of Thomas, 6th Earl of Westmorland, oil on canvas
late 17th early 18th century in date.
The sitter Katharine is facing dexter and is wearing a cream dress, blue and gold cloak and lace mantilla...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Girl, 18th Century Oil Old Master
By George Knapton
Located in London, GB
George Knapton
1698-1778
Portrait of a Girl
Oil on canvas
Image size: 20 x 18 inches
Original giltwood frame
This beautiful half length portrait of a young woman, turned to left, gazing at the spectator, wearing a pink, white lace-embroidered, dress, in her hair a pink bonnet trimmed with lace to match her dress.
The depiction of a young girl epitomises child portraiture of the late eighteenth century, in which painters such as William Beechey, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough had begun to discover and express the true character of children, in contrast to the stiff, miniature-adults of previous generations.
The Artist
Knapton was born in Lymington, one of four sons of James Knapton. He was apprenticed to Jonathan Richardson from 1715 to 1722, and in 1720 was a founding subscriber to the academy of St. Martin's Lane established by Louis Chéron...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
17th Century portrait oil painting of a gentleman
By John Riley
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Circle of John Riley
British, (1646-1691)
Portrait of a Gentleman
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29 inches x 24 inches
Size including frame: 36 inches x 31 inch...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century portrait oil painting of a lady
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Circle of Sir Peter Lely
Dutch, (1618-1680)
Portrait of a Lady, traditionally identified as Princess Henrietta Anne Stuart
Oil on canvas
Image...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century antique portrait lady in landscape Godfrey Kneller (manner of)
Located in York, GB
Fine Portrait of a lady standing in a landscape wearing a white satin dress
and holding a posy of flowers.
Manner of Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723)
...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Saint Mark Evangelist Guercino Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Workshop of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Il Guercino (Cento, 1591 - Bologna, 1666)
Saint Mark the Evangelist
Oil on canvas - 85 x 71 cm., Framed 100 x 86 cm.
Of great cha...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Saint Jerome Venetian School Paint Oil on canvas Old master 16/17th Century Art
By Jacopo Negretti, known as Palma the Younger (Venice 1544 - 1628)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Venetian school of the end of the 16th century
Circle of Jacopo Negretti, known as Palma the Younger (Venice 1544 - 1628)
Saint Jerome Penitent
Oil painting on canvas
85 x 64 cm. - In frame 97 x 76 cm.
This splendid painting, which offers us an intense representation of San Girolamo...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spanish School 19th century, Santa Justa and Santa Rufina, oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Spanish School of the 19th Century
Santa Justa and Santa Rufina
Oil on canvas
40 x 27 cm
In quite good condition, the paint surface presents numerous crack...
Category
1840s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self Portrait, Street Art, Pop Art,
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Self Portrait of Jay-C
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine British...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
19th century Portrait Spencer Perceval Attributed To George Francis joseph
By George Francis Joseph
Located in York, GB
A late 18th early 19th century oil on canvas Portrait of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, bust-length, in an interior, holding papers.Attributed to George Francis Joseph...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Maravillosa (2020) by LNY, oil painting, figurative, indigenous healer portrait
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Maravillosa" (2020) by LNY (aka Layqa Nuna Yawar, formerly Lunar New Year)
Oil painting on canvas, figurative, indigenous healer portrait with succulent aloe plant with flowers
18 × 14 × .75 in
Oil Painting / Graffiti and Street Art / Figurative Art / Portrait / Human Figure / Landscape / Flora / Pastel Colors / Surrealistic / Cosmic art...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th century portrait of the painter Nathaniel Dance
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Robert Gallon (1845-1925);
Private Collection, UK.
Oil on canvas laid down on panel
Framed dimensions: 11.5 x 10 inches
This highly engaging, previously unpublished portrait by Johan...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
St Paul With Sword and Book, Mannerist School, Oil on Copper
Located in Stockholm, SE
Mannerism, derived from the Italian term "maneria," which simply means "style," was an artistic movement that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance, around 1520, and extended into the early 17th century. It is often referred to as the "stylish style" due to its emphasis on self-conscious artifice rather than realistic depiction. Historians debate whether Mannerism should be classified as a style, a movement, or a period.
In contrast to the harmonious ideals embraced by renowned artists such as Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci, Mannerist painters took a step further and created compositions that were almost bizarre. They introduced fresh color schemes, elongated proportions, and exaggerated anatomy of figures, portraying them in convoluted and serpentine poses. These artists skillfully exhibited their techniques and abilities, aiming to evoke a sense of sophisticated elegance.
Among the notable Mannerist painters are Jacopo da Pontormo, Bronzino, Lavinia Fontana...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Copper
Emperors Caesar Octavian Tiziano Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17/18th Century
By Tiziano Vecellio (Pieve di Cadore 1490 - Venice 1576)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Tiziano Vecellio (Pieve di Cadore 1490 - Venice 1576) follower of
Portrait of the emperor Julius Caesar (Rome 100 BC - 44 BC), inscribed above C. IVLIVS. CAESAR
Portrait of the Emperor Octavian Augustus (Rome 63 BC - 14 BC), inscribed on top OCTAVIANUS II ROM IMP
17th century
oil painting on canvas
Measurements (cm.): 65 x 50, with frame 81 x 68 cm.
The Latin writer Suetonius with his work 'De vita Caesarum' (and in particular with his tradition in the vernacular of 1543, edited by the Florentine scholar Paolo del Rosso) inspired Tiziano Vecellio who, in 1537, painted for Duke Frederick II of Gonzaga portraits of the eleven emperors, adorning the walls for a small room in the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua, later known as the Cabinet of the Caesars.
These effigies were intended to establish the link between the new era and classicism with its splendor, as well as to celebrate the value and wisdom of the rulers, who perceived themselves, in their lordships, as valiant new emperors.
Titian's paintings soon became enormously popular and many patrons and lords of the time, including Ferdinando d'Avalos, Marquis of Pescara and Governor of Milan or Vespasiano Gonzaga, turned to the workshop of the Cremonese Bernardino Campi...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Venus Paolo Fiammingo Paint Oil on canvas Old master 16th Century Italian Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Pauwels Franck, known as Paolo Fiammingo
(Antwerp, 1540 - Venice, 1596)
Venus lying in a landscape
Oil on canvas 116 x 150 cm.
In antique frame 136 x 170 cm.
The work is accompanied by a critical card by Dr. Federica Spadotto
The splendid painting proposed sees portrayed, bare and stretched out on a red brocade cloth in gold sprinkled with roses, a refined and sensual Venus, in a composition with a profound symbolic value, and arriving at the perfect representation of the Renaissance woman who, like Venus, becomes an allegory love, eros, beauty and fertility.
The canvas is part of the prestigious Venetian artistic and cultural environment of the second half of the sixteenth century, whose distinctive distinctive trait can be traced back to its cosmopolitan vocation. This characteristic, as Dr. Spadotto noted in her in-depth study, belongs to the same physiology of the Venetian capital, that is, being a distinctly commercial city located in a strategic point with respect to trade. Representing one of the liveliest ports in the Mediterranean also meant witnessing the continuous passage not only of goods, but of men, ideas, suggestions from distant countries, which influenced not only the taste of their people, but above all art.
This happened thanks to the circulation of prints, as well as pictorial specimens, to which are added the stays of great foreign artists and, above all, the permanence in the capital of a non-negligible number of Dutch, Flemish and German masters.
An emblematic case in this regard comes from Pauwels Franck (Antwerp, 1540 - Venice, 1596), better known as Paolo Fiammingo, who established himself in his native city at a young age - in 1561 a figure enrolled in the Guild of San Luca - and arrived in Venice in 1573. .
He resided in Venice from 1584 until his death, although the stylistic and formal references of some of his works have led critics to believe that in previous years he had undertaken a journey to central Italy, or to Florence and Rome, where he would have metabolized the lively cultural debate that permeated these cities and which, on the other hand, seemed completely absent in Venice.
Here Paolo will be fascinated by the sense of color and by the atmospheric component fixed on the canvas by Jacopo Tintoretto (Venice 1518 - 1594), of which he becomes a collaborator, to undergo, around 1590, the suggestion of Paolo Caliari...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
16th Century Spanish portrait of Saint Fermin of Pamplona
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Spanish School (16th century)
Saint Fermin of Pamplona
oil on canvas
40.1/8 x 32.½ in. (102 x 82.5 cm.)
Condition: oil on canvas re-lined. Extensive surface dirt and varnish discolouration, craquelure throughout, possible stretcher bar marks. Probable retouches in a 17th century wood frame with painted decoration to corners and central spans. The frame has abrasions and knocks but suits the painting well. There is some shrinkage to some of the paint on the frame.
Following some detailed research, we are confident this is a portrait of San Fermin...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
King Portrait Clementi Paint Oil on canvas Old master 18th Century Italian
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Maria Giovanna Battista Clementi known as La Clementina (Turin, 1692 - Turin, 1761), Attributable to
Portrait of Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (Turin 1666 - Moncalieri 1732) king of Sardinia, duke of Savoy, marquis of Saluzzo and duke of Monferrato, prince of Piedmont and count of Aosta, Moriana and Nizza from 1675 to 1720.
Oil on oval canvas,
79 x 62 cm., Framed 98 x 82 cm.
The portrayed in this fascinating virile portrait is King Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy, portrayed in ceremonial armor and red cloak according to the traditional courtly iconography, represented half-length, slightly three-quarter-length, with the towering "courtly" wig, according to the dictates of fashion of the first decades of the century, of French inspiration.
In order to represent the power embodied in our austere portrayal, the sovereign is immortalized with the symbolic attributes of the power of the family, identifiable in the ancient crown of the Kingdom of Sardinia, in the scepter with the Mauritian cross and in the necklace of the Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunziata, established in 1364 by Amedeo VI, as the highest honor of the House of Savoy...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Joseph Highmore Portrait of a lady, 18th century
Located in York, GB
Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Grace Loftus,of Beverley hall yorkshire.Three-quarter-length, before a window.
Dressed in blue and wearing a white bonnet. The paintin...
Category
1740s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stunning 17th Century Oil Painting - Study of a Head of a Man
By Anthony van Dyck
Located in London, GB
Studio of Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641, Flemish)
Study of a Head of Man
Circa 1627-32, Van Dyck’s second Antwerp period
Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
Dimensions 15 x 14 inches...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Henry Raeburn, (circle) 19th Century portrait of Sir Charles Forbes Edinglassie
By Henry Raeburn (circle)
Located in York, GB
Portrait of Sir Charles Forbes of Edinglassie, Oil on canvas.
The size of the portrait is 75 cm x 59.5 cm whilst overall the size is 106 cm x 91 cm
In very good condition.There has been some restoration/overpainting etc.There is some minor craquelure.
Housed in a period gilt frame decorated with acorns and leaves
Overall a good portrait, circle of a fine scottish artist , with an interesting sitter, his details below.
sir Charles Forbes of Edinglassie
Sir Charles Forbes, 1st Baronet (1774–1849) was a Scottish politician, of Newe and Edinglassie, Aberdeenshire. Forbes was the son of the Rev. George Forbes of Lochell. He was a descendant of Alexander Forbes of Kinaldie and Pitsligo, and was in 1833 served heir male in general to Alexander Forbes, 3rd lord Forbes of Pitsligo, father of Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, attainted in 1745.
Forbes was of a bluff but kindly nature, diffident as to his own merits, of a straightforward and manly character. On the death of his uncle in 1821 Forbes succeeded to the entailed estates of the Forbeses of Newe, and was created a baronet by patent in 1823.[1] He married in 1811. His daughter, Elizabeth, married General, Lord James Hay, second son of the seventh Marquess of Tweeddale.
Sir Henry Raeburn FRSE, RA, RSA (1756-1823)
Scottish portrait painter and Scotland's first significant portrait painter
since the Union to remain based in Scotland.
He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland
Raeburn had all the essential qualities of a popular and successful portrait painter.
He was able to produce a telling and forcible likeness;
his work is distinguished by powerful characterisation,
stark realism, dramatic and unusual lighting...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th/18th century Portrait studio Godfrey Kneller of George Granville
Located in York, GB
A fine oval portrait of George Granville, PC, 1st Baron Lansdowne and "Duke of Albemarle" in the Jacobite peerage (1666-1735)
Studio of Sir Godfrey ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th Century portrait oil painting of a lady
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Studio of Sir Peter Lely
Dutch, (1618-1680)
Portrait of a Lady
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29.25 inches x 24.25 inches
Size including frame: 37...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
CHILD - Alfonso Grassi Watercolor on paper Portrait italian Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
CHILD -Watercolorl on paper cm.51x41 signed lower left by Alfonso Grassi, Italy.
Wooden frame with passeportout cm.94x73
Category
Late 20th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Mary Magdalene, " Antique Italian Grand Tour Oil on Canvas Circa 1840 Guido Reni
Located in Portland, OR
Antique Italian Grand Tour Oil on Canvas painting, "Mary Magdalene," by Achille Leonardi (Italian, 1800-1870), circa 1840. The painting depicting Mary Magdalene looking skyward and in the manner of...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Dutch Old Master Oil on Panel, Ladies Gathering Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: 17th Century Dutch School
Title: Ladies Collecting Flowers
Medium: oil painting on panel, framed
Oval : 6.75 x 9.25 inches, frame...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th Century by Cristoforo Serra Portrait of a Shepherd Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Cristoforo Serra (Cesena 1600 - Cesena 1689)
Portrait of a Shepherd
Oil on canvas, cm. 92 x 75 - with frame cm. 106,5 x 94,5
Antique giltwood cassetta frame, carved and sculpted
Pu...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
18th century portrait of the artist’s daughter, Catharina, playing the cello
Located in Bath, Somerset
The sitter, seated in a yellow silk gown trimmed with a pink bow playing the cello, is believed to be the artist Balthazar Denner's eldest daughter Catharina (1715-1744), after his marriage to Esther Winter in Hamburg in 1712. She is also recognisable in another portrait of the Denner family in the Hamburg Kunsthalle, painted circa 1740 by the artist's son, Jacob Denner (1722-1765). Oil on canvas in a period giltwood frame.
Provenance: Private collection, Northern Germany
Professor Helmut Borsch-Supan, Berlin, confirmed the authenticity of the painting after examining it in 2013. The painting will also be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonnée of the artist, by Ute Mannhardt.
Balthasar Denner...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Quellinus Allegory Vanity Paint Oil on canvas old master 17th Century Flemish
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Erasmus Quellinus II (Antwerp 1607 - 1672)
Vanitas (as an Allegory of the Vanity of Life or of Youth)
Oil painting on canvas - cm. 121 x 84, in the frame cm. 135 x 98
The work is accompanied by an in-depth study written by prof Emilio Negro, from which we present some extracts.
The theme of the painting that we propose is a singular and rare "Vanitas", a subject of strong moral value which, in the pictorial field, refers to a composition with symbolic elements alluding to the theme of the transience of life, and therefore intent on soliciting the viewer to meditation on the transience of human destiny and on the fragility of worldly pleasures.
These subjects, which had particular success in the Flemish context, are works of great charm, interesting to study and often difficult to decipher; protagonist of our canvas we see a capricious little love, sitting on a sarcophagus, a sort of pictorial anthropomorphic Carpe Diem (seize the fleeting moment), who invites you to meditate on the transience of life and to enjoy the moments of happiness it grants; this regardless of the alternating fortunes of fate, symbolized by the putto's foot trampling the gold coins, the precious fabric, the scepter, the ermine stole, the skull, the hunting horn and the books.
Next to him is a still life of multicolored flowers, collected in a crystal vase, whose presence takes on a clear allegorical meaning, since they constitute the metaphor of the transience of youthful beauty which, like fresh flowers, is destined to wither. .
Particularly noteworthy is the stone sepulcher on which the sweetheart sits, on which stands the acronym "DMS", to be dissolved in the Latin phrase "Diis Manibus Sacrum", that is to the sacred gods of hands, corresponding to the invocation carved on the tombstones. of the last paganism, addressed to the spirits of the deified ancestors.
Another very interesting detail is the white sheet that emerges from the pages of the voluminous closed psalter, in which the Latin phrase is traced in beautiful seventeenth-century calligraphy: "Defecerunt sicut fumus dies / mei Psal J.97" to translate: "my days almost smoke they have vanished "(Psalter, Psalm 1. 97), equivalent to another exhortation to reflect on the short duration of existence.
With regard to the pictorial origin of the composition in question, it should be noted first of all that it is an interesting replica, with some modifications, of a four-handed work by Erasmus Quellinus the Younger (the figure of the putto) and Daniel Seghers (the still life).
Of the same composition is also known a version entitled 'Allegory of the passage of Youth', passed by Sotheby's in Amsterdam as Cornelis Schut...
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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th century portrait of Lady Sarah Cowper, Circle of Michael Dahl
By (Circle of) Michael Dahl
Located in York, GB
Portrait of Lady Sarah Cowper, nee Holled [1644-1720]-Circle of Michael Dahl 17th century,
oval,bust-length . She has dark hair tied high and wearing a b...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century by Pietro Bardellino Mary Magdalene Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Pietro Bardellino (Naples, 1731 – Naples, 1806)
Mary Magdalene
Oil on canvas, cm. 75 x 60 – with frame cm. 97 x 82
Antique shaped and carved wooden frame
Publications: unpublished
T...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Portrait Of A Young Woman Oil On Canvas
Located in York, GB
Fine 19th Century Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Young Woman in large gilt gesso frame
Identity of the sitter as yet unknown. The artist has managed to capture her ethereal beauty perfe...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
UNTITLED (PORTRAIT)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on wood. Hand signed and dated on front by Derek Aylward.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity inc...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
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