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Period: 19th Century
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Portrait Of A Ballerina, early 20th Century by Marcel BLOCH (1882-1966)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Ballerina, early 20th Century by Marcel BLOCH (1882-1966) Large early 20th Century French Impressionist portrait of a ballerina, oil on canvas by Marcel Bloch. Good q...
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

La lecture au jardin (Lesson in the Garden)
Located in New Orleans, LA
French Post-Impressionist painter Georges d’Espagnat captures a charming moment between a mother and her child in this vibrant oil on canvas. Rendered with a studied use of complementary colors and bold brushstrokes, the painting showcases the artist's unique Post-Impressionist style. Remembered as one of the most individualistic artists of the 20th century, his distinctive canvases bring together the loose brushwork of the Impressionists and the bold color palette favored by the Fauves. Together, they achieve a vibrant spontaneity that lends itself well to the carefree subjects of the present work. Masterfully composed, La lecture au jardin moves beyond the Impressionist instinct to capture a fleeting moment on canvas. Rather, d'Espagnat succeeds in creating a deep feeling of harmony in the work. Warm colors are perfectly balanced with cool tones, while vertical and horizontal lines are softened by the curves of the foliage and his subjects' figures. Through his simplification of forms and intentional use of color and line, he creates a scene that is carefully designed and thoroughly modern. A similar view of a mother and her child by d'Espagnat is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). The Post-Impressionist painter was an individualist since his youth, choosing to forgo traditional schooling in order to independently study the Old Masters in the Louvre. He soon became involved with the most prominent Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters of the age, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Signac, who themselves existed outside the traditional norms of French Academic training. In 1891, he exhibited at the Salon des Refusés, and again the following year at the Salon des Indépendants. By 1895, he held his first one-man show in Paris, and just three years later his success earned him a solo show at the prestigious Durand-Ruel Gallery. Between 1905 and 1910 he made several trips to visit Renoir on the Côte d’Azur. Their close friendship resulted in a group exhibition at Marcel Bernheim...
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Post-Impressionist 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Marin sur le pont" by Edmond de Palezieux - Oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
oil on canvas without frame One point of restoration
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French School 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of my Young Daughter
Located in Paris, FR
Beautiful oil on canvas from the end of the 19th century figuring the portrait of a young woman. The painting is signed Y Pol on the bottom left . The artist in his performance perfe...
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Academic 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Full length portrait of a child with his dog
Located in PARIS, FR
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...
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French School 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a Lady French 19th Century Painting Pastel on Canvas
Located in FR
19th Century Portrait of a Lady French Pastel on Canvas c1850-60 Indistinctly signed Unframed This has at some time been removed from its frame there is a small hole as shown in pho...
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Realist 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Pastel

English 19th century figure scene with fisherman helping ladies on to a boat
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding quality Victorian Genre scene of some fishermen helping some high-class ladies on to their small boat. The style is a type of the High-end Victorian Genre scene. Painters like Tissot, Millais, the Pre-Raphaelites, and other genre painters all painted in this high-quality style. The painting is signed and dated lower left and is an oil on canvas, but alas the signature is not obvious enough to know the painter. The history of the painting is that it came from an English private collection of paintings...
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Victorian 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a Young Woman at the Seashore - British Victorian art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This beautiful oil painting on canvas dates to circa 1840 and is by British Victorian artist William Edward Frost who was noted for his depiction of nudes and feminine beauty. The ov...
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Realist 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Out of Mischief - British Victorian 1891 art interior portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This absolutely charming exhibited British Victorian oil painting is by female artist Maria Louisa Angus. Painted in 1891, it was exhibited at the Royal Academy that same year. The composition is an interior scene with two young girls on a sofa, looking at a picture book and keeping 'out of mischief' as it is entitled. The room holds an exotic mix of oriental objects and a gorgeous umbrella plant in a gleaming terracotta pot. The girls themselves are sat on a beautifully detailed fur throw, looking at a book, with a marine painting on the wall behind them. The brushwork and colouring are superb and the pink of the older girl's dress is picked up throughout the room. A really lovely painting by a very talented Victorian female artist. Signed and dated M.L. Angus 1891 lower left. Provenance. Exhibited at the London, Royal Academy, 1891, no. 841 entitled Out of Mischief. Anonymous, sale, Doyle, New York, May 20, 1998, lot 161, illustrated. Private collection, Newport, Rhode Island. Condition. Oil on canvas, 27 inches by 20 inches unframed and in good condition. Frame. Housed in a gilt frame, 34 inches by 27 inches framed and in good condition. Maria Louisa Angus (1863 - 1934) was born in Southwark on 29th July 1863, the daughter of a printer. She studied at the Lambeth School of Art in 1886 and established a studio at 1a Cowley Street in Westminster, later she worked out of Powers Studio in Ruskin House, Rochester Row. She specialised in genre subjects and some landscapes. She exhibited 10 pictures at the Royal Academy between 1888 and 1893 as well as many London Galleries and Societies. In 1913 she exhibited in the Anglo German Exhibition...
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Victorian 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Harvest Time - British Victorian exhibited art figurative landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb large exhibited British Victorian oil painting is by noted artist Thomas Falcon Marshall. Painted in 1849 it was exhibited at the Royal Academy London that year. This lar...
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Victorian 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

The four militaries By Hippolyte Bellangé - Antique oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
The work is old, dated from the middle of the 19th century. The artist has been sold more than 300 times in auction houses, mainly in France (origin of the painter), which explains t...
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Realist 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

19th century Portrait of a lady, Priscilla Osborn, William Jacob Baer
Located in York, GB
PORTRAIT OF PRISCILLA, MRS WILLIAM OSBORN half length, oil on canvas, WILLIAM JACOB BAER (1860-1941) housed in the original early 19th c gilt cavetto frame The overall size being 94....
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Old Masters 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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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...
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Old Masters 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

E. Robinson - 1870 Oil, Young Victorian Beauty
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine oil portrait of a rosy cheeked, young Victorian woman wearing a white lace collared dress with a blue ribbon. The artist has signed and dated ...
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"Native American Chief" Portrait Painting
By Rick Boren
Located in Houston, TX
Rick Borens' piece showcases a Native American chief standing in front of a landscape Dimensions without Frame: H: 20in x W: 31.5 in. Artist Bi...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

19th Century Italian School Portrait of Peasant Girl
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming 19th Century Italian School portrait of peasant girl by unknown artist, circa 1840. Partial signature lower right edge. Condition: fai...
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Italian School 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Walking Along the Beach, Bauer, German School, 19th Century, Signed P. Bauer
Located in Bruges, BE
Walking Along the Beach German School 19th Century Signature: Signed bottom right P. Bauer Dimensions: Image size 31 x 24 cm, frame size 42 x 32 cm Medium: Aquarelle
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Romantic 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor

Lady with Harp - Oil Paint by Symbolist Painter - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lady with harp is a modern artwork realized by Symbolist Painter of late 19 Century. Symbolistic painting of a lady with harp standing on a rock by the sea. Mixed colored oil on ca...
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Modern 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Dreaming Anew, Departing New York Harbor
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Pensive in thought sitting at a wood-slat stern bench of a departing vessel in New York Harbor, the prominent grandeur of the Statue of Liberty recently passed, a woman and her loyal...
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Portrait Of A Breton Boy, circa 1920 by Suzanne BILLET DE FOMBELLE (1899-1953)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Breton Boy, circa 1920 by Suzanne BILLET DE FOMBELLE (1899-1953) Large circa 1920 Impressionist portrait of a Breton boy, oil on canvas by Suzanne Billet De Fombelle....
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tibetan Thangka of Sakyamuni, c. 1880
Located in Chicago, IL
Historically in Buddhist Tibet, patrons and monks commissioned thangka art, or sacred painting, to focus their meditations and prayers. This 19th-century Tibetan Thangka, painted in rich red, green, and blue pigments, still maintains incredible vibrancy. The central figure is the Sakyamuni Buddha, seated in the diamond position with alms bowl...
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Silk, Pigment

'A Best Friend' by Carl Haag, Erlangen 1820 – 1915 Oberwesel a. Rhein, German
Located in Bruges, BE
Carl Haag Erlangen 1820 – 1915 Oberwesel a. Rhein German Painter 'A Best Friend' Signature: Signed middle right Medium: Mixed media Dimensions: Image size ...
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Romantic 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil Pastel

Aurora in white toga smelling a flower. Goddess of Dawn Mythology scene
By Jean Louis Hamon
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Louis Hamon artfully presents the mythological subject: Aurora the Goddess of Dawn. She is dressed in a flowing toga, standing on a large leaf and smelling the sweetness of a flower in bloom. Surrounded by lush plants in an idyllic setting of pinks and blues, one would not think that this peaceful and beautiful work was painted in 1864 at the time of the American Civil War. Hamon meticulously renders the scene with the academic precision of Bouguereau. The closer you get, the more detail you discover. Two butterflies sit atop Aurora's head. Droplets of water gracefully roll down her hair. There was a hand colored steel plate...
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Academic 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

French Romantic School, Portrait of a young priest, dated 1860 oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic School, Portrait of a young priest, 1860 Signed (illegible) and dated 1860 oil on canvas 21.5 x 16 cm In a modern frame : 35 x 29 cm
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

19th century Portrait Of A Young Man, Oil, Circle Of Thomas Jones Barker
Located in York, GB
Portrait of a young man, half length wearing a yellow waistcoat and holding a cane , Circle of Thomas Jones Barker (1815-1882), Oil on canvas, housed in a...
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Realist 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Ship In A Swell Off The Pier, 19th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Ship In A Swell Off The Pier, 19th Century attributed to Henry Redmore (1820-1888) Fine Large 19th century British maritime scene of a ship in a swell ...
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A fine KPM Porcelain Plaque in the Manner of Wagner
Located in New York, NY
Cherub kissing a semi nude female dune in the clouds. KPM porcelain plaque of a female dune and a cherub. Date: circa 19th Century Origin: Germany Size: 7 1/2 in x 10 in
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Porcelain

19th century French, Surrender of the French at Huningen Fort to the Austrians
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful French period copy of the famous painting by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille, which the original is now in a museum in Paris. This piece came from a private collection in New Jersey where it had been since it was purchased in France back in the 1950s. The previous owner was an Art dealer in NYC during the 1950s-70s and she kept some of her favorite paintings, this being one of them. The piece was re-framed in the 1990s In 35 years of dealing in paintings, I have never seen another example of this scene, it is very rare.! History of the scene: In the Siege of Hüningen (27 November 1796 – 1 February 1797), the Austrians captured the city from the French. Hüningen is in the present-day Department of Haut-Rhin, France. Its fortress lay approximately 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of the Swiss city of Basel and .5 miles (0.80 km) north of the spot where the present-day borders of Germany, France, and Switzerland meet. During the time of this siege, the village was part of the Canton of Basel City and the fortress lay in an area contested between the German states and the First French Republic. The siege occurred within the French Revolutionary Wars during which Revolutionary France ranged...
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Victorian 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Original Painting French Barbizon School 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MORIN Charles Camille (1846 – 1919) The Girl with goats by the river Oil on canvas signed low left Old frame gilded with leaves Dim canvas : 58 X 91 cm Dim Frame : 88 X 112 cm MORI...
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Barbizon School 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Fisherfolk On The Beach, 19th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Fisherfolk On The Beach, 19th Century by William SHAYER (1787-1879) Fine Large 19th Century English scene with fisherfolk on the beach overlooking the coastline, oil on canvas. E...
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

GRISAILLE 19th Century - Cherubs Are Playing Music
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GRISAILLE 19th Century (anonymous) Cherubs asleep Part of "Rococo Style" made famous by François Boucher (1703 - 1770) Oil on canvas Circa 1850 Frame re-gilded Dim canvas : 50 X 70 c...
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Academic 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Napoléon II
Located in New Orleans, LA
The son of the legendary Napoléon Bonaparte, Napoléon François Charles Joseph, takes a spirited stance in this remarkable oil painting attributed to the Austrian portraitist Johann Peter Krafft. Believed to have been exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris, this work stands as a testament to both Austrian artistry and the legacy of one of the most powerful men in history. After Napoléon's exile to the island of Elba in 1814, his son was seen by many of his supporters as the last hope of France. The child was named the ruler of half of Europe, holding the titles of Napoléon II...
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Academic 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Impressionist Oil Painting - Self Portrait Of Douglas Allen
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. ...
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Impressionist 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

GRISAILLE 19th Century - Cherubs asleep
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GRISAILLE 19th Century (anonymous) Cherubs asleep Part of "Rococo Style" made famous by François Boucher (1703 - 1770) Oil on canvas Circa 1850 Old frame re-gilded Dim canvas : 33 X ...
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Academic 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Early Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in Houston, TX
Elegant portrait painting of a young woman with red hair. The painting is framed in a decorative gold frame with a light attached to the top. The piece is signed by the artist in the...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Monumental Mid-19th Century Oil Portrait of Two Siblings
Located in San Francisco, CA
Monumental mid-19th century oil portrait of two siblings Stunning museum quality original oil painting of a brother and sister with marbles...
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Realist 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

KPM Oval Plaque depicting a Beautiful Lady in Blue Dress
Located in New York, NY
A Fine KPM Plaque of a beauty in an elegant blue dress. Impressed KPM and sceptre mark to the reverse. Maker: KPM Origin: German Date: 19th century
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Porcelain

Portrait Of A Nude Girl as Huntress Diana, dated 1888
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Nude Girl as Huntress Diana, dated 1888 by Louis Auguste DUBOIS (1846-1890) Fine large 19th Century French classical scene of a nude girl posing as the Goddess Diana,...
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

“Child in White Dress”
Located in Southampton, NY
Circa 1890 Signed verso on stretcher bar Original period gold leaf frame Overall size framed 21 x 18 in
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Academic 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Venus coming out of the water" Oil on board by Lancelot Speed
Located in Carmel, CA
Speed was born in London on 13 June 1860, the youngest son of William Speed, a Queens Council of the Middle Temple. Speed had no formal art training, bu...
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Realist 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Reflection", 19th Centuty oil oncanvas by Argentinian painter G. Mendilaharzu
Located in Madrid, ES
GRACIANO MENDILAHARZU Argentinian, 1857 - 1894 "REFLECTION" signed "Mendilaharzu" (lower left) oil on canvas 18-1/4 X 15 inches (46 X 38 cm.) framed: 27-1/4 X 23-3/4 inches (69 X 60...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lady in Middle-Age Suits, Pastel 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
FANTIN LATOUR Theodore (1805 – 1875) « Young Lady dressed with middle-age suit » Pastel on card signed low right Old original frame gilded with leaves Dim pastel : 80 X 63 cm Dim fr...
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Academic 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Pastel

'A Young Parisienne', Royal Academy of Arts, Academie Colarossi, Jeu-de-Paume
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed center left, 'Christine Sundberg' (Swedish, 1837-1892) and dated 1888. Displayed in a period golden maple frame; Framed dimensions: 25.5 x 1...
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Realist 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait of Girl with Blue Fascinator
By Henry Lejeune
Located in Houston, TX
Watercolor profile portrait of a young girl in a blue fascinator hat and a red scarf by artist Henry LeJeune in the pre-Raphaelite style in the 19th century. Signed in the lower left...
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Pre-Raphaelite 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor

Neapolitan Children
Located in Pasadena, CA
Oil on canvas attributed to Ernest Hébert, painter born in Grenoble painter of scenes of the genre in 1840. He arrives in Italy which will become his ado...
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Barbizon School 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"William Merritt Chase" Portrait by Texas Artist Hugo Pohl
Located in San Antonio, TX
Hugo Pohl "William Merritt Chase" Portrait (1878 - 1960) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 6 1/4 x 4 inches Frame Size: 10 x 8 Medium: Drawing Circa 1880s 90s "William Merritt Chase" Portrait Biography Hugo Pohl (1878 - 1960) Born in Detroit, Michigan, Hugo David Pohl became a painter of native people and landscape in New Mexico, Arizona, California and then Texas where he settled and became known for his paintings of missions. Between 1926 and 1927, he completed 29 Texas mission paintings...
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Realist 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Pencil

"Lady in Mantillia" Unsigned Tobin Collection. Exibited in recent Museum shows
Located in San Antonio, TX
Jose Arpa (1858-1952) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 25 x 20 Frame Size: 29 x 24 Medium: Oil "Lady in Mantilla" From the Robert Tobin Collection. Robert Tobin (deceased) San Antonio, Texas Developer and Philanthropist. Details This painting was exhibited in 2016-2017 at Several Texas Museums including the Panhandle Plains Museum.  Exhibition tag on verso. Biography Jose Arpa (1858-1952) Born in Carmona, Spain, José Arpa y Perea was known as "The Colorist Painter" of figures and landscapes, especially in Texas where he brought a fresh approach to San Antonio painting in his bright, sunlit local scenes.  He was also an etcher, illustrator, and muralist as well as an art teacher, and he started and ended his career in Spain.  His subjects include the Grand Canyon of Arizona. He began his art study as the pupil of Eduardo Cano de la Pena at the Academy of Fine Arts in Seville and then spent six years in Rome followed by extensive travel through Africa and Europe.  His reputation was solid enough that the Spanish government sent four of his paintings as part of the exhibition to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1894, as an illustrator, he accompanied a Spanish army expedition to Morocco where the Spanish had been defeated by Rifi tribesmen.  In the mid-1890s, he was brought to Mexico City, reportedly by a special Mexican naval vessel, to head the Academy of Fine Arts, but declined the position once he understood the responsibilities.  Instead he joined one of his Spanish schoolmates and went to his home in Puebla, Mexico, where his use of bright colors earned him the name of "Sunshine Man."  He became close to the children of this man, and in 1903, accompanied them as a guardian to school in San Antonio.  After twenty years of traveling in Spain, Mexico, the Southwest, and South America, Arpa settled in 1923 in San Antonio, Texas, where he became Director of the San Antonio Art School and painted bright, sun-filled landscapes.  He taught landscape and portrait painting and was exceedingly prolific, and several San Antonio collectors accumulated large numbers of his works.  Among his close artist friends were Robert and Julian Onderdonk, Tom and Joe Brown, and Charles Simmang.  They were members of a San Antonio group who painted together and called themselves the "Brass Mug...
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Realist 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

“Child in White Dress”
Located in Southampton, NY
Circa 1890 Signed verso on stretcher bar Original period gold leaf frame Overall size framed 21 x 18 in
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Post-Impressionist 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of General George Duke of Gordon, G.C.B.
Located in Missouri, MO
Ramsay R. Reinagle (English, 1775-1862) Portrait of Lord George, Duke of Gordon, G.C.B., Founder of the Famous Scottish Regiment of "Gordon Highlanders" in 1795, 1828 27 x 22 inches ...
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Land 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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