Samuel Brecher

Pastel Portrait of a Circus Clown

1943

Ink Drawing of a Man Courting A Woman Signed by B. Koller dated 1796. This 18th Century Ink Drawing of a Man Courting A Woman is Signed by the Swiss artist B. Koller and dated 1796. This is an oval shaped drawing of a couple in a landscape. This antique ink drawing...

Fine quality ink drawing fully signed and dated although I cannot break the signature. I put it in a custom frame. Ink on toned paper.

Ba'al Shem Tov Leading Prayer On A Top of a Mountain. Israel Doskow was a Russian - American artist born in 1881. This fine art is oil on canvas and signed by Israel Doskow circa 1...

In the frame: approx 17" x 12: inscribed and dated 1903. Oil on paper.

Bessie J. Howard, American, (1890-1962) This is a bright and colorful oil painting of a clown on artist board and measures 12 inches tall by 9 inc...

Portrait of a Woman is An Oil Painting signed in the upper right corner By Magnus Bakke, an American artist, and is dated 1924. This painting is oil on c...

French School, Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, Pastel /oil Pastel on Paper, Rococo, 18th Century. The Pastel is made in the style...

A fine 18th century French pastel portrait on paper of an aristocrat wearing the order of St Louis, inferring that the sitter had been in the military serving the King. The pastel is unsigned but to the the back is a piece of the original backing paper with a notation to the Baronne de Minck. The paper has been backed with a type of vellum, It is presented in a plain gilt wood frame on a period stretcher under 18th century glass. The artist has used the pastel to create a wonderful soft velvety texture so characteristic of this medium which became so popular for portraits in the 18th century. A charming rendition of a typical 18th century nobleman...

On the cardboard applied on the frame there is an annotation, belonging to some of the old owners, reporting the names of the portrayed in Kurrent handwriting: "Urgroßvater Ludwig Fr(ei)h(e)r(r) von Keller" "Urgroßmutter Fr(ei)h(e)r(rin) von Keller geb(oren) von Niebecker". So we can deduce that the models were Ludwig Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Baron of Keller (1760-1835), a German politician who was the director of the district of Prussia, and his wife Auguste Johanne Henriette Baroness of Niebecker (1760-1832). Their high class provenience is highlighted by the not contained expressive liveliness, by the proud pose imitating movement and by the elegance of the clothes which fabric seems palpable (especially sincere is the evanescent depiction of the pleated veil of the gorget and the adorned with arabesques decoration of the sleeves and the vest). The two pieces can be attributed to John Singleton Copley...

Master portrait artist and illustration legend Bob Peak captures the likeness, dignity and essence of Saudi Arabia's King Faisal for Time Magazine Cover ...

CHILD - Pastel on paper cm.51x41 signed lower right by Alfonso Grassi, Italy. Wooden frame with passeportout cm.94x73

'Portrait of Smiling Woman', pastel and crayon on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1970s). Is this a modern version of da Vinci's Mona Lisa? The simi...