Wenzel Tornoe

Wenzel Ulrik TORNÖE (1844-1907) Portrait of an Italian Boy

1880

Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin PILS (1815–1875) A bewitching portrait of a young redheaded woman attributed to Isidore Pils. The same sitter appears in another of his other paintings,...

Antonin MERCIE (1845-1916) French Belle Époque Portrait A stylish portrait of a fashionable young woman dating to the Belle Époque period. Signe...

19th Century French School A charming portrait of a young woman resplendent in her best bonnet. Indistinctly signed on the front, also inscribed on the frame verso with the artist’...

French School Honfleur Follower of Frank Myers BOGGS (1855-1926) A pleasing harbour scene depicting Honfleur in Northern France. Painted in an impressionistic style with great spontaneity using the dark brooding colour palette reminiscent of the work of Frank Boggs. Honfleur was the centre of a small artist’s colony during the late 19th and 20th centuries. Boggs concentrated on painting marine...

French school circa 1870 Holy Family under an oak, after Raphaël, on gold background Oil on canvas H. 92 cm; W. 60 cm This aesthetic curiosity takes up the very famous composition b...

Etienne-Prosper BERNE-BELLECOUR Boulogne-sur-mer, 1838 - Paris, 1910 Oil on wood panel (acajou) 46 x 33 cm (55 x 43 cm with the frame) Signed lower right "To his friend doctor Daymard / E. Berne-Bellecour / 1903" Painting exhibited at Salon des Artistes Français of 1904 (number 136. “Portrait of Mr. Major Daymard”) Very good condition ( only a few and very small repaints) As an academic painter, Berne-Bellecour worked for illustrated newspapers after failing at the Prix de Rome in 1859. In 1870, he enlisted in the Frankish Corps of Tirailleurs de la Seine and is decorated with the Military Medal. This will decide his career. Companion of Édouard Detaille and Alphonse de Neuville, he painted battle pictures and portraits of soldiers that made him very well known as a specialist military painter. "The Tirailleurs of the Seine in the battle field...

A quiet moment captured by the artist, Leon Garraud of a woman sewing. It's an oil on board framed under glass in beautiful tones of browns and greys highlighed by the light shining...

Antique portrait painting of two woman having an art lesson by Swiss artist, Louis Patru (1871-1905). This is an unusual painting from an artist who only enjoyed a short life. Two ...