Italian painting

Huge Classical Still Life Oil Painting Ornamental Flowers & Bird Stone Plinth

The Arcadian Landscape Italian School, 18th century oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 32 x 40 inches condition: excellent condition for its age, fully restored. provenance: from a private collection in Paris, France. Large scale classical 18th century Italian Old Master...

French School, after Pierre Mignard Louis XIV on Horseback oil on canvas, unframed painting: 60 x 41 inches provenance: private collection, UK The pa...

Figures & Livestock in an Extensive Landscape circle of Marco Ricci (Italian 1676-1727) oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 16 x 40 inches provenanc...

Artist/ School: British School, signed 'Masson' lower right corner. Title: The London Skyline. We believe the view shows the Tower of London to the far left and Southwark Cathedral ...

Ornamental Still Life with fruit, flowers and birds Italian School, 19th century oil painting on canvas, unframed size: 31.5 x 47 inches condition: relined canvas and in very good and presentable condition provenance: from a collection here in England. A very beautiful and decorative oil painting on a huge scale, depicting this classical landscape scene, with ornamental birds...

Artist/ School/ Date: French School, 17Th century Title: classical lady in a landscape setting Medium & Size: oil painting on canvas: 28 x 17 inches, unframed. Condition: the ...

Master of the Grotesque Vase (active in Rome and Naples in the first quarter of the 17th century) Still life of flowers in a classic vase oil on canvas 66 x 51 cm, In frame cm. 82 x...

18th century Italian Old Master painting This arresting painting depicts an owl with his prey, it is truly exquisite and captivating work of art. The owl has been painted majestical...

Heinrich von Valkenburg (Augsberg fl. 1744-1793) A still life of flowers in an urn Signed and dated 'H Valkenburg, fecit 1787' lower right Oil on canvas Canvas Size - 27 x 21 in Fram...

Lombard school of the eighteenth century Margherita Caffi (Cremona 1647 - Milan 1710), circle Still life of outdoor flowers oil on canvas (61 x 89 c...

This beautiful 19th century floral still life oil painting is by noted German/Austrian artist Johnann Georg Seitz. Painted circa 1850 it is a mixed floral arrangement in a terracotta vase on a ledge. Around the base are several fruits, a copper butterfly...

Italian 17th Century The cat and the canary Oil on canvas 37.1/4 x 50 in. (94.6 x 127.5 cm.)

Aniello Ascione (Naples, fl. 1680-1708) A still life of flowers in an urn with a parrot, melon, pomegranates and figs at its base, a view to an ornamental garden beyond Oil on canvas 59 3/4 x 39 3/4 in Provenance The Alexander Family Collection, Milford House, Co. Carlow, Ireland The latter half of the 17th century and earlier 18th century marked the golden age of Neapolitan still-life painting and Aniello Ascione was one of its most highly regarded exponents. His sumptuous paintings, brimming with fecund produce of the Mediterranean and painted in rich colours, were eagerly sought after by those who wished to decorate their palaces in that city. Naples in the seventeenth century had established a significant reputation and artistic tradition of producing flamboyant and technically excellent still-lifes which had largely been initiated by Caravaggio who, having stated that it required as much effort to paint a good flower piece as a figure subject, helped to revolutionise and eventually abolish the closed attitude to genres of painting. Caravaggio maintained that art was the mirror of nature and his superb Basket of Fruit, now in the Ambrosiana in Milan and painted in 1597, marked the birth of European still-life painting. Throughout the 17th century, Neapolitan still-life painting was founded on the principles demonstrated by Caravaggio and these artists seem to have been the only ones to correctly understand and utilise his ideas. These paintings were noted for their vibrant portrayals of flowers, often in great abundance, fruit and birds done in an elegant and decorative manner. Luca Forte (c.1615- c.1670) was one of the first Neapolitan artists to adopt the Caravaggesque naturalism in this genre of painting and with exceptional creativity sweeping through the city in the 1630s, he was soon followed by Paolo Porpora and Guiseppe and Giovanni Battista Recco and the Ruoppolo family. When Abraham Brueghel arrived in Naples in about 1670, his influence accelerated the transition of the portrayal of still-life to a more baroque style often epitomised by a mass of flowers, cascading over classical objects like water. This more baroque style was taken up by a new generation of painters and one of the first and most prominent of these was Andrea Belvedere (1652-c.1732). He taught Nicola Casissa and other artists working in a similar vein included Gasparo Lopez (called Gasparo di Fiori) d. circa 1732, Paolo Porpora (1617-1663) and Nicola Malinconico (1663-1721). The aforementioned Ruoppolo family were also eminent and Giovan Battista Ruoppolo (1619-1693) instructed the young Aniello Ascione. His pupil became one of the most celebrated representatives of Neapolitan Baroque which combined the traditional naturalism favoured by the city with the new 18th century decorative style. This style proved highly popular with the more secular Neapolitan middle classes as well as the aristocracy and royalty to furnish their grand homes. They loved the harmonious colouring and composition suffused with exuberance Ascione became the most prominent still-life painter in Naples at the transition from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His paintings, which are often of a significant size, utilise intense decorative colours with an abundance of flowers and piles of fruit such as pomegranates, grapes, peaches, pears, melons and plums. Sometimes these spill down stone steps or are draped or stacked with flowers among classical statuary and there is often a view to a landscape or ornamental garden beyond to give the composition depth. Accompanying the fruit and flowers, Ascione occasionally added parrots, dogs or rabbits and he often signed with a monogram comprised of interlocking As although there are some works signed in entirety. His smaller pieces tended to be more intimate in construction with one looking at just different fruits with some of its foliage so that the different hues and skin textures could interact and to some extent, these reflect the legacy of Abraham Brueghel. One very rare piece, now in the Castellino collection in Naples, is a kitchen interior with a skinned lamb which owes its influence to Guiseppe Recco. There is a fine set of the Four Seasons, which also incorporates putti into the compositions and which are believed to have been contributed by Nicola Vaccaro (1659-1720) the son of Andrea Vaccaro...

Pieter Casteels III (Antwerp 1684 - 1749 Richmond) circle Floral still life Signed lower left, on the stone: P Casteels About 1730 Oil painting...

JUAN DE ARELLANO Spanish, 1614 - 1676 Cesta de Flores signed Juan de Arellano (lower lright) oil on canvas original period carved, gilt and polychr...

Flowers - Italian oil on canvas painting. Italy, 2007, Roberto Suraci, cm.80x60 Gold leaf gilded wooden frame available on request. Roberto Suraci's still life depicts a profusion o...

Italian 17th Century The cat and the canary Oil on canvas 37.1/4 x 50 in. (94.6 x 127.5 cm.)

18th century Italian Old Master painting This arresting painting depicts an owl with his prey, it is truly exquisite and captivating work of art. The owl has been painted majestical...

The story of the King Beetle in Matthew Cook's painting of the same name comes from a parable told by Bawa Muhaiyaddeen to illustrate different religio...

A Still Life of Turtles, An Eel, Pike, Lobsters and other Fish on the Shore, A Ship in the Stormy Seas Beyond Signed and dated lower left 1640 Inscribed with inventory number lower r...

Outstanding late 17th-century portrait of a seated Spaniel dog in a landscape with an array of fruits. Attributed to the work of Tobias Stranover...

Flemish School, c. 1700 A Hunting still life Oil on canvas Canvas Size 34 5/8 x 46 1/16 in (88 x 117 cm)