1860s Still-life Paintings

Antique oil portrait painting of a rabbit by English artist Abel Hold (1815-1893), signed in the lower left corner A Hold. This atmospher...

Wonderful and decorative 19th century French still life of flowers and fruit on a marble ledge in a landscape. The artist was born 1840 in Paris. He was a known Painter of Still-l...

Well painted and very decorative English Victorian still life of Apples, nuts, and a blue and white Chinese ginger jar. Though signed I can not m...

Stunning pair of antique Hudson River School era still life paintings. Each depicts an arrangement of fresh berries in a natural, atmospheric landscape, making them outstanding examp...

Stunning pair of antique Hudson River School era still life paintings. Each depicts an arrangement of fresh berries in a natural, atmospheric landscape, making them outstanding examp...

Still Life Oil Painting of Baby Chicks and Cherries by Thomas Hill, American (1829-1908). Rare early sill life with chicks and a bowl of cherries. Oil on canvas measuring approximately 7 .5" x 13" signed by Thomas Hill circa 1865. Painted before his career as a landscape artist in California and the West. Immigrating from England in 1844, Thomas Hill came to America with his family as a youngster, and became one of America's most famous 19th-century landscape painter, especially of panoramic views of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite. He also painted landscapes of the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Park, where he was particularly fascinated by the geysers. Hill studied art in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy, and his first intentions were to become a history painter. However, he changed to landscape when he spent time in Europe, especially France among the Barbizon painters and in the studio of Paul Meyerheim. During the 1870s and 1880s, his work brought high prices, but diminished with the increasing popularity of modernism. In the latter half of the 20th century, his work was rediscovered, and he is now considered one of the major figures in American art. He settled with his family in Taunton, Massachusetts and worked in Boston with a carriage maker. He studied with Peter Rothermel at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and painted in Massachusetts and New Hampshire with George Inness, Virgil Williams, Albert Bierstadt, and his brother, Edward Hill...

CHONE GEORGES (1819-nc) « Arrangement of varied Flowers in a landscape » in pair Oils on canvas signed low right Old frames regilded with leaves Dim canvas : 24 X 32 cm Dim frame : 48 X 38 cm CHONE GEORGES (1819-nc) French painter 19th Century Born 25 February 1819 in Paris Genre paintings and Still...

MARTHA HERPST "STILL LIFE WITH ROSES" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED AMERICAN, C.1960 20 X 16 INCHES Martha Herpst 1911-1986 Born in Titusville, PA, Martha Herpst studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and at Grand Central School of Art in New York City. Among her teachers were Daniel Garber, Roy Nuse, Hugh Breckenridge, Wayman Adams, Edmund Graecen, Harvey Dunn, Georg Lober and Guy Pene Du Bois. She was a member of the National Art Club, Society of Independent Artists and exhibited at the National Arts Club in New York (1933-72), Butler Art Institute (1938 and 1945), Titusville Women's Club (1934 and 1935), Society of Independent Artists (1937-40), Ogunquit Art Association and others. Her work is in the collections of the National Art Club, Titusville Women's Club, University of Pittsburgh, Titusville, and Gannon College, Erie, Pennsylvania. Also a noted collector of 18th century furniture, silver, glass, and oriental art, she left her early American glass...