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Old Masters Still-life Paintings

OLD MASTERS

Encompassing centuries of change in Europe between 1300 and 1800, from booms of prosperity to bloody revolutions, Old Masters describes a wide range of artists. The informal term was derived from the title of an artist who trained in a guild long enough to become a master, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who studied in a Florence painters’ guild. However, Old Masters paintings, prints and other art is now used to refer to work made by any artist with a high level of skill in painting, drawing, sculpture or printmaking who worked during this era.

The 15th century’s expansive trade and commerce spread culture across borders. A vibrant period of art emerged, bolstered by studies of anatomy and nature that influenced a new visual realism. From Raphael and Michelangelo in the Renaissance to Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age, artists expressed emotion, naturalism, color and light in new ways. El Greco and Paolo Veronese were leaders in the dramatic style of Mannerism, while Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens demonstrated the movement and meticulous detail of Baroque art.

Historically, most attention was concentrated on male artists, but recent research and exhibitions have elevated the impactful work of women such as Rachel Ruysch and Artemisia Gentileschi. In late-18th-century France, female artists like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun were prominent names. Nevertheless, access to the academies and guilds was highly restricted for women, and even those able to establish practices were expected to adhere to portraits and still lifes rather than the grand history paintings being created by men.

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Style: Old Masters
Still life
Located in Milano, IT
Michelangelo Cerquozzi known as Michelangelo delle Battaglie or Michelangelo delle Bambocciate (Rome, 1602 – 6 April 1660) Still life, 1630 circa Oil on canvas, 50x65 cm With frame...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Still life of fruit and nuts
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
James Shaw (fl.1769-1784) Still life of fruit and nuts Oil on canvas Canvas Size - 13 1/2 x 17 3/4 in Framed Size - 16 1/4 x 20 1/2 in Born in Sedgley in Staffordshire, it is unclea...
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18th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Still-life Flower Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Lombard school
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Francesca Volò Smiller, called Vincenzina (Milan, 1657 - 1700) - circle of Floral composition Oil on canvas (97 x 72 cm. - in octagonal frame 100 x 84 cm.) A rich floral compositio...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Huge Classical Floral Still Life Oil Painting of Mixed Pale Flowers in Urn
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/School: G. Wabarwick (20th Century), signed Title: Mixed Flowers Classical Still Life Medium: oil on canvas, framed Size: the canvas is 40 x 30 inches; the frame adds anoth...
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Mid-20th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Fine Classical Dutch Old Master Style Still Life Flowers in Vase Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frederik Victor Van Bloemart, British 20th Century signed oil painting on board, framed framed: 13.5 x 11 inches board: 10 x 8 inches provenance: private collection, England condit...
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20th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Fine 18th Century Old Master Oil Painting Dead Game in Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life with Dead Birds 18th Century Italian School oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 16 x 20 inches canvas: 13 x 17 inches provenance: privat...
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18th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Classical Still Life Flowers in Glass Bowl, Old Master Style oil on canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
German School, early 20th century oil on canvas, framed framed: 33 x 27.5 inches canvas: 30 x 25 inches private collection, UK the painting is in overall very ...
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Early 20th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Fine 18th Century Old Master Oil Painting Dead Game in Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life with Dead Birds 18th Century Italian School oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 17 x 21 inches canvas: 14 x 18 inches provenance: private collec...
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18th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Still Life Vanitas Noletti Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Italian
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Francesco Noletti known as the Maltese (Malta 1611-Rome 1654) Workshop/circle of Still life with musical instruments, toys, armour, textiles and precious objects Oil on canvas (52 x...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Ten dog studies and a study of a stole, a panel attributed to Jan Weenix
By Jan Weenix
Located in PARIS, FR
This painting is typical of the art of Jan Weenix, one of the best still life and hunting painters of the Dutch Golden Age. In a cleverly disordered manner, he depicts ten studies of dogs (mainly spaniels and greyhounds) and the sumptuous study of a stole. These studies were probably intended to be used as a source of inspiration and adapted in the painter's compositions, as we will see in a close examination of some of his paintings. 1. Jan Weenix, a prolific still life painter Jan Weenix was born into a family of artists: his father Jan Baptist Weenix (1621 - 1659) was also a landscape and still life painter and his mother Josyntgen d'Hondecoeter was the daughter of the animal painter Gillis d'Hondecoeter (1575 - 1638). His father trained him together with his cousin Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636 - 1695). In 1664 Jan Weenix became a member of the St. Luke's Guild in Utrecht, to which he belonged until 1668. In 1679 he married Pieternella Backer with whom he had 13 children. His compositions, often related to hunting (still lifes, portraits of hunters) were very successful, ensuring him a certain financial ease. Jan Weenix also painted large-scale decorations: while staying in Düsseldorf with the Prince-Elector of the Palatinate between 1702 and 1712, he executed twelve gigantic compositions combining landscapes, hunting scenes and still life for the Bensberg hunting lodge. 2. Description of the artwork The painting displays a great apparent disorder that hides a rigorous organisation in four quarters. It presents ten studies of hunting dogs and one study of a stole. The studies of the stole and of two of the dogs (the greyhound in the lower right and the spaniel in the upper right quarter) are quite elaborate, whereas those of the other dogs are sketchier. As an example, the dog in the upper right corner is only partially painted. The dogs' coats, of different colours - brown, sandy, grey or black - stand out against the warm brown background and are illuminated by the shine of their white hair. This white colour, probably executed with ceruse white, illuminates the study of a stole which stands out in the lower left-hand corner while the red colour of its lining warms up the composition. The purpose of this stole is enigmatic: we think it is probably a neckband, but it could also be the back of the turban of an oriental character. To the right of this stole is the outline of a long animal leg, perhaps a horse leg. Similar studies are rare in the work of Jan Weenix, but the Rijksmuseum recently acquired the study of a seated monkey. This study, executed in the same brown chromatic range, is much more accomplished. It has been reused with minimal change in many compositions. It is likely that Jan Weenix had less frequently a monkey at his disposal, and that he therefore depicted it in great details, whereas he could probably easily find dogs as models. Note the characteristic white dot in the corner of each pupil that brings them to life! 3. Related artworks We have tried to relate the various dogs in this study to the countless dogs that appear in the paintings of Jan Weenix, as listed in the catalogue 'Father and Son - Weenix' compiled by Anke van Wagenberg- Ter Hoeven in 2018. A first example is the painting entitled "The Prodigal Son on the Steps of a Palace" (catalogue number 7 - 8th photo in the gallery). In the lower left-hand corner of the composition, a spaniel is barking at a peacock perched on a stone. This spaniel, which is depicted in a similar manner in the "Portrait of a Young Man with a Falcon" in the Bremen Kunsthalle (catalogue number 76), is reminiscent of the spaniel in the upper left-hand quarter of our study (although the latter is slenderer and the direction of its head differs). We also find, in a slightly different pose, the seated greyhound that is at the top of our painting in the composition representing "A Swan, a Stag, a Hare and Birds presented by two hunting Valets" (catalogue number 130 - last photo in the gallery). The sketch of this greyhound in our study is unfinished: the painter only painted the grey undercoat and the white parts of the coat, without completing the sandy coat which appears in the final painting. We can see from these various examples that our study was probably more a repertoire of forms than a model for a specific composition. The painter probably used it for inspiration before adapting each dog study...
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Late 17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oak, Oil

17th c. Flemish, Still life with birds and raisins, workshop of Frans Snyders
Located in PARIS, FR
STILL LIFE WITH BIRDS AND RAISINS, WORKSHOP OF FRANS SNYDERS (1579-1657) An exquisite and attractive work, our painting with its rich and harmonious composition is one of the remarkable examples of the passion of art lovers of the 17th century for still lifes, the genre in full ferment in Antwerp in early 17th century, long before its arrival to Paris in the 1630s & 40s. Our painting presents on an entablature covered with wine-colored velvet cloth, various objects in an artistic arrangement which is intended to be spontaneous. The tight framing, like an extract and the piled up objects suggest a plenitude and an infinite richness of what nature can offer and reinforce the feeling of prosperity. The wicker basket overflowing with translucent bunches of grapes in green and purplish hues with icy reflections dominates the right side of the painting. In the center is the game birds, partridge, snipe, sparrow, pincon and others, each bird with a fine and precise design, transparent plumage, the meticulous rendering of the different beak or leg parts, zebrures and streaks of the down. On the left, two stacked white and blue Chinese...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

Classical Still Life Study Of Flowers in Vase Elaborate Grand Gilt Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rima (19th/20th century) signed oil on board, framed framed: 36 x 29.5 inches board: 31 x 24 inches provenance: UK collection The painting is in good and presentable condition.
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20th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

A still life of flowers in an urn with a parrot, melon, pomegranates and figs...
By Aniello Ascione (Naples, news from 1680 to 1708)
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
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...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Very Large Classical Oil Still Life Study Of Fruit and Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Manner of Emilio Greco, 20th Century oil on board, framed framed: 24 x 29 inches board: 16 x 20 inches provenance: private collection, England The painting is in very good and presen...
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20th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

STILL LIFE - Salvatore Marinelli School Baroque - Oil on Canvas Italian Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Still life - Salvatore Marinelli Italia 2008 - Oil on canvas cm. 60x120 Salvatore Marinelli's canvas is a painting inspired by Abraham van Beyeren Dutch painter, of the Baroque age, ...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

FLOWERS -In the Manner of Mario Dei Fiori -Oil On Canvas Italian Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Flowers - Oil on canvas cm.80x60 by Maximilian Ciccone, Italy 2002. Frame available on request from our workshop. In this oil on canvas painting the painter Ciccone draws inspiration from the masterpieces of the great Roman master Mario Nuzzi...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Still Life with Herring, a panel by the workshop of Georg Flegel (1566 - 1638)
Located in PARIS, FR
Fred G. Meier, art historian, confirmed with the following comment, after a photographic examination of the work, that it belongs to the studio of Georg Flegel...
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1630s Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oak, Oil

17th Century by Nicolas van Houbraken Still Life with Mushrooms Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Nicolas Van Houbraken (Messina, 1668 - Pisa, 1733) Still life with mushrooms Oil on canvas, cm. 26 x 32 - with frame cm. 38,5 x 33,5 Antique cassetta frame made of carved wood and ...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Canvas, Oil

Grand-Scale Old Master Garland Portrait, 17th Century, Signed & Dated, Rare work
Located in London, GB
Indistinctly signed and dated In the first quarter of the 17th century a new form of flower painting was developed in Flemish painting, which, recreated by a large group of artists and workshops, would achieve considerable success throughout the century in much of Europe: the garland of flowers surrounding a central figure. Brueghel de Velurs was the initiator of this type of composition, however, it was his pupil, Daniel Seghers, who was the dominant figure in this specialised production and the creator of a prototype that would serve as a model for the numerous artists who followed in his wake. It seems undeniable that the artist of the present painting had seen the Garlands of Flowers Surrounding a Medallion Depicting the Triumph of Love by Daniel Seghers and Domenico Zampieri (now in the Musée du Louvre in Paris). In our painting, the present floral wreath encircles a carved cartouche within which sits Saint Dorothy of Caesarea and the attribute which often accompanies her in art, a basket of roses. The extremely delicate flowers have been rendered in meticulous detail, so that every species can be identified from exotic tulips to roses, irises and forget-me-nots; this obvious attention to naturalism is inherited from the Flemish manner. Each flower is so precise and refined that they are an individual study in their own right. The still-lifes are from the hand of Jan Anton van den Baren, with the central figures by another accomplished hand. Van den Baren’s arrangement of flowers would have delighted connoisseurs in both Flanders and in Vienna, where the impossibility of their all blooming at the same time of year would have been understood as a further statement of the wonder and beauty of the divine. Van den Baren worked first in Brussels, where he collaborated with Erasmus Quellinus II for the figures in his works, before moving with Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, his patron, to Vienna in 1656, where he instead worked with fellow Flemish émigré painter Nikolaus van Hoy. The iconography relates to an eighth century legend where she was presented a basket of roses by a child. In addition to the brilliance of his handling of still-lifes Van den Baren played an important art historical role as Director of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm’s Picture Gallery in Vienna, then one of the greatest collections in the world and the core of what was to become the present collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Van der Baren compiled an inventory of the collection in 1659, and his predecessor as Director of the Archduke’s Picture Gallery (when it was still housed in Flanders), David Teniers, depicted van der Baren (third from right) in his celebrated Archduke Leopold Willem in his gallery at Brussels, conserved at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. It is a shining example of the Flemish Baroque and is a very rare object indeed, considering there are only 14 paintings accepted as authentic works by this artist. We are grateful to Fred Meijer for confirming the attribution to Johannes Antonius van der Baren. A feature of this painting is its outstanding carved and gilded frame with a plethora of flowers and foliage. Titan Fine Art
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Baroque silver Vase with Flowers with a Fruit Tray and a Clock by A. Zuccati
Located in PARIS, FR
This unpublished composition is a recent addition to Adeodato Zuccati’s catalog. The study of this painting by Gianluca Bocchi, an Italian art historian specializing in Italian still lives, is available upon request. This composition is typical of the productions of Adeodato Zuccati, an Emilian painter...
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Late 17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Classical Floral Still Life Painting of Mixed Pale Flowers in Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/School: C.Lane (20th Century), signed Title: Mixed Flowers Still Life Medium: oil on board, framed Framed: 15 x 13 inches Size: the painting is 10 x 8 inches Condition: Ve...
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20th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Still Life with Squash, Gourds, Stoneware, and a Basket with Fruit and Cheese
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Selma Herringman, New York, ca. 1955-2013; thence by descent to: Private Collection, New York, 2013-2020 This seventeenth century Spanish still-life of a laden table, known as a bodegón, stands out for its dramatic lighting and for the detailed description of each object. The artist’s confident use of chiaroscuro enables the sliced-open squash in the left foreground to appear as if emerging out of the darkness and projecting towards the viewer. The light source emanates from the upper left, illuminating the array, and its strength is made apparent by the reflections on the pitcher, pot, and the fruit in the basket. Visible brush strokes accentuate the vegetables’ rough surfaces and delicate interiors. Although the painter of this striking work remains unknown, it is a characteristic example of the pioneering Spanish still-lifes of the baroque period, which brought inanimate objects alive on canvas. In our painting, the knife and the large yellow squash boldly protrude off the table. Balancing objects on the edge of a table was a clever way for still-life painters to emphasize the three-dimensionality of the objects depicted, as well a way to lend a sense of drama to an otherwise static image. The knife here teeters on the edge, appearing as if it might fall off the table and out of the painting at any moment. The shape and consistency of the squash at left is brilliantly conveyed through the light brush strokes that define the vegetable’s fleshy and feathery interior. The smaller gourds—gathered together in a pile—are shrouded partly in darkness and stand out for their rugged, bumpy exterior. The stoneware has a brassy glaze, and the earthy tones of the vessels are carefully modulated by their interaction with the light and shadow that falls across them. The artist has cleverly arranged the still-life in a V-shaped composition, with a triangular slice of cheese standing upright, serving as its pinnacle. Independent still-lifes only became an important pictorial genre in the first years of the seventeenth century. In Italy, and particularly through the revolutionary works of Caravaggio, painted objects became carriers of meaning, and their depiction and arrangement the province of serious artistic scrutiny. Caravaggio famously asserted that it was equally difficult to paint a still-life as it was to paint figures, and the elevation of this new art form would have profound consequences to the present day. In Spain Juan Sanchez Cotan...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

FLOWERS - In the Manner of J.B. Monnoyer - Oil on Canvas Italian Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Flowers - Carlo De Tommasi Italia 2010 - Oil on canvas cm. 80x60 Gold leaf gilded wooden frame cm.106x86 This wonderful painting inspired by Jean Baptiste Monnoyer, shows a vase with...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

FLOWERS - Carlo De Tommasi - Still Life Oil on Canvas Italian Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Flowers - Carlo De Tommasi Italia 2007 - Oil on canvas cm. 80x50 Frame available on request from our workshop. In this precious oil painting, Carlo De Tommasi is inspired by the Dutc...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

FLOWERS - Oil on Canvas Italian Still Life Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Flowers - Oil on canvas cm.70x90, Luigi Degli Espositi, Italy, 2002 Gold leaf gilded wooden frame available on request
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Early 2000s Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

STILL LIFE - Massimo Reggiani - Oil on Canvas Italian Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
STILL LIFE - Oil on canvas cm. 40x50 by Massimo Reggiani, Italy 2005 Still life, a pictorial representation of foodstuffs, objects or inanimate objects, was one of the artistic genres that became completely independent in the seventeenth century. Reggiani has composed this still life inspired by the Dutch school. Fruit, grapes and peaches...
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21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Huge 19th Century Italian Classical Still Life Ornamental Birds Fruit & Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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...
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19th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Still Life - Italian Oil On Canvas Painting by Antonio Jannone
Located in Napoli, IT
Still life - Oil on canvas cm.100x150, Antonio Jannone, Italy, 2003. Frame available on request.
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Early 2000s Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life - Francesca Strino Italian oil on canvas painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Still life - Francesca Strino Italia 2005 - Oil on canvas cm.60x60 Francesca Strino, a Neapolitan painter, realises this still life with great pictorial realism. The painter has her ...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

19TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL SCHOOL OIL PAINTING WOOD PANEL STUDY OF A SAINT
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
19th Century Continental School A study of a saint Medium ; oil on panel Size: 26" x 12" inches
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19th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

STILL LIFE - In the Manner of Adriaen Coorte - Oil on Canvas Italian Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Still life - Salvatore Marinelli Italia 2007 - Oil on canvas cm. 50x100 Salvatore Marinelli's painting is a still life with black and white grapes, peaches, melon, a basket of pomegranates and figs. Objects and light are intensely studied and are painted with wonderful tenderness with variety of fruits. Marinelli is inspired by one of the many works by Adriaen Coorte...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19thC French Classical Still Life Flowers & Ornamental Fruit, Ideal Interiors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 19th century Title: Classical Still Life with ornamental flowers and fruit. Medium: oil painting on canvas,framed Size: framed: 17 x 20 inches c...
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19th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Still Life with Apples and Nuts, 17th Century, Old Master, Spanish Painting
Located in Greven, DE
Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560 - 1627) was one of the most important still life painters in Spain and beyond. He developed a certain type of still life with a ...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ascione Still Life Paint Oil on canvas Old master Baroque 17/18th Century Italy
By Aniello Ascione (Naples, news from 1680 to 1708)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Aniello Ascione (Naples, news from 1680 to 1708) Still life with festoon of flowers and fruit Oil painting on canvas, 89 x 117 cm in frame cm 109 x 137 With expertise and attributive study by Prof. Stefano Causa (University of Naples) '' This fruit composition with a festoon of flowers belongs to Aniello Ascione's brush and is a prominent addition to the final game of the Neapolitan still life - the most baroque and decorative one can imagine. The naturalistic work, still Caravaggesque, of the specialists of the early sixteenth century, from Luca Forte to Porpora, now seems a distant memory. The name of Ascione also comes from the comparison with the still life signed by the Civic Museum of Castello Ursini in Catania, against which the painting in question qualifies as a sixteenth version. On the other hand, it is not uncommon for easily repeatable patterns to recur in the workshops of still life painters. The melon on the right, the rush of flowers and, in the background, the profile of a column or a fountain. We could compare them to the normalized formal types used by great southern...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

The Misunderstanding - Still Life with Honey Bee on Edge of Crystal Decanter
Located in Chicago, IL
While still life painting can be dated back to the Ancient Egyptians, this still life takes on a modern theme. A crystal decanter and whiskey glass are set upon a piece of fraying tapestry. The curiosity comes when the viewer takes a closer look to discover a bee has flown in and is perched precariously on the neck of the decanter. This piece is framed in a heavy wooden frame with a gold insert. The framed dimensions are H 14.5 x W 16.5 inches. Matthew Cook...
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2010s Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel

STILL LIFE WITH FLOWER FRUIT AND BIRDS - Oil on canvas Italy Alfredo Mayeux
Located in Napoli, IT
Oil painting on canvas - Composition of flowers in a metal vase with fruit, and landscape in the background - Alfredo Mayeux; early XX century.
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Mid-20th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Still Life - Salvatore Marinelli Oil on Canvas Italian Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
STILL LIFE - Oil on canvas cm.60x80 by Salvatore Marinelli, Italy 2002 Frame available on request from our workshop.
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21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Angels Flower Garzi Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17/18th Century Italian Art
By Luigi Garzi (Pistoia 1638– Rome1721)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Roman school of the early 18th century Luigi Garzi (Pistoia 1638– Rome1721) attributed Still life of fruit supported by three angels Oil on oval canvas 116 x 91 cm., Framed 140 x 119 cm. Authentication on a photograph by Prof Giancarlo Sestieri, who attributes the work to the sphere of Luigi Garzi This magnificent canvas, depicting a sumptuous composition of fruit supported by three prosperous winged cherubs, from which comes a parchment bearing the Latin expression "Amor est vitae essentia", is to be placed in the production of a Roman author active between the second half of XVII century and the first of the following century. The iconography that sees represented cherubs with fruit or flowers is frequent in the Baroque period, especially in the Roman area, starting from the 1600s, with that particular depictional tendency aimed at illusionistic and frivolous images, to a type of paintings or frescoes of strong value decorative, intended for the private context and depicting jubilation of cherubs, angels or cherubs, and of which our canvas represents a perfect example. We can recall, among the most illustrious iconographic precedents, the elegant mirrors painted by Mario Nuzzi and Carlo Maratta that adorn the hall of Palazzo Colonna in Rome, and again the canvas preserved in the Rouen museum and the similar ones in Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia, with the collaboration for the figurative parts of Filippo Lauri. The commercial and furnishing success of similar works is also testified by authors such as Guglielmo Cortese known as Borgognone (1628 - 1679), Franz Werner Von Tamm (1658 - 1724), Giovan Battista Gaulli (1639 - 1709), Giovanni Paolo Castelli known as Spadino (Rome 1650 - 1740) and the aforementioned Carlo Maratta (1625 - 1713) The work, studied by Giancarlo Sestieri, was brought closer to the sphere of the eclectic Pistoian painter Luigi Garzi, one of the protagonists of Roman painting in the decades of transition between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In our painting we can find the typical elements of his painting: the soft and delicately chiaroscuro light, the sculptural classicism of the figures as well as the stupendous luministic and chromatic effects. Luigi Garzi's training and artistic activity took place in the Eternal City and he was in effect a Roman artist. He moved to Rome from Pistoia, his hometown at a very young age, and joined the atelier of Andrea Sacchi, who directed his studies towards classicism, comparing himself with the works of Raphael, Domenichino and Nicolas Poussin, but also with the Emilian one. , with particular attention to the school of Guido Reni. But the Emilian examples were undoubtedly preceded, particularly by Giovani Lanfranco, who modeled his taste and style, together with a modulated cortonism, while those pre-eighteenth-century sensibilities are due to the lesson of Carlo Maratta. However, there is no doubt that the painter oriented his personality without ever bowing to imitation, reaching a refined elegance and autonomy of language, as the canvas in question clearly demonstrates in which the different influences find a refined amalgamation in perfect harmony with the baroque evolution between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, indicating a dating to its earliest maturity. These attitudes led the painter to obtain awards and prestigious commissions as soon as possible, such as the frescoes of Palazzo Borghese...
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Late 17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

17th Century by Giovanni Paolo Castelli Still Life Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Giovanni Paolo Castelli called Spadino (Rome 1659 - Rome 1730) Still life Oil on canvas, cm. 81x31 - with frame cm. 92x41 Shaped and gilded wo...
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Late 17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil

FLOWERING - Italian School -Oil on Canvas Italian Still Life Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Flowering Tree - Oil on Canvas cm.100x80 by Giovanni Bonetti, Italy, 2002 Undisputed artist of still life, Giovanni Bonetti reveals his originality and shrewd mastery in this precio...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Still Life with Fishes and Oysters - Oil on Canvas - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with fishes and oysters is an original oil on canvas realized in the 17th Century by Neapolitan School Master. Impressive in size as well as for its vivid representation o...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Still-Life Flower Landscape Castelli Paint Oil on canvas Old master Italian art
By Giovanni Paolo Castelli, known as Spadino (Rome, 1659 - 1730)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Still life in a landscape with fruit and game Work of the late Roman Baroque of the late seventeenth / eaarly eighteenth century attributable to Giovanni Paolo Castelli, known as Spadino (Rome, 1659 - 1730) oil on canvas 62 x 76 cm., Framed 90 x 109 cm. An open-air setting, with a hilly landscape gash that opens into the distance in the central part, surrounds our beautiful canvas, which showcases a rich selection of game and fruit, arranged in the foreground near the point of view of the observer, occupying a large part of the visual field with their bright and festive colors. The style and quality of the work, like the pictorial technique of this still life, characterized by subtle luminous vibrations and a lively chroma, make it attributable to the Roman Giovanni Paolo Castelli, known as Lo Spadino (Rome, 1659 - 1730), one of the most important specialists of this pictorial genre of late Baroque Rome, which had a very successful career between the 17th and 18th centuries. Analyzing the rich and heterogeneous catalog of the Roman master, in fact, our canvas can be included among his rare works which, alongside a selection of fruit - among which stand out large melons, ripe figs, dark grapes and plums - we see a game advert, presumably as requested by a patron who loves hunting. Next to various birds, spoils of a profitable hunting trip, there is also a small green woodpecker, with the characteristic red spot on the head, and a nice rodent that terminates from behind the trunk. The painter abandons himself to a skilful and brilliant chromatic texture of the surfaces, through a pictorial material rendered with exceptional vibration in its luminous and 'tactile' body, fully respecting the taste of the full Roman Baroque. The quality appears excellent, distinguished by a skilful and brilliant chromatic texture of the surfaces, which appear almost vibrant thanks to a skilful drafting of the pictorial material. Inevitable and evident are the Flemish suggestions, which had influenced the Roman Baroque still life, in particular the work of Abraham Brueghel...
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Late 17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Early 19th century English Antique Still life of peaches, grapes, melon outdoors
By George William Sartorius
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful Early 19th-century Still life of different fruits on an earth bank. Very much painted in the same way as George William Sartorius painted his still lives this piece has al...
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1810s Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pieter Casteels III 'Signed' Floral Still Life Old master Paint 18th Century Art
By Pieter Casteels III (Antwerp 1684 - 1749 Richmond)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Pieter Casteels III (Antwerp 1684 - 1749 Richmond) circle Floral still life Signed lower left, on the stone: P Casteels About 1730 Oil painting on...
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18th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

A gentleman’s vices
Located in London, GB
English School, circa 1827 A gentleman’s vices the newspaper dated ‘Sunday December 23 1827’ (upper left) oil on canvas 20 ¾ x 24 ½ in. (52.7 x 62.3 cm.) frame 25 ⅝ x 29 ¼ in. (65.1...
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Early 19th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Follower of Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer – Still Life Oil on Canvas
Located in London, GB
Follower of Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (12 January 1636 – 20 February 1699) Still Life Oil on Canvas in Later Giltwood Frame Dimensions refer to size of frame. Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer ...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life of Flowers in a Vase late Victorian 19th Century Hippolyte Delanoy
Located in Lincoln, GB
Hippolyte Pierre Delanoy (1849-1899) A Study of Flowers 1874 Signed and Dated, Oil on Canvas, 57 x 49cm Delanoy was born in Glasgow, of French Parents and was the brother of painter...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Still Life with Flowers in a Vase
Located in Atlanta, GA
Painted in the style of the 17th century Dutch painter Alexander Andrienssen, this painting is of a glass vase on a wood surface filled with flowers. The artist's careful attention ...
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18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

17th Century Oil Painting Still Life: Turtles & Fish with a Ship in Stormy Seas
Located in London, GB
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...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Painting 18th Century Vanitas Still Life Skull Religion Esotericism Occult
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Vanitas 18th century French School Oil on canvas Old frame gilded with gold leaves Dim canvas : 73 X 60 cm Dim frame : 93 X 80 cm Certificate of authenticity
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Flemish Old Master oil painting of a still life with flowers in a vase
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Flemish school, 17th Century Narcissi and other summer blooms in a glass vase on a ledge Oil on canvas 18.7/8 x 14.3/4 in. (48 x 37.3 cm.)
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Classical Landscape, Original Glazed Frame, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Grand Tour Study Italian School, 18th century monogrammed, lower right hand corner, Watercolour wash painting on board, glazed frame Framed size: 9 x 11 inches The painting captures...
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18th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Watercolor

17th Century Italian School Still Life of Fruit on a Marble Ledge with a Ewer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
17th Century Italian School. A Still Life of Fruit on a Marble Ledge, with a Ewer to the side, Oil on Canvas, Unframed, 22" x 26.5" (56 x 67.3cm). Con...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Figurative Painting. Still-life with a profile portrait, and old instrument
Located in Segovia, ES
Still-life with a profile portrait was painted by Spanish artist Goyo Domínguez in 1994. Acrylics in a 65 cm by 54 cm wooden panel. Using a classical style with renaissance reminisc...
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1990s Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

"Cesta de flores", 17th Century Oil on Canvas, Still Flowers by Juan de Arellano
By Juan de Arellano
Located in Madrid, ES
JUAN DE ARELLANO Spanish, 1614 - 1676 Cesta de Flores signed Juan de Arellano (lower lright) oil on canvas original period carved, gilt and polychrome...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still life painting of fruit in a basket
Located in London, GB
Still life painting of fruit in a basket Continental, c. 1800 Frame: Height 81cm, width 91cm, depth 7cm Canvas: Height 57cm, width 69cm, ...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1600s Baroque Spiritual Ghosts Supernatural Intense Figures Medieval Old Masters
By Abraham WIllemsens
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Fortune Teller" is an original oil painting on canvas by Abraham Willemsens, Maitre aux Beguins (Master of the Hats). It depicts a fortune tell...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Still Life of Hunting, Monsù Aurora (1610-1675 or 1691), attributed.
Located in Firenze, IT
Still Life of Hunting, Monsù Aurora (1610-1675 or 1691), attributed. Oil on canvas. Dimensions: cm 78 x cm 60 FREE SHIPPING IN EUROPE If you are passionate about Baroque art this...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

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