Victor Simonin

Victor Simonin, Vase de Fleurs, Oil Painting

c. 1930

This exquisite early 18th-century French still life depicts a bouquet of vivid blooms set in an urn-shaped glass vase. It’s reminiscent of flower pieces by the French painter, Charle...

This beautiful mid-19th-century Austrian oil painting depicts a still life with a decorous abundance of alpine flora and lively blooms. It’s sign...

This early 20th-century oil painting by Dutch artist Jelle Troelstra (1891-1979) depicts a seated woman wearing a floral top and dark grey dress. With eyes closed and hands held upo...

This mid-19th-century oil painting by Danish-American artist Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (1819-1895) depicts a congregation observing a river baptism, probably in the Mississippi River. In 2009, at President Obama’s Inauguration luncheon, a panoramic view of Niagara was selected as the backdrop to his speech. It’s a breathtaking image, capturing the sublimity of the American Falls and the Horseshoe Falls in all their iconic majesty. The ‘Maid-of-the-Mist’, negotiates the rapids, a mere speck within a broad expanse of water. While beyond, a colossal sheet of spray is sharply illuminated through passing clouds. It was painted by the son of a bookbinder, a humble Danish artist who travelled extensively across the United States to document its nature, buildings and civilization. Admired in his own lifetime, this unassuming adventurer produced scores of resplendent vistas but also numerous vignettes documenting everyday activities. Joachim Ferdinand Richardt was initially destined to become a carpenter but, thankfully, enrolled at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under three distinguished masters. Blessed with a skill for drawing, he was awarded medals and in 1839 began exhibiting at the prestigious Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition. In 1841, the Danish Royal Family acquired one of his works and six years later granted him a five-year stipend. Richardt trained at a time of exceptional creative output whereby Denmark was developing a clearer identity. Dubbed ‘National Romanticism’, artists were extolling their country’s natural beauty, while also celebrating humble folk life within rural environs. Stylistically, their work is somewhat comparable with German Romanticism...

"Roses, Hydrangeas and Plums" is a colorful impressionist still life, painted in Florence, Italy, where the artist works and lives. Flowers fill the composition in direct view and in...

"Red Flowers and Grapes" is a contemporary impressionist still life painted Florence, Italy. Amy Florence conjures a feeling of liminal space as day turns to night in this still life painting. As the blue darkness descends on the outside world, you can almost smell dinner being cooked just out of view in the lighted interior. Framed Dimensions: 31.6 x 27.7 inches Artist Bio: Amy Florence is a London born artist working out of her studio in Florence, Italy. She trained at the Charles H...

"Daffodils II" is of the bright yellow flowers, an impressionist still life with a mirror and lemon. Framed in a simple 3-inch rustic wood frame with gold lip. Artist Bio Amy Flore...

A classic Amy Florence still life with broad impressionist strokes creating an inviting space that makes you want to enter into her world. Framed Dimensions: 33.6 x 41.4 inches Artist Bio: Amy Florence is a London born artist working out of her studio in Florence, Italy. She trained at the Charles H...