Early Naturalistic Still Life Oil Painting of Strawberries and Grapes

20th Century

Naturalistic still life painting of a collection of fruits, metal jugs, ceramic vases, and various foliage on a draped tablecloth. Signed and dated in the front lower left corner. Cu...

Naturalistic still life painting by Dutch artist Leonardus Nardus. The work features three jugs or vases set against a patterned carpet. Currently hung in a carved gold frame. Retains the original gallery tag on the reverse. Dimensions Without Frame: H 27 in. x W 24 in. Artist Biography: Leonardus Nardus, born in Utrecht into the Dutch upper middle class, the son of an antiquarian, was a colorful character. After training at the Amsterdam Academy, he embarked on a brief and unsuccessful gold-hunting expedition to Argentina in 1889. He then settled in America, where he became an art dealer, eventually returning to Paris a few years later. As well as being an art collector, Nardus developed his own talents as a painter. Caught up by a taste for nomadism, Léo Nardus eventually settled in Tunisia, where he built a small palace in the seaside resort of...

19th century American oil painting still life with fruit and grapes. Beautiful and masterfully executed still life oil painting depicting grapes and fruit against a blue sky. This work is monogrammed and dated ‘88 (1888). It was received in the manner of Severin Roesen...

A rare and most attractive still life by William Jones of Bath. The sumptuous textures of the peaches, grapes and strawberries contrasting with the dark background. A really handsome...