Old Masters 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
17th Century by Jan Janssens Saint John the Baptist Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Jan Janssens (Ghent, Belgium, 1590 - after 1650)
Title: Saint John the Baptist
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 76 x 62 cm – with frame 97 x 83 x 6 cm
Not signed
Expe...
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17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Dutch Old Master Oil on Panel, Ladies Gathering Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: 17th Century Dutch School
Title: Ladies Collecting Flowers
Medium: oil painting on panel, framed
Oval : 6.75 x 9.25 inches, frame...
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17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pops
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
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2010s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic, Pencil
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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bearded man
Located in London, GB
Piotr Topolski, born in Kielce, Poland, in 1960, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He specializes in creating compelling oil portraits, often drawing inspiration from th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
Category
1990s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
$10,465 Sale Price
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INSIDE SCENE - Carlo Passarelli Italian figurative oil on carboard painting
Located in Napoli, IT
INSIDE SCENE - Italian figurative oil on carboard painting, cm.17x29, Carlo Passarelli, 1900s
Category
Early 1900s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Flowers on White
Located in Belfast, GB
Flowers on White
Oil on Board
61 x 50.8 cm
24 x 20 in
Regarded as one of Ireland’s most accomplished fine art painters, Martin Mooney was born in 1960, in Belfast, Northern Ireland....
Category
2010s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hastings Castle oil painting seascape 19th century, William Edward Webb
Located in York, GB
Hastings Castle from the beach oil William Edward Webb
A fine 19th century oil on canvas painting depicting Hastings Castle from the beach with fishermen and boats
housed in a git ...
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19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lively square
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Molded frame in plaster and gilded wood
49 x 39 x 6.5 cm
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
LANDSCAPE - Mario Locatelli -Posillipo School Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Landscape - Mario Locatelli Italia 2004 - Oil on canvas cm.60x90
Gold leaf gilded wooden frame available on request
Mario Locatelli’s painting depicts a rural scene, of an authentic ...
Category
Early 2000s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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...
Category
Early 2000s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
GOUACHE NAPLES MARINE - Italian landscape gouache
Located in Napoli, IT
Gouache Nealopitane Marine, Italy, 2011, cm.22x33.
Lacquered wooden frame.
Delicious gouache made in 2011 by an unknown artist, using the method of the ancient masters of the landscape.
Gouache paint is a non-permanent, water-based, opaque and opaque paint made opaque with the addition of a chalky white pigment. Invented in Europe in 500, it was initially used to carry out preliminary sketches of large oil works. It is characterized by a great ease of drafting and a lively color rendering, but it requires great skill, certainty in drawing and an extreme speed of execution, as it dries quickly and cannot be retouched. Precisely these characteristics give a particular liveliness and freshness to the works, characterized by light and opaque tones, very different from the glossy compactness of egg tempera and the transparency of the oil. Widely used in canvas paintings and miniatures. The technique was often used by landscape painters, such as Xavier Della Gatta, Pietro Fabris, Alessandro d'Anna...
Category
2010s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Wood Panel
Early 17th Century by Carlo Bononi The triumph of David Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Carlo Bononi (Ferrara, Italy, 1569 – 1632)
Title: The triumph of David
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 41 x 28.5 cm – with frame 57 x 46 x 6 cm
Not signed
Provenance...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th century portrait of a lady
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of a lady richly dressed in a purple silk gown with white sleeves, a gold coloured cloak draped across one shoulder, her blonde curls worn up...
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17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of an Officer, Cornelius Johnson, 17th Century Old Masters
By Cornelius Johnson
Located in London, GB
Circle of Cornelius Johnson
Circa 1620’s
Portrait of a Officer
Oil on canvas
Image size: 28 x 24 inches
Period style hand made frame
Provenance
Private European Estate
This striking portrait dates to around 1620, as you can see from the images of the sash the detail is very high. The sash is decorated with gold thread and would have cost a small fortune at the time. Sashes were originally developed for a military function (making officers more visible for their men during combat), but soon became a primarily male fashion...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
De Wit Flowers Still life Paint Oil on canvas 18th Century Flemish Cupids Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Jacob De Wit (Amsterdam, 1695 - 1754) attributable/ workshop
Pair of Cupids with Garland of Flowers
Oil on canvas
91 x 103 cm. - Framed 104 x 115 cm.
Provenance: Christie's (London, Old master Painting 12.12.1996) lot 82
This magnificent composition depicts two cupids holding a garland of flowers, placed on a fine architecture with bas-reliefs and masks, presumably the top of a fountain.
One of the two cupids sympathetically holds a part of it with his hands, while his head turns towards the viewer; the second cupid, on the other hand, must have clumsily broken the thread holding its end, and is sitting sullenly with a torch and a tear streaking his chubby cheek.
The work, given its stylistic features and compositional taste, can be attributed to the Flemish artist Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam, 1695 - 1754), or to an artist from his workshop, with his typical triumphal and opulent style, which reveals clear influences from Rubens and Van Dijck, but also from Gerard de Lairesse...
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18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
$14,826 Sale Price
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17th-18th Century By Niccolò Cassana Portrait of a Gentleman Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Niccolò Cassana (Venice, Italy, 1659 - London, UK, 1714)
Title: Portrait of a Gentleman
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 119.5 x 92.5 cm
Painting without frame.
Expe...
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17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
17th Century by Giovanni Battista Beinaschi Saint Bartholomew Oil on Canvas
By Giovanni Battista Beinaschi
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Giovanni Battista Beinaschi (Fossano, Italy, 1636 - Naples, Italy, 1688)
Title: Saint Bartholomew
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 9...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Old Master oil painting of 3 figures releasing a dove
By Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Circle of Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721)
Freeing a dove
Oil on canvas
27.3/4 x 38.1/8 in. (70 x 96.8 cm.)
Possible repair to upper right. In overall good order for the age...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mockery and Hate - Norse Mythology Still Life with Flowers and Animal Skull
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
Mockery and Hate are the English translations of Sköll and Hati, the Norse mythological wolves that chase the Sun and Moon across the sky and ultimately devour them at Ragnarok. They...
Category
2010s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
17thDutch painting by Tengnagel Jan 1584-1635 - The meeting of David and Abigail
Located in PARIS, FR
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17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
Saint Veronica
By (After) Simone Pignoni
Located in Roma, IT
18th c. Italian school
Santa Veronica, after Simone Pignoni.
Period copy by an unknown hand of the original oil painting by Pignoni. The original Pignoni painting was conserved in the Church of S. Eusebio in Cegliolo (Cortona) and now in the permanent collection of the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, France. In the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Marseille, there is another period copy by an unknown hand, considered of lesser quality than the current example.
Simone Pignoni (Florence, 1611-1698), one of the most important exponents of the Florentine School, was characterized by a soft touch. His formation with Francesco Furini...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thomas Hudson Style 18th Century English Portrait
Located in Roma, IT
Important English school painting in the style of the great artist Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 - Twickenham 1779)
It depicts the portrait of Harry Gray (1715-1768), 4th Earl of St...
Category
1750s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Follower Jacques-Louis David Neoclassical Red Chalck French Paper
Located in Roma, IT
Important period red chalck watercolor pencil drawing with neoclassical subject.
Depicting the Atilius Regulus departing for Carthage.
Atilius Regulus was a Roman statesman taken pri...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
A.Pasini 19th Century Orientalist Italian Signed Watercolor
By Alberto Pasini
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful, evocative pastel on paper attributed to the great Emilian artist Alberto Pasini.
It depicts, captured with rare intensity, a building taken up several times in other pain...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Period Italian Neoclassical Style Signed Watercolor
By Vittorio Pisani
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful neoclassical style artwork by the great Italian artist Vittorio Pisani
Probably depicts a theatre script of Aida
Signed, located and dated lower right ‘Vittorio Pisani roma...
Category
Early 20th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Dionysus Bacco Roman school 17th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Caravaggesque northern artist active in Rome in the 17th century, active in Rome in the 17th century.
Workshop of Gerard van Honthorst (Utrecht, 1592 – Utrecht, 1656)
Dionysus/Bacch...
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17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
$7,289 Sale Price
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19th century portrait , oil on canvas , Baddesley Clinton, by R Dering
Located in York, GB
19th century, oil, Baddesley Clinton THE PHILOSOPHERS MORNING WALK R Dering
Here is a fine painting of Edward H Derring of Baddesley Clinton , a national trust property near solihul...
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19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hunters by Inn-Door - Original Ink and Watercolor by Dirk Maas (attr.)
By Dirk Maas
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful watercolor by Dirk Maas, a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Provenance: R. Edereimer Print Cabinet, New York (label overleaf).
Good conditio...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
18th Century by Evangelista Schiano Saint Gennaro Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Evangelista Schiano (attr.) (active in the 18th century)
Title: Saint Gennaro
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 102 x 74 cm - with frame 126.5 x 100 cm
19th century car...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Canvas, Oil
Arthur Joseph Meadows 19th Century Seascape Off Calais
Located in York, GB
A very fine painting by the renowned seascape painter Arthur Joseph Meadows,Off Calais; fishing fleet returning at low tide.
Housed in an antique style gilt frame the size overall is...
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19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
$8,227 Sale Price
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Young Girl with a Basket of Fruit
By Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
French School, late 18th century, circle of Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805)
Young Girl with a Basket of Fruit
Oil on canvas, preparatory work,
Unsigned
39 x 31 cm
Provenance:
Pri...
Category
1790s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Neapolitan Still Life "Flowers in a Glass Jug" Oil on Canvas in Frame
By Giacomo Recco (Naples 1603 - before 1653)
Located in Pistoia, IT
Attributed to Giacomo Recco (1603-1653), still life "Glass jug with flowers," oil on canvas in gilt frame.
This fine canvas depicts a glass pitcher filled with flowers resting on a ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nativity Scene Garland Pendant - Flemish 17thC art religious floral oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb trompe l'oeil painting is in the typical manner and quality of the Antwerp Jesuit master Daniel Seghers. Painted circa 1650, the central ca...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
$9,879 Sale Price
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Nathaniel Hone, portrait of "flora" roman goddess, 18th century
By Nathaniel Hone the Elder
Located in York, GB
I have great pleasure in offering for sale this beautiful portrait, by Nathaniel Hone, the elder. 18th century. The painting is of Ann Anderson, wife...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mary Beale (circle) Portrait Painting of Sir John Pettus
By (Circle of) Mary Beale
Located in York, GB
A very fine oil on canvas of Sir John Pettus ,circle of Mary Beale 17th century
Wearing a red cloak and a black tunic with white collar. His coat of arms to the right.Unsigned
Housed in a gilt frame, the size overall being 85 x 74 cm whilst the painting is 76 x 63.5cm
In overall excellent condition.
There is a wealth of history about the sitter online , below is a brief resume
John Pettus
Sir John Pettus (1613–1690) was an English royalist, politician and natural philosopher. Pettus was an expert on metallurgy and became a deputy governor of the royal mines in England and Wales under Charles I and II. He is known for the first English translation of the work of the German metallurgist Lazarus Ercker.
Pettus’s grandfather was a wealthy Norwich merchant ,he purchased the manor of Rackheath in 1590 and represented the city in 1601 and 1604-10. Although a younger son, Pettus inherited the manors of Chediston and Wenhaston, He married well; but even before the Civil War most of his estate was mortgaged, and his wife’s expectations were never realized, owing to her father’s misfortunes as leader of the City Royalists. Pettus became a servant to Charles I, and took part in the farcical royalist attempt on Lowestoft in March 1643, but was exchanged after nearly a year in prison. It is unlikely that he resumed command of his regiment, such as it was, since he ‘continued inoffensive till the taking of Bristol’ by the New Model Army...
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17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pair Views Rome Landscape Joli Paint 18yh Century OIl on canvas Old master Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Antonio Joli (Modena, 1700 – Naples, 1777)
Pair of views of Rome
1. View of Rome with Trajan's Column and the Church of the Holy Name of Mary
2. View of Rome (Piazza Colonna) ...
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18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 19th Century French Oil Painting Classical Roman Figures Interior Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Attributed to Antoine Felix Boisselier (19th Century) French (unsigned)
'Classical figures in a bed chamber
Medium: oil on canvas, with inscription verso
S...
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19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
MAKING MUSIC IN AN INTERIOR, Dutch Old Master Oil on Panel
By Jan Olis
Located in New York, NY
Jan Olis was a master best known for his depiction of genre scenes while he also produced a number of portrait paintings. He worked in a style reminiscent of and was surely influence...
Category
1630s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Russian Orthodox Church, Middle 19th Century
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown Russian Artist
Russian Orthodox Church, Middle 19th century
Unsigned
Illuminated in red, yellow blue and green pigments and gold leaf on paper
...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Pigment
17th Century by Il Padovanino Pair of putti Oil on canvas
By Il Padovanino
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Alessandro Leone Varotari, detto il Padovanino (Padua, Italy, 1588 - Venice, Italy, 1649)
Title: Pair of putti
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 83 × 66 cm – with frame...
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17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century by Antonio Mercurio Amorosi Portrait Little Girl with Cat
By Antonio Mercurio Amorosi
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Artist: Antonio Mercurio Amorosi (Comunanza, Italy, 1660 - 1738)
Title: Portrait of a little girl with cat
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 42 x 31.5 cm – with frame 5...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Raquel. Figurative woman's portraits on abstract background.
Located in Segovia, ES
Raquel. Images of woman on abstract background.
Mixed media on panel.
Measurements: 81 x 65 x 0.5 cm / Framed 103 x 87 x 5 cm
In inches: 31.89 x 25.59 x 0.2 " / Framed 40.55 x 34.25 x 1.97 "
"Raquel" was painted by Goyo in 1999 ( signature and date in right down corner) using a mixed technique. On abstract background that plays with colors, shapes, and volumes, Goyo portrays a beautiful woman's face with a penetrating gaze. There, almost like a collage, an academic female...
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1990s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Mixed Media
La Anunciación
Located in Miami, FL
Anonymous Artist
"La Anunciación" from the 18th Century.
Oil on Copper
21.5 x 15.7 inches
Perfect Condition
It represents the moment when Mary accepts the divine designs transmitted by the archangel Saint...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Copper
$8,500
Old Master Eglomise Painting of Saint John the Baptist 18th Century
Located in Rochester, NY
18th century continental eglomise painting of St John the Baptist preaching. Eglomise is a method of reverse painting on glass. In a go...
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18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Glass, Paint
18th-19th Century By Natale Schiavoni Portrait of the Sister Oil on Cardboard
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Natale Schiavoni (Chioggia, Italy, 1777 - Venice, Italy, 1858)
Title: Portrait of the Sister
Medium: Portrait on cardboard
Dimensions: with our frame 14.5 x 12 cm - with frame 22 x 1...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
La Sagrada Familia
Located in Miami, FL
José de Páez (1727-1790)
Colonial Mexican painting from the 18th century. Conserved in excellent condition.
"La Sagrada Familia"
Oil on Copper
8 x 12 in
...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Copper
17th Century by Neapolitan Maestro Still Life with Cuttlefish Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
17th Century Neapolitan Maestro
Title: Still Life with Cuttlefish
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 48.5 x 63 cm - with frame 59 x 73.5 cm
Antique shaped and gilded woo...
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17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century by Onofrio Loth Still Life Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Onofrio Loth (Naples, Italy, 1665 – 1717)
Title: Still life
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 37.5 x 47.5 cm – with frame 50 x 57 cm
Original ebonised wooden frame wit...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Canvas
$12,022 Sale Price
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Portrait of a Girl, 18th Century Oil Old Master
By George Knapton
Located in London, GB
George Knapton
1698-1778
Portrait of a Girl
Oil on canvas
Image size: 20 x 18 inches
Original giltwood frame
This beautiful half length portrait of a young woman, turned to left, gazing at the spectator, wearing a pink, white lace-embroidered, dress, in her hair a pink bonnet trimmed with lace to match her dress.
The depiction of a young girl epitomises child portraiture of the late eighteenth century, in which painters such as William Beechey, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough had begun to discover and express the true character of children, in contrast to the stiff, miniature-adults of previous generations.
The Artist
Knapton was born in Lymington, one of four sons of James Knapton. He was apprenticed to Jonathan Richardson from 1715 to 1722, and in 1720 was a founding subscriber to the academy of St. Martin's Lane established by Louis Chéron...
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18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Man, 17th Century Dutch Oil on Panel Portrait
Located in London, GB
Circle of Cornelis Dusart
Dutch 1660 - 1704
Portrait of a Man
Oil on panel
Image size: 7¾ x 5¼ inches
Giltwood frame
Cornelis Dusart
Cornelis ...
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17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
River Landscape with Shepherds and Architecture, a painting by Jan van Bunnik
By Jan van Bunnik
Located in PARIS, FR
This painting has been the subject of a study by the art historian Fabrizio Dassie (available on request), confirming its inclusion in Jan van Bunnik’s corpus.
In this painting, Ja...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Copper
Elise Ansel, Study for After Fools Rush In, Oil on Canvas
By Elise Ansel
Located in London, GB
Oil on Canvas
30.5 x 40.6 cm
12 x 16 in
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Ansel deconstructs pictorial language and authorial agency in order to excavate and liberate meanings buried beneath the surface of the works from which her paintings spring. Old Master paintings were, for the most part, created by men for men. Abstraction allows her to interrupt this one sided narrative and transform it into a sensually capacious non-narrative form of visual communication that embraces multiple points of view. The title of the exhibition yes I said Yes is carved from the last line...
Category
2010s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Des Enfants Traînant Un Chariot Chargé de Fruits
Located in Milford, NH
A fine oil painting with cherubs and a cart of fruit by French artist Leger Cherelle (1816-1867). Cherelle was born in Versailles, France, a...
Category
1830s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, Early 18th Century Oil Painting
By Dominicus van der Smissen
Located in London, GB
Dominicus van der Smissen
Early 18th Century
Portrait of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch
Oil on canvas
Image size: 20½ x 16¼ inches
Period gilt frame
This is a portrait of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, composer, Kapellmeister and organist, whom Van der Smissen most probably portrayed during his stay in Hamburg, Brunswick or Amsterdam. The identification is based on the reproduction of the portrait which was engraved by Pieter Anthony Wakkerdak (1740- 1774).
Van der Smissen has reduced the face of the sitters to an egg-shaped oval in three-quarter view, applying diminution to one half of the figure’s torso, which is farther away from the viewer. This partial side view, with the head turned to look at the viewer over the shoulder, creates spatial depth and brings the figure to life by avoiding the stiffness of a frontal depiction.
Because the artist chose to highlight the figure from above, a distinct shadow is cast under the tip of the nose, in the shape of a triangle. This is an often recurring and almost ‘signature’-like feature in Van der Smissen’s oeuvre.
Hurlebusch's garments are of a very high quality and serve to reflect the sitter’s wealth, status and elegance. During this period, gentlemen often shaved their heads in order to facilitate the wearing of a wig, which wouldbe worn with a suit. Here Hurlebusch has been depicted in a luxurious turban-like cap lined with lynx fur, a highly fashionable and expensive material at the time.
Over his shirt, he wears a velvet fur-lined gown adorned with decorative clasps fashioned from silver braid. The elegant informality of his appearance can be seen in his unbuttoned shirt and the unfastened black ribbon hanging from his button hole, which has been artfully arranged into a fluttering drape by the portraitist.
The Sitter
Hurlebusch was born in Brunswick, Germany. He received the first instructions in his field from his father Heinrich Lorenz Hurlebusch, who was also a musician. As an organ virtuoso, he toured Europe, visiting Vienna, Munich and Italy.
From 1723 to 1725 he was Kapellmeister in Stockholm; later he became Kapellmeister in Bayreuth and Brunswick, and lived in Hamburg from 1727 to 1742, where he had contact with fellow composers Johann Mattheson and Georg Philipp Telemann. He made his living composing, performing and teaching.
In 1735 and 1736, he is believed to have visited Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig, who promoted Hurlebusch’s compositions as the local seller...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of Ponte Milvio in Rome
Located in Roma, RM
Northern painter active in Rome in the second half of the 17th century, View of Ponte Milvio
Oil painting on canvas 73 x 97 cm in coeval Roman Salvator Rosa frame.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Man with a Sword, a Fist on his Hip, a drawing by Cornelis Saftleven
Located in PARIS, FR
Black chalk and white highlights on paper (originally washed in blue)
Monogrammed and dated 1630 on the right
This drawing, executed in black chalk and enhanced with white brushwor...
Category
1630s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
18th Century Galanti Scenes Van Limborch Rest Hunting Oil on Canvas Green Red
Located in Sanremo, IT
Pair of oval paintings measuring 66 x 89 cm without frame and 90 x 115 cm with coeval frame depicting two gallant moments during a rest from hunting by painter Hendrik Van Limborch (...
Category
1730s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th century view of the Elephant and Castle in London
Located in London, GB
Collections:
With Martyn Gregory;
Judy Egerton, 1984, acquired from the above;
By descent to 2014.
Exhibited:
London, Martyn Gregory, Exhibition of English & Continental Watercolours, 1984, no. 94.
London, Lowell Libson...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Vellum
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