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Art Subject: Men
Portrait of Steuart Adolphus PEARS
Located in GB
A finely executed charcoal portrait on paper depicting Steuart Adolphus Pears, thought to have been painted in “Harrow 1849”.
Pears, noted for his tenure as headmaster of Repton Sc...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
J.M. Reyes, "Clean Round", 47x47 Colorful Equine Horse Dressage Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This colorful piece, "Clean Round", is a 47x47 equine oil painting on canvas featuring a bay horse mid jump during a jumping competition. Bright pinks, purples, and blues dance aroun...
Category
2010s Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
IRINA
Located in Zofingen, AG
I am interested in portraits that reveal all the complexity and versatility of a person's spiritual appearance, when the inner content is revealed through the external.
Painting a p...
Category
1980s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$28,418 Sale Price
20% Off
Still-Life Armour Curtains Sculpture Tibaldi 17th Century Paint Oil on canvas
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Antonio Tibaldi (Rome, c. 1635 - post 1675) Workshop of
Still Life with Armour, Curtains and Sculpture
Oil on canvas
53 x 77 cm. - in frame 65 x 89 cm.
Beautifully scenic painting ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
$7,259 Sale Price
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Pair of Grisaille paintings Rustic scenes 18th century French Rococo Master
By Jean-Baptiste Pillement
Located in Stockholm, SE
Attributed To French Master Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728 - 1808). Magnificent rococo pair paintings depicting scenes from the life of Europe of the 18th century. Two scenes tell us about the lives of travelers and fishermen of the time. Two frames of the same century perfectly complement these paintings. Paintings made in the technique: Pastel, Bodycolor, chalks, and perhaps gouache on paper or paperboard supported by wooden boards. Gold leaf neoclassical frames of early 1800s (not examined under frames). On the reverse side of the wooden substrate, there is a stamp, "Bundesdenkmalamt Wien", Perhaps Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728 –1808). Antique old paintings...
Category
18th Century Rococo Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Chalk, Pastel, Gouache, Wood Panel
Beth Parcell, "Loyal Followers", 14x11 Equine Fox Hunt and Hounds Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This vibrant and colorful piece, "Loyal Followers", is a 14x11 equine oil painting on canvas featuring a red coated huntsman atop his horse in a green grassy field during a fox hunt....
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mafia
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This is a self portrait. My friend and I happened to be in a place where there was a fight between the right and the left, so we had to run away.
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Oil
Let Go 3 - Original oil painting - Zack Zdrale
Located in Chicago, IL
Let Go 1, 2, 3 (Series)
In these paintings, Zdrale depicts multiple figures—often iterations of the same man—locked in a cycle of struggle. The ropes that coil around or extend from ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
LV Ali - Ode
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: La Pun, Campbell
Title: LV Ali - Ode
Series: Ali
Date: 2025
Medium: Aerosol on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 57.5" x 40.5"
Signature: Signed
Edition: Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint
Antique American School Modernist Tropical Portrait Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 20L x 18H.
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
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Be Tender, Pop Art Acrylic Painting by Michael Knigin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011)
Title: Be Tender
Year: 1991
Medium: Enamel and Acrylic on Canvas on Board, signed and dated in pencil
Size: 48 x 58 inches
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Board
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Palais de Tokyo 1
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Print Seller" 2014 - contemporary plein air painting of New York City figure
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a New York City scene. Painted en plein air on a sidewalk in Manhattan, a figure is sitting in front of a booth of artwork underneath a colorful umbrella. Small li...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Wall Street in Light and Shadow
By Bernie Fuchs
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right
Wall Street in 1985.
Category
1980s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Plastic Figure 1" Oil Painting
By Jason Walker
Located in Denver, CO
Jason Walker's (CAN based) "Plastic Figure 1" is an oil painting that depicts a lone pink plastic Cowboy figure toy standing with his gun on his shoulder...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gordon Hunt, Shady Lane, Affordable Art, Woodland Landscape Painting
By Gordon Hunt
Located in Deddington, GB
Shady Lane [2021]
Original
Landscape
Acrylic on deep edge canvas
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:30 cm x D:4cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Saint Cosmas And Saint Damian Attributed To Bonifacio Bembo
By Bonifacio Bembo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Attributed to Bonifacio Bembo
c.1444-1477 Italy
Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian
Tempera on panel
These exceptionally rare early Renaissance panels of Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian are an extraordinary new discovery. Based on the research of art historians Marco Tanzi and Andrea de Marchi, it is believed that these represent the missing panels from the famed polyptych formerly displayed on the altar of the Chapel of San Nicola da Tolentino in the Church of Sant’Agostino in Cremona, Italy. To find two matching early Renaissance panels outside of a museum or church, particularly in such remarkable condition, is an extraordinary rarity.
The central and left-sided panels of the original five-part polyptych are currently in the collection of the Museo Civico Ala Ponzone in Cremona. These panels have luckily remained intact, and respectively portray the Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels and Donor, Saint Nicholas of Tolentino (the chapel’s namesake) and Saint George.
While the present panels have since been reduced, that they belong to the Cremonese altarpiece is confirmed by a number of stylistic elements. All five panels contain the same rich decorative arabesque pattern on their stamped gold background, while the figures’ knurled haloes are identical in both their fineness of line and use of perspective. The proportions of the figures coincide perfectly; Saints Cosmas and Damian would have originally also been depicted as full-length figures, fitting into the vertical, Gothic style of the altarpiece.
According to the Christian religion, Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian were 3rd century physicians born in Arabia. Little is known about their lives except that they were reputedly twin brothers and that they were martyred in Syria during the persecution of Emperor Diocletian. It was believed that the saints were skilled in healing, and when their medicines failed, their faith and prayers could always perform miracles. Thus, the saints are often depicted with their medical equipment while wearing the traditional medieval doctor’s garb of crimson robes and distinctive round red hats.
The saints are similarly depicted in the present panels, though considering the manner in which they have been cut, their medical tools are not immediately evident. The saints were highly popular as patrons of wealthy families during the Gothic and Renaissance eras, particularly the Medici, and thus they occur frequently in art from the era. The twins, for instance, are found in the famed San Marco Altarpiece by Fra Angelico in the San Marco Museum (Florence), as well as in a set of Medici panels crafted by Filippo Lippi...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Renaissance Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Panel
The Triumph of the Infant Bacchus, workshop of H. Van Balen, 16th c. Antwerp
By Hendrick van Balen
Located in PARIS, FR
The Triumph of the Infant Bacchus,
Workshop of Hendrick Van Balen (1575-1632)
Antwerp, c.1630
Oil on copper, h. 28 cm (11.02 in), w. 35 cm (13.78 in)
A large Roman 17th century golden painted frame
Framed: h. 52 cm (20.47 in.), w. 58 cm (22.83 in)
Our finely painted work depicts The Triumph of the Bacchus as a young boy and is one of the most popular mythological subjects in Antwerp at the beginning of the 17th century. Feasting, wine and fun are the themes that constantly appeal to the public.
Thus unfolds before our eyes on our painting the procession composed of nymphs, baccantes, fauns, satyrs and children, their bodies naked, partially covered with brightly coloured draperies that help to brighten up the parade. Playing various instruments, dancing and drinking, while carrying vases and poles adorned with grapevines, participants to the rhythm of a noisy brass band make their way to an ancient temple standing on the right. The exaggerated gestures convey to us the frenzy of the excited crowd.
The Child Bacchus follows the joyous procession, carried by satyrs and nymphs, crowned with ivy and joyfully raising a cup of wine. In the foreground, the drunken participants leave the procession, the children on the left and the group of bacchantes and satyrs on the right are resting among various objects scattered at their feet: cups, vases, ewers bear witness to the festivities in progress.
In the background, a hilly landscape stretches out on the horizon, a semblance of calm that contrasts with the bustle of the foreground.
The artist strives to multiply the many details, whether it be figures, costumes, flowers or vegetation, in order to demonstrate his know-how and the perfection of his execution.
The acidulous palette with fresh and varied colours is characteristic of Hendrick Van Balen's works.
There are several versions identical to ours with similar dimensions painted by Hendrick Van Balen and his workshop.
Related works:
• Koller Auction, Zurich, 21/09/2007, oil on copper, 28,5 x 37,4 cm.
• Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Inv. N° 809 (oil on copper, 40 x 53,5 cm)
• Auktionshaus für Altertümer Glückselig, Vienne, 10/05/1932, ( oil on copper, 34 x 42 cm)
• Gemäldegalerie of Pommersfelden, Schloss Weissenstein, oil on panel, 47 x 64 cm
Hendrick Van Balen, Flemish painter, born and died in Antwerp (1575-1632). A pupil of Adam Van Noort, he entered the Guild of St. Luke in 1593, later trained in Italy and was Van Dyck's first teacher. He often painted small figures taken from scenes from the Bible or classical mythology, on paintings whose backgrounds and landscapes were painted by Josse de Momper...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
Sport
Located in Nottingham, GB
Original artwork, acrylic paints on canvas by Joseph Gilgun
"Playing it safe" - Joseph Gilgun
With a mixture of street, abstract and fine art influences, most of Joe's work is crea...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$3,302
Jungle (Jaguar)
By Matt Kinney
Located in Hudson, NY
This new series of painting is an exciting transition for Kinney as he is best known for assemblage and sculpture. “Anim”, the Latin root word of animal, means life, soul or breath. This exhibition features select large-format monochromatic oil paintings on stretched canvas and wood panels. On view as well are works on paper with Japanese Sumi Ink, which inspired the oil paintings. Kinney has been looking at pre-historic cave paintings as well as animals depicted therein, such as the Chauvet caves in Nice, Southern France.
Emerging from the inextricable interplay of light and dark, Kinney’s black and white ink paintings capture the ever-shifting subjectivity shaped by shadow. Cast in Japanese Sumi ink, each unique painting explores the trajectories of human and animal, natural and architectural form- what is revealed or hidden? A variety of hand-torn, heavy weight papers add textural dimension to each mark and brush stroke, as well as through the immediacy of brushstrokes to depict the action within the artwork
In his latest collection of works, Kinney explores animal form and meaning as seen in both contemporary and ancient times. In “Savanna (Zebras) ”, a stampede of zebras is depicted through oil paint on wood panel. Animal populations in regions like the horn of Africa today face the loss of their natural habitats due to extreme draught. He explores the deep imprint they leave behind and the interconnectedness of humans and animals in the world. With the balance of nature at stake, Kinney’s paintings underscore the importance of the relationship between the natural environment and civilization.
Matt Kinney...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Sumi Ink, Rag Paper
Christ Wearing The Crown Of Thorns, 17th Century circle Carlo Dolci (1616-1686)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Christ Wearing The Crown Of Thorns, 17th Century
circle of Carlo Dolci (1616-1686)
Large 17th Century Italian Old Master of Christ wearing the Crown of Thorns, oil on canvas. Excel...
Category
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,455 Sale Price
30% Off
The Battle of Flodden, English School Early 20th Century Oil, Knights
Located in London, GB
English School
1910
The Battle of Flodden
Oil on canvas, monogrammed and dated 1910 lower right
Image size: 25 x 50 inches (63.5 x 127 cm)
Original frame
Provenance
Dacre Castle
The Battle of Flodden or Flodden Field, sometimes called the Battle of Branxton was part of a conflict between England and Scotland. The Scots were allied with France and at the time of the battle Henry VIII was in France fighting there and had left his kingdom under the regency of his queen Catherine of Aragon.
The battle was fought in Branxton in Northumberland on 9 September 1513, between an invading Scots army under King James IV and an English army commanded by the seasoned warrior Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey.
Invoking the Auld Alliance with France, James IV of Scotland crossed...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Kwaku Frimpong 2 - Painting, Mixed Media and Collage on Canvas
Located in London, GB
Joseph Kojo Hoggar
Kwaku Frimpong 2, 2022
Mixed media and collage on canvas
175 x 214 cm
68 7/8 x 84 1/4 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
A Quiet Moment
By Edmund Blair Leighton
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 14 x 10 inches
Initialled and dated '1906' lower left to the bench
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Large Oil Painting Circus Scene Clowns Rediscovered NY Artist Jonah Kinigstein
Located in Surfside, FL
Jonah Kinigstein
"Death of a Clown"
Large Oil on Board Painting of macabre circus scene with clowns
Hand signed lower left and signed and titled verso
Frame: 55 X 43 Image: 48 X 36
...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Half Length Portrait of Mr. Robertson of Edinburgh
Located in Miami, FL
Half Length Portrait of Mr. Robertson
Sir. Henry Raeburn ( Scottish 1756 - 1823 )
Half Length Portrait of Mr. Robertson
29x 24
Purchased, J Leger & Son,...
Category
18th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Italian Oil on Alabaster Painting Pompeian Interior Scene in Ormolu Frame
Located in Firenze, IT
This Italian 19th century oil on alabastrer painting depicts an opulent interior in full ancient neoclassical Pompeian style with people festing.
The figurative inner scene is painted on a rectangular alabaster slab and housed in a wonderful giltbronze frame resting on casted arrow feet.
This is a single section of a bigger surtout de table. You can now use it as a decorative centrepiece on a table or on a console or turn it into a wall decoration. We can provide framing options in this case.
The characters enjoy a rich banquet in an elaborate interior, the room renderings...
Category
19th Century Italian School Interior Paintings
Materials
Alabaster, Bronze
PALM BEACH American PHOTOREALIST Rolls Royce Hyper Realist Painting
Located in New York, NY
Up for sale, I have a large Photorealist painting by Contemporary artist Clarence Measelle
The painting is very large and depicts a Palm Beach street view through a Rolls Royce sid...
Category
1970s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Georgian Contemporary Art by Elene Melikidze - Untitled
Located in Paris, IDF
Laminated oil on canvas
Elene Melikidze is a Georgian artist born in 1999 who lives & works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She started painting since childhood in various media. Her other pro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Impressive WPA Gloucester Oil Painting New England George Matthews Harding
Located in Exton, PA
Dramatic, monumental oil painting laid to Masonite by George Matthews Harding (1882-1959). Painter, illustrator and muralist, Harding was born in Philadelphia. He studied at the Pyle...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism
By Kyra Markham
Located in New York, NY
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism. 30 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas. Signed on stretcher, c. 1940s. Frame is likely original to the painting.
Realist painter-printmaker Kyra Markham...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young and Fair, Romantic Magazine Story Illustration, Good Housekeeping, 1932
By E.M. Jackson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
"Jessica laid her face against Richie's shoulder; she felt his arm tighten about her. Perhaps it was a long time they stood so. She didn't know, but she heard him say, 'Do you mean y...
Category
1930s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Rapid Boy
Located in Manchester, GB
Jasper Cheng, Rapid Boy, 2023
Emulsion & Pumice on Canvas
130 x 100 cm (50 x 40 in)
Hand-signed by the artist
Jasper considers himself more simply as somebody who enjoys being cr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Emulsion
adolfo, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This, vibrant, and bright piece of art on canvas comes straight from the artist's studio in Barcelona. Dimitris Pavlopoulos is known as a expressionism artist whose works range from ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Portrait of Benjamin - Fleur de Lis Background, Oil, Antique Florentine Frame
By Peter Lupkin
Located in Chicago, IL
Twenty-first century Classical Portraiture has a casual feel as seen here in "Portrait of Benjamin" by Peter Lupkin. The very masculine Benjamin, with his heavy beard, dark tousled ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Ochius, also called The Passia Ahmed ex Royal Collection of Hanover
By (Attributed to) Sir Godfrey Kneller
Located in London, GB
Attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723)
A Portrait of Ochius, also called The Passia Ahmed
Oil on canvas
In a gilded frame
Painted circa 1689 following the siege of Belgrad...
Category
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$70,098 Sale Price
20% Off
Courtyard in Venice, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original Oil painting by Ukrainian artist Evgeny Chernyakovsky "Courtyard in Venice " 70.0 X 80.0 CM / 27.5 X 31.4 IN HIGH QUALITY oil on canvas Signed on the front and back D...
Category
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Two Young Patients' Mother
By Su Yu
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Su Yu is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Beijing in China. He was an old student of prestigious art teachers as Shi Liang & Chen Danqing at Oil Pain...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Frank., Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Igor Shulman
Located in Yardley, PA
Women are completely different. It does not depend on whether they are good or evil. Dressed or undressed. Married or not. It depends on the degree of frankness of the woman. From th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Family - Abstract Vibrant Figurative Illustrative Mixed Media Artwork on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Melissa Chalhoub, a 2014 graduate of Saint Joseph University in Beirut, seamlessly navigates the realms of cinema and visual art. With a background in directing and sound design for ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
18th Century by Alessandro Longhi Portrait of a young musician Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Alessandro Longhi (Venice, Italy, 1733 – 1813)
Title: Portrait of a young musician in front of his desk with a score in his hand
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 39.5 ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
First furrow. 1980. Oil on canvas, 73x54 cm
Located in Riga, LV
First furrow. 1980. Oil on canvas, 73x54 cm
Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001)
Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,761 Sale Price
20% Off
In a Roman Room
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Herbert Sidney’s In a Roman Room is a masterfully composed oil painting that captures a moment of introspection and social exchange in a classical setting. Four figures—three women a...
Category
19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Feeling Free, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Dara Daniel
Located in Yardley, PA
To begin "Feeling Free," I generously applied Acrylic molding paste to the entire canvas adding textures and shapes to complement the form of the horse. After that, I added layers of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Shared Secret
Located in Zofingen, AG
An intuitively created work, born without a prior plan.
I’ve always been drawn to references to antiquity, especially when the human figure appears not literally, but through form an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Women seen from behind
Located in PARIS, FR
Ernest LAURENT
Gentilly 1859 - Bièvres 1929
Seated woman seen from behind, preparatory sketch
Oil on cardboard
Circa 1920
32 x 21.5 cm
unframed
Our oil o...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Tomorrow We're Going To Run For Further, And The Say After, We'll Leave...
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Hiromi Sengoku is a Japanese artist born in 1982 who lives and works in London, UK. Since 2008, she participated regularly to solo exhibitions in Japan and participate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Orchestra Musicians Playing Cellos And Violins In Warm Concert Scene French Oil
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Orchestra Musicians
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
signed lower left
Medium: oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas: 15.75 x 15.75 inches
inscribed verso
Condition: Good and sound co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The adoration of the shepherds
Located in Paris, IDF
Félix COTTRAU
(Paris, 1799 - Paris, 1852)
The adoration of the shepherds
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
100.5 x 76 cm
1842
Exhibition: Paris Salon of 1842 under number...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a King's Messenger, 18th Century English Artist, Original Frame
By Charles Philips
Located in London, GB
Charles Philips
1703 - 1747
Portrait of a King's Messenger
Oil on canvas
Image size: 35 ¾ x 28 inches
Original gilt frame
King's Messenger
The job of a King's Messenger was that of a diplomatic courier, hand-carrying important and secret documents around the world. Some say that the history of the sovereigns' messengers goes back to 1199, but the first known messenger was John Norman, who in 1485 earned 4d (1½ pence) per day for carrying the state papers of Richard III.
The silver greyhound on the messenger's badge dates back to Charles II. In 1660, during his exile at Breda, Netherlands, Charles II issued a declaration of amnesty to all those who had opposed him and his father. He used messengers to make his intentions known. In answer to the messenger's question "How will they know me?", Charles reached forward to a silver bowl on the table in front of him. This bowl, with four decorative greyhounds standing proud above the rim, was well known to all courtiers. Charles broke off a greyhound and gave it to the messenger as a guarantee that the message came from him. From that date, the King's Messenger always wore a silver greyhound around his neck.
Later, dating from George II or III, a badge with the Royal Arms in enamel, with the greyhound suspended beneath, was worn. A George III example of the King's Messenger Badge, pre 1800, sold for over £30,000 pounds some years ago.
The silver greyhounds were minted for each new reign, except the brief one of King Edward VIII. The sovereign's messengers were originally controlled by the Lord Chamberlain, being Messengers of the Great Chamber. When the Foreign Office was created in 1782, the messengers remained common to the three Secretaries of State.
Charles Philips was an English artist known for painting a number of portraits and conversation pieces for noble and Royal patrons in the mid-eighteenth century.
Philips was baptised in the combined parish of St Mildred, Poultry with St Mary...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Post Office Parcel Post Window - Depression Era
Located in Miami, FL
Arnold Friedman worked as a clerk for decades at the Station Y, the branch at 3rd Avenue and East 67th Street in New York City. This present work was done two years after his retirem...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
A comfy lurcher
Located in London, GB
Patrick Fergusson Millard (1902-1977)
A comfy lurcher, 1929
signed and dated 'PF Millard 29' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 ⅛ x 24 ⅛ in. (51.1 x 61.3 cm.) 43.2 x 53.3 cm.)
with frame...
Category
1920s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Ovum#1
Located in Zofingen, AG
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"The Ovum #1" from the "Perichoresis" series
This work reflects an intimate moment of inner transformation — a turning point in the artist’s dialogue with her body,...
Category
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Bold Bulldogger" Rodeo Cowboy Scene
Located in Austin, TX
By M.A. Bhatti
20" x 20" Oil on Canvas
Framed Size: 25" x 25"
This exciting rodeo painting depicts a cowboy jumping off his horse and wrangling a bull...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marie Channer, "Leap of Faith", 24x16 Ballet Dancer Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Leap of Faith", is a 24x16 oil painting on canvas by artist Marie Channer. Featured is a ballet dancer in the spotlight of the stage, caught in pose. Overall cool tones ...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Waiting Figure
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Waiting Figure" is a Post War abstract landscape oil on canvas painting by Roland Petersen in 1967. The artwork is 68 x 56 inches and, with the frame, is 69 3/8 x 57 1/2 x 3 inches....
Category
20th Century Post-War Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Skaters " Oil cm. 47 x 33 1950
Located in Torino, IT
Sport ,Winter sport,Ice-skating,
KLARA VLASOVA (Moscow, 1926)
MUSEUMS
St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum
Moscow, Pushkin Museum
Moscow, Museum of History and Reconstruction
Mo...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,309 Sale Price
35% Off
French Romantic School, 19th Century, Portrait of a man, oil on paper
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic School, 19th Century
Portrait of a man, a selfportrait ?
oil on paper
17.5 x 12 cm oval
Framed under glass : 43 x 34.5 cm
This rather mysterious portrait is perhaps a self-portrait of the artist who painted it. This is suggested by the three-quarter pose and the gaze fixed on the viewer.
What this man seems to be staring at is himself.
Similarly, the model's appearance is reminiscent of the image of the romantic, bohemian, tortured artist. It's also very interesting that he used a range of dark colours to reinforce this idea of melancholy.
It has been suggested that this small oil on paper is close to the art of François Bonvin (1817-1887) and Théodule Ribot...
Category
1860s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Acrobats bright tropical colors man and toucan birds humorous narrative
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas signed and dated on reverse. Part ot a human and animal series by the artist
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Conversation with Eternity, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Title: Conversation with Eternity Size: 130 x 100 cm (39.5 x 51") Canvas: museum quality linen canvas Lanificio Prato (Italy) Paints: professional oil paints Schmincke, Winsor&New...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
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