Rat Paintings

This whimsical oil painting by Marina Dieul, titled "Betises 22," created in 2024, features a dual portrait of a cat and a mouse. The artwork is rendered on a panel measuring 10.5 x ...

Naomi Jones's richly patterned realistic paintings focus on the preservation of vulnerable wildlife. Jones finds catharsis in painting soulful animals. Portraits of vulnerable specie...

A remarkable work by Charles Nicolas Etienne Mayre, an academic painter born in Choisy le Roi near Paris in 1819. He studied with the masters Michel-Martin Drolling and Leon Cogniet...

Marina Dieul's "Souris 35, 2023" is a primary market, handmade original oil on panel artwork, notable for its trompe l'oeil technique that seamlessly blends the painting with the act...

In this contemporary interior painting in acrylic on canvas, a black cat sits on the bed in a room with an air conditioner in the window, trees outside the window, and patterned wall...

This whimsical oil painting by Marina Dieul, titled "Souris a la fenêtre 15," created in 2024, features an endearing portrait of a mouse peering out from a window with charming red a...

A well-painted and fun picture of a feeding pig. Oils on canvas The artist painted animal subjects like this with a great deal of skill, giving his animals life and character. He ...

Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist UNFRAMED: 14.5" x 24.5" FRAMED: 14.5" x 24.5" x 1.25" Exhibited Spring into Art 2024, presented by the San Marino League at The Hu...

Igor Maikov (1966) Education: 1981 - 1984 The Art Academy of Latvia 1973 - 1983 Salaspils Primary and Secondary School Exhibitions: 1994 - Group Exhibition «Rol-Art», Latvia ...

Running Szobota István Budapest 1911 – 1994 Sopron Hungarian Painter Signature: Signed bottom left and dated '73 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: ...

Portrait of an English Brown and White Otter, on the banks of a River Landscape. Very Pretty English Otter, in an extensive landscape, painted circa 1970. The painting is an amazin...

Photorealist oil painting by Manon Cleary (1942-2011). Painting is signed on reverse Manon Cleary and titled Unicorn #3. Manon Cleary had a remarkable ability to draw and paint with photographic fidelity, but she was also known as a charismatic teacher at the University of the District of Columbia and as a free spirit whose exuberant life may have been her most enduring work of art. Since the 1970s, Ms. Cleary had been at the center of a group of artists in Adams Morgan. She exhibited her meticulous artwork throughout the city and around the world, but she also became known for her striking presence, her colorful love life and the rats she kept as pets. As an artist, Ms. Cleary borrowed classical techniques from her deep study of Renaissance masters to create paintings and drawings memorable for their frank realism and sometimes disturbing themes. In addition to her many nude self-portraits, Ms. Cleary made erotically charged paintings of flowers. She took inspiration from a painful personal history in a series of works depicting the terror of rape and, in later years, of not being able to breathe without mechanical assistance. Critics considered her a leading figurative artist of the photo-realist school, in which painters render their subjects with camera-like precision. In fact, Ms. Cleary occasionally won awards for photography when adjudicators didn’t realize her works were free-hand creations. She was “widely acknowledged to be among the best, if not the best, of the city’s figurative painters,” Washington Post critic Michael O’Sullivan wrote in 2006. “There is a tension between the cool, clinical detachment of photography and painting’s warm idealization of form.” Ms. Cleary exhibited her art in galleries and museums from Moscow to Paris to Hickory, N.C., but Washington was her home for the past 42 years. In 1974, she settled in the decrepit Beverly Court apartments on Columbia Road NW, where a coterie of artists soon grew up around her. She painted her walls purple, and her fourth-floor apartment — even with the pet rats — became something of a bohemian salon. “She was a star,” painter Judy Jashinsky told the Washington City Paper in 2004. “She was stunning, beautiful; long, brownish–black hair; real thin; wore . . . little sundresses and sandals. She was just very cool, and there was always a crowd around her.” Ms. Cleary had a long list of male admirers, including several whose confrontational attempts at “performance art” led to their arrests. She had a brief marriage in 1981 to a Danish artist known as Tommy — “just Tommy,” Ms. Cleary said — whom she divorced in less than a year. As a kind of graphic homage to her various lovers, Ms. Cleary made a series of intimately revealing portraits that were featured years later on the HBO program “Real Sex.” She met her second husband after a gallery opening in Baltimore. By way of introduction, Kijek, a dancer, stripped naked at a crowded party, walked up to Ms. Cleary and said, “Wouldn’t you like me to pose for you?” They were married in 2001. In spite of her unconventional life, Ms. Cleary was more than a mere provocateur. After a day of teaching at UDC, she would return to her studio, with its windows painted over to block out sunlight, and work late into the night, with a bottle of Dr Pepper at her side. She took nude photographs of herself from every angle, then painstakingly created lifelike images that seemed alive with the warmth of human flesh. After studying in Rome in her youth, she developed what she called “an obsession” with Caravaggio, an iconoclastic painter who lived from 1573 to 1610. She often copied paintings at the National Gallery of Art and, in her own work, blended Renaissance styles with a distinctly modern sensibility. Manon Catherine Cleary was born Nov. 14, 1942, in St. Louis. Her father was a doctor, and her identical twin sister, Shirley...

Claudia Griesbach-Martucci's "Harvest Dreams" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a field mouse standing on a small jack o'lantern as ...

Photorealist oil painting by Manon Cleary (1942-2011). Painting is signed on reverse "Cleary". Painting is stretched on aluminum stretcher and dates to the 1990s. Manon Cleary had a remarkable ability to draw and paint with photographic fidelity, but she was also known as a charismatic teacher at the University of the District of Columbia and as a free spirit whose exuberant life may have been her most enduring work of art. Since the 1970s, Ms. Cleary had been at the center of a group of artists in Adams Morgan. She exhibited her meticulous artwork throughout the city and around the world, but she also became known for her striking presence, her colorful love life and the rats she kept as pets. As an artist, Ms. Cleary borrowed classical techniques from her deep study of Renaissance masters to create paintings and drawings memorable for their frank realism and sometimes disturbing themes. In addition to her many nude self-portraits, Ms. Cleary made erotically charged paintings of flowers. She took inspiration from a painful personal history in a series of works depicting the terror of rape and, in later years, of not being able to breathe without mechanical assistance. Critics considered her a leading figurative artist of the photo-realist school, in which painters render their subjects with camera-like precision. In fact, Ms. Cleary occasionally won awards for photography when adjudicators didn’t realize her works were free-hand creations. She was “widely acknowledged to be among the best, if not the best, of the city’s figurative painters,” Washington Post critic Michael O’Sullivan wrote in 2006. “There is a tension between the cool, clinical detachment of photography and painting’s warm idealization of form.” Ms. Cleary exhibited her art in galleries and museums from Moscow to Paris to Hickory, N.C., but Washington was her home for the past 42 years. In 1974, she settled in the decrepit Beverly Court apartments on Columbia Road NW, where a coterie of artists soon grew up around her. She painted her walls purple, and her fourth-floor apartment — even with the pet rats — became something of a bohemian salon. “She was a star,” painter Judy Jashinsky told the Washington City Paper in 2004. “She was stunning, beautiful; long, brownish–black hair; real thin; wore . . . little sundresses and sandals. She was just very cool, and there was always a crowd around her.” Ms. Cleary had a long list of male admirers, including several whose confrontational attempts at “performance art” led to their arrests. She had a brief marriage in 1981 to a Danish artist known as Tommy — “just Tommy,” Ms. Cleary said — whom she divorced in less than a year. As a kind of graphic homage to her various lovers, Ms. Cleary made a series of intimately revealing portraits that were featured years later on the HBO program “Real Sex.” She met her second husband after a gallery opening in Baltimore. By way of introduction, Kijek, a dancer, stripped naked at a crowded party, walked up to Ms. Cleary and said, “Wouldn’t you like me to pose for you?” They were married in 2001. In spite of her unconventional life, Ms. Cleary was more than a mere provocateur. After a day of teaching at UDC, she would return to her studio, with its windows painted over to block out sunlight, and work late into the night, with a bottle of Dr Pepper at her side. She took nude photographs of herself from every angle, then painstakingly created lifelike images that seemed alive with the warmth of human flesh. After studying in Rome in her youth, she developed what she called “an obsession” with Caravaggio, an iconoclastic painter who lived from 1573 to 1610. She often copied paintings at the National Gallery of Art and, in her own work, blended Renaissance styles with a distinctly modern sensibility. Manon Catherine Cleary was born Nov. 14, 1942, in St. Louis. Her father was a doctor, and her identical twin sister, Shirley Cleary-Cooper, is an artist in Helena, Mont. She was a 1964 graduate of Washington University in her home town and, for the rest of her life, was proud of having been a member of the Pi Phi...

The Rabbit Family, 19th Century by Henry Barnard Gray (1844-1871) Large 19th Century English Landscape with a family of rabbits, oil on canvas by Henry Barnard Gray. Excellent qua...

This cheekily titled scene depicts two woodland creatures encountering a spattering of fungi on the forest floor. This work is rendered in exquisite detail, down to the Sparrows feathers and inquisitive expression and and the soft fuzz on the mouse's small form. "Sparrow and Jumping Mouse Find the Magic Mushrooms" showcases artist Marc Dennis' hyper realistic style and propensity for witty humor. Marc Dennis' paintings merge 19th-century traditional American Western painting...

Title: Historic Miniature Watercolor of Magdalen College Oxford with Bridge and Tower by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed Measure...

Arthur Wardle 1864 - 1949 At the Window Oil on board, signed lower left Image size: 13 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches (34.25 x 19.5 cm) Hand made gilt frame Arthur Wardle Wardle, who was self-...

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 20.25 x 27.25 inches Signed lower left

Patricia Traub (b. 1947, Allentown, PA) is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the York Academy of the Arts. She continued her studies in Paris at the Académi...

Cute kitty looking for cute mice. But he's looking in a strange way, in the distance. While the mice are frolicking under his nose. It's almost like a fable. Anyone can try on the ro...

Marina Dieul's "Petite Souris 700", 2024" is an exquisite handmade original oil on panel artwork, measuring 4 x 4 x 1 inches, that comes directly from the artist's studio. This piece is a primary market offering that showcases Dieul's impeccable talent and her mastery of the trompe l'oeil technique. The painting features the captivating face of an adorable mouse with a an orange knitted cap and mittens peering from a green shuttered...

Work on canvas Black wooden frame 86 x 74 x 3 cm

Wonderful English late 20th century Field Mouse in a landscape. Signed and dated 1981 Chris Howells was born in 1947 and passed away in 2013. He studied Graphic Design at Stourbrid...

I've done a still life with gala apples and a few of my pewter pieces from my collection. This original is painted in oils on stretched linen. I enjoy painting pewter because of its ...

Signed lower right, 'A. Besser' for Arne Charles Besser (American, 1935-2012) and painted circa 1995. Born in Illinois, Arne Besser first attended art sch...

This painting features hues of green, purple, blue, red, and yellow. This surrealist still life features flowers, a patterned textile and apples. Guy Robinson is inspired by the wor...

I have been an artist for most of my life. Throughout my creative journey, I have had the pleasure of studying with many established artists. My current studies are under private mentorship of Lucas Bononi in NYC. I've honed in my drawing skills for two years at the Woodstock School of Art with Vince Natale. I also have taken classes/workshops with Todd Casey, Andrew Lattimore and Paul McCormack. I have exhibited at the Mark Gruber Gallery in New Paltz, NY. My artwork resides in hundreds of private collections worldwide and on a major Cruise Ship I currently live and work in the Hudson Valley region of New York. ~~~~~~~~~~ Shoe shine...

northern shovelers, two males flying with a female, framed :: Painting :: Classical :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to ...

I have been an artist for most of my life. Throughout my creative journey, I have had the pleasure of studying with many established artists. My current studies are under private men...

40"x60" large scale watercolor on paper, featuring a moose, beaver, wolverine, cardinal and raven on a distressed sailboat, whose sail is mended with colorful blue checkered and red polka dot quilted fabric. A telescope stands...

I have been an artist for most of my life. Throughout my creative journey, I have had the pleasure of studying with many established artists. My current studies are under private men...

Nasce a Piacenza nel 1968, vive e lavora in Italia e Portogallo.