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Sultan Pointing Finger- Jewels of Majabar

20th Century

Native Americans greeting visitiors

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Upper Left "Dan Content 29" Story Illustration, Good Housekeeping Magazine, September 1929, pg 32-33 Biography: Daniel Content was born of Dutch parents and grew up in New York City. He attended New Eutriek High School in Brooklyn, NY. He studied under Dean Cornwell at the Pratt Institute as well as attending the Art Students League. Mr. Content worked as a freelance artist for about thirty years. He illustrated for such magazines as Colliers, Cosmopolitan, Readers Digest, and McCall's. In 1928 he illustrated the Windermere Series printing of Robin Hood. During World War II he traveled with the USO to Burma and India entertaining the service men with personal sketches. In the late 1950s he was an Art Director for Benton & Bowles in NYC. He also taught at the workshop School of Advertising Art. Mr. Content continued his sculpting and painting long after retirement. Some of his work can be found at Society of Illustrators in their permanent Museum. Exhibited: Masters of the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and His Students South Dakota Art...

1965 Reader's Digest. A copy of the magazine is included.

An antique Indian Mughal School painting, executed in body color on paper, depicting a court scene in the middle. Surrounded by eight portraits of emperors, each meticulously rendered and signed to the side. Dating back to the mid to late 18th century. Framed. Antique Indian Miniature Paintings...

European Painting of young venetian man with turban

Oil on canvas, initialed "H.W." or "N.W." and dated "1894" bottom right, with a "Winsor & Newton, Limited, 38 Rathbone Place, London," stamp en verso, presented in a gilt frame.

Peter Todd Mitchell (1924-1988) was an American painter and textile and wallpaper designer whose travels and extravagant social circles inspired a taste for the exotic. This Orient...