1840s Art

Image dimensions: 24.3 x 17.5 cm. Single sheet with passepartout. "...The unhappy man had approached that mysterious spot where, amid a thousand aquatic plants, the Water-arrow gr...

Image dimensions: 24.3 x 17.5 cm. Single sheet with passepartout. "At a crossing in the forest, where four roads unite, a number of flowers happened to meet - among which were seen the Cactus, the Peach-blossom, the Dahlia, the Sensitive-plant, the Fuchsia, the Periwinkle, and the Sweet-scented Pea." T. Delord. Les Fleurs animées...

Image dimensions: 24.3 x 17.5 cm. Single sheet with passepartout. "...The entire history of my life on earth may be summed up in four words - I have been cold." T. Delord. Les Fl...

Image dimensions: 24.3 x 17.5 cm. Single sheet with passepartout. "Delighted at finding themselves again united, after all theit vicissitudes, the chief flowers determined on givi...

Image dimensions: 23 x 19 cm. Monsieur Par suite De La Fusion... - From “Les philanthropes du jour” is an original artwork realized by Honoré Daumier in 1845/46. Original complete ...

Salvator Rosa at the Brigands is an original artwork realized by Adolphe Pierre Riffaut in 1844. Original lithograph on paper after A. Guignot. Artist's proof before Letter. Passepa...

Honore Daumier (1808-1879), L'Homme in naturalibus, lithograph, from the Robert Macaire 2nd series, plate number 17. Published 1840-41. In generally good condition; a tiny hole lowe...

Honore Daumier (1808-1879), Un Homme a La Mer lithograph, 1843, [with initials in the plate]. Reference: Daumier Register 1036, plate number 14 from the series Les Canotiers...

Print Sz: 12 1/2"H x 8 3/8"W Frame Sz: 23 1/4"H x 19 1/8"W *slight foxing condition noted* Clan MacKinnon is a Highland Scottish clan from the islands of Mull and Skye, in the Inn...

"Coin Beads - Western US Wilderness Expedition of 1847" is a color lithograph by Seth Eastman. It depicts various Native American beads used as currency and...

David Roberts 1796 - 1864 Facade of the Pronaos of the Temple of Edfou First Edition lithograph Full plate: 208 Presented in a acid free mount We have all 250 of the Lithograph set...

After the restoration of the Saint-John chapel’s frescoes at the Saint-Severin church in Paris in 2022, the drawing presented here is a moving testimony to their creative process. It...

Yoshikazu Utagawa (active circa 1850 - 1870) Yoshinaka and the Shitenno Confront a Serpent at Okuyama This is the middle panel of three c. 1844 - 1848 Oban Good impression and ...

Large Victorian coastal marine painting by Edward William Cooke, R.A. English, 1842 Frame: height 92cm, width 128cm, depth 6.5cm Canvas: height 77cm, width 122cm This superb marine ...

Classic hand-coloured litho by James Pollard (1792-1867) entitled "Live Bait Fishing For Jack" dedicated to the 'Members of the Waltonian Society, by a Br...

Envelope Sz: 4 3/4"H x 4"W Frame Sz: 11 3/4"H x 14 3/4"W w/ leaf gilt frame

Self-portrait "Fratin by himself" by Christophe FRATIN (1801-1864) Bronze with nuanced dark brown patina Signed on the base "Fratin" Raised on a wooden base, with an old collector s...

Artwork sold with frame (100 x 120 x 7.5 cm) Henri Druard (1821–1877) was a French painter known for his genre scenes and depictions of everyday life in 19th-century France. Born in...

Ashley John is proud to offer this artwork by: Emily Stackhouse (1811 - 1870) Miss Emily Stackhouse was born in the West Country in 1811, the same year as botanist and writer Reve...

The Jolly Flat Boat Men, 1847 After George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811-1879) Engraved by Thomas Doney (French, active New York 1844-1849) Engraving with Hand-Coloring Published by The American Art-Union, New York (1838-1851) Printed by Powell and Co. 18 x 24 inches 32 x 38 inches with frame In 1847, the American Art-Union purchased Bingham’s painting "The Jolly Flat Boat Men" (1846; National Gallery of Art) directly from the artist. The subscription-based organization, founded in 1838 as the Apollo Association, boasted nearly ten-thousand members at this date. For an annual fee of five dollars, each received a large reproductive engraving and was entered in a lottery to win original artworks exhibited at the Art-Union’s Free Gallery. Aimed at educating the public about contemporary American art, the organization developed an impressive distribution network that reached members in every state. The broad circulation of the Art-Union's print helped to establish Bingham's reputation and made his river scene famous. Born in Augusta County, Virginia in the Shenandoah River Valley, George Caleb Bingham became known for classically rendered western genre, especially Missouri and Mississippi River scenes of boatmen bringing cargo to the American West and politicians seeking to influence frontier life. One of his most famous river genre paintings was The Jolly Flatboatmen completed in several versions in 1846. This first version of this painting is in the Manoogian Collection at the National Gallery of Art. Fame resulted for this work when it was exhibited in New York at the American Art Union whose organizers made an engraving of 10,000 copies and distributed it to all of their members. Paintings such as Country Politician (1849) and County Election (1852) and Stump Speaking (1854) reflected Bingham's political interests. In 1819, as an eight-year old, he moved to Boon's Lick, Missouri with his parents and grandfather who had been farmers and inn keepers in the Shenandoah Valley near Rockingham, Virginia. Reportedly as a child there, he took every opportunity to escape supervision to travel the River and watch the marine activity. His father died in 1827, when his son was sixteen years old. His mother had encouraged his art talent, but art lessons were not easily obtainable. In order to earn money, he apprenticed to a cabinet maker but determined to become an artist. By 1835, he had a modest reputation as a frontier painter and successfully charged twenty dollars per portrait in St. Louis. "His portraits had become standard decorations in prosperous Missouri homes." (Samuels 46). In 1836, he moved to Natchez, Mississippi and there had the same kind of career, only was able to charge forty dollars per portrait. He remained largely self taught until 1837, when he, age 26 and using the proceeds from his portraiture, studied several months at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He later said that he learned much of his atmospheric style and classically balanced composition by copying paintings in collections in St. Louis and Philadelphia and that among his most admired painters were Thomas Cole, John Vanderlyn, and William Sidney Mount. Between 1856 and 1859, Bingham traveled back and forth to Dusseldorf, Germany, where he studied the work of genre painters. Some critics think these influences were negative on his work because during that time period, he abandoned his luminist style that had brought him so much public affirmation. Bingham credited Chester Harding (1792-1866) as being the earliest and one of the most lasting influences on his work. Harding,a leading portraitists when Bingham was a young man, had a studio in Franklin, near Bingham's home town. In 1822, when Bingham was ten years old, he watched Harding finish a portrait of Daniel Boone. Bingham recalled that watching Harding with the Boone portrait was a lasting inspiration and that it was the first time he had ever seen a painting in progress. Harding suggested to Bingham that he begin doing portraiture by finding subjects in the river men, which, of course, opened the subject matter that established fame and financial success for Bingham. Harding also encouraged Bingham to copy with paint engravings. He later painted two portraits of Boone but, contrary to the assertions of some scholars, he did not do Boone portraits in the company of Harding. Bingham's portraits of Boone are not located, but one of them, a wood signboard for a hotel in Boonville circa 1828 to 1830, showed a likeness of Boone in buckskin dress...