1850s Art

This wonderfully evocative work aligns with one of the most significant movements in 19th-century European landscape painting, reflecting a major shift toward Naturalism and the dire...

Lithograph on cream wove paper, signed and dated in the stone by August Raffet (“Raffet / Paris, 12 Oct. 1857”). This work is a preparatory study showing French soldiers in detailed...

Attributed Paul Von Franken (1818-1884), famous Gemany a genre and landscape painter, signed bottom right. Fertile scenery coastal town with castle, mosque, minaret, large travelers ...

Constant Troyon (French, 1810-1865) Vache en prairie Oil on canvas Canvas: 19 x 15 inches (48.3 x 38.1 cm) Framed: 28.75 x 24.75 x 3 Inches Artist's estate stamp lower right: Vente /...

This is a rare example of mid 19th century painting by a budding Pennsylvania artist associated with a local school. The work is a floral still life by listed artist Lucinda Carver ...

Etching drypoint and aquatint realized by Francisco Goya. Plate 73 from the Series "Los Caprichos". Beautiful proof of 2nd Edition, printed in 1855 ca. Includes a wooden frame cm. ...

Etching and aquatint realized by Francisco Goya. Plate 21 from the Series "Los Caprichos". Beautiful proof of 2nd Edition, printed in 1855 ca. Includes a wooden frame cm. 38.5x32.

This lovely British Victorian landscape oil painting is attributed to noted artist Sam Bough. It was painted circa 1855 after Bough had moved to Hamilton Lanarkshire in Scotland to focus on painting landscapes along side fellow artist Alexander Frazer. The composition is several cattle watering in a stream under the boughs of an ancient tree. There is superb impasto, for example on the clouds and this is a charming 19th century oil painting. Provenance. London estate. Condition. Oil on canvas, 29 inches by 16 inches unframed and in good condition. Frame. Housed in an ornate gilt Victorian frame, 36 inches by 23 inches framed and in good condition. Samuel Bough RSA (1822–1878) was an English-born landscape painter who spent much of his career working in Scotland. He was born the third of five children in Abbey Street, Carlisle in northern England, the son of James Bough (1794-1845), a shoemaker, and Lucy Walker, a cook. He was raised in relative poverty, but with a keen encouragement in the arts. He was self-taught but mixed with local artists such as Richard Harrington and George Sheffield, and was strongly influenced by the work of Turner. After an unsuccessful attempt to live as an artist in Carlisle he obtained a job and as a theatre scenery painter in Manchester in 1845, later also working in Glasgow in the same role. Encouraged by Daniel Macnee to take up landscape painting he moved to Hamilton from 1851-4 and worked there with Alexander Fraser. In 1854 he moved to Port Glasgow to work on his technique of painting ships and harbours. His paintings were noted for their sensitivity to atmosphere and light, were often of cloudy shorelines and busy harbours. He also began supplementing his income by illustrating books, before moving to Edinburgh in 1855. On coming to Edinburgh he lived in a terraced house at 5 Malta Terrace in the Stockbridge area of the city. Following Turner's example, he became a skilful painter of seaports. He was buried in Dean Cemetery Edinburgh on 23 November 1878. The grave bears a bronze medallion of his head by William Brodie...

One of a kind and incredible six-panel Hasegawa school folding screen, featuring horses, is an exceptional piece. "Scene with Wild Horses" (Kōgen Bashu-zu in Japanese) is in the styl...

Courtiers Party in the Park in 18th Century In the Taste of Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743) Oil on canvas Frame gilded with leaves Dim canvas : 73 X 59 cm Dim frame : 100 X 87 cm

Randolph John Rogers (American, 1825 - 1892) Randolph Rogers' Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii debuted in 1856 to critical and public acclaim, solidifying Rogers’ position as a pre-eminent American sculptor and it remains one of the artist’s most celebrated works today. The subject of Nydia is drawn from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii 1834. After touring the ruins of the ancient city in 1833, and inspired by the stories of blinding volcanic ash, he composed the tale of Nydia, a slave who led her master, Glaucus, to safety. Rogers depicts Nydia at the moment that she and Glaucus have become separated in their perilous journey through the rubble and Nydia seeks familiarity in the surrounding chaos, her distress evident in her pained expression. The grace of the sculpture is at odds with the turmoil portrayed; a toppled Corinthian capital lies at her feet and obstructs her next step, indicated by the tilt of her back foot and grip on her walking stick. Examples of this model can be found in major American collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Literature, Millard F Rogers, Jr. Randolph Rogers, American Sculptor in Rome. University of Massachusetts Press, 1971, American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1986. Joyce K Schiller. "Nydia, A Forgotten Icon of the Nineteenth Century." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Born in Waterloo, New York, Randolph John Rogers became an expatriate* sculptor of idealized figures, portraits, and commemorative works in Neo-Classical* and Realist* styles. He worked in clay, plaster, marble and bronze, and lived both in Italy and the United States. He made 167 examples of Nydia in two sizes (varies depending on base height) 36" and 54'. Rogers was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and as a young man did woodcuts* for the local newspaper, The Michigan Argus, and also worked as a baker's assistant and a dry goods clerk. In 1847, he moved to New York City, where he hoped to find work as an engraver*, but failing to do so, worked in a dry goods store owned by John Steward...

'The Lover's Duet' by Adrien Ferdinand de Braekeleer, 1854. Dutch Interior Scene, Bach Trinity, Violin, Romance, Guitar ---- Signed lower right, 'De Braekeleer' for Adrien Ferdinand...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "The Rev. and Mrs. E. H. Cumpston" a silhouette cut by August Edouart is in very good condition and cut by the artist sometime between 1839 - 1849. On the lower f...

The Lazy Frog is an original lithograph by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvard, Paris. Good Conditions but ag...

JAMES ABBOTT McNEILL WHISTLER (1834-1903) THE RAG GATHERERS 1858 (Glasgow 29 v/v, - K.23) Etching on laid paper, signed and dated in the plate, image 5 7/8” x 3 ½”, full sheet 8 x...

Title: C. L. Drouet, Sculptor Artist: James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London) Sitter: Charles L. Drouet (French, 1836–1908) Date: 1859 Medium: Etchi...

Superbly carved white statuary Carrara marble bust of Flora, the goddess of flowers. Flora was often associated with the coming of spring and the fertility of the land. She also sy...

French School 19th century Close to François Xavier FABRE (1766-1837) The Princess and The Chaperone Oil on canvas One can read on the reverse "Fabre Fecit" and the name and address of the canvas dealer shop...

‘A Day in the Country’ by William Frederick Witherington R.A. (1785-1865). Academy Fine Paintings is fully conversant with the latest US Government import duties and the legal exemp...

A wonderful portrait of a Bostonian dated 1858, by Leopold Grozelier, the artist best known for creating the first electoral poster ever, bearing the portrait of Abraham Lincoln (186...

Edwin Long 1829 - 1891 Portrait Studies Graphite on paper Image size: 4 x 8 inches (10 x 20.5 cm) Framed Edwin Longsden Long RA (1829-1891, British) wa...

The Cats and Kitty is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was ...

Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797–1858 Tokyo (Edo)) Kannondo, Abuto, Bingo Province, from the series Views of Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces Period: Edo period ...

Louis-Alexandre CABIÉ (Dol-de-Bretagne 1853 - Bordeaux 1939) Landes at Pessac, near Bordeaux - Gironde Oil on canvas H. 126 cm; W. 201 cm Signed lower left Louis Cabié, a renowned a...

The Ayase River and Kanegafuchi, Summer, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Summer on the Ayase River by Hiroshige (Ando) Utagawa (Japan, 1797 - 1858 ). Woodcut circa 1856. Ima...

This charming mid-19th-century oil painting depicts a river landscape with a thatched cottage, boatmen, and windmill. It’s reminiscent of works by English artist Edward Williams (178...

Isidore Pils (Paris, 1813 – Douarnenez, 1875) Study of a Woman Holding a Bowl Red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on buff paper 36.3 × 26.5 cm (14 ¼ × 10 ⅜ in.) Unsigned Prove...

Edo Meisho woodblock print of a famous Japanese coastal dock. This woodblock is most likely apart of the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo." The woodblock print is printed on r...

Y se le quema la casa is plate n. 18 (of 80) of the series Los Caprichos by Goya. This etching is an excellent proof of the first edition of 1799, before the bevels. Plate 17,9x12,...

Edmund Darch Lewis (1835-1910) Mount Washington, New Hampshire 50 x 58 inches, signed & dated 1859 Description The area near Mount Washington in New Hampshire was visited by m...

Hiroshige (1797-1858) - One Hundred Famous Views of EDO 名所江戸百景 Artist: 広重 Hiroshige (1797-1858) Series: One Hundred Famous Views of EDO (名所江戸百景) Title: The Ferry at Sakasai (逆井のわたし...

French Romantic School 19th Century Manly head of bearded man oil on canvas 46 x 37.8 cm In fairly good condition, some inpaintings visible under UV light, mainly in the backgrounds ...

Kumasaka Chōhan to Ushiwakamaru is a Japanese Ukiyo-e print created between 1848 and 1854 by artist Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786-1864). The print is a Diptych, and is part of the...

A very attractive mid 19th century marine oil painting, by the celebrated French artist Charles Hoguet (1821-1870), Dieppe 1851. The painting depicts three masted fishing boats with ...

Ancient View of San Francisco in November 1848 is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of the 19th Century. Original L...

Oil painting“hunting scene with dogs and horse” attr. to Alfred De Dreux 19th Oil on canvas, restored and cleaned in good condition. Very nice painting for hunting scene art...

Mary Jane Peale Portrait of Fanny Adam, 1857 A scanned photograph of the back of the canvas taken prior to relining shows the inscription "Fanny Adam / painted by / Mary J. Peale / P...

Yakushae Aizurie is an original artwork realized in 1840-1843 by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (January 1, 1798– April 14, 1861). Woodcut Print. Actor in the r...

Wonderful China Trade painting dating from the mid 19th century. This piece is rich in color and is of fine quality with the depiction of the figures.

Visit to a Prisoner is an original lithograph by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvard, Paris. Good Conditions....

This is beautiful little 19th century oil painting on panel. Painted in the barbizon school style. It is a lovely example of pastoral artwork, depicting a sweet little country scen...

19th Century French School, Studies of horses and small scenes, pencil on paper 14.5 x 21 cm Framed : 25.5 x 32.7 cm This study sheet, which brings together studies of horses and...

Egide Linnig (1821–1860) was a Belgian painter known for his landscape and genre paintings. He was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp....

Edwin Henry Boddington Canvas Size: 20 x 32" (51 x 81cm) Outside Frame Size: 29 x 41" (74 x 104cm) A very good and typical example of his work which has been relined for preservation only. He lived 1836 - 1905 Landscape and River Scene Painter. Son of Henry John Boddington, he painted mainly scenes of the Thames. He developed a very personal and recognisable style. His river scenes are usually painted in a pale evening light, using a range of very dark greens and browns. Address: Lonsdale Villa, Barnes, London 6 Upper Ranalagh Place, Pimlico, London Exhibited 1853 – 1869 Exhibited at:- British Institution, London Portland Gallery, London Royal Academy Royal Society of British Artists The following works were exhibited at the Royal Academy: On the River Lodden 1854 On the Welsh Hills...

A most popular drawing master, Lesourd-Beauregard exhibited extensively at the Paris Salons, and was awarded a medal in 1842. He is famous for his in depth botanical studies done in...

Zebra is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published in ...

The Excavation is an original lithograph by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux", 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvard, Paris. Good Conditions. Th...

Wonderful German mid 19th century Mountain lake landscape with figures harvesting the corn. J.Klee was a landscape painter during the middle of the 19th century in Germany. He mostly painted rural scenes often with people going about their daily work. This is one such example! He was very skilled in painting great light in his paintings and along with a well-choisen composition he was able to paint a very desirable painting. This piece is framed in its original German hand...

Alfred S. Wall (American, 1825-1896) Untitled (Building the Railroad), 1859 Oil on canvas 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches Signed and dated lower left For Christmas, 2008, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette featured Alfred Wall's painting, Old Saw Mill from the collection of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, PA. It was painted in 1851 in the town of Lilly, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny Mountains. The newspaper description stated that "though the saw mill is long gone, it still conveys all the warmth and coziness of this time of year. The article, written by Patricia Lowry, continued: At first glance, Alfred S. Wall's painting of a saw mill in snowy woods triggers nostalgia for the coziness of a log cabin, the smell of a wood-burning fire and the warming of chilled hands and feet beside it. But as sentimental as it seems on the surface, Mr. Wall's painting has a deeper and unexpected context. This is more than a painting about sled-riding children and early industry planted in the middle of virgin forest. Intended or not, this is a painting about conquering the great divide of the Allegheny Mountains. For the third consecutive year, the Post-Gazette features a winter-scene painting on the cover of the Christmas Day newspaper. This year's painting, Old Saw Mill, was selected by co-publisher and editor-in-chief John Robinson Block and executive editor David Shribman during a visit to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. Mr. Wall, listed as a portrait painter in the 1850 census, was about 26 when he painted Old Saw Mill in 1851. The self-taught artist was born in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, to William and Lucy Wall, who'd emigrated from England around 1820. An artistic sensibility ran in the family: William was a sculptor who carved ornate tombstones here; Alfred's children, A. Bryan and Bessie, were landscape painters, as was Alfred's older brother, William Coventry Wall. For more than a century the Walls formed a prominent art dynasty in Pittsburgh, and Alfred, eventually a partner in the city's most prestigious art gallery, was well known as a painter, dealer and restorer. In Old Saw Mill, two wood cutters, each holding an axe, meet outside the mill; one points in the direction of the forest. On the other side of the stream, one child pulls another down the hillside on a sled. Just behind the hill's slope, the roof of a building appears, perhaps the home of the sawyer. The luminous, late afternoon light comes from the northwest, casting lengthening shadows on the snow under a darkening sky. The saw mill in "Old Saw Mill" likely would have been impossible to track down had Mr. Wall, presumably, not written on the back of the painting: "old saw mill near Jct. 4, Portage RR, Pa." "There was no Junction 4," said Mike Garcia, park ranger at the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, about 90 miles east of Pittsburgh near Gallitzen, Cambria County. "But there was an Inclined Plane No. 4 at Lilly, and there was a saw mill there." In fact, there were at least six saw mills at Lilly over the years, said longtime resident Jim Salony, president of the Lilly-Washington Historical Society. But when he saw an image of the painting, Mr. Salony had no trouble coming up with a location. While there are no known photographs of the saw mill, he believes it stood near the intersection of Portage and Washington streets, next to Bear Rock Run. Mr. Salony, retired academic dean at Mount Aloysius College, didn't know exactly when the mill was torn down, but it's been gone since at least the late 1800s. He was pleased to learn of the painting, even though that knowledge came too late for inclusion in a new book about Lilly, The Spirit of a Community, for which he served as primary author and editor. It runs to more than 700 pages. For a little town -- population 869 last year -- Lilly has a lot of history. Nestled in a bowl on the western slope of the Allegheny Mountains about 3 miles south of Cresson, Lilly was first settled in 1806 by Joseph Meyer and his family, who named their 332-acre land patent Dundee. Although the Meyers had left by 1811, other settlers followed, but the community didn't flourish until the 1830s, when the Allegheny Portage Railroad began its 23-year-run through the town. For 200 years the Alleghenies had stood as an impediment to trade and travel between Pittsburgh and the east. A canal from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh would change that and compete with New York's Erie Canal. But a portage railroad would have to be built, on which teams of horses would lead the canal boats over the mountains. Engineer Sylvester Welch began his surveying from the small settlement at Lilly. The railroad would require 10 inclined planes, some quite steep, between Hollidaysburg and Johnstown. To build it, trees had to be cut along a 120-foot-wide right-of-way for 36 miles, along which track and engine houses had to be built. William Brown, who owned the saw mill on Bear Rock Run, built at least one of the engine houses at Inclined Plane No. 4; an 1834 contract also included fencing the dwelling lots at the head and foot of the plane. Lilly is located at what was the foot of Inclined Plane No. 4., giving the community one of its early informal names, Foot of Four. Named in 1883 for Richard Lilly, who'd completed the grist mill there, Lilly had another early name: Hemlock, so dubbed by a Portage Railroad traveler who smelled the bark stripped from the trees at the saw mill. Because there isn't another Allegheny Portage Railroad location like it, where a cut in the mountains opens into a bowl, Mr. Salony thinks it was Lilly that Charles Dickens wrote about following his trip from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh on the Pennsylvania Canal in late March 1842, describing what he saw after emerging from "the bottom of the cut": "It was very pretty while traveling, to look down into a valley full of light and softness, catching glimpses through the tree-tops of scattered cabins; children running to the doors; dogs bursting out to bark, who we could see without hearing; terrified pigs scampering homeward; families sitting out in their rude gardens; cows gazing upward with a stupid indifference; men in their shirt-sleeves looking on at their unfinished houses, planning out to-morrow's work; and we riding onward, high above them, like a whirlwind." To get to Lilly, Mr. Wall may have taken the Pennsylvania Canal from his home in Allegheny City, now the North Side. He'd married young, at 21, to Sarah Carr in 1846, the same year he began his career as an artist. By 1880 they were living in a brick townhouse at 104 (later 814) Arch St., now demolished. Across the river in Pittsburgh he shared a studio at 67 Fourth Ave. with his brother William; they later moved to Burke's Building, today the city's oldest office building at 209-211 Fourth. But often they worked outdoors, sometimes as part of the colony of artists that grew up around painter George Hetzel beginning in the late 1860s at Scalp Level...

Kabuki is an original artwork realized in 1864 by Utagawa Kunisada II (1823 1880). Scene at night in a snowy forest, the actor Ichikawa Kodanji in the ro...

Edward LADELL Picture Size: 20 x 16" (50 x 40cm) Outside Frame Size: 26 x 22" (65 x 55cm) An exquisite example of Ladell's painting. Signed with his traditional stylistic monogram,...

A painting that refers to Our Lady Eleusa, also known as the "Mother of God of Tenderness," which shows an undeniable feeling of affection and tenderness between mother and child. Th...

The Bat is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published i...

Eugene Delacroix, After by Eugene LeRoux, French (1798 - 1863) - Marphise (Tire de l'Arioste), Year: circa 1850, Medium: Lithograph, Image Size: 10.5 x 13 inches, Size: 19.25 x 2...

Exquisite original watercolor of Warwick Castle by the famous British artist, Edmund John Niermann. Signed lower right. Circa 1850. Condition is very ...

Vampire Spectre is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was pub...

Actor in onnagata role accompanied by a kamuro is an original artwork realized in the 1850s by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (January 1, 1798– April 14, 1861). Woodcut Print. Sign.: Ichiyusai ...

Ménagerie Parisienne is an Original Lithograph realized by Gustave Doré (1832-1883). Very good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (50x62.5 ...

The Bat is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published i...

Victorian 19th-century portrait of a seated English Flower Seller. This is a very pretty classic English Victorian Genre painting. The style ...