18th Century and Earlier Art

Pierre Patel the Elder

Mid-17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings

Oil

Pierre PATEL (1605-1676, French) Landscape with Classical Ruins Second half of the 17th century oil on canvas signed (lower left) 23 x 32 inches unframed; 27 x 36 inches, inc. f...

Thomas Beach

18th Century Portrait Paintings

Oil

Portrait of a Girl in a White Dress with Finch and Music Box from an artist in the circle of Thomas Beach. A particularly fine, large and highly decorative late eighteenth century p...

(After) Hans Holbein The Younger

Early 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Oil

MAGNIFICENT IMPORTANT OIL PORTRAIT PAINTING OF KING HENRY VII(7TH) Estimated Dateline Early 17th Century. RARE SURVIVING COPY (LATER CUT DOWN) AFTER HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGERS WHITE...

(Follower of) Sir Godfrey Kneller

Late 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Oil

Rare Full Length Royal Portrait of Princess Anne of Denmark (1683-1702) Aged 18-21 Years (Last of the Stuart Dynasty) Follower of Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) & Later Queen Anne of En...

(Manner of) William (Guillim) Scrots

Late 17th Century Mannerist Portrait Paintings

Oil

I am delighted to offer this rare oil on panel of King Edward VI (1537-1553) as a young child of around 10 years of age which has been painted with great detail as a full length pass...

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15th Century and Earlier Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures

Stone

Female Figure (A devotee with jewelled headdress, necklace; folded hands) This is a fine example of Gandhara sculpture with exceptional provenance and exhibition history. The Kingdo...

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15th Century and Earlier Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures

Stone

Buddha sitting in Lotus Throne in Dhyana Mudra with Halo, this is a fine example of Gandhara Sculpture with exceptional provenance and exhibition history. The Kingdom of Gandhara, w...

Robert Surtees The Elder

Late 18th Century Realist Portrait Paintings

Oil

A Fine 18thc Large Scale Oil Painting on canvas depicting a group of bearded Bandits drinking ale and smoking their clay pipes in their encampment in Dalby Forest near Mainsforth Hal...

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Early 18th Century Academic Landscape Prints

signed print of a clipper ship mid century

Florence, late 16th century

16th Century Old Masters Paintings

Oil Pastel

The Annunciation Florence, late 16th century Antique painting on wooden table cm. 44 x 49 with frame cm. 55 x 60 This panel, made in the late 16th century by a Florentine painter b...

Homann Heirs

1730s Landscape Prints

Engraving

Engraved plan on three sheets, WITH FINE ORIGINAL HAND-COLOUR, small area of restoration at lower left corner. A handsome plan of London, extending from Grosvenor Square in the west...

Salvador Dalí

1790s Impressionist Figurative Prints

Etching

Etching, “El arcabuz produce monstrous”, Goya". Signed in pencil on the lower margin and signed in the plate with "Goya" printed below the image. Numbered 148/200 in pencil . On BFT ...

Sir Godfrey Kneller

1690s Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Oil

This work is a Pair. See our other accompanying portaint of Mr. Bagnel Provenance: Private collection Inscribed Mrs. Bagnal Lower left Godfrey Kneller and some possible backgro...

Basilius Besler

1710s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Copper, Engraving

Magnificent plates from "Hortus Eystettensis", one of the earliest and most famous works in the field. The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record of the flowers grown in the great...

Joseph Friedrich Leopold

1710s Baroque Figurative Prints

Etching

The complete set, a spectacular example heightened with gold. Joseph Friedrich Leopold (1668-1726) was a publisher, engraver, printseller and bookseller in Augsburg, taking over the...

Mary Beale

17th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings

Oil

Portrait of Charles Fox, half-length within a feigned oval cartouche, wearing a lace jabot. oil on canvas in a Lely style giltwood frame. c.1690. Charles Fox was an English politici...

Antonio Visentini

1790s Old Masters Landscape Prints

Engraving

The most widely known and the best of the many engravings after Canalatto's views of Venice. They were originally commissioned by Consul Smith and based on paintings by Canaletto. Th...

Antonio Visentini

1790s Old Masters Landscape Prints

Engraving

Area S. Josephi, cum Templo S. Nicolai ad Castrum (Plate no II). This scene shows a relatively quiet backwater of Venice, in the eastern district of Castello. The central focal poin...

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18th Century Old Masters Animal Paintings

Canvas, Oil

Circle of Henry Thomas Alken (British, 1785 – 1851) Tally ho Oil on canvas 10.1/8 x 14.1/8 in. (25.7 x 36 cm.) This rustic scene of a huntsman waving to his friends to show them th...

Adriaen van Diest (circle)

17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings

Oil

A delightful Dutch Old Master oil on canvas by circle of Adriaen van Diest, depicting an Italian Capriccio marine with widening riverscape with boats, people and animals in the fore...

Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun (circle)

18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Oil

A fine French Old Master oil on canvas which dates to circa 1770 and is attributed to the circle of Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun. A beautiful 18th century portrait in a fine gilded oval f...

Dean Wolstenholme the Elder

1780s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Oil

Peak Moment of Drama is captured. Work has great physical presence in person and presents very well as a signature piece. canvas: 36"w x 50.75"w overall (with frame): 42"h x 56.5...

Domenico Piola the Elder

1670s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Oil

Allegoria della Primavera (Allegory of Springtime) Italian Genoese Baroque Old Master Oil Painting on Canvas, c. 1670 Entourage de Domenico Piola. Domenico Piola the Elder (1627-1...

Cornelis van Haarlem

Early 1600s Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Oil

"Portrait of Dirck Volckertsz" Dutch Mannerist Golden Age Old Master Oil Painting on Chamfered Oak Panel, Cornelis van Haarlem, circa 1603 "Portrait of Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert"...

Peter Paul Rubens

17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Oil

The Hunting of the Calydonian Boar (The Hunt of Meleagros and Atalanta) The Hunting of the Calydonian Boar, suiveur de Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque Old Master oil on origi...

Claude Joseph Vernet and studio

1740s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Couple sur une colline rocheuse au-dessous d'une rivière - Couple on a Rocky Hill Couple sur une colline rocheuse au-dessous d'une rivière (Couple on a Rocky Hillside above a River)...

Antoon Van Dyck (antwerp 1599 - London 1641) School Of

17th Century Old Masters Paintings

Oil

Antoon Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641), School of Portrait of a Young Gentleman First half of the seventeenth century Oil on canvas, 72 x 62 cm with frame 94 x 64 cm The Pain...

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16th Century Figurative Paintings

Oil

Christ on the cross with the Virgin and the Evangelists A Flemish painting from the 16th century. Oil on Panel - Oak

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Il Guercino)

17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Oil

Madonna con Gesù Bambino e San Giovanni Battista - Madonna with Christ Child Madonna con Gesù Bambino e San Giovanni Battista, c. 1651 (Madonna with the Christ Child and John the ...

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1620s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Oil

The Flight into Egypt 1620 Flemish Baroque Old Master Oil Painting on Copper The Flight into Egypt, Flemish Baroque Old Master Oil on Copper, c. 1620. Entourage de Jacob Jordaens P...

Antonio Visentini

1790s Old Masters Landscape Prints

Engraving

Platea S. Mariae Formosae, ejusque Templum (Plate no VIII). "Self-styled as painter, architect, and engraver, Visentini enjoyed a long career in Venice where he was connected to th...

Antonio Visentini

1790s Old Masters Landscape Prints

Engraving

Area P.P. Societatis Jesu cum eorum Templo (Plate no IX). "Self-styled as painter, architect, and engraver, Visentini enjoyed a long career in Venice where he was connected to the ...

Antonio Visentini

1790s Old Masters Landscape Prints

Engraving

Platea S. Stephani ad Meridiem (plate no VII). Campo Santo Stefano, here depicted at midday, is in the principal sestiere of San Marco, one of the six divisions of Venice, near the ...

Anton Schranz

Late 18th Century Landscape Paintings

Oil

ANTON SCHRANZ VIEW OF PORT MAHON, MINORCA oil on canvas 16¼ x 24½ in. (41.2 x 62.3 cm) Anton Schranz specialised in painting landscapes and seascapes in the Mediterranean. He lived ...

Antonio Visentini

1790s Old Masters Landscape Prints

Engraving

Area S. Rocchi cum ejusdem Templo et Schola (plate no V). The Scuola Grande di San Rocco, and the obliquely viewed church of San Rocco, were both founded in response to the plague, ...

Antonio Visentini

1790s Old Masters Landscape Prints

Engraving

Engraving after Canaletto, 405 x 555 mm. The piazza San Paolo, or more familiarly San Polo, is the second largest in Venice after the piazza San Marco. Originally open grazing land...

Francis Swaine

18th Century Landscape Paintings

Oil

Maritime painting by Francis Swaine A FRIGATE AND A ROYAL YACHT AT SEA signed 'F Swaine' (lower left) oil on canvas 9 x 13 in. (22.9 x 33 cm)

Thomas Whitcombe

Late 18th Century Landscape Paintings

Oil

A classic Maritime painting by Thomas Whitcombe, of a large two-decker ship off the coast with small sailing boats and sailors on the shore. A TWO-DECKER OFF THE COAST signed with in...

Thomas Whitcombe

Late 18th Century Landscape Paintings

Oil

THOMAS WHITCOMBE A MERCHANTMAN IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL oil on canvas 21 x 29½ in. (53.3 x 75 cm)

Christoph Trew

1750s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Engraving

Fine images from Trew's 'Plantae Selectae', one of the greatest of all eighteenth-century botanical books, drawn by the greatest of eighteenth-century botanical artists, George Dion...

Christoph Trew

1750s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Engraving

Fine images from Trew's 'Plantae Selectae', one of the greatest of all eighteenth-century botanical books, drawn by the greatest of eighteenth-century botanical artists, George Dion...

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann

1730s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Engraving, Mezzotint

An attractive collection of fine plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing. Weinmann (1683-1741) was a Regensburg apothecary who organized the publication of Phy...

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16th Century Renaissance Portrait Paintings

Fine antique British portrait of a gentleman from the Tudor period. We date the painting to the early 19th century, though it is possibly earlier. Adding to the paintings appeal, a...

Pierre Joseph Buchoz

1780s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Engraving

Collection coloriée des plus belles variétés de Tulipes qu'on cultive dans les Jardins des Fleuristes. 6 engraved hand-colored plates of tulips, 33 x 20.5 cm (13 x 8 in), in matchin...

Caspar Netscher

1660s Portrait Paintings

Oil

Portrait of a Young Lady Playing the Dulcimer. Circle of Caspar Netscher (1639-1684) Highly desirable 17th century portrait of a young girl, perched, full length, upon a flower stre...

Isaac Fuller

17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Oil

Fine and highly desirable portrait of a Lady in a Back Bonnet circa 1650. Painted by an artist in the circle of Isaac Fuller. Oil on canvas, in an ebonised frame with gilt slip. T...

Unknown

16th Century Portrait Paintings

Oil

Oil on copper presented in a vintage frame. On the back of the painting there is an attribution to Carracci and a two sealing waxes belonging to the Piccolomini collection (a cross s...

Unknown

Early 17th Century Landscape Paintings

Oil

Oil on canvas. The painting comes with expertise attributable to Giacinto Mercanti, called 'Lo Spolverini' (1657-1734). In our opinion, the good quality and the lines are more typica...

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Early 17th Century Portrait Paintings

Oil

The Holy Family with Angels, oil on copper in octagonal frame, early XVII Century. Surrounding the Child sleeping in Mary's arms we find St, Joseph and several adoring angels. In the...

Unknown

Early 17th Century Landscape Paintings

Oil

Oil on board. On the back, a scroll saying 'Collection Lazzaroni, vente à Nice 16-21 juin 1952' with reference to the auctioning of the baron Michel Ange Lazzaroni's famous collectio...

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18th Century Landscape Paintings

Oil

Landscape with ruins and figures, oil on board. High quality figures and perspective depth through light. 18th century. Presented in late 17th century Roman frame.

Pierre-antoine Demachy

Mid-18th Century Baroque Paintings

Oil

Pierre-Antoine Demachy (Paris 1723 - 1807) Architectural capriccio oil painting on canvas 92 x 70 cm Criticism and expertise of Prof. Giancarlo Sestieri (Rome [...] With regard to ...

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1750s Old Masters Animal Paintings

Canvas, Oil

18th century old master school painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1750. Unsigned. Displayed in a giltwood frame. Image size, 26"L x 18"H, overall 31"L x 23"H.

Unknown

1750s Old Masters Animal Paintings

Canvas, Oil

18th century old master school painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1750. Unsigned. Displayed in a giltwood frame. Image size, 18"L x 20"H, overall 26"L x 28"H.

Victor Jean Nicolle

1780s Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Brown ink and watercolor by the well known French artist, Victor Jean Nicolle. Circa 1787-1789 when Nicolle was in Italy. Signed lower left. No apparent foxing; very slight toning ...

Nathaniel Dance

18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Oil

Pictures of Innocence A pair of fine and highly decorative portraits of children from the Georgian period, from an artist in the circle of Nathaniel Dance (1735 - 1811) They are pre...

Unknown

18th Century Old Masters Animal Paintings

Oil

18th century Italian school, birds, ducks and ornamental fowl in a classical Italian landscape with fountains. Oil on canvas in an 18th century giltwood frame. Provenance: Private ...

Rembrandt van Rijn

1630s Old Masters Figurative Prints

Laid Paper, Etching

An original etching on laid paper by Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoom van Rijn (1606-1669) titled “The Tribute Money”, c. 1635. A later impression of New Hollstein’s second state (...