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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engraving of Fruit in a Decalcomania Frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engraving of Fruit in a Decalcomania Frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
Price is for one framed print. Prints sold individually.
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
17th century By Dutch Maestro Still life with bird, carp & lobster Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
17th Century Dutch Maestro
Title: Still life with bird, carp & lobster
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 116 x 97 cm - with frame 153 x 133,5 cm
Antique frame "a casset...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
George Edwards, Engravings of Parrots, published by Seligmann.
Located in Richmond, GB
PRICE IS FOR EACH FRAMED PRINT
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with origina...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
1700's Venetian Old Master Ink Drawing St. Marks Lion Angelic Figures Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Lion of St. Mark
Venetian Old Master, mid 18th century
circle of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venetian, 1696-1770)
ink and watercolour drawing on paper mounted on a card frame, unf...
Category
Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
$1,262 Sale Price
30% Off
George Edwards: c18th Engravings of Birds in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: "A History of Uncommon Birds", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural Histo...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
"Da Tour Boileau (Beauvais)"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
François Boucher (1703–1770) – "Da Tour Boileau (Beauvais)"
Artist: François Boucher (attributed)
Title: "Da Tour Boileau (Beauvais)"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Framed Dimensions: 125 ...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Allegorical Mythological Summer"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Allegorical Mythological Scene
Unidentified Artist
17th–18th Century
Oil on canvas
Framed: 149 x 196 cm
Canvas: 131 x 180 cm
Description
This remarkable Baroque/Rococo-period oil...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Very Fine 18th Century Italian Oil Painting Nude Figures in Classical Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Figures in Ancient Landscape
Italian School, 18th century
oil on panel,
painting: 9 x 12 inches
provenance: private collection, Paris
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
French School, Portrait of a Young Lady, Actress, Louis XIV sculpted frame, 1700
Located in Greven, DE
French School,
Portrait of a Young Lady, perhaps an actress
Oval
Louis XIV sculpted and gilded frame
French Art, Roccoco Art
The oval portrait of a young woman measures 61 by 50,5 cm canvas sight size and its 18th century oak carved and gilded frame...
Category
Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowering Digitalis Plant: 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "Digitalis rubra floribus albis maculatis. Digitalis angustifolia flore fe...
Category
Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
"Gipsy Musicians"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Kaspar Waldmann (1657–1720) – "Gypsy Musicians"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 149 cm (unframed), 102 x 151 cm (framed)
Provenance: Private collection
Historical Context &...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chrysanthemums and the Rising Moon
Located in Middletown, NY
An image that originally appeared in an astrological calendar for the year 1766.
Tokyo: Shuei-Sha, 1766. Woodblock print in colors printed on laid mulberry paper, 10 3/4 x 7 7/8 in...
Category
Edo 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
A 17th c. Italian school, Capriccio with the Colosseum, circle of V. Codazzi
Located in PARIS, FR
A capriccio with the Colosseum in Roma
17th century Italian school
Circle of Viviano Codazzi (1604-1670)
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: h. 35.43 in, w. 51.18 in
Modern 17th century style ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of A Lady, Stilte Family, 17th Century by Jan Cornelisz VERSPRONCK
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Lady, Stilte Family, 17th Century
by Jan Cornelisz VERSPRONCK (1597-1662)
Large 17th Century Dutch Golden Age portrait of a lady identified as a member of the Stilte family, oil on cradled panel. Excellent quality and condition portrait of the lady wearing a ruff and cap with elaborate lace work and a gilded embroided dress...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
$20,614 Sale Price
20% Off
Painting on stone (slate), 17th century: Salome and the Beheading of Saint John
Located in Firenze, IT
Painting on stone (slate), 17th century: Salome and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Italian school
Technique: Oil on slate
Period: 17t...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Stone, Slate
The Column of Marcus Aurelius
Located in Chicago, IL
A fine impression with the address of the artist (Autore, Strada Felice) and the price (Paoli 2 1/2) as well as Hind Watermark no.3 (Fleur-de-lys-in-a-Double-Circle), all correspondi...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor
Disegno figurativo fiammingo ad acquerello del XVIII secolo, scena di genere
Located in Florence, IT
Sullo sfondo di un paesaggio dai tratti centro-settentrionali europei-in cui si riconoscono una cappella e il profilo di una città dagli alti pinnacoli-si svolge una scena di svago, ...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Colonel Mellish's Spaniels, Mother & Puppies, 18th Century
By Henry Bernard Chalon
Located in Blackwater, GB
Colonel Mellish's Spaniels, Mother & Puppies, 18th Century
attributed to HENRY BERNARD CHALON (1770-1849)
Large 18th Century portrait of Colonel Mellish's hunting spaniels, mother ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
$3,788 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait Of A Wet Nurse & Baby, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Wet Nurse & Baby, 17th Century
Rare & Unusual English School Portrait
Large 17th Century English School portrait of a wet nurse and baby breastfeeding, oil on canva...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$10,028 Sale Price
20% Off
George Edwards, Engravings of Parrots, published by Seligmann.
Located in Richmond, GB
PRICE IS FOR EACH FRAMED PRINT
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with origina...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
Marie Aubry as Andromeda in Lully’s Opera Persée – French School, late 17th c.
Located in Firenze, IT
Singer in the Role of Chained Andromeda, Possibly from Persée by Lully (1682)
Marie Aubry (c. 1650 – after 1684), renowned soprano of the Académie Royale de Musique and the original...
Category
French School 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Accent en Rose
Located in Manchester, GB
Wassily Kandinsky, Accent en Rose, 1926/2021
Image size: 26 × 21 cm
Framed size: 38 × 32 cm
‘Accent on rose’ was produced by Wassily Kandinsky in 1926 whilst he was working at a r...
Category
Contemporary 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Giclée
Antique Italian Terracotta Figure Of The Child Hercules, Rome, 18th Century
Located in Milan, IT
After Alessandro Algardi (Bologna, 1585 - Roma,1654)
YOUNG HERCULES, Italy, 18th Century
terracotta
44 x 25 x 25 cm
17 1/4 x 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 in
This lovely sculpture represents the young Hercules, seated with his legs crossed, gently holding a bird with his right hand, raised in the air, while supporting his own weight with his left hand.
The artwork refers to the notorious Roman sculpture of the young Hercules killing the snakes sent by Hera, exhibited at the Capitoline Museums in Rome. Academics have identified the young emperor Caracalla or, more recently, Annio Vero, son of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, in the portrait of the sculpture.
During the 16th Century there has been an increasing interest of patrons towards the theme of mythology and several acclaimed Italian sculptors worked on the creation of sculptures and depictions of Roman Gods.
Among them, the distinguished baroque artist Alessandro Algardi worked on the restoration of several ancient sculptures...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Terracotta
Amida, a Deity of Japan – English School, 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Amida, a Deity of Japan; One plate from A new and complete collection of voyages and travels containing all that have been remarkable from the earliest period to the present time Vol...
Category
English School 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Portrait Of Mary Of Modena, Queen Of England, 17th Century Studio Of SIR PETER
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Mary Of Modena, Queen Of England, 17th Century
Studio Of SIR PETER LELY (1618-1680)
Huge 17th century English Old Master portrait of Mary Of Modena, Queen Of England, o...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Assumption of the Virgin
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Unidentified collector’s mark “D.G.R,” lower right (Lugt 757b)
Wilhelm Suida (1877–1959), New York; by descent to:
Robert L. and Bertina Suida Manning, New York, until 1996
Private Collection, USA
This impressive drawing of the Assumption of the Virgin is the work of the Genoese artist Giovanni Battista Paggi. The son of a nobleman, Paggi received a humanist education and was a self-taught artist. According to Paggi’s first biographer, Raffaele Soprani, it was only after encountering Luca...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
The New Testament /// Old Masters Biblical Religious Engraving Dutch Angel Art
By Michael Burghers
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Michael Burghers (Dutch, c.1647/1648-1727)
Title: "The New Testament"
Portfolio: Holy Bible
*Signed by Burghers in the plate (printed signature) lower left
Year: 1680
Medium: Original Etching and Engraving with recent Hand-Color on watermarked laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: John Baskett, London?, UK
Publisher: Moses Pitt, Peter Parker, and Thomas Guy, London?, UK
Sheet size (irregular margins): 17.25" x 10.5"
Image size: 14.75" x 9.5"
Condition: Uneven trimming and light edgewear in margins. One small tear entering image lower right which has been skillfully repaired with added backing paper with archival tape from verso. It is otherwise a strong impression in very good condition with strong colors
Very rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Cotswolds, UK. Comes from the 1685 "Holy Bible" portfolio. John Baskett was deemed printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, for Great Britain and to the University of Oxford. Large unidentified watermark within center of sheet. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the British Museum in London, UK.
In the foreground, John the Evangelist, holding a pen and writing...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Etching, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Female Head, Andrea del Sarto, Sphere of, post 1522
Located in Milan, IT
Tempera on wood depicting a half-length female figure;
she wears a red dress over a light-colored tunic, while a
green drape rests on her right shoulder. The red hair is
tied up with a central parting and is partly covered by a
white headdress; the full face has an absorbed
expression: a thoughtful gaze, arched eyebrows and
slightly furrowed lips.
Presented in a frame made with parts of an ancient
larger frame.
Historical-critical analysis:
Our table in question is one of the numerous derivations
from a lost fresco by Andrea del Sarto...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Tempera
$22,586 Sale Price
20% Off
Johann Weinmann: c18th Botanical Engravings in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
A wonderful selection of hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand- made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Joha...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Statue of Louis XIV - Original etching, Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Jacques Rigaud (c. 1671/91-1754)
Statue of Louis XIV
Original etching
Signed in the plate
On Arches vellum 38 x 56.5 cm (14.9 x 22.2 inch)
INFORMATION : Published by the Chalcograp...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Pair of Italian 18' century Paintings with Gardens
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of Italian 18' century paintings , oil on canvas with Venetian Palace gardens , antiques sculptures and various figures .
Measurements with frame cm 75 x101
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Family Portrait Of Mrs Spencer & Children, 18th Century
By Sir William Beechey
Located in Blackwater, GB
Family Portrait Of Mrs Spencer & Children, 18th Century
circle of William BEECHEY (1753-1839)
Huge 18th Century English School portrait of a lady trad...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$9,471 Sale Price
20% Off
Ascension day in Venice by Louis de Caullery (1582-1621) 17th c. Flemish school
Located in PARIS, FR
Ascension Day in Venice
17th century Antwerp School
Louis de Caullery (1582-1621)
Oil on oak panel
Dimensions: h. 12.8 in, w. 23.03 in (h. 32,5 cm, w. 58,5 c...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oak, Oil
Danzig, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - 1572-1617
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., Dantziat, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617.
Image dimensions: cm 32.8 x 47.9; dimensions: cm 42 x 55.3; passep...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Due ritratti figurativi aristocratici pastelli su pergamena primi del XIX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Sul cartoncino applicato nella cornice è riportata l'annotazione, a penna e in grafia Kurrent, "Urgroßvater Ludwig Fr(ei)h(e)r(r) von Keller" "Urgroßmutter ...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Parchment Paper, Pastel, Cardboard
The Lamentation of Christ, 16th Century Oil Old Master
Located in London, GB
Circle of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio
1483 - 1561
Oil on panel
Image size: 20 ½ x 16 ½ inches (52 x 42 cm)
Handmade contemporary style gilt frame
The lamentation of Christ was one of the most popular scenes depicted in European art from the 11th to the 18th century. Depicting the lamentation or pieta from the Italian word for ‘Pity’ of Christ with Jesus’s mother Mary cradling his body.
Christ is depicted nude, wearing only a blueish loincloth around his waist, a horizontal scar marking his rib cage. His head and torso are held upright, and his eyes are closed, his right arm lays to his side as does his left. Standing behind him, is the Virgin Mary, outfitted in her traditional dress of a robe with a white veil. She stands behind Christ and bends slightly, looking looking away from Christ to something that has caught her attention, her right hand holding his shoulder. Her left-hand carefully holds his arm.
This work is quite unusual with Mary . This stunning work jumps out with its dark background and strong flesh colours.
Ridolfo Ghirlandaio was the son of the eminent painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. Following his father’s death in 1494, when he was just eleven years old, Ridolfo is thought to have continued his training with his uncle Davide, who had taken over the Ghirlandaio workshop. Vasari noted that Ridolfo also studied with Fra Bartolommeo...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor
Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engraving of Fruit in a Decalcomania Frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
ANTIQUE ITALIAN MARBLE BUST OF MELPOMENE, MUSE OF TRAGEDY
Located in Milan, IT
ITALIAN MARBLE BUST OF MELPOMEN, MUSE OF TRAGEDY
Late 18th Century
inscribed to base Melpomen
marble
height 66 cm
height 26 in
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Marble
Pair of landscapes Painted by Antonio Francesco Peruzzini
Located in Milan, IT
Antonio Francesco Peruzzini (Ancona, 1643/1646 - Milan, 1724)
Rural landscape with river and village center
Rural landscape with river and tower
(2) Oil on canvas, cm 108 x 62
Expert opinion Prof. Emilio Negro
Recognizable in the present pair of paintings is the hand of what Mina Gregori called "the most original and path-breaking landscape painter to emerge in the late seventeenth century," namely Antonio Francesco Peruzzini. Finally identified by Arslan in 1959 as such a "Perugino," author of a St. Sebastian in a private Milanese collection, Peruzzini has in recent times been reevaluated from his former qualification as a mere subordinate of Lissandrino (Alessandro Magnasco), in comparison with whom he turns out to be an excellent coadjutor and original landscape painter. A distant mountainous horizon, of frozen vigor, is proposed in both canvases interspersed with a spindly tree in the background that screws swirlingly to the sky. The anti-academicism and nonconformism that characterized Peruzzini's entire career appear evident here and justify in retrospect his choice of such figurative collaborators as Magnasco and Sebastiano Ricci...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
A late 17th Italian carved limewood figure of Mermaid, circle of Filippo Parodi
Located in PARIS, FR
A late 17th c. Italian carved figure of Mermaid,
Circle of Filippo Parodi (Genoa, 1630 – July 22, 1702)
Dimensions: h. 29.13 in, w. 30.31 in, p. 18.9 in (at the base)
Magnificent Italian Baroque sculpture depicting a mermaid seated on the rock.
All the virtuosity of the sculptor unfolds in this carved group. The fantastic creature is featured seated, the upper part of the body darting forward, the head looking upwards. Sophisticated hairstyle with rows of pearls intertwined in her hair, her loose locks fly in the wind and bring movement to the whole sculpture.
The wide-open eyes with hollowed-out pupils make it possible to follow the mermaid's gaze, towards the sky. The half-open mouth further magnifies this bewitching and seductive attitude.
Its long double tail ending in fins wraps on either side of a rocky mound strewn with objects evoking the underwater world: seashells and shells, branches of coral.
The ornamental richness combined with the great care taken in its execution make it a work in which the splendor of Italian Baroque art unfolds in such characteristic scenic movement.
The composition betrays a strong influence from Filippo Parodi, the leader of Genoese Baroque sculpture, and points to an artist from his circle.
Our sculpture was probably part of a decorative monumental palace.
The iconographic theme evoking the marine world finds its application in the numerous fountains and artificial grottos, designed in Italian palaces at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Giacomo Filippo Parodi (Genoa 1630 – July 22, 1702) was an Italian Baroque sculptor of the Genoese school, who introduced Bernini's aesthetic to Genoa.
In his youth fathers a first apprenticeship with a carpenter, he went to Rome where he became a pupil of Bernini.
He had the opportunity to admire in person the works and style of the French sculptor Pierre Puget...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Wood
$21,145 Sale Price
20% Off
Italian Baroque religious figurative painting of the 17th century oil on canvas
Located in Florence, IT
Painted with gilt wood frame, 58 x 75 cm.
is the work of the painter couple Viviano Codazzi (Valsassina 1603-Rome 1670), who specialized as a quadraturist and landscape painter, and...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engraving of Fruit in a Decalcomania Frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
A Pair of 18th cent Dutch Still Life Watercolors Flowers in a Glass Vase 1797
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Cornelis Johannes de Bruyn (c. 1763- c. 1828)
A lovely pair of 18th century Dutch still life watercolors depicting assorted flowers in a glass vase.
Watercolor on paper
13 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches (34.6 x 24.4 cm) each
Framed: 23 x 18 1/2 inches each
Signed: J.C.J. Bruyn 1797 G
(Please request photos of the actual frame)
Johannes de Bruyn made his debut as a flower and fruit still life painter in the 19th
century in Utrecht. He was a student of the painter G.J. van Hulstyn. In our pair of flower still lifes, Cornelis Johannes de Bruyn has depicted two bouquets of colorful flowers set in a stone niche. They are delicate, highly detailed, realistic pieces painted in the vein of seventeenth century Old Master works. Each bouquet is arranged in a low glass bowl on a small marble pedestal...
Category
Dutch School 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
17th Century Old Head Flemish School Eyes Caravagism Oil on Canvas Yellow White
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting oil on panel depicting a strong and distinctive old man's head with dimensions of 36 x 28 cm without frame and 68 x 60 with frame coeval Flemish school of the second half of...
Category
Flemish School 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil, Board
$4,325 Sale Price
25% Off
La cuisinière écaillant le poisson dans une cuisine
Located in ROUEN, FR
VAN GRIEF Adrien dit GRIFF. (1670-1715). « La cuisinière écaillant le poisson dans une cuisine avec une très jolie nature morte au gibier, légumes et chiens ». Huile sur toile signée...
Category
French School 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
ESCUELA FLAMENCA SIGLO XVIII - VIRGEN CON NIÑO - ÓLEO COBRE
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Finísimo óleo sobre cobre de la Virgen con el Niño, de mediados del siglo XVIII.
Seguramente es Escuela Flamenca, gran calidad, va con un marco de madera y estuco dorado del siglo X...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
The Duchess of St. Albans: A 17th C. Portrait After a Kneller Painting
By (After) Sir Godfrey Kneller
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a 17th century engraved mezzotint portrait of the Duchess of St. Albans by John Smith, after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller. It was published in London by John Boydell in 1694.
The Duchess of St. Albans (1642-1712) was a woman named Diana de Vere. She was born in 1642, the daughter of Aubrey de Vere, the 20th Earl of Oxford. In 1662, she married Charles Beauclerk, the illegitimate son of King Charles II and his mistress, Nell Gwyn. As a result of her marriage, Diana became the Duchess of St. Albans, and she and Charles had several children together. Diana was known for her beauty and charm, and she was a prominent figure in the court of King Charles II. Despite her husband's illegitimate birth, Diana was highly respected in the royal court and was known for her intelligence and wit. She was a patron of the arts and supported many artists and writers of the time. Diana lived through a tumultuous period of English history, including the Great Fire of London and the Glorious Revolution, which saw King James II replaced by William of Orange. She died in 1712 at the age of 70 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Descendants of Diana and her husband, who was an illegitimate son of King Charles II, include Diana, Princess of Wales and her son William, Duke of Cambridge.
An author wrote of her: "The line of Vere, so long renown’d in arms,
Concludes with luster in St. Albans’s charms;
Her conquering eyes have made their race complete,
It rose in valor, and in beauty set."
This striking mezzotint engraving depicts Diana, Duchess of St Albans in a three-quarter length pose, standing, wearing loose flowing dress and a wrap. She has a very serene, calm appearance as she is looking straight at the viewer. There is a landscape of trees in the background. The print is adhered in the corners to an archival backing, which is itself adhered in the upper corners to a larger backing. The print is trimmed to just beyond the plate mark. There are areas of discoloration in the margins and in the inscription area, but the print is otherwise in very good condition. The sheet measures 14.5" high and 10" wide. This mezzotint is held by multiple museums and institutions, including The British Museum, The National Portrait Gallery London, The Fine Arts Museum of Boston, The Lewis Walpole Library at Yale, The Yale Center for British Art, The Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge and The National Galleries of Scotland. The original Kneller painting is part of the British Royal Collection Trust and hangs in the King's Private Dining Room at Hampton Court Palace.
Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) was a leading portrait painter of his time, particularly renowned for his depictions of the British aristocracy and royalty. He was born in Lübeck, Germany, and trained in Amsterdam under the painter Ferdinand Bol...
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18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Johannes Wesselius Portrait: An 18th Century Engraving/Etching by Houbraken
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an 18th century engraved and etched portrait of Johannes Wesselius by Jacobus Houbraken after a painting by Jan Maurits Quinkhard. It depicts a half-height image of Wesselius...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Saint Anthony Of Padua, 17th Century Circle of CARLO DOLCI (1616-1686)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Saint Anthony Of Padua, 17th Century
Circle of CARLO DOLCI (1616-1686)
17th century Italian Old Master depiction of Saint Anthony of Padua, oi...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,900 Sale Price
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Pair of Exceptional Italian Still Life Paintings of Flowers 18th century
Located in Rome, IT
- ANNA CATERINA GILLI or
GILLI Anna Caterina Turin 1729- 1751
Her paintings recorded in Turin as a decorative artist for the Royal Palace and the Stupinigi,
working in a simil...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
PPortrait Of Barbara Villiers (1640–1709), Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess o
Located in Blackwater, GB
PPortrait Of Barbara Villiers (1640–1709), Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland
Circle of Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680)
Huge 17th Cent...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$15,600 Sale Price
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ANCIENT RARE BRONZE FIGURE OF DIONYSOS (BACCHUS) ROMAN EMPIRE 1ST CENTURY AD
Located in Milan, IT
This bronze sculpture is an exquisitely detailed representation of the god Dionysos, whose cult was one of the most popular in ancient times. Here, the god is nude, with a mantle that gently lies on his right leg. He is holding a bunch of grapes with his left hand, and a rhyton (drinking horn) with the right. The god is youthful and joyfully gazes forwards, with a crown of ivy leaves set upon his long flowing hair.
These features clearly resemble those of the life-size Roman marble sculpture of Dionysos exhibited at the British Museum, acc. no. 1861,0725.2 .
This statuette was probably part of a larger composition and used as a decorative element applied to a piece of furniture. Its finely wrought details, as well as the attractive olive-green patina led to its inclusion in the collection of the Fitchburg Art Museum for thirty years.
PROVENANCE
English Private Collection (Sotheby’s, London 17-18 July 1985, Lot 204)
Royal Athena...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Bronze
Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engraving of Fruit in a Decalcomania Frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engraving of Fruit in a Decalcomania Frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Portrait of a King's Messenger, 18th Century English Artist, Original Frame
By Charles Philips
Located in London, GB
Charles Philips
1703 - 1747
Portrait of a King's Messenger
Oil on canvas
Image size: 35 ¾ x 28 inches
Original gilt frame
King's Messenger
The job of a King's Messenger was that of a diplomatic courier, hand-carrying important and secret documents around the world. Some say that the history of the sovereigns' messengers goes back to 1199, but the first known messenger was John Norman, who in 1485 earned 4d (1½ pence) per day for carrying the state papers of Richard III.
The silver greyhound on the messenger's badge dates back to Charles II. In 1660, during his exile at Breda, Netherlands, Charles II issued a declaration of amnesty to all those who had opposed him and his father. He used messengers to make his intentions known. In answer to the messenger's question "How will they know me?", Charles reached forward to a silver bowl on the table in front of him. This bowl, with four decorative greyhounds standing proud above the rim, was well known to all courtiers. Charles broke off a greyhound and gave it to the messenger as a guarantee that the message came from him. From that date, the King's Messenger always wore a silver greyhound around his neck.
Later, dating from George II or III, a badge with the Royal Arms in enamel, with the greyhound suspended beneath, was worn. A George III example of the King's Messenger Badge, pre 1800, sold for over £30,000 pounds some years ago.
The silver greyhounds were minted for each new reign, except the brief one of King Edward VIII. The sovereign's messengers were originally controlled by the Lord Chamberlain, being Messengers of the Great Chamber. When the Foreign Office was created in 1782, the messengers remained common to the three Secretaries of State.
Charles Philips was an English artist known for painting a number of portraits and conversation pieces for noble and Royal patrons in the mid-eighteenth century.
Philips was baptised in the combined parish of St Mildred, Poultry with St Mary...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Promenade to a Rout on a fair Evening
By Isaac Cruikshank
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Allen & West, 1797.
Engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 8 1/8 x 10 5/8 inches (213 x 270 mm), wide margins. Scattered toning, mat tone, and dog-e...
Category
English School 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Dipinto figurativo paesaggio fiammingo del XVII secolo
By Jans Frans van Bloemen
Located in Florence, IT
Il dipinto rientra nel corpus delle opere dell'importante paesaggista fiammingo Jan Frans Van Bloemen.
I Van Bloemen erano una famiglia di artisti, fra essi Jan Frans nato ad Anvers...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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