18th Century Art

This etching is a reverse copy after Dürer's original (ca. 1495-1496), executed in 18th century. Dürer's monogram at the bottom centre. Provenance: Aglietti Gallery, 1969 Passepar...

Roman Goddess "Dea Africa" Goddess Of The African Continent, 18th Century Italian School Large 18th Century Italian School portrait of the Roman Goddess "Dea Africa" holding a shac...

PORTRAIT OF COURT MUSICIAN JOSEF LEMBERGER (1667-1740) Hungarian School Large 18th Century Hungarian Portrait of court musician Josef Lemberger, oil on canvas. Superb quality and early important...

Mythological Scene is a mixed colored painting on board realized by Anonymous artist in the XVIII century. The artwork represents a mythological scene with women and cherubs. Inclu...

Collections: Commissioned by Andrew Corbett, husband of the sitter; The Venerable Stuart Corbett; Sir Stuart Corbett; By descent to 2002; Sotheby’s, London 21 March 2002, lot.104; Lowell Libson...

Angels is an etching realized by Nicholas Cochin in 1755. Good conditions with slight foxing and aged margins. Signed in the plate. The etching was ...

Two Mid 18th century hand coloured copper plate engravings of equestrian subjects by Johann Elias Ridinger. Initial signed 'in the plate' bottom right. Presented in fine gilt wood fr...

Merry Makers in the Tavern French School, 18th century oil on canvas canvas: 8 x 11 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: good and sound condition

Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, Plate No. 26; Cocoa plant, caterpillar, pupa, and butterflies. The Netherlands: 1705. En...

PAUL SANDBY (1731-1809) Study of a Coachman Pencil and brown wash, shaped Framed 16.5 by 9 cm., 6 ½ by 3 ½ in. (frame size 32 by 22.5 cm., 12 ½ by 9 in.) Provenance: Iolo Williams; Private collection. Exhibited: Sudbury, Gainsborough House, 1979. Sandby was born in Nottingham and moved to London in 1745. He and his brother Thomas first worked in the military drawing department at the Tower of London, later working on a military survey of new roads and bridges in the Highlands. On leaving this post in 1751 he spent some time living with his brother who had been appointed Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park. There he assisted his brother, and made a series of drawings of the castle, town and neighbourhood. In 1760 he settled in London where he contributed to the first exhibition of the Society of Artists where he regularly exhibited until the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, becoming one of its founder members. In same year he was appointed chief drawing...

Jacques Rigaud (c. 1671/91-1754) The Royal Square : A Glimpse of Old Paris Original etching Signed in the plate On Arches vellum 38 x 56.5 cm (14.9 x 22.2 inch) INFORMATION : Publi...

18th century French school in the manner of Simon-Mathurin Lantara. Seaside landscape with a vaporous and fine tone and a great lightness of touch. O...

Artist: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French, 1707-1788) Title: "Atraphaxis (Shrub); Cabomba (Carolina Fanwort)" (Hexandrie, Digynie, Plate 265) Portfolio: Histoire Naturel...

The architect is Paolo Posi, and the image is engraved by Giuseppe Vasi.  Etching on paper. Good condition. The title:  Celebratasi colla Machina della precedente sera la beneficenz...

Still Life Of Flowers in a Glass Vase including, Roses Chrysanthemums, Pinks 17th Century Large 18th Century Dutch old Master still life study of various flowers in a vase, oil on canvas. Magnificent study of various flowers including Roses Chrysanthemums, and Pinks in a glass vase beside peaches and grapes in a stone niche...

A classic terra cotta sculpture of Mercury signed Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785).

- 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...

18th century image of a priest presiding over a traditional Japanese nuptual ceremony. One plate from A new and complete collection of voyages and travels containing all that have b...

Thomas Smith of Derby Matlock High-Torr Landscape Oil on canvas 27 x 34.5 inches unframed 34 x 41.5 inches including frame Thomas Smith of Derby (died 12 September 1767) was an Engl...

Portrait of Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in Armour Oil on canvas, dating from the late 17th to the early 18th century. Original period frame in carved and gilded wo...

Painting oil on panel measuring 40 x 30 cm without frame and 48 x 38 with frame representing a great bishop of the Venetian school from the first half of the 18th century. Very curi...

Artist: Pierre Bulliard (French, 1742-1793) Title: "Le Pied de Griffon (Griffin's Foot)", "La Laureole (The Laurel)", and "Le Cabaret d'Europe (The European Cabaret)" Portfolio: Herb...

The Birth Of Venus from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Nicola Vanni in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions and aged. The etchin...

A Pair of Forest Landscapes with River and Boat in the Foreground Brinckmann Philipp Hieronymus Spire 1709 – 1761 Manheim Old Master Signature: Signed "Ph. Brinckm" bottom lower lef...

Portrait of a lady wearing a white gown with a red cloak, pearls in her hair and draped over one shoullder, standing beside a classical urn with a basket of flowers, c.1765. The portrait is believed to be a companion portrait of a John (1741-1816) or James (1751-1807) Durno which is housed in an identical frame. The sitter is possibly either the wife of John who was Janes Byres of Stonywood or John and James's sister Elizabeth. (James never married). The Durno family were based around the Aberdeen area of Scotland and John was an advocate in the area and then later a customs official in Jamaica. James was a successful timber merchant, spending time in the Baltic before being made His Majesty's Consul in Memel, Prussia. The portrait is likely to have been painted before Tilly travelled to India in 1768, when John, Jane and Elizabeth would have been in their twenties. We are gtrateful to Mark Beattie for sharing his family knowlege and research on the portrait. Provenance: With W. C. Beattie in the mid 19th century, and by descent through the family Private collection, Kent With thanks to Hugh Belsey who has confirmed this to be the work of Tilly Kettle from photographs. Tilly Kettle (1735-1786) was born in London, the third of six children by Henry Kettle (c.1704-c.1773), a coach painter, and his wife Ann. He attended William Shipley...

Colonial School, Mexico, XVIII Century "San Francisco Javier" Oil on canvas 18 x 14 in.

Portrait of a Privateer Francis Hayman 1708 - 1776 Oil on canvas Image size: 20 x 14 inches (51 x 36 cm) Contemporary style frame Provenance Charles Fleischmann Esq Here, a small ...

This 21" x 18" etching was produced by William Hogarth in the mid-18th century. The work has been newly matted and framed with archival materials. The subject, identified as James Caulfield, 4th Viscount, 1st Earl of Charlemont (1728-1799), became commander in chief of the Irish Volunteers...

This brilliant study sheet, of which we present here a counterproof, is a souvenir of Fragonard's return journey from Italy. Between April and September 1761, he accompanied the abbot of Saint-Non on his way back to France. Three studies after the masters taken from the Pitti Palace’s gallery in Florence are gathered on this sheet. Although The Ecstasy of Saint Margaret...

The painting is signed. Description: George Henry Boughton: A Master of Narrative and Natural Beauty George Henry Boughton, a distinguished Anglo-American artist of the 19th centur...

Axiom is an original etching on paper realized by Francesco Mazzoni in the 18th century. Signed on the plate. Included a Passepartout: 45 x 30.5 cm Francesco Mazzoni ( 1738-1989). ...

Provenance: Private Collection, Naples Fl, to Andrew Ford Collection, Sarasota, Fl. 2018 Description: Georges Washington was born out of wedlock and held a...

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 ...

Le Belier is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". The Artist's signature is engraved lower right. Good condi...

Colonial School, Mexico, XVIII Century "Virgen del Carmen" Oil on canvas 70 x 40 in

Pieter van der Aa (1659 - 1733), after David Loggan (1634 - 1692) King's College, Cambridge Engraving 12 x 16 cm An eighteenth-century view King's College, Cambridge, engraved by Pi...

Allegory of Autumn With Bacchante from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions and...

Satyr on Horseback is an original etching realized in 1795/1796 by Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder (1759-1835). Good Conditions except for being aged....

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...

A wonderful selection of hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand- made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames. Joha...

OIL PAINTING By ? Beautiful lady of Nobility in a Neoclassical Frame FINE Portrait OIL PAINTING Old Master Early 19th Century French artist ...

The Ornament is a woodcut print realized by Charles-Antoine Jombert in 1755. Good conditions. The print was realized for the anatomy study “JOMBERT, Charles-Antoine (1712-1784) - M...

The Ornament is a woodcut print realized by Charles-Antoine Jombert in 1755. Good conditions. The print was realized for the anatomy study “JOMBERT, Charles-Antoine (1712-1784) - M...

The Ornament is a woodcut print realized by Charles-Antoine Jombert in 1755. Good conditions. The print was realized for the anatomy study “JOMBERT, Charles-Antoine (1712-1784) - M...

The Ornament is a woodcut print realized by Charles-Antoine Jombert in 1755. Good conditions. The print was realized for the anatomy study “JOMBERT, Charles-Antoine (1712-1784) - M...

The Ornament is a woodcut print realized by Charles-Antoine Jombert in 1755. Good conditions. The print was realized for the anatomy study “JOMBERT, Charles-Antoine (1712-1784) - M...

Le Pyrame is an etching realized by Louis-Simon Lempereur in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi". Art...

La Tourterelle is an etching realized by Catherine Haussard in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi". A...

L' Ecureuil is an etching realized by Jean Gullaume Moitte in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi". Ar...

The Skeleton is an etching realized by Juste Madeline Rousselet in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". The Artist's signature is engraved lower right. Go...

Pair of views of Rotterdam: The Stock Exchange building / View of the canal with the old port Eighteenth-century Vedutist painter oils on canvas 47 x 66 cm. - with frame 56 x 75 cm. This pleasant pair of paintings depict two glimpses of the city of Rotterdam, investigated here as vivid documentaries of the habits and customs from the public life of the wealthy Dutch port city, as well as one of the founders of the Dutch East India Company, is an excellent example of 18th century Vedutism We see, in particular, in the first work the monumental Palazzo della Borsa (defined as Il Beurs), designed by the architect Adriaen van der Werff in Westnieuwland, initially a place destined for legislation on trade, where merchant-bankers met periodically to exchange securities credit and enter into sales; it is located on the bank of the Nordblaak River and shot with the Gaapers Bridge in the foreground. The second work immortalizes the docking of the ancient port of Rotterdam, with the foreground view of the two city gates (the Wester Old Hoofdpoort on the left and the Ooster Oude Hoofdpoort on the right); in the background on the left the St. Laurenskerk (Church of San Lorenzo), also called the Great Church of Rotterdam, is the only medieval structure, while on the right the English Church. Very well executed, characterized by a marked brightness and a chromatic range with bright colors and highlighted by the contrast between lights and shadows, our canvases are a very interesting testimony of eighteenth-century Rotterdam, portraying two of the views that have historically influenced a lot on economic history of the city. We can attribute the authorship to an author of the full eighteenth century, inspired by the pictorial style of the Italian landscape painters and whose iconography was presumably drawn from the numerous prints with perspective views made through the optical cameras. In particular, these views of Rotterdam draw their iconographic origin from a collection of perspective prints of the most influential European cities, made by the engraver Johann Balthasar Probst (1732-1801), characterized by a remarkable refinement in the line, at the service of a sense of perspective of undoubted value, and above all characterized by a strong Nordic taste. Descendant of a large family of Augsburg engravers, Probst contributed to making his workshop an important European publishing center between the 17th and 18th centuries, among the major German print publishers in the first half of the 18th century. Despite his travels, including in Italy, between Venice, Rome and Naples, not all the cities he portrayed were drawn from life but taken from earlier prints and drawings and filtered through northern European clichés. Many of these engravings have been lost and are now difficult to find on the antiques market.

Portrait painting of a young woman dressed in black with a bonnet. The woman has a rose in her right hand and presents her left hand with a r...

Oil on canvas Image size: 30 x 25 inches (76 x 63.5 cm) Contemporary hand-carved frame This is a charming 18th century portrait of a young boy, sporting a golden child's two-piece w...

Anatomy Studies is an etching realized by Jean Francois Poletnich in 1755. Good conditions with foxing. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes. The etching was realized...

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...

Artist: Samuel and Nathaniel Buck (English, 1696-1779) and (?-1759/1774) Title: "Torksey Hall" (Plate 179) and "Newark Castle" (Plate 226) Portfolio: Buck's Antiquities or Venerable ...

Antique Spanish painting from 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Piety, Virgin with deposed Christ, of good pictorial quality. Large size and impact ...

ÉCOLE FRANCAISE fin XVIIIè. Dans le goût de NATTIER. « Jeune femme en déshabillé lisant ». Pastel dans un très joli cadre. H.58 L.71.

Landscape With Monuments and Figures is an Etching realized by Various Artists (18th century). The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original ...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a bucolic landscape, pastoral scene with chariot of good pictorial quality. Small painting adorned wit...