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Period: 18th Century
18th century painting of the Dalbiac family in the gardens of a country house
By Charles Philips
Located in Bath, Somerset
The painting depicts James (Jacques) Dalbiac, his wife Louise (ne de la Porte) and their five children, James, Charles, Louise, Marianne and Martha in the ornamental gardens of a grand country estate.
The extensive gardens extend into the distance with gardeners working in the background and figures strolling through the avenues of trees. A peacock and peahen can be seen on the wall to the left and a potted orange tree to the right. Susan Dalbiac holds an orange taken from the orange tree, aluding to the family's faith and their loyalty to the protestant King William of Orange and their adopted country.
The Dalbiacs were wealthy London silk and velvet merchants of French Huguenot origin who had fled France at the end of the 17th century to escape persecution for their protestant faith. England offered safe refuge and their skills and industriousness allowed them to establish one of the most successful businesses in London's Spitalfields which became a new centre of the silk trade, effectively leading to the collapse of the once dominant French silk industry. Both sons, James and Charles followed their father and Uncle into the family business, successfully growing the family's fortune and each going on to own their own country estates.
A conversation piece is a genre of painting used to describe group portraits of families and friends, often depicted with their servants and family pets and set within an elegantly furnished interior or the garden of a grand country house. They were a celebration of the intimacy of family relations as well as a sign of status, property and the power of succession. The informality of conversation pieces grew popular in 18th century England, allowing the sitters to present themselves in a more relaxed pose, perhaps engaged in intellectual conversation or showing their talents or interests. In this present portrait, the Dalbiacs are shown richly dressed and and at leisure in a grand country house setting, conveying their success and cultural and social aspirations.
Charles Philips (c.1703–1747) was an English artist known for painting a number of portraits and conversation pieces for noble and Royal patrons in the mid-eighteenth century. He was the son of portrait painter Richard Philips...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir in his harem in flagrante delicto
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cre...
Category
Rajput 18th Century Art
Materials
Gold
Gallant party in the park. French School. Mid-18th century
Located in Milan, IT
The scene depicts a feast within a park enclosed by walls with arched gateways opening onto the countryside, and adorned on the right with an amphora on a small column and in the center, behind the figures, with a gushing fountain, with statues of cherubs and shells.
Two couples of richly dressed ladies and gentlemen entertain themselves gallantly, surrounded by servants; one of the men is playing the violin, crouching in front of his lady, who, flanked by the damsel, follows the melody on the score held up by the dark-haired man at her side, while two musicians accompany the playing with flute and a mandolin; the other couple, in an attitude of intimate dialogue, listens on the left, while on the right the hunter returning from the hunt also observes the scene.
Particularly prominent in the scene is the rich dress of the lady in the center, characterized by the wide back folds falling from her shoulders to create a cape. Such a dress corresponds to what was called "robe à la Watteau," named after the French painter Antoine Watteau who first portrayed ladies wearing this pattern.
Antoine Watteau (1684 -1721), a French painter considered one of the most influential French exponents of Rococo painting, was the forerunner of the pictorial genre of gallant scenes, a genre that developed in France from the late 1600s and continued throughout the following century.
The gallant scenes could be considered as the aristocratic version of the genre scene: characterized by music, dances, pleasant conversations between ladies and gentlemen surrounded by servants, they tended to enhance the costumes, fashionable clothes, and environments of the upper class, conveying a kind of detachment from the real times and places, projecting the viewer into an almost theatrical atmosphere of gestures, looks, colors and stage lights.
Moreover, Watteau, along with the Fêtes galantes cycles, also distinguished himself for those inspired by the theater, absorbing his passion for the scenes and characters of that milieu from Claude Gillot...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
At the End Of The Day, 18th/19th Century by Dean Westenholme (1757-1837)
Located in Blackwater, GB
At the End Of The Day, 18th/19th Century
by Dean Westenholme (1757-1837) to $50,000
18th Century English Fox Hunting scene as the hounds go in for the kill, oil on panel, by Dean ...
Category
18th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
French school late 18th Century, Portrait of a young man, oil on metal
Located in Paris, FR
French school late 18th Century
Portrait of a young man
oil on metal
10.2 x 7.7 cm
Framed under glass : 24.4 x 21.8 cm
This small portrait painting, quite original in its technique...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Bouquet de Reine-Marguerite, Paveau, Anémone, Tulipe.
Located in PARIS, FR
Louis Marin BONNET
Paris 1736 † Saint Mandé 1793
Bouquet de Reine-Marguerite, Paveau, Anémone, Tulipe.
Gravure au pointillé d'après Carle, imprimée en couleurs au repérage. Trace de...
Category
18th Century Art
Materials
Other Medium
Huge 18th Century Italian Old Master Oil Painting Still Life Fruit Flowers & Jug
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Still Life of Fruit in Basket with other objects
Italian artist, 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 24.5 x 33 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition:...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Provoking Fidelity. 1775.
Located in PARIS, FR
Louis Marin BONNET
Paris 1736 † Saint Mandé 1793
Provoking fidelity. 1775.
Gravure en manière de crayon d'après Marc-Antoine Parelle (actif c.1766 - c.1774), imprimée en couleurs ave...
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18th Century Art
Materials
Other Medium
Huge 18th Century Italian Old Master Oil Painting Still Life Fruit in Basket
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Still Life of Fruit in Basket with other objects
Italian artist, 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 24.5 x 33 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition:...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Jean-Marc Nattier (1685 - 1766) - Portrait of Charlotte de Hesse-Rheinfels
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean-Marc Nattier (Paris, 1685 - 1766) and his workshop
Portrait of Charlotte de Hesse-Rheinfels
Oil on canvas : h. 44.09 in, w. 38.19 in
18th century carved giltwood framed
Fra...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Rhinocéros "Miss Clara". Nashorn Rhinoceros. 1748.
Located in PARIS, FR
Johann Elias RIDINGER
Ulm 1698 † 1767
Le Rhinocéros "Miss Clara". Nashorn Rhinoceros. "Anno 1748 im Monath May und Junio ist dises Nashorn Rhinoceros". 1748.
Eau-forte d'après un des...
Category
18th Century Art
Materials
Etching
F Cesare Bimerman (1821-1890) Forest Landscape With Travelers and Cattle
Located in San Francisco, CA
F Cesare Bimerman (1821-1890) Forest landscape with travelers and cattle.
Oil on Canvas
Relined
29x35.37
Category
18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
18th Century French Portrait of Mysterious Man Oil on Canvas for restoration
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman
French School, 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 25 x 20 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: the painting is in sound conditi...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Mid 18th century Rococo Chinoiserie Corner capboard with Exotic Flowers and bir
Located in Firenze, IT
This wall corner capboard is painted with chinoiserie ornaments.
With exotic flowers, plants, birds and insects.
Most likely inspired by drawings on Chinese porcelain.
Some touch-ups...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Art
Materials
Wood, Lacquer, Oil
Judith and Salome, a pair of oil paintings on canvas by Francesco Conti
Located in PARIS, FR
This widely referenced pair of paintings is one of Francesco Conti’s most successful productions. Francesco Conti is one of the finest painters of 18th-century Florence. In the shimmering colors typical of his best work, he represents two opposite characters from the Bible: the virtuous Judith, whose courage saves her people by cutting off the head of the invader Holofernes, and the depraved Salome, who under the influence of her mother becomes responsible for the beheading of the prophet John the Baptist.
The artist's talent lies in his ability to treat these two macabre subjects with a light touch, presenting us with two attractive women who seem to twirl with glee amidst the severed heads...
1. Francesco Conti, the “Florentine Tiepolo”
Francesco Conti is a major painter of the Florentine school of the 18th century; he can even probably be considered, along with Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (1692-1768), as one of the two main painters of the second quarter of the Florentine 18th century.
Born in Florence in 1682, Francesco Conti began his apprenticeship in the workshop of Simone Pignoni (1611 - 1698), a disciple of Francesco Furini; he was also influenced by the Venetian Sebastiano Ricci. A protégé of Marquis Riccardi, he accompanied him to Rome between 1699 and 1705, where he frequented Carlo Maratta's studio. He settled permanently in Florence in 1705.
Painted exclusively on canvas, the majority of his work consists of religious subjects, altarpieces or private devotional works. It is likely that Conti himself was a devout churchgoer, as evidenced by his affiliation, in the third decade of the eighteenth century, to the Society of the Disciples of Saint-John-the-Baptist, and his entry, at the end of his life, into the fraternity of the Venerable Society of the Holy Trinity.
In Florence, Conti worked for the Grand Duchy's major patrons, including the last Medici - in particular Giangastone and Annamaria Luisa, Electress Palatine - and confirmed his role as a reference painter under the Lorraine Regency, as master of the Public Drawing School, which was closely linked to the institute responsible for the manufacture of semi-precious stone mosaics, then located in the Uffizi complex.
Matteo Marangoni, an art critic of the early 20th century, praised his "brushwork full of elegance and true spirit of the 18th century", pointing out that Conti was "probably one of the best colorists" of the Florentine school of his time. These two characteristics led the art historian Paolo dal Poggetto to nickname him the "Florentine Tiepolo".
2. Judith and Salome, two biblical characters opposing each other
These two paintings form a pair presenting two biblical episodes, which have in common the depiction of a "heroine" carrying the severed head of a man.
While the Salome episode might at first appear to be an echo of the Old Testament story of Judith, each character is the exact opposite of the other. Judith, whose story is told in the Book of Judith, is a beautiful young widow from Bethulia who, accompanied by her maid, went into the camp of the invading Assyrians and won the confidence of Holofernes, the general commanding the enemy army. Invited to a great feast on the fourth evening, she took advantage of Holofernes' drunkenness to cut off his head. “She went up to the bedpost near Holofernes’ head, and took down his sword that hung there. She came close to his bed, took hold of the hair of his head, and said, “Give me strength today, O Lord God of Israel!” Then she struck his neck twice with all her might, and cut off his head. Next she rolled his body off the bed and pulled down the canopy from the posts. Soon afterward she went out and gave Holofernes’ head to her maid, who placed it in her food bag...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cuzco School 18th Century Oil - The Madonna
Located in Corsham, GB
An interesting 18th century study of the Madonna in oil, painted in the Cuzco School style. Unsigned. On tin.
Category
18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Parnassus Apollo after Raffaello Oil on canvas 17/18th Century Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
after RAFFAELLO SANZIO (Urbino, 1483 - Rome, 1520),
The Parnassus with Apollo, the Muses and ancient and modern poets
17th-18th century
Oil on canvas (123 x 173 cm - framed 137 x 187 cm.)
This refined painting, of considerable size and great scenic effect, is a derivation of Raphael Sanzio's famous fresco depicting Mount Parnassus, datable to 1510-1511 and located in the Stanza della Segnatura, one of the four Vatican Rooms.
The meaning of the subject was to celebrate humanistic culture, a sort of allegorical representation that saw both the figures of myth and those of the greatest authors of the past side by side in the same space.
The scene, enveloped in a lyrical atmosphere, is set on Mount Parnassus, near the fountain Castalia, for Greek mythology the home of the Muses, where ancient and modern poets are depicted.
The painting, which rather faithfully reproduces Raphael's piece with perfect harmony and great pictorial quality, is the work of an Italian author active between the 17th and 18th century. We can see the careful balancing of the light, which brings out its chromatic brilliance, and the accentuated sculptural relief that the author gave to the figures, as well as the very faithful rendering of the individual pictorial details of the figures.
At the centre of the composition stands the main figure of the god Apollo, crowned with laurel and seated on a rocky boulder intent on playing the lyre from his arm, surrounded by the nine Muses...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
18th Century sporting horse portrait oil painting of a race horse and groom
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Francis Sartorius
British, (1734-1804)
Bay Hunter & Groom
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 24.25 inches x 29.25 inches
Size including frame: 32 inches x 37 inches
A wonderful spor...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Herminia and the Shepherds, a painting by Francesco de Mura (Napoli 1696 - 1782)
Located in PARIS, FR
In this masterly painting, Francesco de Mura presents the meeting of Herminia and the shepherds, a famous episode taken from the seventh canto of Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A pair of 18th century Italian landscapes with classical ruins and figures
By Giovanni Paolo Panini
Located in Bath, Somerset
A pair of 18th century Italian landscapes with classical ruins and figures, circa 1750.
Circle of Giovanni Panini (1691-1765)
Thomas Agnew and Sons, Lo...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th century Portrait of a young girl, Miss Cator in a landscape, white dress
By John Russell
Located in Woodbury, CT
Portrait of a young British Girl, in her white dress with Pink Sash.
Choosing to acquire an 18th-century portrait of a young girl by English artist John Russell is an opportunity to...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Portrait, Major Alexander Brown in Military Uniform
By Sir David Wilkie
Located in Cotignac, FR
18th Century Military portrait of a young officer in Napoleonic period military dress. The painting is not signed but the subject is Major Alexander Brown. The work is oil on canvas later mounted on board and presented in a fine 'Regence style' carved gilt frame. There are labels to the back referring to the subject, 'Major Brown of Trinity' and a framers trade label from Edinburgh.
A magnificent and imposing portrait of a young military officer in the prime of his life. His red uniform adorned with fine buttons, fringed epaulettes and high gilt collar. His ruddy complexion offset by his stylish hair, a quiff and swept forward to the sides as was the fashion at the time.
Sir David Wilkie RA (18 November 1785 – 1 June 1841) was a Scottish painter, especially known for his portraits, including formal royal ones, and scenes from his travels to Europe and the Middle East. He painted successfully in a wide variety of genres, including historical scenes. His main base was in London, but he died and was buried at sea, off Gibraltar, returning from his first trip to the Middle East. He was sometimes known as the "people's painter".
He was Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV and Queen Victoria. Apart from royal portraits, his best-known painting today is probably The Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Dispatch of 1822 in Apsley House.
Sir David Wilkie was actually admitted in 1799 (despite only being 14) through the influence of the Earl of Leven...
Category
Realist 18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Mughal School, 18th Century Emperor Jahangir with Empress Nur Jahan
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir and Empress Nur Jahan exchanging lotus blossoms; a symbol of beauty, purity, honesty, rebirth, self-regeneration, and enlightenment....
Category
Rajput 18th Century Art
Materials
Gold
Jacques Gamelin (1738-1803) Study After Raphaël, 1768, Black Stone White Chalk
Located in PARIS, FR
Jacques GAMELIN
Carcassone 1738-1803
Study after the triton of the Triumph of Galatea by Raphaël
1768
Black stone and light white chalk on blue paper
Signed and dated lower right
41...
Category
French School 18th Century Art
Materials
Chalk, Handmade Paper
Presse Ludovico Mirri Mercante d’Quadri incontro al Palazzo Bernini a Roma No.46
Located in Paonia, CO
Presse Ludovico Mirri Mercante d’Quadri incontro al Palazzo Bernini a Roma No.46 is from a series of original engravings published by Lodovico Mirri in the late 18th century and engr...
Category
18th Century Art
Materials
Engraving
Circle of Jean Honore Fragonard (1732–1806) A Painting of Three Putti and Fire
Located in New York, NY
Circle of Jean Honore Fragonard (French 1732–1806) An Exceptional Painting of Three Putti and Fire, circa 1795.
Masterfully painted in the late ...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
India William Hodges 'The East End of the Fort of Mongheer' India Engraving
Located in Norfolk, GB
Aquatint with soft ground etching from the seminal publication, Selected Views in India, drawn on the Spot, in the Years 1780, 1781, 1782 and 1783, and Executed in Aquatint in 1786 -...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Art
Materials
Engraving
Rooster and game
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
18th century work
Black wooden frame
55 x 78 x 3 cm
Category
Dutch School 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir dancing with his harem attendees
Located in Middletown, NY
A joyful scene of lighthearted merriment in the palace of Jangahir Mahal Agra
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on light weight cream laid paper, 8 1/4 x 6 inches (2...
Category
Rajput 18th Century Art
Materials
Gold
Painting Portrait of Emperor Vitellius 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
Aulus Vitellius Germanicus Augustus is one of the Eleven Roman Emperors who were portrayed in half-length form in a series made by Titian in 1536-40 for Frederick II,...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Penitent Magdalene, c. 1750.
By Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Lo Spagnuolo
Located in Milan, IT
Painting done in oil on canvas. The figure of Magdalene is depicted here, in keeping with tradition, with long red hair; with a gesture of sorrowful dedication she fixes her gaze on ...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Rajput School, 17th century Krishna with his beloved, Radha; from Mahabharata
Located in Middletown, NY
Vishnu in the form of Krishna being serenaded with his beloved Radha. An illuminated page from the epic of Mahabharata
circa 1690. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cream lai...
Category
Rajput 18th Century Art
Materials
Gold
Palazzo Madama - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo Madama is an etching of the Late 18th century realized by the Artist Giuseppe Vasi.
Signed and titled on plate lower margin.
Good conditions.
Giuseppe Vasi (Corleone,171...
Category
Modern 18th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Portrait of count Evreux, French, 18th c. studio of Hyacinthe Rigaud, circa 1705
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of Henri-Louis de la Tour d'Auvergne, Comte d'Evreux
Studio of Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743)
Early 18th century French school, circa 1705
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: h. 72 cm, ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Perroneau Portrait Lady Woman Paint Oil on canvas 18th Century Old master French
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Jean-Baptiste Perroneau
(Paris, 1715 – Amsterdam, 1783)
Portrait of a lady
Oil on oval canvas
60 x 50 cm. - In frame 77 x 66 cm.
Work accompanied by expertise: Raffaelle Colace (Cremona), Ferdinando Arisi
Reference bibliography: d’Arnoult, Dominique (2014) Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, c 1715-1783, un portraitiste dans l’Europe des Lumières
Excerpt from the expertise of Dr. Colace:
This refined portrait of a lady is a perfect example of the style of Jean-Baptiste Perroneau, a very talented French painter, whose most beautiful works are located, just like this one, between the fifth and sixth decades of the eighteenth century.
"Perroneaeu is more naturally colored than La Tour, the est, in the peinture de poussière colorée, tout plein de tons clairs, frais, presque humides": this is how his brothers wrote about him in La Maison d...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Mrs Sarah Kembel Siddons
Located in London, GB
Charcoal and sanguine on paper, signed and dated '1793' lower right
Image size: 21 x 14 1/2 inches (53.25 x 37 cm)
Framed
Provenance
Collection of Mr and Mrs John Whitehead (England), collection of the Duchess of Rutland (Wales), collection of Mr Michael W. Murphy (El Dorado).
Exhibitions
No.97, 'National Portraits', The South Kensington Museum (V&A), 1868 (label on reverse).
Sarah Siddons was a welsh actress and the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century. Siddons's first major success came in 1782 with her portrayal of Isabella in the Fatal Marriage, written by David Garrick the leading actor-manager of the period. Siddons continued to dominate the London stage until her farewell in 1812.
Part of a powerful theatrical dynasty, her brothers were the actors Philip and Charles Kemble, her husband was the actor William Siddons and her son, Henry Siddons was also an actor. She was hailed as the chief interpreter of Shakespeare. Her masterpiece was Lady Macbeth as she excelled in roles that allowed her to combine passionate intelligence with pathos. The critic William Hazlitt proclaimed her 'tragedy personified'.
William Hamilton
William Hamilton RA (1751–1801) was an English painter and illustrator. Hamilton was born in Chelsea, London, but travelled and worked in Italy with Antonio Zucchi...
Category
Victorian 18th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Charcoal
Huge 18th Century English Oil Aristocratic Portrait of a Gentleman Standing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Aristocratic Gentleman
British artist, first half 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 50 x 40 inches
provenance: private collection, Dorset, England
condition...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting Young man lighting a pipe 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
The painting offers a half-length portrait of a young man in deshabillé who is lighting his pipe by drawing fire with a stick from the candle placed in front of him o...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
The Porculine Opossum (Bandicoot), Australia, engraving, 1795
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Porculine Opossum' (Bandicoot)
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. Circa 1795, by Richard Polydore Nodder (fl.1770 – 1800).
155mm by 125mm (platemark)
225mm by...
Category
Naturalistic 18th Century Art
Materials
Engraving
OIL PAINTING FRENCH By ? Beautiful lady of Nobility in a Gold Neoclassical Frame
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING By ? Beautiful lady of Nobility in a Neoclassical Frame
FINE Portrait OIL PAINTING Old Master Early 19th Century
French artist
...
Category
Realist 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Large 18th Century Italian Oil Painting Venice Canal Many Buildings & Figures
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Venetian Canal
Italian artist, 18th century
circle of Francesco Guardi (Italian 1712-1793)
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 23.5 x 32.5 inches
canvas: 20 x 29.5 inches
provenance: p...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dipinto Paesaggio con Architettura
Located in Milan, IT
Olio su tela. Scuola nord-italiana del XVIII secolo.
Secondo il gusto del XVIII secolo, il paesaggio proposto è dominato dai resti di un antico tempio, vestigia delle glorie passate...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
LARGE OLD MASTER LATE 18th CENTURY CIRCLE of SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS OIL PAINTING
Located in Ferndown, GB
HUGE OLD MASTER LATE 18th CENTURY CIRCLE of SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS OIL PAINTING
Fine OIL PAINTING Old Master 18th Century R.A artist in a Large
...
Category
Realist 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Madonna and child, Italian school, 18th century
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Italian School, 18th century
Depicted are the Madonna and Child Jesus, the virgin Mary is holding the Child Jesus lovingly in her arms. The child, lying on a bundle of cloth and with...
Category
18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century English School Portrait of a handsome young gentleman, half length
By Sir William Beechey
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very skilfully captured portrait of a handsome young gentleman. The painter, in the circle of Sir Willliam Beechey, has imparted great character and vitality to the sitter, giving ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Storm See Water Landscape Vernet 18th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Claude-Joseph Vernet (Avignon, 1714 - Paris, 1789)
workshop of
The Storm on the Lighthouse
1750/60
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 48 x 67 cm / framed 77 x 93 cm
We share a highly pleasing work, a splendid marine executed by a talented painter from the workshop of the Frenchman Claude-Joseph Vernet, depicting a coastal view set in a Mediterranean port with the sea still stormy.
The focal point of the composition is the large lighthouse at the entrance to the port, which, due to the power of the sea, was unable to bring to safety the ship that had crashed against the rocks, while the silhouette of a second sailing ship can be glimpsed in the distance.
The canvas shows in full the pictorial, chromatic and narrative characteristics of the great master Vernet's coastal landscapes, characterised by the inimitable atmospheric conditions always hovering between darkness and light, storm and calm, instilling the observer with contrasting feelings, made even more intense by a palette of vibrant and highly contrasting colours.
A similar composition, from which our author must necessarily have drawn, also attributed to the workshop of Claude Joseph Vernet is to be found in France, in Nantes, at the Musée d'Arts.

The effects of the light create a visual drama in the contrast between the darkness of the rain-laden storm clouds and the gash of clear sky that is opening up, pierced by the timid rays of light. The real magic of the painting is the painter's highly personal use of light and colour, with chiaroscuro effects that accentuate its three-dimensionality and movement.
The compositional typology, as well as the quality of execution and attention to detail we are dealing with, are typical elements of the 'prototypes' conceived by the master, later taken up around the middle of the 18th century by his best pupils.
Similar versions can be found in the most important international museums and private collections, belonging to a large series of paintings that the master created, together with his collaborators, during his stay in Italy.
Vernet lived in Rome for twenty years (1734 - 1753), becoming particularly popular with English aristocrats who stopped there on their Grand Tour. International fame followed him from Rome to France, and to his English and French clients he added German princes...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Antique British Oil Painting Portrait of William Shakespeare Fine Oil on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of William Shakespeare
British artist, 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 24 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: very good and sound con...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jahangir taking tea in his harem
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
circa 1750. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on li...
Category
Rajput 18th Century Art
Materials
Gold
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Oil Painting Figures by Shipping Harbour Port
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Trading Port
Italian artist, circa 1720's period
circle of Michele Marieschi (Italian 1696-1744)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 21 x 30 inches
provenance: private collection, UK...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large 18th Century British Old Master Oil Painting Figures at Dusk in Woodland
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Close of Day
English artist, second half 18th century
circle of Thomas Gainsborough (British 1727-1788)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 24.5 x 29 inches
provenance: private colle...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Late 18th Century British Oil Painting Figures by Blacksmiths Forge Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Blacksmiths Forge
British artist, late 18th century
Circle of Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759-1817)
oil on board, unframed
board: 11 x 14.5 inches
provenance: private collection, En...
Category
English School 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Antique Italian painter - 18th-19th century figure painting - Oil on canvas
Located in Varmo, IT
Bolognese painter (18th-19th century) - Maddalena.
70 x 50 cm without frame, 89 x 69 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden frame.
Condition ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jesus with the ball of the world and the saints
Located in MADRID, ES
Peruvian 18 century
Spanish colonial
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Copper
Herding cattle through a wooded river landscape
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
James Stark (1794-1859)
Herding cattle through a wooded river landscape
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size 18 x 24 in
Framed Size 23 x 29 in
James Stark (1794-1859): A Pioneer in Landscape P...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
18th century portrait of a Spaniel dog with fruit in a wooded landscape.
By Tobias Stranover
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding early 18th-century portrait of a seated Spaniel dog in a landscape with an array of fruits.
Attributed to the work of Tobias Stranover.
...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Pastel Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful 18th century French oval pastel on paper of a young woman, unsigned, and housed under glass in its original giltwood foliate gessoed frame. Some frame gesso repairs and t...
Category
18th Century Art
Materials
Pastel, Paper
LARGE OLD MASTER LATE 18th CENTURY CIRCLE of THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH OIL PAINTING
By (circle of) Thomas Gainsborough
Located in Ferndown, GB
OLD MASTER LATE 18th /EARLY 19th CENTURY CIRCLE of THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH OIL PAINTING
Fine OIL PAINTING Old Master 18th Century R.A artist in a ...
Category
Realist 18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jangahir on a pleasure boat with his harem a
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir depicted with his harem attendees aboard a pleasure cruise, the water filled with lotus blossoms; symbols of paradise itself.
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold ...
Category
Rajput 18th Century Art
Materials
Gold