19th Century Art

Fishing the Highlands attributed to Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759–1817) inscribed verso oil on wood panel, framed Framed: 11 x 15 inches panel: 8.5 x 13 inches Provenance: private c...

Gorgeous tonalist oil painting woman walking in field by pond with home in background by Willis Seaver Adams (American, 1844-1921), circa 1880. Trees and an amazing sky in the background add depth and interest to this beautiful piece. Signed "W. S. Adams" lower right corner. Condition: Previous restoration includes relining of canvas. Frame is vintage gilt molded and wood frame and shows previous repair of molding losses. Image size: 20"H x 24"W. Auctions records for the artist exceed $6,000. Willis Seaver Adams was known for his landscapes of the Connecticut River Valley. A relative recluse for much of his artistic life, his loneliness can be seen in much of his works. Oil miniatures were the focus for almost all of his later works. He is credited with over 425 oils, watercolors, and drawings. Willis Seaver was born in 1844 on a farm in Suffield, near the Connecticut River. He intermittently attended the Suffield Academy, and always wanted to be a painter. A wealthy doctor became his patron, and financed his studies in 1868 at the Royal Academy in Antwerp. When the doctor passed away, Adams returned home and struggled to make a living painting. After working for a photographer for three years, he opened his own studio. Adams helped organize Cleveland's first watercolor exhibit in 1876. Soon thereafter, he completed a portrait of Rutherford B. Hayes, then governor of Ohio, prior to his becoming President of the United States. This portrait enhanced Adams notoriety. In 1878, Adams traveled to Italy where he opened a studio in Venice, and became friendly with neighbor James Whistler. Prior to returning to Springfield, Adams lived in Florence, Italy for three years. He returned to became an instructor for the Springfield Art Association, and began to exhibit his works at the galleries of James D. Gill. His first one-man exhibit was held there in 1894. Other successful exhibitions took place in Chicago, New York, and Boston. Although his works garnered respectable prices and reflected his success, Adams felt he was due more recognition. In 1906, he moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts and converted a barn into a studio. There, he fell into relative obscurity, accompanied mainly by his dog, Collie. In 1921, Adams passed away. Examples of Willis Adams works can be seen at the Kent Memorial Library, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the Suffield Academy. Several Suffield residents are thought to own Adams paintings.

Medium: original etching. This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by Seeley and Compan...

19th century Bronze Sculpture of Cupid After Pierre Chenet Base diameter 6" 9"W x 23"H

A charming oil portrait depicting a mother with an infant in a christening gown on her knee. Both smile towards the artist, who captures them against a dark background. Signed to the...

Medium: original etching. Executed by Tissot for the "Rene Mauperin" suite of etchings, published in Paris in 1884 by Charpentier in a limited edition of 550. This is a nice impressi...

The Village Tavern Attributed to Dean Wolstenholme Snr (1757-1837) oil on canvas, framed framed: 18 x 22 inches canvas: 14 x 18 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition: a...

Alphonse Mucha worked mainly as a poster artist and became an influential figure of Art Nouveau in late 1890s, when poster illustrations were emerging as popular art form and new pri...

Henry Dawson (1811-1878), oil on canvas. Pastoral landscape with two cattle in the foreground and a milkmaid waiting ready with her pail. Signed to the lower left. Presented in a dis...

Lola De Valence is a black and white etching realized by Edouard Manet (1832-1883) in 1862. Image dimensions: 18x26 cm. Etching and aquatint, 6th state, the first to be published, ...

Late 19th century English landscape by Edwin Buttery. This exquisite late Victorian English landscape by Edwin Buttery is a masterful example of the period’s romanticized appreciatio...

Turkish Horse by Antoine-Louis Barye (1796-1875) "Cheval turc, antérieur gauche levé, terrasse carrée" Bronze sculpture with a nuanced dark brown patina Signed " Barye " on the base...

The small fishing village of Le Pouldu, located on Cap Finistère in Brittany, south of Concarneau and Pont-Aven, was nestled between the Laita River and the sea. The area was renowned for its sand dunes. A ferry operated there, transporting people and livestock across the river. In 1886, the village consisted of only 11 households and was so small it didn't even have a bakery. In 1890, Paul Gauguin and six other artists, including Paul Sérusier, Jacob Meyer...

The Woodland Cottage English artist (Suffolk School), 19th century oil on canvas, framed framed: 12.5 x 14.5 inches canvas: 10.5 x 12.5 inches provenance: private collection, Suffolk...

The English Gentleman and his Country House English artist, circa 1800-1820 period Fine Georgian period portrait of a young English gentleman, seated with distant view of his country...

Portrait of a Gentleman with a Cigar English artist, mid 19th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 30 x 25 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: overall good a...

A wonderful watercolour depiction of 19th Century rural life. The scene shows a mother and daughter returning to their hamlet down a dirt path, a small pond with geese to the left an...

Alessandro La Volpe (Italian, 1820-1887) View of Mt. Etna From the Ruins of the Theatre at Taormina, 1883 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 29.5 x 52.5 inches 39 x 62 inches...

'The Blind Fiddler' Engraving by John Burnet after Sir David Wilkie RA (1785-1841) India-laid. Proof before letters. 'Second Plate' printed under e...

Sporting Sculpture with Elk and Panther Wildlife bronze

Carl Bertold, Nordic Fjord Landscape in Sunlight, oil on canvas Dimensions without frame 81 x 120 cm Dimensions with frame 94.5 x 134.5 cm

Nice 19th-century cast with rich, brown patina by French sculptor Emile-Joseph-Nestor Carlier. Carlier frequently created large, multi-figural group sculptures. These are dramatic an...

This work will be included in Volume II of the catalog of the works of Eugène Galien-Laloue, currently being prepared by Mr. Noé Willer. A certificate can be issued to the buyer. Ch...

Artist: John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851) Title: "American Anhinga - Snake Bird" (Plate 420, No. 84) Portfolio: The Birds of America, First Royal Octavo Edition Year: 1840-1844 Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph on wove paper Limited edition: approx. 1,200 Printer: John T. Bowen, Philadelphia, PA Publisher: John James Audubon and J.B. Chevalier, New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA Sheet size: 10" x 6.69" Image size: 6.63" x 4.63" Condition: Minor toning to sheet and some faint discoloration in margins. Old glue staining along right binding edge as normal. It is otherwise in very good condition with strong colors Notes: Provenance: private collection - Cleveland, OH. Lithography and hand-coloring by American artist John T. Bowen (1801-c.1856). Comes from Audubon's famous seven volume portfolio "The Birds of America", First Royal Octavo Edition (1840-1844), which consists of 500 hand-colored lithographs. The preceding 1836 Havell edition of this work has a different title: "Black-bellied Darter", (Plate: CCCXVI - 396, No. 64). Based on a drawing inscribed "New Orleans 1822 - redrawn ... 1836". This conspicuous bird had various names including "water turkey" and "Bec à Lancette". The Anhinga, sometimes called snakebird, darter, American darter, or water turkey, is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas. The word anhinga comes from a'ñinga in the Brazilian Tupi language and means "devil bird" or "snake bird". To make 'The Birds of America' more affordable and widely available, in 1839 John James Audubon began the first octavo edition, a smaller version of the folio which was printed and hand-colored by J. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in size, rendered in intermediate drawings by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhouse, and then drawn onto lithographic stones. These miniatures exhibit a remarkable amount of attention to quality and detail, as well as a meticulous fidelity to the larger works. Some compositional changes were made in order to accommodate the smaller format. Like the Havell edition, John James Audubon’s first...

Discussing Ailments by ALEXANDER AUSTEN (1859-1924) signed with monogram oil on canvas, framed framed: 13.5 x 17 inches canvas: 9 x 12 inches Provenance: Private collection, Yorkshir...

19th-Century Landscape Painting – Serene Mountain Lake Scene Artist: Unidentified Period: 19th Century Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: Framed: 31 x 35 cm ...

Joseph John Englehart (1867-1915) was a prolific American landscape painter who painted in realist style. He was born on June 14, 1867 in Chicago, Illi...

Lady with harp is a modern artwork realized by Symbolist Painter of late 19 Century. Symbolistic painting of a lady with harp standing on a rock by the sea. Mixed colored oil on ca...

James MacMaster Irvine Harbour Signed lower right Watercolor on paper 10 1/4 x 14 inches Provenance: Private Collection, New Jersey

Harbor Landscape Simone Forge 1930's French Impressionist oil on board unframed board: 13 x 16 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: great condition For more any more i...

'Squirrel' Chromolithograph. 1897. Vignette of a theatre top right corner of the image. Vanity Fair portrait of Cyril Francis Maude (1862-1951), actor and theatre manager. 385mm...

Félix Ziem (1821-1911) Studies of landscapes and seascapes graphite on paper, 14 x 22 cm Stamp of the Ziem Estate bottom left Framed : 25 x 33 cm A rare exemple of mutiple studies ...

An Exceptional Quality Orientalist Portrait of "A Moorish Chief from Algeria", circa 1880. Oil on canvas painting depicting a Moorish chief / gu...

View of the Bergsee is an original modern artwork realized by the Austrian artist and painter Josef Brunner in the middle of the XIX Century. Original Oil painting on Canvas cm. 72 x 3 x 102 (canvas). A beautiful original XIX Century decorated frame is included (total dimensions: 100 x 5 x 130). Both the work and the canvas are in very good conditions. Beautiful and intense oil painting depicting the Austrian mountain lake Bergsee. The painting is characterized by a particular play between lights and shadows: the light indeed is distributed in an extremely suffused but homogeneous way on the view but it is also able to create that sense of magic that characterized the whole landscape. The color of the lake therefore assumes a transparency and an iridescent blue that tends to the green and reflects the color of the surrounding mountains. The sky appears full of rainy clouds but they still allow the rays of the last sun to shine on. The general vision conveys calm and tranquility thanks also to the refined use of color and the play of lights and shadows, the turquoise and the pale opaque blue of the lake is perfectly emphasized by the various green tones of the trees. The white, gray and light brown rocky mountains embrace the lake and the cloudy sky in shades of blue increases the feeling of tranquility. The landscape is desolate; the only signs of life are the three fishermen on the shore: they are three small figures painted in different poses and illuminated by the light too. The surface of the water reflects in a spectacular way the surrounding landscape, it is similar to the surface of a mirror. The style, fantastic and almost dreamy, is into the full Germanic Romanticism. Mindful of Caspar David Friedrich's memoirs (Greifswald, 1774 - Dresda, 1840), the author certainly took his cue from the style of the German and the Austrian Romanticism; tangible signs of Romantic painting are the choice of the subject, an uncontaminated Nordic landscape, and the almost fairytale atmosphere that we find in the composition. This wonderful Romantic painting was created by the Austrian artist Josef Brunner (Wien, 1826 - Wien, 1893). Joseph Brunner was the son of Joseph...

A wonderful painting by British artist Sidney Pike (1846-1907). Pike is best known for his depictions of the English countryside, and he attended many time...

"The Old Salt" (Cornish fisherman) by David W. Haddon (British, late 19th/ early 20th century) signed and dated oil on board, framed framed: 18 x 14 inches board: 16 x 12 inches ...

The Battle of Dan-no-ura in Yashima, Nagato Province in the First Year of the Bunji Era (1185) Tokyo c. 1830 Woodblock print (nishiki-e) with ink and hand-coloring in watercolor on handmade mulberry paper, 14 7/16 x 9 15/16 inches (367 x 252 mm), ōban tate-e, the full sheet. In good condition with some handling creases. Colors are fresh and extremely vibrant. The right panel from the triptych by Yoshitora depicting one of Japan's most storied naval battles. An impression of this work may be found in the permanent collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The great naval battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185 was the final climax in a long series of bitter wars between two powerful families in feudal Japan...

Portrait of an Elderly Fisherman Italian School, 19th century oil on canvas, framed Framed: 14 x 12 inches Canvas: 10.5 x 9 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: several s...

English School, 19th century The Sunday Before Confirmation; Parson: What did your godfathers & godmothers then for you? Boy: Nothing sir, rot'em for I never had none. London: Thoma...

This is an original hand-colored folio edition John James Audubon engraving entitled "Esquimaux Curlew", Folio, Pl. CCVIII", No. 42, Plate 208, from Audubon's "Birds of America". It was engraved, printed and colored in London by Robert Havell, Jr. in 1834. It depicts a male and a female Esquimaux Curlew birds...

Serene sunset over the waters near Smögen on Sweden's west coast, with the sun setting just behind the island of Hållö and its lighthouse by female artist Ingeborg Westfelt-Eggertz. ...

A warm, dynamic scene depicting a religious ceremony taking place inside a large place of worship. Signed to the lower left. Artist name also inscribed to stretchers verso. On canvas.

Antoine Williams Zarra (1820-1892) was an international man of mystery. When not painting in the rural village of Barbizon and its environs, he was mo...

Antique Male Academic nude painting Henri Brugnot with exposition label (1st prize). by Henri Brugnot (1874-1940) Oil on canvas board 15" x 30" The lab...

With a socially critical eye and Berlin humor, the prints by Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929) capture the milieu of the "little people" around 1900. The fact that the famous artist was a...

Henri Bellery-Desfontaines Mysterious Love, 1898 Original lithograph (Champenois workshop) Printed signature in the plate On vellum, 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 in) INFORMATION: Lithogr...

After Paul Dubois (French, 1829-1905) "Le Chanteur Florentin" [The Florentine Singer] Patinated Bronze Sculpture, the standing singer resting on a pedestal whilst playing a lute, on ...

Signed landscape oil on canvas circa 1885 by French impressionist painter Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin. The work depicts a farmland with haystacks pilled up into the distance unde...

A fine 19th century oil on canvas portrait stated to be Captain Paul John Henry Butler, 5th Royal Lancashire Militia, half length, wearing breast star. Hou...

Artist/ School: Anglo/ American School, early 19th century. Title: Full length portrait of a seated young gentleman wearing a dark suit, cream waistc...

The Hunter French School, late 19th century oil painting on canvas, framed framed size: 32 x 42 inches provenance: private collection, France Superb large scale French oil painting,...

Artist/ School: J. Langlois, British 1855-1904, signed lower corner Title: Chasing the Mouse! Medium: oil on board, framed framed: 6 x 7.5 inches board: 4.75 x 6.75 inches Proven...

River Landscape Painting of the Scottish Highlands by 19th Century British Artist, Alfred De Breanski Snr, (1852 - 1928). Signed on the front (l...

HIROSHIGE UTAGAWA I, Edo 1797 - 1858 Shoheibashi Seido Kandagawa (Seido and Kanda river from Shohei bridge) No. 47 from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei...

George Henry Laporte British, (1802-1873) Best of Friends Oil on canvas, signed & indistinctly dated Image size: 27.25 inches x 35.25 inches Size...

Antique American gilt picture frame. Rabbet measures 12.5" x 10.5" Perfect for a 12" x 10" painting.

Vesuvius, engraving with original hand-colouring, 1815. From Bilderbuch Zum Nutzen und Vergnugen Der Jugend by Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747-1822), an encyclopaedic collection of I...

This very charming British 19th century Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to the circle of Thomas Lawrence. Painted circa 1810 it is a seated half length portrait of a l...

This is a framed original 19th century hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled “Pernis Apivorus (The Honey Buzzard) by John Gould, plate 6 in volume 1 of his "Birds of Great Britain", published in London between 1862 and 1873. The print depicts an adult Honey Buzzard perched on a branch of a leafy tree in the foreground and three others in the background. The bird in the foreground has an insect in its beak and others are in flight on the right This striking framed Gould...

Charming Hudson River school antique oil painting of a sailboat on a lake, circa 1880-90. Signed "R. Labarr." after Richard LaBarre Goodwin...