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Period: Late 19th Century
R. Watson (British painter) - 19th century landscape painting - Highland cattle
Located in Varmo, IT
R. Watson (British, late 19th century) - Herd of Highlanders grazing.
77 x 51 cm.
Old oil painting on canvas, unframed.
- Work signed and dated on the left: “R. Watson”.
Conditio...
Category
Naturalistic Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Cardinal Painting the Virgin Mary
Located in St. Albans, GB
This painting by Henri Brispot stands out amongst many pieces that he ever painted. It was sold in New York for $20 000 and is a wonderful example of his satirical nature shown throu...
Category
French School Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil
$9,962 Sale Price
25% Off
Orientalist Painting "Constantine (Algeria) 1893" Claude Firmin-Goy (1864-1944)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Constantine (Algeria) 1893”
Claude Firmin-Goy
Oil on canvas
12 1/4 x 16 1/2 (16 1/2 x 20 3/4 frame) inches
This bright and luminous work by the Avignon painter Claude Firmin-Goy re...
Category
Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
William F Burchell, Original oil painting of chickens in a farmyard
Located in Harkstead, GB
An idyllic scene of chickens feeding in a famryard with old outbuildings and a patch of blue sky beyond.
William f Burchell (exhibiting 1909-1937)
A farmyard scene
Signed
Oil on can...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$653 Sale Price
30% Off
Harvest Time by Hjalmar Sandberg, Swedish Artist, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 1876
Located in Stockholm, SE
Hjalmar Sandberg (1847-1888) Sweden
Harvest Time, 1876
oil on canvas
canvas size 14.96 x 18.11 inches (38 x 46 cm)
frame 18.70 x 25.59 inches (47.5 ...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century English marine of Dutch or English boats off a coastline
By James Webb
Located in Woodbury, CT
This James Webb English marine painting, circa 1870, is a masterpiece of atmospheric charm and technical precision that would appeal profoundly to an interior designer or fine art co...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique framed French still life of cherries and a copper pan, dated 1870
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique French still life of cherries and a copper bowl, signed in the top left corner and dated 1870. This wonderful old still life in a heavy frame, is atmospheric, dark and moody...
Category
French School Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil
$573 Sale Price
40% Off
English Antique Portrait Sketch of Female Nude Seated
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Graphite Sketch of a Female Nude, Seated
by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905)
on yellowed thin artists paper, unframed
measurements: sheet 15 x 18 inches
provenance: f...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Graphite
The bather and the artist: the bashful nude naturalist French oil painting
Located in Norwich, GB
It's just a little embarassing. Our young bather went for a skinny dip in the river and now needs to snatch her clothes without being spotted by the elderly artist on the river bank ...
Category
Academic Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Landscape of Pond and Field After Rain Titled "Cranes After the Rain"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This serene landscape by a Hudson River School artist captures the quiet tension between storm and calm, rendered with luminous color and delicate brushwork. A soft sunset glows behi...
Category
Hudson River School Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Board
1895 original poster by Maurice Réalier-Dumas for Champagne Jules Mumm & Co
Located in PARIS, FR
This 1895 original poster by Maurice Réalier-Dumas was created to promote Champagne Jules Mumm & Co and was featured in the prestigious "Les Maîtres de l’Affiche" (Plate 111) series....
Category
Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Evening Sun, View of Visby, c. 1896
Located in Stockholm, SE
This evocative evening view of Visby by Axel Lindman captures Visby in the warm, fading light of the setting sun. Rendered with atmospheric sensitivity, the silhouette of Visby’s med...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Soir D'Orage - Impressionist Seascape Oil Painting by Maxime Maufra
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on canvas seascape painting by French impressionist painter Maxime Maufra. The piece depicts a ship sailing on the horizon in a stormy sea at evening time.
Sign...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French school The River Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️The River from Rousseau⬅️
"Il est tombé par terre, C'est la faute à Voltaire, Le nez dans le ruisseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau" - He fell to the ground, It's Voltaire's fault, H...
Category
Tonalist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$595 Sale Price
79% Off
Walter Dendy Sadler RBA, The Introduction
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming late 19th-century oil painting by English artist Walter Dendy Sadler RBA (1854-1923) depicts an introduction between a demure young Regency lady and her potential suito...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Extensive Landscape - Large French Impressionist Atmospheric Antique Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful large late 19th century French impressionist oil on canvas depicting an extensive landscape with trees in the foreground and an atmosph...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Sailboats off the Coast”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on academy board by the well known American marine artist, Franklin Dullen Briscoe. Signed lower right. (Under gold liner) Circa 1885. C...
Category
Academic Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
$1,920 Sale Price
20% Off
Hawley Nell original American Antique Painting Impressionist Maine Gruppe framed
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original American impressionist oil painting of a country road in Maine by Emile Gruppe's cousin, American artist Haley B. Nell.
Not much else is known about Nell, although the a...
Category
American Impressionist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1896 Original poster - Les Maîtres de l'affiche Pl. 2 - Divan Japonais
Located in PARIS, FR
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's "Divan Japonais, 75 rue des Martyrs" poster, created in 1896, is an emblematic example of the poster art of the period. It is part of the "Maîtres de l'Af...
Category
Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Little Mule and white rabbit: 1890s novecento animal equestrian horse painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A gorgeous novecento animalier painting, depicting a curious colt and.a white rabbit, by Gaetano Jerace (1860-1940)
Gaetano Jerace was born in Polistena in Calabrian into a dynasty of artists: his brothers Francesco (1894-1937) and Vincenzo (1862-1947) also became painters.
Gaetano moved to Naples as a young man, where a attended the Academy of Fine Arts, studying with Francesco Lojacono...
Category
Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
Young girl - Original etching, Signed (Venturi #1160)
By Paul Cézanne
Located in Paris, IDF
Paul Cézanne
Young girl, 1873
Original etching and roulette
Signed in plate "P. Cézanne" and dated 1873 in lower right corner
On vellum 32 x 25 cm (c. 13 x 10")
REFERENCES :
- Cat...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Antique French Egyptian Revival Bronze Bust Sculpture Statue "Queen of Babylon"
Located in Portland, OR
A good antique cast bronze sculpture an Egyptian Revival bust "The Queen of Babylon", by the 19th century French sculptor Paul Auguste Gagne, circa 1875.
This rare & unusual bronze b...
Category
French School Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Bronze
Paris Opera : Ballerina in the Stairs - Original lithograph 1897
By Henri Boutet
Located in Paris, IDF
Henri BOUTET (1851 - 1919)
Ballerina in the Stairs, 1897
Original lithograph (Champenois workshop)
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum, 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 in)
INFORMATION:...
Category
Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Beauty - Original lithograph - 1897
By Edward Burne-Jones
Located in Paris, IDF
Edward Burne-Jones
Beauty, 1898
Original lithograph (Champenois workshop)
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum, 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 in)
INFORMATION: Lithograph created for t...
Category
Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Early Painting from Puerto Orotava (Puerto de la Cruz), Tenerife, 1894
Located in Stockholm, SE
This small oil painting on board (21.5 x 33 cm) is a rare early work by Swedish landscape painter Carl Johansson (1863–1944). Painted during the artist’s 1894 travels to the Canary I...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Torera: the Spanish Girl who could take on a bull latin art nouveau period oil
Located in Norwich, GB
My analysis of this striking art nouveau period painting evolved as I studied it. Initially, I thought it was simply a portrait of a dashing, stylish, somewhat androgynously dressed ...
Category
Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique Oil on Canvas Orientalist Painting Moorish Spain Gate of The Sun Toledo
Located in Portland, OR
A large & important Orientalist oil on canvas painting, Moorish Spain, by Pollok Sinclair Nesbit (1848-1922) ASRA, "The Gate of the Sun" Toledo, 1872.
A member of The Royal Scottish ...
Category
Realist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique portrait oil painting of an art lesson by Swiss artist Louis Patru
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique portrait painting of two woman having an art lesson by Swiss artist, Louis Patru (1871-1905). This is an unusual painting from an artist who only enjoyed a short life. Two ...
Category
French School Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil
"An Autumn Landscape" Jasper F. Cropsey, Hudson River School, Fall Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Jasper F. Cropsey
An Autumn Landscape
Signed and dated J.F. Cropsey 1898
Oil on canvas
14 x 24 inches
Provenance
Private Collection Texas, acquired in the early 1900s
Thence by desc...
Category
Hudson River School Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1898 - Moulin Rouge Bal La Goulue - Les Maîtres de l'affiche Pl. 122
Located in PARIS, FR
A lithographic reproduction of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's "Moulin Rouge Bal La Goulue", created for Les Maîtres de l'Affiche as plate number 122, is an outstanding example of the po...
Category
Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Francis E. Jamieson (1895-1950) - 1895 Oil, The Landscapers
Located in Corsham, GB
This pastoral landscape painting depicts a tranquil country road with two working men meeting below the overhanging trees. The scene is brought to life with the inclusion of small fi...
Category
Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Painted Wood Tavolette Book Cover Binding The Biccherna Aesthetic Siena Tuscany
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Icilio Federico Joni.
Italian ( b.1866 - d.1946 ).
Painted Gesso, Gilt & Wood Tavolette Book Cover Binding In The Sienese Biccherna Aesthetic.
Book Cover size 11 inches x 8.1 inches ( 28cm x 20.5cm ).
Frame size 16 inches x 13 inches ( 40.5cm x 33cm ).
Available for sale; this painted gesso and gilt “tavolette” wooden book cover in the Biccherna aesthetic is by Icilio Federico Joni.
The book cover is mounted and supplied in a contemporary black Tulip Wood frame (which is shown in these photographs) which is glazed with non-reflective Tru Vue UltraVue® UV70 glass. The wooden book cover is curved and float mounted giving a wonderful 3D depth to its presentation.
The gesso and painted surfaces have benefitted from professional restoration which was performed on our instruction, supervision and approval.
This antique book cover is in very good condition, commensurate with its age.
The frame presentation is new and in excellent condition. Combined, it wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The story of these panels and of their artist is fascinating, and begins in 13th century Siena:
The Biccherna was the person who held the position of Magistrate of Chancellery of Finance from the 13th to the 14th century for the republic and the city of Siena, in the Tuscany region of Italy. The records of that office were very important because Siena was one of the earliest and most significant banking centres in Italy, and indeed in Europe. It became the fashion to keep banking and taxation records of the region in large books with painted leather covers. These were originally made from wood and leather. In the competition to make these ever more prestigious the bindings and panels on the front and rear of the books were painted by the major artists of the day, such as Giovanni di Paolo. Many of these mainly secular covers are displayed in the Archives of the State of Siena located in the Palazzo Piccolmini.
The Gothic Revival of the 19th century occurred partly as a reaction against the progress of industrialisation in Europe generally. It was however greatly affected by the unification of Italy in the second half of the 19th century. This led to the closure and downsizing of many religious institutions, which resulted in the dispersal of thousands of works of art dating from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Many aristocratic and bourgeois families struggled to pay debts or simply to make ends meet and so they sold off their private collections and family heirlooms. There was then an influx of goods into the antiques market which provided a great deal of work for Italy’s restorers and craftsmen, since many of these pieces were in need of cleaning, repair and, in keeping with the interventionist tastes of the times, radical restoration, before they could be sold on, often to foreign buyers. These early Italian works became so fashionable that demand soon outstripped supply. This in turn gave rise to a new type of artist-craftsman capable of turning out from scratch increasingly convincing reproductions, imitations and out-and-out fakes.
Siena naturally became the epicentre of this thriving cottage industry because of the extraordinary continuity there in traditional craft skills. This technical expertise had been handed down from generation to generation, and it was perhaps inevitable that a number of artists with real talent, the flair of commerce and a genuine love and understanding of antique Sienese art should adapt their skills to these new market conditions. Among these artists were Igino Gottardi, Alceo Dossena, Fulvio Corsini, Umberto Giunti...
Category
Renaissance Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Tempera, Wood Panel
Odalisque
Located in Stockholm, SE
An oriental odalisque standing holding her hands together upwards against the side of her head. Behind her a drapery and to the right further back an opening towards a terass with su...
Category
Other Art Style Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,408
19th Century French Academic Drawing Portrait of Male Nude Young Man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Portrait of a Young Male Nude
French, late 19th century
pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed
with further sketches verso
artist paper: 13 x 9.5 inches
provenanc...
Category
French School Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Pencil
Framed Late 19th Century Oil - Two Friends Fishing
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming late 19th century oil painting depicting two gentlemen fishing in an idyllic river location. The composition has been well presented in a contemporary gilt frame with inte...
Category
Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil
$402 Sale Price
20% Off
Late 19th Century Oil - Girl Beside a Water Fountain
Located in Corsham, GB
Initialled 'R.M.' lower left. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil
“Still Life with Fruit”
By Henry George Todd
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a late 19th century still life with fruit by the well known British artist, Henry George Todd. Signed lower left a...
Category
Academic Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,400 Sale Price
36% Off
Hubert Henrard - 19th Century Belgian Still Life of wildflowers
Located in London, GB
HUBERT HENRARD
(Belgium 1816-1898)
Still Life with Cornflower and Harebells
Signed l.r.: Hubert Henrard
Oil on canvas
Framed
25 by 20.5 cm., 10 by 8 in.
(frame size 41.5 by 36.5 c...
Category
Realist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Winslow Homer 19th Century Woodcut Engraving "Making Hay"
Located in Alamo, CA
This Winslow Homer woodcut engraving entitled "Making Hay", was published in Harper's Weekly in the July 6, 1872 edition. It depicts a two men hand cutting high grass on a hill. The man in the foreground is looking at a young boy and a girl (presumably his children), who are sitting on the ground with a picnic basket.
This beautiful Homer woodcut engraving is presented in a brown wood frame and a light beige fabric mat with a black inner mat. The print is in excellent condition.
There are two other Homer woodcut engravings in identical frames and mats that are listed on 1stdibs. See LU117326148332 and LU117326148272. These would make a wonderful display grouping. A discount is available for the purchase of two or all three of these prints.
This Winslow Homer engraving...
Category
American Impressionist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
19th-century Orientalist Reclining Odalisque Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Was she a gift to the Sultan, deliciously bejeweled and enrobed in the finest embroidered silks? By this time, resigned to her fate, the once Christian Circassian girl would have bee...
Category
French School Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Toby Rosenthal (German painter) - 19th century figure painting - Male portrait
Located in Varmo, IT
Tobias Edward Rosenthal, known as Toby (Strasbourg 1848 - Munich 1917) - Portrait of a San Francisco gentleman.
123 x 92 cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame.
- Work ...
Category
Realist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A French Chasseur a Cheval de la Garde Imperiale, drinking outside a Inn or Pub
Located in Woodbury, CT
A French Chasseur a Cheval de la Garde Imperiale, drinking outside an Inn or Pub.
Frank Moss Bennett was born in Liverpool, England on 15 November 1...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Panel
Wooded River Landscape at Dusk - Scottish Victorian art oil painting moonlight
Located in London, GB
This atmospheric exhibited Scottish Impressionist Victorian landscape oil painting is by noted Glasgow Boy artist Robert Macaulay Stevenson. Painted circa 1899 the theme is one close...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Fine Victorian British Oil Painting 1896 Figure Walking Highland River Pathway
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Highland Pathway
by Harry Sticks (British, 1867-1938)
signed oil on canvas, framed in elaborate gilt swept frame
dated (18)96
framed: 18 x 14 inches
canvas: 15 x 11 inches
Prov...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Large Antique American Hudson River School Waterfall Landscape Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American rare woman artist Hudson River School waterfall landscape by Susan E. W. Fuller (1831 - 1907). Oil on canvas. Signed. Large and impressive painting. Handsomely fr...
Category
Hudson River School Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Divine Comedy : Dante and Beatrice - Original lithograph, 1898
By Henri Martin
Located in Paris, IDF
Henri MARTIN
Divine Comedy : Dante and Beatrice, 1898
Original lithograph (Champenois workshop)
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum, 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 in)
INFORMATION: Li...
Category
Symbolist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Cows in a Meadow'. Oil painting by Louis Japy
Located in St. Albans, GB
Louis Aimé Japy
1840 - 1916
Oil painting on canvas
Fully signed
Picture Size: 21.25 x 28.25" (54 x 72cm)
Outside Frame Size: 28.25 x 35.25" (72 x 89cm)
Excellent age appropriate con...
Category
Barbizon School Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil
$5,617 Sale Price
30% Off
Equestrian Joan of Arc
Located in PARIS, FR
Equestrian Joan of Arc
by Emmanuel FREMIET (1824-1910)
A very fine bronze equestrian group with a greenish dark brown patina
signed " Fremiet " on the base
cast by " F. Barbedienne...
Category
French School Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Bronze
Monogrammed TG, Late 19th Century Symbolist Pre- Raphaelite Oil Painting. Luna
Located in Holywell, GB
Monogrammed TG, Late 19th Century Symbolist Pre- Raphaelite Oil Painting Luna
An intriguing painting displaying imaginative symbolism and referencing the Pre-Raphaelite movement. T...
Category
Symbolist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Antique French Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting Sea Landscape Antibes France
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique Impressionist painting by the celebrated French Impressionist painter William Georges Thornley (1857-1935), a view of the Mediterranean sea from Antibes, France, circa...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Golden Daydream - British Victorian Pre-Raphaelite art portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This stunning British Victorian Pre-Raphaelite Royal Academy exhibited oil painting is by note female Suffragette artist Emily Mary Osborn. Painted in 1877 it was exhibited at the RA...
Category
Pre-Raphaelite Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil
19th century English marine, The Thames at the Pool of London, original frame
By Bernard Benedict Hemy
Located in Woodbury, CT
Bernard Hemy - Bernard Benedict Hemy (1844 - 1910). Marine and Coastal painter in oil and watercolor. Born in Newcastle to Henry F. Hemy, brother...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Madonna with Christ Child & St. John the Baptist Renaissance Masterpiece
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Madonna, Christ Child & St. John the Baptist
Italian School, after an earlier Renaissance masterpiece
pastel on board, framed
framed: 28 x 25 inches
board: 24 x 21 inches
provena...
Category
Renaissance Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Pastel
Honesty, English antique mauve flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Honesty'
Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890.
Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freehand a...
Category
Naturalistic Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
19th Century Irish Landscape Oil Painting Figures in Mountains with Cottage
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Irish artist, 19th century, indistinctly signed & dated 1880s
Title: The Irish Landscape & Homestead
Medium: oil painting on board, framed.
framed: 14.25 x 18.75 i...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Butterflies, late 19th century antique natural history colour lithograph
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Chrysiridia madagascarensis'
Late 19th century colour lithograph of butterflies.
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Childhood of Dante - British Victorian Pre-Raphaelite figurative oil painting
Located in London, GB
This stunning British Victorian Pre-Raphaelite Royal Academy exhibited oil painting is by noted historical female artist and suffragette Jessie MacGregor. She was tutored by Lord Frederick Leighton at the Royal Academy art schools in the 1870's and his influence can be seen here. Painted in 1892 and exhibited that year, the subject matter is when Dante, (1265-1321) later an Italian Florentine poet, first met Beatrice, the love of his life when he was nine. They met in a gathering at her father's palazzo in Florence. She was a few months younger than Dante and dressed in a crimson dress. They never actually spoke for another nine years although Dante often observed her. They were both married off during this time, as was the custom then and Beatrice died aged only 24. Dante remained devoted to Beatrice for the rest of his life and she was his principal inspiration for much of his well known work, such as La Vita Nuova (The New Life) and La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy). (see below biography for more details on Dante and Beatrice).
This stunning Pre-Raphaelite oil painting depicts Beatrice kneeling on the grass, holding flowers and gazing up at Dante as he stands beside her, hands over her head, perhaps miming crowning her. Other children and their maids dance around them. Beyond them is a Florentine garden with beautiful arches and some figures to the right. To the left one can glimpse the landscape under a summer's sky. MacGregor has portrayed superb detail in the figures expressions and clothing with rich red and gold tones and the vivid blue sky echoing in the little boy's tunic. The brushwork is fantastic. MacGregor painted some fantastic paintings in her time, many of which were exhibited and now hang in art galleries. This painting is a superb example of her work, with excellent provenance and would grace any wall.
Signed twice 'Jessie Macgregor/1892' lower right.
Provenance. Anon. sale, Sotheby's, Belgravia, 11 December 1972, lot 195.
Exhibited London, Royal Academy, 1892, no. 905 entitled In the Childhood of Dante. From this time forward love ruled my heart.
Literature Royal Academy Illustrated, 1892, p. 78.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 65 inches by 35 inches and in good condition.
Frame. Housed in a gilt frame with ornate flower corners and reeded edge, 87 inches by 57 inches, in good condition.
Jessie MacGregor (1847–1919) was a British painter. She was born in Liverpool to a Scottish father, Alexander (1820-1898) and Liverpudlian mother, Sarah (1820-1894). She had an older brother and 7 younger siblings. MacGregor first learned drawing at the drawing academy in Liverpool run by her grandfather Andrew Hunt, a landscape painter. Her mother taught her to use water colours. Her parents went to live in London and she began to study painting there, becoming a pupil at the Royal Academy Schools in 1870 for seven years where her teachers were Lord Leighton, P. H. Calderon, R.A., and John Pettie, R.A. She won a gold medal at the Royal Academy for history painting in December 1871, the prescribed subject being An Act of Mercy. She was the second woman after Louisa Starr's gold medal in 1867, and the last woman to do so until 1909. She first exhibited at the RA whilst still a student, in 1871. She continued with a historical genre when history paintings were broadening their reach towards literature and romance. Her subjects were almost always women or children. MacGregor was made an Academician for the Liverpool Academy of Art in 1874. By 1880 she was using a studio on Elm Tree Road and exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy. in 1884 her brother Archibald also started working from this address and they both had paintings at the RA that year. In 1888 she moved studio to Hill Road St John's Wood. In 1892 MacGregor had two painting at the RA, a portrait of Miss Phyllis Eden and our painting, In the Childhood of Dante. This was described as a fresh bit of Italian Childhood and harmonious colour grouping by the Western Daily Press. Portraits rarely got a mention in the papers but narrative works were much more popular. She lectured widely for the Victorian University extension scheme at the Arts Clubs of Liverpool, the National Gallery and Leighton House museum and other regional centres. MacGregor had a studio in Chalcot Gardens Hampstead from 1900 and began to get involved with women's issues. In 1904 she was on the committee of the Lyceum Club London along side Henrietta...
Category
Pre-Raphaelite Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Dusk on a Country Road
Located in North Clarendon, VT
Beautiful small Barbizon oil on canvas painting of two peole walking down a country road with dark stormy skies. Housed in a Whistler style period frame. Faintly signed lower left bu...
Category
Barbizon School Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Peony, English antique red flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Peony'
Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890.
Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freehand and...
Category
Naturalistic Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Louisiana: A Framed 19th Century Map by O.W. Gray
Located in Alamo, CA
This framed 19th century map of the Louisiana territory was published in "Gray's Atlas of the United States with General Maps of the World, accompanied by Descriptions Geographical, Historical, Scientific and Statistica" published in 1873 in Philadelphia by O.W. Gray and Son and Stedman, Brown and Lyon. It is a highly detailed map of Louisiana...
Category
Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Engraving
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