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Period: Mid-18th Century
La Campagne de Rome - Roman Countryside - Drawing by J. P. Verdussen - 1740ca
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and watercolour on paper.
Realized in 1740 ca.
Very good conditions.
Includes passepartout.
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Ruines Romanes - Roman Ruins - Ink and Watercolor by J. P. Verdussen - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and watercolor on paper.
Hand dated.
Conditions: Foxing on the top right of the paper
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Royal Navy Ships Firing a Salute - British Old Master marine art oil painting
By Peter Monamy
Located in London, GB
A superb British Old Master marine oil painting by Peter Monamy. Painted circa 1730 it depicts the Royal navy first and third rate men o war firing a salute....
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
The Gardens of Rome - Ink and Watercolor by J. P. Verdussen - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and watercolor on paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1742.
Hand dated.
Conditions: five holes on top margin and on the bottom right of the paper. Foxing on the top ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Vue de Macerata et de sa Campagne - drawing by J. P. Verdussen - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and watercolour on paper.
Some foxing, otherwise very good condition.
Titled and dated.
Includes passepartout.
Category
Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
La Bataille - The Battle - Drawing by J. P. Verdussen - 1740s
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and watercolor on paper.
Conditions: Two cuts on the centre of the paper. Three holes on centre-right, botton-left and top-left of the paper.
Worn on the top left of the ...
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
The Temple of Asclepius with the Chariot - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1753
Located in Roma, IT
The architect is Paolo Posi, and the image is engraved by Giuseppe Vasi.
The title: Prospetto della prima machina de fuochi d'artifizio, rappresentante il Tempio di Esculapio figl...
Category
Modern Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Girl - Ink and Watercolor by J. P. Verdussen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Girl is a china ink drawing realized b Jan Peter Verdussen in the mid-18th Century.
Good condition except for some missing parts in the lower left and right edges.
Category
Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Ink
The Gardens in Rome - Drawing by J. P. Verdussen - 1741
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and watercolour on paper.
Hand dated.
Good condition except for some foxing.
Category
Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
The Royal Militia District - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1753
Located in Roma, IT
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...
Category
Modern Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Thamas Kouli-Kan, Roy de Perse, 1742 (Nader Shah), portrait engraving, 1742
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
French 18th century engraving, published in Paris, of the Emperor of Persia, Tahmasp Quli Khan (c.1688-1747), also known as Nader Shah.
150mm by 100mm (platemark)
170mm by 120mm (sh...
Category
French School Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Engraving
The Sleepy Congregation - Etching by Simon François Ravenet - 1736
Located in Roma, IT
The Sleepy Congregation is an artwok realized in 1736, by the French Artist Simon François Ravenet, after a print by William Hogarth.
Etching on paper. Monogrammed in plate on the ...
Category
Modern Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Bindon Abbey, Dorset engraving after Samuel and Nathaniel Buck
Located in London, GB
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after Samuel Buck (1696 - 1779) and Nathaniel Buck (active 1724 - 1759)
The South View of Bindon Abbey, in the County of Dorset (1733)
Engraving
20 x 37 cm
An engraved view of Bindon Abbey, a Cistercian monastery on the River Frome in Dorset. The monastery was founded in 1149 by William de Glastonia on the site since known as Little Bindon near Bindon Hill. In 1172 the monastery moved to a site near Wool, and was supported by the house of Plantagenet. The abbey was scheduled for Dissolution in 1536, and finally dissolved in 1539. Only ruins remain.
Samuel and Nathaniel Buck...
Category
Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Engraving
The Infant St John the Baptist with Lamb - Italian Old Master art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This beautiful 18th century Italian Old Master oil painting is something rather special. Painted circa 1750 the subject matter is Saint John the Baptist as a very young child. He is ...
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Lambeth Plate, English Delftware, Blue and White Design c. 1750
Located in London, GB
English Delftware blue and white plate, painted with a flower and bird design
Diameter: 8 3/4 inches (22.25 cm)
Delftware is also known as Delft Blue, was originally a general term ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Delft, Ceramic
18th Century By Giovanni Domenico Gambone Pair of Capricci Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
The price is intended for the couple of paintings.
Expertise by Prof. Giancarlo Sestieri.
This pair of paintings by Giovanni Domenico Gambone (Turin, 1720 – 1793) depicts an archi...
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Chinese painter - 18th century figure painting - Landscape Pagoda
Located in Varmo, IT
Chinese painter (18th century) - Oriental scene.
57 x 73.5 cm without frame, 66.5 x 82 cm with frame.
Oil on canvas, in wooden frame.
Condition report: Lined canvas. Good conditio...
Category
Rococo Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th century portrait painting of a boy playing with a spinning top on a terrace
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of a young boy, full-length in a blue velvet coat and breeches, standing on a stone terrace in a park landscape, playing with a spinning top....
Category
English School Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flamingo Engraving
Located in New York, NY
Original engraving, hand-colored at publication, after the work of Mark Catesby by Johann Michael Seligmann from "Sammlung verschneider auslandischer und seltener Vogel." Nuremberg:...
Category
Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Laid Paper
Antique oil on canvas painting depicting Venus and Adonis coveted "Boucher." France
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Antique oil on canvas painting depicting Venus and Adonis.
The painting depicts in a sublimated atmosphere the death of Adonis, the young man loved by Venus, who was mortally wounde...
Category
Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas
XXXIII Fig. I Avanzo del Tempio di Castore e Polluce
Located in Fairlawn, OH
XXXIII Fig. I Avanzo del Tempio di Castore e Polluce .View of the Remains of the Peristyle of the House of Nero,
Etching, 1756
Signed in the plate (see photo)
From: Le Antichità Roma...
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Winchester Palace, Southwark, London engraving after Samuel and Nathaniel Buck
Located in London, GB
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after Samuel Buck (1696 - 1779) and Nathaniel Buck (active 1724 - 1759)
The East View of Winchester Palace (1733)
Engraving
20 x 37 cm
An engraved view of Winchester Palace, a bishop's palace built in the 12th century. It served as the London townhouse of the Bishops of Winchester and remained in use until around 1700, when it was divided up into tenements and warehouses. The building was largely destroyed by fire in 1814.
Samuel and Nathaniel Buck...
Category
Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Engraving
Antique Chinese painter - 18th century figure painting - Landscape Pagoda
Located in Varmo, IT
Chinese painter (18th century) - Oriental scene with pagoda.
42 x 73 cm without frame, 52 x 80 cm with frame.
Oil on canvas, in wooden frame.
Condition report: Lined canvas. Good ...
Category
Rococo Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Surgical Instruments - Etching by Lorenz Heister - 1750
Located in Roma, IT
Surgical Instruments is part of the Suite Institutiones Chirurgicae by Lorenz Heister. Amsterdam, Janssonius-Waesberg, 1750.
Etching on paper.
The work belongs to the Latin edition...
Category
Modern Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Italian Landscape Oil Painting Baroque Bamboccianti 18th Century Paolo Monaldi
Located in Roma, IT
Thepainting accompanied by an expertise drawn up by prof Ferdinando Arisi that wrote:
This pilgrims' stop is a typical work of Paolo Monaldi active in Rome be...
Category
Baroque Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
A very rare pair of Italian scagliola panels, mid-18th century
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Panel 1 (with boats below arch): 50x37cm; 60x47cm (framed)
Panel 2 (with cliffs): 44.5x34cm; 54x44cm (framed)
These panels are fine examples of the scagliola technique, perfected by...
Category
Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Stone
Giuseppe Adora il Bambino sotto una Palma - Etching by G.D. Tiepolo
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching and burin on wire rod paper. Second and final state, after the numbering. Signed, numbered and dated on the lower left margin of plate. 19° plate from the ser...
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Apples
Located in London, GB
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.
Apples
Hieronymous Lenzius, Regensburg, [1735]-1737-1745.
attractive plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.
Johann Weinmann (16...
Category
Naturalistic Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Laid Paper
Apples
Located in London, GB
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.
Apples
Hieronymous Lenzius, Regensburg, [1735]-1737-1745.
Johann Weinmann (1683-1741) was a Regensburg apothecary who organized the publication of Phytan...
Category
Naturalistic Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Mezzotint
Antique Italian painter - 18th century figure painting - Saint crucifix
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th century) - Saint with crucifix.
65 x 50 cm without frame, 78 x 64 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame.
Condition report: ...
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Presumed portrait of Princess de Conti, Marie-Anne de Bourbon
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Nicolas de LARGILLIERRE
(Paris 1656 – 1746)
Portrait of a woman, presumed to be Marie-Anne de Bourbon, Princess of Conti (1666-1739)
Oil on oval canvas
H. 80 cm; L. 61 cm (107 x 91 c...
Category
French School Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
19th century view of Raglan Castle by English artist David Hall McKewan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
David Hall McKewan
(English, 1817-1873)
Raglan Castle
Watercolor on paper, 9 x 13 inches (sight)
David Hall McKewan studied watercolor painting under David Cox (the elder) and exhib...
Category
Realist Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
1700's Venetian Old Master Ink Drawing St. Marks Lion Angelic Figures Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Lion of St. Mark
Venetian Old Master, mid 18th century
circle of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venetian, 1696-1770)
ink and watercolour drawing on paper mounted on a card frame, unf...
Category
Rococo Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Map of Oxfordshire coloured 18th century engraving by Thomas Kitchin
Located in London, GB
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Category
Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Engraving
St. Peter's Interior with the Nave
Located in Fairlawn, OH
St. Peter's Interior with the Nave
Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano
Etching, 1748
Signed in the plate
From: Vedute di Roma, Plate 5
An early Roman...
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Etching
St. Michael expelling the Rebel Angels
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This representation of Saint Michael fighting Satan shows a dynamic composition enriched by the special use of color together with an intense chiaroscuro that serves to give the work...
Category
Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Veduta dell'esterno della gran Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Veduta dell'esterno della gran Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano (View of the Exterior of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican)
Etching, 1748
From the first printing of the "Vedute di...
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Costume drawings for ‘Ambassadeur de Siam’ and ‘La Sultana Reine’
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809)
‘Ambassadeur de Siam’ and ‘La Sultana Reine’
Both titled lower centre, the drawing of the ambassador inscribed with colours intended for the prints, e...
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
The Monument of London in Remembrance of the Dreadful Fire of 1666
Located in Middletown, NY
Bowles, Thomas III (after John Donowell)
John Bowles & Richard Wilkinson, 1751.
Steel engraving with extensive hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 10 1/4 x 16 inches (...
Category
English School Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Architectural Stucco Design, Pen and Ink Drawing, Signed, 18th Century Italian
Located in London, GB
Pen and brown ink and brown and grey washes on paper
Signed top middle
Image size: 10 x 3 3/4 inches (25.5 x 8 cm)
The sketch is a useful example of Bigari's work in the late-Baroqu...
Category
Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Ink, Pen, Paper
Still Life Garland of Flowers - Flemish 18thC art Old Master floral oil painting
By Pieter Casteels III
Located in London, GB
This superb 18th century Old Master floral still life oil painting is attributed to Flemish artist Pieter Casteels III. Painted circa 1730 it is a garland or swag of flowers, somethi...
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
The Ponte and Castel S. Angelo (Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant' Angelo)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Ponte and Castel S. Angelo
Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant' Angelo
Etching, 1754
Signed in the plate lower right above the caption
From: Vedute di Roma
A proper Roman printing with the price in the lower right corner. Printed on a Double Circle Fleur de Lys watermark paper, c. 1760, with full margins.
A brilliant impression .
Note: A view of the Tiber River, Castello Sant' Angelo and St. Peter's Basilica in the distance.
Watermark: Double Circle Fleur de Lys
References: Robison c/g
Hind 29 ii/VII
Foclllon 793
Condition: A Roman printing before the numbers added in Paris. Printed on a Double Circle Fleur-de-Lys watermark paper.
Right margin folded over 5/8 inches for framing.
Usual centerfold as issued in the album.
Slight aging to the sheet.
Binding holes at the left margin edge
Framed with plexi.
Plate size: 14 7/8 x 22 7/8 inches
Sheet size: 21 5/8 x 30 5/16 inches
Frame size: 22 3/4 x 33 1/2 inches
Sant’Angelo Bridge, Italian Ponte Sant’Angelo, ancient (Latin) Pons Aelius, ancient Roman bridge, probably the finest surviving in Rome itself, built over the Tiber by the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117–138 AD) to connect the Campus Martius with his mausoleum (later renamed Castel Sant’Angelo). The bridge was completed about AD 135. It consists of seven stone arches and five main spans of about 60 feet (18 m) each, supported on piers 24 feet (7 m) high.
In the 13th century Pope Clement IV installed an iron balustrade and in the 16th century Pope Clement VII placed statues of Saints Peter and Paul...
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Ecole Française Du XVIIIème Siècle - Portrait De Gentilhomme, Huile Sur Toile
Located in ROUEN, FR
Ecole Française du XVIIIème siècle - Très beau Portrait de gentilhomme, huile sur toile, H.81 L.65
Category
French School Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of William Henry Kerr, Earl of Ancram, 4th Marquess of Lothian
Located in London, GB
James Fellowes
Flourished 1719 - 1750
Portrait of William Henry Kerr, Earl of Ancram, 4th Marquess of Lothian
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1747
Image size: 29 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (75 x 62 cm)
Original gilt wood frame
William Henry Kerr was born a member of the Scottish peerage to William, third Marquess of Lothian, and his first wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Nicholson of Kemnay, first Baronet. William was styled Master Jedburgh until 1722, when his father was elevated to a Marquessate, after which he was referred to as Lord Jedburgh until 1735. Following his father’s military footsteps, on 20 June 1735 Ancram was commissioned as a cornet to the regiment (11th Dragoons) of his grand-uncle, Lord Mark Kerr. Ancram married Lady Caroline...
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
BATHOS / Tail PIece
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLIAM HOGRATH (1767- 1764)
THE BATHOS / Tail Piece 1764 (Paulson 1989: 216 I/I Paulson 1965/70: 216 I/I)
Engraving Plate 12 7/8 x 13 3/8, sheet 17 ¾ x 18 ¾ Designed & Engrav’d by Wm Hogarth at left and Published according to Act of Parliam’t March 3, 1764 at right. Good condition on thick laid paper Small bit of tape on the left & right sheet edges small stan lower sheet edge all on recto.
This Hogarth’s last print is fascinating as it is prophacy about death.
Various institutions have interesting commentaries - to wit:
Chicago Art Institute: Hogarth created The Bathos toward the end of his life. It is considered one of the bleakest artworks of the 18th century because it depicts the Apocalypse without an afterlife. The Angel of Death even collapses in exhaustion after having destroyed the world. In his hand is an execution decree and around him lies a mass of broken objects.
Princeton: Hogarth’s last print, The Bathos,….. is filled with all manner of images denoting the end of life as we know it. Entry no. 216 in Ronald Paulson’s catalogue raisonne Hogarth’s Graphic Works, 3rd revised edition says “This print is the culmination of such pessimistic images . . . . [taking] his general composition, the configuration of objects, and some of the particular items, from Dürer’s engraving, Melancholia; but he also recalls Salvator Rosa’s Democritus in Meditation (which derives from Dürer’s print) with a scroll at the bottom of the etching: ‘Democritus the mocker of all things, confounded by the ending of All Things’ (Antal, p.168).”
Newfields (Indianapolis Museum of Art): Hogarth intended this engraving to serve as the tailpiece to bound volumes of his collected engravings and, appropriately, it proved to be his last engraving. Father Time has died and his last will and testament has been witnessed by the three Fates. He is surrounded by a landscape of death, decay, and ruin. Hogarth aimed this print at dealers in “dark” Old Masters paintings who promoted the idea that ruins evoked sublime feelings in viewers—a sentiment, Hogarth wrote, that was reducing the world to ruin.
British Caricature...
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Woodcut
Portrait of Maria Vittoria Queen of Portugal - Italian Old Master oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely Italian Old Master portrait oil painting is by Domenico Maria Sani. Painted circa 1732 the sitter is of Maria Anna Vittoria (1718 - 1788), daughter of Philip V and Elisabetta Farnese, who in 1729 married Joseph prince of Brazil and king of Portugal...
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Early Naturalistic Wildlife Animal Rendering of a Possible Capuchin Monkey
Located in Houston, TX
Early naturalistic wildlife rendering by the English artist Peter Paillou. The work features a delicately rendered depiction of a possible capuchin monkey from an 18th century specim...
Category
Naturalistic Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Gouache
"Le Pont Neuf Et Royal"
Located in Bristol, CT
Lovely hand-colour engraving published 1766 of 'Le Pont Neuf Et Royal', the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris
w/ FAR Gallery 746 Madison Avenue, NYC label affi...
Category
Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Two Nude Me - Etching by Nicholas Cochin - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Two Nude Men is an etching realized by Nicholas Cochin in 1755.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with central folding.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes.
Category
Modern Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Etching
The First Map of Oxford engraving by William Williams after Ralph Agas
Located in London, GB
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William Williams (active 1724 - 1733) after Ralph Agas (c. 1540 - 1621)
The First Map of Oxford (1733)
Engraving
47 x 54 cm
In 1578, Ralph Agas drew the first ever map of Oxford, studded with the first colleges of the University. In 1733 it was engraved by William Williams for publication in the Oxonia Depicta, a book of illustrations depicting similar views as David Loggan's volume of engravings.
Ralph Agas was an English surveyor and cartographer. He was born in Suffolk and lived there throughout his life, although he travelled regularly to London. He began to practise as a surveyor in about 1566, and has been described as "one of the leaders of the emerging body of skilled land surveyors". regular work consisted of drawing up local estate maps...
Category
Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Engraving
Manor House with Cottages - British 18thC Old Master art oil painting VG prov.
Located in London, GB
This stunning British Old Master landscape oil painting, with excellent provenance, is by George Lambert. Lambert was a pioneer of British landscape in art for its own sake. Painted in 1744, the painting is entitled View of a Manor House and Cottages in Elizabeth Einberg's 63rd volume of the Walpole Society 2001 and is described as follows: In the foreground a road emerges from a wood to cross a ford and then leads up the hill to the right, towards a manor house seemingly built into the remains of a medieval or Tudor edifice. The main track, crowded with sheep and rustic figures, passes the massive square gateposts lower down the hill on the left. Further to the left is a thatched cottage with smoke coming out the chimney. In the distance is a wide coastal view. The main buildings, which are in the dead centre of the composition, represent almost certainly an as yet unidentified English view.
The colouring and detail in the trees and foliage are superb. This is an excellent Old Master oil painting by one of the all time great British landscape artists with extensive provenance.
Signed and dated 1744 lower left on rock in black.
Provenance. Elizabeth Einberg, “Catalogue Raisonnè of the works of George Lambert” The Annual Volume of the Walpole Society, 2001 Vol. 63, page 149 no P1744, fig.71.
Antonacci Efrati Antichità Rome Gallery.
Burden sale, Parke Bernet, New York, 20-21, April 1938 (376 repr.)
Robert E. Peters, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, March 1975 (41 repr.)
Lit. Schnackenburg 1995, pp 83-84, cat. no.14 fig 13.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 54 inches by 52 inches and in good condition.
Frame. Housed in an ornate gilt frame, 64 inches by 62 inches and in good condition.
George Lambert (1700-1765) was an English landscape artist and theatre scene painter. With Richard Wilson he is recognised as a pioneer of British landscape in art, for its own sake. Lambert was born in Kent and studied art under Warner Hassells and John Wootton, soon attracting attention by the quality of his landscape painting. He painted many large and fine landscapes in the style of Gaspar Poussin and Salvator Rosa. Many of his landscapes were finely engraved by François Vivares, James Mason (1710–1785), and others, including a set of views of Plymouth and Mount Edgcumbe (painted conjointly with Samuel Scott), a view of Saltwood Castle in Kent, another of Dover, and a landscape presented to the Foundling Hospital in London. Lambert also obtained a great reputation as a scene-painter, working at first for the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, in London, under John Rich. When Rich moved to Covent Garden Theatre, Lambert secured the assistance of Amigoni, and together they produced scenery of far higher quality than any previously executed. Lambert was a man of jovial temperament and shrewd wit, and frequently spent his evenings at work in his painting-loft at Covent Garden Theatre, to which men of note in the fashionable or theatrical world resorted to share his supper of a beef-steak, freshly cooked on the spot. Out of these meetings arose the well-known "Beefsteak Club" which long maintained a high social reputation. Most of Lambert's scene-paintings unfortunately perished when Covent Garden Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1808. Lambert was a friend of William Hogarth and a member of the jovial society that met at 'Old Slaughter's' Tavern in St Martin's Lane. In 1755 he was one of the committee of artists who proposed a royal academy of arts in London. He was a member of the Society of Artists of Great Britain, exhibited with them in 1761 and the three following years, and during the same period contributed to the Academy exhibitions. In 1765 he and other members seceded and formed the Incorporated Society of Artists of Great Britain, of which he was elected the first president. In conjunction with Samuel Scott, Lambert painted a series of Indian views for the old East India House in Leadenhall Street. He also etched two prints after Salvator Rosa. Lambert was associated in 1735 with George Vertue, Hogarth, and John Pine (engraver, 1660–1756) in obtaining a bill from parliament securing artists a copyright on their works. Lambert's portraits were painted by Thomas Hudson, John Vanderbank (engraved in mezzotint by John Faber the younger in 1727, and in line by H. Robinson and others), and Hogarth. Lambert's most famous painting is "A view of Box Hill, Surrey" (1733) which depicts a well-known beauty spot south of London. Hogarth considered Lambert a rival to the famous French landscape painter Claude Lorrain (1600–1682) with respect to his use of soft light to unify the scene in this painting. Though he never visited Italy he was inspired by the classical tradition of landscape painting. Lambert died on 30 November 1765 at his home on the Piazza in Covent Garden. His pupils included John Inigo Richards...
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Landscape with Ruins and Figures - British 18thC Old Master art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb British 18th century Old Master oil painting is attributed to circle of noted landscape artist Richard Wilson. Painted circa 1750 it is a stunning light, bright and airy expansive panoramic landscape. There is a river in the foreground and mountains in the background. On the left of the river stands some ruins and on the right, figures are resting under the trees. The palette of blues, greens and very varied and rich with some lovely pinky brown tones for the land on the right. The brushwork is also delicate but confidently executed. A superb example of a British Old Master landscape oil painting, finished off in a carved and gilt wood English Rococo frame with name plate.
Provenance. The Asbjorn Lunde Foundation, Inc. Throughout his long life, Mr. Lunde supported more than forty museums in his native New York, across the United States, and in Europe with loans, gifts, and funding. Mr. Lunde was a proud New Yorker with roots in Norway. He was keenly interested in nineteenth-century Scandinavian and Swiss landscape painting, Old Master painting, and Asian decorative arts.
According to an old label to the reverse, the present painting was once owned by James Northcote (1746-1831) who gave it to William Hillman on 25th May 183(0?)
Property of the Bacot family.
Christies stamps verso.
Watson Gallery London. Remains of label verso.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 26 inches by 18 inches and in good condition.
Frame. Housed In a carved and gilt wood English Rococo frame bearing Richard Wilson name plate, 33 inches by 25 inches and in good condition.
Richard Wilson RA...
Category
Old Masters Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Oil
18th century French figure painting - Portrait lady - Oil on canvas Rococò
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (18th century) - Portrait of a lady.
43 x 35 cm without frame, 69 x 59 cm with frame.
Oil on canvas, in carved and gilded wooden frame.
- Inscription on the back.
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Category
Rococo Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surgical Instruments - Etching by Lorenz Heister - 1750
Located in Roma, IT
Surgical Instruments is part of the suite realized by Lorenz Heister in the series of Institutiones Chirurgicae, Amsterdam, Janssonius-Waesberg, 1750.
Etching on paper.
The work be...
Category
Modern Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Surgical Instruments - Etching by Lorenz Heister - 1750
Located in Roma, IT
Surgical Instruments is part of the suite realized by Lorenz Heister in the series of Institutiones Chirurgicae, Amsterdam, Janssonius-Waesberg, 1750.
Etching on paper.
The work be...
Category
Modern Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Surgical Instruments and Treatments - Etching by Lorenz Heister - 1750
Located in Roma, IT
Surgical Instruments and Treatements is part of the suite realized by Lorenz Heister in the series of Institutiones Chirurgicae, Amsterdam, Janssonius-Waesberg, 1750.
Etching on pap...
Category
Modern Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Surgical Instruments - Etching by Lorenz Heister - 1750
Located in Roma, IT
Surgical Instruments is part of the Suite Institutiones Chirurgicae by Lorenz Heister. Amsterdam, Janssonius-Waesberg, 1750.
Etching on paper.
The work belongs to the Latin edition...
Category
Modern Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Beauty on a Veranda with Fan and Mirror
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed: Harunobu ga
Series: Series: Eight Fashionable Parlor Views (Furyu zashiki hakkei)?
Format Japanese: chuban
Provenance:
Private Collection, Philadelphia
Collection of McCleaf
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Category
Edo Mid-18th Century Art
Materials
Woodcut