Mid-19th Century Art

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James Renwick Brevoort (1832–1918) was an influential American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, a mid-19th century art movement known for its romantic portr...

(The poetess Chiyo turns to watch a flight of wild geese while sweeping up autumn leaves) Signature: Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga; Censor seal: Muramatsu Series: Kenjo hakkei ...

Monkey Match Holder by Christophe FRATIN (1801-1864) Bronze with nuanced brown patina Signed on the base "Fratin" Old edition cast France circa 1850 height 14,5 cm width 10 cm dep...

The Express Train published by Currier & Ives 152 Nassau Street New York City from the small folio shows a train traveling through the country side wit...

James Stark 1794-1859, was an English landscape painter, exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and the Norwich School of Artists. Stark studied under John Crome, ...

Estate stamp on verso; on stretcher bar: SEP 9th 1855

Wissour circa 1850 23 landscapes in the South of France Oil on paper 112,6 x 173,9 cm with the frame Signed on severals paper on the back

Romantic school, mid 19th century Antique Scene, Woman and Infant surrounded by guards watercolor, pen and black ink and heightenings of white gouache on...

Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with white. Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches (24 x 34 cm) Hand made gilt frame Provenance The Fine Art Society 1981 (Label Verso) Priv...

John Henry Hill was a distinguished landscape painter and engraver of the American Pre-Raphaelite tradition. A lifelong resident of West Nyack, New York, John Henry Hill was influenc...

Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849) Poem by Bunya no Asayasu (Fumiya no Asayasu), from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki) 「百人一首うはか...

PS 251 Beauty and the Beast The painting features a young woman with striking, vivid features and deep blue hair, holding a small black and tan dachshund. The background is composed...

Régis François Gignoux (1816–1882) was a French-American landscape painter known for his contributions to the Hudson River School. Gignoux quickly became an integral part of the Amer...

Jean Philippe George-Julliard (1818 – 1888) A landscape with a traveler Oil on paper Signed HG lower right 19.5 x 29 cm The four corners are cut Framed under glass 27 x 47 cm Jean Philippe George-Julliard (1818–1888) or Henri Philippe Julliard was born on 1 january 1818 in Geneva (Switzerland) from french parents. He first studied art in Nantes in France, but later he came back to Geneva where he became pupil of Alexandre Calame...

"Waiting for Death" is a haunting graphite drawing by American artist William Perkins Babcock, known for his symbolic and evocative works. In this powerful composition, Babcock explo...

Signed and dated right of center: J.F. Cropsey / 1852

Achille Devéria (1800-1857) A young woman seen in profile Black Chalk on paper with cut edges Bears the stamp of the Achille Deveria Estate Sale of 1...

Covered Bridge Deep in the New England Forest is a captivating work that exemplifies the essence of the Hudson River School's artistic vision. This painting portrays a covered bridge...

Philip Westcott 1815-1878, was a British born artist. This portrait is of the former Prime Minister Charles Grey 2nd Earl of the House of Howick, he was Prime Minister from 1830 to ...

Presented is a wonderful example of mid-19th-century American Portraiture. Portrait of a Girl, c. 1850s Oil on Canvas 27" x 22" Housed in its original period frame Spandrel Sit...

'Fisom degli abiti dell' America Nord-oe / Uomo donna dell' Isola Nootka' / 'Nipissonghi / Ottovaeri' Italian lithograph, c1841. Originally from 'Galleria universale di tutti i popo...

'Vettura di Candadesi' / 'Cerimonia per defunli degl' Indiani nel Canada' Italian lithograph, c1841. Originally from 'Galleria universale di tutti i popoli del mondo' by Giuseppe An...

Oil on canvas mounted on panel depicting a study from JP Laurens painting. According to the Gospels, Pilate ordered the execution and crucifixion of this Jewish preacher at the end o...

This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Cat Squirrel, No. 4, Plate XVII", from John James Audubon's Quadrupeds of North America, published in Philade...

Charles CHAPLIN (Les Andelys 1825 – Paris, 1891) Portraits of women Pair of oils on rectangular canvases H. 60 cm; L. 50 cm Signed Student of Michel Martin Drolling at the École des...

Attribuetd to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) La Famille heureuse (The Happy Family) Watercolor on paper 23 x 18 cm In quite good condition : a small tear i...

French Romantic School circa 1830 "Le Baiser" The Kiss, A hunter and a girl flirting, study of the girl in the upper register pencil, pen and black ink 19.5 x 13 cm (view) Framed ...

Joseph Meganck 1807 – Aalst – 1891 Belgian Painter 'Together in Prayer' Signature: signed lower right and dated 1845 'Meganck 45'
 Medium: oil on panel
 Dimensions: image 46 x 37 c...

William Huggins (1820 - 1884) A lion and a lioness in a landscape Oil on panel  Signed and dated, lower right: 'Huggins 1847' With gallery and exhibition labels, verso Provenance: ...

COLIN François (1798-1864) The Declaration of love Oil on canves signed low left Old frame regilded with leaves Dim canvas : 41 X 57 - Dim frame : 56 X 71 cm COLIN François (1798-1...

This is an original 19th century hand-colored McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled "Shau-Hau-Napo-Tinia, An Ioway Chief", lithographed by J. T. Bowen after a pa...

The present work is an excellent example of the erotic Shunga prints produced by Utagawa 'Ando' Hioshige and his school. Shunga imagery became especially widespread in Japan with the...

Marble-based bronze statuette depicting Cupid, holding an arrow in his hand, walking caressing a lion's mane, lowered in the act of affectionately licking his little foot. The subjec...

In Mountain Stream, Henry Boese presents a majestic and serene vision of the American wilderness. A crisp, rushing stream flows through the heart of the composition, cascading over r...

This an original 19th century hand colored McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled "Wa-Bish-Kee-Pe-Nas, A Chippewa, No. 85", published by Rice, Rutter & Co. in 186...

Achille Devéria (1800-1857) A galant scene pencil on paper Some stains (see photographs please) Bears the stamp of the Achille Deveria Estate Sale o...

France middle of 19th century A set of 5 drawings Landscapes, farms and ruins Brown ink and brown ink wash on paper, Black ink and black ink wash on paper Dimensions vary : A big fa...

John Atkinson Grimshaw 1836 - 1893 Looking across Buttermere Oil on canvas, signed & dated '1868' lower right Image size: 13 ½ x 20 ½ inches (34.2 x 50.5 cm) Hand made gilt frame This work is dated 1868 making it one of his early works, painted during the same period as Grimshaw's other Lake District paintings...

"Townsend's Rocky Mountain Hare" is an original color lithograph by John James Audubon. This artwork features two gray hares in a muted, cool-colored landscape. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" art...

Jean-Pierre Cassigneul is arguably France’s most popular and revered contemporary figurative painter. Since his birth, the artist has been immersed in the world of feminine beauty an...

Uses and Customs - Map of Churches in Ravenna is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " Hist...

The oldest European buildings in China are along the once curved crescent shore of the Praya Grande, where the Portuguese explorers established and fortified their trading foothold with an entire continent. When they arrived in 1553, this small fishing village overlooked by a temple to an ocean goddess immediately became an important cultural center of the world and the stage for initial interactions between the East and West. Ever since, this port has played a role in the cosmopolitan course of world trade. (The harbor is extensively filled in and built upon today.) In this view, more than 300 years after the Dutch established contact in the early 17th Century and western ships first sailed in the harbor, a British Sidewheel Steamer is in the port of Macao, surrounded by more than 20 Chinese vessels. The artist's perspective, looking northwest towards the Praya Grande's center, brings Praha Hill and its stone stairway in view, with the church on top. The inlaid stone walkway of the port city is full of human figures, one wearing a special red jacket while the rest wear blue or white. One westerner in a top hat at the stern post of the closest Chinese ship directs its crew outward bound...

Edouard Chevret (1835-1864) Napoleon and his soldiers, different studies Signed on the lower right and dated 1860 28 x 45 cm In a modern mount covering the original mount. In quite g...

Signed center right N Diaz. All of our works are covered by our own guarantee of authenticity which covers the work for its lifetime of ownership with the purc...

JOAQUÍN DOMÍNGUEZ BÉCQUER Spanish, 1817 - 1879 OUTSIDE THE TAVERN signed, located & dated "Joaq. D. Becquer. Sevilla 1849." (lower right) oil...

1866 Etching on cream wove paper. 5 1/2 x 4 3/8 inches (138 x 110 mm), full margins. Third state (of 4). Light scattered age tone, and time stain. Scattered extremely light areas of ...

Artist/ School/ Date: Douglas Stuart Allen (American/ French 1923-2021) American born artist from Chicago, retiring to France during his latter years to become a full time painter. Title: River Landscape Medium & Size: oil painting canvas: 19.5 x 24 inches Condition: the painting is very sound and good. Provenance: private collection, France The painting is for auction with no...

John James Audubon was born in Haiti in 1785. Most of his childhood was spent in France, where he first took interest in birds and drawing. He came to the U.S. at age 18, and made ma...

Pigment on mica Paintings on mica originating in India were produced in standard sets for the colonial tourist market. They imitated paintings on glass, which were popular in Europe...

John Frederick Kensett (1816 - 1872) Portrait of an Italian Fencer, circa 1845-47 Watercolor on wove paper 13 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches Signed with initials and inscribed lower right "J.F.K. Rome" From October 1845 through the spring of 1847, Kensett lived in Rome. He attended classes where he sketched from live models, and he sketched in the countryside outside Rome and around Florence, Perugia, and Venice, places he visited with his artist friends. He fulfilled commissions for paintings from Americans in Italy, and by 1847 his career was well established. Son of an English immigrant engraver, John Kensett lacked enthusiasm for that medium and became one of the most accomplished painters of the second generation of Hudson River School painters. His reputation is for Luminism, careful depiction of light, weather, and atmosphere as they affect color and texture of natural forms. He was particularly influenced by the painting of Asher Durand in that he focused on realism and detail rather than the highly dramatic views associated with Thomas Cole. Going to the western United States in the mid 1850s and the 1860s, he was the first of the Hudson River School painters to explore and paint the West. Kensett was born and raised in Cheshire, Connecticut, and learned his engraving from his father, Thomas Kensett with whom he worked in New Haven, Connecticut until 1829. He continued working until 1840 as an engraver of labels, banknotes and maps and was employed part of that time by the American Bank Note Company in New York City. There he met Thomas Rossiter, John Casilear, and other artists who urged him to pursue painting. In 1840, he and Rossiter, Asher Durand, and Casilear went to Europe where Kensett stayed for seven years and supported himself by doing engraving but became accomplished in landscape painting. Having sent canvases of Italian landscapes back to New York, he had a reputation for skillful painting that preceded him. When he returned to New York City in 1847, he was an "instant success" and very sought after by collectors. Two of his Italian landscapes had already been purchased by the American Art Union. By 1849, he was a full member of the National Academy of Design and was generally popular among his peers. His studio was a gathering place with travelers stopping by to see his canvases and to identify "precise locations in the Catskills or Newport or New England in the oil sketches and drawings that covered his walls." (Zellman 170). For the women, he was a popular bachelor, "romantic looking with high forehead and sensitive expression." (Samuels 262) He was also sought after by many organizations. Among his activities were serving on the committee to oversee the decoration of the United States Capitol in Washington DC, and becoming one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. An inveterate traveler, Kensett spent summers on painting excursions away from New York City. One of these trips was a special painting excursion with fifteen other artists sponsored by the B & O Railroad from Baltimore, Maryland to Wheeling, West Virginia. Unlike many of the Hudson River painters...

German School 19th Century, Portrait of a boy, pencil on paper 25.7 x 16 cm (view) Framed : 41.8 x 31.5 cm The style and execution are v...

Fine 19th Century Enamel on Porcelain Depicting Saint Anthony with the Christ Child Beautiful and finely detailed enamel painting on porcelain representing Saint Anthony of Padua wit...

Paul Gavarni (1804-1866), Fashion Plates (a collection of 12), lithographs, c. 1840, as published in Le Charivari, with the letterpress verso. [Some are ...

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780 – Paris 1867) Apelles holding his palette and brushes Late reinterpretation after The Apotheosis of Homer – c. 1860 Black chalk, stump...

American School, Mid-19th Century The Clipper Mary Lee in High Seas Oil on canvas Unsigned 25 x 35 inches

"Worm-Wood Hare" is an original color lithograph by John James Audubon. It depicts three brown rabbits in a landscape. No. 18, Plate LXXXVIII, On Stone by W.E. Hitchcock. 6" x 8" ar...

Young Boy Rider is an Original Etching realized by Nicolas Toussaint Charlet in mid-19th century. The artwork is in very good condition on a white c...

James Whistler (1834-1903), Penny Passengers, Limehouse, 1860. Etching and drypoint, signed in pencil with a butterfly and inscribed imp, printed in black ink on laid paper, trimmed at the platemark, leaving a signature tab, an impression in the second (final) state, one of only six recorded, 31/4 x 81/8 inches (8.2 x 20.7 cm) A fine impression of this great rarity. Provenance: Otto Gerstenberg, stamp verso [Lugt 2785] Reference: Kennedy 67; Glasgow 71 The buildings on the far bank of the Thames and the ship and their masts moored there show the distinctive draughtsmanship of the period 1859–1860 when Whistler worked in Limehouse and made an etching there which was published in the Thames Set. Penny Passengers, Limehouse is very rare, with only five impressions known, all but our impression in public collections. It shows in outline a group of passengers waiting for the ferry...

'Mode degl' Indiani in Mechoacan' / 'Idoli del Messico'' Italian lithograph, c1841. Originally from 'Galleria universale di tutti i popoli del mondo' by Giuseppe Antonelli, publishe...