Maria Sibylla Merian

Framed Antique Print of a Carnation Moth Metamorphosis by Maria Sibylla Merian

1771

19th century English countryside landscape "Summer in the Highlands" This peaceful painting depicts an Highlands countryside scenery during a sunny summerday. In the foreground two ...

Huge 19th century Hunting scene oil painting "Two setters with their trophy in a landscape" by the well-known Belgian animal painter Henry Schouten Henry Schouten was born in Indone...

19th century romantic oil painting "The romantic getaway to the waterfall" This charming painting depicts a couple gazing at a majestic waterfall which is nestled in a densely green...

Large French Barbizon riverscape "Sunset over a river" by Henry Jacques Delpy This peaceful barbizon riverscape depicts a sunset illuminating the sky and covering the whole scenery ...

19th century impressionist painting, capturing a beautiful day in the countryside. A young girl can be seen standing in front of her flock in the lush and beautiful countryside. A s...

Large 17th / 18th century Italian Painting - Animals entering Noah's ark, attributed to Gaetano de Rosa Cajetan Roos, also known as Gaetano de Rosa was an Italian landscape painter ...

Neapolitan gouaches appeared in the eighteenth century when tourism in the Naples area was developing: the discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii made this city a mandatory stop on the Grand Tour, the journey made by wealthy Europeans to complete their education. Generally small in size for ease of transport and affordable in price, these gouaches were the ideal travel souvenir that these tourists of the early days were bringing back to capture the idyllic landscapes they had discovered during their journey and to share them with family and friends upon their return at home. The Bay of Naples and the eruptions of Vesuvius are the favourite themes of these views. Here we have a view of the Ovo Castle, which was rebuilt on the island of Partenope, in the middle of the Bay of Naples and about a hundred metres from the shore by the Normans in the 12th century on antique ruins...

Netherlands, 1817-1891 Cornelis Springer (Amsterdam, May 25, 1817 - Hilversum, February 20, 1891) was born as the fourth son of carpenter and contractor Willem Springer. Springer received training as a house painter from the house and carriage painter Andries de Wit and from his eldest brother, who was an architect, lessons in architectural drawing and perspective. After studying at the Amsterdam Academy, he painted accurately executed cityscapes with a lot of sunlight effect in Amsterdam, temporarily in Brussels and in Germany. As a member of the 'Felix Meritis' society in Amsterdam, he won a gold medal for a church interior in 1847. Together with Barend Cornelis Koekkoek...

A beautiful watercolor by Adrien Moreau (1843-1906) showing a woman with freshly picked flowers in a basket resting in the grass by the sea. The colors are strong and it is mounted i...

mixed media on paper image size: 6.75 x 11.75 inches Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated...

mixed media on paper image size: 7 inches x 12 inches Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminate...

mixed media on paper image size: 7.25 x 13.25 inches Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated...