Naturalistic Art

"Self-Portrait" abstract painting on linen canvas 100x120cm 2013 joy, the possibility of trusting myself, but remaining flexible the anguish of time passing too quickly and old age…

Naturalistic painting of a mare and foal as they travel down a dirt path near the seaside. Signed and dated in the front lower right corner. Currently hung in a vintage gold frame D...

"Kerfi-Zen beach" figurative painting on linen canvas 100x100cm the calm of the low tide the fascination with water and mineral that can be seen in Japanese gardens

ROBERTO NECCO, Turin 1969 SUMI- and , 2024 Painting in sumi-e ink and black suibokuga on handmade virgin Xuan paper (composed of mulberry fiber, wood and rice) artist's seal imprint...

FEOLI, Vincenzo. Vedute del Museo Pio-Clementino. Rome, 1790. A double-page engraved plate after Miccinelli and Costa. Sheet size: 70.5cm by 99cm. Mounted size: 81cm by 101cm. Magnificent series of extra-large plates illustrating the Vatican Museum...

Idyllic pastoral landscape painted in bright pastel toned colors. Signed by H. Mentzel in the bottom left corner.

'The Quadrangle of Jesus College' Engraving by John Le Keux after Frederick Mackenzie, 1837. From James Ingram's 'Memorials of Oxford'. 135mm by 175mm (...

'Remains of the Tower at Luton, Bedfordshire' Engraving by MA Rooker after Paul Sandby (1731-1809). From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, S...

'Begonia dichroa', native to Mexico. Antique botanical lithograph with original hand-colouring , 1912, lithographed by John Nugent Fitch...

'Chaffinch' Colour plate mounted on card with a printed border from 'The Detmold Nature Pictures', published circa 1919. Edward J Detmold (1883-1957) was an important early 20th century illustrator...

A naturalistic study of a nude woman standing with her back to the viewer. She appears to be gripping the corner of something. The work is signed and dated by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the entire collection. Artist Biography: Emile Lejeune...

'Gladiolus Carneus - Flesh-coloured Gladiolus' Native of the Cape of Good Hope, Africa. Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botani...

'Race de Kerry' (The Kerry Breed) Lithograph with original hand-colouring by Hermann Eichens (1813-1886) from a drawing by W. Nicholson after a painting by William Shiels. From the...

'Race Cheviot' (The Cheviot Breed) ' Lithograph with original hand-colouring by Hermann Eichens (1813-1886) from a drawing by W. Nicholson after a painting by William Shiels. From...

'Parc de Monceaux', tinted lithograph by Felix Benoist (1818-1896). From a series of lithographs depicting the famous buildings of Paris - 'Paris dans sa Splendeur', published in Na...

Steel-engraved map with original outline colouring by Isaac Slater. A detailed engraved map of the English county with title, scale, and key. Decorated with an uncoloured engraved v...

Steel-engraved map with original outline colouring by Isaac Slater. A detailed engraved map of the English county with title, scale, and key. Decorated with an uncoloured engraved v...

Steel-engraved map with original outline colouring by Isaac Slater. A detailed engraved map of the English county with title, scale, and key. Decorated with an uncoloured engraved vi...

Steel-engraved map with original outline colouring by Isaac Slater. A detailed engraved map of the English county with title, scale, and key. Decorated with an uncoloured engraved vi...

Steel-engraved map with original outline colouring by Isaac Slater. A detailed engraved map of the English county with title, scale, and key. Decorated with an uncoloured engraved vi...

Steel-engraved map with original outline colouring by Isaac Slater. A detailed engraved map of the English county with title, scale, and key. Decorated with an uncoloured engraved vi...

'Dept. des Hautes Alpes', steel engraving with original outline hand-colouring., 1856, from Levasseur's 'Atlas National Illustre'. This area of France i...

'Dept. de L'Aube', steel engraving with original outline hand-colouring., 1856, from Levasseur's 'Atlas National Illustre'. This area of France is known for its production of Chaou...

'Dept. du Bas Rhin', steel engraving with original outline hand-colouring., 1856, from Levasseur's Atlas National Illustre. Part of the Alsace wine region surrounding Strasbourg. T...

'La Gironde', steel engraving with original outline hand-colouring., 1856, from Levasseur's 'Atlas National Illustre'. This coastal department is the seat of the Bordeaux wine regi...

'Dept. des Hautes Pyrenees', steel engraving with original outline hand-colouring., 1856, from Levasseur's Atlas National Illustre. This area is home to the wine producing region, ...

'Dept. du Jura', steel engraving with original outline hand-colouring., 1856, from Levasseur's 'Atlas National Illustre'. The Jura wines are very distinctive and unusual, such as V...

'Dept. de La Lozere', steel engraving with original outline hand-colouring., 1856, from Levasseur's 'Atlas National Illustre'. This remote mountainous part of Languedoc is rural, s...

'Dept. de Saone et Loire', steel engraving with original outline hand-colouring., 1856, from Levasseur's Atlas National Illustre. The French department of Saone et Loire is at the ...

Uniche sensazioni Torre S.Emiliano by Amedeo Cianci [2017] original Olio su tela Image size: H:100 cm x W:150 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:100 cm x W:150 cm x D:2cm Sold Unf...

Self-portrait. Paper, linocut, 31x21.5 cm Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013) Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1...

Muted Cascade by Jo Haran [2021] original Gouache, watercolour ink and gesso. Image size: H:53.5 cm x W:38.4 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40.5 cm x W:56 cm x D:0.01cm Sold U...

Here are four framed hand colored humming bird species published in the early 20th century representing the original 19th century work of Scottish naturalist, Sir William Jardine. Presented under glass with marbleized mating...

PONTING, Herbert. Davis - ships carpenter - building Cape Evans hut. circa 1935. Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott’s Terra Nova exped...

Walter Blackman American, 1847-1928 Young Beauty Oil on canvas 20 by 16 in, w/ frame 32 by 28 in Studied under Gerome, Paris Exhibited: Society of American Painters 1878 Paris Sal...

Gorgeous architectural landscape painting by artist Anthony V. Martin, titled "Annora Residence." Framed in a beautiful hand painted frame. Artist Biography: Anthony V. Martin grew...

Andrea Bates, Original Oil Painting, 46x61cm Down the sunny lanes in Oxfordshire where the sunlight catches the delicate blossoms of cow parsley after a ra...

This early 19th-century aquatint was engraved and colored by Mr. John Clarke after drawings by George Perry. The publication, CONCHOLOGY, OR, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SHELLS… , was pub...

Tree Poem 23 [2021] original Oil on stretched canvas Image size: H:40 cm x W:60 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:60 cm x D:1.8cm Sold Unframed Please note that ins...

An underwater photograph of a naked young woman on neutral black background. Porcelain - aside from being an exquisite material - is the name of my project. The premise of the proj...

Chromolithograph of Ducks, laid on to contemporary card (as published). [Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1878]. Alexander Pope, Jr., was an American sculptor and painter. He’s kn...

Magnificent large plate illustrating the Vatican Museum at the end of the eighteenth century by Vincenzo Feoli (1750 - 1831) after Miccinelli and Costa. The Pio-Clementino museum, n...

"Daffodils" is a colorful naturalist landscape featuring hues of bright yellow, lime green, baby blue and orange. This work is framed in a brushed silver frame behind Plexiglas. Carlyle is inspired by the works of Claude Monet, Edouard Vuillard, Henri Matisse, Walter Inglis Anderson, Charles Burchfield, Ellsworth Kelly, Alexander Calder and Mary Delany...

Lucy Hatton is a British artist whose work is full of an ardent love of story. A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, Hatton’s art is steeped in mystery and captivating depth. Her w...

Magnificent large plate illustrating the Vatican Museum at the end of the eighteenth century by Vincenzo Feoli (1750 - 1831) after Miccinelli and Costa. The Pio-Clementino museum, n...

Themistokles von Eckenbrecher (1842 Athens - 1921 Goslar), Norwegian pine grove, 1901. Watercolor on blue-green paper, 30 x 22 cm. Signed, dated and inscribed in his own hand "TvE. Fagermes [i.e. Fagermes]. 26.6.[19]01." - Slight crease throughout at left margin, otherwise in good condition. About the artwork Themistokles von Eckenbrecher often traveled to Norway to study the nature that fascinated him there. On June 26, 1901, near the southern Norwegian town of Fagernes, in the summer evening sun, he saw a small pine grove, which he immediately captured in a watercolor. He exposed the trees growing on a small hill in front of the background, so that the pines completely define the picture and combine to form a tense motif. The tension comes from the contrast of form and color. The trunks, growing upward, form a vertical structure that is horizontally penetrated by the spreading branches and the pine needles, which are rendered as a plane. This structural tension is further intensified by the color contrast between the brown-reddish iridescent trunks and branches and the green-toned needlework. Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, however, does not use the observed natural scene as an inspiring model for a dance of color and form that detaches itself from the motif and thus treads the path of abstracting modernism. Its inner vitality is to be brought to light and made aesthetically accessible through the work of art. It is precisely in order to depict the inner vitality of nature that von Eckenbrecher chooses the technique of watercolor, in which the individual details, such as the needles, are not meticulously worked out, but rather a flowing movement is created that unites the contrasts. The trees seem to have formed the twisted trunks out of their own inner strength as they grew, creatingthose tense lineations that the artist has put into the picture. The inner strength continues in the branches and twigs, culminating in the upward growth of the needles. At the same time, the trunks, illuminated by the setting sun, seem to glow from within, adding an almost dramatic dimension to the growing movement. Through the artwork, nature itself is revealed as art. In order to make nature visible as art in the work, von Eckenbrecher exposes the group of trees so that they are bounded from the outside by an all-encompassing contour line and merge into an areal unity that enters into a figure-ground relationship with the blue-greenish watercolor paper. The figure-ground relationship emphasizes the ornamental quality of the natural work of art, which further enforces the artwork character of the group of trees. With the presentation of Themistokles von Eckenbrecher's artistic idea and its realization, it has become clear that the present watercolor is not a study of nature in the sense of a visual note by the artist, which might then be integrated into a larger work context, but a completely independent work of art. This is why von Eckenbrecher signed the watercolor. In addition, it is marked with a place and a date, which confirms that this work of nature presented itself to him in exactly this way at this place at this time. At the same time, the date and place make it clear that the natural work of art has been transferred into the sphere of art and thus removed from the time of the place of nature. About the artist Themistocles' parents instilled a life of travel in their son, who is said to have spoken eleven languages. His father, who was interested in ancient and oriental culture, was a doctor and had married Francesca Magdalena Danelon, an Italian, daughter of the British consul in Trieste. During a stay in Athens - Gustav von Eckenbrecher was a friend of Heinrich von Schliemann and is said to have given him crucial clues as to the location of Troy - Themistokles saw the light of day in 1842. After an interlude in Berlin, where Themistokles was educated at the English-American School, the journey began again. From 1850 to 1857 the family lived in Constantinople, after which the father opened a practice in Potsdam, where Themistokles, who wanted to become a painter, was taught by the court painter Carl Gustav Wegener. In 1861 the von Eckenbrechers left Potsdam and settled in Düsseldorf. There Themistokles received two years of private tuition from Oswald Aschenbach, who greatly admired the talented young artist. After his artistic training, he undertook extensive travels, often accompanied by Prince Peter zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, which took him to northern and eastern Europe, but above all to the Middle East and even to South America. The paintings that resulted from these journeys established his artistic reputation and led to his participation in large panoramas such as the 118 x 15 metre Entry of the Mecca Caravan into Cairo, painted for the City of Hamburg in 1882. 1882 was also the start of a total of 21 study trips to Scandinavia, most of them to Norway, and the unique Norwegian landscape with its rugged fjords became a central motif in his work. Along with Anders Askevold and Adelsteen Normann...

This is an original 18th century hand-colored copperplate engraving of male and female woodpecker birds entitled "1. Pie Male de la Encenada, 2. Petit Pic des Moluques (Woodpeckers)"...

Portrait of a woman praying at a table with food. In the corner a cat reaching up to see over the table. The etching is signed by the artist in the botto...

Artist: Eadweard Muybridge, British/American (1830 - 1904) Title: Animal Locomotion. plate 402 Year: 1887 Medium: Collotype Image Size: 7.25 x 16 inches Size: 19 in. x 24 in. (48.26 ...

Winter Woodland by Jan Rogers [2020] original Acrylic paint on canvas Image size: H:50 cm x W:50 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:50 cm x W:50 cm x D:2cm Sold Unframed Please no...

Watercolor painting of a street scene with two females and a man that appears to be a beggar. The work is signed by the artist. It is framed in a black frame with a yellow matte. Dim...

Artist: Yannick Ballif, French (1927 - ) Title: Oh Divin Yu Year: 1973 Medium: Aquatint Etching with Carborundum, signed and dated Edition: 70 Image: 35 x 25 inches Size: 41.5 x 29.5...

Oil-based Monotype of classic nude with neutral palette of blacks, grays earth colors

Idealized landscape painting with a waterfall and mountains fading into the distance. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner. It is framed in a wooden frame with black...

This is a hand-colored engraving of a turtledove entitled "Tourterelle du Senegal (Turtledove of Senegal)" by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 160 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseau...

[CHINESE SCHOOL]. Group of Eight Exotic Fruit. 19th century, c.1880. Group of eight watercolour and gouache pith papers of Exotic Fruits, edged in turquoise silk ribbon and laid ...

Reclining nude study of a woman with her leg up on the bed and her eyes closed. The work is signed by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Please inquire ...

Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being a Skiing scene, a boy and a girl on skis. signed W. Steig Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at his ski resort, Mount Tremblant Lodge, in 1938. Mont Tremblant, P.Q., Canada Watercolor and ink on illustration board, sights sizes 8 1/2 x 16 1/2 in., framed. In 1938 Joe Ryan, described as a millionaire from Philadelphia, bushwhacked his way to the summit of Mont Tremblant and was inspired to create a world class ski resort at the site. In 1939 he opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today. This original illustration is on Whatman Illustration board. the board measures 14 X 22 inches. label from McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, on the frame backing paper. William Steig, 1907 – 2003 was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988. Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria, both socialists. His father, Joseph Steig, was a house painter, and his mother, Laura Ebel Steig, was a seamstress who encouraged his artistic leanings. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio.He graduated from Townsend Harris High School at 15 but never completed college, though he attended three, spending two years at City College of New York, three years at the National Academy of Design and a mere five days at the Yale School of Fine Arts before dropping out of each. Hailed as the "King of Cartoons" Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 covers for the magazine. Steig, later, when he was 61, began writing children's books. In 1968, he wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), won the Caldecott Medal. He went on to write more than 30 children's books, including the Doctor DeSoto series, and he continued to write into his nineties. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! (1990) formed the basis for the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek (2001). After the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, Steig became the first sole-creator of an animated movie franchise that went on to generate over $1 billion from theatrical and ancillary markets after only one sequel. Along with Maurice Sendak, Saul Steinberg, Ludwig Bemelmans and Laurent de Brunhofff his is one of those rare cartoonist whose works form part of our collective cultural heritage. In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. As one of the most admired cartoonists of all time, Steig spent seven decades drawing for the New Yorker magazine. He touched generations of readers with his tongue–in–cheek pen–and–ink drawings, which often expressed states of mind like shame, embarrassment or anger. Later in life, Steig turned to children's books, working as both a writer and illustrator. Steig's children's books were also wildly popular because of the crazy, complicated language he used—words like lunatic, palsied, sequestration, and cleave. Kids love the sound of those words even if they do not quite understand the meaning. Steig's descriptions were also clever. He once described a beached whale as "breaded with sand." Throughout the course of his career, Steig compiled his cartoons and drawings into books. Some of them were published first in the New Yorker. Others were deemed too dark to be printed there. Most of these collections centered on the cold, dark psychoanalytical truth about relationships. They featured husbands and wives fighting and parents snapping at their kids. His first adult book, Man About Town, was published in 1932, followed by About People, published in 1939, which focused on social outsiders. Sick of Each Other, published in 2000, included a drawing depicting a wife holding her husband at gunpoint, saying, "Say you adore me." According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow New Yorker artist Edward Sorel...

Serene beach house scene from Galveston, Texas painted by Martin. Intricate detail framed in a vintage frame that is in great condition. Signature in...

This plate is unique both for the unmistakable beauty of the bird species and for the great scientific and artistic skill of Elisabeth and Jhon Gould to have rendered it. The price ...