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OLD MASTERS

Encompassing centuries of change in Europe between 1300 and 1800, from booms of prosperity to bloody revolutions, Old Masters describes a wide range of artists. The informal term was derived from the title of an artist who trained in a guild long enough to become a master, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who studied in a Florence painters’ guild. However, Old Masters paintings, prints and other art is now used to refer to work made by any artist with a high level of skill in painting, drawing, sculpture or printmaking who worked during this era.

The 15th century’s expansive trade and commerce spread culture across borders. A vibrant period of art emerged, bolstered by studies of anatomy and nature that influenced a new visual realism. From Raphael and Michelangelo in the Renaissance to Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age, artists expressed emotion, naturalism, color and light in new ways. El Greco and Paolo Veronese were leaders in the dramatic style of Mannerism, while Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens demonstrated the movement and meticulous detail of Baroque art.

Historically, most attention was concentrated on male artists, but recent research and exhibitions have elevated the impactful work of women such as Rachel Ruysch and Artemisia Gentileschi. In late-18th-century France, female artists like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun were prominent names. Nevertheless, access to the academies and guilds was highly restricted for women, and even those able to establish practices were expected to adhere to portraits and still lifes rather than the grand history paintings being created by men.

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Style: Old Masters
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Magnaminita
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Magnaminita

Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Magnaminita

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

'Mgnaminia' Italian School, 18th century ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass) image size: 10.5 x 7 inches overall framed: 17 x 13 inches...

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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Madonna Pulzone Paint 16th Century Oil on canvas Old master Religious Italy Art
Madonna Pulzone Paint 16th Century Oil on canvas Old master Religious Italy Art

Madonna Pulzone Paint 16th Century Oil on canvas Old master Religious Italy Art

Located in Riva del Garda, IT

Scipione Pulzone (Gaeta, c. 1540 – Rome, 1598) Attributed to Madonna and Child, Saint John the Infant and Saint Elizabeth Oil on canvas 119 x 102 cm Frame: 130 x 114 cm This...

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16th Century Old Masters Art

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Oil

Head of Donkey - Etching after Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem - 17th Century

Head of Donkey - Etching after Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem - 17th Century

Located in Roma, IT

Etching on paper, within a ruled border. A finely executed etching after Nicolaes Berchem depicting the head of a donkey in profile, rendered with remarkable sensitivity to texture ...

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17th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

18th Century Italian Grand Tour Landscape with Classical Ruins
18th Century Italian Grand Tour Landscape with Classical Ruins

18th Century Italian Grand Tour Landscape with Classical Ruins

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title 18th Century Italian Grand Tour Landscape with Classical Ruins Key Details Artist: Italian School, 18th Century Medium: Watercolour wash on board Size (framed): 9 x 11 inches S...

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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Watercolor

Still-life Flower Tibaldi Paint 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master Italy Art
Still-life Flower Tibaldi Paint 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master Italy Art

Still-life Flower Tibaldi Paint 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master Italy Art

Located in Riva del Garda, IT

Antonio Tibaldi (Rome, c. 1635 – after 1675) Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Fruit, and Precious Objects Oil on canvas 82 x 118 cm. framed: 97 x 134 cm. Work accompanied ...

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17th Century Old Masters Art

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Oil

Portrait of a British Officer
Portrait of a British Officer

Portrait of a British Officer

By Thomas Beach

Located in Wiscasett, ME

A very fine portrait of a British military officer signed and dated Thomas Beach 1774 in the lower left. This oil on canvas is presented in a period gilt frame and is ready to hang. ...

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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Oil

Group Of Musicians Caravaggesque Painter 17th Century Paint OIl on canvas
Group Of Musicians Caravaggesque Painter 17th Century Paint OIl on canvas

Group Of Musicians Caravaggesque Painter 17th Century Paint OIl on canvas

Located in Riva del Garda, IT

Caravaggesque painter active in Rome in the 17th century A group of musicians in an inn Oil on canvas 74 x 99 cm. - Framed 93 x 121 cm. The scene depicted belongs to a subjec...

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17th Century Old Masters Art

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Oil

Cattle watering in an open landscape
Cattle watering in an open landscape

Cattle watering in an open landscape

By Joshua Shaw

Located in Stoke, Hampshire

Joshua Shaw (Billingborough 1776-1860 New Jersey) An open landscape with cattle watering signed and dated 'J. Shaw. 1810' lower right Oil on canvas Canvas Size 36 x 51 in Framed Siz...

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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Oil

Portrait of a Gentleman with his Dog -  Possibly Abraham Tucker. Oil on Canvas
Portrait of a Gentleman with his Dog -  Possibly Abraham Tucker. Oil on Canvas

Portrait of a Gentleman with his Dog - Possibly Abraham Tucker. Oil on Canvas

By Enoch Seeman

Located in St. Albans, GB

Enoch Seeman - 1894 - 1744 Provenance: Christies King Street Canvas Size: 50 x 40" (127 x 102cm) Outside Frame Size: 58 x 48" (147 x 122cm) An excellent example of Seeman's work. ...

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1730s Old Masters Art

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Oil

Couple paints Adam Eve Cain Abel De Vos 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master
Couple paints Adam Eve Cain Abel De Vos 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master

Couple paints Adam Eve Cain Abel De Vos 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master

Located in Riva del Garda, IT

Maarten de Vos (Antwerp 1532–1603) Workshop/follower Adam and Eve After the Fall/ The Sacrifices of Cain and Abel Oils on canvas 41 x 51 cm - In antique frames (with imperfecti...

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17th Century Old Masters Art

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Oil

Allegory Music Trémolières Paint 18th Century Oil on canvas Old master France
Allegory Music Trémolières Paint 18th Century Oil on canvas Old master France

Allegory Music Trémolières Paint 18th Century Oil on canvas Old master France

Located in Riva del Garda, IT

Pierre Charles Trémolières (Cholet, 1703 - Paris, 1739) Allegory of Music (the Muse Euterpe) Oil on canvas (112 x 86 cm. - In original lacquered frame 122 x 95 cm.) Work acco...

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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Oil

The Kermesse of Saint George (A Village Festival) - 17th Century Oil Painting
The Kermesse of Saint George (A Village Festival) - 17th Century Oil Painting

The Kermesse of Saint George (A Village Festival) - 17th Century Oil Painting

By David Teniers the Younger

Located in Palm Desert, CA

“The Kermesse of Saint George (A Village Festival)” is an oil on canvas painting by David Teniers the Younger (or David Teniers II) as opposed to his father, David Teniers the Elder....

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17th Century Old Masters Art

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Canvas, Oil

The Lady in the Park, Oil on Canvas Signed Arnaldo De Lisio
The Lady in the Park, Oil on Canvas Signed Arnaldo De Lisio

The Lady in the Park, Oil on Canvas Signed Arnaldo De Lisio

Located in Napoli, IT

Oil painting on canvas, framed in a rich gilt frame decorated with acanthus leaf motifs. The work depicts an elegantly dressed female figure, portrayed in profile in a lush formal ga...

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1910s Old Masters Art

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Oil

Annunciation Bonini Paint Oil in canvas Old master 17th Century Leonardo Italy
Annunciation Bonini Paint Oil in canvas Old master 17th Century Leonardo Italy

Annunciation Bonini Paint Oil in canvas Old master 17th Century Leonardo Italy

Located in Riva del Garda, IT

Girolamo Bonini, called Anconitano (Ancona, circa 1600 - Bologna 1680) Annunciation (or Madonna of the Beautiful Angel) Oil on canvas (115 x 91 cm. - Framed 134 x 108 cm.) Work accompanied by the expertise of Prof. Emilio Negro The work, undoubtedly commissioned as an object of private devotion, shows the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, a Gospel episode here set on the two figures portrayed in the foreground, the Archangel Gabriel with outstretched wings, a portrait of supernatural beauty, and the Virgin; We see her here absorbed in reading a prayer book with her eyes turned humbly downwards as a sign of devotion, while a small cherub hands her white lilies, a symbol of purity and chastity.   In the upper part of the composition is the austere image of God the Father, with the dove radiating with light, emblem of the Holy Spirit, surrounded by a flock of angels fluttering in the clouds charged with intense glow and play of light, in full Baroque style. It should also be noted that the image of the Saviour's mother in a delicately pious attitude, with her yellow veil, her broad blue mantle and her usual modest red dress from which the edges of her white blouse protrude, is to be interpreted as a kind of tender allegory of sacred love. The painting in question is an interesting replica with variants of the composition commissioned from Francesco Albani for the Fioravanti chapel in the ancient church...

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17th Century Old Masters Art

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Oil

St. Peter's Square Vatican View Early 19th Century Grand Tour Gouache on Paper
St. Peter's Square Vatican View Early 19th Century Grand Tour Gouache on Paper

St. Peter's Square Vatican View Early 19th Century Grand Tour Gouache on Paper

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

This captivating gouache on paper painting, dating from the early 19th century, offers a beautifully detailed view of St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, making it a likely relic of ...

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Early 19th Century Old Masters Art

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Gouache

Martyrdom of Saint Stephen- Painting attr. to Vincent Adriaenssen- 17th Century
Martyrdom of Saint Stephen- Painting attr. to Vincent Adriaenssen- 17th Century

Martyrdom of Saint Stephen- Painting attr. to Vincent Adriaenssen- 17th Century

Located in Roma, IT

Landscape with martyrdom of Saint Stephen is an old master artwork realized in 17th century. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Includes coeval gilded frame cm. 148x196. The artwork is attributed to Vincent Adriaenssen called il Manciola (Antwerp, 1595 - Roma, 1675) Among the painters who worked in the first half of the seventeenth century it is possible to indicate only the Neapolitan Scipione Compagno (1624-1680) as the author of scenes of martyrs set within a landscape or a view such as, for example, the Martyrdom of Saint Stefano recently hesitated at the Ansorena in Madrid on June 16, 2021. It should be noted, however, that the landscape represented in the painting examined here, characterized by luxuriant vegetation, meticulously represented "in the Flemish style", shows differences with the typical settings of the paintings di Compagno, characterized above all by urban views, visionary architectures or rather arid vegetation. Even the refined figures, so elongated and lanky, represented in our painting, in particular the group of knights in the foreground on the right, are not reflected in the production of the Neapolitan painter. These elements, to which we add the depiction of the Eternal Father amidst the clouds and the detail of the dog in profile in the foreground, instead recall a painter mainly known as a battle soldier, but who was also the author of many works depicting episodes from ancient Rome set within luxuriant landscapes, or rather Vincent Adriaenssen known as Manciola, a painter from Antwerp whose figure has been shed light thanks to recent studies. The group of horsemen represented to the right of the examined painting is, in fact, comparable with other groups on horseback present in numerous works by Manciola such as, for example, in the Triumph of Caesar (Rome, Babuino, 23-03-2010; formerly Florence, Collection Privata, 2006), while similar elongated and somewhat lanky figures, dressed in red, yellow, blue and white, can be found in the three paintings conserved at the Cassa di Risparmio di Pesaro, which in the past were erroneously attributed to the Umbrian painter Francesco Allegrini...

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17th Century Old Masters Art

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Oil

Sleeping Herdsman by Charles Amand-Durand
Sleeping Herdsman by Charles Amand-Durand

Sleeping Herdsman by Charles Amand-Durand

By Rembrandt van Rijn

Located in Middletown, NY

A an impression after Rembrandt's only state of this image. Paris: 1644. Etching and engraving on high quality buff wove paper 4 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches (124 x 114 mm); sheet 12 5/8 x 1...

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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Art

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Laid Paper, Etching, Engraving

Portrait of a lady in a masquerade costume, signed F. de Troy, French 18th c.
Portrait of a lady in a masquerade costume, signed F. de Troy, French 18th c.

Portrait of a lady in a masquerade costume, signed F. de Troy, French 18th c.

Located in PARIS, FR

Portrait of a lady in a masquerade costume by François de Troy (1645–1730) Signed lower right: peint… de Troy… 18th century France, Paris, circa 1715-1720. Canvas: h. 81 cm, w. 65 cm...

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Early 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Canvas, Oil

Tolosa (Toulouse); Leaf LXXI from Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle
Tolosa (Toulouse); Leaf LXXI from Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle

Tolosa (Toulouse); Leaf LXXI from Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle

Located in Middletown, NY

Woodcut on laid paper, 8 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches (212 x 233 mm), the full sheet. In excellent condition with text and portraits of Empedocles, Sapho, Zeuxis and others on the verso, as is...

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15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Art

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Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Woodcut

Wapenhandelinghe van Roers, Musquetten ende Spiessen; Plate 4 from The Exercise
Wapenhandelinghe van Roers, Musquetten ende Spiessen; Plate 4 from The Exercise

Wapenhandelinghe van Roers, Musquetten ende Spiessen; Plate 4 from The Exercise

By Jacob de Gheyn II

Located in Middletown, NY

An image from a 17th-century military drill manual depicting techniques for handling muskets and pikes. De Ghen II, Jacques / Jacob Wapenhandelinghe van Roers, Musquetten ende Spies...

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Early 17th Century Old Masters Art

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Laid Paper, Engraving

Bearded Man in Profile, Red Chalk on Paper, 16th Century, Framed
Bearded Man in Profile, Red Chalk on Paper, 16th Century, Framed

Bearded Man in Profile, Red Chalk on Paper, 16th Century, Framed

By Leonardo da Vinci

Located in Paris, Île-de-France

Circle of Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci, 1452 – 1519, Clos-Lucé) First half of the 16th century Study of a Bearded Man in Profile, Facing Right Red chalk on paper 8 × 6 cm Unsigned Provenance: Private collection This delicate drawing belongs to the Lombard school and was created by an artist working under the influence of Leonardo da Vinci, very likely within his close circle. The profile recalls the Apostle at the far left of The Last Supper, and may even derive directly from Leonardo’s own compositional sketches for the mural (Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, inv. 254). While Leonardo’s version carries a profound religious and political message, this sheet reveals a more naturalistic interpretation. The precise outlines and the controlled hatching distinguish it from the master’s hand, yet the subtle modeling of the face in red chalk shows clear echoes of Leonardo’s refined technique. Comparable examples are preserved in the Royal Collection Trust, Windsor, including The Head of an Old Man Crowned with a Wreath of Laurels (recto) and The Head of an Old Man in Profile, both originally from Francesco Melzi...

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16th Century Old Masters Art

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Chalk, Laid Paper

Galante Scene Vermeer d'Utrecht Paint Oil on canvas 18th Century Flemish Old Art
Galante Scene Vermeer d'Utrecht Paint Oil on canvas 18th Century Flemish Old Art

Galante Scene Vermeer d'Utrecht Paint Oil on canvas 18th Century Flemish Old Art

Located in Riva del Garda, IT

Flemish painter of the 18th century - Follower of Jan van der Meer, called Vermeer d'Utrecht (Schoonhoven, verses 1630 - 1692) Courtship scene at the entrance of an inn oil on canvas, 70 x 62 cm. (with frame 80 x 72 cm.) This pleasant genre scene, depicting a young innkeeper conversing amiably with a gentleman as she prepares to serve him wine in a glass goblet that she still holds in her hand, is inspired by the painting made in 1653 by the Dutch painter Jan van der Meer, known as Vermeer d'Utrecht, and today kept in Paris at the Louvre Museum. Set outside an inn or a post station, the scene illustrates the theme of seduction, with the young waitress being courted by the client, a charming traveler with a changing red cloak, who tries to charm her. Yes, it is a work that harmoniously combines the painter's Dutch origins, with the stylistic characters learned during his training in his homeland, with the Italian-like characters learned during his trip to Italy around 1655. In Rome, in particular, he met and collaborated with various authors of the Bamboccianti school, first of all Jan Miel...

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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Oil

Inmaculada Concepción, Oil on Canvas, 1920s, Signed, 100x73 cm
Inmaculada Concepción, Oil on Canvas, 1920s, Signed, 100x73 cm

Inmaculada Concepción, Oil on Canvas, 1920s, Signed, 100x73 cm

Located in Sant Celoni, ES

La obra va firmada por el artista en la parte inferior Se presenta sin enmarcar la pintura Estado aceptable de conservación el de la pintura Medidas obra: 100 cm. de altura x 73 c...

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1920s Old Masters Art

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Oil

17th Century by Antonio Zanchi Prometheus Bound Oil on canvas
17th Century by Antonio Zanchi Prometheus Bound Oil on canvas

17th Century by Antonio Zanchi Prometheus Bound Oil on canvas

Located in Milano, Lombardia

Antonio Zanchi (Este, Italy, 1631 – Venice, Italy, 1722) Title: Prometheus Bound Year: 1655-1660 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 188 × 146 cm – with frame 194 x 152 x...

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17th Century Old Masters Art

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Canvas, Oil

1910 Master Wood Engraving after Rembrandt with Cap, Signed
1910 Master Wood Engraving after Rembrandt with Cap, Signed

1910 Master Wood Engraving after Rembrandt with Cap, Signed

By Timothy Cole

Located in Soquel, CA

1910 Master Wood Engraving after Rembrandt with Cap, Signed Beautifully rendered print after Rembrandt by master engraver Timothy Cole (British/American b. 1852 d. 1931.) Rembrandt ...

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1910s Old Masters Art

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Ink, Tissue Paper, Pencil, Engraving

A poodle chasing a butterfly
A poodle chasing a butterfly

A poodle chasing a butterfly

By Ben Marshall

Located in Stoke, Hampshire

Ben Marshall (1768-1835) A poodle chasing a butterfly Oil on canvas Canvas size 10 x 12 in Framed size 15 x 17 in Provenance The Collection of the late David Fuller, former Director...

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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Oil

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