Old Masters Art
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
Landscapes Couple Ricci Paint 18th Century Oil on canvas Old master Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Marco Ricci (Belluno 1676 – Venice 1730)
Circle of Pair of Arcadian landscapes with figures
Oil on canvas 56 x 72 cm. - Framed 77 x 93 cm.
This pair of charming landscapes, ex...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
$9,589 Sale Price
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Christ Cross Religious Van Dyck 17th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master
By Anthoon van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Anthoon van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641) workshop
Christ Carrying the Cross - 17th century
Oil on canvas (120 x 94 cm - framed 140 x 112 cm).
This remarkable canvas, depic...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
$16,966 Sale Price
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The peace of your nights descends into their thoughts
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper mounted on wood
35.5 x 45.5 x 2 cm
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Floral Arrangement in a Glass Vase - Dutch Old Master still life oil painting
By Simon Pietersz Verelst (circle)
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning 18th century Dutch Old Master Golden Age floral oil painting is attributed to a circle of Simon Pietersz Verelst. Painted circa 1720 it is a still life floral of a mixe...
Category
1720s Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Four chiaroscuro medallion portrait woodcuts of emperors in sepia tones c.1557
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
After Hubert Goltzius (Dutch, 1526-1583)
Maximilian; Frideri; Hadrian; and Antoninus
Four chiaroscuro medallion portrait woodcuts of emperors in sepia tones c.1557,
the diameter of each print 18.5cm overall frame dimension approximately 54 x 54cm
Provenance: Trowbridge Gallery
Category
16th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Paper
Military Encampment Soldiers on Horseback Dusk Landscape 1700's Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Military Encampment
Circle of Carel van Falens (1683-1733, Flemish)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 8 x 10.5 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and so...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,822 Sale Price
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PERU
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOHANNES JANSSON (1588 - 1664)
PERU, engraving with early coloring. Platemark 15 1/8 x 19 3/8 inches, sheet 17 x 20 1/2
A nice example of one of the earliest maps of Peru. From the ...
Category
1630s Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
Holy Family Ramenghi Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Religious Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Bolognese school of the seventeenth century
Circle Giovanni Battista Ramenghi, known as Bagnacavallo (Bologna, 1521 - 1601)
Oil painting on canvas (86 x 72 cm. - With antique frame ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Saint Lawrence Looking at the Treasures
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Saint Lawrence Looking at the Treasures" is a captivating painting attributed to the Bolognese School, a prominent art movement from Bologna, Italy, flourishing primarily in the 16t...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Villagers in a Landscape - Flemish 17thC art figurative landscape oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This fantastic Flemish 17th century Old Master oil painting is by Thomas Van Apshoven. It was painted circa 1650 and depicts a village with figures outside a tavern, eating, drinking and dancing. Beyond are more dwellings, villagers and animals, all under a blue summer's sky. The detail, brushwork and vibrant colouring are superb. This is an excellent example of Apshoven's work and a typical subject he loved to paint.
Provenance. Leominster estate.
Wax stamp verso.
Condition. Oil on panel, 22 inches by 17 inches and in good condition.
Frame. Housed In beautiful gilt frame, 30 inches by 25 inches and in good condition.
Thomas van Apshoven (1622– 1664) was a Flemish painter known for his landscapes with peasant scenes and genre scenes in interiors. His genre scenes depict village festivals, the interiors of taverns, village scenes or landscapes with peasants engaged in various activities, singeries, guardroom scenes and laboratories of alchemists. Some still lifes have also been attributed to him. His themes and style are close to that of David Teniers the Younger. He was born on 30 November 1622 in Antwerp as the eldest son of Ferdinand van Apshoven the Elder and Leonora Wijns. His father was a painter who had studied with Adam van Noort and had become a master of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1596. No paintings by his father are known. His younger brother Ferdinand van Apshoven the Younger became also a successful painter. Thomas studied under his father. Some sources state that he became a pupil of the prominent genre painter David Teniers the Younger. It is more likely, however, that he was an imitator of Teniers. He was registered as a 'wijnmeester' [son of a master] in the Guild of St. Luke of Antwerp in the guild year 1645–1646. He married Barbara Janssens on 22 March 1645. The couple had four children. The godfathers of the children included the painters Victor Wolfvoet...
Category
1650s Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Resurrection Christ Tiziano 16/17th Century paint Oil on canvas Old master Italy
By Tiziano Vecellio (Pieve di Cadore 1490 - Venice 1576)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
The Resurrection of Christ
Follower of Tiziano Vecellio (Pieve di Cadore 1490 - Venice 1576)
Venetian school of the late 16th/early 17th century
Oil on canvas
108 x 78 cm. - Framed 129 x 99 cm.
This jewel of the Venetian school, a work executed between the 16th and 17th centuries by a Venetian artist, illustrates the episode of the Resurrection of Christ: as reported in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 28:1-7) the event is accompanied by an explosion of light and glow, with the figure of Christ rising into the sky.
Christ's face, serene and victorious, looks up towards the Light and the Infinite, in contrast to his majestic figure, here constructed with the appearance of a classical sculpture, contrasted by an intensely luminous background.
The Risen One firmly holds in His hand the banner (white with a red cross) of the Resurrection, also known as the flag of St. George, which iconographically represents His victory over death, while raising His right hand in a blessing act. With his feet he crushes a snake and a skull, a sign of Christ's triumph over sin and death.
The painting belongs to the Venetian school and presents clear reminiscences with the works of Titian Vecellio...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
$7,991 Sale Price
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Excuela española (XVIII) - Escena bíblica - Óleo sobre tela
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Como pueden apreciar, la obra no va firmada, es de autor anónimo
Se presenta sin enmarcar la pintura
El estado de la obra se puede ver, presenta varias faltas de pintura y precisar...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
After Bartolome Murillo "Little Fruitseller" Oil
By (After) Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Located in Astoria, NY
After Bartolome Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1618-1682), "The Little Fruitseller", Oil on Canvas, 19th century, apparently unsigned, depicting young girl and boy counting money over var...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
$2,240 Sale Price
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Figures Dancing Classical Ancient Ruins & Landscape Large Old Master Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Revelry in a Classical Landscape
Italian School, early 18th century (circa 1700)
oil painting on canvas, laid on board, unframed
board: 20 x 36 inches
provenan...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
18th Century By Giovanni Domenico Gambone Pair of Capricci Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Giovanni Domenico Gambone (1720 - 1793)
Title: Pair of Capricci
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 85 x 112 cm - with frame 97 x 124 cm
The price is intended for the c...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
FINE 17TH CENTURY ITALIAN OLD MASTER OIL ON CANVAS - THE BATHING OF BATHSHEBA
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Italian School, 17th century
Title: The Bathing of Bathsheba
Medium: oil painting, on canvas
Size: frame: 23 x 19 inches, canvas: 18 x 14 inches
Provenanc...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,210 Sale Price
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Assumption Virgin Trinity Caccia Paint 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Guglielmo Caccia (Monabone, 1568 - Moncalvo, 1625) and workshop
Assumption of the Virgin with the Trinity and concert of angels
Oil on canvas (125 x 100 cm - In frame 137 x 112 c...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Ancient Still Life 11 - Etching by Nicola Fiorillo - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Nicola Fiorillo in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some folding and foxi...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Italian Greyhound and Friends - Italian 17thC Old Master dog art oil painting
By Francesco Fieravino
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning Old Master 17th century oil portrait painting is attributed to Francesco Fieravino, an artist famous in his day for still lifes and carpets. This painting which dates t...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Soldiers - Etching by G.B. Tiepolo - 1795
Located in Roma, IT
Two soldiers is an etching realized by Giambattista Tiepolo in 1785.
Sheet 23 x 30 cm.
Good impressions on paper, with wide margins.
Reference: D...
Category
1790s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Battle Scene - Painting - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Battle Scene is an original old masters' artwork realized in the 18th century.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. The artwork includes frame: 58 x 90 cm.
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Adoration of the Shepherds
By Peter Paul Rubens
Located in New York, NY
Adoration of the Shepherds after Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640), engraved by Pierre-Franois Basan (French, 1723-1797), engraving, c. 1750, in black on ivory laid paper, 282 x 200 mm., with small margins. In very good condition.
A fine proof impression, before letters. A draft printing of letters is visible, lower left, below image: “P P Rubens inv.”; lower right: “F. Basan excudit”.
Basan’s engraving after Rubens may be modeled after another engraving of the Adoration after Rubens by Theodor Galle (1571-1633), which appeared as an illustration to the 1618 reprint of 1616 edition of “Missale Romanum...
Category
1750s Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
19th century Oil portrait of a Hungarian Rabbi
Located in Woodbury, CT
This 19th-century oil on panel portrait depicts a Hungarian Rabbi, characterized by his traditional attire and solemn expression. The Rabbi is portrayed with a long, white beard and ...
Category
1890s Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Susanna Old Men Religious Roma nschool 17th Century Paint Oiul on canvas Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Painter active in Rome in the early 17th century
Susanna and the Old Men
Oil on canvas
76 x 62 cm.
with frame 92 x 78 cm.
This valuable painting illustrates the piquant episode, ta...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
$9,712 Sale Price
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Manner of Guido Reni (1575-1642) The Prophecy of Simeon Large Antique Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Manner of Guido Reni (1575-1642) Italian
Title: The Prophecy of Simeon
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed
Painting: 21.5 ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
$2,291 Sale Price
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A pair of 18th century Italian landscapes with classical ruins and figures
By Giovanni Paolo Panini
Located in Bath, Somerset
A pair of 18th century Italian landscapes with classical ruins and figures, circa 1750.
Circle of Giovanni Panini (1691-1765)
Thomas Agnew and Sons, Lo...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saint Jerome Praying, with a Landscape in the Background
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
STEFANO DALL’ARZERE
(Padua, circa 1520 – 1570)
Saint Jerome Praying, with a Landscape in the Background
Pen and brown ink, heightened with white over black chalk lines
15.5 x 12 cm...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Ink
Very Large Classical Oil Still Life Study Of Fruit and Flowers
By Emilio Greco
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Manner of Emilio Greco, 20th Century
oil on board, framed
framed: 24 x 29 inches
board: 16 x 20 inches
provenance: private collection, England
The painting is in very good and presen...
Category
20th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
$4,784 Sale Price
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Wooden Landscape with Shepherds, Fountain and Flock - by Jan Frans van Bloemen
Located in Roma, IT
Bibliography:
A.Busiri Vici, Jan Frans Van Bloemen Orizzonte e l’origine del paesaggio romano settecentesco, Ugo Bozzi Editore, Roma 1974, n.41
This artwork is shipped from Italy. U...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Lady with Pink Bow - British c 1820 Old Master art oil painting
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in Hagley, England
This lovely British Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to circle of Sir Thomas Lawrence. Painted circa 1820 it is a seated half length portrait of a beautiful lady in a b...
Category
1820s Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Head of the Virgin
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Private Collection, Paraguay.
This unpublished Head of the Virgin is a new addition to the rich corpus of paintings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. While the artist freque...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
VEDUTA DEGLI AVANZI De’MAUSOLEI E DELLE FABBRICHE…...
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (Italian 1720-1778)
VEDUTA DEGLI AVANZI De’MAUSOLEI E DELLE FABBRICHE…c 1756 (Hind 83; Focillon 20.A.293; Giesecke 116; Wilton-E...
Category
1750s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
$2,000 Sale Price
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17th century etching animal print sketch ram sheep black and white signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Two Rams Looking Down & To Their Left" is an original etching by Karel DuJardin. DuJardin completed many delicate etchings of rams.
3 3/4" x 7 3/4" art
16 3/8" x 19 1/2" frame
Du Jardin was a master of various genres of painting, including refined and tranquil Italianising landscapes, monumental historical paintings and superb portraits of the aristocracy.
Unlike the majority of his contemporaries, Karel du Jardin (b. Amsterdam 1626, d. Venice 1678) was a talented painter in not one, but many different genres. He is especially famous for his small-scale landscapes, such as the charming Italian landscape with a woman milking a goa" (1652) from the Rijksmuseum's collection. Du Jardin depicted both sun-filled Italianate scenes and Dutch farmyards with pigs and sheep. He also painted a range of elegant portraits of aristocrats and merchants. His self-portrait (1662) on copper is one of the most fascinating 17th-century portraits of a Dutch artist. Du Jardin's spectacular large-scale historical pieces, represented is the show by the impressive Conversion of Saint Pau" (1662) from the collection of the National Gallery of London, are among his most remarkable achievements; he often chose themes that were only rarely depicted by other Dutch painters of the period.
During his own lifetime Du Jardin was praised by poets and writers, particularly for his attention to detail and elegant painting technique. As Cornelis de Bie, the artist’s biographer, wrote in 1661: "the surety of the brush at his finger and such sharpe clarity […] that the eye thereon doth linger." Du Jardin's valuable paintings were mainly purchased by rich individuals with an eye for elegance, but were also commissioned by prominent institutions such as the Amsterdam 'Spinhuis' (a women's prison), for whom he painted a vast group portrait of the prison-governors.
Karel du Jardin was an artist who liked to travel. He lived for a time in Lyon and in Paris, and sailed with Joan Reynst, Heer van Drakestein, by ship via England, Portugal and Spain to Tangier and Algiers, where they met Michiel de Ruyter...
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17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Perseus and Andromeda
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Carle Vanloo (Nice 1705 – Paris 1765)
Perseus and Andromeda
Oil on canvas. H. 081; W. 065.
Alongside François Boucher (1703-1770) and Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700-1777), Carle Vanlo...
Category
1720s Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$64,000 Sale Price
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Chiton - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1868
Located in Roma, IT
Chiton is an original etching realized by Francisco Goya and published for the first time in 1799.
Etching on paper.
The plate belongs the Third Edition of "Los Caprichos" that has...
Category
1860s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
17th Century by Luca Forte Two Pomegranates and a Flying Butterfly Oil on Panel
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Luca Forte (Naples, 1615 ca. - 1670 ca.)
Two Pomegranates and a Flying Butterfly
Oil on poplar panel, 12.5 x 22 cm
Expertise by Nicola Spinosa, art historian
Fairs: The Internation...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Óleo sobre tela - Retrato de una anciana - Año 1879
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra va firmada a mano por el artista en la parte media y fechada del año 1879
Se presenta bien enmarcada la pintura
El estado de la obra es aceptable
Medidas de la obra: 61 cm...
Category
1870s Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
horse & carriage/gig , country scene, antique oil, by John Vine of Colchester
Located in York, GB
A fine antique oil painting, on canvas, of horses pulling a tandem at speed.
signed and titled lower left, Vine Colchester 1834
This fine painting shows two horses pulling an open carriage /gig with gentleman in extensive landscape/park
The size of the painting is approx 50 x 80 cms, whilst overall the size framed is
100cm x 71 cm
This is a fine painting in very good condition housed in a gilt frame ready to hang
Provenance: The E. W. Towler Collection, formerly of Glympton Park, Woodstock, Oxfordshire see details below
The artist John Vine was born with a disability that did not appear to interfere with his ability to draw and paint, largely self-taught as an animal painter, as his reputation grew he exhibited at the Society of British Artists in Grosvenor Square. Based at Colchester he painted many different subjects including farms, houses, children and animals.
Eric W. Towler was a remarkable man. He was born in 1900 and left school at the age of 12 to work in a Yorkshire pit and through a lifetime of hard work, self-improvement, luck and a refusal to limit his horizons achieved many of his aspirations.
As a Yorkshireman through and through, he believed in ‘spending the brass in his pocket’ and over time he was successful enough to acquire enough ‘brass’ to enable his purchase of Glympton Park and furnish it as a traditional country house with all the trappings – in his case collections of...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Rare 18th Century English Still Life of Grapes and Peaches
Located in Harkstead, GB
A rare and most attractive still life by William Smith of Chichester. The sumptuous textures of the peaches and grapes contrasting with the dark ba...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Early 18th-Century Russian Icon, Volga Masters (Circle), The Crucifixion
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This exquisite and exceedingly rare early 18th-century Russian Staurotek icon depicts The Crucifixion of Christ with an assemblage of saints, together with a 19th-century copper-cast...
Category
1720s Old Masters Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Italian School, late 16th century - Head of a Man and Écorché Studies of Arms
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Italian School, late 16th century
Head of a Man and Écorché Studies of Arms
Red chalk on laid paper,
21 x 11 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Michael Jaffé CBE (1923–1997), English art historian and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Private collection, France
This drawing, attributed to the Italian School of the late 16th century, demonstrates the influence of Michelangelo’s approach to anatomy and expression. The sheet combines two distinct studies: an anatomical rendering of arms in the écorché technique, focusing on the musculature and skeletal details, and a head of a man, drawn with careful attention to light and shadow. The use of red chalk lends the work warmth and immediacy, qualities often associated with Renaissance studies of the human form.
The écorché studies reflect the Renaissance fascination with anatomy as both an artistic and scientific pursuit. The detailed depiction of the musculature suggests the artist’s interest in understanding the mechanics of the body, a practice heavily influenced by Michelangelo’s drawings...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Chalk
Chateau de Verneuil
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving with hand coloring and heightening in watercolor on two leaves of expertly conjoined handmade laid paper, one leaf with a large watermark a feathered dragon, 7 1/4 x 11 1/4...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Excuela española (XVIII) - Virgen con niño - Óleo sobre tela
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Como pueden apreciar, la obra no va firmada, es de autor anónimo
Se presenta enmarcada la obra con un marco bastante actual
El estado de la obra es aceptable, solo comentar que la ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Major General James Hanson Salmond - British 18thC art oil painting
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in Hagley, England
This superb British Old Master oil painting is attributed to circle of Sir Thomas Lawrence. Painted circa 1795, the sitter is Major-General James Hanson Salmond (1766–1837) an office...
Category
1790s Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Coastal Landscape Horses Paint 17th Century Oil on canvas Forest Old master Art
By Pandolfo Reschi known as Monsù Pandolfo (Danzica 1643 - Florence 1699), attributable
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Pandolfo Reschi known as Monsù Pandolfo (Danzica 1643 - Florence 1699), attributable
Coastal landscape with fortified city, castle with tower, and battle scene
oil painting on canvas
Measurements: canvas 90 x 120, with frame 104 x 134
This expansive coastal landscape, with a fortress-city overlooking the sea and a small castle with a watchtower, serves as the stage for an eventful battle scene between soldiers and, presumably, a band of brigands.
It is an illustrative typology attributable to Pandolfo Reschi (Danzica 1643 - Florence 1696), known for his works in which he perfectly combines the airy landscape of Tuscan-Roman matrix with images of knights in battle or brigands intent on their raids.
Pandolfo Reschi was born in Gdansk but from an early age he moved to Rome where he began his brilliant career following the style of Salvator Rosa, even if his real teacher was the Flemish-Italianized Livio Mehus. With Mehus and Rosa he refined his skills as a battle painter and was later taken to the workshop by the Borgognone, even if his main occupation was that of a genre painter.
The decisive turning point in his career came after his transfer to Florence, around the middle of 1660, where he continued his studies with Livio Mehus. After a decade he was now an established and highly coveted painter, so much so that in 1670 he was hired by the Medici court as protege of Cardinal Francesco Maria de Medici...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Boy with Guinea Pig - British Victorian animal art male portrait oil painting
By Henry Turner Munns
Located in Hagley, England
This charming British Victorian genre oil painting is by noted exhibited artist Henry Tuner Munns. It was painted in 1865 in realist palette with superb detail in the young boy's fac...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
19th Century by Gioacchino Toma The Ash Rain of Mount Vesuvius Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Gioacchino Toma (Galatina, Italy, 1836 – Naples, Italy, 1891)
Title: The Ash Rain of Mount Vesuvius
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 93 x 150 cm - with frame 112 x 166...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th century By French Maestro Bacchanal Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
18th Century French Maestro
Title: Bacchanal
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 24 x 30 cm - with frame 33.5 x 39 cm
Antique shaped wooden frame lacquered in mustard col...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$10,592 Sale Price
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Nicolaes Maes workshop (Baroque Dutch)- 17th century figure painting - Portrait
Located in Varmo, IT
Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634 - Amsterdam 1693) circle of - Portrait of a Gentleman.
81 x 65 cm unframed, 100.5 x 83.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved an...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$7,093 Sale Price
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Ordinis Benedictini monialis; Saint Thecla of Kitzengen
Located in Middletown, NY
King, Daniel (with Wenceslaus Hollar)
Ordinis Benedictini monialis; Saint Thecla of Kitzengen
c 1650.
Etching with engraving on cream laid paper with an indiscernible watermark wit...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching, Laid Paper, Engraving
Christ Angels Pietro Da Cortona Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Christ surrounded by angels in the desert
Circle of Pietro da Cortona, born as Pietro Berrettini (Cortona 1597 - Rome 1669)
Oils on canvas (66 x 50 cm. - in frame 80 x 64 cm.)
The ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
$8,483 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of the French Princess, late 17th c. French school
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of the Princess of Conti - Attributed to Louis Ferdinand Elle the Younger (1648-1717)
Late 17th century French school
Oil on canvas, h. 100 cm, l. 80 cm
Important Louis XIV ...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Travellers and Dogs in Landscape, Ruins on Right - Dutch Old Master oil painting
By Pieter Wouwerman
Located in Hagley, England
This lovely Dutch Old Master oil painting is attributed to artist Pieter Wouwerman. Painted circa 1660 it is figurative landscape with horseback travellers and their dogs in the foreground with ruins on their right. Beyond is a river and hilly landscape, all in the fading light of approaching dusk. There are some superb details making this an excellent Dutch Golden Age oil painting.
Provenance: Devonshire estate.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 24 inches by 20 inches and in good condition.
Frame. Housed in a complementary gilt frame, 31 inches by 27 inches and in good condition.
Pieter Wouwerman (1623-1682) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. He was born in Haarlem. According to Arnold Houbraken, a biographer of artists from the Dutch Golden Age, Pieter Wouwerman was the brother of the landscape painters Jan and Philips Wouwerman, who, like his more famous brother, made a living selling Italianate landscapes in the manner of Pieter van Laer...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Óleo sobre lienzo - Retrato de un Rabino
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Como pueden apreciar, la obra va firmada por el artista en la parte inferior (A.GROSZ)
Se presenta enmarcada la obra (el marco presenta algunas faltas)
El estado de la obra es buen...
Category
Early 1900s Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century French Oil Painting Tavern Scene Interior Merry Making Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Merry Makers in the Tavern
French School, 18th century
oil on canvas
canvas: 8 x 11 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: good and sound condition
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$952 Sale Price
30% Off
Vatican Hallway designed by Raphael: 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving by Volpato
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 18th century hand-colored copper-plate engraving by Giovanni Volpato after a drawing by Camporesi. It was the frontispiece for volume one of the rare and valuable...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
18th Century sporting horse portrait oil painting of a race horse and groom
By Francis Sartorius
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Francis Sartorius
British, (1734-1804)
Bay Hunter & Groom
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 24.25 inches x 29.25 inches
Size including frame: 32 inches x 37 inches
A wonderful spor...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Raimondo di Montecuccoli in armor with a marshal's staff. Circa 1660
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait of Raimondo di Montecuccoli in armor with a marshal's staff. Dutch School.
Oil on canvas
Dutch School.
Circle of Peter Nason (Amsterdam, 1612 - 1690 The Hague).
Portrait of a military commander in armor with a marshal's staff.
In the portrait of the illustrious general Raimondo Montecuccoli, it can be observed that he still appears without the Order of the Golden Toson. This detail suggests that the portrait could be dated before 1664.
Raimondo Montecuccoli was a famous general and military strategist of the 17th century in the service of the Habsburg Empire. Born in 1609 in Italy, Montecuccoli fought in numerous European wars, distinguishing himself for his tactical and strategic abilities. He is best known for his victories during the Thirty Years' War and the war against the Turks. Montecuccoli is also remembered for his writings on military theory, which influenced subsequent generations of commanders. He died in 1680.
Montecuccoli came from a noble Italian family but chose to pursue a military career in the service of the Habsburg Empire. He studied in Vienna and fought in numerous battles and military campaigns, earning the trust of Emperor Leopold I.
Montecuccoli was known for his discipline, his ability to adapt to situations on the battlefield, and his skill in leading troops with cunning and determination.
Montecuccoli fought in many significant battles during the Thirty Years' War and the wars against the Turks. Some of his most famous battles include the Battle of Lens in 1648, where he achieved a decisive victory against French forces, and the Battle of Vezekény in 1664, where he defeated the Ottoman army. He faced adversaries such as the renowned French general Turenne and the great Turkish commander Kara Mustafa...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,165 Sale Price
32% Off
Venus Bacchus Ceres Paggi 17th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master Mythologic
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Giovanni Battista Paggi (Genoa 1554 – Genoa 1627)
Venus, Bacchus and Ceres (Parallel title: ‘Sine Cerere et Baccho, friget Venus’)
Oil on canvas
103 x 78 cm. - Framed 125 x 100 cm.
...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
$11,679 Sale Price
20% Off
Porta Pia Viminalis - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Porta Pia Viminalis is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
Signed and titled on plate lower margin.
Good conditions except for consumed margins...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
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