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Roses and Chrysanthemums in a Vase
Roses and Chrysanthemums in a Vase

Roses and Chrysanthemums in a Vase

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

Although he continued to live in Paris and died in that city, Babcock had a good market for his work in Boston. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has a large collection of his figurativ...

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1870s Victorian Antique Boston

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Grez-sur-Loing
Grez-sur-Loing

Grez-sur-Loing

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

By 1881 he was back in Boston, where he remained until his death in 1910.

Category

Late 19th Century Barbizon School Antique Boston

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Albrecht Dürer 16th Century Old Master Engraving The Sudarium Of Saint Veronica
Albrecht Dürer 16th Century Old Master Engraving The Sudarium Of Saint Veronica

Albrecht Dürer 16th Century Old Master Engraving The Sudarium Of Saint Veronica

Located in Nottingham, GB

Collections in which impressions of this state of this engraving can be found: Museum of Fine Arts (Department of Prints and Drawings), Boston; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munic...

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16th Century Antique Boston

Materials

Paper

1905 Chart of Long Island Sound by Eldridge
1905 Chart of Long Island Sound by Eldridge

1905 Chart of Long Island Sound by Eldridge

Located in Norwell, MA

Hutchinson, 152 State St., Boston, General Agent. Showing Mamaroneck, Greenwich, Darien, Westport, Manhattan, Glen Cove, City Island, Brooklyn, Oyster Bay, Cold Spring Harbor, Northp...

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Early 1900s North American Antique Boston

Materials

Paper

"Noon at Point Judith"  Rhode Island 1877
"Noon at Point Judith"  Rhode Island 1877

"Noon at Point Judith" Rhode Island 1877

By Alfred Thompson Bricher

Located in Jacksonville, FL

In 1859 Bricher opened a studio in Boston, though he continued to visit and work in and around Newburyport as well.

Category

19th Century Antique Boston

Materials

Oil

Pier Table
Pier Table

Pier Table

$65,000

Pier Table

Located in New York, NY

Like so much of the best Boston furniture of this period, this table is unmarked by its maker and has no meaningful provenance.

Category

1810s American Neoclassical Antique Boston

Materials

Marble, Brass, Bronze, Lead

Two Women Cooking (Spain or North Africa?)
Two Women Cooking (Spain or North Africa?)

Two Women Cooking (Spain or North Africa?)

By Robert Hallowell

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Davies Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art Worcester Art Museum Museum of the City of New York Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Denver Museum Newark Museum Wilm...

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1920s American Modern Antique Boston

Materials

Watercolor

The Gate, Cuba
The Gate, Cuba

The Gate, Cuba

By Robert Hallowell

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Davies Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art Worcester Art Museum Museum of the City of New York Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Denver Museum Newark Museum Wilm...

Category

1920s American Modern Antique Boston

Materials

Watercolor

Autumn Landscape
Autumn Landscape

Autumn Landscape

By Edward Loyal Field

Located in Sheffield, MA

Field exhibited extensively in cities throughout America and was a member of both the Salmagundi Club and the Boston Art Club. Though apparently successful in his lifetime, little is...

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Late 19th Century Impressionist Antique Boston

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Large 19th C. American Cast-Iron Lion Shield Medallion, Architectural Ornament
Large 19th C. American Cast-Iron Lion Shield Medallion, Architectural Ornament

Large 19th C. American Cast-Iron Lion Shield Medallion, Architectural Ornament

By J.L. Mott Ironworks

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

(Philadelphia), and Henry Hooper & Sons (Boston). Its theatricality and shield form also relate to examples attributed to J.W.

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19th Century American Victorian Antique Boston

Materials

Iron

Spring at the Summer House in Hyde Park
Spring at the Summer House in Hyde Park

Spring at the Summer House in Hyde Park

By John Joseph Enneking

Located in North Clarendon, VT

Sadly, following his passing in 1916, many of his paintings were stored in a Boston warehouse, where they remained forgotten.

Category

1880s American Impressionist Antique Boston

Materials

Oil

Antique English Burnt Bamboo and Lacquer Occasional Table with Custom Glass Top
Antique English Burnt Bamboo and Lacquer Occasional Table with Custom Glass Top

Antique English Burnt Bamboo and Lacquer Occasional Table with Custom Glass Top

By Liberty & Co.

Located in Morristown, NJ

Comparable examples were also retailed in America through New York and Boston importers during the same period. From a private Main Line Philadelphia estate.

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Late 19th Century English Anglo-Japanese Antique Boston

Materials

Bamboo, Glass, Lacquer

Rare Queen Anne Chinoiserie Japanned Chest On Stand
Rare Queen Anne Chinoiserie Japanned Chest On Stand

Rare Queen Anne Chinoiserie Japanned Chest On Stand

Located in Lymington, GB

The painted decoration on the high chest...'' is worth scrutiny. Boston Japanned Furniture - Colonial Society of Massachusetts: ''The number of forms bearing japanned decoration and...

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18th Century English Queen Anne Antique Boston

Materials

Lacquer

Antique Ormolu Mounted Ebonised Gilt Bronze Chiming Mantel Clock 19th Century
Antique Ormolu Mounted Ebonised Gilt Bronze Chiming Mantel Clock 19th Century

Antique Ormolu Mounted Ebonised Gilt Bronze Chiming Mantel Clock 19th Century

Located in London, GB

According to the church records of Trinity Episcopal Church (Williamsport, Pennsylvania), this chime sequence was incorporated into a tower clock mechanism by the E. Howard & Co....

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1860s Antique Boston

Materials

Brass, Ormolu

Landscape with a Cart Path
Landscape with a Cart Path

Landscape with a Cart Path

By Theodore Victor Carl Valenkamph

Located in Milford, NH

Valenkamph was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and emigrated to Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1899, setting up a studio in Boston in 1903, and later in East Gloucester. He became best know...

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Early 1900s American Impressionist Antique Boston

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fashion Sketch
Fashion Sketch

Fashion Sketch

By Raoul Dufy

Located in North Clarendon, VT

Received successful experimental cortisone treatment in Boston in 1947. Received the Grand Prize for Painting at the 26th Venice Biennale in 1952.

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1920s Fauvist Antique Boston

Materials

Watercolor, Pen

The Bull Ring
The Bull Ring

The Bull Ring

By Robert Hallowell

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Davies Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art Worcester Art Museum Museum of the City of New York Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Denver Museum Newark Museum Wilm...

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1920s American Modern Antique Boston

Materials

Watercolor

Staten Island Looking into Elizabeth
Staten Island Looking into Elizabeth

Staten Island Looking into Elizabeth

By Robert Hallowell

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Davies Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art Worcester Art Museum Museum of the City of New York Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Denver Museum Newark Museum Wilm...

Category

1920s American Modern Antique Boston

Materials

Watercolor

Donna Schuster “Nude Bathers” Watercolor, Pencil and Gouache
Donna Schuster “Nude Bathers” Watercolor, Pencil and Gouache

Donna Schuster “Nude Bathers” Watercolor, Pencil and Gouache

By Donna Schuster

Located in LA, CA

She attended the Chicago's School of the Arts and later studied under Impressionist artists Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell at the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Donna's works were influ...

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Early 20th Century Abstract Antique Boston

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

HOLMES. Autocrat Of The Breakfast-Table. INSCRIBED BY RICHARD HENRY DANA - 1858
HOLMES. Autocrat Of The Breakfast-Table. INSCRIBED BY RICHARD HENRY DANA - 1858

HOLMES. Autocrat Of The Breakfast-Table. INSCRIBED BY RICHARD HENRY DANA - 1858

Located in Hillsborough, NJ

TITLE: The Autocrat Of The Breakfast-Table. PUBLISHER: Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. DESCRIPTION: INSCRIBED BY RICHARD HENRY DANA. 1 vol., inscribed on the second bl...

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1850s British Antique Boston

Materials

Fabric

Antique William Worcester Churchill (1858 - 1926) 4 Drawings, 1908 signed 'WC'
Antique William Worcester Churchill (1858 - 1926) 4 Drawings, 1908 signed 'WC'

Antique William Worcester Churchill (1858 - 1926) 4 Drawings, 1908 signed 'WC'

Located in Norton, MA

From 1878 to 1885, Churchill was in Paris studying with Leon Bonnat and upon returning to Boston, he established himself as a portrait painter.

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18th Century English Antique Boston

Materials

Canvas, Wood

Salmagundi Club Artist with Club Label Harry De Maine The High Bridge
Salmagundi Club Artist with Club Label Harry De Maine The High Bridge

Salmagundi Club Artist with Club Label Harry De Maine The High Bridge

Located in Chesterfield, NJ

His works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Bevier Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Ma...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Boston

Materials

Oil

Early Arts and Crafts Jade Brooch
Early Arts and Crafts Jade Brooch

Early Arts and Crafts Jade Brooch

Located in New York, NY

Large scale likely from Boston area circa 1900.

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Early 1900s American Arts and Crafts Antique Boston

Vermont Hillside Farm
Vermont Hillside Farm

Vermont Hillside Farm

By James Hope

Located in Milford, NH

An occasional exhibitor in Boston, Hope also sent paintings to shows in Philadelphia, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Detroit, Utica, Chicago, and St.

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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Antique Boston

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original Mary Gregory Cobalt Blue Glass Vase  "Ice Children" Collection
Original Mary Gregory Cobalt Blue Glass Vase  "Ice Children" Collection

Original Mary Gregory Cobalt Blue Glass Vase "Ice Children" Collection

By Mary Gregory

Located in Praha, CZ

Made in the United States circa 1880, this vase exemplifies Mary Gregory’s original technique developed at the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, where she painted whimsical enamel s...

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1880s American Victorian Antique Boston

Materials

Glass

Nude Study (Nude)  Etude de nu (Nu) - Cubism Nude
Nude Study (Nude)  Etude de nu (Nu) - Cubism Nude

Nude Study (Nude) Etude de nu (Nu) - Cubism Nude

By Georges Braque

Located in London, GB

In addition to donating and loaning countless works for exhibitions, Torf served on boards and committees of many art institutions in the Boston area. For over 30 years, she was a Tr...

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Early 1900s Cubist Antique Boston

Materials

Etching

"Boats in the Harbor, Venice" by American Artist Lemuel D. Eldred
"Boats in the Harbor, Venice" by American Artist Lemuel D. Eldred

"Boats in the Harbor, Venice" by American Artist Lemuel D. Eldred

By Lemuel D. Eldred

Located in Wiscasset, ME

Eldred was born in Fairhaven, MA, studied for a short time at the Academie Julian in Paris and traveled throughout Europe,but he claimed he was self-taught. He exhibited in Boston an...

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Late 19th Century Italian Victorian Antique Boston

Materials

Paint

1845 "Ensign's Travellers' Guide and Map of the United States" Hand-Colored Map
1845 "Ensign's Travellers' Guide and Map of the United States" Hand-Colored Map

1845 "Ensign's Travellers' Guide and Map of the United States" Hand-Colored Map

Located in Colorado Springs, CO

Below the beautifully engraved title are thirteen inset maps, showing the vicinities of New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans, Mobile, Cincinnati, St.

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1840s American Victorian Antique Boston

Materials

Paper

19th C. James Todd Looking Glass Empire Classical Giltwood Trumeau Mirror
19th C. James Todd Looking Glass Empire Classical Giltwood Trumeau Mirror

19th C. James Todd Looking Glass Empire Classical Giltwood Trumeau Mirror

Located in Germantown, MD

Born in Hingham, Massachusetts his brother, William Todd, was a cabinetmaker with shops in Boston and Hingham. At the age of 16, James Todd apprenticed to Paul Mondelly, a French-bor...

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Late 19th Century American American Empire Antique Boston

Materials

Mirror, Wood, Giltwood

Zuber & Cie.  Early 20th Century Screen   "View of New York Bay from New Jersey"
Zuber & Cie.  Early 20th Century Screen   "View of New York Bay from New Jersey"

Zuber & Cie. Early 20th Century Screen "View of New York Bay from New Jersey"

By Jean Zuber

Located in Ottawa, Ontario

The most striking feature of the oval parlor, is the "Vue de l'Amérique du Nord," a panoramic wallpaper illustrating thirty-two scenes from American history: steamboats in the spray ...

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Early 20th Century French Grand Tour Antique Boston

Materials

Wood, Paper

The town of Eze
The town of Eze

The town of Eze

By Robert Hallowell

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Davies Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art Worcester Art Museum Museum of the City of New York Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Denver Museum Newark Museum Wilm...

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1920s American Modern Antique Boston

Materials

Oil

My Hindoo Servant "Bullie"
My Hindoo Servant "Bullie"

My Hindoo Servant "Bullie"

Located in Milford, NH

Conservatory Art Dept. (1887-1896), as well as the Boston Art Club.. He was well known for his portrait, figure, and landscape painting.

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1880s Antique Boston

Materials

Canvas, Oil

19th Century seascape oil painting of sailing boats off the Dutch coast
19th Century seascape oil painting of sailing boats off the Dutch coast

19th Century seascape oil painting of sailing boats off the Dutch coast

By Abraham Hulk the Elder

Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire

However, in 1833, he began travelling and visited America where he exhibited in Boston. Perhaps inspired by his travels and also influenced by the Dutch romantic painters, he started...

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19th Century Victorian Antique Boston

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Waterfall with Birches”
“Waterfall with Birches”

“Waterfall with Birches”

Located in Southampton, NY

He exhibited at the Boston Art Club and the Charitable Mechanics Association in Boston from 1884 to 1906..

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1920s Post-Impressionist Antique Boston

Materials

Watercolor, Illustration Board

Set of Four American Brilliant Cut Glass Dessert Dishes, J. Hoare
Set of Four American Brilliant Cut Glass Dessert Dishes, J. Hoare

Set of Four American Brilliant Cut Glass Dessert Dishes, J. Hoare

Located in Roma, IT

He won awards at various exhibitions in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and in 1893 won four medals at the Columbian Exposition including the gold medal.

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Early 20th Century American American Classical Antique Boston

Materials

Crystal

Empire Commode, Denmark 1810
Empire Commode, Denmark 1810

Empire Commode, Denmark 1810

Located in Belmont, MA

The commode will be shipped from Germany, shipping costs to Boston are included.

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1810s Danish Empire Antique Boston

Materials

Mahogany

Home and Sunshine
Home and Sunshine

Home and Sunshine

By Anthony Thieme

Located in Milford, NH

Thieme was born in Rotterdam, Holland and, after traveling in Europe, England, & South America, he settled in the Boston, MA area, establishing a studio in Rockport, MA on Cape Ann.

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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Boston

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Home of Mary Washington" Antique Fredericksburg. Virginia Etching
"Home of Mary Washington" Antique Fredericksburg. Virginia Etching

"Home of Mary Washington" Antique Fredericksburg. Virginia Etching

By Ernest David Roth

Located in Soquel, CA

He exhibited extensively across the U.S. at locations such as the Boston Art Club, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Academy of De...

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1920s Realist Antique Boston

Materials

Paper, Ink, Etching

Coastal Seascape by Charles Hopkinson, circa 1920 - Manchester, Mass
Coastal Seascape by Charles Hopkinson, circa 1920 - Manchester, Mass

Coastal Seascape by Charles Hopkinson, circa 1920 - Manchester, Mass

Located in Nantucket, MA

The painting was catalogued at artist's estate by the Vose Galleries of Boston, and retains three of their labels on the reverse, and a catalogue label documenting that this painting...

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1920s American Other Antique Boston

Materials

Canvas

Antique Period Paine Furniture "Lifetime" A&C Settle Stickley era, W8048    SALE
Antique Period Paine Furniture "Lifetime" A&C Settle Stickley era, W8048    SALE

Antique Period Paine Furniture "Lifetime" A&C Settle Stickley era, W8048 SALE

Located in Shamokin Dam, PA

This is a PERIOD circa 1910 Arts and Crafts settle sold in the store in Boston MA call PAIN furniture. Pain furniture sold mostly furniture by STICKLEY AND by "LIFETIME" or also call...

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1910s American Arts and Crafts Antique Boston

Materials

Oak

J.B. Treat “Reading Brass Band" Drum, c.1860s
J.B. Treat “Reading Brass Band" Drum, c.1860s

J.B. Treat “Reading Brass Band" Drum, c.1860s

Located in Savannah, GA

A large “Circular” drum made by J.B. Treat of Boston, circa 1860s. Fitted glass top. Used by the Reading Brass Band who are well documented in the Boston Globe as having performed ...

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1860s American Campaign Antique Boston

Materials

Hide, Glass, Wood

Renaissance Revival Style Partners Foyer Table Desk in Walnut
Renaissance Revival Style Partners Foyer Table Desk in Walnut

Renaissance Revival Style Partners Foyer Table Desk in Walnut

Located in Stamford, CT

Of the four locks on this partners table’s drawers, one is stamped simply with “Boston.” This subtle but telling detail offers a clue to the table’s likely history and original use.

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Late 19th Century American Renaissance Revival Antique Boston

Materials

Walnut

"Woman Resting Beneath a Tree" Henry Mosler, American Portrait in Landscape
"Woman Resting Beneath a Tree" Henry Mosler, American Portrait in Landscape

"Woman Resting Beneath a Tree" Henry Mosler, American Portrait in Landscape

By Henry Mosler

Located in New York, NY

Examples of his work are in currently in the collections of the Allentown Art Museum, the Wichita Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Huntington Library, the Museum ...

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Early 1900s Realist Antique Boston

Materials

Canvas, Oil

View of Medici Villa, Rome
View of Medici Villa, Rome

View of Medici Villa, Rome

By Ross Sterling Turner

Located in Milford, NH

Over the course of his career Turner held memberships in numerous art associations, including the New York Watercolor Club, the American Watercolor Society (New York City), the Bosto...

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1890s Antique Boston

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rococo Revival Meridienne/Recamier attributed to John Henry Belter
Rococo Revival Meridienne/Recamier attributed to John Henry Belter

Rococo Revival Meridienne/Recamier attributed to John Henry Belter

By John Henry Belter

Located in Hastings, GB

This style which became very popular in NYC, was widely copied by his competitors in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston.Belter died in New York City and his business was carried on b...

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1850s American Rococo Revival Antique Boston

Materials

Wood

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