$14,000Sale Price|20% Off
Portrait of Dorothy Thompson (The Wild Rose) - Female Artist
Located in Miami, FL
It appears as if Raphael's "The Madonna of the Pinks" served as a reference point for the treatment of the hands holding a rose and also the color scheme. Jean Mclane / Maclane's w...
Canvas, Oil
$18,000
"Village Green" Mary Bradish Titcomb, Bright American Impressionist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
During this period her work was shown in a traveling exhibition with that of Cecilia Beaux, Lydia Field Emmet, Jean MacLane, and Lillian Genth, winning plaudits; she was also a membe...
Canvas, Oil
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H 28 in W 35 in
"Summer Afternoon, Half Moon Beach, Gloucester" Mary Bradish Titcomb Painting
Located in New York, NY
During this period her work was shown in a traveling exhibition with that of Cecilia Beaux, Lydia Field Emmet, Jean MacLane, and Lillian Genth, winning plaudits; she was also a membe...
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Lady Caroline Price
By George Romney
Located in Miami, FL
DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the best Romney in private hands. If Vogue Magazine existed in the late 18th century, this image of Lady Caroline Price would be on one of its covers. The e...
Oil, Canvas
$280,018Sale Price|20% Off
H 52 in W 40 in D 2 in
Exotic - Scottish 1920's exhibited 'Glasgow Girl' art portrait oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning much exhibited 1920's Scottish portrait oil painting is by noted Glasgow Girl artist Norah Nielson Gray. Painted circa 1923, the model for the painting was Rita McIlrai...
Oil
$25,847Sale Price|20% Off
H 45 in W 33 in D 1 in
Fine 19th Century French Symbolist Oil Painting Portrait of Mythological Queen
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Queen by Diogène Ulysse Napoléon Maillart (French, 1840 – 1926) *see notes below oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 42 x 30 inches framed: 45 x 33 inches condition: overall v...
Canvas, Oil
$450,000
H 30 in W 25 in
Duke of Wellington's Niece, Portrait of Lady Bagot, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 25 inche
By Sir John Hoppner
Located in Miami, FL
The sitter is Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesley-Pole, eldest daughter of William, 4th Earl of Mornington, and niece to the Duke of Wellington and two-time Prime Minister of England. This...
Oil, Canvas
$10,000
H 18.8 in W 32 in
Old Time Football in the 1920s - Football 1920s - Classic Football
By Walt Louderback
Located in Miami, FL
You Got to be a Football Hero to Get Along with a Beautiful Girl. Masterfully composed and dynamic illustration that show a player getting punched in the jaw. During this period, the...
Oil, Canvas
$1,650,000
H 49.38 in W 57 in D 6 in
Young Mother Contemplating Two Embracing Children by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
By William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Located in New Orleans, LA
William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1825-1905 French Jeune mère contemplant deux enfants qui s'embrassent (Young Mother Contemplating Two Embracing Children) Signed “W-Bouguereau” (bottom ...
Canvas, Oil
$17,231Sale Price|20% Off
H 42 in W 37 in D 2 in
Self Portrait with Cat - Scottish 1920's Art Deco Oil Painting female artist
By Helen Margaret MacKenzie
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning Scottish 1920's self portrait oil painting is by noted Scottish female artist Helen Mackenzie. Painted circa 1929 the composition is the head and shoulders of the artis...
Oil
$140,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 17 in W 24 in
Father and children in front of TV - Mid-Century
By John Philip Falter
Located in Miami, FL
John Falter arranges figures and faces in a way that rival the old masters in their compositional perfection. And he makes it look easy. The expressions are captured so the emotion...
Oil, Canvas
A Pompeian Lady
By John William Godward
Located in New Orleans, LA
John William Godward 1861-1922 British A Pompeian Lady Signed and dated "J.W. Godward 1904" (lower right, partially covered by frame) Oil on canvas One of the last and greatest V...
Canvas, Oil
$20,000
H 18 in W 15 in
Portrait of an Elegant Young Woman in Warm Grays and Soft Ochers
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
Leon Kroll was above all an academician. To him "abstract art was merely the beginning of a picture. Structurally, "Portrait of a Young Woman recalls some of the portraits from the ...
Oil, Canvas
$52,196Sale Price|25% Off
H 44.1 in W 33.86 in
Boeckhorst, Rubens, Saint Ursula, Decorative Old Master, Woman, Baroque, Flemish
By Jan Boeckhorst
Located in Greven, DE
Johann Boeckhorst (Münster 1604 - Antwerp 1668) Saint Ursula Oil on canvas, 112 x 86 cm Provenance: New York, Christe's, 20.3.1981, lot 88 (as Van Diepenbeeck's circle) The presen...
Canvas, Oil
$112,000
H 44.25 in W 32 in D 3 in
Goddess of Dawn Mythology scene Artwork Aurora in white toga smelling a flower.
By Jean Louis Hamon
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Louis Hamon artfully presents the mythological subject: Aurora the Goddess of Dawn. She is dressed in a flowing toga, standing on a large leaf and smelling the sweetness of a fl...
Oil
$28,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 72 in W 36 in
Blond Girl with Basket of Flowers "Rosemary's Playmate"
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in Miami, FL
This is an almost lifesize portrait of a charming blond holding a basket of freshly picked flowers. The girl set against a verdant landscape with blue sky and cumulus clouds. The su...
Canvas, Oil
$1,985,000
H 67.13 in W 44.75 in D 2.25 in
La Fille Du Pêcheur By William Bouguereau
By William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Located in New Orleans, LA
William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1825-1905 French La fille du pêcheur (The Fisherman’s Daughter) Signed and dated “W-Bouguereau-1882” (middle right) Oil on canvas William Bouguereau's...
Canvas, Oil
Solitude
By Guillaume Seignac
Located in New Orleans, LA
French Academic painter Guillaume Seignac was renowned for his masterful treatment of the idealized nude. His languishing female subjects based on Greco-Roman prototypes were and rem...
Canvas, Oil
Miss Carolyn Edmunson
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
The art world today does not value traditional academic skills in portrait painting. If it did, this portrait would replace the childlike student-level art that is now achieving two...
Canvas, Oil
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