Amicus Optimus Hominis (Study) - Still Life Drawing of Animal Skull
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
Matthew Cook Amicus Optimus Hominis (Study) Charcoal & Chalk on Paper 20h x 16w in 50.80h x 40.64w cm MLC018 Bio: Matthew Cook is an emerging hyperrealist painter, born in To...
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
$1,500
Actaeon's Folly - Still Life Drawing, Mythology Skull with Antlers, and Florals
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
Matthew Cook Actaeon's Folly (Study) Charcoal & Chalk on Paper 13h x 22w in 33.02h x 55.88w cm MLC017 Bio: Matthew Cook is an emerging hyperrealist painter, born in Toledo, O...
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
$1,800
The Artist in Profile - Oval Shaped Portrait Painting in Extraordinary Detail
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
Matthew Cook The Artist in Profile oil on aluminum 10 x 8 in. oval MATTHEW COOK b.
Oil, Panel
$10,000
Mockery and Hate - Norse Mythology Still Life with Flowers and Animal Skull
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
Matthew Cook Mockery and Hate Oil & Acrylic on Aluminum 18h x 24w in 33h x 37w x 1d in inches (framed) 45.72h x 60.96w cm MLC020 Bio: Matthew Cook is a realist painter, born in Tol...
Oil, Acrylic
$20,000
The Curse - Female w/ Sunflowers, Ode to Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Lady Shalott"
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
Matthew Cook The Curse Oil & Acrylic on Aluminum 36h x 24w in 53h x 38w x 1d in (framed) 134.62h x 96.52w x 2.54d cm MLC019 Bio: Matthew Cook is a realist painter, born in Toledo, ...
Oil, Acrylic
$13,000
Ophelia - Hamlet Inspired Still Life Painting with Plaster Mask and Flowers
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
Matthew Cook Ophelia Oil & Acrylic on Aluminum 24 x 24w in 38.25h x 38.25w x 1d in (framed) 97.16h x 97.16w x 2.54d cm MLC021 Bio: Matthew Cook is a realist painter, born in Toledo...
Oil, Acrylic
$400
Jem's Treasure (Study) - Still Life Drawing of the Insides of a 'Treasure Box'
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
In Jem’s Treasure (Study), Matthew Cook transforms a shallow drawer of carefully arranged objects into a meditation on memory, time, and the fragility of childhood.
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
$4,000
Vanitas III - Still Life Painting of a Human Skull & Flowers, Oil on Aluminum
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
To use life’s comforts while he can – A. Brontë Matthew Cook Vanitas III Oil & Acrylic on Aluminum 10h x 8w in (15.5h x 13.5w x 1.5d, framed) 25.40h x 20.32w cm MLC010 Bio: Matt...
Oil, Acrylic
A Very Difficult Game Indeed (Study) - Still Life Drawing of Bird Skull
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
Invite team members You said: Find information about artist Matthew Cook ChatGPT said: Here’s information about artists named Matthew Cook — there are a few notable ones in diffe...
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Vanitas III (Study) - Still Life Drawing of a Human Skull & Flowers
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
Matthew Cook Vanitas III (Study) Charcoal & Chalk on Paper 10h x 8w in 25.40h x 20.32w cm FRAMED DIMENSIONS 16h x 14w x 1d in 40.64h x 35.56w x 2.54d cm MLC014 Bio: Matthew Cook ...
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
$1,800
Joanne in Profile - Photorealist Oil Painting on Oval Panel of Woman in Profile
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
The oval shaped panel is framed in a custom frame with classic details. Matthew Cook Joanne in Profile, 2018 oil on aluminum 10 x 8 in. oval Bio: Matthew Cook is an emerging hyper...
Oil, Panel
$6,000
A Very Difficult Game Indeed - Still Life with References to Alice in Wonderland
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was a very difficult game indeed" - Lewis Carroll 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' ch. VIII Matthew Cook A Very Difficult Game Indeed O...
Oil, Acrylic
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H 8 in W 10 in
The King Beetle - Still Life Oil Painting of Beetle, Matches, Floral Wallpaper
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
The black frame measures 10.5h x 12.5w inches. Matthew Cook The King Beetle oil and acrylic on aluminum 8h x 10w in 20.32h x 25.40w cm Bio: Matthew Cook is an emerging hyperrealis...
Metal
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H 10 in W 8 in
Vanitas II - Original Oil Painting of a Human Skull in 17th Century Dutch Style
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
The framed dimensions are H 175 x W 15 inches. Matthew Cook Vanitas II oil on aluminum 10h x 8w in 24.5h x 20.32w cm Bio: Matthew Cook is an emerging hyperrealist painter, born in...
Oil, Panel
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H 8 in W 10 in
Pomegranates - Still Life, Original Oil Painting on Aluminium Panel, Dutch Style
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
The framed dimensions are 16.25h x 18.25w inches. Matthew Cook Pomegranates oil on aluminum panel 8h x 10w in 20.32h x 25.40w cm MLC007 Bio: Matthew Cook is an emerging hyperreali...
Oil, Panel
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H 11 in W 8 in
Vanitas - Original Oil Painting of a Human Skull in 17th Century Dutch Style
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
The framed dimensions are H 19.25 x W 16 inches. Matthew Cook Vanitas oil on aluminum 11h x 8w in 27.94h x 20.32w cm Bio: Matthew Cook is an emerging hyperrealist painter, born in...
Oil, Panel
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H 15 in W 15 in D 1.5 in
Can You Use It In a Sentence? - Still Life Painting, Bumble Bee, Book & Pencil
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
Inscribed on back: "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." –W.B. Yeats Matthew Cook Can You Use It In a Sentence? Oil on Aluminum 6h x 6w in 15.24h x ...
Oil
Jem's Treasure - Still Life Painting Inside Found Cigar Box
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
Matthew Cook Jem's Treasure Oil on Aluminum & Found Objects 8h x 5w in 20.32h x 12.70w cm MLC013 Bio: Matthew Cook is an emerging hyperrealist painter, born in Toledo, Ohio.
Found Objects, Oil
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H 8 in W 10 in
Memento Vivere - Original Oil Painting Human Skull in 17th Century Dutch Style
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
The framed dimensions are H 14.5 x W 16.5 inches. Matthew Cook Memento Vivere oil on panel 8h x 10w in 20.32h x 25.40w cm MLC008 Bio: Matthew Cook is an emerging hyperrealist pain...
Oil, Panel
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
$19,500
H 24.5 in W 34.5 in
18th century portrait of a Spaniel dog with fruit in a wooded landscape.
By Tobias Stranover
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding early 18th-century portrait of a seated Spaniel dog in a landscape with an array of fruits. Attributed to the work of Tobias Stranover. Tobias Stranover or Toby Strano...
Oil
$116,638
H 240 in W 552 in D 120 in
Mid-Victorian Moorish wrought & cast iron pergola or decorative garden structure
Located in London, GB
A monumental Moorish mid-Victorian wrought iron Pergola or Decorative Garden Structure, a unique masterpiece in High Victorian Ironwork design. Our research confirms it is French, da...
Wrought Iron
$8,885Sale Price|20% Off
H 35.04 in W 27.56 in
Flowers Still-life Volo 17th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master Italt
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Francesca Volò Smiller, called Vincenzina (Milan, 1657 - 1700) attributed Floral composition overflowing from an embossed vase (LINK) Oil on canvas 79 x 61 cm. Framed 89 x 70 cm. T...
Oil
$9,461Sale Price|30% Off
H 15.75 in W 18.12 in
Still Life with Oysters - The earliest known still life in Swedish art history
Located in Stockholm, SE
This previously unpublished painting was first securely attributed to Govert Dircksz Camphuysen in 1944, following an examination at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm during which the ...
Oak, Oil, Wood Panel
$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
In historical British portraiture, it's the sitter that drives price. In the present work, the sitter is Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesley-Pole, eldest daughter of William, 4th Earl of ...
Canvas, Oil
$2,600
H 16 in W 18 in
Fine 18th Century Old Master Oil Painting Dead Game in Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life with Dead Birds 18th Century Italian School, we cannot see a signature oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 16 x 20 inches canvas: 13 x 17 inches provenance: private co...
Oil
$187,500
H 102 in W 84.5 in D 22.5 in
Exceptional 19th Century English Chinoiserie Pagoda Display Cabinet
Located in Houston, TX
Large-scale 19th century English display cabinet executed in the Chinoiserie tradition. Constructed in carved mahogany and conceived as a tripartite architectural façade, each glazed...
Glass, Mahogany
$199,816
H 57.68 in W 85.44 in
Flemish 17th, Orpheus and Animals, Large Decorative Wall Old Master Painting
Located in Greven, DE
Flemish school, 17th century Orpheus and the animals Oil on canvas, 146,5 x 217 cm Provenance: South German private collection. On an impressive, room-filling format, this painting ...
Canvas, Oil
$24,699Sale Price|20% Off
H 29.5 in W 37.9 in
17th Century Oil Painting Still Life: Turtles & Fish with a Ship in Stormy Seas
Located in London, GB
A Still Life of Turtles, An Eel, Pike, Lobsters and other Fish on the Shore, A Ship in the Stormy Seas Beyond Signed and dated lower left 1640 Inscribed with inventory number lower r...
Oil
$19,840Sale Price|20% Off
H 45.67 in W 38.19 in D 1.97 in
17th century By Dutch Maestro Still life with bird, carp & lobster Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
17th Century Dutch Maestro Title: Still life with bird, carp & lobster Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 116 x 97 cm - with frame 153 x 133,5 cm Antique frame "a casset...
Canvas, Oil
$6,037Sale Price|20% Off
H 33 in W 40 in D 2 in
Table Top Still Life with Birds, Fruit and Walnuts - Old Master art oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This simply stunning German 18th century Old Master oil painting is by noted artist C.L. Braun, signed lower right on the table edge. It was painted circa 1780 and has the look of a...
Oil
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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