Alexander Fraser Art

Oil painting measures 12 x 9; frame dimensions measure 19 3/8 x 16 3/8 x 3. Housed in an elegant gold-tone frame with decorative edges. Illegible signature, lower right.

There is a sense of freedom that I experience when painting landscape. The quality of these kinds of images allows for expression and interpretation, yet they can still be viewed as...

Barbizon School, French circa 1850 Fontainebleau landscape with walkers Oil on canvas 21.5 x 31 cm Framed : 32 x 41.5 cm In good condition, some minor lacks of paintingsdue to a former frame abrasion mainly on the right border and in the lower border (see photographs please) This landscape is probably a view of the Fontainebleau forest. This type of scene was painted by the Barbizon painters and by Camille Corot. The village of Barbizon is very close to the forest of Fontainebleau and the painters who lived there, such as Camille Corot, painted the most picturesque views of the spectacular stone quarries. There were also many walkers and hikers in these places, as the artists had made them famous and fashionable. The author of this charming little painting wanted to depict the wildness of the place and, in contrast, the walkers who made it a pittoresque curiosity. Although it's difficult to identify or ascribe the work, as there's no signature or other indication, there's a great deal of sensitivity and self-confidence in a very lively touch that heralds Impressionism. The detail of the barely sketched silhouettes...

It is an early April morning on the Main embankment in Würzburg. The alley along the embankment is depicted, in the ornament of shadows from the branches of still bare trees. Fresh g...

The painting was painted from life. It depicts the Main embankment on the outskirts of the Bavarian city of Würzburg. We see an autumn motif, trees standing in a row along the parape...

The painting depicts one of the bridges across the Main in Würzburg, the Ludwigbrücke. We look at the motif from the embankment, under the span of the bridge. The age of the bridge i...

The painting was painted from life. We see the motif of old Würzburg on a sunny summer day. This is the Balthasar Neumann Alley, named after the architect who built the most signific...

The landscape was painted from life in Venice in January. The buildings of the Miserecórdia Abbey are depicted. We see typical Venetian colors, consisting of emerald shades of the Ad...

Marine painter Warren W. Sheppard was born in Greenwich, New Jersey, to a ship captain father who instilled in his son a love and respect for the sea. He studied privately with Mauritz F. H. De Haas and took courses in drawing at Cooper Union in New York City. He traveled along the Mediterranean coast in 1879, sketching the ports of Naples, Gibraltar, Genoa and Messina. Sheppard’s foreign tours continued between 1888 and 1893, with stays in Paris and Venice, where he captured the architecture and busy canals of the Floating City. This fondness for travel also translated to his home country. He sailed along the East Coast from New Jersey to Maine in search of subjects and was an expert navigator, eventually writing the book Practical Navigation. Yacht design became a second career for Sheppard and he participated in a number of sailing competitions himself, most notably winning the New York-to-Bermuda race twice while skipper of the Tamerlane. Sheppard exhibited at the Denver Exposition, Chicago Exposition...

The painting depicts a flood in Venice, the famous Acqua Alta, when during the sea tide, the canals overflow their banks, flooding the embankments and squares. At this time, the Vene...

The painting, painted from life, depicts the banks of the Main in the city of Würzburg in southern Germany. We see the city itself on the far bank. The river reflects the silhouettes...

Summer etude painted from life in the morning, standing on the balcony. The view from the balcony to the yard is depicted. Most of the work is taken up by the birch foliage, partly i...