Arthur Spooner Portrait Paintings

Conditions : Excellent overall Conditions, minor chips on the left side to original period frame. Oil on canvas signed Trouillebert on the lower right. Certificate by Michel Rodrigue...

CHRISTOFFEL LUBIENIECKI (1659-1729) Pair of portraits of a gentleman and a lady, both in silk kimono, before a country house (circa 1680) Indistinctly signed “C.......” on a box under the man’s left hand Oil on canvas, 79.5 x 67 cm each Both sitters are portrayed wearing a silk “Japanese” coat. During the second half of the seventeenth the Japanese silk coat, an adapted Japanese kimono, became a real vogue in the Dutch elite. The exclusive Dutch trade contacts with Japan can explain the popularity of the kimono-style silk coats in the Netherlands. Everybody who could afford one, dressed in such a fashionable and comfortable coat and, like the present sitters, some proud owners had themselves portrayed in a “Japanese” coat often together with an oriental carpet to underline their standing and international connections. These portraits are the work of the Polish-born portraitist Christoffel Lubieniecki (also known as Lubienitski, Lubinitski or Lubiniecki) Lubieniecki was first trained in Hamburg under Julian Stuhr and after 1675 in Amsterdam under Adriaen Backer and Gerard de Lairesse. He specialized in landscapes, generally of an Italianate character, and in portraits. The loving execution of these contented burghers, enjoying the garden vistas of their country house, places him alongside Amsterdam portraitists such as Constantijn Netscher and Michiel van Musscher...

This oil-on-canvas portrait was painted in 1915 by the American artist Nicholas Richard Brewer (1857–1949). It captures a mother seated with her daughter and son, a classic example o...

“Portrait of a Lady in White, c. 1905-10” by Joseph Oppenheimer (1876-1966). An exceptional portrait by Oppenheimer of a spirited young woman turned in half-profile. This work exemp...

"Smoke Break" by Clyde Steadman (United States) is a handmade nude female portrait painting that is unframed, but ready to hang.

"Sinner Beware" by Clyde Steadman (United States) is a handmade nude female portrait painting that is unframed, but ready to hang.

"Behind Stage" by Zhiwei Tu is an Impressionistic Figurative original oil on canvas painting that measures 48x36 in. This painting has a class of beautiful b...

Clyde Steadman's "Lots Daughter" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto painting of individuals in an interior setting.

John Fishing​ ​by Lu Haskew Oil 30x24" image size ​ Figurative Portrait of a man with fishing pole. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Lu considered it a must to work with live models once or twice...

Oil paint on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist Stéphane Fauchille, dream anthropologist “Would you, for a moment, like to become the Claude Lévi-Strauss of the aborigin...

"Woman Reading" by An He is an original impressionistic oil on canvas portrait painting measuring 40x30 in. A modern day brunette woman sitting in a red chair reads a book in the light of a summers day. Chinese-American artist An He, also known as Hans Amis, is known for his magnificent portrait paintings of...

"Tea Party" by Kirsten Savage is an original, handmade oil painting on panel that depicts a woman sitting on an orange couch, in a sheer white skirt, holding a cup of tea. Kirsten ...