Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
British, b. 1984
Melissa Franklin Sanchez is an East End resident every summer, but also a graduate and instructor at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Sanchez studied dance and acting in the UK before she moved to Florence. Painting on copper, which was a 17th-century innovation, has allowed her also to pursue her classical orientation, but with an updated look. In 2002, she graduated from her humanistic studies: art, music, English literature, performing arts and ballet. In 2003, she completed an intensive art foundation course at the Slade School of Art, London. She then enrolled at the Florence Academy of Art, a school dedicated to the study of realistic and figurative art. She graduated with a three-year diploma in painting and was offered a fourth year of specialization. Her work is currently represented in both Europe and the USA by InPARADISO Art Gallery in Venice, Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor, New York and Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas. She is also an artist member of the Concilio delli’Arte. Her love of Italy, its culture, beauty and tradition will continue to be an inspiration for her life and her work. Recently, Sanchez has created a series of paintings inspired by her new home in Fiesole. She sought after gem-like interiors are inspired by the likes of celebrated Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi, with their dramatic lighting and a deep sense of intimacy. Sanchez has made an important shift from painting on copper panels to aluminum panels to create more ambitious larger images.
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Artist: Melissa Franklin Sanchez
"At Dusk" 2024 oil painting on brass, fireflies in Tuscan garden, sunset horizon
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil on brass painting of the artist's back yard, at dusk. The distant pale yellow sky above a mountainous horizon is intersected by a tall cypress tree. Dark green hues make up th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Brass
Daffodils Oil on Canvas Floral Italy Still-life nature
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Houston, TX
Daffodils by Melissa Franklin Sanchez is an Oil on Canvas Painting. Looking closely at Daffodils by Mellissa F. Sanchez you will notice the background with objects. There is pot...
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2010s Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
"Summer Blue" Still life of Blue Hydrangeas in a glass vase
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Summer Blue" Still life of Blue Hydrangeas in a glass vase.
Melissa Franklin Sanchez was born in 1984, in Warwickshire, England. In 2002 she graduated from her humanistic studies: ...
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19th Century American Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Oil, Handmade Paper
"Persimmons" still-life oil on copper, diospyros fruit on branch, orange & white
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Persimmons" is a realist still life painted with a neutral toned palette. Painted with Oil on Copper. The painting shows two branches with fruit and subtle red-orange and green leav...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Copper
"Summer Over Bridgehampton" - realist landscape painting, sun setting over beach
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Summer Over Bridgehampton" is an oil on brass landscape painting. The painting shows the sun setting over a mecox bay from Scott Cameron Beach in The Hamptons. Clouds swirl around t...
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2010s Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Brass
"Risveglio" interior, open window, springtime tree blossoming and butterfly
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil on copper painting. Risveglio, meaning "Awakening" in Italian, is a fitting title for this representation of spring blossoming outside the artist's window in her Tuscan farmho...
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2010s Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Copper
"Pansies" oil painting on copper, flower in porcelain bowl on countertop
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A still life of pansies in a white bowl on the artist's kitchen counter.
Framed in a custom Italian black frame w gold leaf lip.
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Copper
"Nightfall" romantic nocturne painting of Italian Countryside, oil on brass
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Nightfall" is an oil on brass painting of the Italian Countryside at night. Dark blue skies soften as our eye drifts down to the horizon, where a mountainous landscape frames the ba...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Brass
"Snow Fall from the Studio" oil painting of window view snow scene, reflection
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A small oil painting. A serene depiction of a winter day as seen from inside the Artist's studio. The artist's reflection is visible in the window, blurring the lines between the coz...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Oil, Panel
Iris, Daisies, Daffodils
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting by contemporary English painter, Melissa Franklin Sanchez. Oil paintings on metals (like brass, copper, etc) is an old dutch trad...
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2010s Impressionist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Brass
At Home Oil on Canvas Figurative Background Images Interior Scene Italy
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Houston, TX
At Home by Melissa Franklin Sanchez is an Oil on Canvas Painting. Looking closely at At Home by Mellissa F. Sanchez you will notice the background with objects. It is Melissa Fr...
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2010s Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
"Evening at Peconic" Realist oil painting, grassy terrain and water, small scale
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Evening at Peconic" is a small scale realist oil painting of the Peconic Bay as seen from land. It depicts a grassy landscape and water in the background, with a wisp of clouds in t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
"An Afternoon at Long Beach" Realist oil painting, beach with sandy shore framed
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"An Afternoon at Long Beach" is a small-scale oil painting of Foster's Memorial Beach, aka "long beach" in Sag Harbor, New York. It depicts the sandy shore of the beach with a single...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Oil, Panel
Speranza (Hope) Oil on Canvas Figurative Background Images Florence Framed
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Houston, TX
Speranza -Hope by Melissa Franklin Sanchez is an Oil on Canvas Painting. Looking closely at Speranza by Mellissa F. Sanchez you will notice the background with objects. The bright...
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2010s Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Through the Looking Glass Oil on Canvas Ballet Two Paintings in the Painting
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Houston, TX
Through the Looking Glass by Melissa Franklin Sanchez is an Oil on Canvas Painting. Looking closely at Through the Looking Glass you will send another painting in this painting. A...
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2010s Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
"The Sound of Silence" Oil painting on copper, luminous interior w neutral tones
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An Oil painting by Melissa Franklin Sanchez.
Hammershoi’s successful influence is felt in Franklin’s “The Sound of Silence” as she paints an interior with more profundity than befo...
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2010s Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Copper
"Smith Cove, Shelter Island" small scale plein air oil painting - The Hamptons
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
This miniature oil-on-panel painting was painted en plein-air, on an Island between the North and South Forks of Long Island. She captures the scene of a calm cove, Brown sand outlin...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Oil, Panel
"Summer Nights" 2020 painting of starry night over trees in Italy. Oil on copper
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Summer Nights is a small painting, oil on copper, depicting a dark blue sky over a green landscape, in Fiesole, Italy. Melissa Franklin Sanchez softly merges warm tones with cool ton...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Copper
"Spring in the Garden" realist painting of cherry blossom blooming
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Spring in the Garden" is a realist painting of cherry blossom blooming, standing w support of a wooden post. In the real world, beautiful ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Copper
"Golden" oil on brass painting - realist self portrait of the artist, framed
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A self-portrait by Melissa Franklin Sanchez, emerges gracefully from the brass panel she paints upon.
Frame Dimensions: 21.45 x 12.82 inches
Artist Bio:
Melissa Franklin Sanchez ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Brass
"Beyond Sight" oil painting on copper, children, fireflies, moon in purple sky
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
In "Beyond Sight," the early evening sky is punctuated by a warm toned full moon overlooking her children crouching in a field of neutral hues. Franklin’s uncommon practice of paint...
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2010s Impressionist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Copper
"Pink Hydrangeas" Oil painting, Still life round glass vase with pink blossoms
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Pink Hydrangeas" is a still life painting of a glass vase with pink hydrangeas. Framed in a black frame with gold inner lip.
Melissa Franklin Sanchez was born in 1984, in Warwicks...
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19th Century Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Copper
"A Magic Carpet" oil painting, fiery orange tree in autumn, fallen leaves
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting by Melissa Franklin Sanchez. A whimsical depiction of fall. The bright orange leaves from the tree line the ground outside a home. The leaves seem to enter the doorwa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Metal
“Lilies” realist oil paint still life with landscape in background en plain air
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Melissa Franklin Sanchez was born in 1984, in Warwickshire, England. In 2002 she graduated from her humanistic studies: Art, Music, English Literature, Performing Arts and Ballet. In...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Copper
"Madonna del Sasso" oil painting on copper, mountain landscape under a full moon
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting on copper of a full moon in the sky above a mountainous horizon.
Framed dimensions: 21.5 x 25.5
Framed in an italian custom made 3-inch white gold frame.
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2010s Impressionist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Copper
"Diospero" realist oil painting, persimmon tree in full bloom, Tuscan landscape
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting on brass. Melissa Franklin Sanchez often uses her immediate surroundings in Tuscany for inspiration. This persimmon tree in her backyard is a subject she often comes ...
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2010s Impressionist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Brass
"Christmas Star" contemporary oil on copper painting, tuscan landscape at night
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Christmas Star" is a luminous oil on copper painting of a vast horizon after sunset. A deep blue sky above, meets an orange and bright red, glowing hor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Copper
"Where Worlds Meet" oil painting on copper, children play on floor, imagination
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Franklin-Sanchez leads the viewer into the imaginative world of the children sitting on the floor of a cozy room. An idyllic view of the Italian countryside is visible through the wi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Copper
"Live" oil painting on copper, small child plays w bubbles floating into window
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A whimsical painting of a little girl blowing bubbles out the window into an idyllic Italian landscape.
Framed in a simple white-gold leaf frame.
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Copper
"When Life Gives you Lemons, Paint Them" Oil painting of produce soaking in sink
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An impressionistic painting of fruits and vegetables. Some are soaking in the sink while the rest sit to the side of the sink. A depiction of a bountiful summer harvest.
Framed dim...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Melissa Franklin Sanchez Paintings
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Oil
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