Robert Elsocht Art

A beautiful mid 20th century French naif oil on canvas winter landscape by Charles Pincon-Maricourt. The artist is featured in Anatole Jakovsky's ''Peintres Naifs'', which is known a...

A huge English oil on canvas by Walter Robin Jennings depicting an atmospheric late winter river landscape. The work is inscribed "Winter's End" on the reverse and signed and dated...

A Norwegian Fjord Kaufmann Karl Neuplachowitz 1843 – 1905 Vienna Austrian Painter Signature: Signed bottom right with pseudonym J. Holmstedt Medium: Oi...

There’s something restorative in being outside in the fresh air. It enables one to recharge and relax. Even if one has no outside space of ones own to dream in art makes it possible. Francesca Owen...

Adolphe Crespin Brussels 1859 – 1944 Belgian Painter 'Lady in the Garden' Signature: Signed lower left Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Image size 6...

"A View of Venice" Duvieux Henri Paris 1855 – 1902 French Painter Signature: Signed bottom right Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Image size 24,5 x 32,...

A very interesting signed and dated 1957 oil on canvas depicting a self portrait in Paris, by Paul Lucien Dessau. A leading example of the artist's work which is signed, dated and ...

Paris – Montmartre Verbrugghe Charles Bruges 1877 – 1974 Paris Belgian Painter Signature: Signed bottom left and placed Paris Dimensions: Image si...

Gilsoul Victor Brussels 1867 – 1943 Belgian Painter A View of Diksmuide Signature: Signed bottom left, placed Dicsmuide and dated 1900 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Image size 55,50 x 71 cm, frame size 68,50 x 84 cm Biography: Gilsoul Victor Olivier was born in Brussels on September 10, in 1867. He was a Belgian impressionist painter of landscapes, marines, harbour scenes, architectures, interiors, city and canal views, portraits and figures. He was also a watercolourist. Gilsoul studied at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts with the famed master teachers and artists François Courtens (1854 – 1895) and Louis Artan (1837 – 1890). In 1882 he won his first prize at the Academy and in 1884 debuted at the Brussels Salon. He studied also at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts, where he won a prize (1885-1890). Gilsoul was member of the group ‘Voorwaerts’ in 1891. He was awarded a silver medal at the Paris World Fair in 1900. In the same year, King Leopold II commissioned several compositions for his yacht “Alberta” and knighted him to the Order of King of the Belgians. The painter stayed from 1911 in Paris, where he often painted the Versailles region, also worked and lived for some time in Brittany. He had several exhibitions in France. He was a teacher at the Antwerp Higher Institute of Fine Arts (1924-1930) and a member and honorary member of La Gravure Originale Belge (1928). Gilsoul painted at the Belgian coast...

End of Autumn in Bruges – Gruuthusebrug Van Der Smissen Leo Dendermonde 1900 – 1966 Bruges Belgian Painter Bruges School Signature: Signed bottom left and dated 1935 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Image size 101,50 x 121 cm Biography: Van der Smissen Leo was born in Dendermonde on June 20, in 1900. He lived in Bruges, and he was a Belgian painter and one of important Bruges School artists. His brother Frans Van der Smissen (1894-1964) was a sculptor. Leo was a painter of town views, sturdy of trees, landscapes, church interiors, still lifes, marines, interiors, portraits, and some nudes. He acts as a colourist, who practices sobriety. His preference, woodland scenes, a genre in which he has climbed to a solid refinement, particularly specific are the depiction of the tree trunks. His works, brushed concisely and boldly, betray a strong hand that bends the colour ranges to his will and he can adapt to all kinds of subjects. Leo studied at the Bruges Academy of Fine Arts (1913 – 1919) with master teacher and artist Flori Van Acker and won several first prizes there. He studied also at Ghent Academy of Fine Arts (1920 – 1921) with master teachers Godron and Karel Tremerie and later at Dendermonde Academy of Fine Arts (1923 – 1924). Initially strongly influenced by the style of Courtens and the Dendermonde School, under the guidance of painter Ferdinand Willaert he evolved towards to Luminism. In 1930 Leo was married and had three daughters, two children died in early age. Leo van der Smissen...

Wind Mills Along the Canal Van Den Berg Mijndert Gorinchem 1876 – 1967 The Hague Dutch Painter Signature: Signed bottom left Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Image size 30 x 50 cm...

Hadley Rampton's "Fleurs" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an aspen tree with blue sky in the background. Artist Statement Some tell me I’m crazy for painting in...