Robert Springfels

A beautiful painting, a portrait of a Chihuahua dog. The painting was made by the Belgian artist Robert Detrixhe. The painter was born in 1935 and was particularly active at the end ...

A beautiful painting, a portrait of Collie dog. The painting was made by the Belgian artist Robert Detrixhe. The painter was born in 1935 and was particularly active at the end of th...

19th century American Portrait of Joseph Stringham (1776-1834) Oil on Canvas Later Giltwood Frame Presenting an exquisite 19th-century ...

A pair of American portrait paintings, 19th century. sight: 12 by 14 inches frame: 16 ¾ by 18 ½ inches

Robert Schwedler (German, 1816-1887) A Biedermeier portrait of a brother and sister, signed and dated 1845 canvas: 13 by 15 ½ inches frame: 17 by 20 inches

An elegant pair of Early 19th Century portraits of your couple. The pair in appropriate newer gilt wood frames with oval liner. The paintings have been properly cleaned, re-stretch...

Late 1800s Antique American Victorian Painted Portrait of a child in its Original Rosewood Frame. With a distinct hand, the painter has affectionately captured this child's delicate ...

Robert Franklin Gault ( 1989-1977) Signed Portrait of a Male . Oil on board Nice compostition of a male singend lower right. In a shabby chic white wa...

Portrait painting of Walter Levin, oil on canvas, unframed. Signed Haughton College Bickerton in upper right corner, and having the original gallery label on the back. California Bay...

American classical portrait of a lady. American School, unsigned. Measures: Oil on canvas 25"x 30" Period gilt frame 29" x 34" x 2" Professional...

ABOUT A 19th century oil portrait on canvas of a gentleman. Unsigned. CREATOR Unknown. DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1800s. MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Oil on Canvas. Unframed. ...

WWII, how are you? Private Theater: Gay American Soldier in Reflection, Original WWII-Era Gouache, Signed CSG A highly nuanced, emotionally layered, and visually accomplished original painting in gouache and watercolor on Whatman drawing board, signed CSG lower right. This rare mid-20th-century work portrays a seated U.S. Army Air Forces officer—smiling faintly, cigarette in hand, and with a small black-bound diary resting on his lap—lost in reverie as smoke from his cigarette rises and transforms into the visages of three idealized male figures. Rendered in an illustrative realist style with tonal sensitivity and surreal suggestion, the composition invites interpretation as an interior portrait of desire, intimacy, and memory—quietly coded, emotionally sincere, and possibly autobiographical. The figure wears a regulation-issue A-2 leather flight jacket, iconic of U.S. Army Air Forces personnel during WWII. The jacket is detailed with a personalized, hand-painted circular patch depicting a lion rampant in a blue roundel—a heraldic symbol of power, pride, and possibly self-invention. An American flag patch is affixed to the left shoulder. The jacket, traditionally worn by bomber crews, officers, and pilots, functions here not only as a marker of military identity but as a gendered and cultural signifier—suggesting the complex intersection of duty, masculinity, and private identity. The slightly open collar, relaxed posture, and cigarette suggest the officer is off-duty—physically grounded but mentally elsewhere. The seated figure’s companions—summoned in smoke—appear above and behind him in a dreamlike procession: a helmeted infantryman, a pilot in goggles, and a hat-wearing civilian (?) man posed in pin-up style. Each face is rendered with tenderness and idealization, not as ghosts or casualties, but as romantic or erotic conquests: remembered lovers, fleeting encounters, or imagined partners. Their expressions, softly lit and emotionally present, reflect a form of desire neither tormented nor tragic. This is not a meditation on loss but on intimacy remembered, perhaps treasured. On the table beside him rests a small bronze Buddha...