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Artist: Unknown
1900's English Impressionist Watercolor Painting Silent Cloudy Meadow
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cloudy Meadow
English School, early 1900's
original watercolor painting on artists paper, unframed
overall paper size: 7.5x 11 inches
From a large private collection of English wat...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Watercolor
$192 Sale Price
20% Off
Marilyn Monroe (1954) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Marilyn Monroe (1954) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Baron/Getty Images)
circa 1954: Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), the most famous of Hollywood's female film stars, relaxes...
Category
1950s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Young 18th Century Woman with Peal Necklace
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6129 Portrait of a young woman with pearl ncklace
Set in a gilt wood frame
Image size 13.5x17.5"
Category
1950s Unknown Art
Materials
Acrylic
Original Oil Painting on canvas, Still Life, Flowers, Signed, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is a beautiful original oil painting on canvas. This painting is a classical and elegant floral still-life composition, featuring a lush bouquet of vibrant flowers arrang...
Category
20th Century Realist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Escuela Hispano-española (XVIII) - Óleo sobre tela - Virgen Inmaculada
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra se presenta enmarcada con su marco original de la época (el marco presenta faltas y desgastes)
El estado de la obra se puede ver, tiene algunas faltas de pintura y faltas en...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Antique still life hunter dog and game still life of hunter trophies
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique hunter dog and dead birds trophy oil painting on wood in an antique frame afterJean-Baptiste Oudry. This is a an unusual painting of a dog wi...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$383 Sale Price
54% Off
"Metropolitan Abstraction" Signed Mid Century Cubist Architectural Abstraction
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract cubist street scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 31 by 42 inches overall, and 25 by 36 painting alone. In excellent original con...
Category
1940s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Italianate large Florals and Fruit in Mt Vesuvius landscape, 18th/19th Century
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Grand Italianate oil painting in Renaissance style, with views of Mt Vesuvius, Naples behind a plethora of flowers loosely arranged in basketry. In the foreground along the tableau l...
Category
19th Century Italian School Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,376 Sale Price
60% Off
Baroque mythological painter - 18th century figure painting - Deucalion Flood
Located in Varmo, IT
European Painter (17th-18th century) - The Flood of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
63 x 135 cm unframed, 72 x 143.5 cm with frame.
Ancient oil painting on panel, in an integrated wooden fra...
Category
Late 17th Century Baroque Unknown Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
$4,803 Sale Price
33% Off
Large Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Jazz Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Striking mid-20th century abstract oil painting on canvas by artist Johnsen, titled “Jazz IX – Club Date” (as inscribed on the verso). The work features a bold interplay of geometric...
Category
2010s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Bird on Rock with Blue Flowers', By Unknown, Chinese Antique Scroll
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 59" x 20" Chinese Antique Scroll depicts a simple yet serene scene of a bird on a rock. The bird stands on the rock, which is much larger in size in comparison to the bird. The ...
Category
Late 18th Century Qing Unknown Art
Materials
Silk, Paper, Watercolor
$140 Sale Price
20% Off
Basket, Panama, Darien, Rainforest, Butterfly, Flower, white, red, yellow, green
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Basket, Panama, Darien, Rainforest, Butterfly, Flower, white, red, yellow, green
unique
hand woven
extremely finely woven
Category
2010s Tribal Unknown Art
Materials
Organic Material
Mid-Century Futuristic French Cubist Cityscape. Oil and Acrylic on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-Century cubist oil and acrylic futuristic cityscape on canvas. Signed bottom right, artist unknown.
Highly colourful and well-composed interpretation of a cityscape of the futur...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$441 Sale Price
69% Off
Late 19th Century Oil - The League
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming depiction of a young boy reading a paper titled 'The League'. Inscribed verso 'Sketch by E. Brothers'. Presented in a gilt frame with elaborate foliate ornamentation. On c...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
American Impressionist White Landscape Oil Painting Winter in Sapporo Japan
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5168 American Impressionist landscape oil painting
Image size 18x23"
Gilt frame
Category
1960s Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Signed Antique American Impressionist Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Charles Sutton, “April Afternoon,” Oil on Board, Framed Landscape Painting
Warmly toned impressionist oil painting by Charles Sutton, titled April Afternoon. The work captures a tra...
Category
1930s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sailing Among the Moonlight, Moody Seascape, Tonalism
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
European School, 19th Century
" Sailing Among the Moonlight ", circa 1880s
Oil on Board
16" x 24"
Housed in a Period 4" Ornamented Frame
Overall Size: 23 5/8" x 31 1/2"
A wond...
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Board
$1,608 Sale Price
20% Off
Parisians Strolling in The Park 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6069 Oil on canvas of Parisians strolling in the park set in a period frame
Image size 22.5x27.5"
Category
1940s Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
A brooding American modernist landscape painting with a house or outbuilding
Located in Colfax, CA
A nice American modernist landscape painting, dating from the 1940s.
This work is on the manner of E. Oscar Thalinger, but does not appear to be signed.
The work is unframed, as it...
Category
1940s American Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Antique oil painting of lacemakers by the sea in Brittany, France
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique oil painting on stretched canvas of lacemakers by the sea, most likely to be Brittany in France. This very unusual and totally charming painting of three lacemakers in a coa...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$792 Sale Price
20% Off
Early 17th-Century Spanish Colonial School, Virgin Of The Immaculate Conception
Located in Cheltenham, GB
US buyers pay no import tariffs on this item.
This early 17th-century Spanish colonial oil painting depicts the Virgin Of The Immaculate Conception surrounded by an array of symboli...
Category
Early 17th Century Baroque Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Hermann Bahner (1867-1938) - Early 20th Century Oil, The Windmill
Located in Corsham, GB
This pastoral landscape painting depicts a traditional Dutch windmill set along a tree-lined country road, with figures travelling the path beneath a dramatic sky filled with billowi...
Category
20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Antique Gelatin Silver Print Photograph of 13th Calvary Soldier
Located in Soquel, CA
Antique Gelatin Silver Print Photograph of 13th Calvary Soldier - 1913.
This photograph shows a member of the 13th Calvary Regiment, Company H of the United States Army, sitting ato...
Category
1910s American Realist Unknown Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Victor Rebuffo (1903-1983) - Mid 20th Century Woodcut, Riachuelo
Located in Corsham, GB
An original woodcut print by the listed Italian-Argentinian artist Victor Luciano Rebuffo (1903-1983). Entitled 'Riachuelo'. The print depicts a stylised waterfront scene with buildi...
Category
20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Woodcut
Portrait of John Rogers, A Sculptor for the Common Man
Located in San Francisco, CA
So American, this sculptor. Both a right brain and left-brain kind of guy. Working in the mid to late 19th century, John Rogers was innovative, imaginative, and stylistically a reali...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Cloisters, Grand National Steeplechase Horse Racing Champion 1892
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Signed oil on canvas painting of steeplechase race star ‘Cloisters’, winner of the 1893 Grand National in Aintree, Mercyside, England with ab impressive 40 length lead. The horse is ...
Category
1890s English School Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Lithograph - Multiple Toned Yellow Sunflower Field
Located in Houston, TX
Lively French lithograph of sunflower field with multiple tones of yellows, orange, red, and while sunflowers, circa 1960.
Original artwork on paper ...
Category
1960s Unknown Art
Materials
Lithograph
Akan Ashanti Memorial Portrait Head of a Noble Tribal African Art Sculpture
Located in Norwich, GB
This elegant terracotta head is a memorial portrait (nsodie) of an Akan nobleman from the part of Africa which is today southern Ghana and southeastern Cô...
Category
19th Century Tribal Unknown Art
Materials
Terracotta, Clay
Large Antique American Modernist Still Life 1940s Nicely Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a modernt wood molding. Excellent cond...
Category
1940s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
One on a chariot Medieval Tile Gypsum Cast
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Gypsum cast - medieval tile, from Central Europe. Adjusted in a frame, ready to hang or install.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Gothic Unknown Art
Materials
Gesso
$269 Sale Price
27% Off
Vintage American Abstract Expressionist Framed Modernist MCM Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 24 by 31 inches overall, and 18 by 26 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Nicely fram...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Board
The Penitent Mary Magdalene, 17th Century Venetian School
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Penitent Mary Magdalene, 17th Century
Venetian School
Large 17th Century Italian Venetian School scene of Mary Magdalene in Penitence, oil on canvas. Devotional scene of Magdal...
Category
17th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Naturalistic British painter - 19th century landscape painting - Loch Lomond
Located in Varmo, IT
British painter (late 19th century) - View of Loch Lomond at Sunset.
50.5 x 76.5 cm.
Old oil painting on canvas, unframed.
- Signed indistinctly lower left.
- Handwritten inscrip...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,441 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Poster of Albert Decaris' Exhibition in Paris - Lithograph - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage poster realized in 1981.
Offset and lithograph.
Very good condition.
Category
1980s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage Signed American Modernist Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting. Signed and Exhibited. Oil on canvas. Measuring 17 by 31 inches overall and 16 x 30 painting alone. In excellent original condition,...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers"
by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century)
Signed bottom right
Watercolour on paper, unframed
Painting: 4.5 x 6.25 inches.
Delightful early 20th century...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Acrylic
Antique Neapolitan Female Portrait Oil Painting 1920
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3933 Antique oil on canvas in an ornate period frame
Image size 16.5x11"
Category
1920s Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
18/19-th Century French Antique Original Oil Painting on canvas, Rococo, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is a fabulous Oil on canvas painting. French, late 18th to early 19th century. The artwork depicts a gallant scene, a shepherdess, and her lover resting in the forest. This stunning impressive piece of art is waiting to be a part of your collection. Collectible European Classical Paintings, Rococo, And Romanticism in Fine Art
More photos are available upon request.
Overall in very good condition.
Please see the photos, they are part of the description.
The painting is presented in a nice vintage ornate frame...
Category
Early 19th Century Rococo Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$1,520 Sale Price
47% Off
Escuela colonial (XVIII) - Óleo en tela - San Juanito y el cordero
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra se presenta enmarcada con su marco original de la época (el marco presenta faltas y desgastes)
El estado de la obra se puede ver, tiene algunas faltas de pintura y faltas en...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
1958 original travel poster Genève - Switzerland - Lac Léman
Located in PARIS, FR
This elegant 1958 original travel poster showcases the refined beauty of Genève, Switzerland’s international city, rendered in crisp photographic realism. Published by the Swiss National Tourist Office during the golden age of mid-century tourism, this piece is both a celebration of Geneva’s iconic landscape and a subtle emblem of Swiss precision and cosmopolitan calm.
Dominating the composition is the famous Jet d’Eau, Geneva’s monumental water fountain...
Category
1950s Unknown Art
Materials
Paper
Wedding Celebration
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6105 Colorful oil painting of a festive Wedding celebration
Image size 22x17.5" Signed S.Timolli
Category
1960s Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$425 Sale Price
41% Off
Vintage Italian Amalfi Coastal Scene Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5090 Italian large costal scene painting set in a walnut frame
Signed lower left and rear
Category
1950s Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$450 Sale Price
53% Off
Vintage American Modernist Surreal Figural Nude Portrait Large Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist nude portrait oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a modern molding. Excellent condition, ready to ...
Category
1950s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Architectural Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Modern pencil drawing of a contemporary architectural design, circa 1970.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-size frame. A...
Category
1970s Unknown Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Antique American Hudson River School Coastal Sunset Seascape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American sunset seascape beach scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 15 by 21 inches overall, and 9 by 15 painting alone.. In excellent original cond...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Framed Mid 20th Century Oil - Country Landscape
Located in Corsham, GB
A serene rural scene depicting a winding river reflecting the clouded blue sky and bare trees along its bank. The composition skilfully balances the horizontal expanse of fields and ...
Category
20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Salami, Bread, Biscuits and Glass Bottles-Oil Paint-17th century
Located in Roma, IT
Outstanding still life Salami, Bread, Biscuits Glass and Glass Bottles, realized with the technique of Oil on Canvas and surrounded by a modern wooden frame.
With its soft tones and...
Category
Late 17th Century Baroque Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Baroque Italian painter - 17/18th century figure painting - Franciscan friar
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (17th-18th century) - Franciscan pilgrim friar sitting writing (preparatory sketch).
14 x 16.5 cm without frame, 19 x 21.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on pa...
Category
Late 17th Century Baroque Unknown Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
$965 Sale Price
33% Off
Antique American Hudson River School New England Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
A charming 19th–early 20th century oil on canvas capturing a tranquil mountain landscape. Executed in a loose, impressionistic hand, the work depicts rolling hills in warm earthy ton...
Category
Early 1900s Hudson River School Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dutch florals and vase by Georgian window in evening, 19th Century
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Floral painting in the Renaissance Dutch style, oil on canvas, likely dating to the 1800s.. A riot of color, flowers are illuminated in the dark room, framed by an arch and a paned g...
Category
19th Century Dutch School Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,183 Sale Price
30% Off
1870's Antique Italian Hunting Scene trompe l’oeil Oil Painting Birds Game Gold
Located in Buffalo, NY
This striking 19th-century painting signed "A. Malevolti 1877 Florence" is a fine example of the trompe l’oeil tradition, in which artists skillfully render imagery that "tricks the ...
Category
1870s Photorealist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Board
La Anunciación (Según Bartolomé Esteban Murillo) - Óleo sobre tela
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra no va firmada, es de autor anónimo
Se presenta muy bien enmarcada (el antiguo propietario le costó 850€ el marco)
Medidas de la obra: 90 x 60 cm.
Medidas del marco: 130 x ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Baroque Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
'Historic Sailing Ship, ' by Unknown, Oil on Linen Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 19th c. classically realistic oil on canvas painting depicts the majesty of a large sailing vessel on the sea against a light blue sky filled with white cumulus clouds. A gentle...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Unknown Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
France via Bicycle and French Bread serigraph
Located in Spokane, WA
Original France travel by bicycle (and French bread) vintage serigraph poster, excellent condition, ready to frame. These images are of the exact rare poster you will receive. Ar...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Screen
$398 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Fruit Still Life Tablescape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 14 by 17 inches overall, and 9 by 12 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. Handsomel...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Neapolitan School 19th Century Gouache - The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Located in Corsham, GB
A vibrant 19th-century painting from the Neapolitan School depicting the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Smartly mounted in a gilt-effect frame. Unsigned. On paper.
Category
19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Gouache
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir in his harem in flagrante delicto
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir in his harem surrounded by lotus blossoms; symbols of paradise itself.
Circa 1690. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (...
Category
17th Century Rajput Unknown Art
Materials
Gold
Antique American Modernist Summer in East Hampton Beach Scene Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
A serene and subtly rendered coastal scene by H. J. Schneider, this oil on canvas painting captures the quiet expanse of East Hampton’s beachfront architecture and dunes. Executed wi...
Category
1960s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
19thC oil painting, thatched cottages and church, two horses, figures, wetland
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Large oil painting of a rural early Town, British or other European, of thatched cottages and church set in a wide landscape with horses and figures on shining wet ground reflecting ...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Fiberboard
$1,845 Sale Price
25% Off
Set of Six Fine Antique British Hand Coloured Botanical Prints, circa 1900's
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Set of Six Hand Coloured Botanical Prints/Lithographs and Engravings
Published by G. Ridgway, S. Curtis, W. Baxter and W. Fitch
Early Mid 19th Century
Size: image: 8.5 x 5.5 inches
P...
Category
Early 19th Century Art Deco Unknown Art
Materials
Color
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