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Artist: Unknown
Antique American School Surreal Female Portrait Symbolic Rural Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist surreal oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1930s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait Of A British Officer, early 19th Century - Napoleonic Wars Era
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A British Officer, early 19th Century
Napoleonic wars Era
Early 19th Century Napoleonic Wars Era portrait of a British military officer, oil on canvas. Excellent quality and condition portrait of the officer in his red tunic...
Category
Early 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venice. XVI century. Madonna with child with St. John. Attrib. Marco Bello.
Located in Firenze, IT
Sacred Conversation: Madonna with child with St. John with idealized landscape background with mountains.
Early XVI century.
Oil on wooden panel of Venetian conifers.
Marco Bello, attributed. (Venezia, 1470 - 1523, Udine), pupil and follower of Giovanni Bellini.
Venetian school.
Madonna with child with St. John with idealized landscape background with mountains.
Dimentions: 57cm x 68cm x 6cm
Beautiful late Renaissance frame...
Category
16th Century Renaissance Unknown Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Folk Art Mid 19th Century Oil - Swiss Peasants
Located in Corsham, GB
A truly unique and engaging piece of European Folk Art from the mid 19th Century. This vibrant and crisp scene shows two smartly dressed peasants standing in an expansive, beautiful Swiss mountain...
Category
Mid-19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$3,168 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Stafford (1593-1641), 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Stafford (1593-1641), 17th Century
Circle of Anthonius VAN DYCK (1599-1641)
Fine 17th century English School Old Master portrait of Anthonius...
Category
19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Surreal Musical Abstract Guitar Violin Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist abstract musical painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang ...
Category
1930s Surrealist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Seaside Figure Scene Oil Painting - Drift & Thought
Located in Bristol, GB
DRIFT AND THOUGHT
Size: 35 x 44 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A mid-century modernist painting that presents a tranquil seaside scene, executed in oil onto board.
The painting ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Italian Full Length Portrait Oil Painting "The English Gentleman"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5058 Full length oversized oil painting of an English Nobleman
Set in a rapped canvas noframe needed
Signed Robert Yarmola
Category
1980s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oedipus leaves Thebes guided by Antigone
Located in Pasadena, CA
Oil on canvas attributed Rousseau-Decelle, French painter of the XIXth century.
Student of Bouguereau and Ferrier
In 1903, the artist whose studio is located at 235 rue du Faubourg ...
Category
1860s Romantic Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$4,000 Sale Price
46% Off
Signed Vintage Foodie Whole Hog BBQ Southern Limited Edition Poster
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage signed print. Image size, 24H x 29L.
Category
Early 2000s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
$236 Sale Price
20% Off
Nude Exotic Women Bathing In A River By INYOMAN LILA BATUMAN
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Nude Exotic Women Bathing In A River
Gouache, watercolor on paper 10.5x8.25 inches signed INYOMAN LILA BATUMAN Bali, dated indistinctly lower right corner.
Category
1950s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Framed Late 19th Century Oil - Shipping Off a Coastline
Located in Corsham, GB
An atmospheric maritime scene depicting the bustling activity of a harbour at dusk, with sailing vessels silhouetted against a dramatic, cloud-streaked sky. The artist's use of warm,...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Monk
Located in Pasadena, CA
Oil on canvas framed representing a monk reading sitting on a chair in the taste of François Granet.
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Madonna with Child Angels and Saints, XVII-XVIIIth century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil painting on canvas. Northern Italian school of the 17th-18th century. The work of a devotional nature, sees the Madonna, seated on the clouds and assisted by two angels who suppo...
Category
Late 17th Century Other Art Style Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Daytime Watering Hole at Well in French Village 19th Century Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
This beautiful painting depicts a crowded scene of a watering hole at a well in the midst of a sunny, hot day, located on the street of a provincial village supposedly located somewh...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Vintage Haitian Painting with Black Cats and Fruit by Pierre Louis
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Captivating Mid Century Haitian acrylic painting on canvas depicting four black cats in a lush outdoor setting with an unexpected group of plants and fruit, executed in a distinctive...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Unknown Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Crossing the ford Capriccio Baroque Landscape 18th century Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
As we gaze upon at this artwork, our eyes are immediately drawn to the foreground where a comical spectacle unfolds before us. A carriage, stubbornly stuck in the midst of a ford, se...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Mid Century American Southwestern Tiki Abstract Oil Painting Original Frame 1960
Located in Buffalo, NY
A rare and funky 1960's oil painting of abstract forms that are reminiscent of southwestern rock formations.
Category
1960s Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Religious Painting Saint Bartholomew, 1670
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Antique Italian painting from the 17th century. Painting oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Saint Bartholomew of excellent pictorial quality. Painting of beautiful size and ...
Category
1670s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,241 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Pair of Orientalist Watercolors by Emile Boivin
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Antique 19th Century Orientalist watercolors on paper depicting middle eastern landscapes executed with skill and confidence. Signed by French artist Emile Boivin...
Category
Late 19th Century Other Art Style Unknown Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a young woman in Louis XV period dress
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
French School
Portrait of a young woman in Louis XV period dress
Pastel on paper mounted on oval canvas
H. 68 cm; W. 54 cm (Frame: H. 102 cm; W. 71 cm)
18th century frame, anti-refle...
Category
Mid-18th Century French School Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Pastel
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Landscape Painting, 1780
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Antique Italian painting from the end of the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting landscape with characters and architectures of good pictorial quality. Non-coeval wood and ...
Category
1780s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Antique Oil Painting Coastal Harbor Scene with Towers Old Master
Located in Stockholm, SE
This captivating seascape presents a masterful coastal harbor scene from the 18th century, attributed to an unknown master of marine art. The composition is built around 2 watchtower...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Walnut, Oil
"Seascape" - Framed 20th Century Romantic Realistic Ocean Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
I wish I knew who painted this dramatic Romantic seascape depicting a rough surf crashing on the rocky shores of some volcanic island. The sea is en...
Category
Late 20th Century Romantic Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Tombstones in a country graveyard
Located in Maidenhead, GB
British, c. 1940-50
Tombstones in a country graveyard
With a study of two herring verso
Signed in initials with brush handle lower right, ‘R.M.’
Oil and graphite on board
30.3 x 37....
Category
1940s Post-War Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
French impressionist school, Marina with boat
Located in Tricase, IT
French impressionist artist, marina with ship.
The painting is an oil on panel of 28x38 cm, by an important French impressionist artist. The ma...
Category
1880s Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Beach Dunes
Located in San Francisco, CA
Very well executed pastel of a beach scene with dunes in the foreground. It is signed what looks to be Pritchard. It measures 12 inches by 12 inches and is matted but not framed. Mat...
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Pastel
$225
"Ship and Boats" Harbor Scene Impressionist Oil Painting Style of Emile Gruppe
Located in New York, NY
A powerful scene of a harbor depicting several colorful sailing boats with rich color tones and bold brushwork. An oil on canvas impressionist painting with much attention to detail....
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Oil - Water Meadow In Autumn
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine oil landscape showing a verdant water meadow with winding stream under a cloudy sky with a chink of blue visible behind the clouds. The painting is unsigned on board. On board.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$353 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of paintings ALLEGORY OF ASTRONOMY & ALLEGORY OF PAINTING
Located in Milano, IT
This precious pair of paintings represents two allegories with symbolic charm and compositional finesse, executed by 17th-century Bergamasque artist.
The allegory of Astronomy is acc...
Category
17th Century Italian School Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$28,601 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait Of A Horse, Favourite of King Louis XIV, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Horse, Favourite of King Louis XIV, 17th Century
Early French School
17th century French Horse portrait of a favourite of King Louis XIV, from the Stables of Versaill...
Category
17th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Indian Modernist Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
God, Keeper, and Maker of all Air Tola-Kina. Figural Abstract Gouache Watercolor Painting.
Category
20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Portrait Of A Lady In A Lace Cap & Ruff, 17th Century 1640 Dutch School
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Lady In A Lace Cap & Ruff, 17th Century
1640 Dutch School
17th Century Dutch School portrait of a young lady wearing a lace cap and ruff, oil on panel. Excellent qual...
Category
18th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Mythological Painting Rape Of Europa
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Antique Italian painting from the second half of the 17th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting the mythological subject Rape of Europa of excellent pictorial quality. Painting of...
Category
1650s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Village Lake (19th-Century Antique Framed European Landscape Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
I cannot find anywhere the information that came with this gorgeous 19th-century European landscape when I bought it. It is signed, but I can't make out the signature. So it is what it is...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tibetan Thangka of Chenresi, Gouache on Linen
Located in Chicago, IL
Thangkas are devotional paintings displayed by Buddhists in monasteries, temples, and even in their homes. The rich red, orange, green, and blue hues are still incredibly vibrant on ...
Category
Early 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Linen, Silk, Gouache, Pigment
Summer Garden Study VII, Realist Painting, Impressionist Style Art, Floral Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Summer Garden Study VII [2022]
Summer Garden Study VII is an original macro style realist painting by Dylan Lloyd, presenting a close up view of a wild garden in bloom. With beautif...
Category
2010s Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
1972 Original Expressive Impasto Still Life Oil Painting - Sunflowers in Bloom
Located in Bristol, GB
SUNFLOWERS IN BLOOM
Size: 75.5 x 58.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A lively and beautifully textured floral still life painting that celebrates the beauty of everyday objects,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Contemporary Oil - The Cut Through
Located in Corsham, GB
A vibrant scene in pinks and purples depicting a quiet cut through. Presented in a white painted wooden frame. Unsigned. On board.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$328 Sale Price
20% Off
A Portrait of a Little Girl in a White Dress In the manner of Sorolla
Located in Brookville, NY
While the painting may be signed on the lower right side "Sorolla" it is not by the famed artist Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida. It is most likel...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Battle Scene Oil On Canvas 17th Century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on canvas. Mittel-European School. There is a No.S monogram on the back and numbers probably from an inventory. The painting reminds of pieces from the Austrian area. It represen...
Category
17th Century Other Art Style Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Circa 1900 American Victorian Impressionist Painting of a Woman with a Shawl
Located in New York, NY
This is an American Victorian impressionist painting of a young lady in an orange dress and a shawl over her.
It is signed left with initials F.B.
Oil on canvas
Overall Measuremen...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Oil on Panel Flemish Religious Painting Madonna with Child, 1670
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Antique Flemish panel from the first half of the 17th century. Oil painting depicting a splendid Madonna with child inside a niche surrounded by a garland of masterfully painted flow...
Category
1670s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
$8,580 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
This sophisticated Mid Century Modern painting was realized in the United States in 1972. Brimming with dynamic energy and verve, this work offers a vibrant abstract expressionist co...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$2,475
Antique American Modernist Beach Sunset Landscape Original Hampton Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. No signature found. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image, 20"L x 16"H.
Category
1940s Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait Of A Man, Oil On Cardboard, Signature To Be Identified
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Portrait of a man. Oil on cardboard, signature to be identified. Good condition. 46 x 32.5 cm.
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Portrait Of A Woman, Oil On Canvas
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Portrait of a woman. Oil on canvas. Cracks, small dirt, small paint losses on the edges of the canvas. 41 x 33 cm.
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rustic Woodland, Impressionist style art, Landscape painting, English Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Rustic Woodland by Jan Rogers [2022]
A rustic through an Autumnal woodland haven. Fiery rusts, ambers, golds and oranges blaze through thehaze. Light in the distance creates depth a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Early 20thC Modernist/Expressionist Large oil European Landscape c1930's
Located in Frome, Somerset
A good large post impressionist/expressionist Landscape oil circa 1938
oil on canvas 75cmx90cm
Gallery frame 87cmx102cm
Fields with a small dwelling painted in expressive impastoed b...
Category
1930s Expressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$936 Sale Price
20% Off
Painting Moses Saved by the Waters, 17th-18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
The scene recounts the biblical episode from the book of Exodus in which baby Moses, whom his mother had entrusted to the river inside a basket to save him from the s...
Category
Late 17th Century Other Art Style Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Allegory of Music School After Lorenzo Lippi
Located in Pasadena, CA
After Lorenzo Lippi (Florence, May 6, 1606 - Florence, April 15, 1665) is a Baroque painter of the Florentine school and a seventeenth-century Italian poet.
Category
17th Century Renaissance Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Large American Modernist Trompe L'Oeil Rose Flower Still Life Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American super realist oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Possibly signed verso.
Category
1980s Photorealist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
King Salmon, by Joseph Rossano, 2020
Located in Orange, CA
King Salmon, by Joseph Rossano, 2020
Additional information:
Medium: Panel, whitewash, tar, DNA
Dimensions: 59 × 96 1/2 × 2 in (149.9 × 245.1 × 5.1 cm)
Rossano’s work uses the spec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Tar, Panel
Antique American Impressionist Oil Painting University of Minnesota Cityscape
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting of :"The Drive, University of Minnesota". Oil on canvas, circa 1920. Signed in monogram...
Category
1920s Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
Cherubs Playing in a Park Grisaille
Located in Pasadena, CA
Framed oil on canvas depicting children. Pink grisaille of cherubs playing in a park. Subject often found over doors or piers in the manner of the 18th century.
Category
Late 19th Century Baroque Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Post Impressionist/ Modernist; 'Hilly Landscape with Ruins' oil circa 1952
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine mid 20thCentury Modernist/Post Impressionist Landscape circa 1952
oil on canvas 46cmx54cm
Good quality silver gilt gallery frame 59cmx68cm
Painted by Thure Wahlstrom (1908- ? ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$775 Sale Price
24% Off
Figures at a mill
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
English school, 18th Century
Figures at a mill
Gouache on paper
4.5/8 x 7.1/2 in. (11.8 x 19 cm.)
Category
19th Century Academic Unknown Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
18th Century Venetian School Portrait of a Bishop Oil on Panel Green Brown Black
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting oil on panel measuring 40 x 30 cm without frame and 48 x 38 with frame representing a great bishop of the Venetian school from the first half of the 18th century.
Very curi...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian School Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$1,144 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of a Young Child by Henton c.1910
Located in San Francisco, CA
Wonderful antique portrait of a charming young girl c.1910
The painting is created with oils on board. Dimensions 8" x 11.5". The frame measures 13" x 16.5".
The painting is in go...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of A Country Gentleman, early 20th Century by Charles Edwin Andrew
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Country Gentleman, early 20th Century
by Charles Edwin Andrew (1911-1996)
Large early 20th century portrait of an English country ...
Category
Early 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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