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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

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...
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Mid-19th Century Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

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

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

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

Monk
Monk
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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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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