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Artist: Unknown
Bruno Blätter - Framed 19th Century Oil, A Tankard with Friends
Located in Corsham, GB
German School, oil on canvas. A busy tavern interior with gentlemen enjoying a tankard of ale and a story between friends. Well presented in an elaborate gilt-effect frame with elega...
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19th Century Unknown Paintings

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Oil

Nicolas Lancret follower (French) - 18th century figure painting - Gallant scene
Located in Varmo, IT
Follower of Nicolas Lancret (Paris 1690 - Paris 1743) - Gallant scene in a landscape. 63.5 x 76 cm without frame, 91 x 102.5 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in carve...
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Mid-18th Century Rococo Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Dutch Style Signed Oil Painting on Board – Winter Landscape Genre Scene
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Medium: Oil on wood Date: 19th-20th Centuries Style: Dutch Romantic / Hague School influence Subject: Winter landscape with church, village figures, cottages Frame: Original ornate g...
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Early 20th Century Dutch School Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

Early 16th century. The Agony in the Garden. Southern German school.
Located in Firenze, IT
The Agony in the Garden. (Christ on the Mount of Olives). Technique: Oil on Panel, 4 wooden boards, not parqueted. Dim. with frame: 78cm x 67cm Dim. without frame: 52 x 62 cm Germa...
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18th Century and Earlier Northern Renaissance Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood, Board

Antique American School Modernist Hamptons New York Sandy Path Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 18H x 24L.
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1940s Modern Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Place Du Tertre " Impressionist Oil Painting with Figures in Parisian Village
Located in New York, NY
This painting is a tremendously vivid and alive street scene from Paris in the 20th Century, depicting The Place du Tertre. This square is in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France. Only a few streets away from Montmartre's Basilica of the Sacré Cœur and the Lapin Agile...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Unknown Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Impressionist Landscape California Coastal Inlet
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3991A Vintage Impressionist landscape California coastal inlet. Set in a custom silvered wood frame Image size 23.5x19.5"
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1950s Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vintage Italian Street Scene of Naples Oil On Canvas By Tanzello
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5035 Vintage Italian oil Painting "The Streets of Naples Italy" Framed in a black wood frame Image size 13x10"
Category

1950s Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique Landscape oil Painting Misty Morning Swans on the lake By L.Hilden 1920'
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4041 Antique landscape oil painting in a period frame 1920's
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1920s Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

German Miniature of Boat Outing
Located in New Orleans, LA
This charming German miniature painting, created of oil on copper, depicts a tranquil outing on a boat. A lavishly dressed couple stands together, while a seated man rows the boat. T...
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19th Century Old Masters Unknown Paintings

Materials

Copper

Fine Classic British Sporting Art Oil Painting - Racehorse with Jockey Up
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Jockey Up' English School, 20th century oil painting on canvas canvas: 25 x 27 inches framed: 30 x 32 inches provenance: private collection, Dorset, England...
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20th Century Victorian Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category

1970s Abstract Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ancient View of the Bay of Naples - Oil Painting - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View over the Bay of Naples is an orginal old master artwork realized by Master of Northern Europe School of the second half of 19th Century. Mixed colored oil on canvas. Relined....
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Late 19th Century Modern Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

Animated biblical scene
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Work re-lined Plaster and gilded wood frame 86 x 105 x 7 cm
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

Indian Miniature Deccan School c1780 Ragamala Nature Figures River Trees
Located in Norfolk, GB
Indian Miniature
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Late 18th Century Other Art Style Unknown Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Mid Century Modern Swedish Abstract Landscape Oil Painting - Riverbend
Located in Bristol, GB
RIVERBEND Size: 41 x 36 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A vivid mid-century modernist abstract landscape, executed in oil onto canvas. The composition captures the dynamic energ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Vintage American Modernist Stark Red House Landscape Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring 23 by 38 inches overall and 15 by 30 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Hands...
Category

1960s Modern Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Portrait Of Lorenzo Suarez 5th Count Of Corona 16th Century - Antonis Mor
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Lorenzo Suarez, 5th Count Of Corona, 16th Century School of Antonis Mor (1517-1577) Large Spanish School Old Master portrait of Lorenzo Suarez, Count of Corona, oil on ...
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16th Century Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

American Primative Sheep in the Field
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5196 American primitive oil painting sheep in field by C.Woll Image size 9.5x7.5"
Category

Early 2000s Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique American Impressionist Gilt Framed Landscape Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Signed.
Category

1920s Impressionist Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Framed 20th Century Oil - Two Cows
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming oil painting depicts two young cattle peering out from a rustic barn. Well presented in a decorative gilt effect frame with acanthus running pattern. Signed illegibly to t...
Category

20th Century Abstract Impressionist Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique American Impressionist New England Coastal Seascape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist coastal seascape oil painting. Feels like a Maine scene with a bustling dock! Nicely framed. Oil on canvas. Signed illegibly. Image size,...
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1920s Impressionist Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Art Deco ca. 1920. Portrait Of Lady With Bob Cut, Purple Dress And Fur Collar
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait Of A Young Lady From The 1920s With Bob Cut And Fur Collar Oil on canvas. Early 20th frame in wood. This portrait reveals very stylish image of a young woman from the 1920s...
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1920s Art Deco Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

California Poppies Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor illustration for a series of commercial seed packets. Printed by Stecher-Traung Lithograph Corporation, Rochester, NY, circa 1935. Some staining...
Category

1930s Unknown Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Board

Antique American School Surreal Interior Scene Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school surreal oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring 30 by 35 inches overall and 25 by 30 painting alone.In excellent original condition. Handsomely fram...
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1930s Surrealist Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pigging Out at the Diner, Surreal Anthropomorphic Pig Satirical Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
A satirical, surreal depiction of a pig at a lunch counter by an unknown artist (20th Century). This scene, full of symbols and satire, portrays the anth...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board

Vibrant K Dorfman Portrait of a Black Woman
Located in New York, NY
K. Dorfman Untitled (Portrait of an Unknown Black Woman) Oil on canvas 36 x 28 in. Framed: 37 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 2 in. Signed lower right: K. Dorfman
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid to Late 19th Century Portrait of an Elegant Young Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Superb Mid to Late 19th Century Portrait of an Elegant Young Woman The sitter is an elegant young woman in her finest dress and jewelry. Original oil on canvas. Dimensions 22" x 27...
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Mid-19th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Karel Van Lerberghe (1889-1953) - Signed 1944 Oil, The Old Castle
Located in Corsham, GB
This fine study by Van Lerberghe depicts a castle reflected in still waters or a surrounding moat. The overcast weather is atmospheric and evokes a sense of timeless beauty. Wonderfu...
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Mid-20th Century Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Hand Kisser - Oil on Canvas - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Hand Kisser is an artwork realized by an unknown Painter of Center Italy. Oil on Canvas, Early 19th Century. Copy of an earlier painting, probably...
Category

19th Century Modern Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Signed American Impressionist Flower Garden Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 20H by 24L.
Category

1960s Impressionist Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

American 19th Century Coved Picture Frame. Original Gold Gilding
Located in Rochester, NY
Antique American gilt picture frame. Rabbet measures 12.5" x 10.5" Perfect for a 12" x 10" painting.
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Unknown Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Mid Century Modern Swedish Abstract Street Scene Oil Painting - Geometric Street
Located in Bristol, GB
GEOMETRIC STREET Size: 23.5 x 60 cm (including frame) Oil on board An evocative mid-century modernist composition that presents a stylised street scene rendered in bold geometric fo...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Harlem Renaissance Signed Ellis Original Abstract Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size 22L x 30H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category

1940s Modern Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Framed Late 19th Century Oil - Spanish Beauty
Located in Corsham, GB
Spanish School, head and shoulders portrait of a beautiful young woman in an elegant blue dress and lace mantilla. Well presented in a painted wooden frame. Unsigned. On canvas on st...
Category

Late 19th Century Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vintage American School Boudoir Scene Nude Female Interior Portrait Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionist painting. Watercolor and gouache on paper, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 11L x 9H.
Category

1950s Impressionist Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fine 18th Century Oil - Portrait of a Lady in Pearls
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightfully elegant 18th-century tondo depicting a lady in pearls. The subject is rendered in exquisite detail and is captured in fine attire, typical of the Georgian period. Beau...
Category

Early 18th Century Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid 20th Century Oil - Woodland Lock
Located in Corsham, GB
This delightful summer scene depicts figures on a woodland river bank. A boat gently carries a man fishing down the calm river. In the distance there is a lock before houses and more...
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Mid-20th Century Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

Catalan Plain Landscape oil on canvas painting Spain spanish european art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: "Catalan Plain Landscape" Author: J. Valle Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 16.14 x 20.47 in Signature: Signed in the lower right corner as...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dog Portrait: The Red Terrier, circa 1910
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Red Terrier Possibly Dutch School Oil on wood panel, circa 1900-1910. Initialed lower left 7 1/2 x 7 (12 x 11 1/2 frame) inches A charming and thoughtfully rendered depiction of a t...
Category

Early 1900s Realist Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Hungarian Rabbi Large Judaica Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
20th century Jewish Rabbi Portrait, Judaica Oil Painting
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20th Century Realist Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Painted Landscape with Knights and Ruins 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. North Italian school of the late 1700s-early 1800s. In the 'wide landscape, which lets the eye sweep over a vast plain with shaded hills looming on the horizon, an arc...
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18th Century and Earlier Other Art Style Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

Under The Bridge, 1956 - Pointillist Impressionist
Located in Blackwater, GB
Under The Bridge, 1956 Léon DE SMET (1881-1966) - signed 1956 Pointillist Impressionist River Landscape, oil on panel by Leon De Smet. Excellent quality and condition river scene with a small figure in a boat underneath the shade of the bridge. Signed and dated bottom right. Presented in a period frame. Measurements: 26" x 22.5" framed approx Artist Biography Léon de Smet studied, as did his brother Gustaaf, at the Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Ghent, where his mentor was Jean Joseph Delvin. Although he lived in Laethem-St-Martin between 1906 and 1913, he was not a member of the Laethem Expressionist group, being primarily influenced by Impressionism. He became a member of the Luminist Life and Light ( Vie et Lumière) Group alongside Theo van Rysselberghe. In 1914, while his brother Gustaaf was in self-imposed exile in the Netherlands after the outbreak of World War I, Léon de Smet moved to Germany. He returned to Brussels after the war and finally settled in Deurle in 1926. Spending some time in England, de Smet painted chiefly portraits of authors...
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Early 20th Century Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Still Life with Flowers" 19th Century Dutch oil on panel
Located in New York, NY
Dutch School 19th Century Flower Still Life Oil on panel Framed: 13 ½ inches x 11 ½ inches (34 x 29 cm) This charming miniature floral still life—possibly a preparatory study for...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Via di San Leonardo, Florence (Italy) - Oil Paint - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Via di San Leonardo, Florence (Italy) is an oil painting on pressed cardboard realized at the beginning of the 20th Century. Good condition (light color degradation). Frame included.
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20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

Abstract
Located in Houston, TX
French abstract in tones of blues, black and purple, 1980s. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-size frame. Archival pla...
Category

1980s Unknown Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

English School 19th Century Oil - By Thatched Cottages
Located in Corsham, GB
This atmospheric landscape painting depicts a rural scene with thatched cottages nestled among lush trees along a winding dirt path. The artist skilfully captures the interplay of li...
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19th Century Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

French, Mid-Century View of a Port dated "59"
Located in SANTA FE, NM
View of a Port "59" French Modernist School Oil on canvas Illegibly signed. l.r., dated "59" 28 3/4 x 23 3/4 (30 x 25 frame) inches A positively brilliant, Modernist view of a French port...
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1950s Modern Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

17th Century Oil on Panel Italian Religious Painting Christ Carrying the Cross
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Splendid Italian painting from the first half of the 17th century. Oil on panel artwork of remarkable pictorial quality depicting Christ carrying the cross. The subject found particu...
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1650s Unknown Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

Along a Winter Path, American Folk Art Snow Scene, Horse Drawn Cart, Sun Rise
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Unknown Artist, Late 19th Century Signed: L.H. (Lower, Right) Along a Winter Path, c. 1880s Oil on Canvas 22" x 36" Housed in a 4" Ornamented Frame Overall Size: 30" x 44" An ...
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Late 19th Century Folk Art Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Sunset Sail" Vintage American School Impressionist Seascape Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted large atmospheric sunset seascape painting. Large and impressive in person. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Image size, 24"H x 48"L.
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1960s Impressionist Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spanish school landscape oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Spanish school - Landscape - Oil on board Oil size 22x28 cm. Frame size 35x40 cm.
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1980s Impressionist Unknown Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Antique American Trompe L'Oil Interior Scene Finely Framed 19th C Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American interior scene oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 20H by 16L.
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1880s Realist Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Unknown Dutch Italianizing Painter Large Pastoral Scene in a Landscape, 18th
Located in Roma, IT
The painting, large in size and with a notable decorative impact, comes from an important private collection, divided between Rome and Paris, and depicts a rural episode set in a lat...
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18th Century Flemish School Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid-Century Modern Vintage Original Landscape Oil Painting - Rural Abstraction
Located in Bristol, GB
RURAL ABSTRACTION Size: 46.5 x 78.5cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A large and captivating mid-century landscape painting that presents a dynamic interplay between abstraction an...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Gloucester Harbor Antique American Oil Painting Fishing Boat Framed 1930
Located in Buffalo, NY
A gorgeous American impressionist painting of Gloucester Harbor. Unsigned but by a very skilled hand. The canvas is 20" x 16" housed in a period frame.
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1930s Impressionist Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

1953 Mid Century Modern Swedish Abstract Landscape Oil Painting - Silent Street
Located in Bristol, GB
SILENT STREET Size: 46 x 58 cm (including frame) Oil on board A brilliantly executed geometric abstract mid-century modernist streetscape that captures a quiet neighbourhood setting...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'French Constructivist Geometric Abstract, ' by Unknown, Oil on Paper
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 26.5" x 31" oil painting by an unknown French constructivist artist uses a dynamic palette of bright colors in a geometric abstraction to create an industrial assemblage ...
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Mid-20th Century Constructivist Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rende - Early 20th Century Oil, The Parked Straw Cart
Located in Corsham, GB
An captivating continental landscape in oil, showing a straw laden cart on the verge of a country lane. The oil has been signed by the artist to the lower right. On canvas on stretch...
Category

20th Century Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

Romantic Painting French school Medieval Knight Lady Art nouveau 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
French school after 1890 The knight's farewell Oil on canvas 124 x 64 cm This painting is at once monumental, moving but very cheerful at the same time. Because the main subject, the knight's farewell to his beloved, represented in a tight framing shows a very naturalistic background with its meadow, its flowers, its wood, its river and its very beautiful colors. The painter is from the end of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th century, and undoubtedly French as indicated by the canvas merchant's mark on the back of the stretcher (the Jules Chauvin house which was active at 33 rue du Dragon in Paris between 1895 and 1937). The style of our painting is romantic, even picturesque. The knight carries the “Reichsadler”, the imperial eagle of the Holy Germanic Empire and the lady a bag with different signs including bear paw prints. The style is naturalistic and reminds of the English painters of the 1890s inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites and Art Nouveau on religious and medieval themes and very close to nature with their decorations of meadows, flowers and wood. The English art historian John Christian spoke of the last English romantics about to these painters of the end of the century, Burne-Jones, Stanley Spencer and John William Waterhouse. We recognize in our painting the naturalistic motifs of the meadow, flowers, woods and river that we often see in Waterhouse paintings. As regards the composition, one thinks in particular of the English woman painter of Austrian origin Marianne Stokes...
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Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Unknown Paintings

Materials

Oil

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