Unknown Portrait Paintings

Artist/ School: English School, circa 1950-50's. Signed, 'R. Harland' lower corner. Title: Portrait of a seated lady within an interior setting. Medium: oil painting on canvas, fra...

'Master of the parrot' (a painter active in Antwerp in the early 16th century, whose name refers to the parrot who always occurs in his paintings) - follower of Madonna on the throne with child (With the coat of arms of the client family in the upper part of the composition) Oil on the table 101 x 62 cm. - In frame 114 x 76 cm. The beautiful proposed work explains the typical iconographic characters of the painter called 'Master of the parrot', a conventional name used by critics to define an anonymous Dutch author of the 16th century. More precisely, it is a painter of the southern Netherlands, active in Antwerp around 1530-50, so defined for the unmistakable parrot who often appears in his works of him. In religious iconography the parrot has often been used as a Marian symbol, as it was widespread that its most common verse was "Ave", that is, the greeting of the Archangel Gabriele to Mary at the time of the Annunciation. Today the idea according to which the name 'master of the parrot' has not referred to a single painter, but rather a group that, based on the stylistic characters, carried out their training at the workshop of Pieter Coecke Van Aelst (Aalst (Aalst is widespread. 1502 - Brussels 1550), creating devotion paintings intended for a bourgeois client and concentrating their activity on a specific topic particularly requested by the contemporary market. By way of example we can mention the Virgin with the San Diego Museum of Art child where the figures, like our own, are in line, With the mannerist taste for the elegant body proportions that exceed reality, with elements such as tapered finger, wide face and thin nose. These characters also betray the influence of active artists in the region such as Joos Van Cleve...

The Marriage, 15th/16th Century school of BALDASSARE ESTENSE (1443-1504) Large 15th Century Ferrara School portrait of a husband and wife worshipping outside a small hillside town,...

5197 Italian oil pastel of a young girl with pigtails

4096 A 1920's oil painting on canvas of an elegant southern lady .Artist unknown. Unframed

Marie Yvonne Picard-Pangalos [French Title Illegible], 1930 Oil on wood panel 25 1/2 x 19 in. Signed, dated, and inscribed lower left Exhibition label verso According to the 1999 "...

Mid-century French oil pastel of blonde in pleasing tones of blues and yellows, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic ...

This evocative portrait depicts an elderly figure in traditional attire, seated against a muted background. The artist skilfully captures the subject's weathered features and gentle ...

A fantastic modern portrait of a young boy. This work is signed what appears to be Paul Sellers and dated 1937, but we have not found information on the artist. The work dated 1936...

French painter (18th century) - Portrait of Louis XV as a child. 64.5 x 49.5 cm. Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame (not signed). Condition report: Lined canvas. Good s...

Impressive modernist street scene painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a period giltwood molding. Excellent condition,...

Signed to the lower left. Titled verso. Presented in a gilt frame. On board.

Pauwels Franck, known as Paolo Fiammingo (Antwerp, 1540 - Venice, 1596) Venus lying in a landscape Oil on canvas 116 x 150 cm. In antique frame 136 x 170 cm. The work is accompanied by a critical card by Dr. Federica Spadotto The splendid painting proposed sees portrayed, bare and stretched out on a red brocade cloth in gold sprinkled with roses, a refined and sensual Venus, in a composition with a profound symbolic value, and arriving at the perfect representation of the Renaissance woman who, like Venus, becomes an allegory love, eros, beauty and fertility. The canvas is part of the prestigious Venetian artistic and cultural environment of the second half of the sixteenth century, whose distinctive distinctive trait can be traced back to its cosmopolitan vocation. This characteristic, as Dr. Spadotto noted in her in-depth study, belongs to the same physiology of the Venetian capital, that is, being a distinctly commercial city located in a strategic point with respect to trade. Representing one of the liveliest ports in the Mediterranean also meant witnessing the continuous passage not only of goods, but of men, ideas, suggestions from distant countries, which influenced not only the taste of their people, but above all art. This happened thanks to the circulation of prints, as well as pictorial specimens, to which are added the stays of great foreign artists and, above all, the permanence in the capital of a non-negligible number of Dutch, Flemish and German masters. An emblematic case in this regard comes from Pauwels Franck (Antwerp, 1540 - Venice, 1596), better known as Paolo Fiammingo, who established himself in his native city at a young age - in 1561 a figure enrolled in the Guild of San Luca - and arrived in Venice in 1573. . He resided in Venice from 1584 until his death, although the stylistic and formal references of some of his works have led critics to believe that in previous years he had undertaken a journey to central Italy, or to Florence and Rome, where he would have metabolized the lively cultural debate that permeated these cities and which, on the other hand, seemed completely absent in Venice. Here Paolo will be fascinated by the sense of color and by the atmospheric component fixed on the canvas by Jacopo Tintoretto (Venice 1518 - 1594), of which he becomes a collaborator, to undergo, around 1590, the suggestion of Paolo Caliari...

Well painted and very decorative oil on panel Painted on a mahogany panel and monogrammed L.B Well framed in a new English handmade gold leaf frame. The...

Clan Murray, Coat Of Arms, Duke Of Atholl, 18th Century Scottish School Large 18th Century Scottish Clan Murray Coats of Arms, oil on canvas. The shield bearing allegiance to the c...

A charming oil portrait of a well dressed gentleman holding a sociable gaze, whilst swirling a full glass of wine. Indistinctly signed to the lower right. On board.

Italian painter (19th century) - Portrait of a gentleman with a book. 92 x 71 cm. Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame (not signed). Condition report: Lined canvas. Good ...

A wonderful old antique female portrait from the turn of the 18th - 19th century of a French woman quite possibly French Bourgeois. A head and shoulders pose with beautifully painte...

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...

La obra no va firmada, es de autor anónimo El estado de la obra es muy bueno Se presenta bien enmarcada la pintura Medidas obra: 80 cm de altura x 71 cm. altura Medidas marco: 10...

'Portrait of Blue-Eyed Woman', oil on board, signed by artist, Ayral, French School (circa 1960s). Discovered in the South of France, this small portrait is painted with vibrant colo...

The deposition of Atala Follower of Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (Montargis, 1767 - Paris, 1824) 19th-20th century Oil on canvas 47 x 65 cm. - Framed 67 x 84 cm The propos...

Work on wood Molded frame in plaster and gilded wood 65 x 57 x 8 cm

An Allegory Of Marriage, 18th Century English School Large 18th Century English School allegory of marriage, oil on canvas. Rare allegory of life scene with two married couples on...

An emotional study depicting an embrace between mother and daughter by contemporary artist Norman R. Coker. Signed to the lower right. Titled and signed again verso. On canvas.

This dynamic oil composition by Jan Groenestein (1919-1979) captures a tender moment between a farrier and a Shetland pony. The loose, impressionistic brushwork creates a sense of mo...

A charming oil portrait depicting a mother with an infant in a christening gown on her knee. Both smile towards the artist, who captures them against a dark background. Signed to the...

Artist/ School: French School, signed and dated 1911 Title: A Belle Maman, New York Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed. framed: 27.5 x 18.5 inches canvas: 25.75 x 16.7...

This painting, signed in the lower right "Kuster", is a stylized recreation of "Untitled - Portrait of a Man" by Friedrich Schaarschmidt. Like the figure in Schaarschmidt's painting,...

Portrait Of Gilbert Talbot 7th Earl of Shrewsbury (1552-1616), 16th Century Circle of George Gower (c.1540–1596) Huge 16th Century Portrait Of Gil...

This evocative portrait captures a young boy in school uniform, with a striking orange tie contrasting against his pale shirt and background. The loose, impressionistic brushwork cre...

This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed in Hebrew, also marked with a Jewish star. this is from a collection of works by the same hand. they are all signed. Some have markings to the back of the paper. they have some age to them. They bear similarities to artists as dissimilar as Moshe tamir, Mane Katz and an Israeli version of Purvis Young. In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted yet powerful. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladyzhensky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee). At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naïf, naïve art. Outsider art. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels Art en Marge Museum in Brussels MADmusée in Liege International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...

A striking portrait depicting a woman in a headscarf. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a wooden frame with patterned carvings. On panel.

18th to 19th Century English Oil Portrait Original oil on canvas Canvas dimensions 26" wide x 34" high The frame measures 31.75" wide x 39" hig...

Portrait of an elegant British lady with a white silk dress and a pearl necklace. British School, close to Peter Lely.

Vintage Portrait of 1940's Noir Writer Cornell Woolrich Pencil portrait of famous 1930's 40's noir/crime writer Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich, circa 1980. Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich is one of America’s best crime and noir writers who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish...

A charming portrait depicting an Edwardian lady in attire typical of the period. Her long, open coat is topped with an elaborate collar, accentuated by a long beaded necklace leading...

The Queen Of May, dated 1877 by Valentine Cameron PRINSEP (1838-1904) to $180,000 Large 19th Century English pre-Raphaelite portrait of a young girl as May Queen, oil on canvas by ...

Very stylish, unique and original 1930's French fashion design, no doubt of Parisian origin. The painting, executed in gouache/ watercolor and pencil, is dated to the upper corner...

French Character Portrait French school, Mid 20th Century Gouache paint on unframed paper signed lower corner Image : 12 x 9.5 inches Superbly decorative 1960's French portrait p...

A wonderful landscape reminiscent of the great American artist Camille Carrot done. The details are masterfully done with beautiful brush work and wonderfully rich and lush color pal...

A fine early Victorian portrait of a dignified matronly woman, finely dress in black with a delicate lace bonnet and collar and an exquisite jet necklace. The artist shows a wonderfu...

Antique French impressionist portrait oil painting of two young girls. Oil on board. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 10L x 18H.

A fine oil on canvas portrait of Captain George Buckman, identified lower center, indiscernibly signed and dated 1860 lower right, with a tall ship with an American flag in the backg...

A charming 19th-century portrait depicting a woman wearing a blue dress with an elaborate lace collar. Unsigned. Well presented in a gilt frame. On canvas.

An unusual detailed oil depicting a female figure darning socks in a country cottage. Signed and dated 1889 to the lower left. Well presented in a swept gilt effect frame. On canvas ...

Artist: French School, circa 1970's Title: Portrait of a Young Man Medium: oil painting, on coarse textured canvas. Size: painting: 28.5 x 23.5 inches Provenance: pri...

A charming late 19th century English School portrait of a young woman in a red cloak, fetching water. The artist captures the woman midway across a gentle river, barefoot on the step...

This captivating antique oil painting on canvas is a fine example of Dutch School genre art, evoking the style of the 17th-century master Adriaen van Ostade. The composition features...

La obra no va firmada, es de autor anónimo Estado de conservación aceptable Se presenta sin enmarcar la obra Medidas de la obra: 75 x 64 cm.

Artist/ School: Continental school, 20th century Title: The Explorers Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed Size: framed: 29.25 x 41.25 inches canvas: 24 x 36 inches Provenance...

Mary Bernstein (American, XX), Abstract Seated Female Nude, Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, unframed. 46" H x 42" W.

A finely detailed oil painting on canvas portrait of an unidentified Russian officer, dating to the 18th or 19th century, unsigned, and housed in a spe...

Artist/ School: French School, signed lower front, dated 1970's Title: La Moto Verte, a surrealist composition of nude/ semi nude male figures in a wrestling pose floating in the sk...

Wonderful pulp art figurative portrait of a brunette woman in formal yellow evening gown with gloves by unknown California artist, circa 1960s. Unsigned. Acqu...

La Petite Laitière Bretonne, dated 1898 by Maurice GRÜN (1869-1947) Large 19th Century French Breton village girl portrait, oil on canvas by Maurice Grun. Exceptional quality and c...

A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the 1950's of a Boy seated with a bowl of fruits. Comes displayed in a distressed wood frame, signed lower left illegibly. Art measures 1...

Work on cardboard Golden wooden frame 42 x 34 x 3.5 cm

3933 Antique oil on canvas in an ornate period frame Image size 16.5x11"

Beagle Puppies In A Kennel, 19th Century English School Large 19th Century portrait of Beagle puppies in a kennel, oil on canvas. Good quality and condition circa 1880 kennel scene...