Victor Rousseau

This Italian landscape is an oil on canvas, framed behind glass in its original gallery frame, by Susan Isabel Dacre. A superb painting, painted circa 1888. Dacre was an early member of the Feminist movement and a member of the Manchester arts community. She travelled with Lord Leighton and exhibited widely. This work shows influences of early British impressionism. The painting depicts an Italian landscape with a road sweeping around a hill with dwellings and trees. The brushwork and palette are superb. An excellent example of a 19th century women artists work. Signed lower left. Provenance. Family collection. Condition. Oil on canvas. Image size 13 inches by 10 inches. canvas in original excellent condition. Housed in an original gilt frame 20 inches by 17 inches approx. and in good condition. Susan Isabel Dacre (1844 – 1933) was an English female artist of the Victorian era. She was born in Leamington, Warwickshire, and was educated in Salford. For the decade of 1858–68 she lived in Paris. After a winter in Italy (1869), she returned to Paris, and was present during the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune. She returned to England in 1871 and began studying art at the Manchester School of Art, where she won the Queen's Prize in 1875. She began a lifelong friendship with fellow artist Annie Swynnerton; the two women pursued their art studies in Rome and Paris between 1874 and 1880. Around 1872, Lord Leighton dictated notes and observations on his methods of painting and composing his pictures to Susan Dacre during a stay on the island of Capri. From 1877-1880 she was in Paris at the Académie Julian with a fellow - pupil Marie Bashkirtseff...

by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 16.75 high by 10.75 inches wide condition: overall very g...

Artist/ School: French Impressionist early 1900's, most likely an unfinished sketch hence not signed. Title: Dreamy garden view, looking out of the window over a deep green and vib...

A 1930s French Art Deco bronze Roman warrior figure with spear and shield on black marble base.

Small Signed Early 20th century Bronze of Reclining Whippet dog Signature located on back of dog, unable to read artist's name Measures: 1.5" H, 2.5" W, ...

Patinated bronze sculpture Signed and numbered 4/8.

Bronze sculpture by Victor Roman. Signed and numbered 2/8.

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A fantastic large fifteen inch tall Benin patinated bronze head from an estate sale in Phoenixville. Weighs approximately 10 pounds.

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Ceramic and glass table lamp sculpture. France, circa 1900.