Mackinnon Wall Decorations

Charles D. Hartley (British/American, 19th Century) Scottish Highlands landscape oil on canvas canvas: 30 by 18 inches Frame: 33 ½ by 21 ½ inches

Nude male academy. Red chalk on paper. While the artist who drew this drawing is not known, the confidence in the trait along with the fascinating perspect...

Florentine or Flemish school 17th century study of the Medici Lion by Flaminio Vacca. Measures: Sheet 31.7 x 48.8 cm. (12.5 x 19.2 in.) Frame...

Circa 1880s by Alfred De Breanski Sr., (1852 - 1928), England. This lovely oil on canvas, using the impedimenti technique of layering and glazing...

Early to mid 20th century French oil painting on canvas of flowers in a vase. Really beautifully painted early 20th century still life signed by artist. Not framed just stretched ...

Set of 6 19th century McKenney and Hall portraits of Native Americans. Hand colored lithographs from: The history of the Indian tribes of North Ameri...

Irene Cafieri Contemporary Oil on Canvas 1970s Measures: 36″ X 24″ Lovely landscape by contemporary artist.

A beautiful view of a street scene in Paris, France. This cityscape oil painting perfectly depicts life in Paris with its restaurants, busy streets, cafes, hotels, monuments, and won...

Intriguing painting of a sea view. Wonderful approach to water and sky. It is a gouache on paper, framed in a wooden gilded frame behind glass. Atm...

This Mughal miniature was painted at one of the princely courts of India. It depicts a raven-haired princess in a gold-trimmed saffron-colored silk sari. Under a glowering evening sky she dawdles on a white marble terrace, with a pet fawn on a leash, before a landscape dotted with buildings nestled amongst trees beyond a river. Her hair, falling loosely about her shoulders, rather than carefully dressed on her head, indicates that she is a maiden. The overall mood is one of expectancy. Perhaps walking a pet and catching an evening breeze is a pretext to escape palace scrutiny for a lovers’ assignation. In Mughal India tender sentiments were a bridge to the erotic – and if this seems contradictory, so too is the balance of realism and caricature, and naturalism with the schematic. Both are hallmarks of miniatures painted in this place and time. The earliest Mughal Indian miniatures date to the 16th century. They were inspired by those painted at the refined Moslem courts of the neighboring Persian empire. They incorporated figures in spite of the Moslem faith’s proscription against depicting the human form. Such was the nature of sophisticated courtly life everywhere that beauty and pleasure trumped systems of morality. This was no less the case at the provincial Indian courts, where our miniature, marked by a charming pictorial naiveté, was most likely painted. Yet the artist was undeniably accomplished. His command of perspective, introduced by Jesuit missionaries in the 17th century, is seen in the landscape, which rolls back to a distant horizon, contrary to the flat two-dimensional ones following Indian-painting traditions. And if Mughal artists were influenced by Western art, the compliment was returned by Rembrandt and Sir Joshua Reynolds, among others, who collected Indian miniatures (as did, perhaps, Giovanni Bellini who painted in Mughal style the famous miniature of a Persian man...

(1859-1934) Oil on canvas; 14" x 22". Amazing colors! Born in Austria, John Fery led European nobility on hunting trips throughout northwestern US between 1892 and 1893. During these...

Portraits pair Danish early 19th century, Denmark mahogany Frame. A pair of portraits of Queen Frederikke and King Christian VIII. In original mahogany frames.