Mayfair Gallery Figurative Paintings

'Flower maidens,' a large oil-on-canvas painting by Émile Eisman-Semenowsky French/Polish, Late 19th Century Frame: height 72.5cm, width 111cm, depth 9cm Canvas: height 54cm, width 9...

'His First Suit,' a large Victorian oil painting, signed 'Fred Morgan' English, c.1899 Frame: Height 109cm, width 133cm, depth 8cm Canvas: Height 92cm, width 116cm, depth 2.5cm Executed in oil-on-canvas, and mounted in a carved giltwood frame, this beautiful English painting, titled 'His first suit,' is by the late Victorian artist Frederick Morgan, an artist working in a similar style to that of the more well known Arthur John Elsley...

A painting of Sappho by Ettore Forti Italian, c.1900 Frame: Height 85cm, width 38cm, depth 2.5cm Canvas: Height 73cm, with 26.5cm, depth 2.5cm This excellent portrait painting depic...

Large Victorian painting of children resting outdoors by J.O. Banks English, late 19th Century Frame: Height 91cm, width 111cm, depth 10cm Can...

Danish oil painting of the Madonna and Child by Sophie Klapper Danish, early 20th Century Frame: Height 93cm, width 137cm, depth 8cm Canvas: Height 72cm, width 116cm, depth 2cm This...

Set of four paintings of Christ drawn from the Stations of the Cross English, 19th Century Frame: Height 54cm, width 42cm, depth 2.5cm Panel: Height 45cm, width 34.5cm, depth 0.5cm This fine set of four paintings depicts moments drawn from Stations of the Cross. The paintings are oil on copper, with the surface of the copper tooled...

Set of four antique English Christian paintings on copper English, 19th Century Frame: Height 54cm, width 42cm, depth 2.5cm Panel: Height 45cm, width 34.5cm, depth 0.5cm This fine set of four paintings depicts moments drawn from Stations of the Cross. The paintings are oil on copper, with the surface of the copper tooled...

Set of four oil on copper paintings of Stations of the Cross English, 19th Century Frame: Height 54cm, width 42cm, depth 2.5cm Panel: Height 45cm, width 34.5cm, depth 0.5cm This fine set of four paintings depicts moments drawn from Stations of the Cross. The paintings are oil on copper, with the surface of the copper tooled...

Pair of Orientalist watercolours of North African street scenes by Leaver English, early 20th Century Frame: Height 57cm, width 46cm, depth 3cm Sheet: Height 37cm, width 27cm The be...

Italian painting of Alphonsus Liguori in French Neo-Gothic Frame Italian and French, Late 18th and 19th Century Frame: Height 61cm, width 39cm, depth 6cm Panel: Height 28cm, width 22...

Pair of genre portrait paintings by Italian artist Giovanni Bragolin Italian, 20th Century Frame: Height 85cm, width 65cm, depth 5cm Canvas: Height 7...

Large Italian genre painting by Antonio Ermolao Paoletti Italian, late 19th Century Frame: Height 64cm, width 84cm, depth 8cm Canvas: Height 40c...

Italian oil on canvas painting of a lacemaker by Paoletti Italian, late 19th Century Frame: Height 119cm, width 93cm, depth 5cm Canvas: Height 101cm, width 76cm This beautiful paint...

Antique Orientalist Oil on Board 'Desert Bedouin', by Spanish Artist Ortega Spanish, early 20th Century Frame: Height 51cm, width 59cm, depth 2cm Board: Height 44cm, width 53cm, depth 0.5cm Fluidly painted, this vibrant oil on board depicts a dusty Orientalist scene. Four Bedouin ride camels alongside a flurry of goats, carrying lambs and hens in saddlebags. Other figures clothed in Middle Eastern garments walk with them, and the busy scene fades into a dusty, evening landscape. The colour palette is vibrant and hued with dusky pinks and oranges, giving the impression that these Bedouin are returning back to camp. The cropped composition also gives a dynamic feel to the picture: a glance into early 20th Century desert life. The present painting was created by Spanish artist José Benito Ortega...

Oil painting of an Italian woman holding flowers by Eduardo Forlenza Italian, early 20th Century Dimensions: Frame height 64cm, width 51.5cm; Canvas h...

This exceptional painting depicts the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai with the Alvand subrange of the Zagros Mountains behind. This monument is located in Hamadan, Iran. The painting was created by the important 19th-Century artist, Charles-Théodore Frère (French, 1814-1888) for one John Wright-Osmaston (English, 1831-1901). Since Frère had never been to Iran, he based this painting on sketches and descriptions of the site found in a book written by Osmaston, titled ‘Old Ali’ or ‘Travels Long Ago’. This text recorded Osmaston’s travels across Scandinavia, Russia and the Middle East in 1860-61. The journey took eight months to complete and covered 11,000 miles. There are clear parallels between details in Frère’s painting and passages in Osmaston’s text. For instance, Osmaston describes how ‘just as the sun rose, a splendid view was opened up to us [...] It was exceedingly beautiful […] the mountains looking very remarkable in their icy covering, being curiously divided into an exact half by the snow-line; the upper half, in its mantle of white, the very picture of cold; the lower half, in its mantle of brown, hot-looking tawny, and bare.’ The Alvand range is depicted in just this way, with the brown mountains before the tall snowy peaks. In his account of visiting the Tomb of Esther and Mordecai, Osmaston also describes ‘A tall, old Israelite, with a long, white beard that had seen seventy summers at least...[who] led us in through a low doorway’ to the ‘two wooden sarcophagi, one in memory of Esther, the other of Mordecai’. Similarly, in this painting, a grey bearded man gazes out at the beholder and gestures to the tomb, as though inviting us to enter. By employing short, blended brushstrokes, Charles-Théodore Frère has managed to portray the scene in exceptional detail. The figures, horses, architecture and landscape are highly naturalistic in their depiction. Frère has also captured the beautiful warm rays of light, as they fall across the scene. Frère was an exceptionally talented artist, as demonstrated in this painting and in the fact that his work is today held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Heritage Museum in St. Petersburg, and many other prestigious international art galleries. This work is signed ‘Th Frere...

Pair of antique reverse glass paintings Continental, 18th Century Frame: Height 46cm, width 40cm, depth 3.5cm Glass: Height 38cm, width 32cm T...

Set of six fairytale themed watercolours by German artist Otto Kubel German, early 20th Century Height 56cm, width 37cm These six works, by the celebrated German artist Otto Kubel, ...

French Orientalist watercolour by Émile Boivin French, late 19th Century Frame: Height 33cm, width 39.5cm, depth 3cm Sheet: Height 23cm, width 29.5cm Thi...

Pair of watercolours of harems by Vittorio Rappini Italian, early 20th Century Frame: 48cm, width 58cm, depth 3.5cm Sheet: 24cm, width 34cm This set ...

Russian watercolour of the coronation of a Tsar Russian, late 19th Century Frame: Height 39cm, width 30cm, depth 0.5cm Sheet: Height 36cm, width 2...

Two oil on panel Old Master landscape paintings by Johannes Jakob Hartmann (Bohemian, 1680-1730) Bohemia, early 18th Century Panel: Height 73c...

This watercolour painting is by the English artist Henry Ryland, celebrated in his day and since for his Neoclassical pictures. Ryland was a contemporary of Lawrence Alma-Tadema and ...

This impressive watercolour depicts the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. The Dome is visible behind a pointed-arch screen, at the top of a staircase upo...

This beautiful view of a Florentine courtyard was painted by A. Marrani, an artist who, in the late 19th Century, painted many views of the Tuscan city. The cortile (‘courtyard’) sho...

This charming painting depicts a group of gentlemen gathered around a kitchen table and admiring an English Setter. The snowy rooftops, just visible from the kitchen window, combined with the lit fire and holly decorating the picture frames in the room, implies that this is a Christmas scene. It also appears that the gentlemen have just returned from a fox hunt, and are now warming themselves, drinking port and smoking long pipes by the fire. Five men — three gathered behind the table and two standing in front — are identically dressed in long black riding boots...

Elek Gyori (Hungarian, 1905-1957) was an Eastern European painter, who was notable for his fine paintings of the everyday life in rural Hungary. This beautiful oil painting, portrayi...

Painting of The Merry Wives of Windsor attributed to John Calcott Horsley English, 19th Century Frame: Height 97.5cm, width 74cm, depth 7cm Panel: Height 78cm, width 54cm, depth 0.5c...

20th Century Russian painting of Lenin by Yevgeny Danilevsky Russian, 20th Century Height 60cm, width 80cm This fine, perhaps politically motivated painting depicts Russian leader V...

Pair of French Neoclassical oil paintings by Dubost French, 1809/11 Frame: Height 70.5cm, width 86cm, depth 9cm Panel: Height 45cm, width 61c...

Measuring nearly two metres in height, this fantastic large painting will be an excellent addition to a large, grand interior space. It is the work of the Italian painter Angelo Urba...

Austrian genre painting of children in a classroom by Rudolf Geyling Austrian, late 19th Century Frame: Height 94cm, width 126cm, depth 8cm Canvas: Height 75cm, width 101cm, depth 2c...

This fine antique oil painting depicts two ladies seated in a 19th Century style interior. In front of the woman on the right is an antique wool spinner; the woman pauses her work at...