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The Perfect Point by Ernest H Hart (1910 - ). Original framed oil on board 18" x 24". Connecticut Illustrator. From the archives of the Shaw Barton Calendar Co used for an early calendar print. English Pointer and English Setter on point, one leg raised... sure a hunter someplace behind them. Great match to one we have by Ole Larsen made for the publication (O525). Period: 20th century Origin: Connecticut Size: 18" x 24", frame 29" x 22" Ernest Huntley Hart 'Ernest H. Hart': An American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and author, Ernest Huntley Hart perused his art studies at the Art Students League in New York. He was a member of the Association of Connecticut Artists and the Association of American Artists. During the 'American Depression Era', Ernest Hart...

Oil on canvas; 25" x 32." From the archives of the Shaw Barton Calendar Co. used for an early calendar print. Framed. Watson sold most of his freelance pulp covers to the (1893- 1955) Frank A. Munsey Publishing Company for Argosy, Big Chief Western, Detective Fiction Weekly, and Railroad Stories. Emmett...

Found in Europe, this Early 20th Century Oil on Canvas was painted in the early 1900's. Artist signed Kate Von Muhlenstein, suggest the art has a German origin. This interior paintin...

A sun-drenched provençal landscape is brought vividly to life in this large 20th century post- impressionist style oil-on-canvas. Undulating hills in the distance provide an evocativ...

Copy of an oil painting by Spanish Impressionist Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida showing a young boy and a girl lying on wet sand on the beach

Helge Ernst (1916-1991), listed Danish artist. Large painting. Oil on canvas. Abstract composition. 1970s. The canvas measures: 115 x 72 cm. The fram...

An original oil painting on canvas signed lower left featuring the clipper ship Flying Fish. Provenance: MacConnal-Mason and Son, Ltd. London Private collection USA Bradbury Art a...

Large 1945 John Sennhouser Abstract Oil Painting On Canvas, Framed and Signed Offered for sale is a large 1945 John Sennhouser ((Swiss-American 1907-1978) abstract oil painting on ...

This is an original oil on canvas painting from Denmark attributed to artist Gerda Lund (1905-1996). Gerda Elisabeth Lund was a Danish artist residing in Aalborg, Northern Jutland. ...

A mid 17th century large scale oil on canvas depicting a Leopardess, a Lioness and a Wolf toying with a Dead Hare in an Arcadian landscape; in the style of the Dutch Golden Age ‘Animaliers’ and the circle of Frans Snijders. Large canvases of hunting scenes, often featuring exotic animals such as leopards and lions, were initially popularised by the celebrated painter and diplomat Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), and rapidly became a fixture of seventeenth-century patrician residences across Europe. They were heirs to the Renaissance tradition of tapestries representing hunts, which had long been a form of princely decoration, but had typically required much greater expenditures of time and money. A monumental Wolf and Fox Hunt painted by Rubens in about 1616 – now in New York’s Metropolitan Museum – is considered one of the master’s earliest forays into this genre (fig. 1), alongside a set of four large hunting scenes originally executed for Elector Maximilian of Bavaria (c. 1616), featuring a Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt (Alte Pinakothek, Munich); a Wild Boar Hunt (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseilles); a Tiger Hunt (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes); and a Lion Hunt destroyed by fire in Bordeaux in 1870. This type of composition – with its energetic treatment of the subject, its references to exotic and powerful beasts and its vibrant atmosphere – immediately appealed to patrons and was enthusiastically embraced by artists both within and outside Rubens’ immediate circle. Among the former were fellow Flemish painters Frans Snyders (1579-1657) and his brother-in-law Paul de Vos (c. 1591-1678), each of whom collaborated with Rubens on important commissions, while also pursuing the genre of hunting scenes as part of their respective studio practices. Indeed, both are now predominantly remembered for their dynamic representations of hunts, which – differently to Rubens’ – chiefly focus on the animals, without the presence of human figures. This characteristic is shared by the present composition, which highlights the interaction between the beasts themselves, their feral nature and proximity enhancing the scene’s dramatic undercurrent. The wolf on the left, baring its teeth to defend its prey, is carefully observed, including its blood-shot eyes, salivating mouth, and thick fur, which all find parallels in compositions by Rubens and his circle (fig. 2). Similarly, the lioness emerging from behind a tree trunk in the background is a citation from a famous composition by Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder...

This framed oil on canvas shows a comfortable living room full of antique furniture and art. In the foreground there is a large traditional fireplace with a pair of typical comfortable pair of scandinavian leather chairs...