Francois Jacobs (1832-1887)

Fine 19th Century French Signed Oil Elegant Couple Admiring View Woodland Glade

mid 19th century

The Angelic Visitation Dutch School, mid 17th century circle of Rembrandt (Dutch 1606-1669) oil on wooden panel, framed in faux tortoiseshell style frame. framed: 25 x 28.75 painting...

Shipping in Calm Waters Dutch School, 18th century oil painting on wood panel panel: 10 x 12.75 inches framed: 14 x 17 inches condition: very good, minor evidenc...

The Highland Cottage Irish School, 19th century signed and dated 1888 oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 30 x 50.5inches provenance: private collec...

Pausing for Conversation by William Yates (British, second half 19th century) signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 32 inches provenance: private collection, England condition:...

Fisherman in Highland Landscape by James Mudd (English, 1821 - 1906) signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 28.5 x 41 inches painting: 24 x 36 inches provenance: private collection, En...

The English Country Churchyard by James Rudd (English 1821-1906) signed & dated 1889 oil on canvas, framed framed: 28.5 x 41 inches painting: 24 x 36 inches provenance: private colle...

Archer was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1808. In 1820 he went to London, and became a pupil of John Scott, a noted engraver of animals. His apprenticeship was cut short when Scott became ill, and he returned to Newcastle. There, in collaboration with William Collard he etched a series of large plates of Fountains Abbey, after drawings by John Wilson Carmichael, and on his own produced several plates for Mackenzie's History of Durham. He then moved to Edinburgh, where he made a collection of drawings of the ancient buildings and streets of the city. In about 1830 he returned to London, and entered the studio of the engravers William and Edward Finden, who were then working on illustrations for the annuals and such publications as their Bible Illustrations, and The Ports and Harbours of Great Britain. After a few years the market for this kind of illustration declined, and Archer had to find less renumerative work engraving plates for the New Sporting Magazine. Having been elected a member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, he produced a series of drawings of St. Mary Overy, previous to its restoration, and of Lambeth Palace. Having accumulated more than one hundred drawings of London...

19th century English landscape with trees, a Harvest Field during Summertime. A wonderful classic English landscape dating from the middle of the 19th century. This style of paintin...

19th century English landscape with Oak trees, a stream and sheep on a pathway. A wonderful classic English landscape dating from the middle of the 19th century. This style of paint...

Wonderful English Victorian River Landscape. Thomas O Hume was an English landscape painter who exhibited from 1864-1892. He showed his paintings at t...

Wonderful late 19th-century oil on panel of wood depicting shipping at a sunset. Pauman was from either Belgium or France and his works are held in private collections in both countr...

Outstanding English Victorian 19th century Harvest landscape. Thomas Simon Dingle was the son of Thomas Dingle (1818-1904), known as a London landscape painter, but who, according t...