William Alexander Witherington

Gathering Hops, British Realist, William A. Witherington, Genre, Figural

Samuel S. Carr was born in England in 1837. He studied at the Royal School of Design in Chester before immigrating to the United States around 1862, where he settled in Brooklyn, New York. He began exhibiting genre paintings in the 1870s. He was known for his paintings of children, seashore life and pastoral subjects. Carr was a member of the Brooklyn Art...

Charles Hunt, Jr. was born in Kensington, London, in 1829 and was part of a dynasty of painters. He was the son of the genre painter Charles Hunt (1803-1877) and father to four sons ...

Born in Paris in 1836, Victor Gustave Cousin was a painter of landscapes and still lifes. He studied under Francois Edouard Picot (1786-1868), de...

With a rich, luminous palette and the subtle effects of natural light, in "Studying Her Lessons" the artist meticulously captures every fine detail of the sitters and their surroundi...

Marine painter Warren W. Sheppard was born in Greenwich, New Jersey, to a ship captain father who instilled in his son a love and respect for the sea. He studied privately with Mauritz F. H. De Haas and took courses in drawing at Cooper Union in New York City. He traveled along the Mediterranean coast in 1879, sketching the ports of Naples, Gibraltar, Genoa and Messina. Sheppard’s foreign tours continued between 1888 and 1893, with stays in Paris and Venice, where he captured the architecture and busy canals of the Floating City. This fondness for travel also translated to his home country. He sailed along the East Coast from New Jersey to Maine in search of subjects and was an expert navigator, eventually writing the book Practical Navigation. Yacht design became a second career for Sheppard and he participated in a number of sailing competitions himself, most notably winning the New York-to-Bermuda race twice while skipper of the Tamerlane. Sheppard exhibited at the Denver Exposition, Chicago Exposition...

"At the Door" by C. Colombe is a charming late 19th century European realistic oil of a domestic interior scene capturing the Victorian sense of humor. Signed lower right. The pain...

Work : Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work. Ready to Hang with two studs. Medium : Oil on mounted linen on wood. Artist : Gabriel Riesnert Subject : Ciel d'été (Tit...

Brass plate leads to Russian artist Pavel Pavlovich Dzhogin (1834 - 1885). This 19th century oil painting beautifully captures a serene rural scene with travelers on a cart traveling...

Very well executed mid-18th century artwork, rather oil study, depicts resting family sheltering from the scorching midday sun in grotto shape arch in ruined part of town. Mother fee...

Francien Krieg, a contemporary Dutch artist, gives a new dimension to figurative painting with her penetrating and unfiltered portraits. Krieg, who received her art education at the ...

Francien Krieg, a contemporary Dutch artist, gives a new dimension to figurative painting with her penetrating and unfiltered portraits. Krieg, who received her art education at the ...

Cornelis le Mair (Netherlands, Eindhoven, July 3rd 1944) is a Dutch painter. This Classic painter is famous because of his 17th century paintings. You can see him in his house on o...