Thrashing Machine
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by John Christopher Smith. "Thrashing Machine" is a modern painting, oil on board in browns and blues by John Christopher Smith.
Oil
St. John's
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Born and raised in Japan, Daisuke Takeya graduated from the School of Visual Art in New York and is currently based in Toronto, Canada. He is represented by Christopher Cutts Gallery...
Canvas, Oil
Nordik
Located in Toronto, Ontario
John MacGregor is an English artist who emigrated to Canada after World War II. He has shown extensively throughout Canada and was represented by the famed Toronto Isaacs Gallery, be...
Canvas, Acrylic
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H 22.52 in W 15.71 in
Christopher John Assheton Stones (1947-1999) - Pastel, The Water Mill
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderful impressionistic scene of an old water mill and bridge by 20th century artist, Christopher John Assheton Stones (1947-1999). Signed in pastel to the lower right. On paper ...
Pastel
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H 37.8 in W 32.68 in
Portrait of Christopher Musgrave (1664-1718) circa 1690
By John Riley
Located in London, GB
It is now in the Victoria and Albert museum in London. John Riley was born in London in 1646. He began practising painting at a young age and was probably independently wealthy at ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 26 in W 34.5 in D 3 in
Oil Painting by John Christopher Bell "Brown Trout on a Bank"
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting by John Christopher Bell "Brown Trout on a Bank" 1823-1881.
Oil
Horse Portrait With A Dog In The Landscape
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
John Christopher Bell 1823-1892 British.
Cotton Canvas, Oil
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H 21 in W 37 in D 2 in
John Miles, American, Atlantic Salmon on a Riverbank, oil on canvas, dated 1885
Located in Hallowell, ME
14" x 30" signed oil on canvas. Nicely framed. Provenance Vose Galleries,, Boston, priced at $11,450. Sold at $4500 at auction in 2007 but now framed and frestored. John Christop...
Canvas
Painting is an art form that has spanned innumerable cultures, with artists using the medium to tell stories, explore and communicate ideas and express themselves. To bring abstract paintings, landscape paintings, still-life paintings and other original paintings into your home is to celebrate and share in the long tradition of this discipline.
When we look at paintings, particularly those that originated in the past, we learn about history, other cultures and countries of the world. Like every other work of art, paintings — whether they are contemporary creations or works that were made during the 19th century — can often help us clearly see and understand the world around us in a meaningful and interesting way.
Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs.
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