European Decorative Art

Francois Nicholas Martinet bird engraving, circa 1770. The framed Francois Martinet engraving is from Buffon's Historie Naturelle des Oiseaux displa...

This charming enamel painting shows a gentleman, centrally positioned, being led by two women, one on each arm. The woman on his left has a troubled expression, her hair is grey, and she wears a dark red shawl and green costume, with a knife stored under her belt. She points up to the sky with her left hand. By comparison, the woman on the gentleman’s right looks cheerful, she has youthful blond hair, and is clad in a pink and white dress...

A framed Georgian period lithograph titled "A View of High Street, Birmingham" from the early 19th century, signed T. Hollins. Born in England during the early years of the 19th cent...

Large framed etching of a massive urn by Francesco Piranesi in the style of his father, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, plate 549 #43, signed lower left on plate Cavalier Piranesi Delin,...

Wax portrait of Queen Charlotte of Great Britain, Attributed to John Flaxman, Late 18th century. A large and rare portrait of Queen Charlotte, i...

Makkum, 20th century. The six tile picture depicts a cat seated on its hind-quarters with its tail curled through its legs looking forward. In the bac...

Framed copperplate engravings of sea shells, Niccolo` Gualtieri (editor). Giuseppe Menabuoni (1708-after 1745) (after). Plates 30 and 31 from Index testarum conchyliorum quae ad...

Superb large English silk and wool portrait, A Mother and Her Four Children, after John Hoppner R.A., circa 1810-20, Within gilt frame. Silk over linen fabric ground, silk floss, worsted wool yarn, Merino wool yarn and oil paint. A remarkable silk picture with painted sky background and each figure with a painted face and hands with the remaining portions of the picture finished in wool. The design comes from a mezzotint after John Hoppner made in the 1790s. John Hoppner specialized in painting mothers and children. The picture depicts a large standing female figure dressed in a white dress and wearing a turban. She stands by two classical columns with her four children in front of her. The youngest child is sitting on the ground playing with her red shoe in her hands with a tambourine by her side. Her elder sister stands behind her. Both girls are dressed in Empire-style muslin dresses...

18th-century Italian capriccio painting. Mounted in a beveled gilt wood frame, the oil on canvas painting depicts a dreamy expanse of Roman architec...