Hand-Painted Decorative Art

Antique 19th century oil on canvas people painting attributed to Eugenio Lucas Villamamil, with acanthus and foliate gilt wood and gesso frame Dimensi...

This framed colorful piece has many different aspects and stages of life in it. If you look closely and pat attention to this artists' myriad of details, you can see people painted t...

Pair 18th century French neoclassical hand-carved and painted wall sconces ~ Corbels were sculpted from solid oak and feature a timeless classical scroll festooned with acanthus flou...

English oil on canvas horse portrait in burl walnut giltwood and beaded molded edge frame. Signed & Dated by Artist "J. Brown Coventry 1866"

A superbly detailed mid-18th-century Indian miniature court painting, executed in gouache heightened with gold on handmade paper. Originating from Rajasthan circa 1760, this exquisite artwork captures a serene palace scene featuring the Hindu deity Krishna with Radha and accompanying Gopis in a lush, architectural setting. The composition is rich in symbolism, narrative depth, and emotional subtlety, hallmarks of classical Rajput painting. The figures are adorned with traditional garments, rendered in delicate pastel tones with intricate patterns and gilt accents. The architectural elements, marble pavilions, domes, carved screens, and floral gardens, are meticulously executed, offering a vivid impression of royal leisure and divine romance. Set against a tree-lined courtyard with peacocks and floral motifs, the visual rhythm is both vibrant and harmonious. The painting is professionally mounted in a deep tan linen mat and presented in an elegant gold-gilt frame with black detailing, complementing the composition's refined warmth and historic gravitas. A rare and captivating example of classical Indian court painting...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original circa 1880-1890 Robert Gemmell Hutchinson R.S.A oil on canvas titled “A New Toy” I fell in love with this Gemmell the secon...

Mid Century Modern Cubist Figure on Canvas by John Ross (1921-2017) Purchased in Paris housed in a 19th Century gilt frame. John Ross, painter, printmaker, author, and educator, wa...

This exquisite late 19th-century Vienna porcelain charger features a vibrant depiction of “Venus in the Forge of Vulcan.” The scene captures the mythical goddess of love, Venus, surr...

A set of 6 polychrome Dutch Delft tiles with ornamental design. Made in Haarlem, The Netherlands. Circa 1625 - 1650. A panel of six colourful o...

19th century framed painting of family crests was hand-painted in the late 19th century and framed in the 20th century. The artist used ink and wat...

Fabulous Mediterranean Village scene in a Cubist manner on 4 tiles by Harris Strong. Beautiful artistic design and coloring depicting buildings with stairs and windows in an abstract...

Charles Hersey vintage Mid-Century Modern op-art painting, circa 1968 Black, silver and red Vintage 1960s acrylic op-art painting on canvas by San...

A period antique 18th century oil painting of a prince with indistinct letters to the lower quarter. Painted onto a large wooden board with hints of historic gilding to the frame, th...

Large and impressive 1950s abstract oil painting by Monte This really is a magnificent abstract painting. It's large size will make this the centerpiece of most interiors. Beau...

Jordi Mollá, actor, artist, writer and filmmaker, 2021 "Flower Power" Marbella series oil painting.     

Henry John Yeend King R.B.A, R.I., R.O.I. (British, 1855-1924) "A Victorian Lady Standing by a Sundial in the Park" Oil on panel. Signed lower right: Yeend King. "YK" Sticker en ver...

Antique parcel gilt and painted porcelain charger plate by Royal Vienna Austrian, late 19th Century Frame: Diameter 53.5, depth 3.5 Plaque: Diameter 49cm, depth 2.5cm This beautiful charger plate was crafted by the famous Royal Vienna Porcelain Manufactory. Royal Vienna was founded in 1718, making it one of the first factories to produce porcelain goods in Europe. Antique Royal Vienna items are today held in important art collections, including the Uffizi in Florence, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Frick Collection in New York. This charger is marked with the blue beehive-shaped shield of the Royal Vienna factory. The charger features a central painting, depicting the abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots. Mary was forced to renounce the Scottish throne...

A very good quality late 19th Century Japanese Imari charger depicting Gaisha girls riding on mythical dragons and birds, all among reeds and Lillys. Batch 82 N/H

Two beauties kids picking wood in the forest oil on wood painting by : Thomas HAND a British artist born in 1771 to 1804. The artist's works have gone up for sale at public auction...

This is a pair of Japanese hand painted MCI Porcelain wall plates. They are octagonal shaped and painted in blue, red and pink colors in a white b...

Allegorical scenes with ebonized frames.

Pair of framed Castelli majolica landscape tiles - medium size - hand painted and glazed in the 18th century style of the region - featuring bucolic ...

Painted canvas representing toucans in a foliage setting. Contemporary work by French artists. Dimensions: L 190 x H 110 cm Reference: LS62731089P Raw linen canvas hand painted wi...

The artist portrayed an upper-class lady who has some facial features of Reynolds' Mrs Andrews. More specifically, the long, straight nose and the large eyes. Her head resting on her...

One of six fun vintage study for an Italian classic garden courtyard. Probably some scenographic preparation. Really pleasant scenery and nice vivid color on the blue and white scale...

A pair of early 19th Century Continental School Oil on canvas. One portrays Egyptian Figures at a table with Hieroglyphics, and the other one a flute player and a singer. The scenes are from a funerary banquet, from the Tomb of Nenkhef. Both are framed in matching silver gild...

Vintage Oil on Canvas: Jones's Diner, New York This stunning vintage oil on canvas captures the iconic Jones's Diner in New York City, showcasing a vibrant urban landscape filled w...

1 Set of five Original Art Déco watercolor drawings. 1920s. Willi Jennrich (1901-1944) Germany. These works are very rare and decorative. They are Original watercolors. Typical subj...

1970s Jaime Parlade designer hand painting "Tiger" oil on canvas.

Vintage Shooting Lodge Target Plaque dated 1934. A rare and beautiful wooden shooting target plaque with inscriptions. This rare kings plaque was issued by a shooting club...

Théodore Deck (1823-1891) Swallow A 19th Century French Square Wall Plaque Polychromic Earthenware very finely hand-painted, designed with a flying swallow Impressed mark on the reve...

A French porcelain hand-painted plaque by Paul Milet created in the early 20th century. This plaque, created by Sèvres ceramicist Paul Milet in the early...

California oil on canvas landscape painting, "Evening Glow" - Otto Robert Gaensslen (1876-1915; American) Late 19th-early 20th century. Artist Bio: ...

Felix Possart (German, 1837-1928) a large oil on canvas "A Spring Alpine Journey". The elongated painting depicting a mountain scene, possibly set in the Austrian or Swiss Alps, of a young man hiking in the Alps during springtime wearing Lederhosen and carrying a bucket and a water drum...

This colourful painting is of an abstract village scene in the geometric style. The elegant 'tray' frame keeps the focus on the picture itself. Si...

1970s Indian religious ink drawing. It is part of a private collection.

Francesco Peluso (Italian, 1836-1916) a fine Italian 19th-20th century oil on canvas "The Village Celebration" depicting a young couple of villagers dressed for Spring festivities and walking through a dirt road while playing musical instruments. The girl playing a tambourine and the boy a wooden noise maker...

The Moon Goddess oil painting on canvas. Great colors with a lady under the moon with a cat and owl around her. Very fine contemporary painting, stretch...

A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame (all high quality gilt is original) which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting, circa 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Measures: Canvas height: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Canvas width: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Painting diameter: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm) Frame height: 57 7/8 inches (147 cm) Frame width: 45 1/2 inches (115.6 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 cm).   Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

Embellish your study or library with this elegant antique pair of wall hanging plaques. Carved in Italy, circa 1880, each plaque is oval in shape with scalloped and curved edges, and...

1970s Jaime Parlade designer hand painting "Tiger" oil on canvas.

Late 19th century oil painting of Notre dame cathedral and Paris, seen from the seine river. With its original faux bamboo frame, signed "Rienzi".

Historic set of three 18th century engravings hand painted in watercolor depicting seashell specimens in an early naturalist style. Presented u...

Ernst Fuchs 'Waldidylle vor der Himmelsmauer' Hand Signed Artist's Proof 1974. A mysterious and wonderful work by famous artist Ernst Fuchs (1930-2015), the best friend of Salvador ...

Black Ink and Swarovski Pearl Crystals Contemporary Wall Art - "Matrix" This hand made wall art made on Hahnemühle Museum Etching 350gsm with black ink and with application of o...

"Triple Ripple," created by Derek Carruthers in the United Kingdom in 1966, is a striking large-scale wall sculpture that exemplifies the innovative spirit of mid-20th century art. T...

English orientalist school; late 19th - early 20th century. "Slave market". Oil on canvas. Presents stamps on the back. Measurements: 26,5 x 36 cm; 27 x 37 cm (frame). The orien...

Exquisite museum quality Japanese contemporary framed porcelain panel art work consisting of three pieces intricately hand-painted showcasing a wintry ...

This large, richly colored ceramic platter was crafted in Germany circa 1920 and captures the rustic charm of a traditional Black Forest hunt scene. Round in shape, the hand-painted ...

Philip and Kelvin LaVerne rare and exquisite rectangular "Chin Ying" wall plaque in patinated and acid-etched pewter and bronze with vibrant hand-p...

Decorate a wall with this colorful, antique Aubusson drawing cartoon. Created in the city of Aubusson, France circa 1780 and set in a carved frame with gilt trim and protected with g...

Marie Philips-Weber (German, 1845-1942) oil on canvas "Reading a Book" depicting a young maiden reading a book, within an ornate gilt and gesso frame. Signed: M. Weber Philips (l/r),...

A grand sized 19th century painted wood Southern Indian decorative ceiling panel. This wooden ceiling panel from the Tamil Nadu area features a series of three mandala style paintings appropriated centered within the panel with delicate floral accents bordering the center and at each corner. The inner panel is primarily a deep red with hand-painted accents in blue, gold, and green. The simple outer frame surround is painted black. This exquisite late 19th century Indian ceiling panel...

School of Pieter van Bloemen (Flemish, 1657-1720) oil on Canvas "Hunting & Ruins Scene". The capriccio scene depicting two male hunters in robes, on...

1990 Original round abstract acrylic painting on canvas that is stretched over board title ‘Gibbous’’ by American listed artist Paul Maxwell 1925-2015. Hand sign on the front and ba...

Original watercolor by Boris Lacroix (1902-1984) representing architecture elements, a boat and the seaside. Wall paper design from the Art Deco p...

Attributed to Charles Edward Hallé (British, 1846-1914) "Mother and Child" oil on canvas. The Victorian era artwork depicting a young mother holding her joyful infant child, within a carved gildwood and gesso frame. (Relined). Signed (l/r): C.E. Hallé, circa 1870. Charles Edward Hallé (British, 1846-1914) Born in Paris, the son of Sir Charles Hallé...

A very fine Italian oil on canvas titled "The Solo Violinist" by Luigi Da Rios (Italian, 1844-1892), depicting an interior 18th century room scene of a single violinist player; withi...

For zinc lovers, a mid 19th century zinc/metal hand painted flower crown.

This is a 19th century scene of a wild sea with a boat by the painter Emmanuel Joseph Lauret (1809-1882). A landscape artist of the 19th century...