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Material: Fabric
Jean Lurçat Woolen Tapestry, “Le Bouc Blue” – France 1950s
By Jean Lurçat
Located in Renens, CH
Handwoven tapestry, 'Le Bouc Bleu' by Jean Lurçat for Atelier Jane Pérethon,
Signed and labelled.
Origination: 1950s, France.
Condition: Very good. Tapestry has been professiona...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
18th Century, Italian Oil on Canvas Still Life by Pietro Navarra
Located in IT
18th century, Italian oil on canvas still life by Pietro Navarra
Oil on canvas, canvas measures: cm H 103 x W 164, framed measures...
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Pair of 19th Century French Oil on Canvas Paintings in Gilt Frames Signed Louis
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a man's office or study with this elegant pair of antique paintings; crafted in France and set in the original carved giltwood frame, each canvas features a nicely dressed p...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Pair Of 19 Century Antique Silk Suzani Wall Hanging
Located in Delray Beach, FL
This beautiful pair of Suzani embroidery features intricate geometric and floral patterns, showcasing traditional Uzbek craftsmanship. The vibrant green and pink colors and tight si...
Category
19th Century Uzbek Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk, Acrylic, Wood
Professionally Framed Ottoman Embroidery Fragment, Turkey, E 20th Century.
Located in Istanbul, TR
First the fragment has been hand backed on a linen fabric, then stretched over a wooden stretcher and finished with a wooden frame.
E 20th C. Ottoman Turkey
Ready to go on a wall.
...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Folk Art Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk
Fabulous Large original oil painting of maidens by Hans Zatzka 1859-1945
By Hans Zatzka
Located in Long Island City, NY
Large original painting of maidens by Hans Zatzka
A Fabulous And All Original Oil Painting On Canvas By Hans Zatska.(Austrian1859-1945) In untouched condition this painting is top q...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
17th Century Monumental Tapestry/Gobelin Audience with the King in Antiquity
Located in Berlin, DE
17th Century Monumental Tapestry/Gobelin Audience with the King in Antiquity
Extremely beautiful antique Gobelein tapestry, France probably arou...
Category
17th Century French Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Silk
Environmental Enrichment Panel by Alexander Girard for Herman Miller "GEOMETRY"
Located in Buffalo, NY
Environmental Enrichment Panel by Alexander Girard for Herman Miller "GEOMETRY" Re-relesed in 2000s,, This panel has been dis-continued,, No longer being produced,, Great original condition. Hand delivery avail to New York City or anywhere en route from Buffalo NY
Girard Environmental Enrichment...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Metal
Nice modern French screen printed Aubusson Tapestry by « Gemmanick »
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Discover the elegance of modern French tapestry with the exquisite design titled Dusk « Crépuscule » by « Gemmanick ». This limited edition masterpiece, screen printed by hand in the...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Modern Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Mythological scene, Aksel Jorgensen, 1883-1957
Located in New York, NY
Large-format painting of a mythological scene with references to Triton and other sea creatures as well as male nude figures by Aksel Jorgensen (1887 Copenhagen - 1957, ibid.). The p...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint
A Large Modernist Abstract Tapestry by Mathieu Mategot
Located in Atlanta, GA
A modernist wool woven tapestry designed by French artist and designer Mathieu Mategot (1910-2001) circa 1960s. The piece is signed with Matégot and monogrammed TMP fino (Manufactur...
Category
1960s Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wool
"I Married a Monster from Outer Space " US 1 Sheet Film Poster, 1958
Located in Bath, Somerset
Wonderfull kitsch deaign features on the country-of-origin American film poster for 50s sci0fi horror I Married a Monster from Outer Space. We ador...
Category
20th Century American Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
1993 Alessandro Mendini Interflex Postmodern Design Wall Hanging Tapestry
Located in Brescia, IT
"Victorian" Tapestry
designer Alessandro Mendini
prod. Interflex
1993
Screen-printing on quilted Fabric Tapestry
Label manufacture sewing on the back
Perfect Condiction
Limited edi...
Category
1990s Italian Post-Modern Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Fabric
Jackson Pollock Style Artwork By Woodstock, NY Artist
By Jackson Pollock
Located in New York, NY
Large painting in the style of Jackson Pollock done by Woodstock , NY artist in the early 1990's, in vintage original condition with minor wear and patina due to age and use.
Category
1990s American Mid-Century Modern Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
15th Century Ferronerie Silk Velvet
Located in Canterbury, GB
A panel of voided Olive Green silk velvet showing the Ferronerie pattern
Centre panel of a dismantled Chasuble
Florence or Venice dating from second half of the 15th Century
The s...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italian Baroque Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Velvet
19th Century Dutch Oil on Canvas Painting in Carved Gilt Frame After D. Teniers
By David Teniers
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate an office or a study with this elegant antique painting on canvas. Created in Holland circa 1860 and set in the original carved gil...
Category
Mid-19th Century Dutch Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Framed Pre-Columbian Woven Textile from Chancay Culture
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique pre-Columbia textile panel from Chancay culture in Central coast of nowadays Peru. Chancay culture thrived in the late Intermediate period/ late Horizon circa AD. 1000-1470. The panel appears to be an intact shawl or head scarf, indicated by the overall integrity with the finished edges. It is a gauze-like linen/cotton open-square woven panel with supplemental embroidered horizontal bands that alternate between hooked diamond motifs and silhouettes of perched seabirds, one of the most favored animal forms in Chancay art. The color is quite vibrant with red contrasted by two shades of yellow on a darker brown background. The scarf such as this is thought to be associated with ceremonies and magic realm of death and burial practice. The textile is displayed on a dark line background under a newly made acrylic shadow box.
Reference: For reading on the bird motifs in Chancay textile art, see page 141-183 of the book "Ancient...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Textile, Linen
Large Oil on Canvas "Homage to Monet's House at Giverny"
By Claude Monet
Located in Redding, CT
Large oil on canvas "Homage to Monet's House at Giverny". This bucolic and romantic scene is framed in a large gilded gold leaf frame. Muted pastel ton...
Category
1960s Romantic Vintage Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Canvas
French Art Deco Oil Painting on Canvas by Gustave Florot, circa 1930
By Gustave Florot
Located in Houston, TX
Beautifully executed French Art Deco female nude oil on canvas, signed by listed artist Gustave Florot, circa 1930.
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Late 17th Century French Aubusson Allegorical Tapestry
Located in New York, NY
A French Aubusson “Louis XIV” allegorical tapestry from the late 17th or early 18th century, depicting an allegory of Spring, with Flora crowned b...
Category
Late 17th Century French Aubusson Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
Pair of Italian Capriccio Framed Oil on Canvas Paintings of Landscape With Ruins
Located in Elkhart, IN
A gorgeous pair of Grand Tour style framed oil paintings of an Italian Capriccio landscape with ruins
Italy, Mid-20th Century
Oil on canvas, gilt frame
Measures: 9.5"W x 1"D x 9.5...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
“The Cutty Sark” Original Oil on Canvas
Located in Bradenton, FL
An original oil on canvas by Don Lemon (b.1913-2015). The painting depicts the Cutty Sark, a British clipper ship known for its speed and design, sailing on choppy seas. The Cutty Sa...
Category
Late 20th Century American Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Flemish Tapestry 18th - The Swiss Guard, Pastoral Passage of the Pope - N° 1483
Located in Paris, FR
18th Century Flanders Tapestry - The Swiss Guard, Pastoral Passage of the Pope - No. 1483
Period: 18th century
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool & silk
Width: 275 cm
Height...
Category
18th Century French French Provincial Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Silk
'Tintin et les Oranges Bleues' Original Vintage French Movie Poster, 1964
By Hergé
Located in Devon, GB
A delightful French Moyenne poster illustrated by Belgian cartoonist Hergé for the second live-action feature film to be based on his beloved comic book series 'The Adventures of Tin...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
Tall Vintage Decorative Panel, Chinese, Framed, Silk Cotton Embroidery, C.1970
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a tall vintage decorative panel. A Chinese, framed silk cotton embroidered display, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1970.
Attractive golden tones to this charming pa...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Mid-Century Modern Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk, Glass, Wood
Peder Brøndum Sørensen. Oil on board. Figures and Houses.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Peder Brøndum Sørensen (1931-2003), Danish painter.
Oil on board.
Figures and Houses.
1960s/70s.
Signed PBS.
In perfect condition.
Dimensions: 74.0 cm x 64.0 cm.
Total with frame: 93...
Category
1960s Danish Modern Vintage Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Swedish Folk Art Hand-Crafted Röllakan Tapestry, Sweden 19th Century
Located in Grythyttan, SE
This exquisite Rölakan tapestry hails from the Skåne region of Sweden, dating back to the 1800s. It features stylized plant motifs in hues of white, ochre, black, burgundy, green, an...
Category
19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Linen
Indian Ceremonial Hindu Deity Hand-Painted on Canvas in Gilded Frame
Located in Yonkers, NY
A framed Indian ceremonial Hindu deity from the mid 20th century, hand-painted on canvas. Created in India during the midcentury period, this scene, hand-p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Glass, Canvas
Antique French Wall Tapestry c1900-1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Antique French Scenic and Tranquil Wall Tapestry probably made in the early 1900's. There are no signs of prior repairs, although there is the normal sun...
Category
1910s French Vintage Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Fabric
Pair of Frescoe Style Canvas Wall Panels
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Neoclassical style painted wall panels on canvas. They are done to resemble antique wall frescoes.
Category
20th Century Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Ira Yeager 18th Century French Gentlemen with Farm Animals
By Ira Yeager
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Large whimsical oil on canvas painting depicting an 18th century French provincial gentleman farmer with chickens and a pig. Late 20th century painting by Ira Yeager (American 1938-2...
Category
20th Century American French Provincial Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood
Pair Of Antique Suzani Wall Hanging
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Exceptional antique intricate hand embroidery Suzani textile, professionally mounted on hand painted wood shadow box , to make beautiful objects of art for wall hanging.
Even though ...
Category
1920s Uzbek Vintage Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Cotton, Glass, Wood
Bobyrug’s Pretty vintage Aubusson style Jaquar tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice vintage Aubusson style tapestry with beautiful design with lovers playing at beach and nice colors, woven with mechanical Jaquar manufacturing with wool and cotton
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"Experi...
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Mid-20th Century French Aubusson Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Antique French Tapestry with Dutch Pictorial Scene, 03'02 x 04'03
By Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Located in Dallas, TX
78542 Antique French Tapestry with Dutch Pictorial Scene, 03'02 x 04'03. This captivating handwoven wool antique French tapestry depicts a charming Dutch pictorial scene, evoking the...
Category
Early 20th Century French Aubusson Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
French Tapestry, Genuine Jacquard in Medieval Style - H160xW142 cm - No. 1440
Located in Paris, FR
Located a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, we are a French family business
specializing in the purchase, sale, expertise, cleaning, restoration and conservation of
tapes...
Category
19th Century French Medieval Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
Antique Suzani Panel Wall Hanging
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Antique Suzani textile made of hand embroidery intricate scrolling of eight large flowers motifs on a handwoven cotton background. Professionally cleaned and backed with fine textile...
Category
Late 19th Century Uzbek Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Cotton, Silk
Handmade Egyptian Wall Tapestry or Wall Rug, 1950s
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Beautiful 20th century ( 1950s circa) Egyptian wall tapestry handmade in wool. It was hand knotted by the tribes of north africa in egypt. A na...
Category
1950s Egyptian Vintage Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF 1961 French Moyenne Film Movie Poster, GUY GERARD NOEL
Located in Bath, Somerset
First-year-of-release French poster for one of Hammer’s finest monster horrors The Curse of the Werewolf starring Clifford Evans and Oliver Reed....
Category
20th Century French Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
American framed needle work sampler by Seraphina Learned, 1800's
Located in Kenilworth, IL
American sampler of silk floss on linen with a modest zig-zag border framing an uppercase letter alphabet, followed by a cursive alphabet, a lower case alphabet, and the numerals one...
Category
Early 18th Century American Folk Art Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Silk
Geoffrey Bowman "Black Diamond", Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas, 1984
Located in Cathedral City, CA
Geoffrey Bowman (1928-2009) "Black Diamond", Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas, 1984
Beautiful colorful and textural smaller scale painting by California artist Geoffrey Bowman.
Measures 21-1/2" high, 21-1/2" wide as framed. Canvas measures 21" high, 21" wide. Signed and dated on reverse. Retains partial artist tag.
Geoffrey Bowman was born in San Francisco on December 29, 1928. In 1946, he quit high school and joined the Navy and traveled to China, Korea, the Philippines, and Hawaii.
In 1948 after being discharged from the Navy, Bowman earned his high school equivalency diploma. Five years later he met and married his first wife Mill, and graduated from San Francisco State University with a BA in Social Science. During this time he also became intensely interested in art and printmaking and began to study art formally. By 1957 Geoffrey had earned his graduate degree in art and began to teach art in San Quentin.
In 1960 Bowman left his teaching job at San Quentin to spend more time working on his art and examining Asian philosophy at the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco. During this time to support himself and his wife Geoffrey drove a taxi at night so that he could have his days free to work in the studio.
In 1964 he joined the art faculty at San Jose State University and moved to San Jose and became a full professor in 1973. Geoffrey taught at SJSU for twenty-nine years, specializing in lithography and intaglio printmaking techniques.
At the same time he was deeply involved in his own work and accumulated an impressive professional exhibition record and his work was exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally. Bowman’s work is in several public permanent collections including the San Jose Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts San Francisco, Lannan Foundation New York, and Crown Press Berkeley.
After retiring from teaching in 1994 Geoffrey turned to painting as his primary medium of expression. Although there was a media shift he continued to focus on one subject: the consistency of change. This he accomplished in part with combinations of paint and an assortment of reflective materials such as metallic flake and leaves, glass beads, and light-refracting pigments.
Bowman became quite private in his later years and had his last one-man public exhibition in 2001 at the Fredrick Spratt Gallery in San Jose.
Bowman died in San Jose, California on October 9, 2009. Source: The Annex Galleries
Category
1980s American Modern Vintage Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Myung Mario Jung Original Southwestern Pottery Still Life Sand & Oil on Canvas
Located in Bradenton, FL
Original still life sand and oil on canvas by renowned listed Korean artist Myung Mario Jung, signed lower left. Depicts two southwestern vases nestled in a striped southwestern rug....
Category
Late 20th Century Rustic Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Original Antique 19th Century Oil Painting Portrait of an Aristocratic Lady
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Oil on canvas, portrait of an aristocratic lady. The woman is sitting in a red armchair with a quiet gaze wearing embroidered trim dress with white lace...
Category
1830s European William IV Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood, Canvas
Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas, Prairial, Wool Tapestry, Néolice, 2023
Located in Paris, FR
Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas, Prairial, Wool Tapestry, Néolice, 2023
A wool woven tapestry figuring a blue, brown and orange tree on a green background.
Signed on the lower left.
Numbered 1...
Category
2010s French Modern Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
Italian Orientalist Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Cypress, CA
Italian orientalist oil on canvas painting.
20th century.
The fine oil painting depicting an orientalist woman dressed in traditional garments w...
Category
20th Century Italian Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood
American Impressionist Countryside Oil Painting
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is an oil painting that illustrates a peasant female in a countryside path walking down toward a lake at the sunset. Two large trees define the path. There is a small house at t...
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Late 19th Century American Romantic Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Framed ICS Numeral Pennant 6
Located in Norwell, MA
International code of signals pennant, number 6. White and black triangular stitched linen panels. Matted and framed. Measures: Approximately 20" x 33.5".
Category
20th Century Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Cotton
Parisian Street Scene ‘Place Du Tertre in Montmartre’ Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Bradenton, FL
An original unframed impressionist oil on canvas signed Cordet, circa 1960. The traditional European street scene depicts Place Du Tertre in Montmartre, Paris. Figures in colorful co...
Category
Mid-20th Century French French Provincial Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint
1993 Ettore Sottsass Interflex Italian Design Wall Hanging Fabric Tapestry
Located in Brescia, IT
"La Buona Stella" Tapestry
designer Ettore Sottsass
prod. Interflex
1993
Screen-printing on quilted Fabric Tapestry
Label manufacture sewing on the back
Perfect Condiction
Limited ...
Category
1990s Italian Post-Modern Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Fabric
Randy Wray (USA °1965): oil and acrylic on canvas 1997
By Hurt & Wray
Located in Zemst, BE
Randy Wray (°1965): 1997, mixed technique on canvas.
Painter and sculptor, abstract works with sometimes found and recycled materials.
A work from the american artist.
Procured in a...
Category
1990s American Post-Modern Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Paint
Professionally Framed Ikat Fragment, Uzbekistan, Early 20th C.
Located in Istanbul, TR
Professionally Framed Ikat Fragment, Uzbekistan, Early 20th C.
It has been hand backed on linen and stretched over a stretcher , and finished with the wo...
Category
Early 20th Century Uzbek Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk
Zabihi Collection Horse Pictorial Persian Wall Kilim
Located in New York, NY
Small square size Persian Kilim from the late 20th century with a horse standing on a sky blue field
Measures: 3'8'' x 3'9''.
This was originally belonging to a private Persian col...
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Late 20th Century Folk Art Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
George Washington Needlepoint Landsdowne Portrait after Gilbert Stuart
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Monumental framed standing portrait of George Washington (1752-1799) in colorful wood needlepoint after Gilbert Stuart's "Lansdowne". The sight measures 35.5 inches across and 51.75 ...
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20th Century American American Classical Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
Large Patrick Nagel Vintage 1980s Female Portrait Poster in New Frame
Located in Chattanooga, TN
Vintage 1980s Patrick Nagel poster in new frame. This vintage poster is actually mounted to foam core. The original poster is housed in a new black poster frame with acrylic panel pr...
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1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
17th Century Aubusson Verdure Bleue Tapestry depicting The Grape Harvest
Located in Dallas, TX
In 1665, Louis XIV gave workshops in Aubusson (France) the royal charter, making them responsible for producing tapestries for the King and nobility. A beautiful example of such an Aubusson tapestry is our verdure bleue wall hanging that depicts four grape harvest...
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17th Century French Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Textile, Wool, Silk
20x73 in Embroidered Cotton Wall Hanging. Green Table Runner. Modern Wall Decor
Located in Spring Valley, NY
Hand-Embroidered 100% Cotton New Suzani Fabric Wall Hanging – Timeless Textile Art
Experience the beauty of Central Asia craftsmanship with this exquisite hand-embroidered 100% cotto...
Category
2010s Central Asian Suzani Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Cotton
Framed Japanese Festival Kimono with Tsutshugaki Dye
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese festival kimono expertly mounted and displayed in a large acrylic shadow box. This impressive ceremonial garment circa late 19th-early 20th century was made from a thick l...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Textile, Acrylic
Art Nouveau Poster The Garden Pavilion World of Women by Carl Schnebel Berlin
Located in Hannover, DE
This poster from around 1905 is something extraordinary. It was created by the Art Nouveau artist Carl Schnebel, it was printed by the Hollerbaum & Schmidt art studio in the German c...
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Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
Gentleman with his Three Children by 18th Century English Artist John Opie
By John Opie
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A large oil on canvas depicting a youthful father with his three children, two of which are behind him playing musical instruments, the daughter with her harp and son playing the flute. A third child with his back to the painter faces his father. The painting is presented in a carved and gilded wood frame. Like the great majority of Opie's work, this painting is not signed or stamped.
Opie lived at No 8 Berners Street where he moved in 1791, the street famous for artists, composers and instrument makers. Jacob Erat the famous harp maker lived in the neighbourhood and moved to 23 Berners Street before his death in 1821. This painting could be the painting referenced in John Jope Rogers, "Opie and his Work" Truro 1878, Page 220, entitled 'Musical Party'.
Provenance: Charles St. George Quechee, Vermont; New England Private Institution; Sotheby's New York April 7, 1989, Lot 1, as John Opie, Portrait of a Gentleman and his three children; Private collection Connecticut.
John Opie RA, (May 1761 – 1807), was a Cornish historical and portrait painter. He painted many great men and women of his day, including members of the British Royal Family, and others who were most notable in the artistic and literary professions. Opie's artistic abilities eventually came to the attention of a local physician and satirist, Dr John Wolcot (Peter Pindar). Recognising a great talent, Wolcot became Opie's mentor, buying him out of his apprenticeship and insisting that he come to live at his home in Truro. Wolcot provided invaluable encouragement, advice, tuition and practical help in the advancement of his early career, including obtaining many commissions for work.
In 1781, Opie moved to London with Wolcot, having entered into a formal profit-sharing agreement with him. Although Opie had received a considerable artistic education from Wolcot, the doctor chose to present him as a self-taught prodigy. A portrait of a boy shown at the Society of Artists the previous year had been described in the catalogue as "an instance of Genius, not having ever seen a picture." Wolcot introduced the "Cornish wonder" to leading artists, including Sir Joshua Reynolds, who was to compare him to Caravaggio and Velazquez, and to prospective patrons. The business arrangement with Wolcot lasted for a year after which Opie informed the doctor that he now wished to go it alone, leading to the estrangement of the two former partners.
Through the influence of a Mrs Boscawen, Wolcot managed to have Opie introduced at the court of King George III. The king purchased one of his pictures and commissioned him to produce a portrait of Mary Delany...
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Late 18th Century British George III Antique Fabric Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
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