17th Century oil on canvas Josiah Childs attributed to John Riley

C1680 oil on canvas full length portrait in period frame and in good condition Condition: good condition Year: C1680 Medium: oil

C1680 oil on canvas portrait of a young man C1680 oil on canvas portrait of a young man in a 19the century gilt frame 83×73 cms restoration label reverse

17th Century oak joined stool of good colour and patination and original condition well turned legs size top 49cms x 27 and 49 high.

C1680 oak upholstered stool with turned legs and square section stretchers top upholstered with kilim rug 52 cms high 40 long 34 deep price

A gallant scene portraying a man courting a seated young woman holding a glass in her hand. A young dog in the foreground is watching two characters in the background, one of whom i...

17th century, Tuscan school Madonna and Child Oil on canvas, 31 x 21 cm With frame, cm 37,5 x 27,5 The pearly incarnations and the thoughtful play of looks between the Virgin, turned to the Son, and Questi, warmly open to the viewer, pour out the present painting with compositional perfection. Virginal fabrics become mottled at the folds, wrapping the Madonna in a thin vitreous mantle. The pastel colors, shining on the pink robe just tightened at the waist by a gold cord, enliven the faces of the divine couple in correspondence of the cheeks, lit by an orange warmth. Even the left hand of the Virgin, composed in perfect classical pose (Botticelli, Madonna with Child, 1467, Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon), is sprinkled with warmth thanks to the immediate touch with Christ. From the nimbus of the Mother a delicate luminous disk is effused, which takes back, in the most distant rays, the colour of the hair of the Son, from the tones of the sun. The Child Jesus is represented intent in a tender gesture of invitation with the right hand, while with the other he offers a universal blessing: with his hand he retracts the index and annular palms, extending the remaining three fingers, symbol of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The painting welcomes and re-elaborates that typically Tuscan formalism that boasted in the rest of Italy the constant appreciation by the most up-to-date artists and collectors. Arrangement, composition and mixing of colors place the canvas in the middle between the changing mannerist and the sculptural figures of Michelangelo, essential yardstick of comparison in terms of anatomical and expressionistic rendering. In the present, silvery and pinkish powders act as three-dimensional inducers to the Child’s mentioned musculature and to the vivid folds of the clothes, expertly deposited on the lunar whiteness of the skins. While these colours recall the equally brilliantly transparent colours of Pier Francesco Foschi...

Florentine school, 17th century St. John Baptist Oil on canvas, diameter cm 20 - with frame diameter 30 In this small round-format canvas, St. J...

We present you this magnificent oil painting on canvas endearingly the Virgin Mary gently caressing the head of Christ Child asleep on his Mother's lap. This artwork has been expertly fit with new canvas and encased in an exquisite gilded wooden frame. It is representative of the Tuscan School...