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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 18th Century
18th Century Oil On Canvas In Gilt Frame School Of Nicolas De Largilierre
By (circle of) Nicolas de Largillierre
Located in London, GB
School of Largillierre, Portrait of a Lady of the Verheyden Family. The original frame is black lacquered wood with gilt insert.
Nicolas de Largilliere (1656-1746), was born in Paris...
Category
Early 18th Century French Rococo Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Oil on Canvas "Lying on The beach" by Gustav Bolin
Located in Montreal, QC
Gustav Bolin's family, which was of Russian origins, settled in France in 1921. At age 18, Gustav was part of Emile Othon Friesz 's courses at the Academy de la Grande Chaumière. Whe...
Category
1950s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
A Wide EXPRESSIONIST Figurative PAINTING, in FERNAND LEGER Style, France 1950.
Located in PARIS, FR
A large figurative "and" abstract gouache painting on paper and mounted on canvas, powerful and colorful art work obviously expressing the artist's creative performance, at the cross...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint, Canvas, Paper
Alexander Cañedo, Dancing Man, Surrealistic O/C Painting, ca. 1950’s
Located in New York, NY
Mid-Century Surrealism
Alexander Cañedo
Dancing Man
Oil on Canvas
ca. 1950’s
PAINTING DIMENSIONS:
Canvas: 44 x 44 cm (17-3/8 x 17-3/8 in.)
Framed: 68 x 68 cm (26-3/4 x 26-3/4 in.)
Alexander Cañedo (Mexican-American, 1902 – 1978) was born in Mexico City as Alejandro de Cañedo; his father was a Mexican government official and his mother was from the United States. In 1918, when Cañedo was 15, his parents sent him to École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he studied under the sculptor Jean Magrou. In 1923, Cañedo traveled to Rome where he continued his art studies. In 1927, Cañedo briefly returned to Mexico. During that trip, the Mexican Government appointed him attaché to the Mexican Embassy in Rome.
In 1928, Cañedo held his first art exhibition with the Circolo Artistico in Rome, a collection of pencil drawings. More exhibitions followed in other cities in Europe. That same year, he traveled to the New York City where he exhibited widely. At this point, he began signing his work with just his last name; eventually, he also Anglicized his first name as "Alexander" and dropped the "de".
Cañedo was commissioned in 1929 to illustrate the amatory novel Orientale: The Adventure of Therese Beauchamps by the French author Francis de Miomandre. The highly stylized Art Deco results were so successful that he retained Cañedo the following year to illustrate his next novel, The Love Life of Venus.
In 1932, Cañedo was invited to have a solo show of his pencil drawings at Walter P. Chrysler, Junior's newly opened Cheshire Gallery, located in the Chrysler Building. He also had a solo exhibition at the Argent Galleries, and participated in shows of the Art Students League of New York, of which he was an active member.
By the mid-1930s, Cañedo began exhibiting watercolors. These were shown at solo exhibitions at the Arthur U...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Painting Genre Scene Popular Style, 1750
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting genre scene, View with architectures and characters of popular style of excellent pictorial quality. P...
Category
1750s Italian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Antique Italian Oil Painting of a Family Tree
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Hand painted, oil paint on canvas of an Italian family tree featuring a male figure, crests and names, all in the design of a tree. Framed in an antique, hand-carved gilt-wood fram...
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Oval Painting Still Life with Fruit , 1750
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting still life with fruit of good pictorial quality. Oval-shaped painting adorned with a non-coeval, carve...
Category
1750s Italian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
EARLY 18th CENTURY OVAL PAINTING VENUS AND CUPID
Located in Firenze, FI
This beautiful oval painting, created using the oil on canvas technique, features a horizontal orientation and depicts the goddess Venus half-naked and sitting on a stool, while she ...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
18th century French school, Virgin Mary and Jesus Child painting after Raphael
Located in GRENOBLE, FR
Late 18th century or early 19th century French school, antique painting featuring the Virgin Mary holding Jesus Child, Saint John the Baptist around.
Our work has been painted using ...
Category
Late 18th Century French Renaissance Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
18th century oil on board of lady attributed to Balthasar Denner
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Here we have a oil on board attributed to denner circa 1730. Depicting a typical subject of his, showing the face in high detail. Would benefit from a professional clean. Which we co...
Category
Late 18th Century German Georgian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
END OF THE 18th CENTURY PORTRAIT OF MARIA TERESA CARLOTTA BORBONE
Located in Firenze, FI
Splendid pastel portrait on paper, mounted on a canvas board and framed in an antique pine wood frame carved and gilded with gold leaf. The glass covering the painting is also an aut...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Paintings
Materials
Glass, Crayon, Paper, Giltwood, Canvas
Leif Knudsen, Swedish artist. Mixed media on paper. Abstract composition.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Leif Knudsen (1928-1975), Swedish artist.
Mixed media on paper.
Abstract composition.
Signed and dated '57.
In perfect condition.
Total dimensions: 44.0 cm x 33.0 cm.
Image dimensio...
Category
1950s Swedish Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Other
18th CENTURY PORTRAIT OF THE GINORI MARQUISE
Located in Firenze, FI
Beautiful oil painting on canvas portraying the marquise Elisabetta Corsini Ginori, wife of Carlo Ginori, well-known founder of the house of the same name and of the famous porcelain...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Wood
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Painting Genre Scene with Still Life, 1760
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a genre scene with greengrocer and still life of good pictorial quality. Painting of exceptional size ...
Category
1760s Italian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Harry Sternberg Mid Century Modern Abstract Oil Painting Of A Beach Scene
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Harry Sternberg Mid Century Modern Abstract Oil Painting Of A Beach Scene. it is entitled “Like Father Like Son” and dates to the 1950’s.
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Masonite
Pair of Large Framed 18th Century Italian Oil on Canvas Paintings
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of Large Framed 18th Century Italian Oil on Canvas Paintings of Classical Scenes
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Chinese Export Watercolor Exotic Bird Paintings on Paper
Located in Downingtown, PA
China Trade watercolor paintings of exotic birds on branches are in watercolor and gouache on Chinese paper.
One picture depicts a pigeon perched on a tree branch with a landscape background. Chinese calligraphy can be seen in the top right corner. The second picture depicts two courting birds in shades of brown, both perched on a branch, also in a landscape background.
Both paintings framed with a green silk mat and contemporary gilt and dark wood frame.
Reference: Chinese Export...
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Early 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Paintings
Materials
Paper
Early 18th Century Portrait of Nobleman Outfitted in Suit of Armour
Located in New Orleans, LA
Early 18th century portrait of nobleman outfitted in suit of armour, with plumed hat, rose velvet, and white silk sash, set on pastoral background.
Category
Early 18th Century French Antique Paintings
Materials
Paint
Pair, 18th Century French School Natura Morta Paintings - Museum Label
Located in Atlanta, GA
French School, circa 1780.
A phenomenal pair of 18th century French School Nautra Morta paintings on canvas. Each master work depicts a rich tapestry of romantic imagery including doves, a quiver, roses, torches, musical instruments and more.
Each painting is set inside a period gilt wood frame and feature a Cooper Union Museum label to verso.
-The Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration was founded in 1895 by sisters Sarah Cooper Hewitt, Eleanor Garnier Hewitt, and Amy Hewitt Green, daughters of Abram S. Hewitt and grand-daughters of Peter Cooper, founder of The Cooper Union. Following its official opening, in 1897, on the fourth floor of Cooper Union’s historic Foundation Building, the Museum’s collections were enhanced by the collecting acumen of Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt, and
by gifts from J.P. Morgan and George A. Hearn, among other donors. The Museum was intended as a reference collection of worldwide material culture for the use of Cooper Union students as well as the general public.
By the 1960s the Museum contained more than 90,000 items, including textiles, wallpaper, drawings, prints...
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18th Century French French Provincial Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
Late XVIII Century Glass Painting of Sheperd on a Bucolic Scene
Located in Lisboa, PT
Shepherds and pastoral scenes have been popular subjects in art for centuries, appearing in various styles and mediums, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures.
Artists often depicted pastoral landscapes with shepherds tending to their flocks, conveying themes of simplicity, harmony with nature, and rural life.
Pastoral art...
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood
1950s Painting On Enamel Titled African Queen
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1950s Enamel painting of an African Queen.
Category
1950s Vintage Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Harry Sternberg Abstract Semi-Nude Oil Painting Of Poolside Couple
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Mid Century Modern Harry Sternberg Abstract Semi-Nude Oil Painting Of Poolside Couple. C.1956
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Masonite
Vintage Boho 1950s Signed Original Abstract Oil on Board
Located in west palm beach, FL
An incredible vintage Boho original oil painting on board. A chic Abstract composition in chic muted blues. Signed by the artist. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.
Category
1950s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Textile, Wood, Paint
Abstract Mid Century Modern Painting Heavy Paper Unknown New York Artist 1950s
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-Century Modern unframed Abstract painting Casein on Art Paper by New York Artist 1950s. Though unsigned, one can tell that an accomplished painter created this work. The artwork...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
IBIZA oil painting canvas by J.Masia 1959 , Spain
Located in DÉNIA, ES
Ibiza Oil painting and Canvas by J.Masia Artist Valenciano / Baleare .
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Spanish painter, caricaturist and journalist, creator of Calvito for C.D. Val...
Category
1950s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Madonna With Sleeping Child, Follower Of Giovan Battista Salvi Il Sassoferrato
Located in Madrid, ES
"Madonna With Sleeping Child, Follower Of Giovan Battista Salvi Il Sassoferrato (1609 - 1685)"
Madonna with Sleeping Child
Follower of Giovan Battista Salvi known as 'il Sassoferrato...
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Paintings
Materials
Paint
IMPORTANT LARGE PAINTING Venetian School 18th Century H 275cm / 108.26 inches
Located in Madrid, ES
IMPORTANT LARGE PAINTING Venetian School 18th Century
with a mythological subject depicting the God Apollo in the foreground with his lyre in a French garden probably of the palace ...
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Paintings
Materials
Paint
The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice - exquisite oil on panel
Located in TEYJAT, FR
The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice - exquisite oil on panel, unsigned.
This is a superb oil painting of one of the most famous scenes in Venice, dated around the mid 18th centu...
Category
Mid-18th Century European Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood
"SAINT MATEUS" Italian School from the 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
"SAINT MATEUS"
Italian School from the 18th century.
Oil on canvas.
Dim.: 54 x 38cm
good condition
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Paintings
Materials
Paint
Italian Dolomites – Oil on Canvas by Arno Lemke - 1950
Located in Albignasego, IT
The “Tre Cime of Lavaredo” – Italian Dolomites - Arno Lemke
Work dimensions: 70 x 80 cm
Technique: oil on canvas
Period: 1950s
A suggestive view of the Tre ...
Category
1950s Italian Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century French Trumeau Mirror with Greek Myth Painting
Located in Winter Park, FL
An 18th century French Louis XVI style trumeau mirror with a large painting depicting Venus at the Forge of Vulcan. Fine quality oil on canvas with vivid color. Gilded wood frame is ...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Mirror
Oil Painting on Plywood Vintage Oil Painting France, 1950s
Located in Bastogne, BE
Hand-painted oil paintings on plywood the flower patterns depicted by classical realistic oil painting techniques are delicate and in place, vividly depicting the morphological chara...
Category
1950s French Rustic Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood, Plywood
René Fumeron: acrylic on paper, tapestry project, signed some halos to report
By Rene Fumeron
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
René Fumeron: acrylic on paper, tapestry project, signed
some halos to report
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Full length portrait oil on canvas C1680
Located in Bakewell, GB
C1680 oil on canvas full length portrait in period frame and in good condition
Condition: good condition
Year: C1680
Medium: oil
Category
18th Century Antique Paintings
Materials
Paint
Original Oil Painting "Farm in the Ferns"
Located in Nashville, TN
This is a beautiful little rustic country farm oil scene. The painting mixes green and blue hues with the little farm house and barn standing out in the brown tone. The creek flowing...
Category
1950s English Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Vintage Boho 1952 Original Oil Portrait on Canvas
Located in west palm beach, FL
A fabulous vintage Boho original oil portrait. A chic brightly colored composition of a young woman. Signed and dated by the artist. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.
Category
1950s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
18th Century Painting By Matthew William Peters Titled ‘Adorational’
Located in Dublin 8, IE
18th Century painting on porcelain by Matthew William Peters titled ‘Adorational’. Circa 1780.
Peters (1742 - 1814) was an English portrait and genre painter who later became an Ang...
Category
18th Century English Georgian Antique Paintings
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood, Paint
Mid-Century Large Oil on Canvas Self Portrait of An Artist, European
Located in London, GB
The focal point of the painting is the artist himself, sitting confidently before his Chevalet - an iconic wooden easel - as he diligently works on a new masterpiece. Dressed in a vi...
Category
1950s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Mid Century Framed Painting "Cattleya Orchid" in Bamboo Frame Ted Mundorff
By Ted Mundorff
Located in Van Nuys, CA
A stylish mid-century framed original painting of a Cattleya Orchid or "Corsage" Orchid in vintage bamboo frame.
Corsage Orchids, or Phalaenopsis are native to Costa Rica and much of South America, this flamboyant, many-colored orchid was extremely popular in flower arrangements (especially for corsages, as its name implies) in the 1950s.
Ted Mundorff...
Category
1950s Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
18th CENTURY PAINTING MADONNA WITH CHILD AND SAINT JOHN
Located in Firenze, FI
Beautiful oil painting on canvas dating back to the Piedmontese school of the early 18th century. The work depicts the Madonna with the Baby Jesus in her arms and next to them is the...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Italian Oil on Canvas Boiserie Room Painting
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Hand painted architectural painting from an 18th century boiserie room.
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Pair Small Oil on Canvas, Oval Format Portraits, Circa:1770, England
Located in Alexandria, VA
These charming portraits are of James Peter Auriol (1713-1771) and his daughter Charlotte Louisa Auriol (1754-1838), who became Mrs. Thomas Dashwood. The Auriol family were a promine...
Category
1760s English Georgian Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
British School, Oil on Canvas Large Portrait of a Lady, Mid 18th Century
Located in Alexandria, VA
This beautiful lady was painted in the mid 18th Century, possibly in London. In the mid 18th Century it was fashionable for elegant ladies to be painted in simple gowns without any j...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Czene János Apátfalvi (1904 - 1984) Original signed oil painting (80x60cm)
Located in Firenze, FI
Czene Janos Apatfalvi (Hungary 1904 - 1984 )
Signature: "Czene Janos" lower right corner
Period: Mid-1950s
Artwork: 80 x 60cm (31 1/2 x 24 IN.)
Offered unframed
Condition: Overall...
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1950s Hungarian Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Rare Pair of Battling Cavalry Paintings in Circle of Karel Breydel, ca. 1740
Located in Shippensburg, PA
CIRCLE OF KAREL BREYDEL (ANTWERP, 1678-1744)
Flemish School, circa second quarter of the 18th century
Cavalry Battling Along the River Banks
Oil on panel right panel signed illegi...
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18th Century Belgian Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Ukranian/Russian naive icon of Ezekiel on wood panel, 1700's
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Icon of Ezekiel painted in egg tempera on a wood panel. The image is of Ezekiel's ascension to heaven.
Russian/Ukrainian, 1700's.
Category
18th Century Ukrainian Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Antique Indian Mughal Nobleman Miniature Painting
Located in New York, NY
An antique Indian Mughal school painting depicting a nobleman, executed in opaque colors on paper, represents an exquisite example of Mughal miniature artistry. Mughal miniatures are renowned for their meticulous details, vibrant pigments, and portrayal of nobility and courtly life. In this artwork, the nobleman is depicted in opulent attire, reflecting his high social status. Mughal miniatures often focused on capturing the regal splendor of their subjects. Matted and framed. Dates to the late 18th or early 19th century. Antique Indian Paintings...
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Late 18th Century Unknown Antique Paintings
Materials
Paint
1950s MCM Industrial Plant Scene Artist Signed Watercolor - Smokestack Railroad
Located in St. Louis, MO
Colorful Mid-Century Architectural or Industrial manufacturing scene watercolor of a plant , illustrating the building , smokestack, hoppers , railroad tracks and man pushing wheelba...
Category
1950s American Expressionist Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
18th Century Franz Xavier Karl Palko (1724-1767) Oil Paintings Depicting Christ
Located in New York, US
Our extraordinary paintings, attributed to Franz Xavier Karl Palko (1724-1767) depict Christ in the house of Simon the Pharisee, and Christ and the children of Zebedee. Stretchers 1...
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18th Century German Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Oil painting on canvas depicting still life 18th century
Located in Firenze, IT
Fine oil on canvas painting of still life, 18th century, France.
The painting depicts an arrangement of flowers of various types, a large vase and a basket. One of the special feat...
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18th Century French Antique Paintings
Materials
Paint
Vestal reviving the sacred fire, French school, 18th century
By Jean Raoux
Located in PARIS, FR
Young Vestal reviving the sacred fire.
Oil on canvas, French school of the 1st half of the 18th c., follower of Jean RAOUX 1677-1734.
In ancient Rome, the Vestals or Vestal Virgins w...
Category
Early 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Painting by Peter Keil, Mid-Century Modern Art, Painted in Paris, On Paper, 1959
By Peter Keil
Located in New York, NY
Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also an artistically talented woman, took her son and struggled her way to West Berlin...
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1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Raphel Soyer Seated Girl Signed Vintage Modern Figurative Original Oil Painting
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
An original pensive oil painting on canvas titled “Seated Girl” by American artist Raphael Soyer. Hand signed bottom right. Circa 1950s. The painting depicts a young woman in red dressed in mid-20th century attire that was fashionable in the era. The walls behind her are bare, creating a stark and minimal composition. The main figure seated seems isolated among dramatic shadows and lighting, like the artworks by Edward Hopper. A unique opportunity to own an original painting from a New York Modernist painter. From a private collection. Dimensions: 34”h x 39.75”w x 1.5”d (framed). In very good vintage condition. Raphael Soyer (1899-1987) was a painter, draughtsman, and printmaker who believed that art is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate. From an early age Soyer and his brothers Moses and Isaac were encouraged to draw by their father, a teacher of Hebrew literature and history. Forced to leave Russia in 1912, they immigrated to the United States and settled in Brooklyn. In the mid 1920s, having studied at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, and the Art Students League, Soyer painted scenes of life on New York's east side. His portrayals of derelicts, working people, and the unemployed around Union Square during the Depression reveal more of a poignant vision of the human condition than the art of social protest popular with many of his contemporaries. Throughout his life Soyer painted people his friends, himself, studio models with an unerring eye...
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1950s Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18thc Oil Painted Capriccio Landscapes in the manner of Jean-Honoré Fragonard
By (After) Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Located in Savannah, GA
These two extraordinary 18th century oil on canvas paintings are done in the style of the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard whose late Rococo manner is renowned. Depicting landcap...
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1770s French Rococo Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
EARLY 18th CENTURY PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN
Located in Firenze, FI
Beautiful oil painting on canvas depicting a gentleman belonging to the ancient chivalric order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, founded in 1572 by the House of Savoy. The protagonist ...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Louis XIV Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Gallant Scene Painting by Philippe Mercier, 18th Century
Located in Lisbon, PT
An 18th century painting of a gallant scene in a park.
Attributed with seal of painter's studio to Philippe Mercier (1689 to 1760) from the circle of the french painter Nicolas Lancret, a follower of the École of Antoine Watteau.
Oil on canvas, in a fine carved giltwood frame.
Frame:
Width: 16,53 in (42 cm)
Depth: 14,56 in (37 cm)
Canvas:
Width: 12,99 in (33 cm)
Depth: 10,62 in (27 cm)
Philippe Mercier (Berlin 1689 – London 1760) born in Berlin and studied at the Berlin Akademie with Antoine Pesne before traveling to Italy and France. By the time he arrived in London in 1716, had considerable familiarity with the work of contemporary French painters, particularly Watteau and his sophisticated style. Soon won Watteau patronage in court circles.
In 1726 painted two important group portraits that can be seen as an introduction to English art - Baron Schultz and his friends (1725, Tate Gallery, London) and Viscount Tyrconnel with his family (1725-6, private collection).
In 1729, Mercier was appointed Chief Painter to Frederick, Prince of Wales, and, a year later, keeper of his library, but they seem to have fallen away in the latter half of the 1730s, when he retired to the country, where painted several portraits for the Samwell family of Upton, Northants, and Hesilriges of Noseley, Warwicks.
In 1739 Mercier moved to York, where he built up a considerable portrait practice among
the leading families in the county. It was at this time that he made his greatest contribution to British painting, introducing and developing the 'extravagant image', a genre derived from Chardin as well as Watteau and 17th-century Dutch genre painting.
Described by George Vertue as "bit of some conversational figures as large as life: vain plaisant Fantasies and habits: mixed modes very well done – and very approved", such works were frequently recorded and clearly enjoyed considerable success.
Painted in the second half of the 1730s, the present work, An Allegory of Taste, is a fine example of this way of painting and its Rococo sensibility reveals the artist's affinities with contemporary French art...
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18th Century French Baroque Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
ITALIAN SCHOOL "TOBIAS AND THE ARCHANGEL RAFAEL" 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
ITALIAN SCHOOL "TOBIAS AND THE ARCHANGEL RAFAEL" 18TH CENTURY
Oil on canvas made in the 18th century,
It represents the moment in which the archangel Raphael instructs a young Tobit...
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Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Paintings
Materials
Paint
18th Century Spanish Hand-Painted Wooden Panel with Religious Scenes
Located in Marbella, ES
18th Century Spanish Hand-Painted Wooden Panel with Religious Scenes.
Birth of Christ
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18th Century Spanish Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood
Antique and Vintage Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
When paired with the perfect frame, the right antique and vintage paintings and other wall decorations can either subtly showcase your personality or steal the show altogether.
The earliest paintings were created on the walls of caves, proving even our ancient ancestors knew that striking artwork is meant to be on display. Cave paintings on an Indonesian island are reportedly older than the earliest cave art in Spain and France, and the figurative paintings back then were produced with inorganic pigments like iron oxide.
Later, the people of Ancient Greece — who learned about art from the Egyptians before them — conceived panel paintings of wax and tempera that were collected and publicly displayed. In the centuries that followed, artists would be commissioned to create large-scale wall murals and frescoed ceilings in sprawling European palaces and in the homes of the aristocracy.
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