Antique Dutch Oil Painting in a Giltwood Frame

A beautiful and impressive antique signed and framed oil painting. We can’t quite make out the signature, but the artist was clearly accomplished as this is beautifully executed. It...

A beautiful, large and impressive antique landscape oil painting, this dates from around the 19th century. It depicts a lovely countryside scene of a water mill. It is very well executed, with lovely details and gorgeous, subtle colour tones. It is in excellent condition for its age, there is no damage to the painting and it is signed : J. Marow. The gilt wood frame looks to be original, it is also antique and of extremely fine quality. There is an old label on the back with German writing...

A charming antique Victorian landscape oil painting. This is English, it dates from around the 1860-1880 period. It is beauti...

A beautiful framed antique landscape oil painting. This is most likely English, dating from around the 1930’s. It is wonderfully executed and has ...

An exceptionally fine quality example of an elaborately framed English Still Life of fruits Oil Painting on canvas, in the style of Oliver Clare or Eloise Harriet Stannard, second qu...

This continental large size turn of the century (19th-20th) oil painting on canvas is set in an antique giltwood frame. The scene is placed in w...

This English oil on canvas painting, dated 1884, captures the quiet elegance of a white horse standing in a dimly lit stable interior. Painted with rich tonal contrasts and an eye fo...

A beautiful oil on canvas rendering of a stag hunt, presented in a fluted giltwood frame with a bundled husk border and large, parted leaves in the corners. The painting is signed in the lower right corner by the artist, “H. de Forges”, a member of the Barbizon French school of the late 1800s, who specialized in animal hunt scenes. The vibrancy of de Forges’ painting has not diminished over time; the colors seem to pop right off the canvas. A blue sky with some low-lying white clouds hangs above trees mainly bereft of leaves, indicating it is late autumn. Slender grass, ranging from green to brown, surrounds a watering hole in the middle of a clearing, with a single stag near the water’s edge. Eight white hunting dogs with black and tan markings surround the deer on one side of the pond. Behind the pack is a brown horse ridden by a huntsman dressed in red and black, preparing to sound the hunting horn. Two more riders in red, black, and white, also on brown horses, are emerging from a small hill behind the deer. Hunting, always a very important pastime in France, became one of the more popular genres in 19th century art, along with with quality pastoral and landscape paintings. Realism was a defining feature of the Barbizon School, as artists were attracted to spending more time living and painting in the natural world. Our hunt scene depicts the surrounding of prey, or pre-hunt revelry. The beautifully colored oil on canvas stag hunt painting...