Antique Oil Painting Portrait of Dog by Animalier Jan Van Essen

A beautiful antique oil painting, portrait of a dog. The painting is signed V.I.B. Gerard, this could be the Belgian painter Victor Jean Baptiste Gerard, but not sure. The painting i...

A refined oil painting of a dog, sitting on a table cloth. The breed is unknown, probably a fox terrier type. Made in the Netherlands or Belgium. It has no signature. The painting ha...

A beautiful antique oil painting, portrait of a pug. The painting is signed and dated, 1881, but the signature is not legible. The painting is in ori...

An antique still life oil painting with fruit, pear, apple, grapes and peeled mandarin. In the background a wine bottle. The painting is signe...

Vintage (20th Century) oil painting of a brown and white dog in a field as a circular focal point framed in dark brown, on square, unframed canvas.

Vintage (20th Century) oil painting of a brown and white dog in a field as a circular focal point framed in dark brown, on square, unframed canvas.  

Jan van der Vaart (1647-1727) Portrait of Dorothy, Lady Brownlow (1664-1700) Oil on canvas; held in a period carved wood frame circa 1687 Considered a beauty of the age, Dorothy, Lady Brownlow was painted on a number of occasions by some of the most talented and respected artists of the day; Kneller, Riley, Closterman, Dahl and Wissing, all rendered her features in oil for posterity. The portrait presented here is by Jan van der Vaart who from 1685-1687 was employed by Willem Wissing as a drapery and landscape painter. After Wissing’s death in 1687 he practiced as an independent portraitist much in the style of his master with some influence also of Kneller. This work is in fact the head and shoulders taken from Wissing’s three-quarter length of Lady Brownlow which hangs at Belton House, Lincolnshire and produced as a mezzotint in 1687. Van der Vaart has made some intriguing alterations particularly as the sitter now looks directly at us, appearing rather more provocative and self assured of her beauty. The confident rendering of the dress and pearls and the thickly drawn copious hair are hallmarks of Van der Vaart’s work. It is likely he completed this portrait – shortly after Wissing’s version – as a smaller variant intended for another family member as was often the practice. Dorothy Mason married Sir William Brownlow 4th Bt. in July 1688; she was the daughter and heir of Sir Richard Mason a politician and courtier to Charles II who owned estates at Bishop’s Castle, Salop and Sutton Surrey. She came from, and married into extreme wealth; her dowry upon marriage was £10,000 and on her death her husband inherited the estates that were once her father’s. In June 1697 William Brownlow succeeded his brother to the baronetcy and to most of his landed estates including Belton House. In 1698 he abandoned his Peterborough seat to contest Bishop’s Castle on behalf of his wife and in the interest of his mother-in-law, Lady Anna Mason...

Antique Portrait Painting of Boy and Dog Signed "A. Stoff 1878," Alois Stoff, 19th Century (1846- c. 1922) Austrian painter. A pupil of Karl Mayer (1810-1876...