Charlotte Culot DOROTHY

Gouaches and collages on paper (16 x 12 cm), framed with a double mat acid-free, museum glass.

Gouaches and collages on paper (16 x 12 cm), framed with a double mat acid-free, museum glass.

Gouache et collage sur toile

Gouaches and collages on paper (18 x 12 cm), framed with a double mat acid-free, museum glass.

Gouaches and collages on paper (16 x 12 cm), framed with a double mat acid-free, museum glass.

Gouaches and collages on paper (16 x 12 cm), framed with a double mat acid-free, museum glass.

Rare cubist charcoal painting by Dorothy Sklar. Framed. Most likely dating to the 1930s or early 1940s. Dimensions: 31" x 22.25" frame 22.25" x 14 ...

Large scale abstract painting by Dorothy Gates in 1970 entitled "Talisman" This dramatic, Mid-Century Modern painting dates to the 1970s and was painted by the American artist Dorothy Gates, of Coco...

Oil on canvas board painting of Siamese cats and kittens by Dorothy Stauffer Hay (1901 - 1974) Arizona/New Mexico. Signed lower right corner. Unframed, edge wear.

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...

Composition abstracted from Charlotte Henschel (1905-1985), France, 1950, signed low right. Frame of origin, under glass. 99.5cm/72.5cm (off frame) Raise of the school of Paris, ...

Composition abstracted from Charlotte Henschel (1905-1985), France, 1950, signed low right. Frame of origin, under glass. Measures: 99.5cm/72.5cm (off frame) Raise of the school...