Emilio Comba, Italy, Riviera Di Ponente, Oil on Canvas

The oil on canvas depicting an ocean bay with castle ruin and man on horseback with red jacket. Farm animals and waterfall. Estate of William Hodgins. Boston Mass. Silver leaf carved...

Tuscan landscape with bridge over a stream and peasant women Signed "E. Donnini", bottom right Gilded frame Oil on canvas, cm H83,5 x W60 Emilio Donnini (Florence, 1809 - Florence, 1886) was an Italian painter. There is no information regarding Donnini's pictorial training, whose documented activity, exercised in his Florentine studio in via del Maglio, began in 1843, the year in which he participated in the exhibition of the Florentine Promoter Society with View of a river with a bridge. Regular frequenter of the Caffè Michelangiolo, the meeting place of Macchiaioli painters, he regularly participates in the exhibitions organized by the Florentine Promoter Society of Fine Arts, starting from 1845 with Country of invention and View of a mill near Pisa and in 1847 with a series of views of Versilia. In the same year, his friend Antonio Puccinelli portrayed him in the Portrait of the painter Emilio Donnini: with the Pisan, Donnini shares patriotic and irredentist ideals and in all likelihood participates in the uprisings of 1848. In this period he approaches the Markò family, with whom he frequently moves between the Island of Elba, the Lazio and Tuscan countryside to paint landscapes en plein air, in the Macchiaioli way. In 1848 he painted Glimpses of Vicopisano, in 1849 he participated in the Promoter with a View of the Valdarno near Docciola, in 1850 with Marciana, View in the outlines of Seravezza and Marciana Marina. In 1852 he painted a marina for the walls of the Caffè Michelangiolo, in 1853 he participated in the Promoter with the Porto Lungone beach, Civitavecchia beach and Tramonto di sole sul mare. Starting from 1854 he is part of the artists of the Scuola di Staggia with the Markò, Serafino De Tivoli, Carlo Ademollo, Alessandro La Volpe, Lorenzo Gelati and Saverio Altamura and, in the same year, he was awarded by the Promoter for the Marina di Livorno paintings at the Ponte alla Sassara, Marina near Marciana with sun effect and View of a lake with sunset. In 1855 he participated in the Promotrice with Marina with boats, A road of Mugello near Vicchio, The furnaces of Prince Corsini in the Valdarno and Lo stradone del Gombo, in 1856 with Campagne Senesi, in 1857 with Paese del Mugello with bather, in 1858 he was awarded the Silver medal with A morning on the sea, where he also exhibits Country near Pisa, The mountains of Marciana, Rio beach...

Set in the original silvered leaf frame and painted on canvas, the artwork depicts the island of Porquerolles on the French Riviera, in the south of France; it is signed in the lower right corner by the artist, Gregoor Van Puyenbroeck and dated on the back 1932. The painting is in very good condition commensurate with age and use with wonderful colors. Gregoor Van Puyenbroeck (1906-1982) was a Belgium artist born in 1906. Brother of Jan Van Puyenbroeck, he studied at the "Academie Royale des Beaux Arts" and at the "Institut des Beaux Arts" in Antwerp, where he was a student of Walter Vaes...

Vibrant rendition of the unique stairwell of the iconic Hotel Cala di Volpe. The stairwell is a famous element of the hotel, designed by architect Jacque...

Italian orientalist oil on canvas painting. 20th century. The fine oil painting depicting an orientalist woman dressed in traditional garments w...

Well painted with scene of ancient ruins. In a carved gilt wood frame.