Impressionist Country Farmhouse Rooster Portrait Oil Painting on Canvas

Mid 20th century oil on canvas portrait painting by John Ellsworth Weis, depicting a man of Turk / Turkish / .African descent dressed in a red robe and yellow cap / turban. Signed in lower right corner. Wooden frame with beveled, golden inner and outer edges. Brass plaque with artist's name at lower edge of frame. "Born in Powell County, Indiana, John Weis became a painter of varied output that includes regional scenes of Ohio, shaded New England and French streets, still lifes, and portraits. He moved at a very young age with his family to Higginsport, Ohio and then when he was age nine to Norwood, Ohio. The early death of his father and the struggle of his mother to raise the family were lasting influences on the young man who at age fourteen enrolled in night classes at the Cincinnati Academy. He worked during the days at many jobs including at a lithography shop, as a sign painter, a soda fountain clerk, and an electric coil winder until he was able to enroll full time in the Academy. His teachers were so impressed that he was offered a job on the faculty when he was age twenty-two. He held this position for thirty-eight years. However, he spent time serving in the military during World War I and then returned to the Academy. He traveled widely in Europe, spending much time in Paris in the 1920s and associating with prominent Cincinnati artists Elizabeth Nourse...

Mid to early 20th century oil on canvas painting depicting a cityscape view of Schloss Euerburg - a Reanaissance era castle in Obereuerheim, Germany. Signed I. Krohm in lower right. ...

Oil on canvas impressionist painting by Dayton, Ohio artist Susie King featuring a Autumn or Fall landscape of trees. Framed in gold. Measures: 15.75” x 1.75” x 13.75” / Sans Fram...

Late 20th century abstract oil on canvas painting titled "Flora in Pond" by Franklin S. Wallace. Depicts a light pink blossom drifting in a vibrant green, pink, and brown water, acce...

Charming oil on canvas painting by Ira Yeager (American 1938-2022). The painting features a large white rooster with applied collage pieces. Painted in his classic 19th century count...

The view of this French impressionist oil-on-canvas painting is of a stone bridge arching over the Seine. Paris buildings are in the background while a leafless tree is in the foregr...

Michael Hedges "Farmhouse Revisited" oil on canvas 32" x 26" (outer frame size). dated 2022. Michael Hedges, born 1976. Michael's art connects on a c...

Oil on canvas portrait painting of a man in smart attire in the original gilt frame American 1880