Italian 19th Century Oil on Canvas "The Music Professor" Carlo Sassi

A very fine Italian oil on canvas titled "The Solo Violinist" by Luigi Da Rios (Italian, 1844-1892), depicting an interior 18th century room scene of a single violinist player; withi...

Attributed to Federico Ballesio (Italian, 19th Century) a fine Italian watercolor and gouache on paper "The Courting". The finely painted watercolor ...

Francesco Peluso (Italian, 1836-1916) a fine Italian 19th-20th century oil on canvas "The Village Celebration" depicting a young couple of villagers dressed for Spring festivities and walking through a dirt road while playing musical instruments. The girl playing a tambourine and the boy a wooden noise maker...

A Large Continental Oil on Canvas "The Prohibited Reading " after Karel Ooms (Belgium, 1845-1900). This beautiful executed painting depicts a historical scene of an old man and a young woman who are huddled over a bible. The pair is gazing in apparent concern or alarm, over the old man's shoulder, towards something outside of the picture. The scene is likely set in the 16th or 17th century when Protestants were prosecuted, amongst others, for reading the bible in the vernacular, a practice prohibited by the Catholic Church at the time. Signed (l/r) A. Ribas 15-12-913. Within a giltwood carved frame. circa: Probably Belgium, 1913. Karel Ooms was born in Dessel on January 27, 1845 as the youngest son of a large peasant family. At school his extraordinary talent for drawing was discovered. When he was twelve his hometown provided financial support which allowed him to study at the Antwerp Academy of fine Arts. One of his teachers at the Academy was Nicaise de Keyser, one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting and a painter of mainly history paintings and portraits. After graduating from the Academy 1865 Karel Ooms was welcomed with pomp in his home town Dessel. He painted two altarpieces for the local church Saint Nicolas, to express his gratitude to his city. Karel Ooms settled as an independent artist in Antwerp around 1871. He quickly established a reputation as a portrait painter. In addition, he received commissions for religious paintings and history paintings. He gained particular recognition with two large paintings...

Great Italian painting from the early 20th century. Framework oil on canvas, in first canvas, depicting an interior scene with musician of good pictorial quality. Great impact framew...

A magnificent Italian painting from the second half of the 19th century. Oil on canvas, first canvas, painting depicting a splendid outdoor romantic scene in the Rococo style. In an ...

Large oil on canvas by Giovanni Battista Filosa. Romantic oil painting of the XIX century signed FILOSA. The quality and the chromatic gain much more live than in the photos. The fr...

This small and charming oil on canvas depicts a young boy sitting on an older man’s knee, drinking from a beer stein. The scene takes place in a workshop or home, with fabric drapped...