"Kaisergebirge" Austrian Alps Painting at Twilight by Alois Arnegger

A luminous Autumn oil on canvas board landscape, probably of the hills in the Hudson River Valley, by the noted American artist William Louis Sonntag (1822-1900). Signed in the lower right. Sonntag was born near Pittsburgh, PA and moved to Cincinnati, OH in the 1840’s to study art. He studied for a brief time with G. Frankenstein at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Art and his idealized paintings of American wilderness and visionary paintings of imagined European ruins were commercially successful. He traveled twice to Europe in the 1850’s to improve his skills, eventually settling in New York City. He joined the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited his works for forty years. His mature works identify him with the Hudson River School of landscape painters. A romantic and naturalistic painter of his surroundings, Sonntag also created idealized paintings of Roman ruins, recalling his European trips of earlier years. Sonntag was an Associate (1860) and Academician (1861) at the National Academy of Design, and a member of the American Watercolor Society, Artists Fund Society, and the American Art Union...

Measures 29”W x 23”W framed Signed and dated 1919

Watercolor signed in the lower left corner. The piece measures 19.25" x 23.25" including the frame and features a clipper ship at full sail. Provenance: Bradbury Art and Antiques,...

Michael Keane (b.1948 - 2015), oil on canvas signed lower right featuring a boat at anchor in a harbor. Because of the timeless beauty of his work, Mi...

Impressionist landscape by George Renouard. Beautiful blues and mauves. Oil on academy board. Unsigned. Dated on back Oct 18 '16. George Renouard, was born in Rochester, New York an...

Alois De Laet grew up in the Schipperskwartier in Antwerp, where his mother ran a café. De Laet was initially more interested in music. He took lessons from Peter Benoit and played the piano in his mother's café. As a painter he was self-taught. In 1900 he was the first to exhibit at the social philosophical movement 'De Kapel'. There he met artists such as Eugeen Van Mieghem and Henry Van de Velde. De Laet called himself one of the first Antwerp socialist artists. After the First World War he achieved success with his landscapes of the Kalmhoutse Heide and the Antwerp polders. He was a member of various art circles, including Eenigen, Als ik Kan, de Scalden, La Libre Esthétique and Vie et Lumière...

Snowy landscape Measures: 60 cm x 50 cm without frame - cm 70 x cm 60 with frame (the painting is sold with frame), oil on panel 1920s The small church of Einödsbach, in the...

Copy of a seaside painting titled "Pier at Trouville"