"The Lighthouse at Sunset" by Peter Poskas

Oil on canvas, signed and dated depicting a glorious sunset in winter. Edvard Axel Rosenberg (Swedish School, 1858-1934). In many ways Edvard Rosenberg...

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...

Oil on canvas, signed in the lower right. Measures 36" x 41" including the frame. Johann Georg Meyer Von Bremen (German 1813-1886) was a genre painter. He was the son of master baker Johann Georg Meyer. His mother was strictly religious. From 1833 he studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts , which was led since 1826 by Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, the son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow. In addition to Schadow, Karl Ferdinand Son was his teacher there. Meyer acquired the necessary craftsmanship skills to make a living from the sale of his paintings, but he was initially unable to do so. From 1841 to 1852 he maintained his own studio in Düsseldorf. On his travels to Brussels and Antwerp Meyer experienced the works of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthonis van Dyck. In 1851 he married the singer Julia Beer...

Watercolor on paper, signed in the lower right. Listed measurements are for the full frame size. Percival Leonard Rosseau (1859–1937) Percival Leonard Rosseau was born in Louisiana. He led a peripatetic life as cattle driver, cowboy, and commodities broker before going abroad...

A large an impressive painting of a 'Marine Scene at Sunset' by James Everett Stuart (American, 1852-1941), signed l/l Stuart. Oil on canvas, circa 1890-1910 Measures: Canvas: 30...

Beautiful oil painting signed by Robertson. This sunset at the beach painting, we think, is a painting of Naples, and if anyone has been there, the sunsets are breathtaking like this...

Framed watercolor on paper depicting a 4-mast schooner titled Marguerite. The schooner on choppy white capped waters with American and other flags flying against the dark grey sky. T...

A well done Pastel detailing an Industrial Era Complex by William Drake (Am., 1891-1979). Signed lower left center. A detail view of a shipping complex with wooden structures with ro...