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Period: Early 1900s
Material: Canvas
Lovely Small Leonard Davis Original Painting of Lake Landscape
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Beautiful landscape (on board 9.5” W x 6” H) by Leonard M. Davis (American, 1864–1938 Landscape painter, muralist and illustrator with a specialty in Alaskan scenes dating from 1898,...
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Early 1900s American Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Antique Portrait Painting Of A Young Women
Located in Ongar, GB
A charming antique oil on canvas portrait painting of a young woman. Circa 1900. Please contact us for a worldwide shipping quote.
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Early 1900s European Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Hans Zatzka, Austrian (1859-1945) Oil on Canvas "Young Girl in a Sailor's Suit'
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hans Zatzka, Austrian (1859-1945) A Fine Oil on Canvas "Portrait of Haunz Javorasky Als Knabe Dressed as a Sailor" within a carved gildwood frame. The charming portrait depicts a sea...
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Early 1900s Austrian Belle Époque Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Belgian Painting Allegoric signed by P. Swyncop
Located in Valladolid, ES
Ó/L “Peace and the arts are worth more than the brutal glory of weapons”, Philippe Swyncop, 1903 – Belgium, Flemish School Exquisite oil on canvas signed and dated by Belgian artist...
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Early 1900s Belgian Art Nouveau Antique Canvas Paintings

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Paint, Canvas

Early 20th Century English Hound Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
In this captivating early 20th-century English oil on canvas painting, the essence of rural life is vividly captured as a majestic hound sits regally amidst the rustic charm of a hay...
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Early 1900s English Country Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

Painting "Evening Mood", around 1900, Jan van der Linde (1864 - 1945 Amsterdam)
Located in Münster, DE
Painting "Evening Mood", around 1900, Jan van der Linde (1864 Amsterdam - 1945 Amsterdam) Oil on panel, signed lower right, framed 34 x 53 cm Works by van der Linde can be found in t...
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Early 1900s Dutch Romantic Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Early 20th Century Oil Painting of Venice in a 18th Century gilded Frame, 1904
Located in Berlin, DE
Fantastic Early 20th Century Oil Painting of Venice showing the Marcus Place from the Water. It was probably painted around 1904. The Painting is framed in a 18th Century gilded Frame...
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Early 1900s Italian Victorian Antique Canvas Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Early Arts and Crafts Sweeping Landscape of Countryside
Located in Redding, CT
Early Arts and Crafts Sweeping Landscape of Countryside. Romantic rolling fields with sheep and blue mountains in the distance. Perfect painting for above a stone fireplace with your...
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Early 1900s Arts and Crafts Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Oak, Paint

19th Century Still Life Wooden Framed Painting / Oil on Canvas, Signed Bianchi
Located in Beirut, LB
19th century oil on canvas painting signed on the bottom right corner "Bianchi", representing still life, fruits, grapes and peach basket , and apples The frame is in its original st...
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Early 1900s Italian Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

19th Century Still Life Wooden Framed Painting / Oil on Canvas, Signed Deligny
Located in Beirut, LB
19th century oil on canvas painting signed on the bottom left corner "P. Deligny", representing still life, grapes and peach basket , and a pitcher. The frame is in its original stat...
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Early 1900s French Antique Canvas Paintings

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Paint, Canvas, Wood

, Pinting Impressionism “Fisherman in a river” Countryside– Catalan School
Located in Valladolid, ES
Gorgeous and very Delicate oil on canvas, adhered to board, with an impressionistic style that represents a fisherman on the edge of a river, on the outskirts of a town surrounded by...
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Early 1900s Spanish Art Nouveau Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood, Paint

Impressionist Oil Painting Rudolf Quittner Vue nocturne de la Seine 1905 signed
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
Rudolf Quittner (1872-1910), "Vue nocturne de la Seine" ("Seine by night"), oil painting, ca. 1905 Impressionist Rudolf Quittner, born in 1872, was an Austrian landscape and genre p...
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Early 1900s Austrian Modern Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Depiction of a Medieval Battle Scene, Antique Original Oil Painting
Located in Bristol, GB
Antique Original Oil on Canvas Painting A wonderfully energetic depiction of an Eastern battle scene, probably depicting the medieval Crusades including knights on horseback, pikem...
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Early 1900s Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Antique Dutch Oil Painting by HV Langen
Located in London, GB
A beautiful antique oil painting by the well known Dutch artist Hendrikus Johannes Franciscus van Langen. This dates from the early twentieth century around 1900-1920. It depicts a ...
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Early 1900s Dutch Edwardian Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Antique pair of oilpaintings with original frames.
Located in Stockholm, SE
A charming pair of oil paintings with original woodenl frames. Both signed C. L. and dated year 1900. Calle Ljungberg (1856-1937). C Ljungberg was a painter that mostly worked in the...
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Early 1900s Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Émile Renard (French, 1850-1930) A Charming Oil on Canvas "A Good Poker Hand"
By Renard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Émile Renard (French, 1850-1930) A Fine and Charming Oil on Canvas "A Good Poker Hand", depicting a joyous seated man, smoking a pipe, showing his Poker h...
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Early 1900s French Other Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Wood

Large Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Shipston-On-Stour, GB
 Early C20th still life oil painting on canvas of a collection of exotic fruits, some partially sliced and watermelon displayed in a bowl, with red printed table...
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Early 1900s Dutch Country Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

19th Century Oil Painting of Dance of the Nymphs
Located in Austin, TX
This 19th-century oil canvas; from Maison Blanchet; known for top-notch art supplies; is stamped with a 1890 mark. Blanchet; situated at rue Saint-Benoît 20; was an artist's haven offering premium colors; high-quality canvases; easels; and brushes. The painting showcases nymphs dancing...
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Early 1900s French Antique Canvas Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Large oil on canvas Painting Artwork by O. Redgrave Still life with Genie
Located in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Large oil on canvas Painting Artwork by O. Redgrave Still life with Genie C1900. An impressive large work. Something really different that would look great in the right location! ...
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Early 1900s Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Early 20th Century Oil Painting Irish Setter Dog in a Stable
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
An antique painting of a hunting dog in a stable, assumable an Irish or French Red & White Setter. Painted with oil on canvas. It has no signature. Due to its uncommon dimensions, it...
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Early 1900s French Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Pine, Paint

19 Century Scottish Or English River Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Fine quality antique oil painting by unknown artist , much admired and celebrated River landscape, with two people overlooking at the river and a bridge .interesting with Fine detai...
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Early 1900s Antique Canvas Paintings

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Wood, Canvas

The painting "Country Cottage", L. Kyhn, Denmark, 1909.
Located in Chorzów, PL
The painting "Country Cottage". Origin : Denmark, early XX century - 1909 Paintor : signed L. Kyhn Dimensions: Frame: height 64 cm / width 85 cm Image: height 41 cm / width 62 cm
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Early 1900s Scandinavian Other Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Antica coppia di dipinti a olio "Paesaggio"firmati , Germania, Jugendstil, 1901
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Questa splendida coppia di dipinti a olio "Paesaggio" si basa formalmente su un naturalismo che insegue una verosomiglianza nella rappresentazione della realta',anche attraverso un pittoricismo che abbozza la forma con una pittura veloce,carica di vibrazioni luminose e cromatiche.A livello compositivo le due tele sono in linea con un elegante gusto Jugendstil,con una composizione che predilige forme esili e sfrutta le forme vegetali per comporre prezioso intreccio decorativo.L'autrice di questa coppia di paesaggi presenta una notevole tecnica di formazione accademica,che si esplica in un'alta ricerca di resa naturalistica.L'artista mostra anche di essere un rappresentante dell'ambito Art Nouveau di inizio XX secolo ,in una composizione dal disegno complesso e che riporta anche qualche ispirazione di gusto esotico,soprattutto dall'arte giapponese...
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Early 1900s German Jugendstil Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Wood

Painting "Kayaking harbour". signed Frederiksen, Denmark, early XX century
Located in Chorzów, PL
Painting "Kayaking harbour". Origin : Denmark, early XX century Paintor : signed : Frederiksen Dimensions: Frame: height 52 cm / width 74 cm Image: height 33 cm / width 54 cm
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Early 1900s Scandinavian Other Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Antique pastel painting "portrait of a woman" signed Dagnaux, France 1900
By Albert Dagnaux
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Refined pastel painting "portrait of a woman" executed by A.Dagnaux in 1920,delicate in the strokes and use of color the author demonstrates remarkable skill in execution,the feather boa covering the female figure is sublimely executed ,it almost feels as if you can touch it as the female figure's own hand. Beautiful original frame of the 'era,overall good condition. Albert Marie Adolphe Dagnaux (Paris, July 10, 1861 - Mantes-la-Jolie, November 22, 1933) was a French landscape, tableaux and figure painter. Biography His father owned a small restaurant, "Le Dagnaux," in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. He began his studies in 1878 at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts under Professor Ernest Victor Hareux. His first exhibition was in 1883, at the Salon. In 1890 he left the Salon to join the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, founded by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier.It was at that time that he began to receive positive critical attention. His first great success came with his tableau Avenue du Bois de Boulogne...
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Early 1900s French Belle Époque Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Crayon

John Henry Frederick Bacon, A.R.A. Lifesize Family Portrait
Located in New York, US
Our magnificent oil on canvas by John Henry Frederick Bacon, A.R.A. (1868-1914), entitled The Golden Butterfly, depicts the family of John and Julietta Boyd-Harvey at Tondu House in South Wales in 1907. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1907, no. 572. This very large painting depicts the Boyd-Harvey family on the lawn of Tondu House in South Wales, with the mountain and valley of Tondu in the background. John Bacon...
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Early 1900s British Edwardian Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Large Oil on Canvas with Young Gypsy Fortune Teller
Located in Madrid, ES
Large Oil On Canvas With Young Gypsy Fortune teller. LARGE OIL ON CANVAS WITH YOUNG Gypsy guessing the future VERY INTERESTING OIL ON CANVAS REPRESENTING A YOUNG Gypsy guessing the FUTURE. IT IS SIGNED BY: PRADILLA AND TITLE: discovering the future. CIRCA 1900. MEASURES 104X94 CM ONLY OIL WITHOUT FRAME . Francisco Pradilla...
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Early 1900s Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

20th Century Oil on Canvas German Signed Franz Bombach Landscape Painting, 1900
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Great German painting from the early 20th century. Artwork oil on canvas, first canvas, depicting a wooded landscape, view of the river, of good pictorial quality. Painting adorned...
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Early 1900s German Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Antique Canvas Depicting 'The Preaching of St. Peter'
Located in Milano, IT
Beautiful framed wooden canvas from the end of the 19th century. The reference narrative is the one found in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2:14-42) in which Saint Peter starts pre...
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Early 1900s Italian Romantic Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Wood

Late 19th, Early 20th Century, English Painting Orientalist School
Located in Marbella, ES
English orientalist school; late 19th - early 20th century. "Slave market". Oil on canvas. Presents stamps on the back. Measurements: 26,5 x 36 cm; 27 x 37 cm (frame). The orien...
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Early 1900s English Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting. A retailer's label reads " Fred K/ Keer's Sons - Framers and Fine Art Dealers - 917 Broad St. Newark, N.J." - Another label from the gilder reads "Carlo Bartolini - Doratore e Verniciatori - Via Maggio 1924 - Firenze". Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Canvas diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 54 inches (137.2 cm) Frame width: 42 1/2 inches (108 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...
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Early 1900s Italian Baroque Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Oil Painting on Canvas, Landscape, Mountain Lake, by Adolf Kaufmann 19th
By Adolf Kaufmann
Located in Monza, IT
Oil painting on canvas, Landscape, mountain lake, made and signed by Adolf Kaufmann, 19th century Bright painting made with skill, signed by Adolf Kaufmann (Austria 1848 - 1916), depicts a lake landscape surrounded by mountains. Adolf Kaufmann (15 May 1848, in Troppau – 25 November 1916, in Vienna) was an Austrian landscape and marine artist. He was initially self-taught, but completed his studies with the animal painter, Émile van Marcke...
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Early 1900s Austrian Romantic Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

19th Century Painting, View of a North Italian Village by a Lake
Located in Belmont, MA
Very decorative painting of an unknown artist. "View of a North Italian Village by a Lake," oil on canvas. Measurements without frame: 11.5 x 19 inches.
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Early 1900s Italian Romantic Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

dipinto Adolfo Polaroli, raffigurazione napoletana di pescatori -olio su tela
Located in Milano, MI
raffigurazione napoletana di pescatori olio su tela inizio ventesimo secolo ottime condizioni generali dimensioni altezza 88 cm larghezza 127 cm.
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Early 1900s Italian Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Painting by JOSÉ FELIPE ABÁRZUZA RODRÍGUEZ DE ARIAS (Cádiz, 1871-Puerto Real
Located in Marbella, ES
JOSÉ FELIPE ABÁRZUZA RODRÍGUEZ DE ARIAS (Cádiz, 1871-Puerto Real, 1948). "Moors at Dusk". Oil on canvas. On the lower part there is a plaque with the artist's name and title. Frame f...
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Early 1900s Spanish Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Wood

After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved two-tone gilt wood, gilt-patinated and gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting. Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Painting diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 55 1/8 inches (140 cm) Frame width: 46 inches (116.8 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 cm) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...
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Early 1900s Italian Baroque Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Barbizon Landscape Painting of Harvest by Olof Hermelin 'Swedish, 1827-1913'
Located in Shippensburg, PA
OLOF HERMELIN Swedish, 1827-1913 Collecting the Harvest Oil on canvas Signed lower left "O. HERMELIN" Item # 107LUY29P A vibrant scene of workers l...
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Early 1900s Swedish Barbizon School Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

Large Orientalist Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large, early 20th century orientalist painting. Oil on canvas. No trace of signature.
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Early 1900s French Aesthetic Movement Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

Antique Oil on Canvas of Venice
Located in Austin, TX
Antique oil on canvas painting of Venice with the original gold leafed frame. The image represents the Castello neighborhood in Venice.
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Early 1900s Italian Antique Canvas Paintings

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Gold Leaf

20th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Man Portrait Signed and Dated Painting, 1908
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Great Italian painting dated 1908. Artwork oil on canvas, on the first canvas, depicting a portrait of a gentleman with newspaper of excellent pictorial quality. Painting of exceptional size adorned with a pleasantly carved and gilded coeval frame of beautiful decoration. Artwork of strong visual impact signed and dated in the lower left corner Agazzi R. 1908 (see photo) referable to the painter Rinaldo Agazzi...
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Early 1900s Italian Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Italian post-impressionist Oil on Canvas Portrait of Little Girl with Accordion
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Beautiful antique Italian oil painting on canvas 1900s. Portrait of a little girl with accordion. Unsigned work attributed to important Italian artist Angelo Vernazza (Genoa Sampierd...
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Early 1900s Italian Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Pedro Ribera Spanish Artist, Oil on Canvas, Portrait of a Girl
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Pedro Ribera (1867-1949) Spanish artist. Oil on canvas. Portrait of a girl. Signed and dated 1904. Measures 62 x 51 cm. The frame is 10 cm. wide. A painting of Pedro Ribera was s...
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Early 1900s Spanish Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Eugenio Zampighi 'Italian, 1859-1944' 19th/20th C. Oil on Canvas "Joyous Family"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Eugenio Zampighi (Italian, 1859-1944) A fine and charming Italian 19th/20th century oil on canvas Titled "A Joyous Family" depicting an interior scene of a seated joyous mother with her smiling toddler child on her lap, as her young daughter amuses them while holding a small kitten picked-up from the cat...
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Early 1900s Italian Country Antique Canvas Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Giltwood

Antique Framed Impressionist Oil on Canvas by Joseph Lagasse
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique framed impressionist oil painting on canvas by Joseph Lagasse (1878-1962) is another splendid work by the artist in ...
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Early 1900s Belgian Expressionist Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Oil Painting on Canvas by Xavier Wurth
Located in Dallas, TX
Oil painting on canvas by Xavier Wurth (1869-1933) is a splendid panoramic landscape by the artist who was beloved in his native region of Liege. This par...
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Early 1900s Belgian Belle Époque Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Large Oil Painting Ship at Sea Mountain View, 1900
Located in Berlin, DE
finely painted Oil on canvas Shipping scene with beautiful landscape painting.
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Early 1900s Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Original European Impressionist Oil Painting, circa 1900-1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Starting in 1874, a dedicated group of artists, referred to as; “The Anonymous Society of Painters Sculptors”, etc. organized their own exhibition in Paris and thus began the movement called, Impressionism. Members included; Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Camille Pissarro and others. The canvas itself measures exactly one meter high, which tells us, that this is a European Impressionist...
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Early 1900s French Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

20th Century Renaissance Painting Oil on Canvas Sano di Pietro, 1900s
Located in Roma, RM
Copy of the painting of the early twentieth century, in excellent state of preservation, oil on canvas and frame coeval to the painting. Sano di Pietro, (1405-1481) St. Jerome and th...
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Early 1900s Italian Renaissance Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Ernest Yarrow-Jones (British , b. 1872 - d. 1951) "Le Crepuscule" painting.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Le Crepuscule"- Depicting an abstract face of an owl - Oil on Canvas , signed lower left - Unframed     
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Early 1900s Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Karl Jensen View from a Thatched Farmhouse, Signed and Dated K. J. 1910
By Karl Emil Jensen
Located in Virum, DK
Karl Jensen: View from a thatched farmhouse. Signed and dated K. J. 1910. Oil on canvas. The Old Homested was painted by Karl Jensen who was born in De...
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Early 1900s Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

Impressionist Painting by Auguste Boulard "Vase De Fleurs", circa 1900
By Auguste Boulard
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A charming French impressionist painting by Auguste Boulard Jr (1852-1927) Oil on linen canvas in a giltwood frame titled "Vase De Fleues" The painting with orange and white floral bouquet in a cup and saucer with a dark hued background in umber, sage. The original frame with original gilt with wear with a linen filler around that painting. Measures: 16.5 inches wide, 14.5 inches tall framed...
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Early 1900s French Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Oil on Canvas "Dachshund Puppies at Play" by Simon Ludvig Ditlev Simonsen
By Simon Simonsen
Located in Stamford, CT
Oil on canvas "Dackelwelpen Biem Spiel" (Dachshund Puppies at Play) by Simon Ludvig Ditlev Simonsen (Danish, 1841-1928) Education: Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Size (Unframed) 6...
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Early 1900s Danish Prairie School Antique Canvas Paintings

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Giltwood, Canvas

Impressive Large Original French Ship Painting by Rene Charles Louis Debraux
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Bought in Lyon, France, this significant and large sized impressionist painting is by listed French artist René Charles Louis Debraux (1868-1938). Depicting a seaside town in France,...
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Early 1900s French Antique Canvas Paintings

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Paint, Canvas

Large Orientalist Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large, early 20th century orientalist painting. Oil on canvas. No trace of signature.
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Early 1900s French Aesthetic Movement Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

Ornately Giltwood Framed Floral Painting by Charles Franzini D’issoncourt
Located in Miami, FL
Original oil on canvas painting by the very talented French artist Charles Henri Franzini d’Issoncourt who won an award in Paris at the Universal Exposition in 1900 for his artwork. ...
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Early 1900s French Baroque Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Giltwood

Striking Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Young Lady
Located in Søborg, DK
Striking antique oil on canvas portrait of a young lady. The artist skillfully captured this young lady’s beauty whilst at the same time also her striking pose. Signed H.P. On th...
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Early 1900s German Victorian Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas

French Still Life Floral Painting by Charles Franzini d’Issoncourt
Located in Miami, FL
This captivating 19th-century still life oil painting by the award-winning French artist Charles Henri Franzini d'Issoncourt is a testament to his artistic talent. Recognized at the ...
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Early 1900s French Baroque Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Giltwood

Karl Viktor Mayr, Austrian Oil on Canvas "An Exotic Nude Girl"
By Karl Viktor Mayr
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Karl Viktor Mayr (Austrian, 1882-1974) a very fine Austrian oil on canvas "An Exotic Nude Girl" depicting a young semi-nude woman, revealing her breast...
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Early 1900s Austrian Folk Art Antique Canvas Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

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