Wood Paintings

Abstract oil painting on canvas by Pat States titled "Matthew 13:24-49" Offered for sale is an unframed, oil painting on canvas by Pat States (American, 20th c.) titled "Matthew 1...

Biedermeier portrait of a couple, circa 1830-1850. Two elaborately restored portraits painted on a new wedge frame. Oil on canvas with gold frame...

Charismatic 19th Century Oil on Canvas Dog Portrait, Offering Paw. Some Blooming, predominantly to the ears and the left side of the do...

An 18th century painting of a gallant scene in a park. Attributed with seal of painter's studio to Philippe Mercier (1689 to 1760) from the circle of the french painter Nicolas Lancret, a follower of the École of Antoine Watteau. Oil on canvas, in a fine carved giltwood frame. Frame: Width: 16,53 in (42 cm) Depth: 14,56 in (37 cm) Canvas: Width: 12,99 in (33 cm) Depth: 10,62 in (27 cm) Philippe Mercier (Berlin 1689 – London 1760) born in Berlin and studied at the Berlin Akademie with Antoine Pesne before traveling to Italy and France. By the time he arrived in London in 1716, had considerable familiarity with the work of contemporary French painters, particularly Watteau and his sophisticated style. Soon won Watteau patronage in court circles. In 1726 painted two important group portraits that can be seen as an introduction to English art - Baron Schultz and his friends (1725, Tate Gallery, London) and Viscount Tyrconnel with his family (1725-6, private collection). In 1729, Mercier was appointed Chief Painter to Frederick, Prince of Wales, and, a year later, keeper of his library, but they seem to have fallen away in the latter half of the 1730s, when he retired to the country, where painted several portraits for the Samwell family of Upton, Northants, and Hesilriges of Noseley, Warwicks. In 1739 Mercier moved to York, where he built up a considerable portrait practice among the leading families in the county. It was at this time that he made his greatest contribution to British painting, introducing and developing the 'extravagant image', a genre derived from Chardin as well as Watteau and 17th-century Dutch genre painting. Described by George Vertue as "bit of some conversational figures as large as life: vain plaisant Fantasies and habits: mixed modes very well done – and very approved", such works were frequently recorded and clearly enjoyed considerable success. Painted in the second half of the 1730s, the present work, An Allegory of Taste, is a fine example of this way of painting and its Rococo sensibility reveals the artist's affinities with contemporary French art...

18th century portrait of a gentleman oil on canvas.  

This beautiful lady was painted in the mid 18th Century, possibly in London. In the mid 18th Century it was fashionable for elegant ladies to be painted in simple gowns without any j...

Pair of extraordinary reverse paintings on glass of St. Mark and St. John. St. Mark has a lion behind him and St. John has a crow to his right holding a feather. Any reverse painti...

The gentleman depicted in this antique oil painting has a genteel aura about him. And not just the elegant thin-rimmed spectacles, but also the books in the background identify him as a legal expert. The Burrow’s Reports (1766–1782), for example, are a classic. With his reports, the knighted legal reporter Sir James Burrow established what a law report...

depicting a farmer tending to two cows pulling a plow Please go to www.robuck.co to see our complete inventory.

Beautifully painted study of a pair of Flamingos against a tropical setting, possibly the American everglades or Florida Keys, painted on board, signed and dated to the right corner ...

Large portrait of a standing lady of quality, richly dressed in a dress with lace Oil on canvas from the 18th century, on a modern stretcher, old restorations, re-canvased (formerly...

Oil on canvas, 19th century, Napoleon III period. Oil on canvas, beautiful 19th century painting representing an interior scene of a mother with her daughters, Napoleon III period, ...