European Paintings

A set of six of exceptional quality 18th century hand-colored engravings Buchoz, Pierre Joseph. Collection précieuse et enluminée des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, q...

A magnificent Welsh 18th century oil on canvas painting by Richard Wilson. The painting is framed within a striking and richly carved giltwood border with fine foliate designs and in...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely original 17th century Dutch, oil on canvas painting of a noble gentleman. The condition of the oil is very good, the frame is distr...

Late 18th - early 19th century River Landscape Oil on canvas, 64 x 96 cm - with frame 77 x 10 cm The canvas in question is an example of Vedutist painting at the turn of the 18th an...

Original oilpainting on woodplate by the famous artist Christian Wilhelm Dietrich (Dietricy). Born in Weimar 1712, died in Dresden 1784. In ...

Antique Flemish painting from the 18th century. Framework Oil on panel depicting a bucolic landscape with a shepherd, dog and goats of good pictorial quality. Painting of contained s...

Annunciazione con angeli, scuola romana del XVII secolo, olio su carta applicata su tela, misure 78x58.5 cm. Questo dipinto ad olio è stato realizzato su una carta, che, guardando in...

This six panel Italian screen is from the Baroque period, circa 1700. The four central panels have been affixed to a foldable frame, while the two outer panels are detached. When all...

Exceptional mid 17th century portrait of a very beautiful and elegant lady - wearing dress and jewels typical of the period - sadly the sitter is unknown - a superb quality painting...

18th century stunning extra large oil on Canvas housed in it's original frame by Giovanni Domenico Brugieri (1678–1744). Condition is perfect and has not been restored. Please see i...

Beautiful Painting depicting portrait of Nobleman/Gentleman with wig. Painting of remarkable pictorial quality and scenic impact. The depiction of the man is rich in detail and pe...

Beautiful 17th century Tooled Leather Oil Painting mounted on board and our best hypothesis is that it is probably Spanish, with a second guess possibly being Dutch. What we do know from a local expert, is that the Putti or Cherub is close to 400-years old. The correct word I believe is actually Putto which is singular for Putti and depicts a chubby small child, typically male. The Putti painting...

Two oils on canvas, 18th century school, representing 2 of the miracles of Saint Vincent Ferrier: the healing of an injured person and the child stricke...

Antique French painting from 18th century. Oil painting on canvas, depicting landscape with ruins and characters of good pictorial quality. Wood and plaster frame of the 20th century...

Attributed to the great William Marlow (British, 1740-1813). The ink, graphite and watercolor painting is likely a sketch for a larger work produced by Marlow or someone in his studi...

Oil on canvas, (attribuito Giacinto Brandi , Roma 1621 – 19 January 1691 ) L'educazione di Bacco ADDITIONAL PHOTOS, INFORMATION OF THE LOT AND QUOTE FOR SHIPPING COST CAN BE REQUEST ...

This wonderful antique oil on wood painting is masterfully painted on wood and most likely was a part of a wood room paneling (unknown ).

Large oil painting on canvas, Rape of Europe, 18th century, more modern frame. Dimensions: 190x130cm. Good condition - used with small signs of aging & blemishes ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AND INFORMATION CAN BE REQUESTED BY EMAIL. WE SHIP WORLDWIDE, WRITE US AN EMAIL FOR A PRECISE ESTIMATE OF THE TRANSPORT COSTS. Grande dipinto olio su tela, Ratto d'Europa, XVIII secolo, cornice più moderna. Dimensioni:190x130cm. Buone condizioni - usato, con piccoli segni dell'età e macchie. Grande Peinture à l'Huile, Ratto d'Europa, 190cm, 18ème siècle. Gran Óleo, Ratto d'Europa, 190cm, siglo XVIII...

Oval portrait Miniature on tortoiseshell of a noblewoman, probably Spanish, 17th-early 18th century. In original beautiful bronze moulded frame. Image size: 3 3/4" H x 3" W.

18th century Spanish Colonial School, Cuzco: Angel, oil on tin. Framed, in good condition. Rich colors of red, blue and white. Inscribed in upp...

La Sacra Familia 18th Century Title: La Sacra Familia Dolci, School of Florence 92 x 118 cm A truly stunning 18th Century Italian Oil on canvas of the sacred family. Super high ...

An English oil on canvas hunting dog painting from the late 18th century in carved giltwood frame. Elevate your art collection with this captivating English oil on canvas painting from the late 18th century. Depicting a scene of two hunting dogs gracefully running through the rolling hills, this artwork exudes a sense of energy and movement. The overcast sky adds a touch of drama, enhancing the overall atmosphere of the painting. Presented in a carved giltwood frame, this piece showcases a horizontal format that perfectly complements the composition. The carved details of the frame further enhance the visual appeal of the artwork, adding an element of elegance and sophistication. The painting is wired in the back, making it conveniently ready to be hung in your preferred space. Whether displayed in a living room, study, or gallery, this English hunting dog...

An extraordinary oil on cardboard, French school, 18th century. "Naval battle", signed. With a naive style, shows a naval battle, possibly the battle of Trafalgar, in a beautiful ra...

Late 18th-early 19th century charming oil on canvas, naïve Venice scene.

A very fine Italian 18th century oil on canvas "Madonna and Child" after Giovanni Lanfranco (Italian, 1582-1647). The young Virgin Mary attending to...

Fine 17th Century Portrait of a woman in blue with pearls, French School, appears to be unsigned, 30.5” H. x 24.5” W, framed 39.5 x 33”.

Nice pastel portrait representing a young woman. Wonderful weathered wooden frame and its old glass, France, 18th century. Weathered, small losses.

Antique Italian painting from the second half of the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a portrait of a young girl, Princess with parrot, of good pictorial quality. Painti...

This painting comes from Polland and is over 200 years old. Oil on canvas with little restorations.: let's not forget that there were two world wars in Europe. A lovely Madonna and ...

Magnificent Italian 17th century Portrait of Virgin Mary measures 52 x 68 cm without the frame. The colors are stunning and the paintin...

A late 18th century French painting depicting a romantic couple in a pastoral setting. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Original gilded wood frame. Small repair to canvas in the upper left c...

PORTRAIT OF D. MARIA BÁRBARA DE BRAGANÇA (1711-1758), QUEEN OF SPAIN Circle of Louis-Michel van Loo (1707-1771) Oil on canvas Her Royal Highness, the Infanta Maria Barbara of Braganza (1711-1758) was the first-born child of King John V of Portugal (1689-1750) and his queen consort Maria Anna of Austria (1683-1754). Born in December 1711, she had the Convent Palace of Mafra built in her honour following a vow made by her royal father. Her status as Princess of Brazil, inherent to 18th century Portuguese presumptive heirs, would however be superseded once the queen gave birth to two male princes, D. Pedro (1712-1714) and D. José (1714-1777), preventing her from ascending to the throne. Daughter of one of the most illustrious monarchs of his time, Maria Barbara was carefully educated to become a fond admirer of the arts, and of music in particular, having had the Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) as her music teacher. On the 10th January 1723 the young princess was betrothed to the Infante Ferdinand of Spain (1713-1759), eldest son of King Philip V (1683-1746). Six years later, on the 19th January, she entered her new country in a carefully choreographed ceremony that became known to history as the “Exchange of the Princesses”. This unique event took place on a specially built Bridge-Palace, a wooden, luxuriously decorated structure that included various modules and rooms, on both banks of the river Caia, the natural border between the town of Elvas in Portugal and of Badajoz in Spain. Simultaneously, on the same day that the Portuguese Infanta crossed the border to marry the Spanish Crown Prince, her new sister in law, the Infanta Mariana Victoria of Bourbon (1718-1781), her husband’s sister, crossed the same bridge in the opposite direction to marry Prince D. José, the Portuguese heir to the throne. Once married, Maria Barbara would spend 17 years as Princess of Asturias, only becoming Queen of Spain at her husband’s accession following the death of Philip V in 1746. She is portrayed in the 1743 painting by Louis-Michel van Loo (1707-1771) now in the Prado Museum, in which Philip V had himself represented with all his close family. The new Queen would take an important role at court eventually becoming the liaison between her husband and the King of Portugal, particularly throughout the negotiations for the Treaty of Madrid (1746-1750). Maintaining her interest in music, she patronized the Italian castrato singer Farinelli (1705-1782) while remaining close to her old master Scarlatti, having herself composed some sonatas for a large orchestra. She would also commission and fund the building of the Royal Salesians Monastery complex in central Madrid, where both her and Ferdinand VI are buried. The portrait we are presenting for sale shows the Queen in half-length, turning left at three quarters. She is wearing a blue low-cut dress embroidered with flowers and foliage, over a lace cuffed white blouse, and an ermine cloak pined on the left-hand side by a diamond broach. The powdered hair style is held sideways by a seven diamond and black plume headdress and topped by a small gold and pearl crown. The right arm rests on a cushion while the left hand, at chest height, holds a miniature male portrait. The Infanta’s features are analogous to the 1725 portrait by the painter Domenico Duprà (1689-1770), also in the Prado Museum collection. Further similarities can be found in another portrait by Louis-Michel van Loo, in which a seven diamond and black plume headdress is also present. In this work, the cushion supporting Maria Barbara’s right arm has also some obvious similarities to our painting. The same diamond headdress reappears in Van Loo’s above-mentioned portrait of Philip V’s family dated from 1743. It is nevertheless in Lisbon’s Ajuda National Palace that it is possible to find an almost identical depiction of the Infanta holding a miniature portrait of her husband. In it, the future Ferdinand VI is portrayed facing right at three quarters and wearing a curly wig, suit of armour, the golden fleece insignia and a blue band, in a composition that closely resembles an 18th century Spanish school painting that appeared in the art market in January 2016. Another detail common to various portraits of the Portuguese Infanta and Queen of Spain is the small gold and pearl crown on her head. In another Van Loo painting, also from the Prado Museum, in which Maria Barbara is portrayed as Queen, this crown is represented together with a headdress similar to the one previously described. Another two paintings by the same artist, at the Royal Academy of Saint Ferdinand, include the same ornament. We must also refer the paintings by the artist Jean Ranc (1674-1735). In one, dating from 1729 (Prado Museum), the Infanta is depicted outdoors holding a flower bouquet and wearing a yellow silk dress with red cloak, and a set of diamond and ruby jewellery that includes a headdress similar to the one present in our portrait. Another work by the same artist, belonging to the Complutence University of Madrid, depicts the Infanta sumptuously dressed in identical colours to our painting and wearing an elaborate headdress and diadem. These portraits, beyond their iconographical importance as contemporary records of the Infanta and Queen Maria Barbara, are also illustrative of 18th century fashion for jewelled head dressing. Often, flowers were combined with joyful adornments, composing almost theatrical displays that would reinforce the ostentatious nature of the image. The ornamental flowers and the chromatic character of the jewels would complement the luxury of the colourful dresses in blue, crimson, green or other silk shades, in compositions whose sole purpose was to highlight a royal sitter’s wealth and power, becoming an essential statement accessory within the strict court protocols and codes of conduct. Circle of Louis-Michel van Loo (1707-1771) Slowly but steadily, the resolute, tranquil and dignified attitude of Renaissance and Baroque portraiture becomes artificial and presumptuous. Mid 18th century society favours elusive expression and psychological deepness, albeit limited to the face, that, with emphasis on detail, on the rich colour palette and on changing costumes and landscapes, associated to the courtliness of gestures, creates a strongly artificial environment while maintaining a highly poetic intrinsic character. Louis-Michel van Loo followed a dynasty of famous Dutch origin artists that had settled in France. Initially taught by his father, Jean-Baptiste von Loo (1684-1745), the younger van Loo studied in Turin and Rome and frequented the Paris Academy. In Rome he worked with his uncle Charles-André van Loo (1705-1765) and become a painter for the Turin Court. In 1737 he arrived in Spain being summoned by Philip V to succeed Jean Ranc as painter of the king’s chamber. In Madrid, his work covers the numerous Court commissions and the Royal Saint Ferdinand Fine Arts Academy, of which he was a founding member and director for the Painting department in 1752. Is production at court consisted essentially of numerous portrait paintings, often Royal gifts...

18th century continental eglomise painting of St John the Baptist preaching. Eglomise is a method of reverse painting on glass. In a go...

Antique Italian painting from the second half of the 17th century. Oil on canvas artwork of the Lombard School, of exceptional quality, depicting a peasant woman with eggs. Painting ...

European workshop XVII century Portrait of Lars Gathenhielm (1689-1718) Oil on canvas Unsigned Lars Gathenhielm (1689–1718), was a Swedish sea captain, commander, shipowne...

Venetian school, early 16th century Oil on panel, 49 x 56 cm. Framed (restorations) These two panel paintings, portraying John the Baptist a...

ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN SMITH OF CHICHESTER England, 1717-1764 "The Second Premium Landscape, a copy" oil on canvas unsigned, attributed posthumously verso in pitch "jno Smith of Chich...

An exceptional, museum quality very large 18th century Greek icon of the Pentecost. Egg tempera and gold leaf on wood, primed with gesso. Attributed to Mount Athos...

Antique 17th century French Baroque Still Life with Fish. Net size: 35 x 62 cm Size with frame: 53.5 x 79.5 cm Restaured.

David Kleyne (1753- 1805) Dutch painter, oil painting seascape with ships David Kleyne (1753- 1805), Dutch painter, draftsman, pen artist, etcher. A beau...

This magnificent Madonna and Child belongs to an Itlalian (Roman) school of painting and could be a masterpiece of a Carlo Maratta /Maratti (1625-1713) school. Maratta's style of Bar...

The story of the Magi comes from the Gospel of Matthew, which indicates that the Magi from the East, having followed a star, came to Bethlehem to adore the newborn King of the Jews, and offered him gold, myrrh and incense. In the West, the number of wise men, after many variations, was established at three. Symbols were quickly associated with them, and they ended up, in the 15th century, personifying the three continents known in the Middle Ages (Asia, Africa, Europe) after having represented, from the 12th century, the three ages...

Oriental style portrait by Giuseppe Angeli (attr.) - XVIII century This Oriental-style portrait of a man was attributed to the Italian Giuseppe Angeli (Venezia, 1709 – Venezia, 1798...

A wonderfully painted oil on canvas by George Morland depicting a moment of life in a cottage on a snowy winter day. Signed lower right. George Morland (26 June 1763 – 29 October 1804) was an English painter. His early work was influenced by Francis Wheatley, but after the 1790s he came into his own style. His best compositions focus on rustic scenes: farms and hunting; smugglers and gypsies; and rich, textured landscapes informed by Dutch Golden Age painting...

Beautiful Flemish painting painted in oil on panel depicting a gentleman in elegant clothes. Within a molded and gilded wooden frame. MEASUREMENTS: overall 78x63 cm, work 63x49 cm

Death of Socrates, oil on canvas, Unsigned, 18th century possibly Italy.

Antique painting, Flemish, flowers, Banks after Van Huysum Oil painting on canvas, from the 18th century, depicting a refined floral composition, made by a follower of Van Huysum, B...

Giovanni Domenico Molinari (Caresana, 1721 - Turin, 1793) Lying Female figure Oil on canvas, cm 46 x. 31 - With frame, cm 56 x 42 The present painting is connected by style and treated subject, in this case a young girl lying in an idyllic landscape, to the production of small pictures of pastoral subject of the Piedmontese painter Giovanni Domenico Molinari (Caresana, 1721 - Turin, 1793). Molinare was born in Caresana (Vercelli) on 19 July 1721 but after losing both his parents he moved to Turin. Here he became, from 1736, a pupil of the Academy of Drawing founded by the painter Claudio Francesco Beaumont (Turin, 4 July 1694 - Turin, 21 June 1766) where he remained as a pensioner until December 1755. Molinari was immediately engaged in the translation of the master’s sketches on cardboard used for the Regia manufacture of tapestries. His early success on the Turin art scene is confirmed by the fact that he joined the Compagnia di San Luca in 1756. In 1751 he married Margherita Peiroleri, whose brothers Pietro (engraver) and Nicolò (painter) also attended the school. Remained widower count two other marriages first with Lucrezia Elisabetta Burzio and then in 1770 with Domenica Maria Ferrero. On the death of the master in 1766 Molinari, considered by his contemporaries to be the most faithful interpreter of the master and for his elegant and Arcadian style, which clearly interprets the aesthetic taste of the court, was called to finish the works that remained unfinished, such as the altarpiece for the church of Santa Maria della Scala in Moncalieri depicting the Assumption venerated by Blessed Bernard of Baden and Saint Anthony. Molinari was also well praised by critics and Abbot Lanzi highlighted the quality of the production of historical and mythological subject for the rigorous post-marattesco classicism. In Turin he worked for Vittorio Amedeo III of Savoy as a portrait painter, executing for him eleven canvases (between 1774 and 1775), but, since 1745, he also supplied tapestry cartoons to the local Fabbrica, of which, in 1766, he became director. The production of paintings of sacred subjects is also lively, especially used in the decoration of the churches of the capital as the Assumption for the Hotel of Virtue and San Pietro Regalado and San Benedetto il Moro for Santa Maria degli Angeli ( Torino) He also painted tempera and oil cartoons for the same church, on the occasion of the beatification of Pacifico da San Severino (1787) and, for that of San Francesco di Paola, when Gaspare de Bono...

Exquisite antique Arcadia Scene with Shepherds, by flemmish painter Jan Frans Beschey (Antwerp, 1717-1786). Signed bottom left: J. F. Beschey In antique carved wood frame. Net siz...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a religious subject, The sacrifice, of good pictorial quality. Painting of good size and pleasant furn...

This antique stunning portrait of Madonna in Sorrow came out from a Palazzo in Florence and an absolute eye catcher. The colors and details are incredible and very typical for an Ita...

Large oil painting on canvas depicting the Madonna with Child and San Giovannino within a carved and gilded wooden frame. The subject is particular as it leaves the classic canons of the representation of Maternity by presenting a Madonna without a halo. Attributable to the School of Giovanni Battista Salvi...

Delightful 18th century Roman school representing a view of Rome fixing the "ponte Rotto". Painted in an architectural style of the best craftsmanship, this charming animated composi...

Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of 16th to 17th century, miniature oil paintings which are after the originals by James Northcote (1480-1517) t...

Beautiful oil painting on canvas depicting a winged putto with a tree background, grape branches and fruit. Within a molded frame in gilded wood, typical manufacture attributable to...

Oil painting on canvas depicting Christ and the Madonna consoling a dying man, Emilian school, 17th century.

Oil on canvas depicting the mythological scene of Bezzebea bathing. Gorgeous woman wife of one of King David's army commanders, the latter, seeing her at the bath, fell madly in love...

Fine 18th century portrait of a lady, unsigned, circa 1750, Sweden. (reframed, oil on canvas) According to old frame painted by Johan Horner (...