Pair of English 18th Century Oil on Canvas Portraits of an Aristocratic Couple

An elegant pair of Early 19th Century portraits of your couple. The pair in appropriate newer gilt wood frames with oval liner. The paintings have been properly cleaned, re-stretch...

Oil on canvas, portrait of an aristocratic lady. The woman is sitting in a red armchair with a quiet gaze wearing embroidered trim dress with white lace...

Beautifully painted Dutch painting with a later giltwood frame. The painting showing people, horses and a dog with a barn interior surrounding. The frame is later but about 100 years...

A very nice portrait of a gentleman in a rosewood frame. On paper, under glass with early frame. 13 inches high, 11.5 inhces wide.

19th c. English School oil on canvas, untitled, depicts a street scene with mother and child standing in front of what appears to be Butcher Shop, with the ocean in the background, ...

English oil on canvases of a village scene with ruins and river. The painting has been re-scratched and a recent gilt wood frame. England, circa 1850, 11 inches wide, 8.5 inches tall framed...

English oil on canvas painting of 18th century gentleman holding a portrait of lady within a gilt molded frame (possibly 18th cent).     

An 18th century French oil painting on canvas, mounted on board, of an aristocratic woman in the original period frame. Cleaned and c...

A fine half length portrait of a powder wigged 18th century French aristocratic gentleman simply dressed in a brown waistcoat over an embroidered buttoned vest in which he has placed...

18th century portrait of a gentleman oil on canvas.  

A pair of original oil paintings on canvas depicting a handsome young aristocratic couple of the Directoire, early Empire period. They are each pictured from the waist up, she holdin...

Antonio Bertoli (active between 1829 - 1842) Portraits of women (2) Oil on canvas, 41.5 x 31 cm With frame 52 x 42.5 cm Signed below A. Bertoli The two portraits examined here are by the hand of the artist Antonio Bertoli, a painter active in Florence between 1829 - 1842. He trained at the Florentine Academy, where in 1832 he obtained the prize for the nude in drawing. At the academic exhibitions of the following years he exhibited mainly portraits, including a representation of Nicolò Macchiavelli executed in 1837. An eclectic artist, he experimented with different genres: for the Villa Puccini di Scornio in Pistoia, in 1838, he was commissioned to create a history picture, The death of Francesco Ferrucci (Pistoia, Civic Museum), inspired by an episode of the novel Siege of Florence by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi. Instead, two religious paintings date back to the 1840s: Christ chasing the merchants from the Temple and a Virgin Mary, In the portraits analyzed Bertoli depicts two half-length women taken from a foreshortening and a frontal in close pose, characterized by very similar Mediterranean features. In the first painting the woman, taken from the front, looks directly at the viewer. The wavy hair is decorated with a colorful violet and is partially covered by a white veil...