1870s Paintings

American oil on canvas of landscape depicting mountains, meadows, and a stream in the original mounted foliage gilt frame. Late 19th Century.

A lovely and bucolic depiction of the American wilderness in 1876, only partly tamed by American settlers, this oil painting depicts a shallow, roc...

An oil on canvas in antique gilt wood frame by Alexander Helwig Wyant. This painting has been re-stretched with a laminated back for stability. Signed on the lower right. Alexander Helwig Wyant (January 11, 1836 – November 29, 1892) was an American landscape painter. His early works belonged to the Hudson River School, with its direct pastoral narrative. Raised in Defiance, Ohio, Alexander H. Wyant worked during his teens as a sign painter in nearby Port Washington...

A romantic gouache water color of a beautiful young woman poised with a jug at her hip and shawl by Italian 19th century painter Arturo Faldi (1956-1911). Custom blue and gilt frame....

Scottish artist James Docharty (1829-1878) 1874 oil on canvas painting with a beautiful ornate original gold frame. Actual picture size: 24 inches wide x 36.25 inches long x 1 inch d...

Joyful Youth, black and white monochromatic scene of Kids on cart pulled by donkey - Framed dimensions: 29 in x 25 in.

Frans Verhas 'Devant le miroir` Frans Verhas (1827 Dendermonde - 1897 Schaerbeck) "Devant le miroir" Oil on panel, original frame Dimensions: Frame: 68.5 x 108 cm Plate: 36,8 x...

Viennese enamel painting of a tavern scene, circa 1875.

Stunning antique oil painting by renowned American artist Henry Collins Bispham, featuring a dog and a rooster. Signed on the bottom " H.C. Bispham 1871 ...

James David Smillie (January 16, 1833 – September 14, 1909), American artist, was born in New York City. His father, James Smillie (1807–1885), a Scot...

Pair Of Oil Portraits From The 19th Century Italy XIX Eme Pair of oil portraits from 1879 signed: Armani. Italy 19th century. Oil on canvas. Very good general condition. Measurements...

This exceptional painting by Charles Euphraise Kuwasseg is a true masterpiece. The artist's use of oil on canvas creates a unique texture and depth that enhances the beauty of the pi...

Portrait of Friel, Dog of the Dukes of Osuna, by Marcos Hiràldez Di Acosta, 1879 Splendid large signed painting made by Marcos Hiráldez De Aco...

Artist: Unknown. Painting: Rural Hilly Landscape with Lake and Railroad. Period: XIX century. Style: American School, Primitivism. Medium: Oil on canvas, framed. Dimensions: H: ...

Miss Ethel Mortlock an oil on canvas called 'Town' of Marie Adelaide Brassey (aged 3) who became Marchioness of Willingdon (see below) and is buried in the Nave at Westminster Abbey, signed and dated 1878. Picture 60 x 45 cm Ethel Mortlock (1865-1928) an extraordinary woman and sought after portrait painter, she painted this aged 16!. Born in Cambridge and lived in London. She exhibited at The Royal Academy between years 1878-1893 no less than 29 paintings also at the Grosvenor Galleries. Many of Paintings in museums (See History below and her sitters). Marie Adelaide Brassey - Marie Adelaide Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon, GBE, CI DStJ (née Brassey; 24 March 1875 – 30 January 1960) was a daughter of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey. On 20 July 1892, she married Freeman Thomas , 1st Marquess of Willingdon (12 September 1866 – 12 August 1941), the future Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India. She became : Invested as an Imperial Order of the Crown of India (C.I.) in 1917, Decorated with the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal , Invested as a Dame of Justice, Venerable Order of St John (D.J.St. J.),Decorated with the Order of Mercy. Invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in December 1917. Invested as a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1924 Birthday Honours. Marie Canyon on the Cowichan River, Vancouver Island is named for her, commemorating a 1930 canoe trip from Cowichan Lake down that river to the city of Duncan, British Columbia. The Lady Willingdon Hospitol in Lahore, Pakistan is named after her .The Lady Willingdon Hospital in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India, is named after her. About Ethel Mortlock : Her clientèle of sitters included members of the aristocracy and European nobility and included, by her account, the Shah of Persia (1900) and the ‘Chinese Ambassador’, Li Hung Chang (who was actually the Chinese Viceroy), à propos which sitting the Sketch published an illustrated interview with Ethel in August 1896. Ethel was thought pretty grand by the American papers who reported that Chang had to go to her studio for sittings in 1896 rather than she wait upon him. He brought her a roll of silk and a white jade palette as presents. Li Hung Chang was a pretty big cheese; his wife had two thousand servants waiting on her. The Chatham, NY, Courier reported that Ethel had painted every Ambassador who had come to London. These last clients, allegedly by failing to pay the £1000 charged for their portraits, landed Ethel in trouble. They were, of course, conveniently unavailable to the bankruptcy commissioners so this sob-story could not be checked. Strapped for cash she was caught out when the executors of a racehorse owner called Edward Overall Bleakley found, in his effects, IOUs for hundreds of pounds (Bleakley had bequeathed his own portrait by Ethel to Manchester Infirmary [Daily News, 1.8.98]). Ethel went to court, claiming that these were offset by painting commissions, but the court found against her and she was told to pay up. Now saddled with legal costs, she was caught again when Captain Noel Hoare, her man of business, died and it was found that he had mortgaged to Hoare’s Bank, without her knowledge (she said), three properties in Sloane Street that she had been building. She tried to buy back one of these but lost a £500 deposit when she could not complete, making a bad situation rather worse. Bleakley’s executors now broke her and her examination in bankruptcy in 1901 can be read in the PRO as above. Her troubles were attributed to extravagance and betting - the Bleakley IOUs were assumed to be in fact gambling debts and the creditors now included all sorts of tradesmen and the Hotel Cecil where Ethel was then living, presumably in some style. She did not help herself by claiming an income of £250 p.a. when individual commissions were on her own account at the £1000 mark as above, meaning that the Chinese and Persian portraits alone would have occupied her last eight years and she would have obtained these prestigious commissions at the age of 18 (she gave her age as 26). Faced by the raised eyebrows of her superiors in mental arithmetic Ethel then upped her declared usual income to a still rather modest £800. She claimed to keep no sort of cash book, accounts, or any memoranda. Proceedings closed with Ethel declared bankrupt and a number of people out of pocket; the settlement was at 7/6 in the pound. Ethel went back to her easel. Some financial aspects seem never to have been sorted out; funds in Chancery relating to her, Hoare and Bleakley were still being recorded in the London Gazette every few years at least up to 1938; maybe the born in Cambridge; she appears never to have married. The 1881 census had not heard of her - she may have been in the United States at that time. However, standard works about Victorian painters, such as the Antique Collectors’ Club Dictionary of British Artists (Johnson %26 Greutzner, 1976) and their Dictionary of Victorian Painters (C Wood, 2nd edition, 1978) tell us that she was a pupil of Sir William Orchardson (who came to London in 1863) and that by 1904 she had exhibited 29 works at the Royal Academy. I have listed these, usually prestigious, sitters, who included Don Carlos...

Depicting a group of figures around a table with a loaf of bread, one mustachioed figure gesturing with his sword on the table and two children on his side playing with another sword...

The Harvesters Paul Albert Baudouin (French, 1844-1931) signed and dated P. Baudouin 1878 Literature: Benezit volume 1 p. 873 Provenance: Sothebys, New York, 2001 Born ...

Great Francois de Blois landscape painting of fisher folk along a beach with shacks beyond oil canvas. Dimensions: 18" H x 26" W x 3.5" D (The painting itself is 11.5" x...

A beautiful American oil on canvas school room scene with a teacher instructing students who are seated on benches and on the ground, with one student who appears to be wearing a dun...

illustration of episcopal palace and bridge access. Oil painting circa 1874 from Jacob Julius (1842-1929)  

A set of three pen, ink and water color sketches set in a single frame, HMS Euphrates, HMS Irresistible and a hulk, a view of Sunbury Lock and a Dre...