Mid-19th Century Paintings

Pair of anonymous watercolor landscapes rendered in sepia on paper. England, mid 19th century.

This is a religious oil painting of Jesus, which represents the Madonna with child. his oil painting has an original gold leaf frame realised in...

Oil on Panel Portrait of King Charles V of France, known as The Wise. King of France from 1364 to 1380. His reign during the Hundred Years War regained much ...

Still life artwork, oil painting on canvas, vegetable and fruit with apples, pears, nuts and celery, cauliflower, chard, leeks, onions, garlic, carrots, aubergine. Still life painting rich and colorful. It also has a beautiful and original golden frame from the 19th century. The oil on canvas painting dates back to the nineteenth Century. The antique frame and the oil painting are restored. This still life oil painting is not signed, however, this is a French painter active in the 19th century. Restored Painting Oil on Canvas Gilded Frame Ancient Painting...

Very large Sèvres porcelain plaque by Pastier after Jean-Baptiste Greuze French, 1853 Frame: height 71cm, width 89cm, depth 9cm Plaque: hei...

Landscape Signed by Édouard Righetti (1924-2001) Inscribed Verso on back Oil/gouache painting on artist paper, beautifully painted. Very good condition. Size: 16 x inches x 25...

Pictured is a large framed piece which portrays a collage of nude women at different angles with different expressions blended into one another. Measures: 31x41

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning Napoleon III oil painting portrait of a gentleman wearing a headscarf, made in Paris France circa 1860, stamped to the rear Moirinat ...

This group of three miniatures are of outstanding quality. He is clearly an important noble shown in richly embroidered clothes with a dagger and pearl necklace. He is probably Akbar...

Fascinating 19th century Italian painting depicting Saint Anthony the Abbot burying Saint Paul the hermit. Two lions miraculously help the saint by digging a grave in the foreground....

An original British School Regency Period watercolor study of two birds eggs, mounted in a Georgian Period Birdseye Maple frame – Circa 1835. These watercolors were largely painte...

Shipping policy No additional costs will be added to this order. Shipping costs will be totally covered by the seller (customs duties included). French school, 19th century Landsca...

These charming antique paintings were created in France, circa 1870. Set in the original gilt frames, both artworks are painted on board and depicts indoor scenes; a dinner setting w...

Hudson river school, oil on canvas. A Naïve work (19th century), mountain landscape with waterfall, oil on canvas, unsigned. The canvas with typical wear and surface dirt, light str...

An original British School Regency Period watercolor study of a Blackbird’s nest and eggs, mounted in a Georgian Period Maple frame – Dated 1863. These...

Beautiful and colorful mid century modern painting of a flower still life. The painting dates from circa 1960 and is framed in a simple black wooden frame. The painting is signed low...

A pair of French framed watercolors from the mid 19th century by Théodore Henri Mansson depicting Gothic churches in medieval settings. Created in France by talented and tireless tra...

Three Friends of Winter Nakajima Raisho (1796-1871) Late Edo period, circa 1850 Ink and gold leaf on paper. This is a double-sided Japanese Furosaki or tea-ceremony screen from the mid 19th century; bamboo and plum on the front, young pines the back. It by Nakajima Raisho, a master painter of the Maruyama school in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. In this work Raisho combines exquisite ink brushwork with large open spaces of brilliant gold-leaf to inspire the viewers imagination. Rather than naturalism, he is searching for the phycological impression of the motifs, resulting in abstraction and stylization. His simplification of the motifs the result of looking to capture the inner nature of the objects. This art motif is known as Sho Chiku Bai, or the Three Friends of Winter. Evergreen pine connotes steadfastness, bamboo suggests both strength and flexibility, while plum blossoms unfurling on snow-laden branches imply hardiness. Combined, this trio is emblematic of Japanese new year. Chinese literati were the first to group the three plants together due to their noble characteristics. Like these resilient plants flowering so beautifully in winter, it was expected of the scholar-gentleman to cultivate a strong character with which he would be able to show the same degree of perseverance and steadfastness even during times of adverse conditions. The screen would have been placed near the hearth of a room used for the Japanese tea ceremony, shielding the fire from draughts and also forming a stimulating and decorative backdrop behind the tea utensils. It would have been used in the Hatsugama, or first tea-ceremony of the new year. Nakajima Raisho (1796-1871) originally studied under Watanabe Nangaku before entering the school of Maruyama Ozui. He was the highest ranking Maruyama school painter at the end of the Edo period and was known as one of the ‘Four Heian Families’ along with Kishi...

This six foot hand painted canvas was crafted in France, circa 1870. The antique tapestry features an outdoor pastoral genre scene in the manner of David Teniers; the artwork, signed...

A beautiful watercolor of a church interior. Trimmed corners Inscribed Malta on the page of the album it came from Fabulous quality. Lovely bright colours. Not faded at all. By Edwin...

Raphael's Madonna della Sedia dates to 1513/14 and is kept in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. Originally it was part of the Uffizi collection, and has then been brough to Paris during...

Nicely painted with cows by a stream with building in landscape background. Signed and dated lower left.

Birds & Flowers of the seasons Pheasants & Plum in Snow Unframed painting. Ink, pigment and gofun on silk Kano Chikanobu 1819-1888 Signature...

beautifully painted with a young girl standing near a stream and holding a rope attached to a cow, a tree in the background under a partly clouded sky, clearly a case of bovine affec...

19th century pair of Putti oil paintings on wood, set of two walnut panels depicting woodland landscapes with cherubs playing of Italian origin. Thi...

A pair of French reverse glass paintings or cartoons, each of oval form, one depicting a man with a mass of hair or full wig using a brush to fence with a woman wielding a broom, the...

Fall farm scene painting by John Linnell, oil on board signed and dated in the lower right. The painting measures 26.5" x 28.5" including the fram...

The 19th Century Six-Panel Japanese folding screen "Byōbu" usually used in the most important Japanese house to stop wind and also to separate different space of the same big room de...

Decorate an office or a study with this elegant antique painting on canvas. Created in Holland circa 1860 and set in the original carved gil...

a painting is worth a thousand words, but this finely painted work depicts a village with steepled buildings with a fast moving cloudy sky at dusk with a solitary figure at the foreg...

Unpei Kameyama (1821-1899) A view of black (American) ships in the bay of Uraga Senminato, Miura district, June 1853 The Japanese text reads: ‘The seventy-six old men for the Kitamura-clan, drawn in 1897 on request of Yoshisada Kitamura, Himeji, the black ships which so much changed the fate of Japan, enjoy please this masterpiece by Harima Shonin Bisei who brings back memories of his young days.’ Watercolour on paper, laid down on cardboard, H. 44.5 x W. 115.5 cm Provenance: Collection of Yoshisada Kitamura, Himeji Yoshisada Kitamura (1838-1899), the son of a farmer in the village of Ogawa, in the district of Harimakashikihigashi, studied under Matajiro Otaka and got heavily involved in the anti-Shogunate movement. He was active in several military incidents against the Shogunate. After the Meiji restoration, he served the Meiji government as a local official in the Himeji domain. Kameyama Unpei was a Confucian scholar, a Shinto priest...

A charming antique Victorian landscape oil painting. This is English, it dates from around the 1860-1880 period. It is beautifully executed and depicts a countryside scene of shee...

19th century French school, architectural scene by Joseph Paul Martin (1799- after 1861). Oil on canvas signed and dated 1857. Our painting is set into a beautiful 19th century gold ...

American portrait miniature by Thomas Story Officer, Woman in a White Gown, Signed "T.S. Officer, Pinxt", The 1830s The American portrait miniature signed by Thomas Story Officer depicts a beautiful young woman, her red hair “Coeffure a la Chinoise”, sitting in a red chair confidently looking out towards the painter and us, the viewers.  She wears a white dress with a pin in the center of her chest.  Based on her style of dress and her hair, we believe this was painted while Officer was in Philadelphia. It is signed to the lower right "T.S. Officer, Pinxt" along at edge. The reverse has a small oval glass Dimensions: 3 inches high x 2 3/16 inches wide x 1/4 inch deep Reference: Thomas S. Officer: Miniature and Portrait Painter, Gardner Library,  Author: Merri Lou Schaumann. Born in Carlisle in 1810, this gifted artist trained in Philadelphia, traveled extensively and won awards for his paintings. In 1872, James Miller McKim wrote a series of reminiscences for the Carlisle Herald newspaper about the places and people of Carlisle in an earlier day. He wrote that “David Smith, a boot and shoemaker, had two sons… one of whom early developed a taste for art and finally devoted himself to miniature painting as a profession. He was a contemporary, and for a while, a rival of Mr. Thomas Officer, though I believe he never reached the celebrity attained by that gifted young artist. Mr. Officer, by the way, was one of the last miniature painters of any eminence produced by this country, the daguerreotype and photographer having come in to sweep away the entire profession.” Thomas Story Officer was born in Carlisle on August 15, 1810, to cabinetmaker John Officer and his second wife Margaret. He trained in Philadelphia with the well-known portrait painter Thomas Sully and began his career there in the 1830s. Officer left Philadelphia occasionally to paint portraits in Mobile, Alabama in 1837, in Richmond, Virginia in 1845, and in New York City from 1846-1849 where he became a member of the National Academy of Design. In 1842, Officer intended to travel to Mexico and needed a passport. He asked Attorney Charles B. Penrose, formerly of Carlisle, to write a letter of recommendation for him. In his letter to Fletcher Webster, Esq., Penrose wrote, “This will be handed to you by Thomas S. Officer, Esq., a friend of mine, and a native artist of Pennsylvania, who is a gentleman of great talents and respectability. Intending to visit Mexico, he wishes to procure passports at the State Department…”  Officer was issued a passport in July 1842. He was described as 30 years old, 5’ 11” with a “full and round forehead, bluish-gray eyes, an ordinary nose, medium mouth, ordinary chin, sallow complexion with an oval face and brown hair.” Officer went to Mexico and later to Australia. In 1854, he opened a studio in Sandridge, Australia, and while there he “entered several oil portraits in the 1854 Melbourne Exhibition preparatory to sending them to the 1855 Paris Exhibition.” Officer left Australia, and in 1855 he settled in San Francisco where he would spend the last years of his life. He set up a portrait painting department in James Johnson’s photographic gallery in San Francisco. In 1857, Officer received a bronze medal for his oil portraits exhibited at The First Industrial Exhibition of the Mechanics’ Institute of San Francisco, as well as awards at several other exhibits in 1858. A short piece in the San Francisco newspaper, Alta, on October 30, 1859, read, “Mr. Thomas S. Officer, the talented portrait painter, lies near to death’s door and is in pecuniary distress. Out of the many to whose pleasure he has contributed by his gay, social manners, as well as by his pleasing artistic productions, may there not be found someone who will extend a helping hand?”  Officer died on December 8, 1859. Almost an entire column in the January 18, 1860 edition of the Carlisle Herald, was devoted to a very long and informative obituary of Officer taken from the Alta, California newspaper. Officer was buried in the now defunct Lone Mountain Cemetery in San Francisco. In 2014, the Cumberland County Historical Society received a bequest of a portrait painted by Thomas Officer from the estate of historian John J. Snyder, Jr. It joined a miniature portrait already a part of the Society’s museum collection in Carlisle, not far from where Officer was born. Notes: The May 28, 1834 edition of the Carlisle Weekly Herald reported that Thomas S. Officer had "...within the last few weeks, taken the portraits of several gentlemen of this borough...Mr. O. is principally self-taught, and although young, already evinced a degree of taste, judgment, and talent..." A short biography of Officer can also be found in Early American Portrait Painters in Miniature by Theodore Bolton, published by F. F. Sherman (New York, 1921). The entire book is one line  Bio. of Officer on page 117. See Officer’s portrait...

Antique Flemish painting from the second half of the 19th century. Artwork oil on canvas, on the first canvas, depicting a view of the port with fishermen and boats of good pictorial...

An unusual grotesque reversible profile picture of two well weathered gentleman. Watercolour and ink on paper, housed is a later Regency style reeded frame. Circa 1860, Englis...

This is a pair of endearing water colour paintings signed Landau. They were framed in two matching golden frames and come with small sturdy loops ...

A beautiful watercolor of Peacock Island Fabulous quality. Lovely bright colours. Not faded at all. By Edwin Landseer Grundy*. Provenance- From an...

An English 19th century portrait of a gentleman, oil on canvas, original frame and stretcher, crackle paint typical of older pain...

Interesting 19th century Italian painting depicting the vision of Saint Anthony the Abbot. Religious painting of great pictorial intensity and good dynamism, oil on canvas, of fine w...

Oil on canvas, signed lower left. Measures 32.25" x 37.5" including the frame. Know for his paintings of scenes in the highlands of Scotland, John Barker, British 1811 to 1886.

Architectural view of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Watercolour on Paper, not signed. The fine watercolor work in delicate shades of brown, blue and g...

These bucolic scenes of rural living and farm life probably come from German or Austrian painters and are most likely meant to be a pair, circa 1850-1860. The works are very detailed...

An Italian oil on canvas genre painting dating back to mid-19th century, after Volterrano's famous the Prank of Pievano Arlotto, a 17th century famous painting exposed in Palazzo Pit...

Beautiful oil painting landscape idyll by Carl Gustav Wegener (1812-1887) Potsdam Charming and colorful landscape painting with a brigh...

A French Napoléon III period oil on canvas painting from the mid 19th century, with bird and roses in giltwood frame. Created in France at the beginning of emperor Napoléon III's rei...

A charming antique Victorian landscape oil painting. This is English, it dates from around the 1860-1880 period. It is beautifully executed and depicts a countryside scene of shee...

Pair of 19th-century miniature painted portraits of women. Painted on what looks to be celluloid with oval wood frames Measuring 5.3 in x 4.6 in. Signed Illegibly. Beautifully detail...

Portrait of a girl in oriental-style clothing with a headdress and veil in a scenic setting. In original, gilded wood frame with acanthus leaf and oak leaf garland carving. Manuf...

A French Restauration period oil on canvas still-life floral painting from the 19th century, in giltwood frame. Born in France during the second quarter of the 19th century, this floral painting captures our attention with its lovely colors and romantic depiction of a luscious bouquet of flowers standing out on an outdoors scene. Red, orange, white, brown, green and blue tones among others are playing with one another beautifully. Set inside a new gilded and carved frame, this French floral oil...

This is a Antique Christian paintings Artwork, portraits of the Madonna and Child Jesus placing a crown of flowers on her head, mid 19th century. From the 19th century. The Virgin Mary is also holding a flower, a Lily, which is a symbol of nobility, candour and purity. This is an Antique Oil Painting on Canvas from the 19th century.  Catholic religious...

Birds & Flowers of the Seasons Pheasants & Plum in Snow Unframed painting. Ink, pigment and gofun on silk Kano Chikanobu 1819-1888 Signature...

Birds & Flowers of the Seasons Pheasants & Plum in Snow Unframed painting. Ink, pigment and gofun on silk Kano Chikanobu 1819-1888 Signature...

Fine European school oil painting on canvas, 19th century. Nymphs with musical instruments. Period frame. Unsigned.

This is a portrait artwork of Two Hunting Dogs. Portraits of Dogs proposes an oil painting on wood with two Hounds and a Bird, from the 19th century.  This...

Landscape with resting shepherdess, sheep and cow, Tschaggeny 1849, signed and dated lower right by the Flemish Romantic painter and engraver Charles Philogene Tschaggeny, Bruxelles 1815-1894. This antique oil on oak panel painting, set in modern carved gilt-wood frame, depicts a resting shepherdess seated in the shade of a tree, stroking a cow. In front of them sits a sheep with a little lamb. The foreground scene is framed by a rural landscape with architecture in the background. In excellent condition, set within a carved and gilded wooden frame, this antique Belgian painting...

“River View” signed by George Higgins. Exhibited in Boston from 1859-1862

Oil on canvas, inscribed on the stretcher bar reverse. The painting is presented in a flat black frame that complements it well. Horace Bundy was an it...