The Samian Sibyl, Italian School, c.1700

An American school oil on canvas portrait of a lady with a book; the book opened to an image of another portrait. Verso with stenciled canvas supplier William Wisong of Baltimore a...

An American school oval portrait painting of a lady, mid-19th century. canvas: 20 ¼ inches wide by 24 inches tall frame: 27 ½ inches wide by 31 ½ inches tall by 1 ½ inches deep

Thomas Willis (American, 1850-1925) A yacht portrait of The Elmar out of Sheepshead Bay, circa 1910s. Oil on canvas with silk and threadwork. The owner listed as Gus Rau was kn...

An oil on canvas mounted on board by H. Pfaffe of the Watzmann in the Berchtesgaden Alps, 20th century. sight: 11 by 10 ¼ inches frame: 14 by 13 ¼ inches

French School, circa 1700 Judith and her handmaiden with the head of Holofernes, with sleeping guards in an architectural setting; and Alexander holding Parmenio's letter, defiantly ...

Portrait of the two children of Mr and Mrs Oliver Jones, full-length, one wearing blue, the other red, holding a bow and a spear. Oil on canvas Unframed: 126.2 x 102 cm Framed: 130...

Pines and Cranes Anonymous. Kyoto Kano School. Late 17th/early 18th centuries, circa 1700. Pair of six-panel Japanese folding screens. Ink, gofun, pigment and gold leaf on paper. This bold composition presents two pine trees extending to the left and right across a gold leaf background. One tree is silhouetted against a green ground, golden clouds obscuring its true size, the other stretches across a stylized waterway. The pines are paired with Manchurian cranes with red crests and snow white plumage. Both have been highly auspicious motifs in East Asia since Chinese antiquity. Here the artist utilized fluid and instinctive ink brushstrokes to define the trunk, branches and tail feathers, in strong contrast to the precision and sharp angularity of the crane’s legs and beaks. The adoption of this vast metallic painting support required an unerring sense of design and composition, so that the negative space surrounding motifs could imply context for the otherwise floating pictorial elements. The brushwork detailing the trunks of the pines, the exaggerated dimensions of the pine trees and the strength and dynamism of the composition are all reminiscent of Kano Eitoku...

A northern Italian early XVIII century painting of Francesco Perezzoli, depicting the birth of Venus. Oil on canvas. Original guild wood frame. Italy circa 1700.