Spanish Still Life Painting Oil on Canvas with Gilt Frame from 20th Century

Italian painting from the mid-20th century. Oil on canvas artwork, first canvas, depicting still life with fruit of good pictorial quality. Velvet-covered frame with some small marks...

Italian painting from 20th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting particular still life with ceramic objects and tomatoes in impressionist style. Painting of good size and impact...

Italian painting dated 1930. Framework oil on panel depicting still life with shell and apples of good pictorial quality. Painting signed lower right S. Bonfantini (see photo) refera...

Oil painting on canvas from 20th century. French painting depicting an oriental landscape, a village on stilts, of great charm. Silvered frame with some signs of wear complete with p...

Beautiful, evocative Pencil Drawing Still Life with Flowers and Butterfly Early 20th century Signed at lower right The painting is embellished by a beautiful nineteenth-century la...

A pair of vintage framed Chinese pen & ink paintings from early 20th century with stunning detailing. The paintings have been framed with a glass front and...

Tuscan landscape with bridge over a stream and peasant women Signed "E. Donnini", bottom right Gilded frame Oil on canvas, cm H83,5 x W60 Emilio Donnini (Florence, 1809 - Florence, 1886) was an Italian painter. There is no information regarding Donnini's pictorial training, whose documented activity, exercised in his Florentine studio in via del Maglio, began in 1843, the year in which he participated in the exhibition of the Florentine Promoter Society with View of a river with a bridge. Regular frequenter of the Caffè Michelangiolo, the meeting place of Macchiaioli painters, he regularly participates in the exhibitions organized by the Florentine Promoter Society of Fine Arts, starting from 1845 with Country of invention and View of a mill near Pisa and in 1847 with a series of views of Versilia. In the same year, his friend Antonio Puccinelli portrayed him in the Portrait of the painter Emilio Donnini: with the Pisan, Donnini shares patriotic and irredentist ideals and in all likelihood participates in the uprisings of 1848. In this period he approaches the Markò family, with whom he frequently moves between the Island of Elba, the Lazio and Tuscan countryside to paint landscapes en plein air, in the Macchiaioli way. In 1848 he painted Glimpses of Vicopisano, in 1849 he participated in the Promoter with a View of the Valdarno near Docciola, in 1850 with Marciana, View in the outlines of Seravezza and Marciana Marina. In 1852 he painted a marina for the walls of the Caffè Michelangiolo, in 1853 he participated in the Promoter with the Porto Lungone beach, Civitavecchia beach and Tramonto di sole sul mare. Starting from 1854 he is part of the artists of the Scuola di Staggia with the Markò, Serafino De Tivoli, Carlo Ademollo, Alessandro La Volpe, Lorenzo Gelati and Saverio Altamura and, in the same year, he was awarded by the Promoter for the Marina di Livorno paintings at the Ponte alla Sassara, Marina near Marciana with sun effect and View of a lake with sunset. In 1855 he participated in the Promotrice with Marina with boats, A road of Mugello near Vicchio, The furnaces of Prince Corsini in the Valdarno and Lo stradone del Gombo, in 1856 with Campagne Senesi, in 1857 with Paese del Mugello with bather, in 1858 he was awarded the Silver medal with A morning on the sea, where he also exhibits Country near Pisa, The mountains of Marciana, Rio beach...

Italian Neo-classic style (20th Century) still life oil painting of a glass bowl housing two goldfish and reflecting the room's windows above an array of fruits placed atop plates and fringed cloths, and a barely visible checkered floor...