Staats Cotsworth, Spanish Colonial California Watercolor

"Harbour View, Marseille". Oil on board painting of the port of Marseille with sloops passing the Cathedral “Nouvelle Major” in an associated lemon gold M...

Rico Tomaso (1898-1985) original oil on canvas "Woman Playing Violin, Men Enthralled" illustration for McCall's magazine. Signed top right with original McCall's magazine label on ba...

Giuseppe Casciaro, Ischia, 1929. Giuseppe Casciaro (1861-1941) Amalfi coast landscape with watchtower on the island of Ischia. Pastel and gouache on card. Signed and dated 19 Feb VII...

Mid-century view of Piazza del Popolo. Large pastel and gouache on paper of the obelisk with lions and the twin churches of the famous Piazza Del Pop...

William Johnstone OBE (1897-1981) watercolour of "Autumn Landscape" signed lower right, c.1970 Dimension: 22" W x 18.5" H x .63" D; sight 14" W x 9.75" H Provenance: Duncan R. Mil...

Sardine Colazione fish painting. Contemporary blue white and green on black gesso painting on wood panel of breakfast sardines, Italy, 2019. Dimensio...

Fantastic Spanish Colonial school screen. Probably from Peru. This screen, with a kind of European landscape, give us an idea of the influence ...

A circa 1920s Spanish Colonial painting of an angel holding olive branch. Measurements: Height: 27.5" Width: 21.5" .

This wonderful watercolor is a scene of people riding horses by the water. It is signed C. Macourlard and marked Southern California. The condition is pristine and they are newly fra...

Antique 1903 watercolor on artist board painting of Coast of Mendocino California. Signed JW, dated 1903 and titled lower right corner. Unframed, displayed i...

A pair of circa 1950's Spanish archangel paintings with giltwood frames. Measurements: Height: 58.5" Width: 40" Depth: 3".

This is a very good Spanish Colonial, Cuzco School (Cuzqueno) painting of the Archangel Michael. The painting appears to have little or no restorations and, as such, is in remarkable condition. We have chosen to leave that painting as found as the patina highlights the depth and character of the painting. We have listed separately two complementary larger paintings of the Virgin Mary and the Archangel Michael acquired from the same estate. The Cuzco school is a Peruvian Spanish Colonial religious artistic tradition in which Incan spirituality was incorporated into Catholic iconography. These Peruvian paintings incorporate artistic forms that distinguish Cuzqueno paintings from other Spanish Colonial artistic traditions. The Jesuit order, arriving in the mid-16th century, was the principal Catholic order whose mission it was to convert the Inca to Christianity and introduce Christian iconography and European type painting techniques to the Inca capital of Cuzco. Cuzco School paintings...