Neoclassical Revival Paintings

Portrait of Fernando Fernandez de Cordoba and Valcarcel. Oil on canvas. Spanish School, 19th century. Unframed canvas. Damaged. Requires restoration. Full-length portrait of a male figure set in an interior decorated with carpets, a gilded wooden chest of drawers with a Rococo influence, a relief on the wall, mouldings, an inkwell, maps, books, a writing desk, etc. To the left, next to a curtain, the composition opens onto a window that reveals a building. The man, in military uniform, holds a sword in one hand and a bicorne hat in the other, while looking straight at the viewer. Fernando Fernández de Córdova y Valcárcel (Buenos Aires, 2 September 1809 – Madrid, 30 October 1883), 2nd Marquis of Mendigorría, was a Spanish military man, son of the frigate captain of the Royal Navy José María Fernández de Córdova y Rojas and María de la Paz Rodríguez de Valcárcel y O'Conrry, 1st Marchioness of Mendigorría. He fought with his brother Luis in the First Carlist War. He belonged to the Moderate Party and later to the Democratic-Radical Party. He was President of the Government for a single day. He was a senator for life from 1847 to 1868 and for the province of Soria from 1871 to 1873, during the reign of Amadeo of Savoy. In the portrait it is possible to clearly see his decorations, located on the left side of his chest. Starting from the top: Knight Grand Cross of the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Charles III (established by this monarch in 1771); on the left, that of Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of...

English Cocker Spaniel Watercolor and Gouache Pictures, A Set of Six, Signed Hill The framed pictures are of six different colored English Cocker Spaniels, in a rectangular format w...

Grande Dipinto Italiano raffigurante Cupido e Psiche del pittore milanese Marasso Armando 1899-1988. Dipinto ad olio su tela del 1950 circa raffigurante le figure mitologiche di Amor...

Very large oil on canvas (2.10 m x 1.45 m), of a young woman leaning on a sculptor's easel, probably resting between two posing sessions. Nude, adorned with gold and silver jewels, p...

Entrance to the House of the Faun in Pompeii (Italy). Oil on canvas. Attributed to VERA BLASCO ESTACA, Alejo (Viñuelas, Guadalajara, 1834-Madrid, 1923). Towards the end of the 19th century. Signed in the lower right corner. This oil painting shows one of the sides of one of the entrances (maws) of what is known as the House of the Faun in the Italian city of Pompeii, with the remains of Roman art that would be visible at the point towards the end of the 19th century, before the damage caused by the bombings of 1943. Alejo Vera Blasco was a Spanish painter who trained at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid and attending the classes of Federico Madrazo...

Virgin with Child. Oil on canvas. 19th century, following models by SANZIO, Rafael (Urbino, 1433- Rome, 1520). Framed painting showing the Virgin Mary with the Child in her arms, both holding a book, and located on a natural landscape with buildings to the right. The frame leaves a tondo visible, showing the figurative composition, and, upon removing it, you can see in the corners a series of figurative and vegetal elements (grotesques) of clear Renaissance influence, also present in the rest of the work. This Madonna is clearly inspired by another, known as Madonna Conestabile, found in the Hermitage of Saint Petersburg, a work by Rafael Sanzio...

Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945) A very fine and charming oil on board "In Search of Love", depicting a young maiden standing by the lake shore, flanked by a flying white dove and leaning on an old structure surrounded by shrubs and flowers, waving farewell to a departing cupid riding on a sea-shell vessel led by a swan, within a giltwood and gesso carved frame. Signed (l/r): H. Zatzka, circa: 1880s. Note: The back of the board is handwritten in pencil: "Der Kleine Lohengrin" (The small Lohengrin) - Jede art vervielfältigung vorvliehalten (Any kind of duplication is reserved). Hans Zatzka (Austrian 1859-1945) was a well known and regarded Austrian fantasy artist whose most popular and valuable works depicted figures of young maidens with angels, floral and other cheerful and warm scenes, including Orientalist themes. In the past thirty years alone, the high quality and detail of his beautiful paintings has caught the attention of International collectors and art dealers alike, creating a highly sought after market and demand for his instantly recognizable body of work. In the late 19th and early 20th century, many of Zazka's charming works were photographed for commercial and collectable postcards. Though no information about his works being exhibited in museums is currently available, most of Zatzka's paintings are in private collections and, in the past century, very few of them have become available on the open art market. At the young age of eighteen Zatzka joined Austria's Academy of Fine Arts under the leadership of Professor Blaas. For his fine early works, in 1880 he received The Golden Fügermedal award. Zatzka, like many other artists of the era, traveled around Europe working and selling his art and, in one of his many trips to Italy, he developed a special interest in Religious themes, decorating churches with frescoes as well as painting several religious scenes of Madonna's and Child, Saints, Angels and others. In 1885 Zatzka was commissioned to paint "The Naiad of Baden" a ceiling fresco at Kurhaus Baden. Most of Zatzka's income came from his work in religious art and special church commissions. Numerous leading art dealers from around the world that specialize in late 19th and early 20th century European genre paintings have come to the conclusion that the painter signing his works Bernard Zatzka, Joseph Bernard or J. Bernard is almost certainly the artist Hans Zatzka. The consensus seems quite plausible when comparing works known to have been executed by Hans Zatzka together with similar works displaying the signature; Joseph Bernard, J. Bernard or Bernard Zatzka. Lohengrin refers to the knight of the swan, hero of German versions of a legend widely known in variant forms from the European Middle Ages onward. It seems to bear some relation to the northern European folktale of “The Seven Swans,” but its actual origin is uncertain. It is also a character in German Arthurian literature. The son of Parzival (Percival), he is a knight of the Holy Grail sent in a boat pulled by swans...

Large French Painting of a Fountain in Court Yard by Stuart Henry. This is a Mid-Century Modern watercoloring in a beautiful wooden Rococo style frame.

Depicting a scene from Act 111 of the Opera "Linda of chamounix". Oil on canvas. Unsigned. 19th century. Mounted in Italian carved gilt wood frame. Frame measures 66" H x 51" W x 2" ...

Large framed mural fragment by Kevin Paulsen and David Wiggins, from the mid 1990s. Thinned oil on plaster layered over polystyrene, artist made black wo...

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Painting of the nineteenth century by Franz meerts in 1976 . Oil on canvas representing an interior with 3 people drinking good wine Very good quality of Belgian painting with a f...