Gilt Paintings

ORIGINAL OIL ON BOARD PAINTING DEPICTING A VASE OF FLOWERS, MID 20TH CENTURY Depicting an arrangement of foraged flowers and grasses in a clear glass jar on a table draped in a dusk...

Reputed Portrait of Jane Bromley, as a Young Widow by British, English School, oil on canvas painting circa 1640/1650, in good condition, set in a modern frame. It comes from a priva...

Small Landscape Painting by Jean Claude Bédard, 1952, in Restored 19th-Century Gilded Frame This charming small landscape painting, signed and dated 1952 by Jean Claude Bédard, is a...

Set of two noble male and female oil paintings in period delicate ornate Rococo wood frames. This pair of highly detailed portraits were purchased at a Swedish estate in the 1970's. ...

A framed, over-painted Chromolithograph on canvas, a portrait of a young girl, circa 1880 -1890. The original oil painting was painted by Philipp Hoyall, (1816-1876) a German-Polish...

This lovely oil on canvas is a captivating work by the renowned Belgian artist Edmond Sanders (1898–1961). Known for his masterful use of texture and color, Sanders has created a vib...

This stunning oil painting by Lucien Carbonell captures the essence of a lively Parisian street scene, filled with charm and vibrancy. The artwork depicts an idyllic autumn day, show...

Large size and one of a kind painting with a great atmosphere. We are by no means connoisseurs when it comes to antique paintings, but we have seen enough antique paintings to know ...

An unusual pair framed oil paintings on board of interior scenes with cats, one signed Edward Andrews and the other Emiliano Jnr and dated 1992. The almost square shaped paintings ar...

Japanese hand-painted silk artwork depicting a seated concubine in an intricate kimono, framed in a custom giltwood frame. This vintage piece captures a quiet moment of contemplation...

A beautiful 17th Century French school Christ as infant shepherd oil on panel in newer gilt frame. Beautiful muted colors and a very nicely painted depiction of christ as the infan...

Symbolic and meaningful work of religious art with original label on the back. Framed oil on wooden panel, Madonna and child, after Italian Nicolo Barabino (1833-1891). The original...

Imperial Majesty: 19th-Century Ming Dynasty Emperor Silk Painting This exquisite silk painting, dating back to the 19th century, depicts a majestic Ming Dynasty emperor in all his regalia. Hand-painted with meticulous detail and presented in a beautiful frame, this artwork showcases the rich tradition of Chinese silk painting. The vibrant colors and intricate brushwork capture the emperor's imperial stature and the grandeur of the Ming Dynasty. The painting's subject matter and artistic style make it a captivating addition to any collection. Dimensions: Framed measurements: 24 3/4" W x 31" H x 1 1/4" D Condition: Very good antique condition. This Antique Chinese Imperial Emperor Ancestral Painting...

Large size and slightly abstract Arab street scene painting. This larger size and very well executed painting is another one of our recent great finds. It may be abstract in style, ...

Matteo Lovatti (Italian, 1861-1909) A Fine 19th-Century Oil on Canvas Titled 'Church V. State - The Fencing Lesson'. The finely detailed artwork depicting an interior tavern scene, f...

Beautiful antique Pichhwai silk painting of Krishna and Radha accompanied by gopis, devas, the sun God Surya, plants and animals enjoying Dana L...

Decorate a wall with this large and colorful oil on canvas painting. Painted in Paris circa 1970 and set in a thick carved gilt frame, the artwork beautifully captures the vibrant at...

Antique Oil on Canvas Painting of Cherub & Woman in Gilt Frame C1890 Measures- 13.75"H x 11"W x 1.5"D

16th Century Oil Painting on board of the Holy Roman Emperor III by circle or school of Hans Burgkmair the older (1473 - 1531). Portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederic III. (1415 – 1493). Oil on wooden panel. Described top right. In later attractive European gilt frame with black & gilt inner decoration, circa 18th Century. Hans Burgkmair was a German woodcut...

A Baroque Capriccio with ruins and figures, an early 18th century Italian painting showing an imaginary landscape with roman ruins and figures, an antique oil on canvas Italian...

Decorate an office or study with this beautiful antique pastoral painting. Hand painted in Italy circa 1870, the paintings depicts a tranquil...

A fine antique 18th Century Greek Orthodox icon, egg tempera & gold leaf on wood panel, circa 1750. The icon depicts the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, to the left is the Angel Gab...

An early 19th century French Louis XVI style trumeau mirror with a large painting depicting Diana, the goddess of the hunt. Oil on canvas with vivid color, heavy craquelure, with som...

This is a truly splendid antique and highly decorative French hand painted set in a gilded and glazed box frame, dating from the late 18th century. This wonderful fan is beautifully hand-painted with stunning figures dressed in classical costumes, gracefully dancing and playing music with a charming classical pavilion in the background. It has spectacular guards and spins. Add this highly ornate antique framed fan...

A peaceful French painting on canvas depicting landscape scene featuring a house or small castle in ruins, a water with a bridge nearby. The painting is contained in a simple gold le...

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

A framed, over-painted Chromolithograph on canvas, a portrait of a young girl, circa 1880 -1890. The original oil painting was painted by Philipp Hoyall, (1816-1876) a German-Polish...

Oil Painting On Canvas Of 1700 Mater Dolorosa Religious painting of the Italian school in good condition, it is presented within a gilded pastille frame from the early 1900s. The pai...

Monumental 19th-century Russian icon of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Russia, mid-late 19th century  A stunning monumental 19th-century R...

Splendid oil portrait on canvas of Count Bailiff Ludovico Caprara (1731-1812), as indicated by the writing inside the "tabula ansata," at the bottom of the frame of the painting. The...

A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular canvas depicting a seated Madonna hol...

This captivating still life oil painting depicts a bountiful bouquet of ancient rose flowers, their petals rendered in rich, captivating detail. The artist masterfully captures a se...

French Figurative Oil Painting by Charles Levier. Titled "Une femme devant la mer", this masterful work of a well-known listed French artist whose work can be compared to Bernard Buf...

A six-fold Japanese screen by Tosa Mitsusuke (1675-1710), Japan 17th-18th century, Edo period. The signature reads Shoroku-i ge Tosa sa Konoe Shogen Mit...

17th C Neapolitan School Painting Oil Canvas Old Master Mola Giovanni Battista . Circa 1600’s important Painting Oil on Canvas painting of a boy with a bird, in original Hand carved...

A Captivating Vision: "Clown Avec Un Oiseau" by Charles Levier. This striking oil on canvas painting, titled "Clown Avec Un Oiseau" (Clown with a Bird) in French, is a captivating...

Orientalist Painting Wall Art Arab Market Scene Dutch G. Huijsser Antique Frame. Very nice oil on cardboard by Gerard Huijsser, Dutch painter, depicting a gathering of people in a or...

Refined oil painting on canvas, framed in an elegant carved and gilded wooden frame. The painting features in the center the scene of the presentation of Jesus by Mary to Saint Franc...

A 19th century American folk art oil painting on canvas depicting a river scene at dawn with a horse and rider on a bridge over a waterf...

A good antique German Hand-Painted KPM porcelain portrait plaque signed "Wagner" after the painting "Reflection" by the Italian artist Angelo Asti (1847-1903). Asti was born in Milan...

A beautiful antique German hand-painted Berlin KPM porcelain plaque, circa 1880. The plaque was produced by Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (which was the Royal porcelain factory in ...

Large Japanese Meiji period six-panel screen depicting a winter landscape with a Chinese sage visiting friends in a country villa. Ink and vivid color pigments on mulberry paper mounted to a gilt background. Painted in the 19th century Kano school...

A beautiful original watercolor painting depicting Notre Dame Cathedral and the Seine in Paris, France. Painted by Henri Le Riche. Hand signed on the bottom left, pencil drawing o...

Decorate a wall with this beautiful and colorful painting. Painted on canvas in Paris circa 1890 and set in a thick carved and gilt frame, the artwork beautifully captures the vibran...

-Madonna Lactans, Gold Background Quattrocento Our painting is on poplar wood, characteristic of Italian Quattrocento works. The gold background is stuccoed and engraved. Our Mado...

Impressive well painted 19th century Russian oil on canvas of hunt scene or chase featuring troika pulled by 6 horses in full stride. Man armed w...

A Large Continental Oil on Canvas "The Prohibited Reading " after Karel Ooms (Belgium, 1845-1900). This beautiful executed painting depicts a historical scene of an old man and a young woman who are huddled over a bible. The pair is gazing in apparent concern or alarm, over the old man's shoulder, towards something outside of the picture. The scene is likely set in the 16th or 17th century when Protestants were prosecuted, amongst others, for reading the bible in the vernacular, a practice prohibited by the Catholic Church at the time. Signed (l/r) A. Ribas 15-12-913. Within a giltwood carved frame. circa: Probably Belgium, 1913. Karel Ooms was born in Dessel on January 27, 1845 as the youngest son of a large peasant family. At school his extraordinary talent for drawing was discovered. When he was twelve his hometown provided financial support which allowed him to study at the Antwerp Academy of fine Arts. One of his teachers at the Academy was Nicaise de Keyser, one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting and a painter of mainly history paintings and portraits. After graduating from the Academy 1865 Karel Ooms was welcomed with pomp in his home town Dessel. He painted two altarpieces for the local church Saint Nicolas, to express his gratitude to his city. Karel Ooms settled as an independent artist in Antwerp around 1871. He quickly established a reputation as a portrait painter. In addition, he received commissions for religious paintings and history paintings. He gained particular recognition with two large paintings...

This is an absolutely stunning and finely painted KPM Berlin Plaque after Paul Thumann's (1834-1908) 'Kunst Bringt Gunst' (meaning 'Art wins heart'), sign...

This Russian Orthodox icon from 19 th century depicts Christ. The face of Christ is set within an intricately adorned golden riza (comer cover), and it contains detailed floral and g...

A stunning piece of decorative art by Edna Hibel featuring a young girl dressed in a traditional Japanese kimono. Edna Hibel: 1917-2015. Well listed important American artist. Most...

A distinguished pair of noble portraits Likely painted by Hans Hansen (1769–1829) or another artist from Circle of Jens Juel. These portraits are masterfull...

Large ornate gilt wood framed oil on canvas painting floral bouquet still life by American Artist James Moran. Skillfully applied textured flowers in a vas...

A good antique Georgian Regency period miniature portrait of a lady, circa 1810. This rather unusual & almost peculiar portrait of a lady from the time of Jane Austen, painted on an ivory wafer and housed in the original gilded gesso & limewood frame. The painting depicts a curious young lady with her hair piled high and her curls protruding below a broad black headband. She is dressed in a typical high-waisted late Georgian gown...

Pair of John Gould hand colored framed lithographs family of toucans. "Pteroglossus Inscriptus" and " Pteroglossus Hypoglaurus" Each signed in plate. Printed by Charles Hullmandell. ...

This is an Elaine Vollherbst, lane acrylic canvas painting. It is called The Joy of Life I. It is a very large rectangular framed painting that depic...

A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved two-tone gilt wood, gilt-patinated and gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting. Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Painting diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 55 1/8 inches (140 cm) Frame width: 46 inches (116.8 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 cm) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

Francisco Bores – "La Ferme" (The Farm) A remarkable and highly collectible painting by the celebrated Spanish modernist Francisco Bores (1898-1972). "La Ferme" is a prime example of...

A Chinese Qing Dynasty period framed painting from the 19th century of an official's wife with bird-adorned buzi, painted on a linen canvas. Created in the North-Eastern province of Shanxi during the Qing dynasty, this 19th century painting showcases a frontal depiction of an official's wife recognizable thanks to the bird-themed rank badge sitting on an elegant armchair with scrolling arms and carved apron. Wearing a red robe and topped with an ornate headdress, the figure is highlighted with gold foil accents and stands out beautifully on a linen canvas. The print size is 17.5"W x 41.5"H. These paintings traditionally come from Shanxi province which was home to many of the wealthy merchant families associated with the imperial court during the Qing dynasty. Set inside a custom made frame, this 19th century Qing Dynasty official's wife painting...