Victorian Wall Decorations

American Victorian style oil painting of Herman Melville in a dark stained frame (part of a series of American 19th Cent writers)

An oil painting on canvas titled "A drink at the well" by Thomas Hicks (1823-1890) The painting with a courting couple, in a newer Hudson Valley school frame. Thomas Hicks studied i...

ABOUT An antique 19th century oil portrait on canvas of a gentleman. Signed "Oscar Hallwig 1895" on the upper left corner. An original framers label on back. CREATOR Oscar Hall...

Copy of American Impressionist painting "Venus in the Sunlight" showing a nude woman under an umbrella in the summer light

A fine French 19th century etching and drypoint Titled "Soirée d'été" (Summer Evening) by Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902) depicting Mrs. Kathleen Newton resting on a lounge chair. Signed and dated (l/l): J.J. Tissot, 1881 in the plate. Under the mat, the front of the sheet inscribed in pencil with a '1' in a circle, the verso of the sheet with old price inscription "450-" in pencil. Circa: 1881-1882. Measures: Plate Height: 9 inches (22.9 cm) Plate Width: 15 1/2 inches (39.4 cm) Sheet Height: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm) Sheet Width: 20 5/8 inches (52.4 cm) Frame Height: 19 inches (48.3 cm) Frame Width: 24 1/2 inches (62.2 cm) Frame Depth: 1 1/8 inches (2.9 cm) Literature: Wentworth 56. Note: Tissot's from 1881 is said to depict his lover, the Irish divorcee Mrs. Kathleen Newton, resting on a lounge chair. Provenance: Private collection, Los Angeles, California Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), Anglicized as James Tissot, was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. He also painted scenes and characters from the Bible. Jacques Tissot was born in the city of Nantes in France and spent his early childhood there. His father, Marcel Théodore Tissot, was a successful drapery merchant. His mother, Marie Durand, assisted her husband in the family business and designed hats. A devout Catholic, Tissot's mother instilled pious devotion in the future artist from a very young age. Tissot's youth spent in Nantes likely contributed to his frequent depiction of shipping vessels and boats in his later works. The involvement of his parents in the fashion industry is believed to have been an influence on his painting style, as he depicted women's clothing in fine detail. By the time Tissot was 17, he knew he wanted to pursue painting as a career. His father opposed this, preferring his son to follow a business profession, but the young Tissot gained his mother's support for his chosen vocation. Around this time, he began using the given name of James. By 1854 he was commonly known as James Tissot; he may have adopted it because of his increasing interest in everything English. In 1856 or 1857, Tissot travelled to Paris to pursue an education in art. While staying with a friend of his mother, painter Elie Delaunay, Tissot enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study in the studios of Hippolyte Flandrin and Louis Lamothe. Both were successful Lyonnaise painters who moved to Paris to study under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Lamothe provided the majority of Tissot's studio education, and the young artist studied on his own by copying works at the Louvre, as did most other artists of the time in their early years. Around this time, Tissot also made the acquaintance of the American James McNeill Whistler, and French painters Edgar Degas (who had also been a student of Lamothe and a friend of Delaunay), and Édouard Manet. In 1859, Tissot exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time. He showed five paintings of scenes from the Middle Ages, many depicting scenes from Goethe's Faust. These works show the influence in his work of the Belgian painter Henri Leys (Jan August Hendrik Leys), whom Tissot had met in Antwerp earlier that same year. Other influences include the works of the German painters Peter Von Cornelius and Moritz Retzsch. After Tissot had first exhibited at the Salon and before he had been awarded a medal, the French government paid 5,000 francs for his depiction of The Meeting of Faust and Marguerite in 1860, with the painting being exhibited at the Salon the following year, together with a portrait and other paintings. Émile Péreire supplied Tissot's painting Walk in the Snow for the 1862 international exhibition in London; the next year three paintings by Tissot were displayed at the London gallery of Ernest Gambart. In about 1863, Tissot suddenly shifted his focus from the medieval style to the depiction of modern life through portraits. During this period, Tissot gained high critical acclaim, and quickly became a success as an artist. Like contemporaries such as Alfred Stevens and Claude Monet, Tissot also explored Japonisme, including Japanese objects and costumes in his pictures and expressing style influence. Degas painted a portrait of Tissot from these years (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), in which he is sitting below a Japanese screen hanging on the wall. Still on Top, 1873 Tissot fought in the Franco-Prussian War as part of the improvised defense of Paris, joining two companies of the Garde Nationale and later as part of the Paris Commune. His 1870 painting La Partie Carrée (The Foursome) evoked the period of the French revolution. Either because of the radical political associations related to the Paris Commune (which he was believed to have joined mostly to protect his own belongings rather than for shared ideology), or because of better opportunities, he left Paris for London in 1871. During this period, Seymour Haden helped him to learn etching techniques. Having already worked as a caricaturist for Thomas Gibson Bowles, the owner of the magazine Vanity Fair, as well as exhibited at the Royal Academy, Tissot arrived with established social and artistic connections in London. Tissot used...

English Victorian steel plate engraving of an interior cathedral (19th-Century) in a black and gold decorative frame. Written on back of fram...

French Victorian glass beaded purple flower casket wreath wall sculpture (B). Item featured hand beaded in France with glass beads with impressive flower detail, very nice antique it...

Continental faience plaque in the form of a horse, circa 1840, Probably Rorstrand. The plaque is amusingly decorated with a galloping gray horse wi...

American Mid-Century Impressionist style winter landscape painting of a man and horse walking down a snowy path by a telephone pole towards a house in a gold frame (signed: GIORDANO)

Copy of impressionist landscape painting titled "Aurora Borealis" showing a ship in an icy harbor at night

Copy of a genre painting titled "Young Reapers I" Showing young boy and girl during harvest in field

American Victorian wood framed lithograph of riders on path titled Summer in the Country (Currier & Ives)

American neoclassical hand-carved war eagle wall shelf sconce. The rectangular oak top is supported by an eagle with spread wings spread open on top...

Copy of a seascape painting titled "Steamer One" depicting a ship under full sail in a rough sea

English Victorian watercolor painting of two hunters on horses accompanied by dogs under glass in a gold and black rectangular frame.  

Copy of a painting titled "Portrait of Mordecai Noah" showing young man in formal wear

Copy of an Impressionist landscape painting titled "Sunny Day at Shinnecock Bay" showing figures and rowboat on a beach

Copy of a landscape painting showing a stream in a meadow

19th Century Oil Painting. An English thatched mill with the mill race and ducks. Signed and Dated T Whittle 1881, Thomas Whittle 1865-1892 is a well-l...

Oil on canvas, signed in the lower left. This painting measures 23" x 19.75" including the frame. It has a beautiful luminous quality and features a hunter and his dog hunting woodco...

Magnificent 1903 Framed Photograph – Graduating Doctors, Medical Department, Western University of Pennsylvania This extraordinary and historically significant 1903 graduating class...

Copy of an impressionist landscape painting titled "Garden" showing a tree lined path with flowers

Painted in the 19th century, this exquisite miniature portrait wonderfully exemplifies realism in traditional oil painting. The small artwork is painted in the conventional portraiture style of the Old Masters, and achieves soft realism with fine brushwork and a subdued, neutral palette. The half length portrait depicts a fine Victorian woman dressed in all black with a delicate lace collar and bonnet. She wears a ruby broach...

Very fine mid 19th century oil on canvas, mounted on board; depicting pastoral countryside scene of flock of 16 sheep covered in full grown fleece; walking in stride down a winding d...

Large antique needlepoint of the British sailing ship Amelia hand crafted in wool, popularly known as woolies, crafted with ambitious detail. Pres...

A pair of hand-colored Henry Alken hunt scenes published by Tregear and Co. in Hogarth frames, first half of the 19th century: "The Death" engraved by Phelps and “Getting Away” engra...

English Victorian style (modern) birds eye maple and gilt trimmed framed oil painting of a fruit tree in porcelain jardiniere Sold AS IS. (See related ite...

English Victorian gilt framed oil landscape painting of road with stone wall and houses.

Theodorus Selhorst (1891-1983) Dutch Artist Painter . Oil painting comes with its original Gold Plaster frame . Dutch workman with pipe . signed T H Selhorst . Good condition .

Copy of American Impressionist painting titled "Waiting for the Ferry" showing woman by rivers edge with bridge and man in boat Condition: Good; Wear cons...

Foldable Anatomical Wall Chart Depicting Human Musculature A rare 19th century anatomical wall chart depicting human musculature and internal organs. ...

Copy of Impressionist landscape painting titled "Beach Scene" showing bathers with sun umbrellas in front of town

American Impressionist style oil painting on board of a still life with flowers next to a jug with gilt frame. (dated 1903)

19th century nautical watercolor painting depicting the Cutter Massachusetts built at Newbury port in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the year 1791. Watercolor seascape with rev...

American Victorian style oil painting of Mark Twain in a dark stained frame (part of a series of American 19th Cent writers)

A Collection of Framed Victorian Prattware Pots Lids This highly decorative large finely framed collection of Victorian Prattware pot lids repr...

Copy of an impressionist landscape watercolor showing people by the seaside Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use

American Victorian Hudson River School style oil painting scene of a house by a stream with tree in foreground in a gold frame

Incredible oil on canvas painting by San Francisco artist, Don Roberts c1980. "St. John's Church at Suchava" Ukrainian Orthodox c1920. Beautiful detail and color palate. Well execute...

You are viewing a large Victorian revival oil painting showing a vivid floral spray Good size at almost six feet wide - 180 CM Very vivid piece that will add light and energy to any ...

You are viewing a Victorian oil painting of a portrait of two young girls Artist has really captured the vibrancy of the scene with great skill, the brushwork is incredibly detailed ...

An intriguing and well-painted watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper depicting a cavalier with a dagger, lying in wait, signed and dated lower left "F. Smallfield 1862", titled l...

"O for Ostler" from "An Alphabet" by William Nicholson from the first edition published by William Heinemann, London, 1898. Original lithograph from the colored woodblock. "Ostler, o...

Copy of an impressionist landscape painting titled "Winter in Argenteuil"

Pair of English Victorian (19/20th century) brass horse racing wall plaques with walnut frames.  

Copy of a landscape painting titled "Family" showing a mother with son, daughter and dog in a classical setting by water

Copy of watercolor landscape painting titled "Colchester"

This wonderful painting features a loyal dog watching over a napping baby in a sunny courtyard. It is an oil on board and features a period, possibly original, frame and is signed i...

An oil on canvas signed in the lower left and presented in a gilded frame under glass. A wonderful scene of a sunny day on the canal in Venice, Italy. Measuring 20.25" x 24.25" inc...

American Victorian framed monograph print featuring the architectual blueprint for "Detail Central Portion, Academic Building, University of Virginia" (McKim,Mead & White,1898) (1 OF...

19th Century oil on canvas portrait of a lady reading set within Neoclassical garden scene. Unsigned

Fantastic quality antique Victorian Black Forest carved call bracket having a fantastic quality black forest carved wall bracket of a ...

Oil on canvas, signed lower left. German, 1853-1929 Ludwig Blume-Siebert was a German genre painter and illustrator. He was the son of a lifeguard from Arolsen. Wilhelm von Kaulbach...

Copy of an impressionist painting titled "Newport" showing two women by the shore with parasol

English Victorian steel plate engraving of a streetscape (19th-Century) in a black and gold decorative frame. Written on back of frame: (1856...

English Victorian maple framed watercolor painting portrait of 19th Century man (Related Item: 054174).  

Copy of a Russian School painting of a Victorian couple being seated in an opulent restaurant

Oil on panel, measures 17" x 21" painting and with frame 24" x 27.5". Signed and dated 1885 lower left. Charles Green studied at Leigh’s School of Fine Art and under the engraver, J W Whymper, before quickly establishing himself as a painter and illustrator. Specialising in genre pieces, he joined the Langham Sketching Club and was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (ARI 1864; RI 1867). His elder brother, Henry Towneley Green, was also a member. His contribution of contemporary subjects to the early numbers of The Graphic were admired by Van Gogh, but he was best known for his depiction of period settings and for his illustrations to The Old Curiosity Shop...

Copy of a portrait painting of a young woman in a white dress and flowers in a classical landscape

"Z for Zoologist" from "An Alphabet" by William Nicholson from the first edition published by William Heinemann, London, 1898. Original lithograph from the colored woodblock. Nichols...