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Item Ships From: Boston
Salvador Dali "Nude with Guitar"
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: Nude with Guitar
Series: Secret Poems of Appolinaire
Date: 1967
Medium: Drypoint etching
Unframed Dimensions: 15" x 11"
Framed Dimensions: 25.25"...
Category
1960s Surrealist Boston - Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,520 Sale Price
20% Off
la Tour Eiffel et la Place de la Concorde
By Fabienne Delacroix
Located in Boston, MA
Fabienne Delacroix is the youngest child of the master naïf painter Michel Delacroix. She began to paint at the age of ten, working along side her father in his studio. Her talent wa...
Category
2010s Boston - Art
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Hunt Slonem "The Scone" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: The Scone
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Editio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
L'atelier du peintre
Located in Boston, MA
Thomas Bossard was born in 1971 in Poitiers, France, to a large and creative family. His mother fostered his interest in art since an early age, bringing Thomas to various museums wh...
Category
2010s Boston - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunt Slonem "Green Peace" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Green Peace
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5"
Signature: Signed verso
Edition: Unique
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Promoteur immobilier
Located in Boston, MA
Thomas Bossard was born in 1971 in Poitiers, France, to a large and creative family. His mother fostered his interest in art since an early age, bringing Thomas to various museums wh...
Category
2010s Boston - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Exterior of the Basilica, Venice, Italy
By Adam Van Doren
Located in Boston, MA
Adam Van Doren, American (b. 1962), Exterior of the Basilica, 2009. Signed lower right: "Van Doren". Painting dimensions: 40 x 60 inches. Framed dimensions: 40 3/4 x 60 3/4...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Weekend Warrior, Original Impressionist Seascape Pastel Painting on Board, 2021
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Weekend Warrior, Original Impressionist Seascape Painting, 2021
9" x 12" (HxW) Pastel on Board
The ocean water's blues and greens are bright in this seascape of waves dancing along the Massachusetts shore. The sky glows a beautiful periwinkle over the landscape as the salty sea spray splashes into the air.
Artist Commentary:
Inspired by a recent trip to Nantucket where I took over 600 photos of the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Boston - Art
Materials
Pastel, Board
Hunt Slonem "White Diamond Profile" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: White Diamond Bunny
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on wood with diamond dust and acrylic
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14" x 12.5"
Signat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Hunt Slonem "Castle Grounds" Butterflies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Castle Grounds
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 21" x 30"
Framed Dimensions: 23.5" x 32.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Uniq...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
L’échelle
Located in Boston, MA
Thomas Bossard was born in 1971 in Poitiers, France, to a large and creative family. His mother fostered his interest in art since an early age, bringing Thomas to various museums wh...
Category
2010s Boston - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,500
Hunt Slonem "Tulip Perk" Floral
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Tulip Perk
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14.25" x 12.25"
Signature: Signed
Edition: Unique
Proven...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
La tour Eiffel au ciel bleu
By Fabienne Delacroix
Located in Boston, MA
Fabienne Delacroix is the youngest child of the master naïf painter Michel Delacroix. She began to paint at the age of ten, working along side her father in his studio. Her talent wa...
Category
2010s Boston - Art
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Salvador Dali "The Old Faust"
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: The Old Faust
Series: Faust
Date: 1969
Medium: drypoint
Framed Dimensions: 22.5" x 18.5"
Signature: Pencil signed
Edition: 49/145
Literature: Al...
Category
1960s Surrealist Boston - Art
Materials
Drypoint
$5,175 Sale Price
25% Off
Savoir Vivre - Impressionist Wave Pastel Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Savoir Vivre
10.0 x 8.0 x 1.0, 1.0 lbs
Pastel on archival paper
Hand signed by artist
Artist's Commentary:
"This wave looked so elegant as it came in to shore. The left side of i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Boston - Art
Materials
Pastel
Flowing Currents No.2
Located in Boston, MA
This abstract painting exudes a sense of fluidity and energy, evoking the impression of light filtering through water or reflections on a shimmering surface. The composition is domin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Boston - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cool and Calm
By Brian Keith Stephens
Located in Boston, MA
As we navigating our daily lives, we must face thoughts, anxieties, joys and emotions from all three of these tenses, and often at the same time.
Seemingly opposite emotions -- lust...
Category
2010s Boston - Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Wax, Oil
$12,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Matin d'Avril
By Michel Delacroix
Located in Boston, MA
Michel Delacroix was born in 1933 on the Left Bank, in the 14th Arrondissement of Paris. He started painting at the early age of seven just as the German Occupation of Paris began. P...
Category
2010s Boston - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Le Chatelier
By Philippe Charles Jacquet
Located in Boston, MA
Philippe Charles Jacquet is not simply a painter of landscapes; he is a creator. Jacquet has mastered the ability to combine what is real and what is imagined. As a result, his comp...
Category
2010s Boston - Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Salvador Dali "Transfiguration"
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: Transfiguration
Date: 1973
Medium: Drypoint with Added Watercolor
Unframed Dimensions: 30" x 22"
Signature: Pencil signed
Edition: 100/100
Litera...
Category
1970s Surrealist Boston - Art
Materials
Drypoint, Watercolor
Saturday in the park - Original Pastel Flower Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Saturday in the park
6.0 x 6.0 x 1.0, 1.0 lbs
Pastel on archival paper
Hand signed by artist
Artist's Commentary:
"This sweet little 6x6 has some great detail in it! Zoom in on t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Boston - Art
Materials
Pastel
[Chuck Howard on Boardwalk, Probably Fire Island]
By George Platt Lynes
Located in Boston, MA
Chuck Howard was a favorite model of artists Paul Cadmus and Jared French and muse to Lynes, who captured both the erotic and everyday moments in their re...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Boston - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hunt Slonem "Sulphurs & Cabbage Patch Butterflies" Butterflies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Sulphurs & Cabbage Patch Butterflies
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 20" x 16"
Framed Dimensions: 25.5" x 21.5"
Signature: Sign...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Arcturus
By Donald De Lue
Located in Boston, MA
Donald De Lue, American (1897-1988), Arcturus, 1980. Renaissance Brown patina. Number 5 of an edition of 12. Signed and inscribed left side of back of base: "De Lue sc. © 80 / 1987...
Category
1980s Art Deco Boston - Art
Materials
Bronze
$42,000
Rainy Days are for fries
By Brian Keith Stephens
Located in Boston, MA
As we navigating our daily lives, we must face thoughts, anxieties, joys and emotions from all three of these tenses, and often at the same time.
Seemingly opposite emotions -- lust...
Category
2010s Boston - Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Wax, Oil
colza et cirrus
By Benoit Trimborn
Located in Boston, MA
French artist Trimborn is renowned for his large-scale, stunning landscapes in oil on canvas. Trimborn, trained as an architect, categorizes his work as “contemporary impressionism”...
Category
2010s Boston - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Salvador Dali "El Padre Perdonado (Galofre edition)"
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: El Padre Perdonado (Galofre edition)
Series: La Vida es Sueno
Date: 1975
Medium: drypoint engraving in sanguine ink
Unframed Dimensions: 11" x 15"...
Category
1970s Surrealist Boston - Art
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Saving Grace, Original Contemporary Impressionist Pastel Landscape Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Saving Grace, Original Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Painting, 2020
12" x 16" (HxW) Pastel on Paper
A pastural landscape is depicted with soft strokes of pastel in shades of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Boston - Art
Materials
Pastel, Paper
A Way Of
By Jay Kelly
Located in Boston, MA
A Way Of is a unique collage on panel, created entirely from hand-torn vintage print materials. The coloration in the work is hand dyed to optimal archival specifications. The artist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Archival Paper
$10,200
Belle of the Ball - Pastel Impressionist Wave Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Belle of the Ball
24.0 x 6.0 x 2.0, 4.0 lbs
Pastel on archival paper
Hand signed by artist
Artist's Commentary:
"Waves have a rhythm to them and the longer you watch them the qui...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Boston - Art
Materials
Pastel
A Warm Spring Morning - Pastel Sunrise Ocean Landscape Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
A Warm Spring Morning
8.0 x 8.0 x 1.0, 1.0 lbs
Pastel on archival paper
Hand signed by artist
Artist's Commentary:
"Don’t you just love when the morning starts off perfectly? I w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Boston - Art
Materials
Pastel
Divine Contrast
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: , Kozo
Title: Divine Contrast
Date: 2024
Medium: Mixed media and tattoo on paper
Unframed Dimensions: 30" x 22"
Framed Dimensions: 33.5" x 23.5" x 1.5"
Signature: Sig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media
$12,000
Nude Reclining, Mel Fillini
By George Platt Lynes
Located in Boston, MA
Mel Fellini was a favorite model of George Platt Lynes, and this photograph was most likely taken during their stay in Rome in the 1940s.
Category
Mid-20th Century Boston - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Salvador Dali "Untitled XII (Le Tricorne)"
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: Untitled XII (Le Tricorne)
Series: Le Tricorne (The Three-Pointed Hat)
Date: 1959
Medium: Wood engraving
Unframed Dimensions: 12.6" x 8.8"
Framed...
Category
1950s Surrealist Boston - Art
Materials
Engraving
Acupuncture/Flowers (Checkers)
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Murakami, Takashi
Title: Acupuncture/Flowers (Checkers)
Date: 2008
Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on smooth wove paper
Unframed Dimensions: 26.75" x 26.75"
Framed D...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Hunt Slonem "Marcus" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Marcus
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 15" x 13"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Edition: Uni...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled (from Le Cirque)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Chagall, Marc
Title: Untitled (from Le Cirque)
Series: Le Cirque
Date: 1967
Medium: Lithograph in colors on Arches
Unframed Dimensions: 16.625" x 12.625"
Framed Dimensi...
Category
1960s Modern Boston - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Couples
By Robert Freeman
Located in Boston, MA
With artist frame
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunt Slonem "Lavender Belle Grove" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Lavender Belle Grove
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 12" x 10"
Framed Dimensions: 18.5" x 16.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Les Commeres
Located in Boston, MA
Thomas Bossard was born in 1971 in Poitiers, France, to a large and creative family. His mother fostered his interest in art since an early age, bringing Thomas to various museums wh...
Category
2010s Boston - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunt Slonem "2 Tulips" Florals
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: 2 Tulips
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 16" x 14"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Edition: U...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Hunt Slonem "Flight" Butterflies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Flight
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 11" x 9"
Framed Dimensions: 13" x 11"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Edition: Uni...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Hunt Slonem "Tansy" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Tansy
Date: 2020
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 15" x 12.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Hunt Slo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Audience of One, Original Impressionist Seascape Pastel Painting on Board, 2021
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Audience of One, Original Impressionist Seascape Painting, 2021
9" x 12" (HxW) Pastel on Board
There is something incredibly serene and sublime about standing upon the ocean's shore, watching the waves slowly roll in, and to be the only human in sight. The reality of Dina Gardner...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Boston - Art
Materials
Pastel, Board
Hunt Slonem "Peach Georgia" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Peach Georgia
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Ed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Hunt Slonem "Moreover Golden" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Moreover Golden
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Grosse fatigue
Located in Boston, MA
Thomas Bossard was born in 1971 in Poitiers, France, to a large and creative family. His mother fostered his interest in art since an early age, bringing Thomas to various museums wh...
Category
2010s Boston - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Liquid Sunshine: Spring Moss 31 X 9 Hand dyed Polymer Rubber on Painted Steel
By Niho Kozuru
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Liquid Sunshine: Spring Moss
Hand-dyed cast polymer rubber on painted steel
31.5 X 9.5 X 9.5
Niho Kozuru (髙鶴丹穂) is a Japanese-born mixed media artist based in Boston, MA. Kozuru casts and reconfigures molds of her own designs, classical and industrial turned architectural forms in unexpected materials. Using rubber, glass and clay she creates columns with undulating silhouettes.
The “Lantern Columns” are a group of 7 towers, ranging from 4 feet to 7 feet tall. They have been shown in various configurations in multiple US States as well as the Fukuoka City Museum in Kyushu, Japan. Kozuru made 60 components by blowing glass into molds of her own designs while at Artists in Residency at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina.
After traveling the world, the Lantern Columns have been arranged into their final configuration, with a steel armature within and each topped with a vivid cast iron final...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Steel
Hunt Slonem "Red Madison" Butterflies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Red Madison
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Dimensions: 30" x 36"
Framed Dimensions: 32" x 38"
Signature: Signed
Edition: Unique
Hunt Sl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Hunt Slonem "Soft Sun Light" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Soft Sun Light
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 16" x 14"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Editi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Hunt Slonem "Lilac Spring" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Lilac Spring
Date: 2022
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 15.5" x 13.5"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Edi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Hunt Slonem "Yellow" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Yellow
Date: 2022
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 12" x 10"
Framed Dimensions: 15.5" x 13.5"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Edition:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Salvador Dali "Bust"
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: Bust
Series: Faust
Date: 1969
Medium: drypoint
Framed Dimensions: 22.5" x 18.5"
Signature: Pencil signed
Edition: 49/145
Literature: Albert Fie...
Category
1960s Surrealist Boston - Art
Materials
Drypoint
Poetry Of
By Jay Kelly
Located in Boston, MA
Poetry Of is a unique collage on panel, created entirely from hand-torn vintage print materials. The coloration in the work is hand dyed to optimal archival specifications. The artis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Archival Paper
$12,200
Hunt Slonem "Hare Today" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Hare Today
Date: 2021
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 14" x 10"
Framed Dimensions: 20" x 16"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Prove...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Salvador Dali "Parade"
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: Parade
Series: Femmes et Chevaux
Date: 1973
Medium: drypoint printed in color
Framed Dimensions: 25" x 19.5"
Signature: Pencil signed
Edition: E...
Category
1970s Surrealist Boston - Art
Materials
Drypoint
$3,200 Sale Price
20% Off
At the Far Edges of the Universe III
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: At the Far Edges of the Universe III
Series: At the Far Edges of the Universe
Date: 2010
Medium: pigment graphic prints
Unframed Dimensions: 27...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
ABS, Pigment
First Glimpse
By Jay Kelly
Located in Boston, MA
First Glimpse is a unique collage on panel, created entirely from hand-torn vintage print materials. The coloration in the work is hand dyed to optimal archival specifications. The a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Archival Paper
$18,500
Hunt Slonem "Cockatoo Single Watch" Bird
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Cockatoo Single Watch
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 14" x 10"
Framed Dimensions: 19" x 15"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: U...
Category
2010s Contemporary Boston - Art
Materials
Oil
Pair of paintings - Two Children Playing
Located in Boston, MA
Pair of paintings each in original American Federal Period white pine gilded scoop frames with inner row of beads. Framed Dimensions: 24 x 29 1/2 inches. Provenance available upon request.
Michele Felice Cornè, considered to be Salem, Massachusetts’ most versatile early nineteenth century artist, painted this remarkable pair of paintings about a decade after he arrived in America from Naples, Italy. Cornè worked and lived in Salem from 1800-06 when he moved to Boston. During his Boston tenure (1807-22) the artist was noted for painting portraits of Boston ships and naval battles of the War of 1812, as well as taking on major mural commissions. This charming pair of paintings, each of two children playing, were possibly intended as overdoor decorations for a Federal period house. Cornè’s most ambitious decorations were the wall murals which he painted for the Sullivan Dorr house in Providence in 1810. And this pair of paintings seems to date from about the same period. From 1822 to his death in 1845 he lived in Newport, Rhode Island. The pair of paintings of Children playing was long in the famous Americana collection of Benjamin Flayderman. Flayderman was said to have set the standard for collecting in American furniture and decorative arts in the 1920s. Much of his collection was sold at a legendary sale at the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries (predecessor of Parke-Burnet and Sotheby’s, New York) in April of 1931. These paintings, however, were retained by Flayderman and descended in his family.
Cornè was instrumental in transferring current Neapolitan painting techniques as well as Italian landscape themes to America. On the subject of Cornè's non-marine work, Nina Fletcher Little, the Cornè expert, stated: “Although Cornè's claim to twentieth century recognition has rested chiefly on his marine subjects, it is becoming increasingly apparent that he was equally successful in the charming landscapes he placed upon overmantles, fireboards, and framed canvases. Many depict the rolling countryside of his native Italy, which he copied from romantic engravings. These compositions, featuring grazing cows and frolicking peasants, are extremely colorful and picturesque. Arched bridges, steepled churches, crenellated castles, and round stone towers form most decorative backgrounds.”
The two paintings: Two Children at Play with a White Bird and Two Children Playing recall earlier European and Italian models. Cherub paintings were popular throughout western Europe in the last quarter of the 18th century. But these Cornè paintings also recall the Renaissance paintings of putti such as the little angels by Raphael, painted as part of his Sistine Madonna, and lately enjoying greatly renewed popularity and notice. Cornè often used Italian old master models as a basis for landscape or figure paintings.
Cornè was born on the island of Elba in 1752. During the Napoleonic Wars, he sought refuge and sailed to America on the ship Mount Vernon commanded by Elias Hasket Derby, Jr., at whose father's house Cornè resided in Salem. The artist arrived in Salem, Massachusetts in July of 1800. Derby, impressed by the Neapolitan marine paintings that he had seen and collected during his Mediterranean voyages of the late eighteenth century, sought to make the same skills available in Salem by encouraging Cornè to live and work in that town. Cornè was quite successful in transferring the current Neapolitan decorative painting to America, and his popularity grew rapidly. Cornè attracted the patronage of many in Salem, and was introduced to Samuel McIntire with whom he worked on many of Salem's houses. Between 1807 and 1809 he was at 27 Hanover Street in Boston, but by 1810 the city directories list him at 61 Middle Street. By 1822, he was settled in Newport, Rhode Island and received enough patronage to support him the rest of his life.
Cornè is well represented in public and private collections including the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, the Peabody-Essex Museum of Salem, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, New Haven Colony Historical Society, the New York Historical Society, Newport Historical Society, Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Rhode Island Historical Society, the Smithsonian Institution, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, the United States Department of State, the United States Naval Academy...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Boston - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil