Continental US - Paintings

Abstract Modernist oil painting by Zoute. Oil on canvas mounted on board. Painted in circa 1940's. Zoute (Born-Leon Salter, 1903-1976) was self-taught and well exhibited during his...

Original Airbrushed artwork Flamingos (original airbrushed over a print) for the Turner Company, circa 1948 in the original hardwood frame carved into a bamboo shape. A great example...

A fine Franco-German 19th century oil on canvas "Portrait of a Lady" depicting an 18th century young beauty posing with a profile gaze and cur...

Fantastic original art piece by California artist, Robert Gilberg c 1960s. This was from his Japanese nude series. All these works were painted on antique Japanese ledger paper. This...

An early 19th century painting, oil on linen, showing an English pastoral farm scene, artist unknown. The right foreground shows three farm workers clearing hay in a meadow. Other figures can be seen in the mid-ground along with a hay laden wagon harnessed to horses. A thatched roof cottage is painted in the distance. In the central background, two horses are grazing in front of split rail fence...

A dark-blue, vintage Mid-Century Modern French abstract oil on wood painting of a color field, painted by Daniel Clesse in good condition. Signed on the lower right. Wear consistent ...

Adja Yunkers (1900-1983) was an abstract painter and printmaker. Born in Latvia Yunkers lived and studied extensively in Leningrad, Berlin, Paris, and London. He lived in Paris for 1...

A French Barbizon School framed oil on canvas painting from the early 20th century, depicting a pastoral farmyard scene and signed Theodore Linsyer. Born in France during the early y...

American classical portrait of a lady. American School, unsigned. Measures: Oil on canvas 25"x 30" Period gilt frame 29" x 34" x 2" Professional...

A fabulous vintage Boho signed original oil on board. A beautiful Abstract Expressionist Still life of two bowls of fruit. An homage to Paul Cezanne with traditional black outlines. ...

American Victorian oil on canvas landscape of a marshy field with a grey sky (possibly Long Island, NY) in a gold carved frame (sign...

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 gilt wood 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. A retailer's label reads " Fred K/ Keer's Sons - Framers and Fine Art Dealers - 917 Broad St. Newark, N.J." - Another label from the gilder reads "Carlo Bartolini - Doratore e Verniciatori - Via Maggio 1924 - Firenze". Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Canvas diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 54 inches (137.2 cm) Frame width: 42 1/2 inches (108 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/2 inches (14 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...

Copy of a portrait in a classical style of the young Rospigliosi boy scion dressed as a member of the Swiss Guard; Two of four in a series

British Botanical Watercolor of Tulips, 19th century The beautifully framed and matted botanical watercolor depicts four different tulips. Dime...

EBBETS FIELD. Original painting by LYNN CURLEE Acrylic on stretched canvas. Gallery wrapped with painted edges. This painting was used as an illustratio...

A softer palette, antique oil painting from 19th century, France. The work exhibits a vase holding dahlias and daisies, a cigarette and ...

Allegorical Oil Sketch “al fresco” Picnic attrib. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Allegorical oil sketch “al fresco” picnic painting. Preliminary study of t...

Lovely pastoral oil paintings. They will want you to visit France.

An exquisite 17th century oil painting of the Assumption Of The Virgin Mary. Magnificently executed in oil on a hand woven canvas. Stunning.

Large American abstract modernist impressionist oil painting on masonite board in the great original artist hand painted sgraffito combed decorated wood frame by Zoute ( born Leon Sa...

In an era when the circus provided an affordable and exotic form of entertainment for the Everyman, this vivid painting, glowing with the colors of red clay, slate and dusty pink, ca...

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...

Pair antique 19th century Chinese framed oil paintings on silk of Canton figures in traditional costumes, circa 1880.

English Georgian (18/19th Cent) oil painting portrait of a young British officer with arms crossed wearing a red coat with gold epaulets in a gilt carved frame.  

This captivating artwork, Framed Signed John Louis Brown (1829-1890) Autour du Lac Oil on Board, presents a refined lakeside scene brimming with elegance and charm. The composition f...

Mid Century Abstract Square Painting by E.S Greenberg. Nice square shape with soft pastels colors. Housed in a chrome frame. Signed lower right

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...

This captivating abstract oil painting by Heidi Melano evokes the vibrant style of Sonia Delaunay. Created during Melano's renowned collaboration with artistic giants like Fernand Léger, Chagall and Braque on monumental mosaics, this artwork reflects a period of artistic exchange and exploration. Melano's signature bold style shines through, evident in the vivid colors and dynamic geometric patterns. Signed "HMH" in the lower left corner and inscribed "H. Melano" on the verso, this piece is a unique opportunity to own a work by a highly acclaimed artist. Heidi Melano's legacy extends beyond her collaborations, with her own mosaics prominently displayed at the Fernand Léger National Museum. This professionally cleaned painting, measuring 29 7/8" x 37 3/8", is in excellent condition and ready to be a stunning focal point in any setting, from mid-century modern to contemporary. This is a true collector's item by none other than one of the most famous artist of the 20th century. Heidi Melano's monumental mosaics decorate the east and west sides of the Fernand Leger National Museum. The mosaics were inspired from Fernand Léger’s master pieces. Her mosaic art and paintings have sold throughout the world. More About the Artist: Heidi Melano studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva settled in France with her husband, Lino Melano...

Southern California landscape Plein Air style painting in original period carved and gilded wood frame. Signed, Esther Smee. Recently professionally cleaned. In excellent condition. Esther B...

An impressive painting of President James Madison that's a reproduction of an original antique portrait painted by John Vanderlyn in 1816. Gorgeous black and gold chunky frame with fleur di lis decoration in each corner. Signed Henry Callan...

Artist/ School: French, 20th century, signed Subject Côte d’Azur village of Cagnes. Professionally framed.

A charming and wonderfully detailed three panel folding screen, tempura or gouche painting on paper and laid down on canvas of the World's Fair Exposition scene, France, mid-19th cen...

Antique miniature oil painting of Perseus and Andromeda on papier mache. Extraordinary detail. Probably German. Early 19th century in a ...

Copy of portrait painting of a French woman in gown holding rose, in gold oval frame- (Companion to TR2005)

A light-yellow, green antique German oil on canvas painting, portraying a sunny day in a breakfast room with red, white flowers in a vase, painted by Wilhelm Kricheldorff in good con...

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English 19th century oil painting.

Decorate a home office, living room or den with this beautiful vintage Paris cityscape painting. Created in France circa 1940 and set in the original black frame, the hand painted ar...

Framed English School Oil on Board, Two Hounds on the Hunt, late 19th/early 20th Century. An unsigned English School oil on board depicting two hounds mid-hunt, painted in the mann...

A large abstract canvas with broad swaths of peach tones with yellow, blue and pink and black outlines. Unsigned. Titled "After Portugal, 2012)" Presented unframed in a supported str...

English Art Moderne oil painting of Stewart's cup horse race in rosewood frame. Signed lower left: "E. Noble /1938". Painted lower right: "Harmachis (Revans) Winning the Steward's cu...

Fine 19th century portrait miniature of a man with a yellow V-neck collar A wonderful antique oil portrait of a distinguished gentleman. Dim...

19th century French Painting 'Backyard Fight', Unsigned France, later 19th century Oil on Board, Apparently unsigned. This 19th-century French painting, titled 'Backyard Fight,' i...

Italian 19th century oil on canvas titled "The Music Professor" depicting a mid-19th century music-room scene of an elder man, the music professor, holding his violin, hat and umbrel...

Beautifully painted in muted tones of honey, soft blue and dusty pink, this evocative painting from the 1930s depicts two nude and semi-nude ...

A large scale and very dynamic painting on canvas comprised of oil and pencil depicting an interior. The interior with chairs surrounding a table set for coffee to the right, two lamps and a vase atop a Pleyel piano...

An exquisite circa 1720 English George I period "Kit-kat" style portrait firmly attributed to royal court painter Sir Godfrey Kneller (8 August 1646 – ...

Parmigianino und der Europäische Manierismus by Ferino-Pagden, Sylvia (Hrg.) und Lucia (Hrg.) Forniari Schianchi. Published by Mailand; Wien: Silvana Editoriale, Spa, Cinisello Balsa...

"Ballerinas" impressionist painting by Andre Gisson (1921-2003). Soft colors and bright light are hallmarks of Gissons work. Although American born Andre Gisson is best known for hi...

This gorgeous painting is by Jaeques Lamy. Circa 2000s. Dimensions; 48" x 60".

Fantastic Japanese late Meiji period two-panel byobu screen by Hashimoto Koshu. The large screen features two white geese amid brightly colored reeds. The symbolism of geese and reeds was introduced to Japan from China in the 13th century. This was a popular subject for Japanese zen artists of the period. Beautifully crafted with exceptional brush strokes and details. Made with natural pigments in dramatic vivid colors of white, pink, and mint green on a silk background of gilt. Circa 1900 with artist seal on bottom right corner. Koshu studied Western art under...

YANKEE STADIUM. Original painting by LYNN CURLEE Acrylic on stretched canvas. Gallery wrapped with painted edges. This painting was used as an illustr...

Charles Levier born of a French Father and American mother. He was was active/lived in New York, California / United Kingdom, France and is known for landscape, still life and figura...

Large hand-painted Chinese Wallpaper Painting, China Trade, 18th – early 19th century. A fine mix of blues and gold leaf. Expansive imaginary village landscape, including Chinese female figures...

A great still life painting from France depicting Classic kitchen elements. The canvas is framed simply in wood trim. Signed by the artist M. Robert in the bottom left corner. Fixed ...

Memento Moro still life oil painting. Remains in stunning original condition. Signed by the artist, Orren C. Richards, in upper left corner.

Wolfgang Loesche studied painting at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences in Germany. A large amusing and colorful acrylic on canvas depicting Donald Duck driving a red auto...

End of XIX Century Circa 1880s old oil painting probably "Ecole de Pont Aven " ( South East of French Britany ) in a circa 1920 frame. The lady wears th...

1990s Wall Art Abstract patinated brass bronze metal Raul Monje Mexico unsigned 29.25 x 21 x 1.75 Art 24.25 x 15.75 Wood gilt frame. Original vintage unrestored condition. Expect sig...

Signed indistinctly lower left. A fine large painting of the busy wheat harvest with workers loading a horse-drawn overladen cart with wheat sheaves as another already loaded cart is...