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Item Ships From: New Hampshire
Winter Stream
By Jonas Lie
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist landscape of a winter stream by American artist Jonas Lie (1880-1940). Lie was born in Moss, Norway to an accomplished Norwegian engineer and an American mother....
Category
1910s American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Naushon Sentinel Tree
By Charles Herbert Woodbury
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist landscape in Nauson, MA by American artist Charles Herbert Woodbury (1864-1940). Woodbury was born in Lynn, MA, and sold his first painting when he was fifteen y...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Class Clown
Located in Milford, NH
A fun genre painting with students in a classroom being students by American artist George Henry Story (1835-1923). Story was born in New Haven, CT, and after studying a year in Euro...
Category
1880s American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
View of Medici Villa, Rome
By Ross Sterling Turner
Located in Milford, NH
An exceptional Italian landscape by American artist Ross Sterling Turner (1847-1915). Turner was born in Westport, New York, and after moving to ...
Category
1890s New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rustic Bridge, Washington, NH
By George Frank Higgins
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist landscape of a rustic bridge in Washington, New Hampshire by American artist George Frank Higgins (1859-1891). Higgins was a Massachusetts artist, living in Pepp...
Category
1880s American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Old Mill Point, Cape Cod, Mass
Located in Milford, NH
A fine naive landscape painting with a windmill by American artist Janet Munro (b. 1949). Munro was born in Woburn, MA, and her work focuses on the waterfront lives of everyday peopl...
Category
1980s American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Egg Tempera, Board
Harbor Scene
Located in Milford, NH
A nicely detailed view of a harbor by American artist William Moore Davis (1829-1920). Davis was born in Setauket, New York, and spent most of his life painting and living in the are...
Category
19th Century New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Ruins of the San Francisco Earthquake & Fire
By Henry Deidrich Gremke
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful cityscape oil painting of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake by American artist Henry Dietrich Gremke (1860-1939). Gremke was born in San Francisco, CA, and began ar...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pastel Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful 18th century French oval pastel on paper of a young woman, unsigned, and housed under glass in its original giltwood foliate gessoed frame. Some frame gesso repairs and t...
Category
18th Century New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Des Enfants Traînant Un Chariot Chargé de Fruits
Located in Milford, NH
A fine oil painting with cherubs and a cart of fruit by French artist Leger Cherelle (1816-1867). Cherelle was born in Versailles, France, a...
Category
1830s Old Masters New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
European Portrait of a Priest
Located in Milford, NH
A fine European portrait of a priest, oil on canvas, probably dating to the 17th or 18th century, unsigned, with original stretcher, minor surface losses and damage, craquelure, edge...
Category
17th Century New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Maine Harbor Sunset
By William R. Davis 1
Located in Milford, NH
A fine luminous Maine harbor scene by contemporary American artist William R. Davis (1952-). Davis was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, and grew up in Hyannis Port where he took sa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
First Snow
By Charles Herbert Woodbury
Located in Milford, NH
A fine large impressionist winter landscape by American artist Charles Herbert Woodbury (1864-1940). Woodbury was born in Lynn, MA, and sold his first painting when he was fifteen ye...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Composicion #23
Located in Milford, NH
A fine Mid Century vertical abstract expressionist oil painting by Panamanian artist Antonio Alvarado (b. 1938). Antonio studied under the figurative ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Russian Officer
Located in Milford, NH
A finely detailed oil painting on canvas portrait of an unidentified Russian officer, dating to the 18th or 19th century, unsigned, and housed in a spectacular museum quality reprodu...
Category
18th Century New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yosemite
By Benjamin Champney
Located in Milford, NH
A majestic landscape of Yosemite in California by American artist Benjamin Champney (1817-1907). Champney was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire and began his career as a lithograph...
Category
1870s New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Golf Course, Probably The Country Club, Brookline MA
By Arthur Clifton Goodwin
Located in Milford, NH
A fine landscape of a golf course, probably The Country Club, Brookline, MA by American artist Arthur Clifton Goodwin (1864-1929). Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Goodwin lived an...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Near Marblehead, Mass
By George Henry Smillie
Located in Milford, NH
A fine New England landscape with sheep grazing near Boston’s North Shore coast by American artist George Henry Smillie (1840-1921). Smillie was born in New York, son of engraver Jam...
Category
Late 19th Century New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Connecticut River Valley
By William Lester Stevens
Located in Milford, NH
A well executed impressionist landscape of the Connecticut River Valley by American artist William Lester Stevens (1888-1969). Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, Stevens first studied ...
Category
1910s American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Scene Near Niagara Falls
By Louis Lang
Located in Milford, NH
A beautiful oval landscape painting with two young girls reading near Niagara Falls by German American artist Louis Lang (1814-1893). Lang was born in Waldsee, Wurtemberg, Germany, and came from an artistic family, his father being a history painter. Combining this heritage with his own native talents, he was producing successful pastels at age sixteen. Lang studied in Stuttgart, Germany and Paris, France, before coming to the United States in 1838. He first settled in Philadelphia, then lived in Italy from 1841-1845, before returning to America (1847) and living the majority of his life in New York City, with frequent visits to Europe. During the Civil War, Lang was working in the well-known artistic landmark, the Tenth Street Studio Building, in New York City. John F. Kensett and Emanuel Leutze...
Category
1860s New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
When Woods Are Green
By Robert Ward van Boskerck
Located in Milford, NH
A fine landscape along a brook by American artist Robert Ward Van Boskerck (1855-1932). Boskerck was an Impressionist landscape painter who preferred quiet scenes drawn from his domestic and foreign travels. He graduated in 1877 from the The School of Mines...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Bird Man
Located in Milford, NH
A modern abstract mixed media painting with the figure of a man by the ocean by contemporary Maine artist Troy M. Stafford (21st c). Troy Stafford is an artist that has lived on both the East and West Coasts and he currently resides in Brunswick, ME. Troy is a multifaceted artist that paints and creates using mixed media. He builds and creates extraordinary picture frames and is a furniture designer and maker. His work is in many private collections as well as in the permanent collections of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The New Britain Museum of American Art, Portland Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, and The Columbia Museum of Art among others.
Artist Statement:
“I have always been drawn to making things, the idea to make something where nothing had previously been felt right to me at an early age. Growing up in the desert I loved going to the dump...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Walnut, Paper, Found Objects, Oil, Photographic Paper
Companions
Located in Milford, NH
A modern abstract mixed media painting with two figures by contemporary Maine artist Troy M. Stafford (21st c). Troy Stafford is an artist that has lived on both the East and West Coasts and he currently resides in Brunswick, ME. Troy is a multifaceted artist that paints and creates using mixed media. He builds and creates extraordinary picture frames and is a furniture designer and maker. His work is in many private collections as well as in the permanent collections of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The New Britain Museum of American Art, Portland Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, and The Columbia Museum of Art among others.
Artist Statement:
“I have always been drawn to making things, the idea to make something where nothing had previously been felt right to me at an early age. Growing up in the desert I loved going to the dump...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Walnut, Paper, Found Objects, Oil, Photographic Paper
Girl & Cat in a Doorway
By Edmund Adler
Located in Milford, NH
A fine early 20th century figurative oil painting of a girl and cat in a doorway by Austrian artist Edmund Adler Rode (aka Edmund Adler) (1876-1965). Edmund was born in Vienna, Austr...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pastoral Landscape
By Edward B. Gay
Located in Milford, NH
A fine pastoral landscape by Irish artist Edward B. Gay (1837-1928). Gay was born in Dublin, Ireland, and emigrated with his to Albany, NY at a very young age as a result of the pota...
Category
1870s American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venice at Dusk
By Lucien Whiting Powell
Located in Milford, NH
A fine Italian coastal oil painting with boats titled “Venice at Dusk” by American artist Lucien Whiting Powell (1846-1930). Powell was born in Levinworth Manor, Virginia, joined the 11th Virginia Cavalry at 17 and fought in the Civil War, pursuing his art career after the war, studying with Thomas Moran in Philadelphia and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He is also said to have studied in New York City, probably with Moran who moved there in 1872. He was an admirer of British artist J...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Mount Monadnock
By Alexander James
Located in Milford, NH
A fine winter landscape painting of Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire by American artist Alexander Robertson James (1890-1946). James, nephew ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Morning Gloucester
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Milford, NH
A fine harbor scene with boats by American artist Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978). Gruppe was born in Rochester, NY, and went on to become a renowned New England landscape and marine...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn Landscape
By William Louis Sonntag Sr. 1
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful Autumn landscape likely of the Hudson River Valley by the revered American artist William Louis Sonntag (1822-1900). Sonntag was born near Pittsburgh, PA and moved to Cin...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Wild Flower Field with Mountains in the Back, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Rebecca Klementovich
Located in Yardley, PA
In the distance are the far mountains, the wild flowers and lupins are blooming. Here are miles of flowers in a field, to walk in such an area is thrilling. The fresh spring air is l...
Category
2010s Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Autumn Tapestry, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Rebecca Klementovich
Located in Yardley, PA
This lovely colorful painting has a composition that is mostly the snow falling in the forest. In a rare moment the first snow is falling on the foliage in the mountains. The bits of...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
British East Indiaman Ship Returning from a Voyage to the East
Located in Milford, NH
A large marine painting probably depicting a British East Indiaman ship returning from a voyage to the East, attributed to British artist Francis Holman (c1720-1790). Born in Ramsgat...
Category
18th Century New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Lilies
By Hayley Lever
Located in Milford, NH
A beautiful still life with lilies painted by Australian American artist Hayley Lever (1876-1958). Lever was born in Adelaide, Australia and studied first at...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Harbor Scene
By Hayley Lever
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist oil marine harbor scene painting by Australian American artist Hayley Lever (1876-1958). Lever was born in Adelaide, Australia and studied first at the Adelaide...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Delaware Gap
By Régis François Gignoux
Located in Milford, NH
A finely detailed oil landscape of the Delaware Gap attributed to French American artist Regis Francois Gignoux (1816-1882). Gignoux was born in Lyon, France, and began his studies i...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gathering Kindling on a Country Road
By WILLIAM SHAYER SENIOR (1787-1879)
Located in Milford, NH
A fine oil painting of a mother and her children gathering kindling on a country road, with artist placard lower center “Wm Shayer, 1788-1879,” most likely painted by a follower or p...
Category
19th Century New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hex-2, Original Signed Contemporary Colorful Geometric Abstract Grid Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Hex-2, Original Signed Contemporary Colorful Geometric Abstract Grid Painting
36" x 36" x 1.5"
Hand-signed by the artist in verso.
A bright and vibrant rainbow of colors bleed toget...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Winter Landscape with a Skating Scene
By Régis François Gignoux
Located in Milford, NH
A fine winter landscape with a skating scene by French American artist Regis Francois Gignoux (1816-1882). Gignoux was born in Lyon, France, and began his studies in Fribourg, Switze...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Echo Of Petals, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
By Rebecca Klementovich
Located in Yardley, PA
I find that of high-pitched sounds go with bright colors and low-pitched sounds go with dark colors. This is likely due to the fact that our brains process sound and color in similar...
Category
2010s Abstract New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Moon, Fireflies, and BIrches, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Rebecca Klementovich
Located in Yardley, PA
This nostalgic summertime painting is of what makes the summer special. It is twilight and the moon shines over the fireflies. The Birches are on the edge of the lake almost as if th...
Category
2010s Abstract New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Sound of Birch Leaves, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Rebecca Klementovich
Located in Yardley, PA
-Important This is a Diptych, meaning one piece made of two painting canvases This is Abstract or minimalist style. Modern birch tree paintings often leave the traditional realism style for a more abstract or minimalist shapes. This can involve using b
Category
2010s Abstract New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Portrait of a Gentleman or Architect
Located in Milford, NH
A finely detailed portrait of a gentleman or architect with building plans or maps in his hand. Oil on canvas, inscribed on verso stretcher "G. Hedley Artist 1852 April," (possibly ...
Category
1850s Realist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Amours sur des Nuages Jouant avec des Colombes
By (After) Francois Boucher
Located in Milford, NH
A fine grisaille oil painting on canvas of putti in the clouds, unsigned, labeled on verso BOUCHER (genre de Francois), titled “Amours sur des nuages jouant avec des colombes ” (literally translated “cupids on clouds playing with doves”), dating to the 19th century, unframed. French artist Francois Boucher (1707-1770) was well known for Rococo portrait, landscape and mythology painting...
Category
19th Century French School New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At Larchmont
By Hayley Lever
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist oil marine sailing painting by Australian American artist Hayley Lever (1876-1958). Lever was born in Adelaide, Australia and studied first at the Adelaide’s Pri...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Salmon Fishing
By John Whorf
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist sporting painting with salmon fisherman in a canoe by American artist John Whorf (1903-1959). Whorf was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts and by the age of sixteen...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pair of Birds
By Abbott Handerson Thayer
Located in Milford, NH
A fine woodland scene oil painting with two birds by American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921). Thayer was born in Boston to a prominent family and attended the Chauncey Hall School, founded by his grandfather. His art teacher there was Henry Morse from whom he learned to do animal portraits. He studied at the Brooklyn Academy of Design with Lemuel Wilmarth, and after marrying Kate Bloede, he went to Paris for a year, as a student of Jean Leon Gerome. In 1879, he opened a studio in Brooklyn in the same building as the studios of Thomas Dewing...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of The Public Garden, Boston
By Arthur Clifton Goodwin
Located in Milford, NH
A nicely executed view of the Boston Public Garden by American artist Arthur Clifton Goodwin (1864-1929). Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Goodwin live...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Lake Grasshoppers and Fireflies, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Rebecca Klementovich
Located in Yardley, PA
I have great admiration for the small inhabitants of a lake, the fireflies, bugs, and grasshoppers.These creatures give an aliveness to the lakes. If you have been swimming in the mi...
Category
2010s Abstract New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Back of Provincetown
By Malcolm Humphreys
Located in Milford, NH
A colorful impressionist Cape Cod landscape by American artist Malcolm Humphreys (1892-1963). Humphreys was born in Morristown, New Jersey, graduated from Princeton University, and p...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Sunset, Rockport Harbor
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Milford, NH
A colorful Cape Ann, Massachusetts marine harbor scene with boats docked by American artist Emile Albert Gruppé (1896-1978). Gruppé was born in Rochester, NY, and is renowned for his New England landscapes and vigorous portrayals of the harbors and houses of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The son of landscape artist Charles P. Gruppé (1860-1940), Emile enjoyed a long and successful career that spanned over six decades.In 1925, Gruppé began spending summers in Gloucester. He established a studio on Rocky Neck in East Gloucester where he taught plein-air classes. In 1942 —along with Bridgman, Carlson, Miller and Chapman—he established the Gruppé Summer School, which he continued to operate until 1970.Gruppé’s works hang in many colleges and museums: Smith College, Silberman College in Montreal, the University of Idaho, the Los Angeles Museum, the San Antonio Museum and the de Cordova Museum. His paintings are also at the White House in Washington, D.C. and the Gruppe Summer School in Gloucester.
Oil on canvas, signed lower right, title inscribed on verso stretcher “Sunset, Rockport Harbor...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Morning Light
By Anthony Thieme
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist marine painting of boats docked in the harbor by Dutch / American artist Anthony Thieme (1888-1954). Thieme was born in Rotterdam, Holland and, after traveling i...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Study of a Statue of Buddha, Japan
By Lilla Cabot Perry
Located in Milford, NH
A fine small oil study of a Buddha in Japan by American artist Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933). Perry was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and went on to...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
St. Paul’s From John Street, NY
By Felicie Howell
Located in Milford, NH
A fine cityscape painting by American artist Felicie Waldo Howell (1897-1968). Howell was born in Hawaii, moved to Washington DC to study at the Corcoran School of Art with E.C. Messer, then enrolled at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women in Pennsylvania, studying with Henry Snell. She became well known as a painter of oils and watercolors, most known for coastal landscapes, shore scenes, impressionist figures in nature...
Category
1920s American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Provincetown
By Max Kuehne
Located in Milford, NH
A colorful impressionist coastal oil painting of Provincetown by German / American artist Max Kuehne (1880-1968). Kuehne was born in Halle, Germany, and emigrated to Flushing, New Y...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Gloucester
By Guy Carleton Wiggins
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist harbor scene in Gloucester, Massachusetts by American artist Guy Carleton Wiggins (1883-1962). Wiggins was born in Brooklyn, New York, and had a long and success...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Provincetown, Pier Low Tide
By Henry Ryan MacGinnis
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist coastal oil painting of Provincetown, MA by American impressionist artist Henry Rya MacGinnis (1874-1962). MacGinnis was born in Indiana and began his art studies under the Hoosier artists...
Category
1920s American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Irises in a Glass Vase
By Stephen Motyka
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist still life with irises in a glass vase by contemporary American artist Stephen Motyka (b. 1964). Stephen was born in Rhode Island and started painting and drawin...
Category
2010s American Impressionist New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tuckerman's Ravine, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Rebecca Klementovich
Located in Yardley, PA
This view of the mountain is magnificent. When you stand at the bottom and look up, you see how powerful the winds are that sweep over it. THis part of the mountain is famous for Ski...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Hampshire - Paintings
Materials
Oil
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