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Pair of 19 Century Russian Empire Figural Gilt and Patinated Bronze Candelabra
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A pair of Russian Empire figural candelabra featuring a patinated bronze caryatid holding a gilt bronze urn mounted with a torch atop her head, with two ...
Category
Early 19th Century Russian Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
$4,400 Sale Price / set
32% Off
76.20 Pendant by Bocci
Located in Geneve, CH
76.20 Pendant by Bocci
Dimensions: D132 x W30 x H300 cm
Materials: white powder coated square canopy
Weight: 27.3 kg
Also Available in different dimensions.
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Category
2010s Canadian Post-Modern Vancouver
Materials
Other
$25,166 / item
Brass and Beveled Glass Hall Lantern
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A contemporary brass and beveled glass hall or dining room lantern/chandelier with six rectangular beveled glass framed sides supported from the top to the canopy by six scrolling ar...
Category
Late 20th Century American American Classical Vancouver
Materials
Brass
Pair of Bronze French Louis XVI Style Figural Candelabra After Clodion
By Claude Michel Clodion
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A pair of Clodion inspired figural candelabra of the highest quality gilt and patinated chased bronze. Each show a standing classically draped semi-nude maiden with a hoof footed inf...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
3 Aynsley Porcelain Plates with Green Borders and Paintings of British Castles
By John Aynsley
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A set of three late Victorian Aynsley bone china wall plates with a light green border centered with hand painted images of Arundel Castle in England...
Category
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Vancouver
Materials
Porcelain
$450 Sale Price / set
40% Off
21.1 Pendant by Bocci
Located in Geneve, CH
21.1 pendant by Bocci
Dimensions: D11.6 x H300 cm
Materials: brushed nickel, round canopy.
Weight: 0.5 kg
Also Available in different dimensions.
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Category
2010s Canadian Post-Modern Vancouver
Materials
Nickel
$595 / item
Painting of Travellers at Tivoli Falls Outside Rome After Claude Joseph Vernet
By Claude-Joseph Vernet
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A museum worthy large painting depicting travellers before the falls of Tivoli outside of Rome, with the Temple of Vesta in the background, after the 18thC French artist Claude Joseph Vernet...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Vancouver
Materials
Canvas
A 19 Century Bronze Statue of St Joan of Arc in full body armour on horseback
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An small but exquisitely cast and highly detailed bronze statue of St Joan of Arc in full body battle armour including the horse with one hand holding ...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Renaissance Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
French 19 Century Gilt Bronze Figural Group Titled Pro Patria by Edouard Drouot
By Edouard Drouot
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A very fine French antique gilt bronze figural group titled "Pro Patria" meaning "For one's country" in Latin. by Edouard Drouot (French, 1859-1945) l The statue depicts a female figure of winged Victory supporting a soldier ready for battle equipped withj a sword and shield...
Category
Late 19th Century French Romantic Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
Little Petra Lounge Chair & Ottoman in Sheepskin with oiled Oak Frame
By &Tradition, Viggo Boesen
Located in Vancouver, BC
Initially introduced back in 1938, Little Petra won instant praise at the Copenhagen Cabinetmakers Guild Exhibition, subsequently winning awards at exhibits in New York and Berlin. I...
Category
2010s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vancouver
Materials
Sheepskin, Walnut
French Louis XVI Style Allegorical Clock of “Paul and Virginie"
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A rare Louis XVI style mantel clock after a late 18th century original inspired by the novel ‘Paul and Virginia’ written in 1788 by Bernardin de Sain...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vancouver
Materials
Marble, Bronze
A Extremely Rare French Louis XIV period Tapestry Reclining Armchair
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A rare late 17th century French reclining armchair with a carved walnut stretcher, upholstered in its original verdure tapestry. The chair dates back t...
Category
Late 17th Century French Louis XIV Antique Vancouver
Materials
Tapestry, Walnut
French Empire Allegorical Clock Depicting "Venus Guided by Love" by Lesieur
By Pierre Lesieur
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An important and rare French Empire gilt bronze mantel clock depicting "Venus Guided by Love" featuring a case by the noted bronzier Lesieur. The figures and clock plinth sit on a rectangular green marble base topped with a gilt bronze plinth, raised upon four flattened toupie feet.
The round enamel dial, signed “Lesieur à Paris”, indicates the Roman numeral hours and minute graduations. It is housed in a finely chased bronze altar whose pediment is decorated with egg and dart friezes, and be-ribboned torches on either side the façade is adorned with applied stylized butterfly and lyre motifs. The sides feature be-ribboned flower wreaths, and the plinth a leaf frieze. Two fine gilt bronze figures depict a winged and semi-nude cupid who is pointing to the time, while addressing Venus who is clothed in antique robes...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
$16,875 Sale Price
25% Off
Early 19th Century French Empire Giltwood Mirror
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A large French Empire carved and original water gilded Empire picture frame inset with a modern mirror, the corners of the deeply scooped sides set with palmettes.
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Wood
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
A Patinated Bronze Statue of a Seated Classical Scholar Signed Doriot
By Theodore Doriot
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A finely cast bronze sculpture of an expressive classically draped Greek scholar seated on a curule chair holding a lyre in one hand and an an open scroll in the other, both symb...
Category
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Revival Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
Three 18th Century Engravings of Versailles Garden by Antoine Aveline
By Antoine Aveline
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A set of three original copperplate engravings by the renowned Parisian 18th century Engraver Antione Aveline ( b 1718 - d 1762 ). The three engravings are numbered 62, 64 and 45 and were commissioned with the permission of the Louis XV the King of France at the time.
All three engravings show views and perspectives of features in the gardens of Versailles...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Vancouver
Materials
Paper
$720 Sale Price / set
20% Off
French Empire Clock Depicting Apollo God of Music and the Arts
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A gilt bronze and griotte marble French Empire clock depicting Apollo Greek God of Music Art Literature and Sciences. The clock shows a a gilt bronze winged figure of Apollo leaning against a griotte marble altar pedestal decorated with gilt bronze garlands. At the center of the pedestal is the clock’s dial and movement. Sitting on top of the pedestal is a standing harp, a mallet and a scroll. The whole is supported by a griotte marble base with a gilt bronze frieze showing a number of frolicking and dancing cupids playing music, drinking wine waving laurel wreaths, carrying a standard and even crowning a bust of Athena. The base sits on two owl feet...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Griotte Marble, Bronze
Allegorical Sevres Bisque Porcelain Figural Clock Titled La Larcin De La Rose
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A fine example of sevres biscuit porcelain showing an allegorical group of three classically draped young figures, two embracing; all standing beside the clock case which is surmount...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Vancouver
Materials
Porcelain
E Picault Gilt Bronze Statue Titled "Gratus Animus " or "Gratitiude"
By Émile Louis Picault
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A beautifully cast late 19 century French bronze statue by Emile Picault of a classically draped winged maiden on clouds holding a tablet inscribed "La Reconnaissance est La Memoire ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Romantic Antique Vancouver
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Empire Gilt and Patinated Bronze Figurative Clock of Cupid and Eurydice
By Claude Galle
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A palatial scale late French Empire mantel (fireplace) clock depicting cupid and Eurydice. The rectangular patinated bronze base sits on four lions paw feet ...
Category
1820s French Restauration Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Bronze Statue of a Nymph by A. Carrier
By Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A very fine cast and chased bronze showing a beautiful standing nude nymph, parting and emerging from between tall bull rushes at the edge of a stream. At her feet is a water jug. Th...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
$6,160 Sale Price
30% Off
21.5 Pendant by Bocci
Located in Geneve, CH
21.5 Pendant by Bocci
Dimensions: D 15.2 x H 300 cm
Materials: brushed nickel, round canopy.
Weight:3 kg
Also available in different dimensions.
All our lamps can be wired acc...
Category
2010s Canadian Post-Modern Vancouver
Materials
Nickel
$2,955 / item
19th Century French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Cylinder Desk
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A palatial scale mahogany cylinder desk in the Louis XVI style; the superstructure with rectangular galleried bleu turquin marble top over four frieze drawers, the paneled cylinder f...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vancouver
Materials
Mahogany
CC-Tapis Visioni Himalayan Wool Rug in A-Standard by Patricia Urquiola
By cc-tapis, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Vancouver, BC
An unprecedented synthesis between an age-old technique and abstract graphics. This rug designed by Patricia Urquiola for CC Tapis has been produced solely by hand with colors and ma...
Category
2010s Nepalese Modern Vancouver
Materials
Wool
Napoleon III Inlaid Wood and Gilt Bronze Mounted Drop-Leaf Table
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A beautifully inlaid and ebonized French centre table from the Napoleon III Era or third quarter of the 19th century. The table rests on four turned ebonized legs joined at the botto...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Vancouver
Materials
Ebony, Kingwood
19th Century French Louis XVI Style Desert Table / Console
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
The Louis XVI style dessert table is made of mahogany, the top section richly decorated with gilded bronze Vitruvian scrolls and other decorative mounts, all of Dasson or Linke quali...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vancouver
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Louis XV Style French Kingwood Parquetry and Gilt Bronze Bureau Plat 'Desk'
By Jean-Pierre Latz
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A late 19th century French Bureau Plat in kingwood and amaranth parquetry with three drawers to one side with gilt bronze decoration all round; notable are the drawer handles modelled with Chinese heads; the two ends decorated with Apollo heads...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vancouver
Materials
Kingwood
Classic Marine Painting Signed C. Langenbeck Dated 1906
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A beautifully executed early 20th Century oil on canvas marine painting. Signed Charles Langenbeck ( 1873-1943) dated 1906 and presented in a robust carved giltwood frame. The paint...
Category
Early 20th Century Belgian Romantic Vancouver
Materials
Canvas, Boxwood, Giltwood
Cassina Rio Coffee Table with Vienna Straw Top and Natural Oak Base
By Cassina, Charlotte Perriand
Located in Vancouver, BC
The low table by Charlotte Perriand is composed of six segments of different radius, arranged in a circle but offset from one another to create an uneven outer border in solid wood w...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Vancouver
Materials
Cane, Oak
A Pair of Small 19 Century Chinese Patinated Bronze Statues of Gods or Deities
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A pair of exceptional small patinated bronze castings of a male and female Chinese Deities or Gods possibly representing Shouxing God of Longevity Immortality and Good Fortune, and G...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
Leitizia Bonapartes, Madame Mere Dressing Mirror and Jewellery Cabinet
By Georges Jacob
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A mahogany cheval mirror and jewellery cabinet, once belonging to Leitizia Bonaparte, Napoleon's mother. The veneered semi circular topped mirror framed by columns topped with gilt bronze cassolettes and single arm candle holders.
The bottom section is fronted by two doors which open to reveal nine shallow leather cartonniers and six jewellery drawers; the whole carcass richly decorated with gilt bronze friezes and various classical motives. Similar gilded bronze mounts are found on various pieces of furniture in the collection of the Louvre Paris.
This rare museum worthy piece of furniture came from the Chateau Du Pont Sur Seine. The piece is not stamped but the quality of the mahogany and the amount of finely chiseled and burnished gilt bronze mounts, plus the presence of the cartonnier and jewellery drawers almost certainly point to a royal provenance and which almost certainly came from the workshop of Georges Jacob.
The Chateau De Pont Sur Seine was originally built in 1632 and hosted such important historical figures as Catherine de Medicis and Cardinal Richelieu. In the late 17C it was acquired by the Duc de Saxony, one of Louis XVI’s uncles whose family maintained ownership until 1792 until the start of the French Revolution when they had to vacate to escape the guillotine. While it suffered damage by the revolutionairies it was still very habitable and in 1805, Napoleon purchased the chateau for his mother Madame Letizia Bonaparte where she resided until Napoleon’s fall from grace in 1814. Madame Mere...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
Large oil on canvas Painting of a Shepherd herding his Flock by Henri Matthys
By Henri Matthys
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A calming bucolic painting of a shepherd herding his flock of sheep back home at sunset along a country lane assisted by his sheepdog. The painting is presented in a gesso carved g...
Category
Early 20th Century Belgian Victorian Vancouver
Materials
Canvas, Paint
$6,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Monumental Bronze Porte Cochere or Porch Lantern
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A monumental cast bronze and frosted glass porte cochere lantern; (a porte cochere is a roofed structure extending from the entrance of a buildin...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Classical Roman Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
Spektrum Series Rouge, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Lianna Klassen
Located in Yardley, PA
The Spektrum Series is based on the hope and joy I find in coming into this new year with all it's potential. My hope is to create an atmosphere through this series where the observ...
Category
2010s Abstract Vancouver
Materials
Acrylic
Early 19th Century Italian Carved and Giltwood Corner Bracket
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A finely carved and water gilt pine Italian corner bracket displaying period Empire military attributes. In front of the curved middle section, (of three), is a large feathered helme...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Vancouver
Materials
Marble
$2,000 Sale Price
42% Off
Romantic Movement Portrait of an Italian Girl with Garlands by Giovanni Zennaro
By Giovanni Zennaro
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
This original oil painting on canvas depicts a beautiful young girl standing in a landscape. She wears a pink dress with flowers in her hair an...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Romantic Antique Vancouver
Materials
Canvas
Large Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Figural Lamp
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An unusual French gilt bronze candelabra, now wired as a lamp, combining Louis XVI and late Empire styles. An elegantly draped young lady sits beside her open jewellery box with thre...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
French Empire Bronze Clock Depicting Urania Greek Muse of Astronomy
By Lesieur
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A magnificent large gilded and patinated bronze period French Empire mantle clock depicting Urania the Greek Muse of Astronomy standing on a stepped rectangular gilded bronze base her left elbow resting on a large gilded globe of the heavens with a central band showing the signs of the zodiac...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
Three 18th Century Engravings of Fountains at Versailles Gardens by A. Aveline
By Antoine Aveline
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Three small 18th century engravings of fountains at the gardens of Versailles by renowned Parisian engraver Antoine Aveline. All three are pr...
Category
Early 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Vancouver
Materials
Paper
$360 Sale Price / set
20% Off
A Late 19 Century Malachite clock Topped by a Gilt Bronze Bust of Napoleon
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A simple yet elegant relatively rare malachite cased clock topped by a gilt bronze bust of a young Napoleon in uniform after the marble original work by Jean Antoine Houdon.
Category
Late 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Malachite, Bronze
Impressionist Style Landscape Signed Paul Rubens
By Claude Monet
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A well painted colorful oil painting showing a lady walking in a treed landscape towards a town in the distance, presented in a gilt/gesso frame; signed Paul Rubens; likely English, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century British Romantic Vancouver
Materials
Canvas
$880 Sale Price
60% Off
19thC Engraving of Mozart Playing for Hapsburg Emperor Francis 1
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A 19th century engraving of a young Mozart playing the harpsichord in the court of Hapsburg Emperor Francis I featuring the Emperor and a number of cou...
Category
Late 19th Century European Louis XV Antique Vancouver
Materials
Giltwood, Paper
$720 Sale Price
48% Off
French Academy Drawing of the Byzantine Commander Belisarius after Gerard
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Pencil on paper drawing after a late 18th century French neoclassical painting after a painting of Belisarius by Baron Francois Pasal Simo...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Neoclassical Revival Antique Vancouver
Materials
Parchment Paper
Louis XVI Style Painted Console and Mirror
By Georges Jacob
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A 20thC copy of a French Louis XVI demi-lune console and over mirror. Both pieces are painted in a two toned light blue/grey with gilded highlights to the decorative elements on both...
Category
Late 20th Century French Louis XVI Vancouver
Materials
Pine
$9,500 / set
"Lovers in the Park” by German/French Artist Ferdinand Heilbuth
By Ferdinand Heilbuth
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A Classic romantic movement oil painting on wood panel depicting two lovers. They are dressed in Renaissance almost theatrical garments and they sit intimately close to one another on a bench. The atmospheric background is set in the middle of a wooded park in the early evening hours before dusk. Their faces are almost in shadow as the brilliant orange/red sun sets behind them. The painting is signed F. Heilbuth on the right hand bottom corner of the canvas and is dated ’76 in reference to 1876. It is set in a gold painted wood frame.
Biography
Ferdinand Heilbuth, (1826-1889), was a German-born French painter. He was born in Hamburg in 1826, and died in Paris in 1889 having become a French citizen in 1876, the same year he painted this work. He is buried in Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
This genre painter whose talent has the characteristics of nobility, liveliness of color and accent in expression, exhibited many times at the Royal Academy in London. His works were also shown in the Grosvenor Gallery...
Category
Late 19th Century French Romantic Antique Vancouver
Materials
Canvas
14.3 Pendant by Bocci
Located in Geneve, CH
14.1 single pendant by Bocci
Dimensions: D 15.2 x H 300 cm
Materials: Brushed nickel
Weight: 5.5 kg
Adjustable lengths, Other materials and dimensions can be ordered.
All our ...
Category
2010s Canadian Post-Modern Vancouver
Materials
Nickel
$1,775 / item
Late 19 Century Napoleon III Rococo Style Gilt Wood and Gesso Framed Mirror
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A rare and highly unusual French Napoleon III carved wood, gesso and gilded frame with a modern mirror in it. The frame is decorated with cartouches and is further embellished with...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Vancouver
Materials
Gesso, Giltwood, Mirror
19th Century Swedish Empire Marble Topped Drawer Chest Commode
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A Swedish Empire three-drawer commode chest veneered in burled bird's-eye elm emblematic of Baltic furniture in the 18th-19th centuries, the rectangular side columns mounted with brass Egyptian...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Elm
$6,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Dutch Empire Stained Wood, Gilt Bronze and Beveled Glass Mirrors
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A fine pair of relatively large Empire style rectangular mirrors; the frames having a gilded bronze molding around the glass, and gilt rosettes on the top two sides; the mirrors are ...
Category
Early 20th Century Dutch Empire Revival Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
$3,600 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Cassina 720 Lady Chair with Iconic Pattern and Black Legs
By Marco Zanuso, Cassina
Located in Vancouver, BC
Designed in 1951 by Marco Zanuso for Arflex, the Lady armchair won the gold medal at the IX Milan Triennale in the same year. The armchair stands as a modern icon, the fruit of innov...
Category
2010s Italian Vancouver
Materials
Fabric
Allegorical Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Cartel Clock Depicting "Night and Day"
By Jacques Caffieri
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
The clock features a cartouche shaped case housing an hour and half-hour striking movement with a round white enamel dial, indicating the Roman numeral hours and the Arabic five-minute intervals by means of two pierced patinated bronze hands...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Early 19th Century Neoclassical ‘Old Paris’ Porcelain Vases
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A fine pair of early French Empire porcelain vases, (unsigned but attributable to either the Nast or Dagoty factories in Paris). Each vase has a large gilded satyr’s heads to the sid...
Category
1830s French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Porcelain
Michael Anastassiades Mobile Chandelier 1
By Michael Anastassiades
Located in Vancouver, BC
The Mobile Chandeliers are delicate structures balanced in perfect equilibrium. Constructed following the principles of a mobile, these are arrangements of linear tubes, geometric li...
Category
2010s British Modern Vancouver
Materials
Brass
Allegorical Patinated Bronze Statue of the Wine Goddess Bacchante
By Claude Michel Clodion
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A patinated bronze allegorical statue of a nude bacchante, the roman goddess of wine, in the manner of Clodion with right hand raised and holding a bunch of grapes, while the other r...
Category
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Revival Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
French Empire Allegorical Clock Garniture of "Psyche Crowning Amor"
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A large scale French Empire figurative allegorical clock showing “Psyche Crowning Amor”. Psyche stands to the right of the domed clock plinth, holding her ...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Siena Marble, Bronze
Painting of a Young Boy with His Dog after Henry Raeburn
By Sir Henry Raeburn
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
The oil painting on canvas is of a young boy 'hugging' his dog, which lies on the boy's lap. It is very much in the style of the Scottish painter Henry Raeburn. The boy is dressed in...
Category
Early 19th Century Scottish Romantic Antique Vancouver
Materials
Canvas, Wood
84.5 Pendant by Bocci
Located in Geneve, CH
84.5 pendant by Bocci
Dimensions: D 15.2 x H 300 cm
Materials: white powder coated square canopy
Weight: 10.7 kg
Also available in different dimensions.
All our lamps can be wir...
Category
2010s Canadian Post-Modern Vancouver
Materials
Other
$6,398 / item
Early 19th Century Russian Crystal Gilt Bronze and Blue Glass Chandelier
By Johann Zech
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An early 19th century Russian chandelier having eight candle arms. The design is intended to represent waterfalls. The central stem of the chandelier is in four tiers each hung with ...
Category
Early 19th Century Russian Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Period Austrian Biedermeier Vanity Table Mirror
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A very handsome and unusual table top dressing mirror likely made in Austria in the early to mid 19thC. The shield shaped mirror has a gilded...
Category
Mid-19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Vancouver
Materials
Wood
$2,720 Sale Price
20% Off
Gentleman with his Three Children by 18th Century English Artist John Opie
By John Opie
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A large oil on canvas depicting a youthful father with his three children, two of which are behind him playing musical instruments, the daughter with her harp and son playing the flute. A third child with his back to the painter faces his father. The painting is presented in a carved and gilded wood frame. Like the great majority of Opie's work, this painting is not signed or stamped.
Opie lived at No 8 Berners Street where he moved in 1791, the street famous for artists, composers and instrument makers. Jacob Erat the famous harp maker lived in the neighbourhood and moved to 23 Berners Street before his death in 1821. This painting could be the painting referenced in John Jope Rogers, "Opie and his Work" Truro 1878, Page 220, entitled 'Musical Party'.
Provenance: Charles St. George Quechee, Vermont; New England Private Institution; Sotheby's New York April 7, 1989, Lot 1, as John Opie, Portrait of a Gentleman and his three children; Private collection Connecticut.
John Opie RA, (May 1761 – 1807), was a Cornish historical and portrait painter. He painted many great men and women of his day, including members of the British Royal Family, and others who were most notable in the artistic and literary professions. Opie's artistic abilities eventually came to the attention of a local physician and satirist, Dr John Wolcot (Peter Pindar). Recognising a great talent, Wolcot became Opie's mentor, buying him out of his apprenticeship and insisting that he come to live at his home in Truro. Wolcot provided invaluable encouragement, advice, tuition and practical help in the advancement of his early career, including obtaining many commissions for work.
In 1781, Opie moved to London with Wolcot, having entered into a formal profit-sharing agreement with him. Although Opie had received a considerable artistic education from Wolcot, the doctor chose to present him as a self-taught prodigy. A portrait of a boy shown at the Society of Artists the previous year had been described in the catalogue as "an instance of Genius, not having ever seen a picture." Wolcot introduced the "Cornish wonder" to leading artists, including Sir Joshua Reynolds, who was to compare him to Caravaggio and Velazquez, and to prospective patrons. The business arrangement with Wolcot lasted for a year after which Opie informed the doctor that he now wished to go it alone, leading to the estrangement of the two former partners.
Through the influence of a Mrs Boscawen, Wolcot managed to have Opie introduced at the court of King George III. The king purchased one of his pictures and commissioned him to produce a portrait of Mary Delany...
Category
Late 18th Century British George III Antique Vancouver
Materials
Canvas
