Biography In 1888, Georges d'Espagnat entered the School of Decorative Arts and the School of Fine Arts in Paris. Endowed with a strong and very independent character, he prefers to train himself by making copies of paintings, in particular from the Louvre museum. A talented designer and engraver, he contributed to numerous illustrated periodicals such as Le Courrier français (1895-1896), La Critique and Le Rire (1899-1912). He is the author of original lithographs...

Winter Skating Scene on a Lake in Holland, circa 1620, Anthonie Verstraelen"Dutch Ice Skating Scene". Oil on Oak Panel. 27" x 42". Frame Size 33" x 48" Anthonie Verstraelen or Van Stralen (Gorkum, 1593/1594 - Amsterdam, 1641) was a Dutch landscape painter, best known (with Hendrik Avercamp and his nephew Barend Avercamp) for his winter scenes. Gillis van Stralen, Antonie's father, was a textile merchant...

Jonas Lie (April 29, 1880 - January 18, 1940) was a Norwegian-born American painter and teacher. Lie is best known for his Expressionist paintings of the New England coastline and New York City.[2][3][4] He documented construction of the Panama Canal with thirty canvases, and represented the United States in the 1928 Summer Olympics art competition. This work is winter Townscape oil on canvas measuring 42 x 48“, frame size 52 x 58“ Lie was born in Moss, in Østfold county, Norway...

Dolley Todd Madison (née Payne; May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849) was the wife of James Madison, the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She was noted for holding Washington social functions in which she invited members of both political parties, essentially spearheading the concept of bipartisan cooperation...

MADONNA AND CHILD WITH THR INFANT SAINT JOHN THE BAPIST, oil on wood panel, done before 1500 framed measuring 28” x 22” Raphael1483-1520) Who Was Raphael? Italian Renaissance painter and architect Raphael became Perugino's apprentice in 1504. Living in Florence from 1504 to 1507, he began painting a series of "Madonnas." In Rome from 1509 to 1511, he painted the Stanza della Segnatura ("Room of the Signatura") frescoes located in the Palace of the Vatican...

The larger-than-life-sized figure was sculpted by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904), who also designed the Statue of Liberty (1886), another gift from the French government that figures prominently in New York Harbor. The granite pedestal designed by H.W. DeStuckle was donated by French citizens living in New York. Lafayette appears in another Bartholdi sculpture at Lafayette Square in Upper Manhattan that depicts him shaking General George Washington’s hand...

Early Twentieth Century “Los Tres Marineros” or “ Three Marines” is a Madrid School Oil measuring 47x37 done circa 1910 to 1925

MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM C. PENNY,….EACH PORTRAIT, IN OIL, MEASURING 30” x 25” Samuel Waldo Lovett was born on April 6, 1783 in Windham, Connecticut, the son of Esther (née Stevens) and Zacheus Waldo.[3] At the age of sixteen, he moved to Hartford to begin his formal art training under the tutelage of Joseph Steward, a prominent local artist. Four years later, he set up shop as a portraitist in Hartford, later relocating to Litchfield, Connecticut...

(Consignment) The Artists’s Secret Garden oil on canvas 48x72” more information coming soon…… …The following biography, submitted March 2005, is from the daughter of the artist. Although raised and educated in Texas, Joe Dawley moved to New Jersey in the early 1960's where he remained. He painted in the traditional Old Masters style until 1982, when the symptoms of Parkinson's - diagnosed in 1975 - necessitated brain surgery...

PORTRAIT OF KING PHILLIP V OF SPAIN, CUZCO SCHOOL, oil on canvas, measuring 82” x66” ….. CONSIGNMENT

Life Portrait "King James I" of England ( James VI of Scotland) attributed to Nicolas Van Somer. Oil on Canvas. 36" x 32". Frame Size 38" x 32".

PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON ATTRIBUTED TO THE CHAS. WILSON PEALE FAMILY, EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY OIL ON CANVAS, measuring 72” x 50” in a fine period frame. Possibly the frame from the Stewart workshops...

"First Thaw," a scene of Woodstock Mountain, New York, by Norwegian-American Artist Jonas Lie, oil on canvas 30 x 48". Lie was born in Moss, in Østfold county, Norway. His father Sverre Lie (1841–92) was a Norwegian civil engineer and his mother Helen Augusta Steele (1853–1906) was an American from Hartford, Connecticut. He was named for his father's cousin (and brother-in-law), the famous Norwegian author Jonas Lie, who had married his father's sister Thomasine...

Artist Edmund Hodgson Smart did this portrait while the president was still living and passed while it was being finished. The portrait is one of two done. The other being in the White House Measuring framed 67” x 45”

(Consignment). An important American oil painting of the Hand Sisters of Virginia by American artist Blanchard. The children dressed in late 18th century clothing measuring 38x48”,oil

AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST JOSEPH DAWLEY 1936-2008 “WICHITA PRINCE” Oil on canvas 50” x 40”Artist Biography: Joseph William Dawley (1936-2008) was born in Nashville, Arkansas and raised in Dallas, Texas. He received his B.A. from SMU where some of his art hangs today. He married and moved to NJ working for the Newark Evening News retouching photos and sidelining as a political cartoonist...

AMERICAN ARTIST JOSEPH DAWLEY 1936-2008 “RUE DE PONTENELLE” PARIS” 48” x 72” …, The painting depicts the bridge near the Louvre and on the way to the Istitut de France, that crosses the Seine River….Artist Biography: Joseph William Dawley (1936-2008) was born in Nashville, Arkansas and raised in Dallas, Texas. He received his B.A. from SMU where some of his art hangs today...

“COWBOY CAVALIER “This work is an oil on canvas measuring 37x 31” framed in a baroque style frame. American Master Joseph Dawley 1936-2008….The following biography, submitted March 2005, is from the daughter of the artist. Although raised and educated in Texas, Joe Dawley moved to New Jersey in the early 1960's where he remained. He painted in the traditional Old Masters style until 1982, when the symptoms of Parkinson's - diagnosed in 1975 - necessitated brain surgery. One of his accola...

(Consignment). 16th century study of Dante, Florence School of Italian Artists,Tempera on poplar panel 22x18" This tempera painting is a study for an Allegorical Portrait of Dante , known as the noblest ideal portrait of Dante which has survived the Renaissance. In the portrait Dante looks over the Stygian river at the Monte Sancto di Dio, against the light of Paradise. The portrait was painted two centuries after his death.

Madonna and Child attributed to the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea del Sarto & Studio(1486-1530), Tempera on tulip poplar curved panel, circa 1520Frame Size 27 x 21". Andrea del Sarto was a mannerist Italian Renaissance painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. He was known as an outstanding fresco decorator, painter of altar-pieces, portraitist, draughtsman and colorist. Though highly regarded during his lifetime as an artist s...

Comic scenes of Wartime camp life were part of every major Civil War artist portfolio. Measuring 30 x 25“ circa 1864 For a time, Price studied portrait painting with William Reading, an artist in Louisville, Kentucky, and later with Oliver Frazer in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1849, Price left Kentucky for New York City where he enrolled in the School of Design and studied for five months. The following year, Price had reopened his studio in Lexington, but he was persuaded to move to Louisvill...

(Consignment) Joseph Dawley portrait of Job is one of the most important work in his Ouvre. Painted in the style of old masters this period of his work was featured in my books he authored measuring 40x36”,Beautifully framed measures 54x49”,oil on canvas Although raised and educated in Texas, Joe Dawley moved to New Jersey in the early 1960's where he remained. He painted in the traditional Old Masters style until 1982, when the symptoms of Parkinson's - diagnosed in 1975 - n...

Chola Dynasty C 1100 - 1130 AD Black Granite Hindu Figure of Agni - God of Fire, extremely rare with the finest carving on His garments and jewelry. Beautiful condition except the loss of his head , size 38" very heavy 150 on the sculpture and 80 pounds on the 1/2" black steel plate base. Agni , ‘fire’; . The god of fire in Hinduism, of great importance, especially in the Vedic period. As sacrifice is at the centre of Vedic religion, Agni is at the centre of sacrifice. As messenger of th...

AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST JOSEPH DAWLEY 1936-2008 “WALT WHITMAN” Oil 40” x 30”Artist Biography: Joseph William Dawley (1936-2008) was born in Nashville, Arkansas and raised in Dallas, Texas. He received his B.A. from SMU where some of his art hangs today. He married and moved to NJ working for the Newark Evening News retouching photos and sidelining as a political cartoonist. He spent time studying at the Art Students League in NYC and in 1968 he decided to devote all his time to painting. ...

AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST JOSEPH DAWLEY 1936-2008 “LIFETIME COWBOY” 36” x 48” Artist Biography: Joseph William Dawley (1936-2008) was born in Nashville, Arkansas and raised in Dallas, Texas. He received his B.A. from SMU where some of his art hangs today. He married and moved to NJ working for the Newark Evening News retouching photos and sidelining as a political cartoonist. He spent time studying at the Art Students League in NYC and in 1968 he decided to devote all his time to painting....

Abraham Lincoln Bust By Leonard W. Volk 1828-1895 32”x24” Original plaster made from the life mask that was done for Lincoln in 1860. The artist did both plaster and bronze large and small formats somewhere designed as Hermes format others were done such as this piece in the classical style 32”x24”

A beautiful Seventeenth century oil portrait, more information coming soon…..

(Consignment). …The following biography, submitted March 2005, is from the daughter of the artist. Although raised and educated in Texas, Joe Dawley moved to New Jersey in the early 1960's where he remained. He painted in the traditional Old Masters style until 1982, when the symptoms of Parkinson's - diagnosed in 1975 - necessitated brain surgery. One of his accolades during that period was being commissioned to paint the official portrait of Mother Seton for the canonization in 1976. After t...

"Voyage of Life" Signed TC (Thomas Cole) c. 1840s-1850s, attributed to Frederich Edwin Church Oil on Canvas PRICE ON REQUEST

President George Washington in Full Masonic Regalia Oil 29.5x23.5” by artist Robert Gordon Hardie 1854-1904. Letter from curator of the Masonic Lodge,and other provenance. Background Hardie, Robert Gordon was born on March 29, 1854 in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States. Education Studied drawing in schools of Cooper Institute, Academy of Design and Art Students’ League, New New York Studied at École des Beaux Arts, Paris, Major Robert Gordon and Frances (Hyde) H. Captain, chief o...

MILTON HEBALD 1917-2015, BRONZE SCULPTURE “THE MOTHER & CHILD” ,measures 65” x 20” x 12” and sits on a revolving Granite base (From Wikipedia)Milton Elting Hebald (May 24, 1917 – January 5, 2015) was a sculptor who specialized in figurative bronze works. Twenty-three of his works are displayed in public in New York City, including the statues of Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest in front of the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park.His major work is a 220-foot (67 m), 12-piece "...

A magnificent work done in oil, the Deposition of Christ, is a Renaissance work measuring 69” x 51” Done in the school of Annibale Carracci (Italian pronunciation: [anˈniːbale karˈrattʃi]; November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his brother and cousin, Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of the Baroque style, borrowing from styles from both north and south of their nat...

( Consignment). Renaissance Deposition after Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), Oil Painting 74 x 51. Carracci is an Italian painter who was influential in recovering the classicizing tradition of the High Renaissance from the affectations of Mannerism.The sons of a tailor, Annibale and his older brother Agostino were at first guided by their older cousin Lodovico, a painter who persuaded them to follow him in his profession. Annibale’s precocious talents developed in a tour of northern Italy ...

President of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston , White Marble sculpture measuring h;26” x w;24” possibly by Elizabeth Ney…….. Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Ney (26 January 1833 – 29 June 1907) was a German-American sculptor who spent the first half of her life and career in Europe, producing portraits of famous leaders such as Otto von Bismarck, Giuseppe Garibaldi and King George V of Hanover. At age 39, she immigrated to Texas with her husband, Edmund Montgomery, and becam...

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (/ˈɡɔɪə/; Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xoˈse ðe ˈɣoʝa i luˈθjentes]; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He was al...

In 1861, the great American portrait painter George Peter Alexander Healy create a series of masterful oil copies of the latest Matthew Brady gallery photographs of the leaders of The union government and military. This may be one of them. So many of the subjects like Lincoln, renewed to the Washington seeing the same cannot be said for general in chief Winfield Scott age 75, who had been in uniform since 1812 George Peter Alexander Healy (July 15, 1813 – June 24, 1894) was an American portra...

DRAMATIC OIL ON CANVAS RENDERING OF A CAVALRY SABER DUEL DURING STUART'S RIDE" BY WILLIAM B. T. TREGO. One of the more controversial of Stuart's forays, the Confederate Cavalier' undertook a three day ride (June 12-15, 1862) around McClellan's right flank to glean intelligence of his movements in preparation for what would be know as the 'Seven Days Campaign: Stuart's 1200 men covered over 100 miles during which they captured and sank two schooners, destroyed Tanstall's Station of the York R...

Frantesek Kupka, 1871-1957, Opocno. Bohemia, Czech, and died in France. This stunning early mordernist painting is an early and an extremely fine example of Kupka's painting. It is approximately 17"H by 13"w in a 4" frame. It is signed clearly lower right and the entire painting and signature under black light looks good with no in painting. Kupka attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Prague at 17 years old and the Beaux Arts in Vienna. He moved to Paris in 1895 and also won the Prix de Rome. He...

(Consignment). Edward Dalton MARCHANT 1806-1887 Portrait of General U.S. US Grant, measuring 16.5 x 13.75“ treated 1864. This is a grant attracted to the attention of many portrait painter is during the war especially in 1864 year he became a lieutenant general and commander of all union forces Period the artist who is a war hero Pennsylvania painter just one year earlier has spent three months at the White House creating a canvas of Lincoln that is emancipator

"Lord Cornwallis” attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds. Sitter supposed to be Lord Cornwallis at the time of the French and Indian wars. Oil on Canvas. 30" x 24". Frame Size 38" x 32" Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century.[1] He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was a founder and ...

A magnificent master work in oil by artist measuring He began as a student in the workshops of Jean-Léon Gérôme, then signed a contract with the art dealers, Goupil & Cie, to produce drawings for reproduction as prints, creating genre scenes of everyday life that proved to be quite popular. His first exhibit at the Salon came in 1864.[1] During the Paris Commune, he became friends with the writer, Émile Bergerat, who recalls in his memoirs that Pinchart occasionally worked as a butcher,...

American Master JOSEPH DAWLEY 1936-2008, “THE LUNCHEON AT PATRICIA MURPHY’S” “ OIL ON CANVAS , MEASURING 40” x 48” …… The following biography, submitted March 2005, is from the daughter of the artist. Although raised and educated in Texas, Joe Dawley moved to New Jersey in the early 1960's where he remained. He painted in the traditional Old Masters style until 1982, when the symptoms of Parkinson's - diagnosed in 1975 - necessitated brain surgery. One of his accolades during tha...

AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST JOSEPH DAWLEY 1936-2008 “HARBOR MORN FLORIDA ” , oil on canvas 32” x 40” … .Artist Biography: Joseph William Dawley (1936-2008) was born in Nashville, Arkansas and raised in Dallas, Texas. He received his B.A. from SMU where some of his art hangs today. He married and moved to NJ working for the Newark Evening News retouching photos and sidelining as a political cartoonist. He spent time studying at the Art Students League in NYC and in 1968 he decided to devote...

Dutch Artist Jan Griffier The Younger “Golden Age Landscape” Oil 42x36, a beautiful painting depicting an English gentleman hunter who comes upon an ancient ruin with the sculpture of The Mythical figure of Cronus oil on canvas measuring 48x36 inches……Jan Griffier II (1688–c.1750]) was an 18th-century painter active in England. Biography Griffier was born in England and died in London. According to Houbraken, Jan Griffier's son Robert was born on 7 October 1688, but he mixed up his...

Prominently displayed on the wall of the Sejong Room of Korea's Presidential Residence (The Blue House) is a painting by Lim Ok Sang (born 1950). The painting here from 2019 is large at 50 x 49 inches (127 x 124.5 cm), and the beautiful frame chosen by the artist is 56.5 x 55.5 inches (143.5 x 141 cm). Two similar examples of paintings in ink and soil can be seen in the catalogue of Lim Ok Sang's retrospective exhibition currently at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul...

Period Copy Dutch Interior Scene "Tric Trak" players, 17th century, Oil on Canvas, 15" x 25", Frame Size 23" x 33" artist Willem Cornelisz Duyster (1599–1635) was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Amsterdam, best known for his "guardroom scenes" (cortegaarddje), genre paintings showing military life. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, he was named after his house on the Amsterdam Koningstraat, which was called "De Duystere Werelt", the Dim World. He knew his exact con...

Oscar Florianes Bluemner (1867-1938), . The painting is 7 x 10 inches. The medium is watercolor and pencil. Provenance: The Estate of Oscar Bluemner's widow, sold to Virginia collector and then to a collector in New Jersey. Art & Antique Gallery, Inc., Worcester, MA. It may have been a preliminary painting for a larger painting titled: "Play of Barns-Red" exhibited at the Owen Gallery in 2001. (size 28 x 30 inches). I spoke with Mr. Owen about this painting to get details. The two titles are ...

A very fine oil on canvas depicting the infants Jesus and Saint John the Baptist, the original by Bartolomé Murillo, 1618-1682 an 18th century work done after a seventeenth century work. Oil on canvas measuring 40” x 50”. The painting was purchased from a Dutch family who owned it for several generations. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish,1618 – April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable numb...

(Consignment). Portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, sign Silvio oil on canvas 22 x 20”, frame size 30” x 28”. The portrait was done on board a ship during World War II from life and is oil on canvas. According to the owner there was a competition by other shipmate artist to do a Portrait of FDR and this piece won the prize.

Artist William Brooke Thomas TREGO, “Dual between a union Calvary man and the confederate trooper“ The black-and-white oil on canvas was created for the century edition of battles and leaders of the Civil War of a true 1862 incident. And I witness testified that a desperate fight with sabers, during which both combatants were severely cut, federate ignore the rules of chivalry warfare, Drew his revolver, and shot his opponent dead. TREGO lived from 1859 to 1909 William Brooke Thomas Trego ...

A fine pair of early 19th century  Italian Neo Classical recumbent male lions in conversation.these lions are hand hewn from Solid blocks of travertine, figures as well as bases from single blocks These sculptures were executed in Rome,early in tge 19th century and Purchased there by the family of August Vasaio. The family owned them throughout the 19th century and shipped them from their home in Pescara, Abruzzo to Washington DC in the 1940s L’ Enfant Gallery purchased them directly ...

Bio: Ernesto Alcántara (1933 - 2019) created a vast body of work along many themes: volcanoes, the Sierra Gorda, seascapes, landscapes, nudes, still life works, travel sketches, political satire, fairy tales drawn for his daughter, characters, with Sor Juana, Don Quixote, and Rembrandt being predominant.   His techniques include oil on linen, prepared by him in his studio with rabbit glue, linseed oil, and tempera; engravings on copper or zinc using burin, dry point, etching, or soft ground;...

Le Pont du Carrousel et Quai Voltaire by French artist Maximilien Luce (13 March 1858 – 6 February 1941)….. Luce was a prolific French Neo-impressionist artist, known for his paintings, illustrations, engravings, and graphic art, and also for his anarchist activism. Starting as an engraver, he then concentrated on painting, first as an Impressionist, then as a Pointillist, and finally returning to Impressionism. Maximilien-Jules-Constant Luce was born on 13 March 1858 in Paris. His parents, ...

Sunset over Washington DC by John Court circa 1990, oil on canvas, 44” x 58” Peter Colasante, director of L’Enfant Gallery, has represented John Court since 1974, owns much of his work and has sponsored several exhibitions of his work since 1970's including in Washington DC and Palm Beach, Florida. Bio: John Court (1948 - ) is a portraitist and landscape painter. Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Court grew up in Maryland and Virginia. He began painting at age 11 and attended Cornell University...

Mario Russo (1925-2000) was an Italian painter known for his unique style and innovative approach to art. Born in Naples, Italy, Russo received his formal art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he studied painting and sculpture. He quickly gained recognition for his bold use of color and dynamic compositions. Russo exhibited his works in galleries and museums around the world, including the Venice Biennale, the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome, and the Institute ...

Attributed to the orientalist painter Karl Leopold Müller, The German painter 1834-1892. One of Mueller‘s most important compositions marketplace Cairo commission by the Austrian state on the advice of the historian, patron and government minister Rudolph Eitelberger is now in the Austrian gallery in Vienna

Woman in the Garden by J. L. Aste, signed lower right, circa 1910-15, oil on canvas, framed, 30” x 35” Bio: Jean Louis Asté (1864-1943), born in France, was a pupil of Jean Paul Laurens. He is listed in the catalogs of the Musée d'Orsay. L’Enfant Gallery has a newspaper article describing Aste as painting many portraits of his wife in their garden. In this picture she is described in the article as peeling apples for a pie. Peter says “Although the work is not dated, we believe thi...

Oil on canvas 42x50 inches Original frame measuring 48x55 Labeled on back from BUCHHOLZ GALLERY NEW YORK Kurt Ferdinand Roesch (1905–1984) was a German born American painter. Roesch was born on December 12, 1905 in Berlin and studied painting with the expressionist Karl Hofer. Roesch immigrated to the United States in 1933, living first in Katonah, New York, and then in New Canaan, Connecticut. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1934 to 1972, and died October 8, 1984 at his hom...

Sam J. Kennedy portrait of a Navajo Medicine Man from life oil on canvas measuring 48x36”

Oil on canvas portrait of President Washington based on the painting done in 1804 by Gilbert Stuart. This work is highly finished example of the style, and in our option, the School of Gilbert Stuart. Measuring 35” x 30” in an ornate Stuart period frame. We believe done in the 1820s CONSIGNMENT