(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...

This is an antique 18th-century, circa 1740 AD, oil portrait of King Augustus III (October 17, 1696 – October 5, 1763), hand-painted on heavy, hand-woven canvas with great attention to detail.

From 1733 to 1763, he was the King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Elector of Saxony.

The king is depicted wearing armor and a blue moiré silk sash of the Polish Order of the White Eagle...

From our European Collection, a masterpiece by German genre realism painter Carl Johann Spielter (1851-1922), entitled "Sad News," painted in 1901. More information to follow: Size: Framed Size 60 inches wide x 48 inches tall.

(Consignment). “The Art Collector” by American Master Joseph Dawley measuring 24x30” and framed in a beautiful gold frame measuring 34x40” ……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...

William B. Hoyt (American, 1945 - present) - Pursuit of Happiness. Oil on canvas. Dated 1990. Size: 48 inches x 60 inches (frame size: 54.5 inches x 66.5 inches). Signed and dated in lower right. In this thought-provoking work, the acclaimed Vermont painter, William B. Hoyt, portrays a timeless challenge: the 'Pursuit of Happiness.' This is a painting on a painting...

"Russian Icon", polychrome gilded, 22" x 35, 17th century

AMERICAN MASTER JOSEPH DAWLEY “RIVERSIDE” LANDSCAPE OIL 20” x 22” LAST SERIES, DISAPPEARING FIGURES ….. 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...

A very fine photograph by renowned Italian artist Olivo Barbieri (born 1954 in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna) of the Grand Canal of Venice, Italy done in 2002, measuring 40” x 80” (100 cm x 200cm) framed in a beautiful silver frame that measures 48” x 88” He is recognized for his innovative technique creating miniature still photography [1] from actual landscapes by simulating shallow depth of field via the use of tilt-shift lens photography...

A view from a balcony in Berlin of rooftops dated 1959 Signed lower left Artist information coming soon

Nineteenth Century Bust of Abraham Lincoln in Plaster 34” x 24” signed Raffeallo Gironi

Joseph Harry Anderson (1906-1996) produced some of the most memorable commercial art of the mid 20th century, capturing the nostalgic mood of a mythical and bygone America...

An important Canadian Group of 7 oil on panel by Francis Hans - Franz or Frank - Johnston OSA, ARCA (Canadian, 1888-1949) titled "Pools of Spring". Born in Toronto, he was a founding member of the renowned Toronto painters known as the Group of Seven, which he left by 1926. He became a principal of the Winnipeg School of Art and later the Ontario College of Art. He changed his signature to "Franz" in 1927 on the advice of a friend...

Portrait of Voltaire, by Jean Louis Forain, signed lower right. Oil on canvas, framed, 30” x 24”. Provenance: Purchased from the Mulero Collection, Puerto Rico in 2005. Price on request. Crystal whisky glasses: we have many decanters and wine, whisky and cocktail glasses. Chest with stone top: Period Louis XVI two drawer commode with a French Marble top. King wood veneers inlaid with ebony and satinwood stringing and hand dovetailed oak...

Artist Robert Watson (1923-2004) has explored a surreal, mysterious world inhabited by lonely figures...

“STATE STEET MADISON WISCONSIN “ oil on canvas 18” x 28”……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...

Madonna Dolorosa Sicilian Mahogany Sculpture Eighteenth Century …The Mother Of Sorrows

Sheridan’s Ride Bronze Sculpture …… SHERIDAN'S RIDE. During the Shenandoah campaign of 1864, Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early attacked Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan's army at dawn on 19 October along Cedar Creek, near Strasburg, Virginia, throwing two Union corps into panic. Sheridan, returning from Washington, D.C., had stopped at Winchester on the night of the eighteenth. Awakened the next morning by the distant sound of artillery, he left for the front and soon encountered his routed com...

American Impressionist Frank Boggs 1855-1926, VIEW OF NOTRE DAME,watercolor on fine French paper measuring 21x25 inches .....Frank Myers Boggs, known as Frank Boggs, born December 6, 1855 in Springfield (Ohio), died August 8, 1926 in Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine), is a French painter and engraver of American origin. Frank Myers Boggs is a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the School of Fine Arts in Paris. He exhibited regularly until the end of his life at the Salon of French artists, where he recei...

This painting measures 12"x24" and is one of several of Helen LaFrance's depictions of a Church Picnic. Helen LaFrance is a self-taught, modern, contemporary artist who is 99 years of age. Her earliest known painting is a 12’x20’ mural inside of a local church that was made circa the late 40's and early 50’s and she continued to paint into the early 2000's. LaFrance’s work is represented in many notable public and private collections in this country and in Europe. These collections in...

“Moonlight Serenade” Oil on canvas framed measuring 39” x 55”, artwork measuring 32” x 48” Biography Henri Aimé Duhem (7 April 1860, Douai - 24 October 1941, Juan-les-Pins) was a French Impressionist painter. He was descended from an old Flemish family and originally practiced as a lawyer. In 1887, his passion for drawing and watercolors finally led him to go to Paris and enroll in the drawing classes of Henri Harpignies. While there, he became friends with Émile Breton, who ...

French artist François-Joseph Duret 1729-1816, bronze Sculpture of Eleutherios ("the liberator") or Bacchus with a Lute. Extremely important work with signature also of Delafontaine foundry. Françoise-Joseph Duret (12 November 1729 – 7 August 1816) was a French sculptor. He was the father and teacher of Francisque Joseph Duret. Born at Valenciennes, the son of Charles Durez, of Spanish origin, Duret was prince of the Academy of St. Luke, a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de ...

"The Russian War Napoleon", Unsigned, 20 x 24"

It is quite appropriate that a French sculptor created this bronze of Cinderella, for after all it was a French author who gave us the modern version of the beloved fairy tale of the young woman who went from riches to rags to riches with the help of a fairy godmother.

She is seated somewhat forlornly holding a spindle of yarn, but it is the two objects behind her feet which give away the story. On her right is a billow which one associates with the fireplace and cinders, and a sing...

Son of Antonio Ximenes and Giulia Tolentino, a Sicilian noble woman, Ettore Ximenes initially embarked on literary studies but then took up sculpture and attended the courses at the Palermo Academy of Fine Arts. After 1872, he continued training at the Naples Academy under Domenico Morelli[2] and Stanislao Lista. He also established a close relationship with Vincenzo Gemito. Ximenes was involved in many of the major official monumental projects in Italy from the 1880s on and devoted his energie...

This painting measures 22"x 28". Helen LaFrance is a self-taught, modern, contemporary artist who is 99 years of age. Her earliest known painting is a 12’x20’ mural inside of a local church that was made circa the late 40's and early 50’s and she continued to paint into the early 2000's. LaFrance’s work is represented in many notable public and private collections in this country and in Europe. These collections include those of Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Bryant Gumbel, and contempora...

This painting measures 26"x 22". Helen LaFrance is a self-taught, modern, contemporary artist who is 99 years of age. Her earliest known painting is a 12’x20’ mural inside of a local church that was made circa the late 40's and early 50’s and she continued to paint into the early 2000's. LaFrance’s work is represented in many notable public and private collections in this country and in Europe. These collections include those of Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Bryant Gumbel, and contempora...

Xanthus Russell Smith (February 26, 1839, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – December 2, 1929, Glenside, Pennsylvania) was an American marine painter best known for his illustrations of the American Civil War.………….. The most historic event of Kearsarge's history was her historic duel with the Alabama off Cherbourg, France in 1864 as it was the only naval duel in which an American warship was one of the principals. On 19 June, Alabama stood out of Cherbourg Harbor for her last action. Mindful...

Qing Dynasty Bronze Donkey incense burner with an original ink painting of the censor by the famous artist Tai Xiangzhou. Tai Xiangzhou (b. China, 1968) graduated with his Doctorate from the Art Academy of Quinghua and studied ink painting with Liu Dan, one of the most revered contemporary artists in China. Tai Xiangzhou is in the collections of the National Museum of Art in Washington, DC; the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeol...

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;...

A fine portrait by the prodigy of John Singer Sargent,Elizabeth PUITTI-BARTH 1872-1959, Portrait of Jenny, oil on canvas measures 22x20”,Framed measures 29x25”

English Artist Gibbon,Pastoral Scene c.1820 Oil School of Constable, measuring 30x50, frame size 40x60” The work is framed in a. Correct frame most likely original and is an exceptionally fine condition and was extremely well painted by a master

Jean-Baptiste-Maximilien Delafontaine 1750-1820 Paris Foundary bronze sculpture of the God Of Wine, Bacchus measuring 36” in height and 13” depth, 16” width. The work is signed

Henri Laurens, Paris, 1885-1954. Cubiste Tete de Femme is pencil and gouache on paper signed H.L. 18 LR. It is 22.3cm by 18.7cm (8.75" by 7.6". The son of a workman, Laurens trained at an early age in a decoration studio, where he modeled period-style ornaments and drew architectural designs. Afterwards Henri Laurens worked on building sites and scaffolding, where he learnt the hands-on side of hewing stone. He also regularly attended the popular evening classes in drawing taught by "Papa Perri...

c1910s French Mixed Metal Cubist Nude female- Cello. A fabulous bronze nude female cubist statue with lines of a darker almost copper trim throughout. The sculpture was probably made with a original wax figure then a higher melt point metal strips were embedded to the wax body leaving an exposed strip to catch the wet plaster mold then set into a wet plaster bath the strips embedded into the walls of the plaster mold the wax melted out leaving the stripes , once the bronze was hand poured the st...

American artist Anne Lane, known for her magnificent brilliant paintings and saturated oils, and one of the exclusive represented Artist at our gallery and in the Washington DC area. She is also in collections around the world San Juan workers is an oil on canvas painting that is magnificent measuring 48 x 72“, frame size 59 x 79“…… Anne Lane studied art at George Mason University in Virginia, completed her education at Saint Patrick’s college, Ireland, where she studied theology an...

A very fine Dutch Old Master work in oil after Rembrandt, one of the greatest painters of all time. This work titled Ahasuerus & Hamas, The Feast of Esther., and is a 17th century work framed measuring 37” x 34” oil on canvas