Kathleen’s work has been shown in the US department of State as well as many embassies around the world. She is known for her sumptuous Expressionist abstraction work. Kathleen said she had a vision to paint as a young girl and her parents bought her a paint box while she was recovering from an illness. She later studied in France Kathleen Hyland-Nesvig was born in Carroll, lowa, in 1941...

From our African Collection: An Old Base with Yoruba Spiritual Figure, the base measures 12" across x 30" h. Circa 1940. "The Yoruba people (Yoruba: Ìran Yorùbá) are an ethnic group that inhabits western Africa, mainly the countries of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. The Yoruba constitute around 30 million people in Africa...

A Surrealist-Abstract Original Acrylic Painting "DIFFERENT GALAXIES" on stretched canvas by SWISS ARTIST Michael Maync. Signed and dated on back of the canvas by artist. No reference. Size: 39.5" x 31.5" inches (100 cm x 80 cm). Can be shipped economically, rolled up in a tube if you wish.

A fine 19th century oil on canvas painting framed in a period frame depicting an Italian Neopolitain girl wearing period jewelry from 1850s by the British artist Hugh Counnaua signed lower right

From our European Collection, a very fine original oil on canvas by German master Hermann Werner entitled "Playing with the Kittens," signed and dated 1868 on lower left. Hermann Werner (1816-1905) was active in the Dusseldorf and Berlin art circles mainly in the middle to late 1800's...

From our Fine Arts and Americana Collection, "The Harp Player," from Misha Frid's "Music Series." # 126 of 195. Signature and foundry mark on base.

Born in 1938 in Moscow, at the age of six, Misha began his artistic studies at a prestigious art school for gifted young artists. He graduated with honors from Moscow State Art College and The University of Fine Arts...

Claude Grosperrin (1939-1977) was a French Impressionist who painted during the middle of the 20th century. His interest in lithography began during his studies at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in the atelier of Brianchon. There he developed a love of the process, and soon his work caught on in local galleries. After some one-man exhibits in London and New York, Grosperrin received international attention...

A wonderful late nineteenth century oil Portrait of Saint Jerome measuring 38” x 32” ITALIAN SCHOOL

Frank Vining Smith (1879 - July 30, 1967) was an American marine painter who specialized in sailing ships. Smith previously studied alongside Philip Hale, Frank Benson, and Edmund C. Tarbell at the Boston Museum School. He also attended Central Ontario Design School in Toronto and the Art Students League in New York City. After working for newspapers as an illustrator, he quit his job and devoted his time to painting naval scenes...

FLEMISH SEVENTEENTH CENTURY OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING depicting the Crucifixion of Christ., in the circle of Peter Paul Rubens, Measuring 18” x14”

An original Acrylic Painting "EMERALD CAVE" by SWISS ARTIST Michael Maync, signed and dated on the back of the stretched canvas. No reference. Size: 80 cm x 60 cm. Can be shipped economically, rolled up in a tube.

Porcelain measuring 9 inches tall, 8 inches wide, and 5 inches deep. Karl Gerhardt was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 7, 1853.[1] He attended Phillips School in Boston. By 1870 he was apprenticed to a house painter in Chicopee, Massachusetts, where he later became a machinist at Ames Foundry. He showed considerable talent in mechanics, and later became a designer of machinery at Hartford, Connecticut.[2] In 1874, he went to California...

Ferdinand Leeke (German 1859-1923)

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Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right, located “Meran” and dated “1906"

Painting Size: 39.5” x 31.75”
Frame Size: 48.25 ” x 40”

A painter of historical, genre and allegorical scenes, Leeke studied at the Munich Academy under Johann Herterich and with the Hungarian genre and landscape painter Alexander von Wagner...

A wonderful portrait of Saint Jerome done in oil, probably circa 1900. Well painted and framed, the work is unsigned

Moses SOYER 1899-1974 wass a Russian born artist part of the Soyer family of artist that Immigrated to America and the early 20th century. He worked for the WPA in the 1930s under the Roosevelt administration and was featured in many exhibitions and documentaries

A very fine Damascus Console table, circa 1880, in Mahogany with Mother-Of-Pearl inlay, and fine Arabic script. Measuring 53 inches, wide, 23 inches deep 41 inches tall

While we have yet to identify the artist or the subject, we would contend that the work is first rate considering the mood captured by the painter. The man exudes a somewhat austere aristocratic brood, yet exudes the strengths of youth and ambition, a man ready to make his place in the world. We believe the work to be of the British school painted c. 1850 or earlier as suggested by the early Victorian shape of the seat rail...

From our Fine Arts and Americana Collection, "Earth and Sky," by Misha Frid, AP #9 (Artist's Proof) of 25. Signature and foundry mark on base.

Born in 1938 in Moscow, at the age of six, Misha began his artistic studies at a prestigious art school for gifted young artists. He graduated with honors from Moscow State Art College and The University of Fine Arts...