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;...

Female portrait from the Court of Louis XV, by Antoine Coypel circa. 1715, oil on canvas, framed, 29” x 34” Comment: One of the ‘great beauties’ from the Court of Louis XV. Louis XV was the grandson of Louis XIV, known as Louis the Great or the Sun King who reigned of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign. This painting is an example of the glorification of powerful and importance of women during the mid 18th Century in France...

“Pavana a una Princesa” 1964 (white reclining figure with red circle) by Ernesto Alcantara, signed lower right, titled, signed and dated on reverse, oil on linen, work size 16” x 49” frame size 23” x 56.25”...

Shahla Arbabi (1945 -) was born in Shiraz, Iran, and began painting at the age of nine. She studied at Tehran's School of Fine Arts from 1961 to 1965, and then spent four years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. After a period teaching art the University of Tehran in the late Sixties and early Seventies, she moved to the United States, where she took a Master's degree in painting (1980) and another in print-making (1983) at American University in Washington, D. C...

“Desnudo Blanco” 1965 (white reclining female nude with red square) by Ernesto Alcantara, signed lower left, oil on linen, work size 22” x 59”, frame size 21.25” x 61.5”, framed. Exhibition label on reverse of frame reads: “Salon De La Plastica Mexicana, Instituto Nacional De Bellas Artes, Havre 7, Autor Ernesto Alcantara”...

Portrait of a Gentleman- Mr. Bayles, attributed to John Singer Sargent. (Label on back) painted circa 1913, Framed Oil on Canvas 37 x 30".

A very fine Spanish early 16th century carved wood santos of Christ with original paint measuring about 48”

John HOPPNER 1759-1810, Woman in Hat oil on canvas c.1790, 40x35” This painting was exhibited at the Museum of fine arts Boston March 1893, and was a loan from Robert Hall McCormick (1847-1917)the industrialist from Chicago John Hoppner RA April 1758 – 23 January 1810 was an English portrait painter, much influenced by Reynolds, who achieved fame as a brilliant colourist . Hoppner first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1780...

This painting measures 12"x 24". 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...

This painting measures 12"x "24. 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...

Maurice Braun (American, 1877-1941)

Old River Landings

Oil on canvas, signed lower right and titled on stretcher.

Painting Size: 20” x 22”
Frame Size: 26” x 28”

Maurice Braun is one of the most well-known artists of California Impressionism. His deeply rooted beliefs in the unity of man and nature combined with the beauty of America’s southwest landscape gave rise to paintings that made him one of the most lauded artists of his day...

British Artist John Haynes-Williams 1836-1908 “Sunday in Seville" 40x30” framed in a beautiful gilded frame measuring 56”x46”. Born in Worcester England and studied in Birmingham and later moved to a London studio

"Roman Bridge at Arles" by Jacques Martin-Ferrieres (1893-1972), Oil on Canvas, 33 x 41" Jacques Martin-Ferrieres was born in 1893 in Saint-Paul de Vence in South Eastern France into a family of artists, including his father Henri Martin, the famous pointillist. He began his formal training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, studying under Frederic Cormon and Ernest Laurent, but soon looking away from academic conventions and restraints of the day...

Important Nineteenth Century Prussian Battle Painting In Oil measuring 28x44 inches….more information coming soon…..

Georges d'Espagnat born August 14, 1870 in Melun and died April 17, 1950 in Paris is a French painter, illustrator and engraver. Woman with a straw hat measuring 25 x 25“, frame size 33 x 33“ signed upper right. Biography In 1888, Georges d'Espagnat entered the School of Decorative Arts and the School of Fine Arts in Paris...

(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 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...

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...