J. Murday (British fl 1837-1911)

A Tri-aspect of a Topsail Trading Schooner off South Foreland (Cliffs of Dover)

Oil-on-canvas; verso label: Wm. Blair, Ltd, Bethesda, Maryland

Painting: 24” x 36”
Frame: 29 ¼” x 40 ¼”

Murday was an accomplished painter of ship portraits and shipping scenes whose works were often signed and dated in the second half of the 19th century...

A beautifully painted 1927 oil on canvas of flowering plants in ceramic pots on a small terrace or deck, signed at lower left with what appears as "Yos. Bell" followed by "Mallorca 1927". This would have been painted during the optimistic years between the wars, on Spain's Balearic Islands. The unframed piece measures 26 1/2" by 31 1/2". An online search for an artist name that matches this has been unsuccessful; perhaps I am misreading it...

Andrew Wyeth would certainly be considered one of America's top watercolor artists of all time. His works have fetched in the millions at auctions. Here is an opportunity to own a more humble work by this master: a pencil signed example of his 1981 "Sea Running", a collotype print after his original painting, in a limited edition of 300 examples (this one numbered #134)...

A masterful Original Acrylic and Pen Painting with stunning irredescent Gold/Copper accents/sheen, depicting Lotus Blossoms and Leaves. Artist R. Seed Sa-ardwaree. Size: 18.5" x 14" (47 cm x 35.5 cm.). Very nicely framed under glass and ready to hang!

A masterful Original Acrylic and Pen Painting with stunning irredescent Gold/Copper accents/sheen, depicting Lotus Blossoms and Leaves. Artist R. Seed Sa-ardwaree. Size: 18.5" x 14" (47 cm x 35.5 cm.). Very nicely framed under glass and ready to hang!

A fascinating Oil painting of English origin circa 1820-1830s,

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...

Ernesto Serra (24 March 1860 – 17 May 1915) was an Italian genre, landscape and portrait painter from Varallo Sesia, Province of Vercelli in the Piemonte Region…… Biography Ernesto Serra was born on 24 March 1860 in Varallo Sesia...

(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

English Artist G.Sutliffe “Off The English Coast” Oil 21x30” Is a beautiful oil on canvas of a ship in a storm.

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...

A historic document and beautiful lithograph framed of “THE SURRENDER OF GENERAL LEE” 1866, measuring 22x25” "The Surrender of General Lee and his entire army to Lieut. General Grant April 9th, 1865. This memorable event terminated the Great Rebellion." - Philadelphia: Joseph Hoover, 1866. 17 1/8x23 3/4". Lithograph by P.S Duval & Son. Original hand color. Print dry mounted to old board but in stable condition. Minor staining in right hand side of sky and in bottom left hand margin...

Bronze Sculpture of Aurora The Goddess of the Dawn by Artist Gustav Michel, 1854-1924. Gustave Frédéric Michel (1851–1924) was a French sculptor, and medallist, according to Marina Warner "one of the most famous sculptors of the first decades of this (twentieth) century in France," although virtually unknown today. He also taught sculpture; among his pupils was the American Edith Howland...

After the 1938 Cubist painting "Mother and Child, Marie-Therese and Maya", by the French master PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973), this is colorful imagery transferred to silk or silk-like material, mid to late 20th century, measuring 19" by 19" (26" by 26", as presently framed as a display item). The black frame is worn but the scarf is in excellent condition. **The shipping figures refer to the piece going as presently framed; postage would be minimal if removed from frame and sent folded.**

A stunning Pair of Antique Japanese Meiji Period (1868-1912) paper doors, depicting 2 hunting noblemen on elegant horses with bows and arrows on the first panel, as well as pine trees on the second panel. Very finely hand painted. Script/Signature on the bottom right side of the second panel. Condition: 1st panel has a repaired torn area and both doors show aging/flaking of the paper at the very bottom. These doors are framed in black wood as shown in the photos. Wonderfully preserved colours...

French Orientalist Painter Alexander De Bar 1821-1908, views of the Nile, 11x17 inches, done in 1859 as a commemoration of the opening of the Suez Canal.

North African Prince Study In Oil Early 20th Century Circa 1908., beautiful work measuring 24 x 29” with a ornate frame in Gold leaf.

Watercolor of Egyptian Mosque by an English artist dated March 1863, large watercolor of amazing quality

French Orientalist Antoine Beau… “The Arab Meet” Watercolor 15x20” Done at the time of John Singer Sargent around 1900

Measures 11x15” a beautiful work, Egyptian Mosque Woodblock signed “Paris” with small sketch in pencil, hand color sketching.

Ian Maclever, modernist depiction of approaching storm, watercolor, 1950, 24x36", original frame with artist's Remarque. Ian Tennant Morrison MacIver (pronounced "Mac-Kee'-ver") was born May 22, 1912 in Aberdeen, Scotland. He studied architecture at Columbia University from 1935 to 1941, becoming an American citizen in 1941. In 1939 he designed the rose garden at the World's Fair in New York. From 1941 to 1942 he did cartographic work for the U.S...

Japanese Artist Tsukioka Kogyo (1866-1919 “Klyotsune” Colored woodblock 15x11”

Latin or Mexican original Gouache Horse and rider signed Arevalo 91 . Artist unknown as is good condition size 21" by 25" ship rolled

Beautiful framed painting, oil on canvas, measuring 12x18” by Sofia Vanya Khrustalyova, circa 1947.

In superb extra clean/fresh condition, after a circa 1964 work by the famous Surrealist SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989) a print on silk "El Arbol de la Penitencia, Purgatory, Canto XXIV", 36" by 36" as mounted to a stretcher. Some say these are scarves; I am not certain so call it printed on silk or silk-like material. Somehow this has emerged without a smudge or pulled thread; I note only the vestiges of what may have originally been horizontal folds, at center as shown. An example brought approxi...

By the French Symbolist artist MAURICE DENIS (1870-1943), this is a remarque proof on Chine Volant paper, edition of 260, from the year 1939. The print, Cailler #169 in the definitive catalogue raisonne of Denis' prints, is from the "Five Poems" by Francis Thompson. Condition is good with no tears or major stains, though there are some imperfections such as small discolorations and some rumpling of the paper in the margins and a light horizontal crease there below and to the lower right of the...

(Consignment). An important and rare portrait in terracotta of an attractive Etruscan woman from the 5th century BC Rome, Italy. She is wearing a crown polos which is covered by a veil that drapes along the sides and behind her head. She also wears a necklace of many Amphora-shaped pendants, and her hair is dressed into curls and ringlets. Life-size portrait from a votive figure from Ancient Rome, when the Greeks ruled the world, and the early Romans adopted Greek art and culture. Etruscan T...

A black and white photograph of a man supine on a bed in a simple or even stark interior, signed and stamped on the reverse, and with edition information (6/25) by the noted, widely exhibited American contemporary photographer, MARSHA BURNS (1945-). The photograph is untitled and not dated. Burns was born in Seattle and received early training in the fine arts at the University of Washington, which was followed by study at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. By 1969 she had decided to de...

A pencil signed etching, 8 3/4" by 10 1/2" inside the mat, 13 1/2" by 17" in simple strip frame, circa 1920, titled "The Bailers" (bailing out a water-filled, sinking dinghy at the docks), by Massachusetts-born American impressionist artist GEORGE ELMER BROWNE (1871-1946). Browne was born in the sea-going town of Gloucester, which was later to evolve into a famous art colony that was noted for the impressionism that flourished there. Browne studied first in Boston and later in Paris under Jule...

Hans Zatzka was born on 8 March 1859 in Vienna. His father Bartholomaüs was a construction worker, and his mother was Marie Karpischek Zatzka.[6] Between 1877 and 1882, he studied at the Academie des Beaux-Arts, under Christian Griepenkerl, Carl Wurzinger, and Karl von Blaas.Zatzka was able to earn a living through the production of frescoes for churches and other institutions. In 1885, Zatzka was commissioned to create the ceiling fresco The Naiad of Baden at Kurhaus Baden.

Beautiful contemporary WWI Portrait of General Black Jack Pershing dated 1918, done in oil on panel measures 20x16” by American artist J.Smack 1872-1965

A well-executed old watercolor (and a little gouache) painting of roses, glass vases and a Chinese blue-white plate, circa 1930, signed by artist ADELAIDE STRIGNER. Strangely, despite the quality of the work, I have not located a name of a listed known artist that would correspond. The piece measures 11 1/2" by 20" inside the mat and 21 3/4" by 30 1/2" in its period frame, which has some chip losses especially at right. There is an inconsequential old cut in the paper at upper right field. M...

A colorful little original oil painting on canvas, not stretched but laid simply behind a hand-made paper mat then placed in a colorful decorative picture frame, no glass, 9" by 7" as framed, signed at left by artist and dated there 1996. No doubt a tourist art piece, it is quite charming, reminding of Haitian and other Caribbean folk art. Condition is excellent.

An exceedingly rare portrait miniature, done in watercolor on organic wafer, by John Miers (1756–1821) who was the most famous profilist or painter of silhouettes in Britain. (Actually, the term “silhouette” was not used until the 1830’s. Prior to that, black silhouettes were known as “shades,” “shadow portraits,” or “profiles.”) Although Miers was known to have done tens of thousands of shades, only a very few full color portrait miniatures are thought to exist.

The p...

Rosemary Zwick "Galena" limited edition Buildings c 1950s nice print signed numbered and title "Galena" image 10" by 6.7"

G Zocchi C 1754 view of The Church and Piazza Ognissanti . The 24 plates in this work show views in Florence. The scenes are enlivened by human activity. The first edition was published by Giuseppe Allegrini in 1744. Hand water colored mounted on paper board back good condition . Size 20.3 x 27.9 inches same image in The Morgan Library . Note upper r corner has been reinforced from the back.