All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1900 item #1243014
William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879, "The Hurdy-Gurdy Boy". This is a rare original lithograph by American artist and lithographer William Morris Hunt. The image size is 7 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches, published in a small edition in 1857, after the painting by Hunt which is now in the collection of the MFA Boston. William Morris Hunt was one of the earliest American lithographers. He was also a painter and studied the French Barbizon style in Europe with Millet, a close friend...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1417054 (stock #JB01607)
Watercolor on paper, 8 1/2" by 17 1/2" inside the mat (13 1/2" by 22 1/2" in its very nice circa 1920 vintage frame), signed at lower right and inscribed there "Munich" by the well listed American artist CHARLES PAUL GRUPPE (1860-1940). The subject is a creek or small lake or pond at sunset. Born in Ontario, Canada, Gruppe was in Europe by age 20, where he explored France, Germany and Holland. I imagine that this work would date to that early 1880's period when he would have been in Germany...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1900 item #1340162
This etching by the British artist Seymour Haden measures 7 x 10 1/4 inches, pencil signed, plate dated 1874, I/V, Cat: Schneiderman-144. Sir Francis Seymour Haden was one of the most important British etchers of the 19th century, along with his brother in law James Whistler. In addition to being a highly regarded artist he was a successful surgeon, accomplished author and dedicated angler...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1900 item #1085951
A pen and ink print signed W.V.V.T in the lower right corner. There is a small white spot in the right area (see photos) and dark spot above that... there is also rippling in the upper left corner-- the paper may have been pasted to a background but we have not examined it out of the frame. 12" x 16"
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1900 item #1422194 (stock #JB05038)
A charming little drawing, exceptionally well-traveled, and with a story to tell: pencil on paper, 6 1/2" by 9 3/4" inside the present mat opening, 12 1/2" by 15 3/8" as framed, not signed, but with inscription "Cesanne Aug. 13/74" at lower right, and "copper buckets" at lower left. And, on the backing, written in a modern hand: "Purchased at Kingston, Jamaica Municipal Art Museum/The date is 1874--purchased previous to 1974. Probably a sketch of town fountain in rural France...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1900 item #1441234 (stock #374)
Eighteenth Century Print “In Bridewell Beatling Hemp”, engraving by William Hogarth 13x16 inches
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1423483 (stock #JB03823)
A large watercolor painting, apparently unsigned, 20 1/2" by 28 1/2" (52 cm. by 72 cm.) and 27 1/2" by 36" framed. The antique work has been laid on a thin card, earlier in the 20th century, so if there was information on the recto it is hidden. The fascinating scene contains at least 20 figures going about their business, two horses, numerous boats, and windmills in the distance, and carefully rendered architectural facades. The artist must certainly be someone known...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : British : Pre 1900 item #1418469 (stock #JB01863)
Oil on canvas, 18" by 30" (20" by 32 1/2" framed), the subject a very English one----a peaceful summery millpond or riverside scene of low, forested hills and their feathery trees, a small peaceful settlement, and a total of six figures, three out in a rowboat for an outing, and three tiny people gathered in the village of thatch roofed buildings, engaged in conversation, beneath a pretty sky...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1900 item #1483646 (stock #3582)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,000.00
A NINETEENTH CENTURY, CHINESE NANKING “OPERA” CARVED AND FRAMED WALL SCULPTURE, Measuring 21” x 32”. The carving done circa 1840 and mounted and framed in the 1940’s. The work was typically done for export to the Irish market…..please also see # 3583
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1900 item #1320175
Stephen Parrish, American, 1846-1938, "Fishery on the Dee". A very fine original etching by American artist Stephen Parrish, this image is one of three images Parrish created of Chester, a small walled town near Liverpool, England. The image size is 9 1/4 x 7 3/8 inches, 1884, state I/II, before the remarque in the lower margin, cat: Schneider- 107, pencil signed.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1900 item #1421275 (stock #JB05273)
A beautiful drawing of the year 1878, featuring a number of women and a solitary man, most apparently gossiping at a picnic or other outdoor social meeting in a wooded setting, the place given as "Lake George". The famous upstate lake features in many an American painting of the period, and it was frequented by many notable artists of the time. Given the skill shown in our drawing, the artist was likely one of these notables, perhaps even one of the Hudson River greats...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1900 item #1437487 (stock #016)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,000.00
A very rare Watercolor heighten with gouache I have a western Gentleman from the Kennedy galleries provenance 13“ x 19“, frame size is 20 x 15 1/2“
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1900 item #1420703 (stock #JB05275)
A refined old drawing titled "Caterskill Clove" dated Oct. 7, 1859, the subject a famed rocky gorge in the eastern part of the Catskill mountains of New York State (google "Catskill Clove" for full information on this renowned scenic area). The work is apparently unsigned. There are any number of listed artists of the Hudson River School who could have created the drawing; Sanford Robinson Gifford, William Hart, Asher Durand and many others of note painted in the area...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1900 item #1437728 (stock #027)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,000.00
Portrait of a Lord signed by Thomas Bridgton ARCHA, 1840. Graphite on Paper. Frame size 23 x 19.5"
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1420224 (stock #JB02856)
This fine old work (9" by 20", 19 1/2" by 31" framed/matted, no glass) is a coastal scene including both steam and sail vessels on the horizon, as well as a shipwreck on the rocks at right, signed lower right and dated there 1888 by the well known American 19th century painter EDMUND DARCH LEWIS (1835-1910)...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1420343 (stock #JB02784)
The watercolor scene depicts a tent housekeeping camp on the shore of a body of water, with four figures, all African-American, in the composition, making it therefore quite unusual and scarce. The date of execution might be circa 1880 I feel, given the dress and the primitive camp set-up. The work is an historical record of African-American life in the 19th century. Size is 9 5/8" by 13 1/2" inside the mat, 18 1/4" by 22" in the narrow gold framing...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1900 item #1437484 (stock #015)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,000.00
W. T. Smedley, 1858 1920, from the Kennedy galleries a Work Inc. on paper dated 1891 9 x 9 1/2“ frame size 17 x 17“
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1900 item #1421847 (stock #JB03412)
Pencil on paper study of a man, signed at lower left with initials M.A.K., mid 19th century, by the noted Dutch landscapist and member of the important artistic Koekkoek family, MARINUS ADRIANUS KOEKKOEK (1807-1870). He was the son of Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek and brother of Barend Cornelis and Hermanus Koekkoek. This particular work was likely a sketch made by the artist as he worked out a particular artistic situation for a painting...