An early American painting circa 1820-40 , portrait of a woman holding a sealed red wax letter, which the family always called THE SCARLET LETTER. THE WORK MEASURING 38” x 32”

Benson Bond Moore (American,1882-1974)

Autumn in the Blue Ridge Mountains (near Emmittsburg, PA[sic]) 1955

Oil on board, signed lower left and dated “1955”. Titled on the reverse

Painting Size: 15.5” x 19.5”
Frame Size: 23.5” x 27.5”

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Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC...

Oil on canvas of a clapboard cottage by a lake in spring, 18" by 24" with 3" frame, signed at lower left "J.C. FRANCES". I do not see a listing for the artist but he or she was obviously at the very least familiar with the paintings of Henry Pember Smith (1854-1907) and George W. Drew (1875-1968), who painted eerily similar scenes. This painting shows a gambrel roofed cottage with blooming pink blossomed trees and ducks----an idyllic spring idyll in New England or New York state perhaps...

22x14 in pastel on paper dated 1915 by artist H R RICHARD

10K Miniature Portrait Painting Brooch depicting a Young Girl. Portrait is Surrounded with Bohemian Garnets and Framed in 10K Yellow Gold. Very early "C" Clasp Closure. 1.25" Diameter.

"Floral Still Life" by French artist Alisev , Oil on Canvas, 20 x 16", Frame Size 24 x 20"

Sir Frank Brangwyn, British, 1867-1956, "Scaffolding, No. 1 (L`Échafaudage)," etching, plate measures 19 x 20 3/4 inches on 24 1/2 x 29 1/2 inch wove type paper. A richly inked drypoint from 1919. Catalog reference: Gaunt 245. Edition of 54. Pencil signed in the lower right. Sir Frank Brangwyn was one of the most important British artists of the early 20th century. A member of the Royal Academy, the Royal Watercolor Society, and the Royal Society of British Artists, he was knighted in 1924.

A small painting on canvas, 12" by 9" (15" by 12" framed) titled on reverse "Hermit Home", by listed artist GEORGE EUGENE SCHROEDER (1865-1935). The scene is a modest rustic cabin in a forest clearing. The artist signed at lower right and again on reverse, wrote his name and "Heyburn, IDA". Heyburn is in the southern part of the state, between Twin Falls and Pocatello, on the Snake River...

A Pair of Ukuiy-e Form Watercolors from WWI By the artist Fabius Topenzi circa 1917, measuring 11 x 11“ and a fan shape Mat,Frame size 21 x 19”

Sir Frank Short, 1857-1945, British, "The New Moon," Aquatint, image size 10 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches, 1918, cat. Hardie-163, pencil signed. One of Short's largest aquatints, this scene depicts two fishermen on the Bure at Stokesby Ferry near Acle in Norfolk.

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY WITH CREVAT OIL Circa 1910 Measuring 16” x 14”….by Artist Norman Macleish from estate of his son Rod Macleish

AN EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY ETCHING DRYPOINT SIGNED 16” x 17” from an edition of 100. The work depicts a woman sewing

Original scarce 1915 etching known variously as "Sunset Williamsburg Bridge", or, "New York, From the Williamsburg Bridge", signed at lower right margin in pencil by the important American etcher, illustrator, critic, author and teacher JOSEPH PENNELL (1857-1926). The sheet, unframed, measures 11 1/2" by 16 5/8". After the signature, the "imp." indicates that Pennell would have printed this himself...

A Mogal Persian illuminated pages pair in a matted frame. Full color watercolor and tempura with gold leaf applied double sided

This is a fine 1919 work featuring roses and their stems and leaves, signed at right center by artist A. E. DALE and dated there 1919. I do not see a listing for this obviously talented artist. The painting, 17" by 13" inside the mat and 23" by 20" framed, is in amazingly fresh condition considering it was painted nearly 100 years ago. The paper is not yellowed and there is no foxing. The frame is contemporary and in excellent condition...

Old mountain and canyon landscape with foreground water and fog in the trees, 22 1/2" by 12 3/4" framed, unsigned, painted on old gray art board. The work likely dates to about the first quarter of the 20th century or possibly last years of the 19th. The vertical format would complement a narrow small wall. Old gold frame has some chip losses especially at corners...

Artist signed H.R.RICHARD 1915, Flower Seller 22x16” Beautiful framed work

Description: Miniature Painting of a charming and pretty lady, in a beautiful blue dress, fashionable hair style of 19th century era, decorated with pearl string and feathers. The painting is signed by the artist, N. Stieler, on the lower right side. Size: The portrait is 3 1/4" in height and 2 5/8" wide, in very good condition and surrounded by machine turned oval frame set in a fancy rectangular 5"H X 4 3/8"W frame. Shipping is FREE within the U.S ONLY!

Landscape with Sheep by Robert W Van Boskerck, 16 x 22". Frame Size 26 x 32". Robert Ward Van Boskerck, 1855-1932, was an Impressionist landscape painter, who preferred quiet settled, setteled scenes drawn from his domestic and foreign travels. He was elected to the National Academy of Design, New York City, as an Associate in 1897, and an Academician in 1907...

An unusual oil and mixed media sculpture and painting of a sailing ship, circa 1920

“Magdalena de Vos”. Portrait of the 17th Century daughter of Cornelis de Vos, oil on canvas, artist unknown, unsigned, sight size 31.5” x 21.5”, frame size 37” x 29”, framed...

Watercolor Signed lower left measuring 10 x 16“ 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...

A nicely painted watercolor of wild roses, signed at lower right by artist M. J. Gage, circa 1900. Found in Boston area, The work measures 6 1/4" by 12 1/4" inside the double mat and 14" by 18" as framed in oak. Colors are fresh considering that this is a century old. Clean and ready for the wall.

Attractive watercolor on quality watercolor paper painting of a Mediterranean style estate with red tiled roof, tall cypress trees and exquisite ironwork and stonework, 12 1/2" by 19" (18" by 25" framed), signed at lower left by French artist "L. SEILLARD". There is a small listing for the artist, and some trail of watercolors and a painting or two in the auction records...

The highly impressionistic American oil paintings of Anthony Thieme, noted Cape Ann, Massachusetts artist, are among the most sought after works in today's auction scene, some bringing prices well into the mid five figures or higher. Those works are typically scenes of Rockport, Gloucester, Florida and far=flung locations such as Italy and Central America. It is rather less known that Thieme in his earlier years worked in creating stage designs...

Multi jpgs and Multi Activities in this OIL On CANVAS with the PARIS STREET SCENE. Top Left reads: BOULEVARD/ Des/ ARTIST/ CAFE. At the Left are People Seated at Tables in Formal Attire in front of the CAFE on an Idealistic Tree lined Street; a Poster displayed on the wall and a KIOSK behind. Central to the PAINTING is the LADY with PARASOL Beautifully dressed; there is a touch of Pink seen on this Parasol. Right side of the Work shows the HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE and a 1920's Automobile. Date ...

Aquatint on paper 20" by 14" (32" by 24 1/2" in tasteful framing, with quality materials), signed in pencil at lower right corner within the image, the subject a lady intensely examining a print from a bulging portfolio in a studio, other works visible in other portfolios and hanging on the wall. Title I believe is "Dans l'Atelier". The colors are somber and elegant. Robbe was a major French printmaker late in the 19th and early in the 20th century. His subject matter included Paris scenes, whi...

Description: Nicely painted portrait of a young matron wearing a gold locket and a white lace frock, presented in a rose gilt brass pendant frame. Size : 3" x 2 1/4", in very good condition.

Glenn (Glen) Cooper Henshaw (1880 - 1946) was active/lived in New York, Indiana, Maryland. Glenn Henshaw is known for Landscape, portrait and urban view painting. Glen Cooper Henshaw. Henshaw, born in Windfall, Indiana on 8 August 1880 (reportedly as Hinshaw), was a descendant of Francis Scott Key.

An extensive classical Italian Mediterranean landscape on paper, signed at lower right by artist CARL NACKE (1876-after 1931). Measuring 15 1/2" by 23 1/4", the work's colors are unusually fresh considering the age of the piece. The watercolor is unframed, laid on a board, as found in a Georgia estate. Nacke was an artist best known for his work on fine porcelains at German porcelain factories; these porcelains appear at auction in Europe.

Anders Zorn 1860-1920 Sweden This is a fine portrait etching by European artist Anders Zorn. This pencil signed etching titled Guill II was created and printed in 1918. The image measures 7 3/4X5 3/4 . This pencil signed impression is lightly evenly toned and archivally framed. This image appears in the zorn catalog as image number 165.

Anders Zorn 1860-1920 Sweden This is an original etching by well known Swedish artist Anders Zorn. The title is: Dal River, created and printed in 1919. This impression measures 7X4 5/8 inches, printed on a medium weight laid type sheet. hand signed in pencil lower right. This image appears in the Asplund catalog as image number 284. One of his series of nude bathers that he is well known for.

Introduction: One of the reasons Raphael's Madonna and Child paintings were so influential was that there were so many of them. They numbered in the dozens with many more copies done by later artists. Beyond that though, Raphael's Madonnas are admired for the quiet elegance each has in common while nevertheless allowing us to glimpse the intimate, even playful joy shared by both mother and child. Examples of this can be seen in his Alba Madonna and the Madonna of the Chair. However this m...

An old unframed watercolor of an Asiatic-looking man in traditional clothing, with pencil writing in Russian at right including the date 19.II.1920. A Russian-speaker informs me that there is no name of an artist, but that the subject is identified as a Buryat. I take from online information: "The Buryat people are descended from various Siberian and Mongol peoples that inhabited the Lake Baikal Region including Kurykans, who are also the ancestors of the Siberian Turkic speaking Yakuts. Then...

Frederick Judd Waugh 1861-1940 American This is a fine original watercolor/gouache painting by American Marine painter Frederick Judd Waugh. This painting created circa 1910 of a Sailboat race off of the rocky coast measures 10X14 inches, signed lower right and nicely housed in a custom frame. Waugh was the son of a well-known Philadelphia portrait painter, Samuel Waugh. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Thomas Eakins, and at the Académie Julian in Paris with Ad...

Watercolor on paper landscape, 10 1/2" by 7" inside the early-style gold mat, 18 1/2" by 14 1/2" as framed, signed in blue at lower right "J.A. HANCOX". No listings were found for this artist, but the work appears certainly to be of English origin. There is fairly heavy foxing especially at top in the sky, and a small bar of lighter paper there. It appears that the artist signed in lower right corner and then tried to rub it out there before re-signing it two inches higher up.

By the well listed and accomplished American artist EARL HORTER (1881-1940), this is an accomplished watercolor painting of a shack or small house, perhaps at the sandy shore, a flagpole at left, inscribed at lower right "My regards to Mr. Newman/E. Horter 1915". Horter was born near Philadelphia and is generally most closely associated with that area but he traveled widely, becoming widely known for his etched images of simply urban or historical scenes in major American cities, and some Europe...

Ink on paper drawing of the narrow streets of an old town likely in eastern Massachusetts, possibly Marblehead, two women chatting casually, the work signed by the artist at lower right and monogrammed and dated in Roman numerals 1896 at left, by the noted American artist and illustrator EDMUND HENRY GARRETT (1853-1929). Garrett was born in Albany, New York at mid century, and died near Boston at the end of the 1920's. His art career appears to have started slowly, with little art education pr...

Luigi Kasimir (Austrian, 1881-1962), color etching depicting the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, signed in pencil bottom center. Image: 17.5" H x 12.25" W; frame: 27.25" H x 20.75" W ……. Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the ...

An early 20thC oil on canvas by Rhode Island artist, Emma Lavinia Swan ( 1853-1927). This is an atypical and rare scene since Swan is noted from her floral paintings. It appears to have its original black wood frame. Signed in the lower right hand corner. The canvas measures 9" x 9"; frame 17" x 17". Listed/Davenports.

Ray Austin Crooke (Australian, b. 1922)

Men Resting and Family on Beach, a pair of paintings

Oils on masonite, signed.

Painting size: 6” x 9”
Frame size: 9.5” x 12.5”

Crooke began painting at the age of 17 when his war service in the Australian Air Force took him to Borneo and the islands north of Australia. After the war, he remained in the area for a number of years before seeking additional artistic training at Swinburne Technical College under Roge...

Arnold Marc Gorter 1866-1933 Dutch, Amsterdam This is an original oil on canvas by Dutch artist Arnold Marc Gorter (1866-1933) This landscape view with a Man in a row boat is signed lower left. The painting itself measures 15X20 inches. Very nice condition, recently cleaned and varnished. Very minor craquelure in the paint, unobtrusive. Everything is quite stable and very presentable. This painting came to us in a hand carved Gold Frame. Gorter is best known for landscapes and won a gold...

, Ballet Russe costume design for General Hasphenor from the ballet JUDITH 12x9” Léon Bakst (Russian: Леон (Лев) Николаевич Бакст, Leon (Lev) Nikolaevich Bakst) – born as Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich (later Samoylovich) Rosenberg, Лейб-Хаим Израилевич (Самойлович) Розенберг (27 January (8 February) 1866[1][2] – 28 December 1924) was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer of Belarusian origin. He was a member of the Sergei Diag...

Oil on board painting of a European village scene: an intimate cobblestoned lane winds between Old World houses, as a threatening sky looms above. The work is unframed and measures 26" by 20 1/2". It is signed at lower right and dated there "12" (the year 1912). The artist is ALBERT ABRAMOVITZ (1879-1963). Abramovitz was born in Riga, Latvia. He received art training at the Imperial Art School of Odessa, Russia, then went on to further study at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris. By...

Lovis Corinth 1858-1925 German This is an original drypoint etching by German Expressionist artist Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) The title of this work is: "Alter Mann" (the old man) It was created and printed in 1916. The image measures 6 5/8X4 3/4 inches. Signed in pencil in the lower border.Printed on a light weight laid type paper, very nice condition.

"Notre Dame" seen from the former studio of Matisse by Rene Bernard,French 1906-2004 oil on canvas measuring 18” x 15"….Bernard was a French painter who studied and painted in his beloved country most of his life, briefly coming to the United States in the 1960sHe painted in the style of Maurice de Vlam ick, and André Derain, of whom he knew.

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

Old Willow in Winter, Anacostia

Oil-on-artist board, signed lower right and titled on reverse

Painting: 11” 14”
Frame: 17” x 20”

Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art with Messer and Brooke , and also with Weyl . He continued his studies in drawing at the Linthicum Institute under Ballenger and learned painting conservation fro...

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

Lithograph of Percy the tenth Earl of Northumberland. Framed Lithograph. 22.5 x 33".

A circa 1910 watercolor painting of a blue-eyed young girl wearing a light yellow dress, a bow in her red-blonde hair, signed at lower right by Scottish-born, American artist JESSIE FISKEN (1860-1935). Fisken was born in Helensburg, Scotland and came to America with her parents and five siblings in 1888, apparently to the Seattle area (the way paved by her father's brother). By 1890 she was already listed as an artist. Portraits and miniatures are known by her hand. The 20" by 17" work (24" ...

William Lee Hankey, European, 1869-1952, "Marie of the Fields", Drypoint etching, image size: 7 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches, ed 100, 1919, printed on wove paper, pencil signed with artist's blindstamp. This image is considered one of the artist's finest work.

Large oil on canvas, 30" by 36", 40" by 46" as framed , signed at lower right and dated "11" by listed American artist R.A. KISSACK (Robert A. Kissack, 1878-?). This painting seems to draw some of its inspiration from the famous work of Whistler's Mother....with the profile view, and the simple background, which consists here of a Japanese style framed print at upper left and a slag glass type early century lamp. The lamp and dim interior also lends an Arts and Crafts feeling. The St. Louis-born...

A beautiful circa 1920 impressionist painting of tall pines or cedars in a sun-dappled forest landscape which includes two groups of small figures at center left. The unframed work measures 30" by 24" and is apparently unsigned. Judging from the canvas and stretcher, this is likely the work of a listed American artist. It has been suggested that it was cut down at some point, as the painting extends over the tacking edge. The work as found was loose on the stretcher and separating at the edg...

A view of Long Island circa 1915 by an Ashcan School artist depicting a view of a industrial factory. Unsigned oil on Masonite

This is an Oil on Canvas depicting a Woman Carrying a Child; there is another Child alongside. Signed LR: ABRIEDA. The size is 7.25" X 9.25". This Work is unframed. From a Delaware Estate date this Painting circa 1900 or first 1/4 of the 20th Century. jpgs tell the rest.

An accomplished colored pencil drawing of a watery landscape, the sun reflecting off those waters, 6 1/2" by 4" (17 1/2" by 15" framed), signed in pencil lower left by the noted American artist CHARLES MELVILLE DEWEY (1849-1937). Dewey was born in northwestern New York state between the Adirondacks and Buffalo. Confined to bed as a youngster by a hip injury, he studied art. By the mid 1870's he was studying at the National Academy and shortly thereafter, in Paris with Carolus-Duran, who he as...

Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand, French, 1863-1951, "Frio," Etching, aquatint and drypoint, image size 7 1/2 x 12 inches, 4th state, "Louis Legrand" pencil and plate signed l.r., Arwas A74.

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Willows on the Potomac"

Casine on Board, signed l.r. a and titled on the reverse.

Painting: 8" x 10"
Frame:13.5" x 15.5"

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Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector

Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC. He studied at the Corcoran School o...

Leon Bakst Ballet Russe Artist Daphnes & Chloe “Darcon” watercolor 11x9” éon Bakst (Russian: Леон (Лев) Николаевич Бакст, Leon (Lev) Nikolaevich Bakst) – born as Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich (later Samoylovich) Rosenberg, Лейб-Хаим Израилевич (Самойлович) Розенберг (27 January (8 February) 1866[1][2] – 28 December 1924) was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer of Belarusian origin. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghi...

Oil on canvas painting of white and pink roses in a blue bowl, signed at lower right "Strachan". The work, measuring 18" by 24" and 23" by 28 1/2" in likely original frame, has tiny losses in background and lower left area. The frame also has light wear, and losses on back of left edge. Overall, a very shabby chic piece in feeling. There is an old Los Angeles framer's sticker on reverse backing.