Introduction: Wai Ming's original oil paintings and fine art reproductions, mainly of oriental subjects, are admired and collected by people throughout the world, including the famous and foreign dignitaries. Seldom has the impact of an artist been so immediate as that of Wai Ming on his arrival in San Francisco from Hong Kong in 1974. His artistic sensitivity is combined with a startling realism that has caught the attention of the public...

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;...

Portrait of T. Donaldson Strangeways, by artist Thomas Hastings, 1778-1864, Oil on Canvas 58 x 37". painter, draughtsman, watercolour artist and etcher of landscapes, topographical views, marine subjects and coast scenes. Born Thomas Barnett; changed his surname to Hastings in 1812, under which name he exhibited and published after this date. Officer in the British Army 1795-1811, Captain from 1799. Customs Officer from 1819...

AMERICAN ARTIST ANNA ELKAN MELTZER 1896-1974 , klezmer Player, circa 1940, oil on canvas measuring about 72” x 36”, signed lower right. New York Artist who also taught painting. ......She was born on the Lower East Side of New York City to Russian immigrant parents, Rudolph (Joseph) and Sarah Elkan. Her father was employed in a dry goods store shortly after her birth, and was described as being employed in "real estate" in 1920...

Sunday Picnic in Abruzzo (Italy), was featured at the Chicago worlds fair in 1933 in an exhibit titled “Paintings of the New Italy”. The paintings were handpicked by Mussolini to show the deep-rooted family values of Italians. Carlos Verdecchia born in Italy in 1905 exhibited throughout Europe and Italy extensively in his lifetime. Period is greatly acclaimed pieces have been shown to many museums...

AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST JOSEPH DAWLEY 1936-2008, LAKE CHARLES LA , 24” x 24”. ……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...

"Portrait of Napoleon" by V. Varillaz. 1839. Oil on Canvas. 24" x 20", Frame Size 34" x 30"

Art Deco bronze urn: $44,000, reduced to $38,000 This Art Deco bronze figurative planter (jardiniere), circa 1920, measures 55" in height, 36" across (elbow to elbow), 18" deep.  caste bronze, 150-250 lb. This work was the combined effort of two French sculptors; Pierre Lenoir and Marcel Guillard (1896 - 1932)...

Pagliacci Enrico Caruso by Frederich August Lunsberg (1878-1928)

“The Chinoiserie Garden” after François Boucher (French 1703-1770) measuring 48x60 inches in oil on canvas, framed in a gold leaf baroque frame. The work was originally in the Grand Lobby of The Pierre Hotel in New York City. The original work by Boucher was a large tapestry done in the 18th century. François Boucher (29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style...

An early twentieth century bronze bust of President Abraham Lincoln, in a modernist or brutalist style. This piece was most likely a unique cast and is mounted on its’ original wood pedestal. The bust measuring h;19”,w; 11”,d; 14”. With the pedestal, the sculpture measures approximately 69”. Magnificent patina and a spectacular piece that was showcased in an exhibit that traveled the many sojourns of the late president….

A Dutch youth, attributed to the School of Haarlem*, The Netherlands, unsigned, panel numbered on reverse, circa 1630-1650, oil on oak panel, sight size 26.25” x 19.75, frame size 35.75” x 28.25”. Solid wood reproduction frame made by Gold Leaf Studios, Washington DC...

A fine painting depicting a bridge at Arles, France signed and dated 1922 measuring, oil, 26” x 32”….. BIOGRAPHY Jacques Martin-Ferrières, born in St. Paul (Tarn), was the son of the great Post-Impressionist artist Henri Martin (1860-1943). In addition to studying with and being profoundly influenced by his father, Martin-Ferrières studied with Fréderic Cormon (1854-1924) and Ernest Laurent (1859-1929)...

A finely carved wooded sculpture of a warrior with remnants of polychromed pigments from the Chinese period of the Qing Dynasty. More information coming soon

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;...

"Le Vieux Mors" by American artist Frank Myers Boggs (1855-1926). Oil on canvas panel. 14 x 21". Frame Size 25 x 31". 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...

Harriette F A Sutcliffe (British, fl.1881 - 1922)

Beauty and the Beast

Oil on canvas, signed with monogram and titled on the reverse

Exhibited: The Royal Academy, 1899

Miss Suitcliff was a Hampstead painter of genre and portraits who exhibited at the royal academy from 1881-1899 and elsewhere.

Source:

Christopher Wood, The Dictionary of Victorian Painters

Painting Size: 16" x 20" Frame Size: 24" x 28"

Oil on canvas "Bird and Baby" oil a split screen canvas untitled 36" by 50" with Diane Brown Gallery Label from NY NY. Collections include MoMA NY Whitney NY Brooklyn NY Cleveland Museum of Art The Museum of contemporary art in Los Angeles and a current exabit at the Hirschhorn Museum of art DC to name a few. Julia Wachtel’s oil, acrylic, and silkscreen-on-canvas paintings, which are dominated by signs, banners, and logos drawn from popular culture, explore the impact of our image-saturated...

American Master Joseph DAWLEY 1936-2008 “Woman In Black” , 30” x 24” Biography: Joseph William Dawley (1936-2008) was born in Nashville, Arkansas and raised in Dallas, Texas. He received his B.A. from SMU where some of his art hangs today. He married and moved to NJ working for the Newark Evening News retouching photos and sidelining as a political cartoonist. He spent time studying at the Art Students League in NYC and in 1968 he decided to devote all his time to painting. Realism was h...

From Wikipedia: Gustave Achille Guillaumet (26 March 1840 – 14 March 1887) was a French artist. He is best known for his paintings of North Africa. ……Guillaumet was initially a student of François-Edouard Picotand Félix-Joseph Barrias. In 1857 he joined the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he became a student of Alexandre Abel de Pujol. In 1861 Guillaumet entered the Historical Landscape category of the Prix de Rome[citation needed] for a scholarship to st...

Japanese Buddha Imperial Court Of Kyoto circa Eleventh to Fourteenth Century height:30 inches inch comes from one of the earliest collections of Japanese artifacts in America more information coming….

Still Life with Flowers” Oil Pastel 48x32”……. Othon Friesz was born in Le Havre, the son of a long line of shipbuilders and sea captains. He went to school in his native city. It was while he was at the Lycée that he met his lifelong friend Raoul Dufy. He and Dufy studied at the Le Havre School of Fine Arts in 1895-96 and then went to Paris together for further study. In Paris, Friesz met Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, and Georges Rouault. Like them, he rebelled against the academic te...

A rare Chinese Guanyin in gold leaf of Carved Wood measuring 58” height by 28” width…. Guanyin, Guan Yin or Kuan Yin (/ˌɡwɑːnˈjɪn/) (traditional Chinese: 觀音; simplified Chinese: 观音; pinyin: Guānyīn) is the Buddhist bodhisattva associated with compassion. She is the East Asian equivalent of Avalokiteśvara (Sanskrit: अवलोकितेश्वर), and has been adopted by other Eastern religions including Chinese folk religion.[She was first given the appellati...

American Impressionist artist Walter Launt Palmer (August 1, 1854 – April 16, 1932) was an American Impressionist painter. Palmer's father Erastus Dow Palmer was a prominent sculptor, and the family residence was frequented by his father's friends, notably Frederic Edwin Church.[1] Palmer began his formal artistic training under portrait painter Charles Loring Elliott, but it was Church, the period's premier landscape artist, who later tutored the young Palmer in landscape painting.[2][3] I...

"Joyful Wedding", Unsigned, Oil on Canvas, 19th Century, 33 x 48", Frame Size 43 x 58"

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. She has exhibited widely in E...

"Madonna with Child" from the school of Ruben, oil on canvas, 10" x 6", Frame size 50" x 40"

(Consignment). Milanese marble sculpture of a Bedouin Princess signed and dated 1881 by Carlos Vessina, White Carrera marble measuring 29.5 inches tall, 20 inch width, 8 inch deep

Exquisite and very rare 15/16th Century AVA Disciple from Burma, holding an alms bowl, very gentle, calm and serene expression. Patina reveals some pigment remnants, sandstone of redish-brown-terracotta color. Very good condition, Size: H. 90cm x W. 25cm x D. 20cm excluding Museum quality stand, weight: about 55 kilos (120 lbs.)

“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”. 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 Re...

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

“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”. … Bio: Ernesto Alcántara (1933 - 2019) created a vast body of work along many themes: volcanoes, the Sierra Gorda, seascapes, landscapes, nudes, still life...

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. She has exhibited widely in E...

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. The mistresses of the most powerful men ...

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;...

A beautiful oil on canvas attributed to the renowned British artist Charles Robert Leslie, The painting depicting a woman and child or Madonna. The work measuring 48” x 36” Leslie was born in London to American parents. When he was five years of age he returned with them to the United States, where they settled in Philadelphia. Leslie completed his education and afterwards became apprenticed to a bookseller. He was, however, mainly interested in painting and drama, and when George Frederi...

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. His earliest love was for landscape, but n...

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

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. These collections include those of Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Bryant Gu...

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.

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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. These collections include those of Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Bryant Gumbel, and contempora...

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

"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. He gradually became known for his thic...

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

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. Endowed with a strong and very independent character, he prefers to train himself by making copies of paintings, in particular from the Louvre museum. ...

From our European Collection, a masterpiece by German genre realism painter Carl Johann Spielter (1851-1922), entitled "Sad News," painted in 1901. More information to follow: Size: Framed Size 60 inches wide x 48 inches tall.

A view from a balcony in Berlin of rooftops dated 1959 Signed lower left Artist information coming soon

A very fine photograph by renowned Italian artist Olivo Barbieri (born 1954 in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna) of the Grand Canal of Venice, Italy done in 2002, measuring 40” x 80” (100 cm x 200cm) framed in a beautiful silver frame that measures 48” x 88” He is recognized for his innovative technique creating miniature still photography [1] from actual landscapes by simulating shallow depth of field via the use of tilt-shift lens photography. Barbieri's technique simulates the shallow depth ...

(Consignment). “The Art Collector” by American Master Joseph Dawley measuring 24x30” and framed in a beautiful gold frame measuring 34x40” ……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 a...

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. These collections include those of Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Bryant Gumbel, and contemp...

Nineteenth Century Bust of Abraham Lincoln in Plaster 34” x 24” signed Raffeallo Gironi

This Abstract Expressionist painting dates to 1957, and it has a partial signature on the lower left corner. It measures 38" x 28" and has a small amount of paint loss. Notice the bright and unique colors and with heavy inpasto brushwork. On 5/3/04, I presented this painting to the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation for review where I had a brief meeting with the assistant director. The painting was not confirmed, however, the painting will remain under review and evaluation. In addition, we have obs...

Jonas Lie (Norwegian/American, 1880-1940) - A large size landscape painting of a stand of white birch trees by a lake, with mountains in the background. Oil on canvas. Signed in lower left. Jonas Lie was a Norwegian born American painter, known for his paintings of the coastlines of New England and city views of New York City.

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. He received his B.A. from SMU where some of his art hangs today. He married and moved to NJ working for the Newark Evening News retouching photos and sidelining as a political cartoonist. He spent time studying at the Art Students League in NYC and in 1968 he decided to devote al...

"Russian Icon", polychrome gilded, 22" x 35, 17th century

This is an antique 18th-century, circa 1740 AD, oil portrait of King Augustus III (October 17, 1696 – October 5, 1763), hand-painted on heavy, hand-woven canvas with great attention to detail.

From 1733 to 1763, he was the King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Elector of Saxony.

The king is depicted wearing armor and a blue moiré silk sash of the Polish Order of the White Eagle. He also has a black cravat and an elaborate white lace collar.

An ermine-trimmed red coro...

(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. Af...

William B. Hoyt (American, 1945 - present) - Pursuit of Happiness. Oil on canvas. Dated 1990. Size: 48 inches x 60 inches (frame size: 54.5 inches x 66.5 inches). Signed and dated in lower right. In this thought-provoking work, the acclaimed Vermont painter, William B. Hoyt, portrays a timeless challenge: the 'Pursuit of Happiness.' This is a painting on a painting. The background of this colossal painting displays his version of the Spanish old master, Diego Velasquez's 'Joseph's Bloody Coa...

Joseph Harry Anderson (1906-1996) produced some of the most memorable commercial art of the mid 20th century, capturing the nostalgic mood of a mythical and bygone America. He provided illustrations for the leading brands and magazines of the day, including Coca Cola, Esso, Cosmopolitan, and of course The Saturday Evening Post of which our painting is the subject. This gouache on board appeared on a double page spread in a feature fiction story, entitled Unwanted Son by Phyliss Duganne (1899-...

An important Canadian Group of 7 oil on panel by Francis Hans - Franz or Frank - Johnston OSA, ARCA (Canadian, 1888-1949) titled "Pools of Spring". Born in Toronto, he was a founding member of the renowned Toronto painters known as the Group of Seven, which he left by 1926. He became a principal of the Winnipeg School of Art and later the Ontario College of Art. He changed his signature to "Franz" in 1927 on the advice of a friend. He was the most productive and financially successful of the ...