All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1900 item #1288776
Utagawa Yoshitsuya, Japanese, 1822-1866, "Wakazaka Shinnai at Shizugadake". This is a an original color woodblock print by Utagawa Yoshitsuya from his series '54 Battle Stories of Hideyoshi". The image size is 12 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches, 1864, lifetime impression, framed. Hideyoshi was a 16th century Samurai warrior in the who rose through the ranks of the army to become general, leading the forces of Japan in several brutal conflicts...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1439729 (stock #942)
L'Enfant Gallery
$18,000.00
Mother & Child. English painting. Antebellum Charleston Family attributed to Thomas Sully. 19th century. Oil on Canvas. 36 x 29. Frame Size 44 x 37".
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1434331
19th Century American School 1800-1899 American Artists This is an original oil on tin painting of a young woman. It is apparently unsigned and so we are calling this 19th century American School. The painting measures 8X7 inches, it came to us in a period gilt frame which measures 12 1/2X11 1/2 inches. Expertly painted, this is a fine example of 19th century American portraiture.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1443709 (stock #1162)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,500.00
unsigned Scottish artist 19th century Men on Horseback oil 24x30” Framed in a beautiful gold frame measuring 30x36”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1446211 (stock #2061)
L'Enfant Gallery
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President George Washington in Full Masonic Regalia Oil 29.5x23.5” by artist Robert Gordon Hardie 1854-1904. Letter from curator of the Masonic Lodge,and other provenance. Background Hardie, Robert Gordon was born on March 29, 1854 in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States. Education Studied drawing in schools of Cooper Institute, Academy of Design and Art Students’ League, New New York Studied at École des Beaux Arts, Paris, Major Robert Gordon and Frances (Hyde) H...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1454180 (stock #3216)
L'Enfant Gallery
$8,500.00
Nineteenth Century Nassau Bahamas “Straw Market” Oil 10x14” A watercolorist, who specialized in coastal scenes, George Henry Clements grew up on his family's plantation near Opelousas, Louisiana, and worked as a clerk for the New Orleans Cotton Exchange before turning to painting in 1880. He began his formal art training at the Union Art League in New York City. By 1881 he was in Paris. He spent a year at the Academie Julian and another at the Academie Colarossi...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1420877 (stock #JB05507)
A total of FOUR watercolor paintings, framed as pairs, in two frames, each watercolor 10" by 4 7/8", each frame 17 3/4" by 17 3/4". All of the watercolors are signed at lower left with initials "FD". Judging from the scenes, these are likely Northern European and of late nineteenth century date. Condition is excellent, one frame has a little nick at top right. Some research may help determine the identity of the artist.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1900 item #1448216 (stock #2328)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,500.00
Norichka-TORPEDO BOAT IN ACTION 1895,14x28” Senso-e - Senso-e are prints depicting wars, most often the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 - 1895 and the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 - 1905. Primarily triptychs, these images filled the journalistic need for illustrations of current activities on the battle front, but also acted as propaganda, encouraging support for the wars and fostering patriotism...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1474475 (stock #3093)
L'Enfant Gallery
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PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON ATTRIBUTED TO THE CHAS. WILSON PEALE FAMILY, EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY OIL ON CANVAS, measuring 72” x 50” in a fine period frame. Possibly the frame from the Stewart workshops...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1900 item #1418908 (stock #JB01931)
Wood engraving on paper, 11" by 15 3/4", 15 1/2" by 20 1/2" framed,titled at bottom "HOME FROM THE WAR", by the famed American artist WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910). The image was published on June 13, 1863. This is a classic example of Homer's Civil War period wood engravings in Harper's Weekly newspaper, which was one of the most avidly followed periodicals in a now unimaginable age when electronic media did not exist...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1900 item #1489764 (stock #3711)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,200.00
A beautiful framed work by the famous Japanese artist. Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese: 歌川 国貞; 1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代 歌川 豊国, Sandai Otagawa Toyokuni), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pastel : Pre 1900 item #1421860 (stock #JB05597)
A classic late 19th century American pastel of daisies on a red cloth, 10 3/4" by 15 3/4" (14 1/2" by 19 3/4" in likely original framing), apparently unsigned, the style somewhat resembling that of renowned American artist of the period Martin Johnson Heade. Condition is excellent. A very small fragment of a label remains on the frame, with "Broadway" as part of street address. That would likely but not necessarily be Broadway in New York...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1439021 (stock #926)
L'Enfant Gallery
$12,500.00
“The Cobbler”, unsigned School of Naples, circa mid 19th Century, oil on canvas, ornate gilt plaster and gold leafed original frame, canvas size 30” x 24”, frame size 41” x 35”. “The Cobbler” depicts a 19th Century shoe mender working with a patron in his workshop . The work is typical of the School of Naples artist.A classic example of veiled Victorian eroticism in Italian mid 19th Century painting. Provenance: The Wheeler Collection 2019, Washington,D.C.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1443535 (stock #1091)
L'Enfant Gallery
$7,500.00
A. WOLFFEROT Flemish Village Boat Scene o/copper 12x16” Set in a beautiful village, people are boating and merrymaking on a Saturday summer day.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1422441 (stock #JB04337)
Atmospheric skilled watercolor painting of Venice and the famous lagoon at dawn or sunset, signed at lower right by the artist, GUIDO AGOSTINI (1870-1898, different dates are shown in different reference sources). The painting, 11 3/4" by 15 3/4" inside the present mat, 18" by 22" in simple modern frame, shows the skill of its creator, with fine detail in the architecture, gondola, and figure, and the pink-orange light suffusing the scene...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1416198 (stock #JB04303)
A nineteenth century watercolor painting of high purple mountains looming above an arid landscape framed by two trees at right, unsigned, 6 1/2" by 9 1/2" plus 3/4" wide framing. Found in California, and I lean towards this being a view in that state, though it could be elsewhere in the West or even conceivably in a place like Italy. The houses at far left do not help to solve the riddle. The piece, glued to the backing board, is definitely quite old...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1422886 (stock #JB04680)
A small gem of a watercolor painting, the subject a traditional house in a landscape with trees, signed at lower right "F Diday fecit", ("fecit" Latin for "did it" or "made it"), circa mid 19th century. The work on laid paper measures 3 1/4" by 5 1/8" inside the beautifully hand drawn lines mat. Presently this is unframed...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1419566 (stock #JB02392)
Watercolor painting of a lake and scenic mountains, 6" by 8 1/2" (10" by 12" in simple framing with no mat), apparently unsigned, circa mid 19th century, likely English. The gentleman from whom I purchased this makes regular trips to England and brings back drawings and paintings which he sells, so, that is why I am fairly confident that this is indeed English...