All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1458271 (stock #1474)
L'Enfant Gallery
$13,000.00
Early and Eighteenth Century oil on canvas of a very joyful seen more information coming soon
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1441259 (stock #205)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,200.00
Lago Maggiore late Nineteenth Century watercolor Artist B. Clark 13x9 inches,framed size 19x16”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1437790 (stock #3276)
L'Enfant Gallery
$8,800.00
A pair of oil on canvas works attributed to Montague, Amsterdam Canal Scenes each work measures 15x12”,FS20x17” Sold as a pair
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1421397 (stock #JB03556)
Detailed antique watercolor drawing of a country villa in a park-like setting, an elegant horse-drawn carriage approaching from left, 6" by 9 3/8" (11 1/4" by 14 1/2" in modern day frame), signed at lower right "Herter" and dated there 1838. The villa seems to have Italian or other Mediterranean architectural characteristics, so perhaps we are in Italy, and the artist is a traveler from Germany. This is all speculation as I cannot locate an appropriate artist of this name...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1900 item #1423604 (stock #JB03865)
Circa 1880's painting in oil on a 14" diameter papier mache style plate, unsigned, featuring a winter scene at dusk. This charming antique work by an anonymous artist has nice detail and light. The artist was not professional but certainly had some training and a good eye for color and composition. The work has acquired some small losses, showing as white spots in the imagery, and along the rim. See old original label on reverse with 1880 patent date. Found in coastal New Jersey.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1415998 (stock #JB01085)
Sold together as a **PAIR**, two watercolor paintings, each signed "BUZZI", one measuring 13 1/2" by 9", the other slightly larger at 14 1/2" by 9" (both 23" by 16 1/2" as framed), the subject two ladies going about their daily activities, dressed in 19th century garb. Condition of both is excellent, with fresh color, and no foxing/staining. The artist is most likely by listed artist Achille Buzzi or possibly Arturo Buzzi.
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1900 item #1422244 (stock #JB05419)
An interesting late 19th century, antique drawing of woodland plants, unsigned on front, word "Stanyan" on reverse, where the date "Oct. 28th/84" is written in pencil in old hand. The work measures 15" by 11" (slightly smaller inside the pink mat--which plays off the pink flowers) and 23 1/2" by 19 3/4" in frame (no glass)...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1456265 (stock #1008)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,000.00
An English Landscape attributed to the Circle of Turner. Oil on canvas framed And a goalie frame measuring 18 x 23”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1900 item #1476437
19th Century American School 1800-1899 American Artists This is an original oil on canvas painting, signed and dated lower right, but we cannot make out who the artist was. This painting of Harbor Traffic is dated 1874. Possibly the work of Francis Silva. The painting measures 12X20 inches. We are calling this work 19th century American School. Nicely framed in a period gilt frame. Fine detail and color, this is an outstanding work of art.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1900 item #1417562 (stock #JB03932)
Oil on canvas of a blue-eyed elderly lady wearing a white bonnet, 27" by 22" (34" by 29 1/2" in the 19th century frame), that attractive old frame bearing a placard giving the name of the artist as WILLIAM MATTHEW PRIOR (1806-1873). Images of the unsigned painting, which was found in Downeast Maine, were sent to major auction houses in New England and New York City. None disputed this being a work by the famous itinerant portraitist...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Pre 1900 item #1396570
Global Ceramics
$280.00
Early plaster of Paris group of Saint Anne and her daughter Mary. Saint Anne is seen teaching Mary how to read the Holy Scripture. When dating the little sculpture, the hairstyle of Saint Anne and the narrow waist of Mary’s dress points at a time around 1830 or the reign of Charles X in France. Pedestal and sculpture are separable, the pedestal with traces of an address, Middleton Street in London – probably the address of the original retailer...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1900 item #1187336 (stock #8466)
William Aiken Walker (American, b. c.1838-1921)

Man in a Cottonfield

Oil on board, signed lower left.

$16,500. Painting Size: 8.25” x 4.25”
Frame Size: 12.5” x 8.5”

A lifelong artist, Walker exhibited his first painting at the age of twelve and continued to paint until his death 71 years later.

In the 1860’s Walker traveled to Dusseldorf for artistic training and remained for several years...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Pre 1900 item #1458544 (stock #1010)
An antique painting portrait of a beautiful woman oil on canvas by William A. Dollond signed lower left. William Anstey Dolland was a British artist who was born in (1858-1929). Known for his oil and watercolor paintings of female figures in traditional scenes. William Anstey Dolland's work has been offered at auction with realized prices ranging as high as $9,991 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1419003 (stock #JB0841)
Watercolor on paper, unsigned, undated but likely dating from the period 1865 to 1885, 15 3/4" by 11 3/8" inside the mat, (27 1/2" by 22 1/2" as framed, but **frame is currently unaccounted for since photos were taken**), showing two young schoolgirls in the yard of a brick and wood shutters style mid nineteenth century home, such as would be found in Boston's Beacon Hill, or parts of New York City...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1416452 (stock #JB01984)
Watercolor on paper, unframed, 13 3/4" by 21 3/4", the subject a New England coastal scene with rocks, distant sailboats, and a lighthouse on a headland, the work signed at lower left. This is a typical watercolor painting by the noted artist OTIS S. WEBER (1847-) of New England. Although he is listed, and works sell regularly at auction, not a lot seems to be known about Weber's life and career, but paintings dated as early as 1876 are known. He seems to have worked into the 20th century...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1457596 (stock #2388)
L'Enfant Gallery
Price on Request
In 1861, the great American portrait painter George Peter Alexander Healy create a series of masterful oil copies of the latest Matthew Brady gallery photographs of the leaders of The union government and military. This may be one of them...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1416625 (stock #JB0957)
Circa 1840's watercolor on paper (not likely later than 1860), apparently unsigned, 16 1/4" by 10 1/2" (25" by 20 1/2" as framed), showing a classic European tower above an arched stone bridge in a city, several figures in period clothing going about their daily lives. This is in amazingly fresh condition, with vibrant fresh color and a minimum of foxing...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1420721 (stock #JB05428)
A very finely crafted watercolor painting of an 18th century dandy in an elegant aristocratic interior, " by " (" by " framed), dedicated "Yours Sincerely" at lower right, and signed rather illegibly below that. The work's quality means the artist must be listed but try as I might, I cannot decipher the name. More than likely the work is circa 1890. Condition is excellent. I opened the old backing in hopes of finding more information or writing but there was none to be found...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1900 item #1298937
Antique Anne Queen of Brittany French Miniature Portrait, 4.5''x3.25'' Framed. The piece is marked ''Anne de Bretagne'' on verso. She was a 15th century Queen of Brittany, France from 1488 to 1514. Ornate gilt floral frame. Condition Report; No imperfections noted.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1452312 (stock #2260)
Charles Bird, English Mezzotint Watercolor late 19th Century 12x15 inches
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1132399 (stock #5882)
Frederick Smallfield, (English, 1825-1915)

Genoese Flower Girl

Watercolor on paper, signed and titled on the reverse.

Painting size: 16” x 10”
Frame size: 26.75” x 20.5”

Smallfield was a painter of genre scenes in oil and watercolour...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1423603 (stock #JB03923)
PAIR of watercolor paintings of young women, one walking on a path, appearing very young, sweet and naive, a pitcher in hand (possibly a milk maid), the other a more sophisticated lady in a sun bonnet and elegant dress, watering can in hand, attending to her potted geraniums. Although the works themselves are of the same size, and frames are identical in style, the frames differ slightly in size. The lady in bonnet measures 12" by 7 3/4" (19 1/2" by 15 1/2" framed), the other, 12 1/4" by 7 3/4...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1900 item #1077363
19th c. Box w/ Miniature Portrait painting Lid. The Round Box has a Hand Painted Portrait Under Glass Depicting a Lady in a Blue Dress Holding a Corsage, wearing a Ribbon-Tied, Powdered Wig. 2 7/8" Diameter.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Pre 1900 item #1396571
Global Ceramics
$120.00
A plaster of Paris sculpture of St. John the Baptist as a child, sleeping. The boy dressed in camel skin is leaning on a rock, cross in hand and a lamb at his feet. France, mid-19th century, with nice patina and traces of a light blue colouring. Plaster of Paris was a gypsum or chalk mixture used for architectural and art purposes from the beginning of the 19th century and small sculptures, especially with religious themes, were widely exported. Height "3 ½/ 9 cm and width "3 1/3 / 8.5 cm. Co...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1900 item #1416283 (stock #JB0589)
This unframed 20" by 24" oil on canvas landscape painting is something of a mystery. It is signed "J.V.C." and dated 1851 at lower left (see very close up photos), and on the wood stretcher on the reverse is incised "John V. Cornell New York". I believe there is an excellent possibility that this is a work by the historical New York painter John V. Cornell but I cannot prove it. He seems to have been an obscure fellow, though he is listed in the book of historical painters born before 1860, a...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1900 item #1416784 (stock #JB01182)
Oil on canvas, 22" by 18" and 2 1/2" wide frame, unsigned, showing the famous Mountain of the Holy Cross in central Colorado, 100 miles west of Denver and 15 miles from Vail. This is a late 19th century painting, evidently one of many copies, by many artists, of the iconic 7' by 5' work by famous American artist Thomas Moran, which was completed in the year 1875. The painting is in compromised condition, with soiling, paint loss, punctures, and scrapes, but, I believe it worth restoring. See ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1419984 (stock #JB02767)
This is an atmospheric fine little watercolor on paper painting of mountains and water such as might be found in the idyllic Lakes District of the northwestern part of England, or the famed Scottish Highlands, unsigned, late 19th century most likely, measuring 4 1/2" by 6 1/2" (14 1/2" by 17 1/2" in the present framing). The work is in very fine condition. I think that the present mounting situation (just protection) could stand some improvement, as the painting is on a card, a mat not overlap...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1440908 (stock #1180)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,200.00
A. Rattner, German artist was born in Munich German 1864 and worked his whole life in the region of the black Forrest. Best known for his poster illustrations he was beloved so much by the city of his birth that they chose him to represent them at city festivals 19x15 inches
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1900 item #1357346 (stock #a1584)
A classic example of a Moses B. Russell portrait on natural wafer, fully signed and dated on the backing card. The sitter is a young woman with brown sausage curls and blue eyes. Obviously from a well-to-do family, she is wearing a blue dress with lace edged sleeves, a cameo brooch at the bodice, a gold ring, and a long gold chain, and has a mink wrap on her lap. The colors are vivid, with the dark mauve chair contrasting nicely with the blue dress. This is an uncommon Russell in that it is a 3/...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1900 item #1474129 (stock #a1888)
A fine 19th century miniature version of Gilbert Stuart's "Lansdowne" portrait, the iconic 1796 life size portrait of George Washington. The painting here is done in watercolor and gouache on organic wafer. From its origin until the present day many copies of the portrait have been made, but very few on ivory.

This 3 1/8" by 2 1/2" example is in excellent condition, with no issues. The 11" by 9 3/4" gilt over gesso frame is period and might be original.

NOTES: 1. The Lansdowne port...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1489759 (stock #3706)
A fine Watercolor Portrait of Elderly Lady Circa 1900 40” x 31”, framed a d matted
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1900 item #1455250 (stock #FA88)
Antique, 19th century, miniature portrait of a woman, finely hand-painted on an organic wafer.

Set under glass in the original oval ornate brass frame with a suspension loop. Back lined with silk fabric.

Dimensions of the oval frame: Height: 8 cm (3.15 inches). Width: 6 cm (2.36 inches).

CONDITION: The miniature is in very good condition, with no restoration or repairs, with a frame showing its age and use.

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1420375 (stock #JB03162)
European watercolor landscape painting on paper laid on thin card, unsigned, 4 1/2" by 6 1/2" inside the mat opening, 10 3/4" by 13" as framed in black modern frame with gold color piping, titled on the reverse of the card "Hedelburg [Heidelberg, Germany] Aug. 1st 1877". This is a carefully executed 19th century watercolor showing the bridge across the Neckar River, tiny figures and boats in the foreground, steep terrain in the distance illustrating the dramatic scenery of the setting. Almost ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1900 item #1047434
Description: Superb painting of Queen Victoria, in her old age, dressed in red with white lace, sitting and slightly looking to her right. This portrait is French and the artist name and the year,1878, and place, Paris, along with more information is engraved on the back. Size: The portrait is 2 1/4" in height and1.75" wide, in perfect condition, set in a 4"H X 2.75"W fine gilt bronze frame. The workmanship is absolutely superb and the artist has exhibited his great talent successfully thro...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1900 item #1423346 (stock #JB04086)
A circa 1880 American painting on canvas of a white clapboard house on a farm or rural land, the structure surrounded by bare trees, white fences and outbuildings, a sitting dog strategically placed at center staring directly at the viewer. The work measures 18" by 22" and 22" by 25" framed. It is in very original condition, so original that we might be looking at a heavily soiled surface that would brighten dramatically with a professional cleaning, though there is no doubt that the color pal...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1419619 (stock #JB02581)
Beautifully executed, fresh watercolor and gouache painting of tiny figures overpowered by steep coastal cliffs, 9 1/2" by 21 1/2" (16" by 28" framed), signed at lower right "L LEWIS" and dated "96". This is a work by the listed English watercolor artist LENNARD LEWIS (1826-1913). The piece is exceptionally fresh considering that it was created more than 115 years ago. Colors are bright and the paper in excellent condition. Note the tiny figures holding a net at lower left, and the many boat...