Oil on Canvas, English School. "The Hull to London Post". After Charles Cooper Henderson (1803-1877). Dimensions; 24" x 16", 27.5" x 19.5" framed. Late 19th/early 20rg Century. Condition; crackling and professional restoration done. Reframed.
"The British Countess"
Oil on canvas, 25" x 30" unframed
Jonathan Pratt was a Midlands artist working in Birmingham. He was an extremely diverse artist painting genre, figure and portraits, as well as street scenes, rural and coastal views in Britain, France and Algiers. He studied in Birmingham and exhibited a total of 279 works there between 1864-1915, the latter being posthumously exhibited...
Abraham Lincoln Bust By Leonard W. Volk 1828-1895 32”x24” Original plaster made from the life mask that was done for Lincoln in 1860. The artist did both plaster and bronze large and small formats somewhere designed as Hermes format others were done such as this piece in the classical style 32”x24”
Large round ceramic wall sculpture by artist, Peter Voulkos (1924-2002). Wheel thrown with tears, incisions and imbedded chunks of material. The back has drips of blue glaze and is signed by Voulkos. The base is wrapped with the original wire installed by the artist in order to hang the piece on a wall. Dated 1973.
Peter Voulkos was inspired by the American painters of the New York School, focusing on infusing the spontaneous energy of Abstract Expressionism into his work...
A beautiful American casting of statesman Daniel Webster dressed in Roman Toga by the sculptor Thomas Ball, 1819-1911 Boston
English Artist G.Sutliffe “Off The English Coast” Oil 21x30” Is a beautiful oil on canvas of a ship in a storm.
A beautiful unsigned portrait of a young woman that is in the style of the 19th century.
Signed Scottish Painter Watsonlandscape with cows oil on canvas measuring 30x44”
The larger-than-life-sized figure was sculpted by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904), who also designed the Statue of Liberty (1886), another gift from the French government that figures prominently in New York Harbor. The granite pedestal designed by H.W. DeStuckle was donated by French citizens living in New York. Lafayette appears in another Bartholdi sculpture at Lafayette Square in Upper Manhattan that depicts him shaking General George Washington’s hand...
Marine Painting of the German Training Ship "Gorch Fock", oil on canvas, measuring 14 x 11“ signed Lower right but indistinguishable signature
A magnificent master work in oil by artist measuring
He began as a student in the workshops of Jean-Léon Gérôme, then signed a contract with the art dealers, Goupil & Cie, to produce drawings for reproduction as prints, creating genre scenes of everyday life that proved to be quite popular...
"Notre Dame in Mourning" by Eugene-Louis Gillot (1868-1925) a magnificent Impressionist Oil Painting on Panel of Notre Dame by French painter Gillot, 24 x 28“, Water Gilded Gold Frame measuring 30 x 34“
Fine German Oil Portrait Circa 1880 Measuring 12x10” Done in Bavaria unsigned in a gold leaf frame measuring 17x16” work is signed lower left
This is an original hand-colored, mid 19th century lithograph print by the iconic American ornithologist and naturalist artist JOHN J. AUDUBON, from the nineteenth century (circa 1849) quadrupeds mammals series in the small octavo size. It is not a late restrike/reprint. Inside the present mat, dimensions are 6 1/4" by 9 1/4" (13" by 15 1/2" as framed). The title is "Carolina Shrew" and this is Plate number 75 in the long series...
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (/ˈɡɔɪə/; Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xoˈse ðe ˈɣoʝa i luˈθjentes]; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns...
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
A beautif Pre-Raphaelite Oil Painting circa 1895 Burn Jones attribution work of two woman. Original frame, 36 x 27“, FS 42 x 34“ $6000
Watercolor and ink drawing of a plump Victorian era gentleman in waistcoat, ("Mr Dick"), 7 3/4" by 5 3/4" inside the mat, 13" by 11" framed, signed at center left "Kyd". This is a work of the noted illustrator JOSEPH CLAYTON CLARKE, who went by the pseudonym "Kyd". Clarke became known for his drawings of Dickens characters (rarely did he illustrate scenes from the novels). His first drawings appeared in 1887 and through the 1890's many were published...
A very attractive 18x24” Oil on panel framed painting done circa 1900
Oil Study for a portrait of the poet Lord Alfred Tennyson1809-1892, measuring 20x16” signed on back
John Bernard Whittaker,1836-1926.A young Barefoot boy titled “Drummer Boy” oil on canvas dated 1862 in its original gold frame. Measuring 17x14”
From our European Collection, a very fine oil on canvas by British painter William Robert Symonds, signed and dated 1875. Symonds, who lived from 1851-1934, was a genre painter known for touching scenes of people and animals, and most often of small children in random snapshots of everyday life, where he captured well their innocence and curious musings...
**ONE OF TWO EXAMPLES OF THIS PRINT IN MY SHOP, THE SECOND PRINTED IN DIFFERENT COLOR**From the skilled hand of the noted Art Nouveau period painter, illustrator and decorator HENRI BELLERY-DESFONTAINES (1867-1910) comes this well known image "L'Illusion", printed in the year 1897 by F. Champenois in Paris for the popular series "L'Estampe Moderne". The image is a dreamy one, with undertones of male and female sexuality. Note the elegant gray-brown colors and the blue and white highlights...
An oil on canvas portrait of statesman Daniel Webster, 1782-1952….more information coming soon
“Bear Lake” is on the New Hampshire Massachusetts border this work dates from around 1860 by John Bunyan Bristol (1820-1883). 16 x 24", Frame Size 27 x 36".
Self-taught, Bristol studied from nature and originally painted figure and portrait paintings. He abandoned these genres in order to devote his skillful hand to landscape painting. Bristol studied briefly with the painter Henry Ary...
A fine mixed media study drawing in charcoal and white gouache of a soldier seemingly leaning against a wagon wheel, 10 1/4" by 7 5/8" inside the present mat (the sheet only very slightly larger), and 22 1/2" by 18 1/2" in gold frame with hand drawn lines), titled "Bataille de l'Alma"on the mat, signed with an impressed/embossed signature "I PILS" at lower right. The drawing features a scene from the Crimean War (1854)...
Oil on board painting of a young fair-haired woman in a pastoral landscape, caressing a dove in her hands, the subject handled in a dreamy impressionist style, signed at lower right with initials "HBK" and dated there 97. The work measures 12 3/4" by 8 3/4 including a narrow old style gold frame to which the board was mounted long ago. I am attempting to determine who "HBK" might have been. The artist was skilled and created a timeless image. Found in coastal Maine, where it had hung in a ho...
Important Nineteenth Century Prussian Battle Painting In Oil measuring 28x44 inches….more information coming soon…..
Cassini, Giovanni-Marie, "Graffitto, c. 1780, hand-colored copper plate engraving, Crisp impressions with sharp features, full original color and margins as issued. All in excellent condition, rare. Dimensions are 24" x 19" with the frame.
Please see #1512 for a similar lithograph
A Nineteenth Century Watercolor “Merry Christmas “ by G.V.C. inscribed to William and Mrs Reiner circa 1900 measuring 18x15”
A fine 19th century oil on canvas painting framed in a period frame depicting an Italian Neopolitain girl wearing period jewelry from 1850s by the British artist Hugh Counnaua signed lower right
Mid 19th Century Rider Seeking The Holy Grail Oil on Panel Measuring 8“ x 6 1/2“
A beautiful French landscape oil on very heavy canvas, attributed to Jean-Claude Cazin,1849-1901. CAZIN is featured in the art gallery of New South Wales, the Metropolitan Museum of art, The art Institute of Chicago and more
Watercolor drawing on paper of two figures with a distant building that resembles a mosque, measuring 8 1/8" by 6 3/8" (21 1/4" by 17" as presently framed), not signed but bears reverse notation by Elizabeth R. Anshutz, the artist's daughter in law, and stickers from Christie's New York indicating that this was offered in the sale of November 19, 1991, and, more recently, Skinners. Anshutz is considered a major American artist, a pupil of no less than Thomas Eakins, and in turn a major teacher ...
Original Currier and Ives lithograph print "The Straw-Yard, Winter", 12 3/4" by 15 1/2" inside the overmat, 20" by 22 1/2" as framed, the subject quite desirable: a white horse, a dark brown horse in the center, surrounded by a veritable menagerie of a winter barnyard in the country, including contented pigs eating their turnips at left, ducks and pigeons pecking away underneath and around the horses, and a pigeon even perched on a snowy fence post, face to face with the white horse, as other h...
Pencil with white highlight drawing on brown paper, 9 1/2" by 15 3/4" (17" by 23" framed), the subject a number of different types of boats along a dramatic coast, possibly Whitby, England, circa 1860, signed at extreme lower left corner in pencil "Fowler". The drawing, which is laid on a thin board, features various types of sailing craft, and, in the foreground, a rowboat. A castle like structure crowns the prominent hill. Eastern England's coastal Whitby, often depicted in artworks, has a ...
A beautiful antique original American tonalist landscape painting. Oil on academy panel circa 1900 unsigned presented in the original carved gilt wood frame. Measuring overall 17.5" W x 14.5" H x 1.5" the panel measures 9" x 12".
While we have yet to identify the artist or the subject, we would contend that the work is first rate considering the mood captured by the painter. The man exudes a somewhat austere aristocratic brood, yet exudes the strengths of youth and ambition, a man ready to make his place in the world.
We believe the work to be of the British school painted c. 1850 or earlier as suggested by the early Victorian shape of the seat rail. The clothing hearkens more to the earlier half of the century, as do...
A very fine watercolor of mogul origin depicting dancers at a court of Royalty. Measuring about 12” x 9”, the work has an Arabic script on the reverse side and was from a hand illustrated manuscript before 1900
Anextremely rare and large tile Painting by P. Duboisson after the artist Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala (2 July 1841 in Bilbao – 12 January 1871 in Madrid) was a Spanish Academic painter who specialized in small-scale canvases. He was the father of the French writer, Miguel Zamacoïs, brother of the writer Niceto de Zamacois, the singer Elisa Zamacois and the actor Ricardo Zamacois, and also an uncle of the writer Eduardo Zamacois and the music composer Joaquín Zamacois. Fired Tile measures 20x14...
Nineteenth Century Portrait Prince Of Denmark, Oil on Canvas , more info coming soon…..
To be sold together as a PAIR, here are two ink and gouache drawings of clipper style ships known as barques, each measuring 12 1/2" by 17 3/8" (21 1/2" by 26 3/4" as framed). One is signed "John M. Gorrie" and the other is also signed by the artist and dated 1956. Surprisingly, I do not see a listing for this talented artist. On the reverse is written on one "The Four Masted Barque Herzogin Cecilie"/formerly North German Lloyd Training Ship", and on the second work on reverse label is writte...
This is a work so finely executed that it is difficult to believe that it is a drawing and not a print, but I absolutely guarantee it to be an original drawing. The subject is a priest or monk in an interior nook flooded with sunlight. He is holding a large pair of scissors and appears to be concentrating on a domestic task that is not quite clear to the viewer. At bottom in very poorly spelled German is the phrase "UEBERALL--LOCHER--IM--KIRCHEN--GUT--DA--TUHT--KAIN--FLICKEN--MAHR". The spel...
Edmund John Niemann was a highly prolific and greatly celebrated landscape artist. His extremely large portfolio covered scenes across the length and breadth of Britain. His most famous works are those depicting the river Thames.
Niemann was the son of a German banker. He followed in his father’s footsteps for a time, working as a clerk in Lloyds bank. In 1839, however, he decided to give up the pen and the bank records and take up the paintbrush and pursue art. Within a matter of years, he...
BIOGRAPHY - Vincent Clare, was born in and spent most of his life in London, at Fern Cottage, Nursery Road, Southgate. One will often find that Vincent's paintings are signed and inscribed, with his address, on the reverse.
Like his father (George) and brother (Oliver), Vincent became quite well known for his still life and flower paintings. His technique was similar to his father's, however, his brushstrokes were slightly freer and at times he would work with a more pastel palette.
Though...
Early and Eighteenth Century oil on canvas of a very joyful seen more information coming soon
A pair of oil on canvas works attributed to Montague, Amsterdam Canal Scenes each work measures 15x12”,FS20x17”
Sold as a pair
An English Landscape attributed to the Circle of Turner. Oil on canvas framed And a goalie frame measuring 18 x 23”
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. So many of the subjects like Lincoln, renewed to the Washington seeing the same cannot be said for general in chief Winfield Scott age 75, who had been in uniform since 1812
George Peter Alexander Healy (July 15, 1813 – June 24, 1894) was an American portra...
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). The piece shows some age, in overall toning and there are some meandering abrasions at upper right and along right edge; also there is a rip about 1 1/2" at lower right cor...
Oil on canvas portrait of President Washington based on the painting done in 1804 by Gilbert Stuart. This work is highly finished example of the style, and in our option, the School of Gilbert Stuart. Measuring 35” x 30” in an ornate Stuart period frame. We believe done in the 1820s CONSIGNMENT
For the natural history aficionado or decorator, a PAIR of original finely detailed drawings in watercolor and ink, one titled faintly in pencil "Scorpions", the other featuring other unidentified but quite exotic-looking creatures with many legs. Each drawing is 8 1/4" by 6 1/2" inside the mat, and the works are identically framed (13" by 11"). The works are clearly of English origin----at upper left corner each has a blind stamp on which a crown is vaguely discernible, and there is a London ...
Ernesto Serra (24 March 1860 – 17 May 1915) was an Italian genre, landscape and portrait painter from Varallo Sesia, Province of Vercelli in the Piemonte Region…… Biography
Ernesto Serra was born on 24 March 1860 in Varallo Sesia. He studied at the Accademia Albertina in Turin under Professor Andrea Gastaldi (1826-1889) and won a gold medal for portrait painting.He specialized in genre, landscape and portrait painting.
At the Esposizione Generale Italiana del 1884 (it), organised by th...
Dolley Todd Madison (née Payne; May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849) was the wife of James Madison, the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She was noted for holding Washington social functions in which she invited members of both political parties, essentially spearheading the concept of bipartisan cooperation. Previously, founders such as Thomas Jefferson would only meet with members of one party at a time, and politics could often be a violent affair resulting in physical alt...
John Charles Maggs.(British,1819 - 1896 )
The London to Bath Coach Pulling up to the Spaniards Tavern, Bath, England in 1884
Oil on Canvas, signed, and dated l.r.
Painting: 14: x 26"
Frame: 20.5" x 32.5" (outer frame later)
A newly discovered gem from one of England's best coaching painters.
John Charles Maggs (1819–1896) was a painter best known for his coaching scenes. He was born in Bath, England in 1819, his father being a furniture japanner there. John ...
An outstanding antique Mother of Pearl icon, 18th century Palestine. The icon has a warm golden tone and is finely hand-carved in high relief. It depicts a marriage ceremony between the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph, with a richly attired high priest clasping the hands of Mary and Joseph. Joseph is depicted as placing the ring of betrothal on the finger of Our Lady. The icon comes with an elaborately hand-carved gilt wood Baroque style frame.
The carving is based on the well-known painting ...
"Voyage of Life" Signed TC (Thomas Cole) c. 1840s-1850s, attributed to Frederich Edwin Church Oil on Canvas
PRICE ON REQUEST
Life Portrait "King James I" of England ( James VI of Scotland) attributed to Nicolas Van Somer. Oil on Canvas. 36" x 32". Frame Size 38" x 32".
Colored lithograph from encyclopedic entries. Framed dimensions are 19.25x17”. Unframed dimensions are 9.25x7.5”.
Found in Massachusetts, a mixed media (pastel, pencil and black ink) old drawing on paper of a clipper ship at sea, 7" by 9 1/2" (15" by 18 1/2" framed behind glass), signed at lower right corner with initials "A.L" or "A. G." or similar. The ship flies an unidentified flag at the stern. I feel this is likely European though it could possibly be of American origin. The antique 19th century frame has significant losses of gesso in two corners, smaller losses elsewhere as shown, and scratches ...