James John Hill (British, 1811-1882)
Oil on canvas, signed and dated: “(18__)” and retainging its original gilt wood and gesso frame.
Painting size: 12” x 10”
Frame size: 32” x 42”
Schooner off the Atlantic Coast
Watercolor on paper, signed lower left and dated “1896”
Sight Size:13" x 26"
Frame Size: 23.25" x 36"
Lewis was born and died and Philadelphia where he studied with Paul Weber from about 1850-55. According to Peter Falk ("Who Was Who in American Art"), “he was one of the most popular landscape painters of Philadelphia during the late 19th century...
Edgar Hewitt Nye (American, 1879-1943)
Oil on artist board, signed lower left and located on paper label on reverse: “Brookland, D.C. (off Bunker Hill Road). Vicinity now a well built up residential section.”
Nye lived, worked and taught in Washington, DC for 58 years...
(American, 19th/20th century)
Japanese Landscape with Figures
Oil on canvas board, signed.
Painting size: 12” x 14”
Frame size: 17” x 19”
"Helen Wells Seymour (1878-1937) was educated in the Friends School in Washington, D. C. and she took special courses for two years in Columbia University and in the Doshisha Women's College, Kyoto, Japan...
View of a City through the Trees
Oil on canvas, signed.
Painting size: 26” x 35.5”
Frame size: 31” x 40”
Born in Alton, Illinois, Aulmann studied at the Cumming School of Art in Des Moines. Later, she moved to Los Angeles where she would remain until her death. She was a member of the California Art Club and Women Painters of the West. She exhibited at the Pasadena Art Institute in 1928 and 1930...
Partridge with Worm
Height: 10.5”
Width: 6.5”
A lifelong Parisian, Léonard studied under Jacquot, Rouillard and Barye specializing in Animalier sculpture. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1851-1873...