Catalog (670)

Servant Cleaning a Glass

European School, 19th Century

Oil on tin.

Painting size: 10” x 8”
Frame size: 14.5” x 16”

John Henry Mole (British, 1814-1886)

Young Girl with a Ball

Watercolor on paper, signed with initials and dated: "1881"

John Henry Mole was a watercolorist and landscape painter. He was born in Alnwick, Northumberland. Mole worked as a clerk in a solicitor's office in Newcastle, but gave it up for miniature painting. He exhibited his miniatures at the Royal Academy (1845, 1846, 1879). He later turned to landscape painting, particularly in watercolor. Mole exhibited these pa...

Thorbjorg Eugenie Rostad (Norwegian/American, 20th Century)

Modernist Tabletop Still Life

Rostad was born in Oslo, Norway in 1902. She lived in Brooklyn, New York most of her life and exhibited in the Vendrome Gallery, the Grand Central Art Galleries and at the Women's International Exposition in New York. She studied at the Grand Central School of Art (founded by John Singer Sargent and others in 1922) under Eric Pape. She was also one of the founders of the Norwegian Arts And Craf...

Setters on Point

Attributed to Newbold Hugh Trotter (American, 1827-1898)

Oil on Canvas, unsigned

Painting: 14" x 20"

Frame: 18" x 24"

It was not until 1867 that Newbold Trotter turned to painting as a full time occupation. He had been in business in Philadelphia and served in the Germantown Home Guards during the Civil War.

He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1858 to 1887 and at the National Academy of Design and the Boston Athen...

Unusually Tall Regency Brass and Iron Firefender, D-form with brass crest and foot rails, cross-hatched brass wire body and raised on three squashed ball feet. English or American, circa 1800.

Height: 17.5”
Length: 31.25”
Depth: 12”

Pair of Antique English Brass Candlesticks with vasiform shafts and turned, circular bases. Circa 1850-60, now wired as lamps.

Height of sticks:12"
To top of Shade:23"

Rare 18th century fruit wood apple shaped tea caddy, having a circular hinged lid with carved bone “stem”, opening to a tin-lined interior. Probably Continental, Circa 1760-80.

Height: 4.5"

Antique Carved Oak Statue of a Monk holding a book and seated on a curved bench. Probably American, circa 1880.

9" x 9" x 14" tall

Antique Ebonized Wood Planter with an inset handpainted tile of horses and jockeys at a jump, signed with the conjoined initials "AB", and retaining an interior tin liner. English or French, late 19th C. (tile repaired) 22" x 10" x 9" tall

Drawings

by Jean Émile Milo (Pseudonym of Émile Marcel Jen Ghislain Van Gindertael)

Ink and Wash on paper, signed and dated:(19)65

Paper size: 8" x 5.5"
Mat size:11.5" x 8.5"
Unframed, mounted on mats

Painter, post-cubist, abstract artist Milo was the younger brother of Roger Van Gindertael, who was an artist before becoming an historian and art critic. He was a student at the Académie de Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, and of Constant Montald at the Académie des Beaux-Arts o...

Antique Horn Snuff Box in the form of a boot with a silver monogrammed lid. 1800-1830. Probably Italian. Length: 2.75”

Antique oval tole snuffer tray with black ground and gilt stencil border. American or English, Circa 1800-1840. Provenance: Estate of Ruthann Coggins Bardes, Greenwich, CT.

Length: 9.25”; Width: 3.35”

George Heriot (Scottish, 1766-1844)

In the Tyrol

Sepia watercolor on paper.

Provenance: The Fine Art Society of London The Philip Desind Collection

An amateur artist, Heriot was educated at Edinburgh High School, Woolwich Academy and Edinburgh University. While at Woolwich, P. Sandby was the drawing master and greatly influenced Heriot’s development as an artist.

A career civil servant, Heriot immigrated to Canada where we eventually rose to the position of Dep...

Unusual Victorian Black Lacquer Drinks Table, having a reticulated papier mache top (now enclosed) with a polychromed scene of a fantastic landscape on a gilt decorated tripod stand with a turned pillar, scrolled legs and a plinth base supported by ball feet. English, circa 1860-70.

h:24 w:18 in.

American School, Circa 1870
Oil-on-canvas

Painting Size: 15" x 10" Frame Size: 19.25" x 14.25"

Peter Paul Duggan (Irish/American 1810 ? -1861)

Macbeth

Oil on artist board

Provenance: Sycamore Farm, Portsmouth, VA (Estate of Robert Vick and Charles Sibley)

Note: Listed in "The National Academy of Design Exhibition Record 1861-1900" page 249, number 482.

Painting Size: 6 ½” x 6 ½”
Frame Size: 10” x 10”

Born in Ireland, Duggan was brought to the United States as a young child, probably around 1810. He was a student at the National ...

The Forest of Fontainebleau

Oil on canvas, retaining a paper label on reverse reading: “Souvenir offert a mon viel ami Babcock/ F. Millet fils/ Etude peintre en 1866 par moi.”

(A gift offered to my old friend Babcock/F Millet son/Study painted in 1866 by me.)

Painting: 15” x 18.5”
Frame: 23.25” x 26”

Jean François Millet fils, eldest son of the famous painter, took after his father both in name and in artistic style, evidenced by this natu...

Exceptional Grand Tour Micro-mosaic plaque with an extremely fine oval micro-mosaic image of the Pantheon in Rome: on a cartouche shaped black marble ground, with an oval malachite surround. Italian circa 1860.

4" x 3"