Sailing Vessels at Sunrise
Oil-on-panel, signed lower right
Painting: 20” x 16”
Frame: 25” x 21”
Born in Massachusetts, Hallett studied in Antwerp and Paris. He is best known for his paintings of ships, notable marine events, and seascapes, many along Boston Harbor. He also painted in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and on Mount Desert Island in Maine. Hallett worked outdoors, sketchi...
Height: 3.5”
Length: 12”
Depth: 5”
Couple in a Cottonfield
Oil- on panel, unsigned
Painting: 7 ¾” x 6 ½”
Frame: 10 ¼” x 9”
William Aiken Walker was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1839 to an Irish Protestant father and a mother of South Carolina background. Walker would grow up southerner through and through. He completed his first painting at age twelve and continued painting until his death in 1921 at age eighty-three.
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Miniature oval watercolor, framed.
Oval 1.25" x 1.75"
La Maison Carrée is one of the best preserved temples of the Roman Empire and was a major influence during the Classical Revival, inspiring Thomas Jefferson's design for the Virginia State Capitol.
Rock Creek Park
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left.
Painting: 16” x 20”
Frame: 23” x 26 ½”
August Herman Olson Rolle, painter, printmaker and graphic artist, dabbled in many activities before turning his focus to art. Born in Sibley County, MN, in 1875, his first path toward adulthood led him to Red Wing Seminary. Service in the Spanish-American War, eventually lead him to Washington, DC where he beca...
Mirror: 23" X 19.5"
Frame: 32" x 28.5"
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East Side Ice
Oil on artist board, signed. Matted, unframed
Image size: 12” x 17”
Mat size: 19” x 24.25”
Following a career in illustration, Wooten turned to fine art, presenting Native American works in a unique contemporary fashion. He has created over forty paintings that celebrated George Catlin's historic trip to Europe in 1845 when he brought along a group of Ojibwa from Iowa while exhibiting his works throughout E...
Height to Rim: 13.5"
The Black Ground which gives Famille Noire its Western name is "Modi susancai" in Chinese.
Height: 4.25”
Length: 9”
Depth: 4.25”
"Old House, Bladensburg, MD"
Watercolor on paper, signed lower lright and dated "1941" and titled on the reverse
Painting: 9" x 12"
Frame: 16" x 18.5"
Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector
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Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC. He stu...
Length 19", Depth 15"
*See Crossman, The ChinaTrade, color plate 96 (page 248) for another example.
length 8.75"
4.3 oz
Nocturne (ou Le Flirt)
[Merrill Chase, no. 63]*
Aquatint with etching in colors, circa 1906, on wove paper, signed in pencil in the image lower left. From the edition of about 100, with minor staining in the margins, not examined out of the frame.
Image Size: 13.5" x 17.5"
Frame Size: 24" x 27.5"
Robbe was a painter of genre scenes, a watercolorist, p...
The Hours Before Midnight
Mixed Media on Paper
Sheet Size: 10" x 10.75"
Frame Size: 15.75" x 17"
Provenance: Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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Anita Bucherer Godeffroy was born in Bonn, Germany. From a young age she began studying art is Paris and later in Berlin.
From 1961-65 she lived in New York where she continued studying at ...
H-47.75"
W-30"
Depth 6.5"
Depth of Base 22.25"
Breton Woman in a Garden
Oil on masonite, signed.
Painting size: 24” x 30”
Frame size: 31” x 37”(minor losses to frame)
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Purdy received his education from The University of Connecticut and Boston University. He has held memberships in the American Federation of Artists, Allied Artists of America and Silvermine Guild Arti...
Night Lights at 18th and H Streets
Oil on canvas, signed, located and inscribed on the reverse.
Painting size: 20” x 16”
Frame size: 25” x 21”
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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. He was a student at the Royal Academy Schools in the late 1840s with the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but he was probably not close to them then, for he is not mentioned in their diaries. However by the late 1...