Ford's Theatre, Washington D.C.
Watercolor on paper, signed lower right
Sight size: 17.25" x 23.25"
Frame size: 25.25" x 31.25"
Before making her home and career in Washington, DC, Spandorf was educated at the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna, Austria. However, once she settled in Washington, she became an active participant in the art community. She held memberships in the Washington Press Club and Artist’s Equit...
Y. Gianni (Italian 19th/20th Century)
Oil on canvas laid on panel signed and dated: “1908”.
One of the Gianni family of painters who usually worked in watercolor and pastels and produced views of Italian coastal towns.
Painting size: 16” x 16”
Frame size: 20.25” x 20.25”
0.5" x 6" x 6.5" tall
One of the rarest of this form of tea caddy, the concealed drawer would have held your silver teaspoons.
Height: 6”
Length: 9”
Depth: 6”
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The Cherry Tree, High Corrie
Watercolor on paper, signed and retaining an exhibition label on the reverse of the original backing board.
Molyncaux was a prolific watercolor artist who painted landscapes of Scotland, France and Italy. One of her favored locals was the Isle of Arran off the Scottish coast. Her work was exhibited at the Glasgow Institute of Fine Art, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-colours and the P...
Size: 31.5” x 26.5”
Fine 18th-century English carved and gilt wood mirror with corner rosettes and later, distressed mirror plate. Circa 1760-80.
$14,500
The London to Oxford Coaches at Mile Marker 24
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right
Painting: 17” x 32”
Frame: 23 ½” x 38 1/4”
Pollard was an engraver and sporting artist noted for his coaching, fox hunting and equine scenes. As the son of Robert Pollard, a painter, engraver and publisher, James was encouraged to become a painter of horses. He was also tutored by his father’s friend, the engraver Th...
Devonshire Cottage by Moonlight
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left
Painting: 25” x 30”
Frame: 29” x 33 ¾”
Platt was active in New York State and Connecticut. She is known for her landscapes, portraits and interiors. She studied at the Art Students’ League (NYC) and Delecluse Academy, Paris. Platt also studied with Ben Foster and Henry B. Snell. She exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (1900-...
Height: 16.25” to rim
Morning Light
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left
Painting Size: 19.75” x 25.5”
Frame Size: 24 ” x 30”
Brasseur was a painter and designer who specialized in religious art as well as genre scenes, portraits and nudes.He was a student at the Saint-Luc School in Schaerbeek where he spent his last year as a scene painter. He adopted a Neo-Gothic style, typical of that school. Brasseur also produced copperplate engravin...
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A Country Maid in a Landscape
Oil on Canvas, signed indistinctly lower right.
Painting: 24" x 18.5"
Frame: 28" x 23"
4.25” x 2.25” x 1.75”
James Francis O’Brien (American, 1917-1996)
Oil on canvas, inscribed on the reverse
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Painting size: 18” x 24”
Frame size: 23” x 29”
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Born in...
4" tall without the handle, 6 1/4" with it up, 5 3/8 " deep and 5 1/2 "wide not including the handle
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An Artist at Work
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left and dated “1863”
Painting Size: 22.25” x 18”
Frame Size: 31.25 ” x 27.25”
This charming portrait of a young woman artist at work is a wonderful depiction of the painter and her tools. Her subject of a vase of flowers with fruit sits on a table to her right. The sturdy adjustable easel has a shelf where she has laid out her tubes of pigments. She is using a...
German or Swiss School, mid 19th century.
Oil on tin.
Painting size: 15.25” x 12.5”
Frame size: 20.5” x 17.75”