Height: 4.25”
Length: 9”
Depth: 4.25”
Farm in Winter
Oil on Canvas, signed lower left
Painting: 20" x 24"
Frame:25.5" x 29.5"
Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector
Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art with Messer and Brooke , and also with Weyl . He continued his studies in drawing at the Linthicum Institute under Ballenger and learned painting conservation f...
Fishermen in the Venetian Lagoon at Daybreak
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left
Painting: 16” x 20”
Frame: 22” x 26”
There is little biographical information on Simonetti, and it has been suggested that it is a pseudonym for Gian Gianni who was one of the last of the view painters of Italy. Gianni worked mostly in watercolor and produced views of Naples and Venice for people who were making the Grand Tour...
34" x14" x 18.25" tall
14.75" x 8.5" x17.5"high.
2.75" x 1.25" x 3" tall
Dimensions: 8.25" x 7"
Handle: 3.25”
Length: 27.5”
"A Potomac Vista"
Oil on board, signed and dated "1952"lower left and titled on the reverse
Painting: 9" x 6.75"
Frame: 11" x 9"
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 studied at the C...
Dimensions: 7.5” x 4.75” x 6”
Bunched Up
Watercolor on paper, signed lower right.
Painting Size: 22.25” x 30.25”
Unframed
John Rattenbury Skeaping, RA was an animal and equestrian painter and a sculptor, specializing particularly in racing scenes, portraits and sculptures of horses. Born in South Woodford, Essex, Skeaping was the son of painter Kenneth Skeaping. Educated by his parents, he started to draw horses at the age of three and...
Stepping Stones
Oil on canvas, signed
Painting size: 9” x 12”
Frame size: 13.5” x 16.5”
Maidment was a painter in oil of rural scenes and landscapes. He is variously catalogued as Robin or Robert Fenson but usually just signed “R. Fenson” in red, often with a date. This was a pseudonym for Henry Maidment who also was known to have signed “A. Wynn”. Dated example...
Coastal Landscape
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right and dated 1873; in original frame
Painting: 14” x 24”
Frame: 23 ½” x 33 ½”
Born in Philadelphia in 1827, Trotter worked for a machinist company and a dry goods company in Philadelphia and served in the Germantown Home Guards during the Civil War. It was not until he was 40 that Trotter turned to painting as a full time occupation.
Trotte...
Crashing Surf
Oil on artist board, signed.
Painting size: 6” x 8”
Frame size: 9.5” x 11.5”
Watson was born in Baltimore, MD. He studied with A. Castaigne, E.S. Whiteman and D. Woodward. A founding member of the Baltimore Charcoal Club, he was also a member of the Baltimore Watercolor Club. Watson exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition in 1906. He is noted for his tonalist marin...
Height: 23.25 ” Length: 29.5” Width: 21.5”
Main Sign 25.5" x 32"
Bracket: 19" x 45.5"
From A. Gilbert Smith:
It is very reminiscent of a two sided sign executed by Parrish for a friend titled: The Tea Tray. Although Parrish designed the ornate iron g...
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...