French School (Early 18th Century)
Oil on canvas.
Painting size: 25” x 34”
Frame size: 30” x 39.25 ”
These sumptuous female figures serve as allegories for two prized arts in France at the turn of the 18th century. On the left is sculpture, signified by a chisel in her hands. She sits beside a pair of Roman busts, one overturned, the other sporting a helmet possibly representing Pallas Athene...
Gnarled Cyprus Trees (probably on the Hillsboro River, FL)
Oil on board, signed ll
Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector
Painting: 25" x 30"
Frame: 31" x 36"
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Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC...
Bridge in Paris
Watercolor on paper, inscribed: “Bren 1962, Paris”(from a portfolio of the artists drawings and watercolors).
Painting size: 11” x 14”
Unframed
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(British, 1808-1895)
Mountain Landscape with Sheep and Thatched Cottage
Oil on canvas, signed.
Painting size: 15” x 11”
Frame size: 23” x 18.75”
Williams was born in Penryn, Cornwall in 1808 but lived chiefly at Bath, Torquay and Topsham in Devon (where he died in 1895). He exhibited regularly at The Royal Academy, the Suffolk Street Galleries and at the British Institution...
Port St. Jean (St.-John Cap-Ferrat, France)
Watercolor on paper, signed lower right, titled lower left
Painting Size: 11” x 20.75” (Unframed)
Green was a primarily a watercolorist, specializing in landscapes, buildings and interiors. He studied at the Royal Academy alongside Leighton, Millais and Rossetti...
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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Mischevious Terriers
Oil on canvas, signed.
Provenance: From the Estate of Celebrity Clarivoyant Jean Dixon.
Painting size: 24” x 20”
Frame size: 31” x 35.5”
Goerge Armfield, known as George Armfield Smith until 1840, flourished from 1840-1875, as a London painter of dogs, especially terriers chasing birds, cats or mice. Armfield also painted landscapes, dead game, birds and other wild animals...
The Log Haulers’ Repast Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left and dated “1867'
Painting: 30” x 25”
Frame: 38 ½” x 30”
Woollett was a painter of rural scenes, especially with horses and other farmyard animals. His style and subject matter is closely related to that of John Frederick Herring, both Snr and Jnr...
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...
James Francis O’Brien (American, 1917-1996)
Oil on board laid to canvas, inscribed and located on the reverse.
Painting size: 20” x 16”
Frame size: 25” x 21”
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Aimé Barraud (Swiss 1902-1954)
Trompe L’oeil of Grapes
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left
Painting: 18” x 13”
Frame: 22 ½” x 17 ¼”
Barraud was a painter of still lifes, flowers, portraits and landscapes. Charles, Aurèle, François and Aimé were four brothers who were artists, sons of an engraver of watchplates. In 1928 and 1929 Aimé exhibited two paintings at the Salon des Indépendants (Paris)...
Mabel Gear (British, b. 1900)
Pastel on colored paper, signed.
Mabel Gear was a painter of birds and animals. She was born at the Ashby Rectory in Surrey, 1900. She studied at Colchester School of Art and under Septimus Power at Bushey. Gear exhibied at the Royal Academy; Royal Institute of Oil Painters; Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours; the Royal Society of British Artists, and abroad. She married Ivor I.J...
Blossoms and Bugs
Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Ledge
Oil-on-canvas, signed on reverse
$2150
Painting: 20 ¼” x 17 ¾”
Frame: 26 ¾” x 23”
SAFA/11078
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...
Still Life with Fruit and Sunflowers
Oil-on-canvas laid down to board, signed lower left
Painting: 23 ½” x 31 ½”
Frame: 29” x 37”
Born in Belgium, Coppenolle went to France to work at the faience factory of Schopin in Montigny. There he created sketches and ink studies of hens and cocks for plates, platters, jugs and cache-pots. His paintings repeated the same themes but also included st...
Still Life of Flowers in a Basket
Oil on board, signed lower right.
Painting Size: 15” x 18.5”
Frame Size: 21 ” x 25”
Leroy Daniel MacMorris was a nationally known portrait painter, muralist, illustrator, decorator and designer from Kansas City. Primarily a portrait artist in his later years, he also executed many murals, the most notable in the Kansas City area are in the Nelson Art Gallery (Rozzsell Cou...
"Cypresses, Cape Fear River, N. Car."
Oil on board, signed lower right, dated "(19)52" and titled on the reverse
Painting: 11" x 14"
Frame: 15.25" 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...