Bethesda Oriental Restaurant
Oil on canvas, signed, located, inscribed and dated: “1983” on the reverse.
Painting size: 24” x 20”
Frame size: 29” x 25”
** Please Note - This painting came directly from the Estate of Mr. O’Brien...
Untitled 1995
Acrylic on Canvas, identified with exhibition label on reverse
Provenance: Howrey Gallery
Painting: 24" x 24",
Frame: 25" x 25"
Paul Reed, an artist associated with the Washington Color School, was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Reed and his colleagues were known for their abstract paintings, which were created by using the technique of soak-staining pigment into the canvas...
by S. Bingham (American, late 19/early 20th C.)
Watercolor on paper, signed.
Sight size: 20” x 13”
Frame size: 27.5” x 21”
Washington Row Houses (Dupont Circle)
Oil on canvas, located on the reverse.
Painting size: 20” x 16”
Frame size: 25” x 31”
** Please Note - This painting came directly from the Estate of Mr. O’Brien...
Venetian Reflections
Acrylic on panel, signed lower right and with an artists supply stamp from Rome on the reverse
Painting: 15 ½” x 12”
Frame: 18 ¼” x 14 ½”
Wilson was born in Toronto and studied art at Central Technical School there. In Detroit he began a lucrative career as a commercial artist and illustrator. A trip to Mexico in 1949, convinced him to become a fine artist...
The Papal Blessing, Venice
Oil on Canvas, signed with initials and dated: "(19)56" and with a lengthy inscription on the reverse.
Painting: 24" x 20"
Frame: 29" x 25"
Waldo Peirce (1884-1970) was born in Bangor, Maine, and educated at Phillips Academy in Andover and Harvard University...
Reuben LeGrande Johnston (American, 1850-1918)
Oil on Cradeled Panel, signed.
(repaired cracks to panel)
Painting:16" x 20"
Frame: 23" x 27"
Painter and teacher born in Alexandria, VA in 1850. He studied briefly with Dr. A.J. Volck in Baltimore, but was primarily self-taught in art, developing his skills while traveling and working in England, France, Spain, Tangiers and Morocco...
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...
Oils on paper, unsigned.
Painting size: 3” x 4.5” (Approximately)
Frame size: 7” x 8.5” (Approximately)
Squally Day
Oil-on-panel; signed lower left
See Brook-Hart, British 19th Century Marine Painting (Appendix) for a detailed discussion of this artist.
Frame size: 18.5" x 21"
This item has been sold. It remains on our website for internet research purposes.
Farmyard Scene, Summer
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right
Painting: 20” x 30”
Frame: 32” x 42”
Samuel James Clark (sometimes mistakenly listed as Samuel Joseph Clark) was born 26 April 1841, the first son of animal painter James Clark and his wife Elizabeth (nee London).
Clark spent his early years learning to paint from his father and was noted as an “animal painter” on the 1861 census...
Vermont Country Living
Oil on canvasboard, signed lower right
Painting Size: 20” x 24”
Frame Size: 27 1/2 ” x 31 1/2”
A landscape painter and textile designer, Mayer was born in Hungary and immigrated to the United States where he studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City with C.Y Turner, I. Olinsky and E. Ward (1908-15)...
River Landscape in Spring
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right
Painting Size: 23.5”” x 18.25”
Frame Size: 29.75 ” x 24.25”
A painter of landscapes and architecture, Begas-Parmentier was the wife of artist d’Adalbert Begas. She studied with the landscape painter Emil Jakob Schindler and the etcher Wilhelm Unger. At the age of 22 she began to exhibit scenes of rural Austria at the Künstlerhaus ...
Winter Landscape
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right
Painting Size: 21” x 24.75”
Frame Size: 28 ” x 31.75”
Frederick Ernest Swedlun was born in McPherson, Kansas of Swedish parents. Wishing to escape farmlife, he moved to Chicago and began studies at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts...
The Violin Player
Oil on Board, Signed
Painting: 23.5" x 19.5"
Frame: 27.5" x 23.5"
**Please Note: This item is not currently on view in our gallery. Please call at least 48 hours in advance if you wish to see it.
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”
Moonrise on the Bay
Oil-on-canvas laid to aluminum panel, signed lower right
Painting: 13 ¾” x 16 ½”
Frame: 18 ½” x 21 ¼”
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...
European School, early 19th century
Oil-on-canvas, unsigned
Painting: 17.25" x 21.75"
Frame:23" x 27.75"