Boat in the Bulrushes
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right
Painting: 22” x 34 ½”
Frame (of the Period but not original):
31 ½” x 45 ½” x 24”
Franck was a British artist, recognized for her still lifes, genre scenes and landscapes...
Summer Interior
Oil on canvas, signed and dated, upper right and titled on a paper label on the reverse. Together with the book “Interior with Figure, the Life and Painting of Charles McCall” by Mitzi McCall.
Painting size: 24” x 20”
Frame size: 29” x 25”
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Charles McCall was born in Edinburgh...
$14,500
Oil on canvas, retaining a paper label on reverse reading: “Souvenir offert a mon viel ami Babcock/ F...
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...
Afternoon in the Garden
Depicting Three Classical Women, Two Seated at a Table Being Entertained by a Third Playing the Lyre
Oil on canvas, signed lower right.
Painting Size: 15” x 22”
Frame Size: 23” x 30”
SAFA/5586 Although there does not seem to be any ready biographical information on R. Bonnechose, it is apparent that he studied in at least one of the Paris ateliers of the late 19th century...
Gypsy Mother and Child
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left and retaining a Windsor & Newton stencil on the reverse.
Painting size: 24" x 18"
Frame size: 32.5" x 26.5"
A multi-faceted artist, Barker was born into the socially prominent "Barkers of Bath", many of whom were artists. He worked in oils and watercolors, painting subjects from historical and genre scenes to sweeping landscapes...
Modernist View of a Harbor
Oil on board, signed lower right
Painting: 8 ½” x 13”
Frame: 14” x 18 ¼”
Espanita Cortez joined L’Opéra Comique in 1946 as a principal dancer. She also became the dance master and choreographer. Cortez was noted as an interpreter of Spanish regional dances and flamenco...
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...
(British School, 19th Century)
Oil on canvas, Unsigned
Painting size: 30” x 20”
Frame size: 36.25” x 26.5”
This sweet genre painting of a shepherdess with her flock reflects the theme of the child-of-nature, a sensibility embraced by Victorians during the 19th century. The figure’s youth and comely face convey innocence, while her steadfast pose next to the goldenrod suggests that she is at ease in her environment.
In the Orchard
Pastel on paper, signed lower left and titled on the reverse
Sight Size: 21.75” x 16”
Frame Size: 29 ” x 23.75”
Grone was a painter and watercolorist who specialized in landscapes, river scenes and figures. According to Graves he exhibited 13 works between 1888 and 1893 at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute...
English School, circa 1896.
Oil on canvas, signed indistinctly lower right.
Painting size: 13” x 19”
Frame size: 19.25” x 25.5”
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...
European School, early 19th century
Oil-on-canvas, unsigned
Painting: 17.25" x 21.75"
Frame:23" x 27.75"
$11,500
The Art Critics
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right, located “Meran” and dated “1906"
Painting Size: 39.5” x 31.75”
Frame Size: 48.25 ” x 40”
A painter of historical, genre and allegorical scenes, Leeke studied at the Munich Academy under Johann Herterich and with the Hungarian genre and landscape painter Alexander von Wagner...
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 ...
Two Views of the West of England
A pair of oils on canvas, retaining Frost and Reed Gallery labels.
Sight Size: 10.25" x 13"
Canvas Size: 12" x 14 1/2"
Frame Size: 17.5" x 20"
Born at Atherstone, Warwickshire, England on May 17th, 1815, Syer studied with J. Fisher, a miniaturist, and settled in Bristol. Syer was one of the prime favorites of the Victorian era...
Hills and Coming Rain
Oil on board, signed and dated "1964" lower left and signed, titled and located on the reverse "Greenleaves Petworth, Sussex".
Painting: 14” x 30”
Frame: 17 ¼” x 33 ¼’
John Hitchens was born in 1940 in Hove, Sussex. He studied at Bedales School, Petersfield and Bath Academy of Art,Corsham. His work initially focused primarily on the patterns of landscapes, but in r...
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). Barraud was also an associate at the Soci...