On Hold
View of Venice : Isola di San Michele facing east
Oil on Canvas , signed and dated Indistinctly
Late 19th, early 20th C
Painting:
Frame : 22.5 "x 29"
$2,650.00
Oil on Panel, signed
Ptg. : 12.65" x 9.5"
Frame: 16" x 13"
Born 1816 in Beancon, he was a pupil of his compatriot Jean Gigoux. Baron first exhibited in 1840 with two Salon paintings...
$1,150.00
English School, 1834
Oil laid down to panel
"The Cardinal" was an Irish horse (owned by a Mr. Miles) who won The Chester Cup in 1834
Painting: 10" x 14.25"
Frame:16" x 20"
$1,650.00
Italian School, Circa 1870.
Before photography, ship captains, owners or pasangers would commission local artists to paint their ship in foriegn ports, Here we see a ship in the Bay of Naples with Mount Vesuvius in the background
Ptg. : 10.5" x 16"
Frame: 13" x 18"
$4,650.00
A Tri-aspect of a Topsail Trading Schooner off South Foreland (Cliffs of Dover)
Oil-on-canvas; verso label: Wm. Blair, Ltd, Bethesda, Maryland
Painting: 24” x 36”
Frame: 29 ¼” x 40 ¼”
Murday was an accomplished painter of ship portraits and shipping scenes whose works were often signed and dated in the second half of the 19th century...
“On the qui vive” (The Smuggler)
Oil on canvas , titled, signed and dated on the reverse
"QUI VIVE" (A French phrase meaning long live who? (a sentry’s challenge), used to mean a state of alertness or watchfulness.)
Painting: 30" x 25"
Frame: 36.5" x 31.5"
One of the best-known painters working in north-east England during the early nineteenth century Henry Perlee Parker specialized in pictures of marine subjects and smu...
$4,500.00
Military Encampment
Oil-on-canvas.
Painting size: 23” x 32”
Frame size: 31” x 40”
Born in Antwerp, van Bloemen was the brother of Jan-Frans and Norbert van Bloemen. His master was the battle painter, Simon van Douw. In 1673 van Bloemen was a master in Antwerp, but he did not stay there long. He is believed to have spent 20 years in Rome and it is known that he was working there in 1688...
$1,450.00
Old Master Style Still Life
Oil on Panel, signed
Provanance: Noortman Master Paintings, Maastrick
Painting: 9.75" x 7.25"
Frame: 16" x 13.75"
$4,500.00
The London to Bath Coach Pulling up to the Spaniards Tavern, Bath, England in 1884
Oil on Canvas, signed, and dated l.r.
Painting: 14: x 26"
Frame: 20.5" x 32.5" (outer frame later)
A newly discovered gem from one of England's best coaching painters.
John Charles Maggs (1819–1896) was a painter best known for his coaching scenes. He was born in Bath, England in 1819, his father being a furniture japanner there...
$2,850.00
Oil on canvas, 19th century Signed indistinctly lower right "Wm Mc *****" and dated
Painting: 21" x 28.5"
Frame: 27" x 34.25"
Ship portraits, such as this, were commissioned by the new owner often time itinerant artists who traveled around different boat builders looking for work...
$1,150.00
Young Girl with Paper Dolls
Oil-on-canvas, Unsigned
Oval: 19” x 14 ¼”
Frame: 25 ½” x 20 ¾”
This charming study of a young girl intent on cutting out paper dolls is reminiscent of works by Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and Pierre-Auguste Renoir (his earlier works). She is beautifully captured with her rosebud lips, her hair tied up in a bow, a lacy pinafore over her navy dress and stockinged legs ...
$1,850.00
Bullfight
Acrylic on panel, signed
Painting: 13 ¾” x 19 ½”
Muxart was a Catalan painter, part of the Grup Taüll of avant-garde artists. His work shows a strong expressionist character with structured figurative motifs. Muxart was of a generation of artists that developed during the years of the Franco regime...
$1,450.00
Blossoms and Bugs
Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Ledge
Oil-on-canvas, signed on reverse
Painting: 20 ¼” x 17 ¾”
Frame: 26 ¾” x 23”
SAFA/11078
$850.00
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”...
$3,850.00
Farm by a Pond
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Painting: 24" x 30"
Frame: 30" x 42"
Maidment was a painter in oil of rural scenes and landscapes. He also used the pseudonyms of "R. Fenson" and “A. Wynn”. Dated examples of his work have been seen spanning from 1898 until 1914...
$1,450.00
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...
$3,850.00
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)...
$4,250.00
"Warmiing Up" Jockey Galloping a Horse with a Plaited Mane
Oil on Canvas , signed"WV"
Painting: 16" x 24"
Frame: 20.75" x 28.5"