All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1990 item #983813 (stock #210025)
Large original oil painting on canvas by James Hennessey (American, 20th Century). This work measures 48" by 48" (slightly more in its original strip frame). It is signed "Hennessey" and dated (81) l.r. It is also signed "James Hennessey" and dated on the stretcher. A wonderful large Italian inspired work with a fresco-like facture by a painter who taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art for many years and traveled through Italy for as many years...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1900 item #1295806 (stock #10030)
Alfred Wordsworth Thompson (American 1840-1896)

Lake Scene in Western Maryland

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right and dated “1861”

Painting Size: 8 ½”” x 16”
Frame Size: 12.5” x 20”

Thompson was a landscape, historical and portrait painter, born in Baltimore where he studied law with his father. In 1859 Thompson decided to become and artist and opened a studio in Baltimore...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1900 item #1359916 (stock #10823)
Alethea Hill Platt (American, 1861-1932)

Devonshire Cottage by Moonlight

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left

Painting: 25” x 30”
Frame: 29” x 33 ¾”

Platt was active in New York State and Connecticut. She is known for her landscapes, portraits and interiors. She studied at the Art Students’ League (NYC) and Delecluse Academy, Paris. Platt also studied with Ben Foster and Henry B. Snell...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Contemporary item #1454740 (stock #199)
L'Enfant Gallery
$7,000.00
A painting from Anne Lane’s series of sorrowful themed oils. This piece measures 40 x 30“ oil on canvas Anne Lane studied art at George Mason University in Virginia, completed her education at Saint Patrick’s college, Ireland, where she studied theology and philosophy. The tonal and contemplated intensity of her paintings reflect her 10 years spent working as an artist under the desert sun of New Mexico. Her vibrant style, resonant with color and baroque details swoon over her canvases...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1147101 (stock #1884)
R and S Antiques
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EDMUND GREACEN-AMERICAN; 1876-1949 WINTER LANDSCAPE Oil on Canvas Signed and Dated: Lower Right Edmund Greacen 1939; Signed and Dated on Back EG was born in NY, traveled, studied and lived in Europe, and eventually settled in NY and Old Lyme Ct. He studied with Wm Merritt Chase, Robert Henri among others. Greacen is one of the founders of the Grand Central Art Studio in NY...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1920 item #1376168 (stock #10948)
Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Summer on Chesapeake Bay, MD"

Oil on canvas, signed lower right and titled on the reverse

Painting: 22" x 24"
Frame: 29.5" x 32.25"

Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector

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Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1920 item #1376507 (stock #10985)
Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Chesapeake Beach, MD"

Oil on masonite, signed lower left and dated "1958" and titled on the reverse

Painting: 20" x 24"

Frame: 26" x 30"

Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector

** For other painting by artists from Maryland, Virginia or Washington DC, click on the "Regional Artists" button on our homepage

Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1900 item #1461606 (stock #11AC42-250)
A large Hudson River school Luminist landscape painting in a very ornate carved gilt wood frame. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 2nd half 19th century. Canvas size: 30 inches x 42 inches. A dramatic canvas in the Luminist style, with a dark, rocky pond in the foreground and a distant mountainous skyline glowing in shades of pink and yellow from the light of a setting sun. The frame bears a Philadelphia framer's label on the reverse...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1094886 (stock #2550)

Eleanor Reed, b...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1197667 (stock #2626)
King Art
$7,900.00
Arnold Friedman, 1874-1945, New York City. Modernist painter known for Abstract Views, Figures and Still Life. Oil on canvas, 20"H by 24"w, signed lightly LL. It is in a period frame. Provenance: Purchased from the artist by Rosenberg Gallery, Direct descent through family to present owner. Friedman is considered an extremely gifted and original American Modern painter by scholars and art historians today...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1930 item #1415541 (stock #JB04002)
A large portrait of a woman of obvious wealth and status, 36" by 35", signed "Wells" at lower right on a prop envelope, and dated there 1930, set into a beautiful, unique, valuable 3 3/4" wide frame by the famous framemaker M. (Maurice) Grieve Co. of New York and London (see photo, reverse of frame). An online search did not turn up a "Wells" artist that would obviously fit with this work's subject matter, handling, and period. However we can see that this artist was quite obviously a skilled ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1900 item #178360 (stock #1003)
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Folk Art Portrait by American Artist, attributed to Sheldon Peck (1797-1868). This Portrait was purchased at a North Carolina auction from the Larew Collection. The 19th century oil on canvas portrait of a gentleman was said to be Thomas Johnston from Concord, NC (Sept. 1850). It was marked on the original canvas (relined) bought in Davie County. It is mounted in a mahogany veneer frame with yellow pine backing. Canvas 29" 24" and the Frame is 38" x 33". The portrait was restored in 1973 by Hen...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1900 item #1204005 (stock #10341)
William Richardson Tyler (American 1825-1896)

Misty Morning at Windsor Castle

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left

Painting Size: 18.5”” x 29.5”
Frame Size: 31” x 42”

**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.

Tyler is known to have lived and worked in Troy, NY during the 1850‘s and 60‘s where, aside from Abel Buell Moore, he was Troy’s best known artist. ...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1017843 (stock #2416)
Auerbach and Maffia
$11,000.00

American Abstract Geometric Landscape Oil Painting

c.1940s

Joseph Meierhans

Bucks Country, Pa.

30" x 26" - image only - 24" x 20 1/2"

Very good vintage condition

Meierhans, b. - 1890 in Switzerland, came to the United States in 1917, eventually settling in Bucks County. He studied under A.N.Lindenmuth and J. Sloan. He was a member of the S.Indp.Artists, ASL, Provincetown A.A. and the American Abstract Artists

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #627829 (stock #836)
Auerbach and Maffia
$12,000.00

Joseph Meierhans modernist oil on board, circa 1940's.

Entitled "Country Abstraction".

Original handmade frame.

Image measures 22" x 26".

Meierhans, b. - 1890 in Switzerland, emigrated to the United States in 1917, eventually settling in Bucks County. He studied under A.N.Lindenmuth and J. Sloan and was a member of the S.Indp.Artists, ASL, Provincetown A.A. and the American Abstract Artists.

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1900 item #1187336 (stock #8466)
William Aiken Walker (American, b. c.1838-1921)

Man in a Cottonfield

Oil on board, signed lower left.

$16,500. Painting Size: 8.25” x 4.25”
Frame Size: 12.5” x 8.5”

A lifelong artist, Walker exhibited his first painting at the age of twelve and continued to paint until his death 71 years later.

In the 1860’s Walker traveled to Dusseldorf for artistic training and remained for several years. Returning to Charleston, he joined the Confederate Ar...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1920 item #1374547 (stock #10892)
Adam Emory Albright (American 1862-1957 )

The Valley

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right and dated 1916

Exhibited: The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pictures of Children Painted in South America and Southern California by Adam Emory Albright, 1920, #29”

Painting: 24” x 30”
Frame: 30 ½” x 36 ½”

Albright, born in Wisconsin, was, according to William Gerdts (Art Across America, Vol. 2), “The finest Paris trained figure painter to emerge im...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 2000 item #1387923 (stock #cionwall)
This painting measures 16"x20". Helen LaFrance is a self-taught, modern, contemporary artist who is 99 years of age. Her earliest known painting is a 12’x20’ mural inside of a local church that was made circa the late 40's and early 50’s and she continued to paint into the early 2000's. LaFrance’s work is represented in many notable public and private collections in this country and in Europe. These collections include those of Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Bryant Gumbel, and contemporar...