Lucien Whiting Powell
(American 1846-1930)
Bayou
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left
Provenance: Senator John B. Henderson (1826-1913)
Painting: 23” x 37”
Frame: 27” x 41”
Born 1846 in Upperville, Lucien Whiting Powell served with the Virginia cavalry during the Civil War...
From our European Collection, a fine 18th century oil on canvas "Painting of a Gentleman," bust length in a brown coat, appears to be in the original period frame. Attributed to Thomas Hudson or Circle of Thomas Hudson (1701-1779).
Size and Condition: Framed dimensions approximately 40 inches tall by 35 inches wide, unframed image size is 30.5 x 25.5 inches...
Max Weyl (German/American, 1837-1914)
"Evening on the Marsh"
Oil on Academy Board, signed and dated "(18)88", dated "Dec. 27,1888" on the reverse and titled by Benson B. Moore also on the reverse.
Provenance: The Washington area painter Benson B. Moore. Moore studied with Weyl at the Corcoran in Washington D.C.
Painting: 11 x 16 in.
Frame: 16 x 21 in.
**Please Note: This item is not currently on view in our gallery...
Exceptional large industrial cityscape by Harry Shoulberg (American, 1903-1995). Signed in red l.r. In excellent original condition (original frame has minor scuffs). 22 by 28 painting alone, 32 by 38 in frame. Shoulberg is an important American Expressionist artist and printmaker who participated in the WPA program and was a pioneer in the use of silkscreen (serigraphy). Well listed...
From our European Collection, a very fine historical oil painting on canvas by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1828-1904) entitled "Charles X of Sweden after the Battle of Pultova." Signed lower right "R. Hillingford"...
A Franck L. Paris France oil on panel painting dated 1969. An excellent example of 1960s French Modernism, this painting is by the renowned painter Franck.L. and is an early work by this respected artist who is still producing. Born in 1944, he started exhibiting in 1966 and his works have been shown at the Musee d’Art Moderne in Paris. This work is an untitled still life and it was purchased for a London, Ontario home in 1969...
A strong oil on wood portrait of a gentleman sporting a long ponytail, and wearing a large black hat, a ruffled white shirt, a brownish-gray jacket. Cleverly executed to look like the painting is oval and in a mat, in actuality the entire surface is painted and is not a mat.
The condition of this work is excellent, with no issues or restoration. The frame, which is modern, nicely complements this work sight size is 6 1/2" by 4 1/2", with the framed size being 8 3/4" by 7".
A wonderful original Oil Painting by renowned Italian Painter MERIO AMEGLIO (1897-1970), depicting the Flower Market at the Place de la Madeleine, PARIS. This artist spent most of his life in Paris and is famous for his stunning impressionist paintings, of similar style as Cortes etc. This oil painting on a wooden panel, evokes the Paris atmosphere and is signed on the bottom left by the artist. Good condition. Size: 11.75" x 9.75", framed 15" x 13"...
A very attractive Original Oil Painting in the Manner of Henri Joseph HARPIGNIES (1818-1916) of a French Provincial Village Scene depicting a Woman with Child. Oil on Canvass, signed lower left; Frame surround also retains Name lettering. Overall condition good, light craquelure, couple inconsequential small spots of restoration (lower center in trees), areas of frame retouched. 19/20th Century. Size: 15.5" H. x 11.5" W., framed 23" x 18" W.
Provenance: Private Estate in Chevy Chase, MD., USA
From our European Collection, a stunning 19th century oil on canvas vista of Interlaken Switzerland, by Danish landscape master August Fischer ((1854-1921). Signed and dated by the artist 1886, lower left.
Size and Condition: Framed dimensions are approximately 44 inches wide by 32 inches tall. Unframed dimensions are approximately 38.5 inches wide by 25.5 inches tall...
August Rolle
(American 1875-1941)
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...
19th Century British School
"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"
August H. O. Rolle
(American 1875-1941)
Rock Creek Park
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left...
This oil on linen is a subtle topical examination of rabbis in study and camaraderie in synagogue, most likely in Warsaw.
Konstantin Szewczenko (1915-1991) was born in Warsaw, Poland, studied at the Warsaw Academy of Arts, and participated in international exhibitions. He is very well known for painting Jewish genre and rabbinical scenes.
Dimension: 27 1/2" x 23 1/2"
In some ways the Albert Bierstadt of Europe, Frederick Kammeyer ( 1873 - 1941 ) painted grand lavish landscapes of Europe's beautiful mountain scenes. The oil on linen offered here renders a rapid stream coursing through a wooded valley against the backdrop of majestic imposing mountains in the background but never out of view. Signed lower right F Kammeyer Munchen. Painting is in excellent condition and framed.
Dimensions: 36" x 28 1/4" framed; 31 1/4" x 23 3/4"
An early 20th century formal portrait of a lady painted by one of the leading portraitists of that century, Stanislav Rembski (1896-1998). A native of Poland, Rembski immigrated to the United States in the 1920s, working first in Brooklyn Heights, then Baltimore around 1940.
His paintings are in museum and private collections world wide, having been commissioned by Eleanor Roosevelt to paint a posthumous portrait of her husband, and of Woodrow Wilson. Subjects and clients have inclu...
Original oil on panel by Jacques Koslowsky (Lithuanian, American, lived in Paris and Mallorca, 1904-1993) of a standing female nude, circa 1950-1960. Signed l.r. 24" by 12" painting alone, 28" by 16" in its frame. Koslowsky studied art in Florence and Paris. He had a studio in Montparnasse where he met the great School of Paris artists of the pre-war period. One of a number of works by this artist available in this web gallery.
Original oil painting on panel by Max Heimann (Germany, USA, born 1909). Circa 1940s. Probably painted in Shanghai where Heimann and his family were exiled during WWII. This painting is 17" square and is in excellent condition.
James Pollard (British 1792-1867)
The London to Oxford Coaches
at Mile Marker 24
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right
Painting: 17” x 32”
Frame: 23 ½” x 38 1/4”
Pollard was an engraver and sporting artist noted for his coaching, fox hunting and equine scenes. As the son of Robert Pollard, a painter, engraver and publisher, James was encouraged to become a painter of horses. He was also tutored by his father’s friend, the engraver Th...
Original oil painting on canvas by Lowell Nesbitt (American, 1933-1993)of a red anemone blossom. This painting is signed, titled, dated 1982, and inscribed "New York 1982" verso. It also bears the original Andrew Crispo Gallery label attached to the stretcher. 18" by 18", excluding original frame. In excellent original condition.
Original oil painting with encaustic by Andre Brechet (Switzerland, 1921-1993), circa 1950-1960, of an abstracted still life. A little gem in beautiful original condition. 16" by 18" in its original frame. Andre Brechet was a well known Swiss artist who studied in Paris with Andre Lhote and Fernand Leger.
A framed oil on canvas painting, showing a young boy in a Balinese landscape. The painting is signed Ch. A. Egli and titled on the back "Balinesischer Knabe". Charles A. Egli was a Swiss artist taught by Ferdinand Hodler. After traveling from 1918 until 1925 through China and Japan, he visited Java and Bali. Please refer to: "Haks & Maris - Lexikon of Foreign Artists who visualized Indonesia", page 82. Condition: fine, frame with some traces of usage. Dimension: 42.5 cm x 37 cm, frame: 47 cm x 4...
A pair of oil on card paintings, each signed lower left, by C. Ph. Weber. The first is of a church and churchyard behind a rock wall. The second depicts fishing along the Delaware river. Typical of the artist's work is the fine use of light and color, rendering an almost impressionistic feel.
Condition of the paintings is very good, with no damage or restoration. There are some scattered minor areas of surface dirt on the fishing scene, which could easily be cleaned without harming the painti...
Johannes Marinus Ten Kate (Dutch, 1859-1896)
Working the Field
Oil on canvas. signed lower right
Painting17" x 24 3/4"
Frame: 28" x 35 1/4"
Ten Kate was known for his landscapes, beach scenes and genre paintings. Born in Amsterdam, he was the son of Johannes Mari ten Kate, under whom he most likely studied. He lived and worked in the Hague and was a member of the Hague Artists’ Society and the Pulchri Studio (...
Oversize original oil painting (oil and methacrylate on canvas) by Pat Adams (American, Vermont, born 1938). 70"by 84". Painted in 1980,and exhibited in the Pat Adams retrospective exhibition at the Berkshire Museum in 1988--still bears the exhibition label. Provenance: Hassam/Speicher Fund, Michener Collection, Kent School of Art Gallery. A major work from a major American artist.
James Francis O’Brien (American, 1917-1996)
Kitchen Sunlight
Oil on canvas, signed, inscribed on the reverse.
Painting size: 16” x 20”
Frame size: 21” x 25”
** Please Note - This painting came directly from the Estate of Mr. O’Brien. For other examples, type “O’Brien” into the search box.
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Harriette F A Sutcliffe (British, fl.1881 - 1922)
Beauty and the Beast
Oil on canvas, signed with monogram and titled on the reverse
Exhibited: The Royal Academy, 1899
Miss Suitcliff was a Hampstead painter of genre and portraits who exhibited at the royal academy from 1881-1899 and elsewhere.
Source:
Christopher Wood, The Dictionary of Victorian Painters
Painting Size: 16" x 20"
Frame Size: 24" x 28"
19th Century American, "Landscape with Waterfalls". This is a very fine Hudson River School landscape, oil on academy board, 9 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches, c. 1880s, unsigned, in an ornate period gilt frame. Although this painting is unsigned it is quite well painted, evidently by a very competent artist.
A 19th century American folk art painting. Oil on canvas. Table top still life of bountiful agricultural harvest and a pineapple likely from port trade (pineapples were popular import produce in 19th century port cities and much can be read of pineapples in American tradition and design - most notably relating to hospitality.) Relined - otherwise good, clean and bright condition. Stretcher dimensions 30 1/2 inches x 25 1/4 inches. We acquired this in the late 90s from a long time Georgetown peri...
Wonderful old oil painting on board of two hunting dog puppies quizzically studying a frog. Signed "Ida Graham" in lower left corner, in frame it measures 12" x 14", sight size 9" x 11".
August H.O. Rolle (American 1875-1941)
River Birches
Oil on Canvas, Signed lower right and titled and signed on reverse
Painting: 20" x 24"
Frame: 24" x 28"
** For other paintings by artists from Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC or North Carolina, click on the “Regional Artists” button on our Homepage.
August Herman Olson Rolle, painter, printmaker and graphic artist, dabbled in many activitie...
Oil on canvas, this lush painting of poinsettias measures 30" x 24" (sight size), with a frame that is 3 1/2" wide. The artist is Marise London, a Florida artist from Sarasota who had an art gallery there from the late 1970's til it closed in 2006. According to the previous owner of this painting it was said to have been painted in the 80's, possibly early 90's. It is signed with the artist's first name in the lower right corner, and the full name on the stretcher. NOTE: there is some sligh...
A charming and beautifully painted landscape done by George W. Drew (signed lower right) in the early 20th century. The scene depicts a country path following beside a river and wending around a wooden house. Adding to this idyllic scene are ducklings on the path and a woman in front of one of the cherry trees surrounding the house, The wonderful luminosity that Drew is well-known for is apparent in this work.
The painting is 36" by 24", and the fine period frame is 43" by 31". Both the paint...
"Anemones" oil on canvas 13 1/4 x 16 1/2
Louis Valtat was born into a wealthy family of ship owners on 8 August 1869 in the Normandy region of France. Valtat spent many of his childhood years in Versailles where he attended secondary school at the Lycée Hoche (near the Palace of Versailles). Encouraged by his father, an amateur landscape painter himself, Valtat became interested in art. At age 17 he applied to the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He was accepted in 1887 and moved to Paris t...
Original painting, framed under glass, circa 1960, by Hilda Rubin (Hilda Rubin Pierce). Signed l.l. 23" by 16" painting alone, 31" by 23" in its frame. In excellent condition.
Hilda Rubin is an American artist born in Austria in 1922. She studied art with Oskar Kokoschka before leaving Austria for England in 1938 as Hitler was taking over the country, and eventually settled in Chicago. Studied art at the AIC, where she exhibited regularly. One of a number of works by this artist currently...
Original oil painting depicting a tree, a weeping beech beyond an arch, facing its remaining weathered limbs toward a luminous soft yellow sky just over an old line of empty Victorian carriage converted carports. All set against a snow covered ground. The view seen here is at mid trunk level, as these are huge trees. Painted on stretched canvas with a palette of six plus white, by a self learned American painter and signed at lower right as Mimi Dee.
Title: Omega Winter -with ID #0303150...
Original oil painting on canvas by Sabine Hettner (French, 1907-1986). In excellent condition. Signed and dated 53 l.r. Also signed and dated verso. 21 1/2" by 18" canvas alone. Sabine Hettner, whose mother was French, was the daughter of German painter Otto Hettner, an associate of Oskar Kokoschka and Otto Dix. She lived and worked in Paris in a residence where her neighbors included Sonia and Robert Delaunay. During her career she exhibited throughout Europe, and often in Germany (Hamburg...
Original gouache painting by Hans Kleiss (France, 1901-1973), mid-century. 14" by 11", currently unframed. Portrait of a Moroccan Berber. Signed by the artist l.r. and in excellent condition. One of a number of works by this well-listed artist currently available.
Signed original landscape oil painting on stretched canvas in a very limited tonalist palette of three pigments plus white; depicting a minimalist serene scene with a broken luminous space within a dark blue sky and patches of marsh water in the mid and foreground. Painted by a self learned American painter and signed at lower right as: Mimi Dee
Remember kids you do not have to take art lessons nor waste time on a college degree to paint...but you do need a degree to be a registered nurse w...
DESCRIPTION: A large Cuzco School oil on canvas depicting “Our Lady of Pomata,” who is said to protect the town of Pomata, Peru. Pomata is situated above Lake Titicaca in the highlands of Peru, and was once a popular Christian pilgrimage shrine. In this painting the Virgin is depicted as cradling the Christ Child in her left arm and holding a bouquet of flowers in her right hand. Both she and the child are adorned with bejeweled and feathered gold crowns and fine white lace which almost se...
Richard Redgrave (British, 1804-1888)
Resting Deer in a Forest Landscape
Oil on canvas
Provenance: Thomas McLean Gallery, London (retaining the original label on the back).
Painting: 20.75" x 36"
Frame: 30" x 45"
Redgrave was a genre and landscape painter. For a time he worked with his father who was an engraver before entering the Royal Academy in 1825. He began by painting historical genre in 18th century costume but in the 1840s he was among the fir...
Original oil painting on canvas by Jan De Ruth (American, born in Czechosloviakia, 1922-1991) mid-century, in excellent original condition, original gallery frame still bearing a label from the Harbor Gallery in Long Island stating the name of the artist, the title of the piece, the medium, and the original price. Signed "Jan De Ruth" lower left. 24 1/2" by 21 1/2" in frame, 16" by 13" painting alone.
Jan de Ruth is a well listed American artist. One of a number of works usually availabl...
Original oil painting on board by Michael Aloysius Sarisky (Ohio, 1906-1974), mid-century, in excellent condition, signed l.r. 31" by 28". Michael Sarisky is known as a WPA mural artist. He exhibited regularly at the Cleveland Museum of Art's May shows and this museum still holds 3 of his works. We currently have two works on paper by this artist also available.
Original painting/calligraphy by Jacques Le Roux (French, 1923-2010), on antique paper, possibly influenced by Mayan iconography. This work is still in the artist's original frame and bears the artist's label verso. In excellent original condition. As a painter Jacques Le Roux exhibited alongside Picasso and Miro. He was influenced by the Surrealists and Andre Breton, whom he met at the end of WWII. On the occasion of an exhibition devoted to his work in 1978 at the Centre Pompidou a book (...
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. During the first year of the Civil War (1860) he worked as a combat artis...
Manfred Schwartz oil painting titled "head"
a wonderful piece from his early period with heavy influence on this piece by his friend Matisse . The painting is is great condition and its original frame with title on back . Size sight of canvas 19 3/4" by 11.5" .
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DESCRIPTION: Oil on canvas painting of a Mexican pueblo (or village) by artist R. M. Domez. The multi-story adobe structures with slanted roofs are seen in the escaping light of an approaching storm. Frame is carved wood and gilt; dating from the first half of the 20th C. and in excellent condition. DIMENSIONS: Sight: 23 1/2" wide (59.6 cm) x 18 3/4" high (47.6 cm). In the frame: 29" wide (73.7 cm) x 24 1/2" high (62.2).
Everett Lloyd Bryant landscape oil painting on canvas signed lower right. Measuring 28"L x 36"W. Everett Lloyd Bryant studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Thomas Anschutz, William Merritt Chase, and Hugh Breckenridge. A member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society, Philadelphia Watercolor Club, and California Watercolor Society, Bryant exhibited at the Salons of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1895), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1904-24), Art Insti...
Peter Paul Duggan (Irish/American 1810 ? -1861)
Macbeth
Oil on artist board
Provenance:
Sycamore Farm, Portsmouth, VA (Estate of Robert Vick and Charles Sibley)
Note: Listed in "The National Academy of Design Exhibition Record 1861-1900" page 249, number 482.
Painting Size: 6 ½” x 6 ½”
Frame Size: 10” x 10”
Born in Ireland, Duggan was brought to the United States as a young child, probably around 1810. He was a student at the National ...
Federico Jiménez Fernandez (Spanish, 1841- ?)
Chickens and Rooster
Oil-on-Panel, signed lower right
Painting: 12.5" x 9.25"
Frame: 18.5" x 15.25"
Federico Jiménez Fernandez was born in Madrid in 1841 and trained at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving of San Fernando where he studied with José Gonzalez Bande. He traveled to Paris to continue his studies, as did so many other artists of the time. Jiménez was known for his paintings of birds and a...
"Snowy Range - Wyoming" 14.5" x 19.5" unframed. Frame 17.25" x 22.25". Mr. Pohl along with his wife was the founder of the La Jolla, California Art Center, Ernest Pohl was a businessman who did pastel and oil painting in his leisure time. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, however by 1915 he had settled in San Diego at 4468 Hortensa Street.
His works include desert landscapes of Coachella Valley and Borrego Valley. Exhibition venues include the La Jolla Art Association and the University of No...
"Péniches sur la Seine" 18 1/8" x 21 3/4 unframed. Marcel Dyf was born in Paris on the 7th October 1899. As a youth he was influenced by the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements that he observed in Paris and Normandy, where he spent his holidays. He started a career in engineering but in his early twenties he decided to become an artist. He moved to Arles in Provence where he bought a studio and began zealously painting the inspirational. Dyf was self-taught as an artist. He remained ...
Georges Brasseur (Belgian, 1880-1950)
Morning Light
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left
Painting Size: 19.75” x 25.5”
Frame Size: 24 ” x 30”
Brasseur was a painter and designer who specialized in religious art as well as genre scenes, portraits and nudes.He was a student at the Saint-Luc School in Schaerbeek where he spent his last year as a scene painter. He adopted a Neo-Gothic style, typical of that school. Brasseur also produced copperplate engravin...
This Autumn Landscape (13 1/2" X 19 1/4") is signed on the lower left side Francis Villeret. This oil on canvas has been cleaned and it is mounted in a new frame. Villeret was born in 1800 and died in 1866. His art can be found in many European Museums.
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian, 1449-1494, Florence. Oil on panel in sepia tones. He lived when the Italian Renaissance was gathering speed and producing an astonishing succession of painters of genius. "Now that I have begun to get into the spirit of this art, I wish they would give me the walls of Florence to paint the whole circuit with stories." This is said to be Ghirlandaio's reaction to painting.popes, princes and members of the newly flourishing class of merchants. Banks gave him plenty ...
Original oil painting on paper by Andrea Pietro de Zerega (American, born in Italy, 1916-1990), framed in period frame under glass, signed and dated l.l. also signed, titled "Storming at Edgewater", monogrammed twice,and dedicated "To my good friends the Hurburts" verso. 16" by 20" painting alone, 22" by 26" with frame. Zerega studied at the Corcoran School of Art. He worked and lived in Washington DC and in Italy. Well listed, exhibited, and collected.
Original oil painting on panel by Sam Sargent (American, 1889-1959), signed in blue "S.Sargent" ll. This painting is still in its original frame and is in pristine condition. Dates from the 1945-1955 period. Sam Sargent was born in Newburyport, Massachussets, and studied at the Mass. College of Art in Boston under Joseph DeCamp. He exhibited at the Copley Gallery in Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, and the Currier Museum in Manchester, NH. He was the founder of the New...
Original oil painting on panel by Sam Sargent (American, 1889-1959), signed in red "S. Sargent" l.l. This painting is still in its original frame and is in pristine condition. Dates from the 1945-1955 period. Sam Sargent was born in Newburyport, Massachussets, and studied at the Mass. College of Art in Boston under Joseph DeCamp. He exhibited at the Copley Gallery in Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, and the Currier Museum in Manchester, New Hampshire. He was the founder ...
Original oil painting on Masonite by John McCray (California, Berkeley School, 1912-1993), dated 1950. In its original frame and still bearing an exhibition label from the James McCray Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art giving the title of the piece (Post Hydrogen Bomb 11), the date (1950), etc. This painting is signed l.r. In very good condition. 16" by 22" painting alone, 24" by 30" in its original frame. James McCray is a major California artist and teacher (Sam Francis and Jo...
A signed American original oil landscape painting depicting a south western scene with a dark road in the mid left foreground that vanishes into the yellow bright background just short of two cliff like reddish rocky prominences that almost form two goal posts. The colorful palette juxtaposes lights and darks in fore and mid ground. Titled: Exit West and painted by a self taught American painter, who exited West to live in New England many, many years ago... Was it the right choice?...
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