Winter Skating Scene on a Lake in Holland, circa 1620, Anthonie Verstraelen"Dutch Ice Skating Scene". Oil on Oak Panel. 27" x 42". Frame Size 33" x 48"
Anthonie Verstraelen or Van Stralen (Gorkum, 1593/1594 - Amsterdam, 1641) was a Dutch landscape painter, best known (with Hendrik Avercamp and his nephew Barend Avercamp) for his winter scenes.
Gillis van Stralen, Antonie's father, was a textile merchant...
Jonas Lie (April 29, 1880 - January 18, 1940) was a Norwegian-born American painter and teacher.
Lie is best known for his Expressionist paintings of the New England coastline and New York City.[2][3][4] He documented construction of the Panama Canal with thirty canvases, and represented the United States in the 1928 Summer Olympics art competition. This work is winter Townscape oil on canvas measuring 42 x 48“, frame size 52 x 58“
Lie was born in Moss, in Østfold county, Norway...
Dolley Todd Madison (née Payne; May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849) was the wife of James Madison, the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She was noted for holding Washington social functions in which she invited members of both political parties, essentially spearheading the concept of bipartisan cooperation...
MADONNA AND CHILD WITH THR INFANT SAINT JOHN THE BAPIST, oil on wood panel, done before 1500 framed measuring 28” x 22”
Raphael1483-1520)
Who Was Raphael?
Italian Renaissance painter and architect Raphael became Perugino's apprentice in 1504. Living in Florence from 1504 to 1507, he began painting a series of "Madonnas." In Rome from 1509 to 1511, he painted the Stanza della Segnatura ("Room of the Signatura") frescoes located in the Palace of the Vatican...
Early Twentieth Century “Los Tres Marineros” or “ Three Marines” is a Madrid School Oil measuring 47x37 done circa 1910 to 1925
MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM C. PENNY,….EACH PORTRAIT, IN OIL, MEASURING 30” x 25” Samuel Waldo Lovett was born on April 6, 1783 in Windham, Connecticut, the son of Esther (née Stevens) and Zacheus Waldo.[3] At the age of sixteen, he moved to Hartford to begin his formal art training under the tutelage of Joseph Steward, a prominent local artist.
Four years later, he set up shop as a portraitist in Hartford, later relocating to Litchfield, Connecticut...
(Consignment) The Artists’s Secret Garden oil on canvas 48x72” more information coming soon……
…The following biography, submitted March 2005, is from the daughter of the artist. Although raised and educated in Texas, Joe Dawley moved to New Jersey in the early 1960's where he remained. He painted in the traditional Old Masters style until 1982, when the symptoms of Parkinson's - diagnosed in 1975 - necessitated brain surgery...
"First Thaw," a scene of Woodstock Mountain, New York, by Norwegian-American Artist Jonas Lie, oil on canvas 30 x 48".
Lie was born in Moss, in Østfold county, Norway. His father Sverre Lie (1841–92) was a Norwegian civil engineer and his mother Helen Augusta Steele (1853–1906) was an American from Hartford, Connecticut. He was named for his father's cousin (and brother-in-law), the famous Norwegian author Jonas Lie, who had married his father's sister Thomasine...
Artist Edmund Hodgson Smart did this portrait while the president was still living and passed while it was being finished. The portrait is one of two done. The other being in the White House
Measuring framed 67” x 45”
PORTRAIT OF KING PHILLIP V OF SPAIN, CUZCO SCHOOL, oil on canvas, measuring 82” x66” ….. CONSIGNMENT
Life Portrait "King James I" of England ( James VI of Scotland) attributed to Nicolas Van Somer. Oil on Canvas. 36" x 32". Frame Size 38" x 32".
PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON ATTRIBUTED TO THE CHAS. WILSON PEALE FAMILY, EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY OIL ON CANVAS, measuring 72” x 50” in a fine period frame. Possibly the frame from the Stewart workshops...
(Consignment). An important American oil painting of the Hand Sisters of Virginia by American artist Blanchard. The children dressed in late 18th century clothing measuring 38x48”,oil
Comic scenes of Wartime camp life were part of every major Civil War artist portfolio. Measuring 30 x 25“ circa 1864
For a time, Price studied portrait painting with William Reading, an artist in Louisville, Kentucky, and later with Oliver Frazer in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1849, Price left Kentucky for New York City where he enrolled in the School of Design and studied for five months...
(Consignment). 16th century study of Dante, Florence School of Italian Artists,Tempera on poplar panel 22x18"
This tempera painting is a study for an Allegorical Portrait of Dante , known as the noblest ideal portrait of Dante which has survived the Renaissance. In the portrait Dante looks over the Stygian river at the Monte Sancto di Dio, against the light of Paradise. The portrait was painted two centuries after his death.
Madonna and Child attributed to the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea del Sarto & Studio(1486-1530), Tempera on tulip poplar curved panel, circa 1520Frame Size 27 x 21".
Andrea del Sarto was a mannerist Italian Renaissance painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. He was known as an outstanding fresco decorator, painter of altar-pieces, portraitist, draughtsman and colorist...
(Consignment) Joseph Dawley portrait of Job is one of the most important work in his Ouvre. Painted in the style of old masters this period of his work was featured in my books he authored measuring 40x36”,Beautifully framed measures 54x49”,oil on canvas
Although raised and educated in Texas, Joe Dawley moved to New Jersey in the early 1960's where he remained...
A beautiful Seventeenth century oil portrait, more information coming soon…..