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...

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...

Early Twentieth Century “Los Tres Marineros” or “ Three Marines” is a Madrid School Oil measuring 47x37 done circa 1910 to 1925

(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...

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...

PORTRAIT OF KING PHILLIP V OF SPAIN, CUZCO SCHOOL, oil on canvas, measuring 82” x66” ….. CONSIGNMENT

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”

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".

"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...

(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…..

"Voyage of Life" Signed TC (Thomas Cole) c. 1840s-1850s, attributed to Frederich Edwin Church Oil on Canvas PRICE ON REQUEST

(Consignment). …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. One of his accolades during that period was being commissioned to paint the official portrait of Mother Seton for the canonization in 1976...

President George Washington in Full Masonic Regalia Oil 29.5x23.5” by artist Robert Gordon Hardie 1854-1904. Letter from curator of the Masonic Lodge,and other provenance. Background Hardie, Robert Gordon was born on March 29, 1854 in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States. Education Studied drawing in schools of Cooper Institute, Academy of Design and Art Students’ League, New New York Studied at École des Beaux Arts, Paris, Major Robert Gordon and Frances (Hyde) H. Captain, chief o...

Frantesek Kupka, 1871-1957, Opocno. Bohemia, Czech, and died in France. This stunning early mordernist painting is an early and an extremely fine example of Kupka's painting. It is approximately 17"H by 13"w in a 4" frame. It is signed clearly lower right and the entire painting and signature under black light looks good with no in painting. Kupka attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Prague at 17 years old and the Beaux Arts in Vienna. He moved to Paris in 1895 and also won the Prix de Rome. He...

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (/ˈɡɔɪə/; Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xoˈse ðe ˈɣoʝa i luˈθjentes]; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He was al...

( Consignment). Renaissance Deposition after Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), Oil Painting 74 x 51. Carracci is an Italian painter who was influential in recovering the classicizing tradition of the High Renaissance from the affectations of Mannerism.The sons of a tailor, Annibale and his older brother Agostino were at first guided by their older cousin Lodovico, a painter who persuaded them to follow him in his profession. Annibale’s precocious talents developed in a tour of northern Italy ...

A magnificent master work in oil by artist measuring He began as a student in the workshops of Jean-Léon Gérôme, then signed a contract with the art dealers, Goupil & Cie, to produce drawings for reproduction as prints, creating genre scenes of everyday life that proved to be quite popular. His first exhibit at the Salon came in 1864.[1] During the Paris Commune, he became friends with the writer, Émile Bergerat, who recalls in his memoirs that Pinchart occasionally worked as a butcher,...

In 1861, the great American portrait painter George Peter Alexander Healy create a series of masterful oil copies of the latest Matthew Brady gallery photographs of the leaders of The union government and military. This may be one of them. So many of the subjects like Lincoln, renewed to the Washington seeing the same cannot be said for general in chief Winfield Scott age 75, who had been in uniform since 1812 George Peter Alexander Healy (July 15, 1813 – June 24, 1894) was an American portra...

"Lord Cornwallis” attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds. Sitter supposed to be Lord Cornwallis at the time of the French and Indian wars. Oil on Canvas. 30" x 24". Frame Size 38" x 32" Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century.[1] He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was a founder and ...

(Consignment). Edward Dalton MARCHANT 1806-1887 Portrait of General U.S. US Grant, measuring 16.5 x 13.75“ treated 1864. This is a grant attracted to the attention of many portrait painter is during the war especially in 1864 year he became a lieutenant general and commander of all union forces Period the artist who is a war hero Pennsylvania painter just one year earlier has spent three months at the White House creating a canvas of Lincoln that is emancipator

American Master JOSEPH DAWLEY 1936-2008, “THE LUNCHEON AT PATRICIA MURPHY’S” “ OIL ON CANVAS , MEASURING 40” x 48” …… 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. One of his accolades during tha...

Dutch Artist Jan Griffier The Younger “Golden Age Landscape” Oil 42x36, a beautiful painting depicting an English gentleman hunter who comes upon an ancient ruin with the sculpture of The Mythical figure of Cronus oil on canvas measuring 48x36 inches……Jan Griffier II (1688–c.1750]) was an 18th-century painter active in England. Biography Griffier was born in England and died in London. According to Houbraken, Jan Griffier's son Robert was born on 7 October 1688, but he mixed up his...

(Consignment). Portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, sign Silvio oil on canvas 22 x 20”, frame size 30” x 28”. The portrait was done on board a ship during World War II from life and is oil on canvas. According to the owner there was a competition by other shipmate artist to do a Portrait of FDR and this piece won the prize.

Oscar Florianes Bluemner (1867-1938), . The painting is 7 x 10 inches. The medium is watercolor and pencil. Provenance: The Estate of Oscar Bluemner's widow, sold to Virginia collector and then to a collector in New Jersey. Art & Antique Gallery, Inc., Worcester, MA. It may have been a preliminary painting for a larger painting titled: "Play of Barns-Red" exhibited at the Owen Gallery in 2001. (size 28 x 30 inches). I spoke with Mr. Owen about this painting to get details. The two titles are ...

Period Copy Dutch Interior Scene "Tric Trak" players, 17th century, Oil on Canvas, 15" x 25", Frame Size 23" x 33" artist Willem Cornelisz Duyster (1599–1635) was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Amsterdam, best known for his "guardroom scenes" (cortegaarddje), genre paintings showing military life. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, he was named after his house on the Amsterdam Koningstraat, which was called "De Duystere Werelt", the Dim World. He knew his exact con...

A very fine oil on canvas depicting the infants Jesus and Saint John the Baptist, the original by Bartolomé Murillo, 1618-1682 an 18th century work done after a seventeenth century work. Oil on canvas measuring 40” x 50”. The painting was purchased from a Dutch family who owned it for several generations. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish,1618 – April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable numb...

Bio: Ernesto Alcántara (1933 - 2019) created a vast body of work along many themes: volcanoes, the Sierra Gorda, seascapes, landscapes, nudes, still life works, travel sketches, political satire, fairy tales drawn for his daughter, characters, with Sor Juana, Don Quixote, and Rembrandt being predominant.   His techniques include oil on linen, prepared by him in his studio with rabbit glue, linseed oil, and tempera; engravings on copper or zinc using burin, dry point, etching, or soft ground;...

Le Pont du Carrousel et Quai Voltaire by French artist Maximilien Luce (13 March 1858 – 6 February 1941)….. Luce was a prolific French Neo-impressionist artist, known for his paintings, illustrations, engravings, and graphic art, and also for his anarchist activism. Starting as an engraver, he then concentrated on painting, first as an Impressionist, then as a Pointillist, and finally returning to Impressionism. Maximilien-Jules-Constant Luce was born on 13 March 1858 in Paris. His parents, ...