Ferdinand Leeke (German 1859-1923)

The Art Critics

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right, located “Meran” and dated “1906"

Painting Size: 39.5” x 31.75”
Frame Size: 48.25 ” x 40”

A painter of historical, genre and allegorical scenes, Leeke studied at the Munich Academy under Johann Herterich and with the Hungarian genre and landscape painter Alexander von Wagner...

AMERICAN ARTIST ANNE LANE, SWAN SONG, OIL 36” x 24” ……….Done in 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 in detail,swoons its delight over her canvases...

Renaissance Portrait of a Man by John Court, 1970. Attributed to Velasquez. 30 x 25". Frame Size 37 x 32". Peter Colasante, director of L’Enfant Gallery, has represented John Court since 1974, owns much of his work and has sponsored several exhibitions of his work since 1970's including in Washington DC and Palm Beach, Florida. Bio: John Court (1948 - ) is a portraitist and landscape painter. Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Court grew up in Maryland and Virginia...

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...

Claude Grosperrin (1939-1977) was a French Impressionist who painted during the middle of the 20th century. His interest in lithography began during his studies at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in the atelier of Brianchon. There he developed a love of the process, and soon his work caught on in local galleries. After some one-man exhibits in London and New York, Grosperrin received international attention...

A very fine Damascus Console table, circa 1880, in Mahogany with Mother-Of-Pearl inlay, and fine Arabic script. Measuring 53 inches, wide, 23 inches deep 41 inches tall

Venetian gondola scene oil on canvas by V. Shmatko, a Ukrainian born artist (1965) who has been painting in Italy for many years and all over Europe, and is a member of the Ukrainian SSR PAINTERS.This work measures 30 x 40 inches, in a water gilded frame that measures 40 x 50 inches

Many artists in the 19 century travel to exotic Italy in the 1880s and 1870s as the John Singer Sargent. Cormens was one of those Artist. This work is of a Neapolitan beauty wearing gold jewelry possibly by the Italian craftsman Fortunato Pio Castellani. Hugh Cormens was an English artist with ties to the United States and exhibited in Europe

"Dutch Interior Scene". Unsigned. 17th Century. 11" x 13"...

Expressionist Nude Study/Portrait of a Woman by Alexandra Kay, student of Cikovsky, Corcoran Gallery of Art. Probably one of the artist finest and largest works done… From the Cochran school of art where it was exhibited in the 1930s this oil which is unsigned shows the first black model of the school. Done in oil , more information coming soon…..

A wonderful late nineteenth century oil Portrait of Saint Jerome measuring 38” x 32” ITALIAN SCHOOL

Beach Landscape in oil on canvas measuring 36 x 48“ frame size 40 x 50“. ….. 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 in detail,swoons its delight over her canvases...

A. WOLFFEROT Flemish Village Boat Scene o/copper 12x16” Set in a beautiful village, people are boating and merrymaking on a Saturday summer day.

Peter Colasante, director of L’Enfant Gallery, has represented John Court since 1974, owns much of his work and has sponsored several exhibitions of his work since 1970's including in Washington DC and Palm Beach, Florida. Bio: John Court (1948 - ) is a portraitist and landscape painter. Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Court grew up in Maryland and Virginia...

Farnese Piazza by Francesco Diofevi. c. 1825. Oil on Canvas Panel. Sight Size 19 x 24", Frame Size 24 x 29". Venetian Scene.

While we have yet to identify the artist or the subject, we would contend that the work is first rate considering the mood captured by the painter. The man exudes a somewhat austere aristocratic brood, yet exudes the strengths of youth and ambition, a man ready to make his place in the world. We believe the work to be of the British school painted c. 1850 or earlier as suggested by the early Victorian shape of the seat rail...

Froylan Ojeda was born in 1932 in Veracruz. Ojeda, who possessed his own style since his beginnings in the study of art, developed fundamental qualities in the work of painter in both technique and subject matter. At the age of thirteen he was already enrolled in the National School of Plastic Arts, showing his teachers intuition to imitate and reinvent nature. In 1951 he studied at the Plastic Materials Workshop of the National Polytechnic Institute, where he became acquainted with the use of a...