All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1920 item #1352513
William Lee Hankey, British, 1869-1952, "Evening," etching, image size 9 x 9 7/8 inches on 10 7/8 x 11 7/8 wove-type paper C 1919. Pencil signed. Artist blindstamp, plate initialed in the lower right.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1920 item #1417081 (stock #JB01644)
Oil on canvas, 16" by 20", unframed, the subject a cut watermelon, peaches, grapes, a pear and strawberries, signed at lower right "Mabel Lemos" and dated there 1948. This appears to me to be a work by the noted long-time citizen of Santa Cruz, MABEL LEMOS, the wife of painter William Lemos and mother of artist Sydney Lemos...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1920 item #1441659 (stock #309)
Victory Liberty Loan, "We'll Finish the Job", 1918, Edwards and Deutch Lithograph. Framed 39 x 28".
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1920 item #1081631
Joseph Pennell, 1857-1926, American, "Olympia," etching, image size 10 3/8 x 18 1/8 inches, 1913, cat. Wuerth-655, pencil signed.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1920 item #1422317 (stock #JB03918)
Oil on canvas painting of white and pink roses in a blue bowl, signed at lower right "Strachan". The work, measuring 18" by 24" and 23" by 28 1/2" in likely original frame, has tiny losses in background and lower left area. The frame also has light wear, and losses on back of left edge. Overall, a very shabby chic piece in feeling. There is an old Los Angeles framer's sticker on reverse backing.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : Pre 1920 item #1260152 (stock #TBD00145)
An oil on canvas in a naive style of a line of deer walking along a gentle hill toward the top of a larger hill with the sunset and distant view of the other side of the valley. The painting was found in Shenandoah Valley though no record of, “A. Taylor” has been found. The tone of the painting is warm. While there are no give away clues as to the age between the late 19th or the early 20th century, it has a feel of being in the earlier part of that range rather than the later...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1920 item #1485036
Bernard Boutet De Monvel 1881-1949 French This is a fine color aquatint by French artist Bernard Boutet de Monvel .. It is titled Fillette a L'Ombrelle, created and printed in 1910. The image measures 10 3/4X6 7/8 inches. Signed in block letters in pencil lower right border. Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet. Numbered as 3/10.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1920 item #1477970 (stock #D266)
This is a magnificent antique sculpture made of gold gilt bronze, dating back to around 1900 AD, which depicts a Portuguese knight named Saint Dom Nuno Alvares Pereira, also known as the Condestável (1360-1431). He is widely considered as the greatest strategist and military genius in Portuguese history, having won all battles fought despite leading forces that were outnumbered by the enemy...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1920 item #1092982
"The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth," so spake one of of history's few true geniuses. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's brilliant scientist, philosopher, and poet, was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, August 28, 1749. Originally a lawyer, Johann had an awakening while sojourning in Italy in 1786 and resolved to devote his life instead to the pursuit of truth, to poetry and science...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1920 item #1491388
Anders Zorn 1860-1920 Sweden This is an original etching by well known Swedish artist Anders Zorn. The title is: Dal River, created and printed in 1919. This impression measures 7X4 5/8 inches, printed on a medium weight laid type sheet. hand signed in pencil lower right. This image appears in the Asplund catalog as image number 284. One of his series of nude bathers that he is well known for.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pastel : Pre 1920 item #1434609
A lovely pastel drawing of a young woman, with skilled modeling of the face and careful attention to hair and spring blossom background, not signed on front but sliver of preserved old paper affixed to backing by a modern day framer states subject is one Ruth Noble, age 17, the work drawn by one Mildred Stillman, art teacher at Wyoming Academy, Kingston, Pennsylvania. Kingston is in northeastern Pennsylvania not far from Scranton and near Wilkes-Barre...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1920 item #1464009 (stock #2693)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,200.00
Berlin Estate Franz Joseph Haydn[a] (/ˈhaɪdən/; German: [ˈfʁants ˈjoːzɛf ˈhaɪdn̩] (listen); 31 March[b] 1732 – 31 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pastel : Pre 1920 item #1418250 (stock #JB01848)
Pastel on paper, 11" by 23 1/2" (15 1/2" by 28" in its original stained oak veneer frame), unsigned, the subject a beautiful still life arrangement including a number of peaches and bananas in front of a tilted bowl or possibly basket. I think the work dates to about the year 1900 give or take a decade or two. Condition is excellent, with just a little pastel dust adhering to the glass...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1920 item #1082409
Sir Frank Short, 1857-1945, British, "The New Moon," Aquatint, image size 10 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches, 1918, cat. Hardie-163, pencil signed. One of Short's largest aquatints, this scene depicts two fishermen on the Bure at Stokesby Ferry near Acle in Norfolk.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1920 item #69153
This is a FINE OIL PAINTING of a Barefoot Girl. This is an ANTIQUE OIL on CANVAS circa late 19th Century. Size of this unframed work is 7 5/8" X 10 1/2". Barefoot French Girl... Knitting at her side and a Book on her lap. Condition for this age is Excellent. There is no signature found. BEAUTIFULLY done OIL PAINTING.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1920 item #1423265 (stock #JB04092)
Vintage watercolor painting of a bridge, a brick smokestack in the distance and some trees at right, signed at lower right by artist E. M. Woodworth and dated there 1915. The piece as framed in veneer mahogany measures 17" by 20 1/2", the painting itself 10" by 13 3/4". Found in Connecticut; likely a northeastern scene. Simple and charming. Small chip to veneer at upper and lower right corners. Glass reflection at top.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1920 item #1104059
Incredible Miniature Pair Continental Bronze Busts of Children, on marble base. Size: The girl statue ans a height of 4 1/2 inches and the boy's height is 4 1/4 inches. Condition Report: Excellent.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1920 item #1434274
An accomplished colored pencil drawing of a watery landscape, the sun reflecting off those waters, 6 1/2" by 4" (17 1/2" by 15" framed), signed in pencil lower left by the noted American artist CHARLES MELVILLE DEWEY (1849-1937). Dewey was born in northwestern New York state between the Adirondacks and Buffalo. Confined to bed as a youngster by a hip injury, he studied art...