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...

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...

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 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...

Suzanne Eisendieck (November 14, 1906 — June 15, 1998)[2] was a German Post-Impressionist painter Suzanne Eisendieck was born at Holzraum Platz 2B in Danzig (now Gdańsk in Poland) to German parents Karl Eisendick and Anna Eisendick — maiden name Klegus.[3] At the age of 12, Suzanne Eisendieck became one of the youngest pupils of the painter Fritz August Pfuhle.[4] When she was 21, she went to study for three years at Berlin State Academy for Fine and Applied Arts, attending the clas...

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

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...

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"...

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

Oil on canvas measuring 8x12” and framed in it’s original frame. Artist Robert Watson (1923-2004) has explored a surreal, mysterious world inhabited by lonely figures...

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...

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...

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

(Consignment) This work is from Joe’s later period and is a very warm and intimate painting done in his twilight years. Oil on canvas measuring 8 x 8“, frame measuring 13 x 13“ Joe Dawley was known as a teacher and wrote many books on painting. This work is rare as it is a cubist abstract work done for a friend, 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 wher...

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. He began painting at age 11 and attended Cornell University, where he studied painting with Norman Daly, Kenneth Evett, and Gillian Pederson...

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