Catalog: Fine Art: Paintings (1631)

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;...

HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL ARTIST HENRY PEMBER SMITH 1854-1907……) was an American painter, best known for his depictions of country cottages and river scenes around Lyme and East Lyme, Connecticut, and paintings of the sea and shore in New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Cape Ann to Maine. Smith was born in Waterford, Connecticut.During the 1880s, he studied the Old Masters in Paris, Brittany, Normandy, Venice and along the English Cornish coast.He was a member of the Artists' Fund Society and the Ame...

“Desnudo Blanco” 1965 (white reclining female nude with red square) by Ernesto Alcantara, signed lower left, oil on linen, work size 22” x 59”, frame size 21.25” x 61.5”, framed. Exhibition label on reverse of frame reads: “Salon De La Plastica Mexicana, Instituto Nacional De Bellas Artes, Havre 7, Autor Ernesto Alcantara”...

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;...

Outsider art is art by self-taught or naïve art makers. Typically, those labeled as outsider artists have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or art institutions. In many cases, their work is discovered only after their deaths. Often, outsider art illustrates extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds...

Sebastião Theodoro Paulino da Silva, better known as RANCHINHO 1923-2003, This work depicting one of the childhood scenes from memory, titled Picanho Fumo, or Chopping Smoke , oil on board measuring 19” x 26”…… Between 1974 and 1976, he held several solo shows at the Clube Recreativo de Assis; in 1975, at the Arts Center of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Assis, and in 1981, at SESC , São Paulo...

Boston Artist P.S. Sullivan 1909-1983 still life with Floral Spray. Painted when the artist went to New Mexico to study and briefly stayed in Taos to paint. Oil on canvas 20” x 22”

A very fine Dutch Old Master work in oil after Rembrandt, one of the greatest painters of all time. This work titled Ahasuerus & Hamas, The Feast of Esther., and is a 17th century work framed measuring 37” x 34” oil on canvas

A very fine painting of Flemish or Dutch origin from the Seventeenth Century depicting the Crucifixion of Christ and The Blessed Mother and Mary Magdalena measuring 18” x 14”, unsigned and framed in a beautiful baroque gold leaf frame

A wonderful Italian Baroque oil painting depicting Jesus and the Samaritan Woman. Painted circa 1670 in a beautiful 18th century gold leaf frame.

Erotic Abstract Scene by Martins de Porangaba, is a Brazilian Artist born in 1944. He is know for his brilliant and brightly colored modernist artwork. This piece is a work on paper, mixed media, measuring 11” x 14”. It is framed in a museum mount measuring about 20” x 24” The work is dated 2005 and is signed on the lower right….

A fine portrait of a gentlemen circa 1860. Unknown Italian (Naples) Artist gouache on paper, measuring 16” x 14”

African Master Artist HOLAWEWE known for his amazing figures and gestures brings together his work in this piece combining figures, in this case portraits with geometric African shapes and color. Signed and dated on the lower right 2017 oil on canvas, measuring 45” x 47”

An early American painting circa 1820-40 , portrait of a woman holding a sealed red wax letter, which the family always called THE SCARLET LETTER. THE WORK MEASURING 38” x 32”

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

A beautiful Japanese Edo period 18th century scroll painting done on silk and mulberry paper depicting a nature scene. More information coming soon

A beautiful oil on canvas attributed to the renowned British artist Charles Robert Leslie, The painting depicting a woman and child or Madonna. The work measuring 48” x 36” Leslie was born in London to American parents. When he was five years of age he returned with them to the United States, where they settled in Philadelphia. Leslie completed his education and afterwards became apprenticed to a bookseller...

A beautiful 1930s oil on canvas unsigned, framed 24” x 30” depicting a rural country scene in the style of Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement...