Catalog: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe (21)

Francois Martin-Kavel Open Francois Martin-Kavel configuration options 1861-1931 French This is a beautiful original oil on canvas painting by French artist Francois Martin-Kavel. Titled: "La Parisienne", this is a wonderful Belle Epoque study of a young woman going out for an evenings entertainment in Paris. This painting is clearly signed lower right and dated 84- 1884. The painting itself measures 22 1/4X14 1/2 inches and came to us in what appears to be the original ornate gilt frame...

19th Century European School Open 19th Century European School configuration options 1800-1899 European Artists This is an original oil on canvas painting of two young girls at story time. The painting is signed lower left but we cannot solve who the artist was. The painting itself measures 13X9 3/4 inches. This painting is in a period elaborate gilt frame.

Walter Heath Williams Open Walter Heath Williams configuration options 1834-1906 British, member of Royal Academy This is a fine original oil on canvas painting by British artist Walter Heath Williams. The painting is partially signed lower right edge. The painting most likely the Lakes District in Northern England. A beautiful work, subtle tones of the sky right after sunset. This artist was a member of the Royal Academy and lived most of his life in Devon and Cornwall...

James Webb Open James Webb configuration options 1825-1895 British, lived in Chelsea This is an original oil on canvas painting by Well Known British Marine painter, James Webb. This painting shows a life boat coming to the rescue of a foundering ship. The painting is clearly signed lower right and has an image size of 18X22 inches. The painting itself has some cracking to the paint but everything is quite stable. In evidence of any inpainting or touch ups...

This is a very fine original oil on panel painting by Belgium artist Theodore Gerard (1829-1895) This interior scene of a mother and her children is titled: "Tea", the painting is signed "The Gerard, 1865" in the lower right corner. The painting measures 22X28 inches. On the back of the panel is written: "'The. Gerard Je soussigné déclare que le tableau ci conte est original. Bruxelles Décembre 1865.' , it translates to Gerard 1, the undersigned declare that this work is original Dec...

Hendrick Dirk Kruseman Van Elten 1829-1904 American This is an original oil on canvas painting by European/American artist Hendrick Dirk Kruseman Van Elten. The subject of this painting is a river scene at sunset. It measures 12X22 inches, signed Kruseman Van Elten Lower right corner. The painting is in a period gilt frame. This painting was most likely from the late 19th century, circa 1870's.

Narcisse Virgile Diaz De La Pena 1807-1876 French This is an original oil on panel painting by French Barbizon master Narcisse Diaz de la Pena. Circa 1860, this view of a peasant woman in the forest has a panel size of 12 1/2X15 7/8 inches, it is signed lower right Diaz. "Diaz was born in Bordeaux to Spanish parents. At the age of ten, Diaz became an orphan, Díaz exhibited many pictures at the Paris Salon, and was decorated in 1851. During the Franco-German War he went to Brussels...

Léon Richet, French, 1847 - 1907, "Landscape with Figure," sight size measures 21 x 17 inches, housed in a tasteful 25 1/2 x 21 1/2 inch gold frame. Oil on canvas, signed "Richet" in the lower right. Léon Richet was raised during the height of the Barbizon school and was influenced by the works of Rousseau. He was a prolific painter whose works appear in many collections.

Francois van Severdonck, Belgian, 1809-1889, "Sheep and Lamb in a Spring Landscape", Oil on panel, painting measures 7 x 9 3/8 inches in a 12 x 15 1/2 inch gold period frame. Signed and dated "F. Van Severdonck f. 1863" in the lower left, inscribed and signed by the artist on the reverse. A luminous painting with striking color and detail.

Auguste Bonheur, French, 1824-1884, "The Summer Pasture". This is a beautiful sundrenched scene by French artist Auguste Bonheur, oil on canvas, 23 1/2 x 31 1/4 inches, c. 1860, signed, in an ornate period frame. Auguste Bonheur was born into the Bonheur family of animal painters; his father, Raymond Bonheur was an art teacher as well as artist and taught painting to both Auguste and his older sister, the renowned animal painter Rosa Bonheur...

Julius Jacobus van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Dutch, 1835-1925, "Landscape with Cows". A lovely atmospheric oil on wood panel by the Dutch artist Julius Jacobus van de Sande Bakhuyzen. Image size is 6 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches, framed size is 10 3/4 x 14 1/2 inches, signed l.l., housed in a period qilt frame, c. 1890. Bakhuyzen was born in 1835 in Holland, the son of a well known painter, Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen, who instucted him until he entered the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague...

Francois Vuagnat, Swiss, 1826-1910, "At Bellerive, Lake Geneva". This is a very fine painting of a man and his dog fishing in Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Oil on canvas, 18 x 26 inches, c. 1880, signed in the lower left corner, in an ornate period gilt frame, most likely the original. Another very similar painting by Vuagnat of the same location is in the collection of the Victoria Museum, Melbourne, Australia.

David Burliuk, Russian/American, 1882-1967, "Russian Soldier on a Horse". A wonderful painting by the "father of Russian Futurism", David Burliuk. Oil on canvas board, 13 x 13 inches, framed, signed on the lower left. Painted with heavy impasto brushwork. Burliuk studied at the Royal Academy in Munich and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In his most active period he participated in many important avant-garde exhibitions in Kyiv, Moscow, St...

Berend Adrianus Bongers, Dutch, 1866-1949, "Summer Harvest in the Hague". A lovely scene of the Dutch countryside during summer harvest by Berend Adrianus Bongers. The painting size is 14 3/4 x 28 3/4 inches and is housed in a period frame measuring 25 1/2 x 39 inches. Signed by the artist on the lower right with a date of "1906" found on the back of the frame. Bongers was a "Delft" master and painted in the manner of the "Hague School" where views of domestic life and its daily activities were ...

19th Century Dutch School, "Travelers on a Country Road". This is a very fine original 19th Century painting in the style of Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek (1807-1868). Oil on panel, 7 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches, c. 1850, unsigned, in an ornate period gilt frame. Although this painting is unsigned, the style and subject are very reminiscent of the work of Dutch artist Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek, who was known for his delicately painted atmospheric landscapes.

H. Wayland, British, 19th Century, "The Old Road". This original landscape by H. Wayland depicts a child walking along a peaceful country lane. An oil on canvas measuring 12 x 23 inches with the artists' signature in the lower right and a brass plaque with the artists name on the lower center. It appears to be housed in its original frame. Title is on the reverse.

Georg Anton Rasmussen, Norwegian, 1842-1914, "Cabin by the Fjord". This is an incredibly detailed, atmospheric Norwegian landscape of a small cabin at the edge of a fjord, the distant hills fading into a soft morning mist. It is painted in oil on panel, 11 x 16 inches, 1871, clearly signed "A Rasmussen 71" in the lower right corner.

Max von Schmaedel, German, 1856-?, oil on Academy Board, Portrait of Miss Davenport, 12 x 9 inches, signed and inscribed "M. v. Schmaedel/München" lower right, period frame. The sitter is identified in a copy of a letter dated August 3, 1905, from Seth Mendell to William C. Davenport, President of The Machinists' Bank, Taunton, Massachusetts, in an envelope affixed to the back of the painting. Provenance: Estate of N. David Scotti, Providence, Rhode Island.