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Antique French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Haystack Farm Landscape 1890

1890

19th century French Barbizon School Painting, oil on canvas signed "Marin", Circa 1840. A very attractive bucolic, pastoral landsacpe scene with sheep grazing on the banks of a lake ...

Antique American watercolor painting, landscape harvest farm scene by Frank F. English (1854 - 1922), Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Circa 1900. A very attractive painting by the celebrated Pennsylvania artist Frank F. English, the location is in Point Pleasant, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The painting depicts a scene of blue skies with two farmers tossing hay with pitchforks & two horses harnessed to a hay wagon, with barns to the background. The painting signed lower right " Frank F. English", condition is excellent this very charming painting is ready to hang on your wall. Biography Frank F. English was born in Louisville Kentucky in 1854. In the early 1880s, he studied for five years in the evening classes of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His instructors included Thomas Eakins, James P. Kelly and Thomas Anshutz. However, English's reputation primarily rests with his outstanding facility as a watercolorist; most of his known paintings are executed in this medium. English's propensity for its use coincides, appropriately enough, with the watercolor's growing popularity among other American painters. The American Water Color Society brought the medium special prominence by the late 1860s, and acceptance on the level of oil painting in 1876. That same year, the society was invited to display its works at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Its members exhibited 116 watercolors, and their public exposure was enormous. It is safe to assume that during the 159-day Centennial, Frank English was among the nearly 10 million exposition attendees, surpassing attendance records at all preceding world's fairs. At age twenty-two, English, traveled to Philadelphia to see works by the Society's notables such as Samuel Colman, R. Swain Gifford, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Albert Fitch...

Important Russian-French Impressionist Gouache & Watercolor painting on paper by Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus (Пётр Александрович Нилус in French Pierre Nilouss (1869–1943), signed & da...

A very attractive California Impressionist oil on canvas painting by Charles L. A. Smith, "California Highlands", dated 1930. This very attractive large painting by one of the foremo...

French Landscape Oil Painting on wood in vintage frame. This charming post-impressionist painting is of a person leaning against a tree overseeing some chickens in front of a very c...

Fabulous late 19th or early 20th century oil on canvas. It looks to be in the style of the Barbizon School moving into impressionim. Most of the earl...

Painting Oil on Canvas Haystack Harvest Landscape Light Color Antiques LA CA. A very nice tableau of Haystack Harvest scene by Alexandre Alexandrovich, circa 1910, 20th c...

Antique American landscape painting. Watercolor on paper. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 20 by 24 inches overall. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a silver mold...