Early 1800s Portrait Paintings

This charming early 19th-century French oil painting depicts Barthelemy Simon Louis de Medaille wearing a dark brown coat, yellow waistcoat, and white stock. Painted in 1807, this g...

Oil on Canvas. Along the right margin is a dedication in Portuguese, "Ill'... Offerece Agradecide (with gratitude)," with the signature J.M. De Medeiros and the date 1875. The wor...

A classic portrait of a man hailing from the French Empire period, so the very early 1800's. It's on canvas board, artist unknown. This is an attractive, eye-catching painting. A ...

A traditional early 19th century 'French school' male oil portrait on canvas in its original frame. A stunning portrait of a young man in a waistcoat with a frilly collared shirt. I...

Late 18th Century French portrait of a young man holding his hat. It's an oil on stretched canvas which is smooth to the touch. The young man's blue eyes match the grey of his jacket, his brown hat...

The hairstyle and the glaring recall to the tricolour, on the other side, leave no doubts on the enthusiastic subscription of the portrayed to the Cisalpine Republic (a sister republic of France...

This superb Scottish Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to circle of Sir Henry Raeburn. Painted circa 1800 it is a fine half length portrait painting of a gentleman in mi...

Antique French old master portrait painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1800. No signature found. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image, 22"L x 27"H.

Antique French old master portrait painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1800. No signature found. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image, 22"L x 27"H.

Superb late 18th-early 19th-century portrait study of a young boy holding his favorite book. the piece is very well painted and in great condition for its age. It came from a private...

Wonderfully painted 18th century English/British portrait of Charles the First of England. though the artist is unknown the work is of outstanding qu...

H D Turner (late 19th Century) Portrait study of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, aged 7 (1875-1912) signed and dated 1882 Oil canvas 25 x 21 inches Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born in 1872 at 15 Theobalds Road, Holborn, London, to an English mother, and a father who was a surgeon from Sierra Leone. the Coleridge part of the surname is believed to be added to Taylor after the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Eight years after its opening in 1882 Coleridge-Taylor won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music. Here shone and prospered moving from playing the violin to becoming a world class composer. Coleridge-Taylor was brought up by his mother in Croydon after his father disappeared back to Sierra Leone upon finishing his medical studies at King’s College, London. It is also known that a couple called Sarah and Benjamin Holman had something to do with his upbringing and bought him his first violin and violin lesson. At seven years old he sat as a model for the Croydon Arts Club where two portraits by different artists where painted. One these now resides in the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 5724). Coleridge-Taylor started using his musical talents from a young age, singing in the local choir at St George’s aged Ten. The Honorary Choirmaster Colonel Herbert A. Walters oversaw his early career and organised for Samuel to play violin at the Royal College of Music where he won a scholarship at fifteen. After graduating from playing violin he went on to study composition under the composer, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford - the composer and one of the great men behind the renaissance of English music in the late 19th Century. Coleridge-Taylor had elevated himself into the most influential musical sphere of the day, where he acquired patrons who could help develop his career. An editor at the Novello & Co called August Jaeger, had been tipped off about Coleridge- Taylor’s great talent and set about publishing the first of a series of Coleridge-Taylor’s anthems. This work with Novello's would span the rest of the composer’s life. The African-American poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) visited London in 1896. His meeting with Coleridge-Taylor sparked a series of collaborations between the two. Another American poet Henry Longfellow...