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An equestrian portrait of Field Marshal Sir John Ligonier, 1st Earl of Ligonier
By David Morier
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
David Morier (c.1705–1770 London)
An equestrian portrait of Field Marshal Sir John Ligonier, 1st Earl of Ligonier (1680–1770)
Oil on canvas
Canvas size - 40 x 50 in
Framed size - 48 ...
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18th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Oil
19th Century Neoclassical Exhibition Oil Painting of Poet Sappho Ancient Greece
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Melancholic Sappho’ by Arthur Hill RBA (1841-1908). The painting – which depicts the celebrated poet of Ancient Greece appealing to the Goddess Aphrodite, with the Parthenon on the ...
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1870s Pre-Raphaelite Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Oil
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Oil Painting of Queen Guinevere King Arthur Camelot
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Guinevere’ by Norman Prescott-Davies R.B.A, R.C.A. (1861-1915).
Academy Fine Paintings is fully conversant with the latest US Government import duties and the legal exemptions und...
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Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Oil
Frédéric Soulacroix - 19th Century Oil Painting Self Portrait of French Artist
By Frédéric Soulacroix
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
The painting is the only known self-portrait by the eminent 19th century French artist Frédéric Soulacroix (1858-1933). It is signed and presented in a bespoke gold metal leaf frame....
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Late 19th Century French School Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Oil
Portrait of an officer of the 2nd Life Guards, Windsor Castle beyond
By Richard Barrett Davis
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Richard Barrett Davies (1782-1854)
Portrait of an officer of the 2nd Life Guards, small full-length, with his mount, holding a paper, a troop of mounted Life Guards and Windsor Castle ...
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19th Century Victorian Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Oil
Miss Burnett - 19th Century Oil Painting Portrait Young Girl Victorian Beauty
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Miss Burnett’ by Ursula Wood S.W.A. (1868-1956).
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Late 19th Century English School Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Oil
18th century portrait painting of a boy with a spinning top on a garden terrace
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of a young boy, full-length in a blue velvet coat and breeches, standing on a stone terrace in a garden landscape, playing with a spinning top. Signed and dated ' Phil. Merc...
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1740s Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
The Dasiy Crown - Belle Epoque Oil Painting Portrait of French Flower Girl
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘La Couronne de Marguerite’ by Édouard-Louis-Lucien Cabane (1857-1942).
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1910s French School Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Oil
18th Century portrait oil painting of a lady in an ermine trimmed cloak
By Sir Godfrey Kneller
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Circle of Sir Godfrey Kneller
Dutch, (1646-1723)
Portrait of a Lady in an Ermine Trimmed Cloak
Oil on canvas
Image size: 26.5 inches x 22.5 inches
Size including frame: 33.5 inches x 29.5 inches
A well-executed half-length portrait of a lady painted in a feigned oval, circle of Sir Godfrey Kneller. The use of a feigned oval was a device used in portraiture to give a sense of depth and add an intimacy to the painting, drawing your attention to the sitter.
The subject, posed without her wig in the undressed fashion of the day, wears a blue ermine trimmed blue cloak over a white silk robe...
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18th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
English 18th century portrait of a water spaniel dog standing in a landscape
By George Stubbs
Located in Bath, Somerset
Circle of George Stubbs (1724-1806). English 18th century portrait of a water spaniel standing in a wooded landscape.
This charming painting is a wonderful example of the style of English dog painting made popular by artists such as George Stubbs and other sporting artists working in England in the 18th century who painted the dogs and horses of the aristocracy and wealthier classes. It follows in the ancient tradition of celebrating and commemorating our faithful canine companions through portraiture.
Oil on canvas in a giltwood frame
Provenance: Private collection, Somerset
George Stubbs (1724-1806) was classified in his lifetime as a sporting painter, and as such was excluded from full membership of the Royal Academy. He is best remembered for his paintings of horses and his conversation pieces. Having studied anatomy, Stubbs's pictures of horses are among the most accurate ever painted.
Stubbs was born in Liverpool, the son of a leather worker...
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18th Century English School Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
$15,841 Sale Price
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English 19th century portrait painting of a Pointer dog in a woodland landscape
By John Frederick Herring Sr.
Located in Bath, Somerset
A black pointer in a woodland landscape by John Frederick Herring Senior, circa 1830. Oil on canvas in a giltwood frame.
Provenance:
Arthur Ackerman and Son
Frost and Reed
Blains, Bruton Place, London
John Frederick Herring, born in London in 1795, was the son of a London merchant of Dutch parentage, who had been born overseas in America. The first eighteen years of Herring's life were spent in London, where his greatest interests were drawing and horses. In 1814, at the age of 18, he moved to Doncaster in the north of England, and by 1815, had married Ann Harris. His sons John Frederick Herring Jr., Charles Herring, and Benjamin Herring...
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1830s Victorian Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
19th Century Oil Painting of Young Belle Epoque Beauty Portrait of Flower Girl
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Young Beauty holding a Red Rose’ by Étienne Adolphe Piot (1831-1910).
Academy Fine Paintings is fully conversant with the latest US Government import duties and the legal exemptio...
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Late 19th Century French School Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Oil
Jeune Fille en Blanc - 19th Century French Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait
By Jacques Emile Blanche
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Jeune Fille en Blanc’ by Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942).
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Oil
Between Us Impressionist Landscape
Figurative painting of two girls, beach
By Robert Gemmell Hutchison
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Framed size: 19.5" x 22.5"
Between Us is a charming oil painting depicting two young girls seated closely on a sandy Scottish beach. Their figures - rendered with tender brushwork - ...
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20th Century Impressionist Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
English 18th century portrait of Henrietta Pelham-Holles, Duchess of Newcastle.
By Charles Jervas
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of Henrietta Pelham-Holles (née Godolphin) (1701-1776), Duchess of Newcastle, standing in a wooded landscape with a river beyond, three-quarter length wearing an ivory silk ...
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1720s Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
18th century portrait of sisters Lady Catherine and lady Jane Brydges
By James Maubert
Located in Bath, Somerset
This large double portrait depicts the sisters Lady Catherine and Lady Jane Brydges, the daughters of John Brydges, the Marquess of Carnarvon (1703-1727). They are seated on a stone...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
18th Century large scale portrait oil painting of a lady with a lamb
By Arthur Pond
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Attributed to Arthur Pond
British, (1701-1758)
Portrait of a Lady
Oil on canvas
Image size: 50.75 inches x 41.5 inches
Size including frame: 58.5 inches x...
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18th Century Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
18th century portrait of the artist’s daughter, Catharina, playing the cello
By Balthasar Denner
Located in Bath, Somerset
The sitter, seated in a yellow silk gown trimmed with a pink bow playing the cello, is believed to be the artist Balthazar Denner's eldest daughter Catharina (1715-1744), after his marriage to Esther Winter in Hamburg in 1712. She is also recognisable in another portrait of the Denner family in the Hamburg Kunsthalle, painted circa 1740 by the artist's son, Jacob Denner (1722-1765). Oil on canvas in a period giltwood frame.
Provenance: Private collection, Northern Germany
Professor Helmut Borsch-Supan, Berlin, confirmed the authenticity of the painting after examining it in 2013. The painting will also be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonnée of the artist, by Ute Mannhardt.
Balthasar Denner...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
English 19th century portrait of Lord Methuen
s favourite dogs
By William Barraud
Located in Bath, Somerset
A painting of Lord Methuen’s Spaniels Gipsy and Fairy, by William Barraud, standing beside a classical urn in a landscape by a lake, probably in the grounds of Corsham Court in Wiltshire, the Methuen family country seat. Signed and dated 'W Barraud...
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19th Century English School Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
19th Century French Oil Painting of Young Belle Epoque Beauty Paris Flower Girl
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Young Beauty holding a Red Rose’ by Étienne Adolphe Piot (1831-1910).
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Late 19th Century French School Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Oil
English 17th century portrait of a lady in an ivory silk gown on a terrace
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of a 17th century lady, three-quarter length, in an ivory silk gown standing on a garden terrace.
The lady, painted circa 1670, gestures with her hand towards the gardens and land beyond off her country estate, wearing a sumptuous ivory silk gown adorned with pearls and precious stones and pearl earrings and necklace, signaling her wealth and status. She wears a ring on her left hand, which combined with her pale gown possibly alludes to her recent marriage. There are traces of a signature in ligature 'JG' in a lower fold of the sitter's right hand sleeve.
John Greenhill...
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17th Century Baroque Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
English 17th century portrait of John Ludford Esquire
By Mary Beale
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of John Ludford (1653-1681), wearing a lace jabot and brown and gold trimmed cloak in a feigned stone oval cartouche. Inscribed 'John Ludford, Esq, nat. 14th March 1653, Ob,...
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Late 17th Century Baroque Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
$12,017 Sale Price
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A pair of Dutch 17th century old master portraits of a husband and wife
By Nicolaes Maes
Located in Bath, Somerset
A rare pair of three-quarter length 'marriage' portraits by one of the foremost dutch portrait painters of the 17th century, Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam). The gentleman signed middle left 'Maes 1679'. Oil on canvas in dutch style ebonised frames. Dimensions 58 x 47.5cms each.
The gentleman is shown in a landscape at dusk, leaning against a stone capital, wearing a white chemise decorated with lace, a black coat and a brown silk cloak draped across his body.
The lady is elegantly dressed in an ivory silk gown decorated with jewels on the neckline and shoulders, the contrasting sleeves in gold fabric, with a rose pink silk cloak draped over her shoulder and bodice. She wears a pearl necklace and earrings with her fair hair worn up with ringlets falling down onto her chest in the fashionable style of the day. She stands with one hand touching a lock of her hair as she rests her arm on the bowl of a stone water drinking fountain...
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17th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
English 17th century portrait of a lady
By Sir Peter Lely
Located in Bath, Somerset
A 17th century English portrait of a lady by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), half-length in a painted feigned oval, wearing a green silk gown with chestnut coloured cloak over one shoulder, her fair hair curled in the fashionable ringlet style of the period. Oil on canvas in an English giltwood 'Lely' frame.
We are grateful to Diana Dethloff and Catharine MacLeod (who are currently working on a Lely catalogue raisonné) for their confirmation of Lely as the artist from photograph analysis of this previously unidentified early work.
Provenance:
Private collection Nottingham until 2021
Mellors and Kirk sale December 2000, lot 1173
The sitter is likely to have been from an upper class or aristocratic family in court circles, who were the main source of Lely`s patronage. The simple composition serves to highlight the beauty of the sitter through portraying her pale decolletage and complexion, set against the gentle gaze of her blue eyes, the soft blush of her cheeks and her full red lips.
Peter Lely (1618-1680) was originally of dutch origin and became Principle Painter to the King in 1661, following in the footsteps of Van Dyck who had died in 1641. He dominated the portrait painting scene in England for over 20 years, creating a distinctive 'court look' in his work which had a strong influence on many other artists. He had an extremely successful and popular portrait practice which meant that he soon had to develop production methods that could accommodate the high demand for portraits, and also for copies and versions of them which were given as gifts to family and courtiers. The use of studio assistants was a common practice for busy artists and as with Van Dyck, Lely is known to have used specialist assistants to execute particular parts of his paintings. Artists who worked in Lely`s studio included John Baptist Gaspars who specialised in drapery painting, William Wissing, John Greenhill...
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17th Century Baroque Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
$24,035 Sale Price
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Portrait of two young girls with a whippet and a rabbit in a wooded landscape
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of two young girls in a wooded landscape, standing full-length, one attaching a red collar on a seated white whippet and the other holding her pet black and white rabbit. Ci...
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18th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
A portrait of a lady and her daughter with an exotic bird
By Michael Dahl
Located in Bath, Somerset
A portrait of a lady three-quarter length, seated in an interior, wearing a red silk gown draped in a pink silk sash with an exotic bird perched on her hand and one arm resting on a stone plinth, her young daughter wearing a green silk gown standing at her side.
Oil on canvas, housed in a period 'Lely' giltwood frame.
This double portrait was painted at the height of Dahl's career in circa 1715 when Dahl had become firmly established as one of the leading portrait painters in Britain. Although the identities of the sitters are currently unknown, it is a sensitive depiction of a close and affectionate bond between a mother and daughter, with the young girl's hand resting affectionately on her mothers lap. The tamed exotic bird adds a charming decorative element which also serves to convey the high social status of the lady, given only the very wealthy would be able to own such a rare and expensive pet and the lively colouring of the bird's feathers is reflected in the colours of the sitters' silk gowns.
Provenance: Private collection, London
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659-1743 London) was born in Stockholm in Sweden and studied under Martin Hannibal (d 1741) and later with David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl. In 1682 he travelled to London, where he became acquainted with Godfrey Kneller and Henry Tilson, and in 1685 he left for Europe with Tilson, working briefly in Paris before continuing to Venice and Rome, where they stayed for about two years. In Rome Dahl converted to Roman Catholicism and gravitated towards the circle of Christina, former Queen of Sweden, who sat for him (Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincs). He returned to England with Tilson via Frankfurt and arrived in London in 1689, staying in England for the remainder of his career.
During Dahl's absence, Kneller had consolidated his supremacy in London as the most fashionable portrait painter, but Dahl rapidly became Kneller’s closest competitor. His patrons probably had roots in the Swedish diplomatic circles, but it expanded as a result of his ability and his agreeable personality. His prices were lower than those of Kneller and he favoured softer, more diffused, colour tones and could respond to his sitters with sincerity and humanity. Politically, Kneller supported the ascendant Whigs while Dahl was a Tory, but they frequently painted the same sitters from both parties, and in spite of fundamental differences in technique and temperament, their work was sometimes similar in appearance.
Dahl was prolific but rarely signed his work, and comparatively few of his portraits were engraved in mezzotint, the method used by Kneller to widen his reputation. By 1690 he had painted the aged Duke of Schomberg (engraved by William Faithorne) and Prince George of Denmark (London, Kensington Palace). He was ignored by William III but received commissions from Princess Anne, including one for a portrait of herself (Oakly Park, Ludlow, Salop). He also painted the future Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, and his informal portrait of the Duchess (Althorp House, Northants), formerly attributed to Kneller, is perhaps the most intimate of all images of her.
During the 1690s he secured the patronage of Charles Seymour, the ‘Proud’ 6th Duke of Somerset, who ordered a series of seven full-length portraits of notable contemporary beauties from Dahl (1690s; Petworth House, W. Sussex, NT). This was originally a scheme similar to Kneller’s more famous ‘Hampton Court Beauties’, but the portraits were subsequently reduced to three-quarter-length formats. The features of the sitters are not individualized, but they possess a decorative, languorous glamour that recalls Lely rather than Kneller. Somerset gave Dahl further employment over the next 25 years.
In 1698, following the death of Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, Dahl was offered the post of court painter at Stockholm, which he apparently refused, preferring to remain in London at his studio in Leicester Fields, near the Swedish legation. In about 1700 he was joined by a young compatriot, Hans Hysing, who worked with him for many years. Dahl seems not to have married until after 1708, He had a son Michael (d. 1741), also a painter, of whose work nothing is known, and two daughters.
After the accession of Queen Anne in 1701, she and Prince George sat for a number of official portraits. His royal patronage ceased with Queen Anne’s death, and when Dahl refused to paint the infant Duke of Cumberland in 1722. He was suspected of Jacobite sympathies, and relations had cooled between him and the Swedish legation. However, his practice continued to prosper, and he acquired another important patron in Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford, who shared his political views and whose circle included the architect James Gibbs and the poets Matthew Prior and Alexander Pope, all of whom Dahl painted. Oxford commissioned several portraits of himself. In the earliest (1719; Welbeck Abbey...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
$26,220 Sale Price
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English 17th century portrait of James Thynne as a young boy by a fountain
By Johann Kerseboom
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of the Hon. James Thynne (c. 1680-1704), full-length, in the gardens of Longleat House, seated beside a fountain, holding a shell beneath water spouting from a horn blown by a cherub on a dolphin. A glimpse of part of Longleat House can be seen upper left. Oil on canvas in a period giltwood frame, decorated with leaves and acorns. C. 1682.
Dimensions: 145 x 123cm (57 x 48in) in frame
Provenance:
Ex Longleat House, Wiltshire
Private collection, Bath
James Thynne was the youngest son of Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth and Frances Finch of Longleat House, Wiltshire. He died in his youth and his Aunt, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720), wrote a moving poem on his death. He was buried in the family vault at Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire. A mezzotint of this painting by William Faithorne the Younger is held in the Royal Collection.
Johann Kerseboom (d.1708) was the nephew of Frederick Kerseboom and first worked in Germany before coming to England in the 1680's where his sitters included the 'Electress Sophia Dorothea' (known from a mezzotint by William Faithorne). His early works were influenced by William Wissing...
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17th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
$26,220 Sale Price
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A portrait of an English terrier dog standing in a walled garden, signed.l
By John Emms
Located in Bath, Somerset
A terrier named Joe standing in an English country house walled garden, painted by the eminent animal painter John Emms (1844-1912) in the late 19th cent...
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1890s English School Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
17th century portrait of a lady
By Nicolaes Maes
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of a lady by Dutch Golden Age painter Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693). Half-length, within a feigned oval, the lady wears a pearl necklace and earrings, an ivory silk gown adorned...
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17th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
A portrait of two hound dogs standing in a landscape, signed and dated 1889
By Henry Frederick Lucas Lucas
Located in Bath, Somerset
Two Warwickshire hounds, named Hermit and Wildboy, standing in a landscape.
Signed and dated 1889 (lower right) and signed, inscribed and dated on the reverse.
Oil on canvas in a gil...
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19th Century English School Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
An English 18th century portrait of James Stanley, standing in a landscape
By John Hamilton Mortimer
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of James Stanley (1750 - 1810), circa 1775-1778, full-length, wearing a red coat and breeches and a gold embroidered waistcoat, hold...
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1770s English School Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil, ABS
19th century portrait of a spaniel dog in a landscape, a country house beyond
By Charles Bilger Spalding
Located in Bath, Somerset
A 19th century black and white spaniel standing in a landscape, with a country house in the distance. Signed C B Spalding, lower right.
Oil on canvas in a giltwood frame.
Charles B...
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19th Century English School Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
English 18th century portrait of a Lady and her Daughter in an interior
By (attributed to) Joseph Highmore
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of a lady, three-quarter length, wearing a blue silk gown, seated in a classical interior, with her daughter in a pink gown standing beside her holding a sprig of blossom. T...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Oil
18th century portrait of the German Flautist and composer Johann Joachim Quantz
By Arthur Devis
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of Johann Quantz (1697-1773), flautist and composer, wearing a blue velvet coat, waistcoat and breeches, standing in a garden landscape with ...
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18th Century English School Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
$14,749 Sale Price
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17th Century portrait oil painting of a lady
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Circle of Sir Peter Lely
Dutch, (1618-1680)
Portrait of a Lady, traditionally identified as Princess Henrietta Anne Stuart
Oil on canvas
Image...
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17th Century Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
English 18th century portrait of a lady, Circle of Thomas Murray (1663-1735)
Located in Bath, Somerset
An early 18th century portrait of a young lady, half length, wearing a blue silk gown with white chemise and gold trimmed cloak draped across her arm and shoulders. Her sensitively observed soft expression and skilfully painted youthful 'dewy' complexion are reminiscent of the portrait style of John Closterman whose work Murray would have been familiar with, being a close colleague of Murray's teacher, John Riley.
An old label on the reverse identifies the sitter as a young Princess Charlotte...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
$8,193 Sale Price
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18th century painting of the Dalbiac family in the gardens of a country house
By Charles Philips
Located in Bath, Somerset
The painting depicts James (Jacques) Dalbiac, his wife Louise (ne de la Porte) and their five children, James, Charles, Louise, Marianne and Martha in the ornamental gardens of a grand country estate.
The extensive gardens extend into the distance with gardeners working in the background and figures strolling through the avenues of trees. A peacock and peahen can be seen on the wall to the left and a potted orange tree to the right. Louise Dalbiac holds an orange taken from the orange tree, aluding to the family's faith and their loyalty to the protestant King William of Orange and their adopted country.
The Dalbiacs were wealthy London silk and velvet merchants of French Huguenot origin who had fled France at the end of the 17th century to escape persecution for their protestant faith. England offered safe refuge and their skills and industriousness allowed them to establish one of the most successful businesses in London's Spitalfields which became a new centre of the silk trade, effectively leading to the collapse of the once dominant French silk industry. Both sons, James and Charles followed their father and Uncle into the family business, successfully growing the family's fortune and each going on to own their own country estates.
A conversation piece is a genre of painting used to describe group portraits of families and friends, often depicted with their servants and family pets and set within an elegantly furnished interior or the garden of a grand country house. They were a celebration of the intimacy of family relations as well as a sign of status, property and the power of succession. The informality of conversation pieces grew popular in 18th century England, allowing the sitters to present themselves in a more relaxed pose, perhaps engaged in intellectual conversation or showing their talents or interests. In this present portrait, the Dalbiacs are shown richly dressed and and at leisure in a grand country house setting, conveying their success and cultural and social aspirations.
Charles Philips (c.1703–1747) was an English artist known for painting a number of portraits and conversation pieces for noble and Royal patrons in the mid-eighteenth century. He was the son of portrait painter Richard Philips...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
17th Century portrait oil painting of a lady
By Studio of Sir Peter Lely
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Studio of Sir Peter Lely
Dutch, (1618-1680)
Portrait of a Lady
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29.25 inches x 24.25 inches
Size including frame: 37...
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17th Century Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
17th Century portrait oil painting of a gentleman
By Willem Wissing
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Circle of Willem Wissing
Dutch, (1656-1687)
Portrait of a Gentleman
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29 inches x 24.5 inches
Size including frame: 35 inches x...
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17th Century Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
17th Century portrait oil painting of a gentleman
By John Riley
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Circle of John Riley
British, (1646-1691)
Portrait of a Gentleman
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29 inches x 24 inches
Size including frame: 36 inches x 31 inch...
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17th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
19th Century genre portrait oil painting of a girl with a writing slate
By Charles Sillem Lidderdale
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Charles Sillem Lidderdale
British, (1831-1895)
The Scholar
Oil on canvas, signed with monogram & dated (18)94
Image size: 26.5 inches x 19.5 inches
Size including frame: 33.5 inche...
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19th Century Victorian Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
19th Century portrait oil painting of a young woman with pearls
a rose
By Alfred Seifert
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Alfred Seifert
Czech, (1850-1901)
Portrait of a Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace & Rose
Oil on panel, signed
Image size: 15.5 inches x 12 inches
Size including frame: 23 inches x...
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19th Century Victorian Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Oil, Panel
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Oil Painting of Guinevere King Arthur
s Quee Camelot
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Guinevere’ by Norman Prescott-Davies R.B.A, R.C.A. (1861-1915).
Academy Fine Paintings is fully conversant with the latest US Government import duties and the legal exemptions und...
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Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
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Oil
18th Century portrait oil painting of a girl with an orange
By Robert Byng
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Circle of Robert Byng
British, (1666-1720)
Girl with Orange
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29 inches x 24 inches
Size including frame: 36 inches x 31 inc...
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18th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th century portrait of lady in an ivory silk gown and lace collar
By Cornelius Johnson
Located in Bath, Somerset
Circle of Cornelius Johnson (1593-1661), a 17th century portrait of a lady, bust-length oval, wearing an ivory silk gown with blue silk bows and lace c...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$16,387 Sale Price
25% Off
Picnic Parisian Abstract Figurative Painting with Dog inspired by Raoul Dufy
By Gen Paul
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Framed size: 26.5" x 33"
Eugene Paul’s Picnic is a lively and spontaneous composition that radiates energy and joy. Two figures, sketched with sweeping, fluid lines, lounge and inte...
Category
20th Century Abstract Impressionist Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
17th century portrait of a lady
By Nicolaes Maes
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of a lady richly dressed in a purple silk gown with white sleeves, a gold coloured cloak draped across one shoulder, her blonde curls worn up...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sappho - 19th Century Neoclassical Exhibition Oil Painting of Ancient Greek Poet
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Melancholic Sappho’ by Arthur Hill RBA (1841-1908). The painting – which depicts the celebrated poet of Ancient Greece appealing to the Goddess Aphrodite, with the Parthenon on the ...
Category
1870s Pre-Raphaelite Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th century English portrait of a lady beside an urn, with a basket of flowers
By Tilly Kettle
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of a lady wearing a white gown with a red cloak, pearls in her hair and draped over one shoullder, standing beside a classical urn with a basket of flowers, c.1765.
The portrait is believed to be a companion portrait of a John (1741-1816) or James (1751-1807) Durno which is housed in an identical frame. The sitter is possibly either the wife of John who was Janes Byres of Stonywood or John and James's sister Elizabeth. (James never married). The Durno family were based around the Aberdeen area of Scotland and John was an advocate in the area and then later a customs official in Jamaica. James was a successful timber merchant, spending time in the Baltic before being made His Majesty's Consul in Memel, Prussia.
The portrait is likely to have been painted before Tilly travelled to India in 1768, when John, Jane and Elizabeth would have been in their twenties.
We are gtrateful to Mark Beattie for sharing his family knowlege and research on the portrait.
Provenance:
With W. C. Beattie in the mid 19th century, and by descent through the family
Private collection, Kent
With thanks to Hugh Belsey who has confirmed this to be the work of Tilly Kettle from photographs.
Tilly Kettle (1735-1786) was born in London, the third of six children by Henry Kettle (c.1704-c.1773), a coach painter, and his wife Ann. He attended William Shipley...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th century pastel portrait of a young boy in a wooded landscape
By Arthur Pond
Located in Bath, Somerset
This little jewel of a pastel of a young boy in his smart red jacket and silver trimmed waistcoat is by an artist working in the circle of Arthur Pond and ...
Category
18th Century English School Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
$7,647 Sale Price
20% Off
The Dressing Room
By Georges Croegaert
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 14 x 11 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Pair of 19th Century portrait oil paintings of Italian women
By Federico Andreotti
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
***PLEASE NOTE: EACH PAINTING INCLUDING THE FRAME MEASURES 16.75 INCHES X 14.5 INCHES***
Federico Andreotti
Italian, (1847-1930)
A Bouquet of Flowers & A Fine Vintage
Oil on canvas, pair, both signed
Image size: 12 inches x 9.75 inches (each)
Size including frame: 16.75 inches x 14.5 inches (each)
A delightful pair of three quarter length portraits of Italian women by Federico Andreotti. The first work shows a young woman in fine clothing with a basket of flowers in her hands. The second painting depicts a traditionally dressed woman holding a Chianti Fiasco and other wine bottles.
Federico or Federigo Andreotti was a genre and figure painter born in Florence on 6 March, 1847. He showed artistic talent from an early age and at 9 years old began receiving art lessons from the miniature painter Angiolo Tricca (1817-1884). At the age of 17, he attended the Art Academy in Florence where he studied under Enrico Pollastrini (1817-1876), the President of the Academy. Whilst there he won a competition and made a name for himself by producing amusing genre scenes and costume studies. His success attracted the patronage of wealthy and notable clients including the King of Italy who commissioned him to paint a large historical painting of Savonarola. As well as working as an artist, he also taught art at the Florentine Academy where he was made Professor in 1879.
During the same year, he began exhibiting abroad and made his debut at the Royal Academy in London, where he continued to show his works until 1883. He is believed to have spent time in England around this period where he also exhibited at other galleries including the Royal Manchester Institution, United Galleries, Arthur Tooth & Sons and Thomas Richardson & co.
He spent most of his life in Florence where he died on 30 October, 1930. His painting of Savonarola is held by the Italian government. Other examples of his work can be found in a number of UK public art collections including the Blackburn Museum, Fylde Town Hall, Glasgow Museum, Hawarth Art Gallery and Towneley Hall Art Museum.
Presentation: The paintings are housed in new, English made gilt frames which are in excellent condition.
Condition: As with all of our original antique oil paintings, these works are offered in ready to hang gallery condition, having been professionally cleaned, restored and revarnished.
© Benton Fine Art
Category
19th Century Victorian Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Frank Samuel Eastman (1878-1964)
Self Portrait
Oil on canvas
Canvas - 34 1/2 x 26 1/2 in
Framed - 40 x 32 in
Provenance: by descent from the artist
Frank Eastman...
Category
20th Century Victorian Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$5,462 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century portrait oil painting of young woman
By Émile Eisman-Semenowsky
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Émile Eisman-Semenowsky
French/Polish, (1857-1911)
Eastern Beauty
Oil on panel, oval, signed & inscribed Paris
Image size: 10.25 inches x 8.25 inches (oval)
Size including frame: 18...
Category
19th Century Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
18th Century portrait oil painting of a gentleman
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Follower of Enoch Seeman the Younger
German, (1694-1744)
Portrait of Gilbert Sympkin
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29.25 inches x 24.5 inches
Size including frame: 38 inches x 33.25 inches
A fine three quarter length portrait of a gentleman traditionally identified as Gilbert Simpkin (Sympkin), follower of Enoch Seeman the younger, C1720. The portrait is set in a feigned sculptured oval cartouche, a device used to give a sense of depth. The sitter is depicted wearing a fashionable blue jacket and matching waistcoat with a white chemise and lace jabot. He wears a powdered wig in the fashionable style of the day and is posed holding his hat under his left arm with the fingers of his right hand stretched out. At court, long fingers signified wealth, culture and intelligence. The painting has clearly been executed by an artist of great ability who has been influenced by Enoch Seeman the younger.
Gilbert Simpkin (Sympkin) was born in London on 24 August 1683, the son of John Simpkin and Susannah Butler. His grandfather was also called Gilbert Simpkin. He entered Oxford University in 1700 where he studied at St John’s College. In 1702, he became a student of Middle Temple, which at the time was one of the world’s most important centres of legal education. He later settled in Plymouth and then Bristol. He died in Bristol on 15 May, 1744 and was buried at Bristol Cathedral. He remained unmarried and the portrait may well have been commissioned to commemorate when he was first Called to the Bar or perhaps had established his own practice.
Enoch Seeman or Seemann the younger was born in Danzig, Germany now Gdansk, Poland in 1694. His father was Enoch Seeman Senior, an artist of Flemish origin and his brothers Isaac, Noah and Abraham also became artists. He came to London with his father and brothers around 1704 and established himself as a portrait artist. From 1717 he became painter to the Royal court painting...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th century Dutch portrait of a Lady in Red adorned with Pearls
By Pieter Nason
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of a lady, half-length in a feigned oval wearing a ruby coloured silk gown holding entwined strings of pearls across her bodice. Signed 'PNason' and dated 1667 (lower right)...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$26,220 Sale Price
20% Off
A portrait of a black and white spaniel dog in a sumptuous interior
Located in Bath, Somerset
A black and white spaniel standing on a yellow silk damask covered day-bed in a sumptuous interior.
Provenance:
With Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd., London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 15 May 2007, lot 284
Private collection, London
Samuel John Carter...
Category
1870s English School Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
An Appreciative Audience
By Herbert William Weekes
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 22 x 36 inches
Framed size: 30.75 x 44.75 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century genre portrait of an Italian woman
By Pierre-Louis-Joseph de Coninck
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Pierre Louis Joseph De Coninck
French, (1828-1910)
Italian Beauty
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 31 inches x 23 inches
Size including frame: 38 inches x 30 inches
A lovely three...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
More than Admiration
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 19.25 x 12.5 inches
Framed size: 31.25 x 25.5 inches
Signed lower left
Category
19th Century Antiques Associations Members Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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