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Artist: Unknown
Antique Early American Southern Hudson River School Boys Swimming Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare early American sunset Hudson River School swimming hole painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 7.25H by 10L.
Category
1860s Hudson River School Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$3,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Fishing port Essaouira Morocco oil on canvas painting seascape
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
2010s Photorealist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$478 Sale Price
20% Off
Sailing Boats in South of France Harbor Vintage French Oil Painting 20th Century
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sailing Boats
French School, 20th century
oil on board, framed
inscribed verso
framed: 20 x 24.5 inches
board: 17 x 21 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very g...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Harely - Mid 20th Century Oil, Fruit Picker
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed to the lower right. Presented in a slim wooden frame. On board.
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$188 Sale Price
20% Off
Framed 1882 Oil - Meadow Flowers on the Riverbank
Located in Corsham, GB
A serene riverside scene with meadow flowers dotted along the bank. Dated and indistinctly signed to the lower right. Handsomely presented in a rustic wooden frame. On canvas on stre...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Impressionist Landscape California Coastal Inlet
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3991A Vintage Impressionist landscape California coastal inlet.
Set in a custom silvered wood frame
Image size 23.5x19.5"
Category
1950s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Impressionistic Landscape Oil Painting with Children Circa 1940
s
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3065 Impressionist Landscape, a 1940's Autumnal scene , oil on canvas displayed in a wood frame.Illegible signature lower right.Image size 13.5 H x 19 w
Category
1960s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$250 Sale Price
62% Off
Vintage Cubist Abstract Signed Framed Mid Century Modern Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage cubist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 27 by 34 inches overall and 24 by 30 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Handsomely fram...
Category
1970s Cubist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
J. Urban - Late 19th Century Oil, Still Life, Fruit
a Pheasant
Located in Corsham, GB
A large late 19th century still life of fruit, captured alongside a freshly shot pheasant. Signed' J. Urban' to the lower left. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$380 Sale Price
20% Off
Clipper Mary Lee in High Seas, mid-19th century American school ship seascape
Located in Beachwood, OH
American School, Mid-19th Century
The Clipper Mary Lee in High Seas
Oil on canvas
Unsigned
25 x 35 inches
Craquelure commensurate with age, minor losses on frame.
Category
Mid-19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Late 19th Century Oil - Cattle Farmer in a Landscape
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming late 19th century oil, depicting a busy cattle farmer returning an escapee to its field. A freshly cut wheat field spans the left of the scene with stocks of straw stood out to dry...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$335 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Autumn Chrysanthemums in Vase Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid-century still life oil painting of Chrysanthemums in vase. Against a yellow background, white, orange, and yellow chrysanthemums sit in a red vase. The arrangement is r...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Samuel Baldwin (1818-1891) - 1891 Oil, Camping in the Woods
Located in Corsham, GB
By Samuel Baldwin of Halifax. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame. On board.
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$376 Sale Price
20% Off
"Still Life with Flowers" 19th Century Dutch oil on panel
Located in New York, NY
Dutch School
19th Century
Flower Still Life
Oil on panel
Framed: 13 ½ inches x 11 ½ inches (34 x 29 cm)
This charming miniature floral still life—possibly a preparatory study for...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
1986 Intimate Couple Portrait by Mystery Artist
Located in New York, NY
Mystery Artist
Tennessee, 9/12/86
Oil on canvas
34 x 43 3/4 x 1 in.
Titled and inscribed upper left
Category
1980s Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Hudson River School Coastal Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionist painting of a coastal seascape. Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Signed illegibly. Framed. Image size, 18L x 12H.
Category
1890s Hudson River School Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$746 Sale Price
25% Off
Spanish school fishermen
s beach seascape Spain
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Signed Oliveras - Fisherman's Beach - Oil on canvas.
Slight paint chips on the sides that covered the frame.
Oil measurements 61x122 cm.
Frameless.
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$526 Sale Price
44% Off
Finely Painted Framed Antique American Impressionist Fall Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 20 by 25 inches overall and 16 by 20 painting alone.
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Primitive Portrait of George Washington with Sword
Located in San Francisco, CA
This primitively rendered but admiring tribute to George Washington has a distinguished artistic lineage. The painter was undoubtedly in the presence of a much admired print engraved...
Category
Late 19th Century Folk Art Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Court Portrait Of Anne Of Cleves (1515-1557), Queen Of England, 18th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Court Portrait Of Anne Of Cleves (1515-1557), Queen Of England, 18th Century
English School - Oil On Oak Panel
Antique court portrait of Anne of Cleves, Queen of England, oil on pa...
Category
Early 18th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$5,257 Sale Price
30% Off
19th Century European Realist Art Nouveau Young Woman Portrait Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique European realist portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang ...
Category
1880s Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$1,180 Sale Price
20% Off
Rochers sur la cote - Nabis School (1890-1896) Seascape Oil
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Indistinctly monogrammed Nabis school oil on canvas circa 1915. The work depicts a rocky shoreline with the blue ocean beyond and a clear sky overhead.
Signature:
Indistinctly monog...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Romantic Italian painter - 19th century figure painting - Historical scene
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (dated 1853) - Historical interior scene.
29.5 x 43 cm without frame, 50 x 65 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on panel, in a contemporary carved wooden frame, l...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$1,430 Sale Price
52% Off
Stanislav Boleslavovich Katchalsky (1915-1995) - Russian School Oil, Vera
Located in Corsham, GB
Stanislav Boleslavovich Katchalsky (1915-1995), Russian School, oil on canvas. Portrait of Vera in the snow. Signed in Cyrillic to the lower right. Dated 1968. Inscribed in Cyrillic ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ray Barry (1931-2022) - Contemporary Acrylic, Beyond II
Located in Corsham, GB
A playful abstract by the artist Ray Barry (1931-2022). Signed to the lower right. Well presented in a whitewash frame. On paper.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Max Degebrodt (1885-1976) - 1925 Oil, In the Forest
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful early 20th century oil by the artist Max Degebrodt (1885-1976), depicting a verdant forest in spring. Rendered in an impasto effect with an earthy palette of greens, bro...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Oil Painting on Canvas of a Child with a Bird and a Dog
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Charming small 19th Century oil painting on canvas of a girl in a dress in an interior scene with a parrot and a dog executed in a distinctive early American school of portraiture. R...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Black Wooden Assemblage, 1951, A Mid-century Post-war Abstract Relief Sculpture
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
This unique black wooden assemblage from 1951 is a captivating example of mid-century post-war abstract relief art. Signed with an illegible signature, the piece carries a mysterious...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Ruspoli - Modernist 1949 Oil, Dinner is Served
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking still life arrangement of sardines and a lemon on a plate, accompanied by a bottle and knife positioned on a table. The composition employs an unusual aerial perspective, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th-Century Flemish School, Portrait Of A Gentleman In A Justaucorps, Oil
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This fine late 17th-century Flemish portrait depicts a distinguished gentleman wearing a justaucorps, black cloak, white shirt, vest, leather gloves, and breeches. He’s carrying a wi...
Category
1670s Old Masters Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting Penitent Magdalene 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on canvas, applied to wooden plate.
The saint is depicted in the foreground, half-length: the naked torso of the body is partially covered by a fur falling from the shoulders, ov...
Category
17th Century Other Art Style Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
1975 Modernist Vintage Original Figurative Oil Painting - What the Mirror Saw
Located in Bristol, GB
WHAT THE MIRROR SAW
Size: 53 x 52.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A quietly arresting figurative painting that captures a fleeting, introspective moment seen through a reflecti...
Category
1970s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Southern City by the sea atmospheric large blue green seascape harbour painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A very atmospheric and idyllic view of a Southern fishing port, painted most likely in Italy or France. Resolutely post-impressionist, the landscape is imbued with the light of the M...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Fiberboard
The Wide Open Spaces
Located in San Francisco, CA
If you’ve been dreaming of owning a piece of Wyoming or Montana, this wide-horizons painting deserves a spot over your stone fireplace. Photographic in its crisp detail, the artist c...
Category
1970s American Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Boat scene”
Located in Warren, NJ
Unknown Artist “Boat Scene” oil painting on canvas highly decorative. In good condition measures 39x35
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$900
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV Painting after Ilya Repin
Located in Queens, NY
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, also known as Cossacks of Saporog, Are Drafting a Manifesto. Late 19...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Framed Mid 20th Century Oil - Still Life with Vessels and Lemons
Located in Corsham, GB
A large and vibrant still life composition featuring several vessels and lemons arranged on a table, executed with loose, painterly brushwork. The artwork is unsigned, however a coll...
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960
s French Portrait Religious Old Man Caricature
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Character Portrait
French school, Mid 20th Century
Gouache paint on unframed paper
stamped
Image : 25 x 19.75 inches
Superbly decorative 1960's French portrait painting. Id...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
$377 Sale Price
30% Off
18th Century European Portrait of Saint John the Baptist as a Child.
Located in SANTA FE, NM
18th Century European Portrait of a Child Saint John the Baptist
Oil on Canvas
19 x 14 1/4 inches
This lovely and sensitively painting has been examined by a professional restorer w...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,225 Sale Price
44% Off
Original 19th Century Romantic English Landscape Village Cottage Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
This captivating early 19th century antique oil painting presents a beautifully executed pastoral scene by an unknown but undoubtedly professional English master - signed lower left ...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Filipino Fishing Village at Sunset - Tropical Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Filipino Fishing Village at Sunset - Tropical Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Bold sunset landscape of a fishing village by an unknown Filipino artist (20th Century). A bright sunset cas...
Category
1970s Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid 20th Century French Original Line Drawing Sketch Nude Lady - Stamped
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait sketch
original drawing by Jean-Paul LE VERRIER (1922-1996)
studio stamped
pencil drawing on paper, unframed
Double sided
8.25 x 10.5 inches
provenance: private collection ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Italian Genovese Madonna. Beautiful frame.
Located in New York, NY
Italian Madonna, early 18th Century, probably Genovese. Beautiful color palette. Not signed.
Category
Early 18th Century Baroque Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape of a village with a view of steeples - Oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
Dated, signed
Signature unknown
Work on wood
Gray wooden frame with golden patina
82 x 997 x 6 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$576 Sale Price
50% Off
Cubist Still LIfe Oil Painting Wine Fruit Coffee American 1960 Framed
Located in Buffalo, NY
A mid-century American oil painting depicting a dynamic still life painting of a kitchen interior. Great colors and composition are the highlights along with the unique shape of the...
Category
1970s Cubist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Late 19th Century Tempera - Icon of Saints
Sacred Scenes
Located in Corsham, GB
This late 19th-century icon depicts various saints rendered in traditional Byzantine style. The composition features multiple sacred scenes including the Virgin Mary with the Infant ...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Vintage Big Sur Landscape -- Rocky Point
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful California seascape of Rocky Point in Big Sur, California by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned. Presented in a gold toned meta...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
$399 Sale Price
20% Off
Sailor with His Ships Model
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6110A Sailor with the ships model that he just finished making
Set in a carved woof frame
Image size11.5x8.5"
Category
1960s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$450 Sale Price
40% Off
Mystery Early to Mid 20th Century Still Life
Located in San Francisco, CA
Very well painted still life of grapes and pears signed lower right. I cannot make out signature. Style looks to be either French or Spanish School. Probably painted early to mid 20t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
After Henry Grant Plumb - Framed Contemporary Oil, Mother
s Helper
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine copy of Henry Grant Plumb's (1847-1930) oil painting, Mother's Helper. Signed H. Jacob to the lower right. Presented in a contemporary frame. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$404 Sale Price
20% Off
A. Canovas - 1930 Oil, Purple Anemone
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful early 20th century still life study depicting a plentiful bouquet of purple anemones set in a cobalt-detailed ceramic jug. The artist has employed an impasto technique t...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Framed Flower Still Life interior Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1940s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Early American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Mid Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas.
Category
1960s Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
Continental School 19th Century Oil - An Unjust Exchange
Located in Corsham, GB
A charismatic continental scene depicting two female figures in Medieval dress. The artist shows a mother and daughter in a dramatic exchange which appears to be the result of the mo...
Category
19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
San Joaquín, Santa Ana y la Virgen niña - óleo sobre cobre.
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Escuela española; siglo XVIII.
San Joaquín, Santa Ana y la Virgen Niña.
Es un Óleo sobre cobre anónimo y buena calidad pictórica.
Medidas de la obra: 69 x 87 cm.
Medidas del marc...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,871 Sale Price
20% Off
Naturalistic British painter - 19th century landscape painting - Loch Lomond
Located in Varmo, IT
British painter (late 19th century) - View of Loch Lomond at Sunset.
50.5 x 76.5 cm.
Old oil painting on canvas, unframed.
- Signed indistinctly lower left.
- Handwritten inscrip...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,435 Sale Price
20% Off
FINE 20TH CENTURY FRENCH POST-IMPRESSIONIST OIL - PROVENCAL RIVER LANDSCAPE
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, Post-Impressionist, 20th century
Title: Provencal landscape, presented in ornate and substantial gilt frame.
Medium: oil painting, on board, framed. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century Oil - Praying to St Peter
Located in Corsham, GB
A captivating 18th-century oil painting portraying a gentleman in prayer before Saint Peter, who appears celestial in the clouds above. In the distance, a quaint church nestles withi...
Category
Early 18th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rococò Venetian Master - 18th century figure painting - Venus and Chronos
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (18th century) - Venus and Chronos (preparatory sketch).
59 x 43 cm unframed, 70 x 54 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,786 Sale Price
50% Off
18th Century Oil - The Wistful Man
Located in Corsham, GB
This striking 19th century portrait depicts a contemplative figure rendered in warm, earthy tones against a dark background, capturing a moment of quiet introspection with masterful ...
Category
Early 18th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
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