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Artist: Unknown
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XII
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XII", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermediary of an ageing art professor from the Istituto di Arte di Porta Romana, Florence, Italy. The professor released works of artists whom he mentored over the years. We are unsure who painted the series we acquired as several are just signed, 'Giacomo', or, left completely unsigned, yet many are clearly by the same artist. This one is in good overall condition and has been newly framed with a French-style linen slip. The canvas is textural like one of the vintage maps...
Category
1980s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$981 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Impressionist Lake Landscape Geese Swimming Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 20 by 27 inches overall, and 12 by 16 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Hands...
Category
1920s Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Escuela colonial (XVIII) - Óleo en tela - San Juanito y el cordero
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra se presenta enmarcada con su marco original de la época (el marco presenta faltas y desgastes)
El estado de la obra se puede ver, tiene algunas faltas de pintura y faltas en...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signed Antique American Impressionist Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Charles Sutton, “April Afternoon,” Oil on Board, Framed Landscape Painting
Warmly toned impressionist oil painting by Charles Sutton, titled April Afternoon. The work captures a tra...
Category
1930s Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Original Oil Painting on canvas contemporary Art cityscape with many faces
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an amazing, very impressive original large modern painting on canvas, depicting an urban cityscape with many faces in the foreground.
The painting is in excellent condition....
Category
20th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique 19C. Oil painting on canvas, neoclassical Scene, Homer playing his Lyre
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This captivating 19th-century neoclassical oil painting on canvas depicts the legendary Greek poet Homer serenely playing his lyre beneath a canopy of ancient trees. Seated barefoot ...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Jazz Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Striking mid-20th century abstract oil painting on canvas by artist Johnsen, titled “Jazz IX – Club Date” (as inscribed on the verso). The work features a bold interplay of geometric...
Category
2010s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italianate large Florals and Fruit in Mt Vesuvius landscape, 18th/19th Century
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Grand Italianate oil painting in Renaissance style, with views of Mt Vesuvius, Naples behind a plethora of flowers loosely arranged in basketry. In the foreground along the tableau l...
Category
19th Century Italian School Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,376 Sale Price
60% Off
Framed Mid 20th Century Oil - Country Landscape
Located in Corsham, GB
A serene rural scene depicting a winding river reflecting the clouded blue sky and bare trees along its bank. The composition skilfully balances the horizontal expanse of fields and ...
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Large Signed Abstract Expressionist Modern Art Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract expressionist painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 37 by 43 inches overall, and 36 by 42 painting alone. In excellent original condition. ...
Category
1930s Abstract Expressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Escuela Hispano-española (XVIII) - Óleo sobre tela - Virgen Inmaculada
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra se presenta enmarcada con su marco original de la época (el marco presenta faltas y desgastes)
El estado de la obra se puede ver, tiene algunas faltas de pintura y faltas en...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dutch School 18th Century Oil - A Drink at the Inn
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming 18th-century tavern scene, depicting peasants gathered at an inn. Unsigned. Presented in gilt frame with unique corner ornaments featuring phoenix, acanthus scroll and pom...
Category
Early 18th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Impressionist Framed Mountain Landscape Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 15 by 18 inches overall, and 11 by 14 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Handso...
Category
1950s Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$380 Sale Price
20% Off
Jockeys at the Rail
Located in San Francisco, CA
There’s an instant in a competitive horse race—whether it’s at Churchill Downs, Del Mar, Santa Anita Park, Saratoga or Belmont—of the utmost ferocity. That’s when the riders are jamm...
Category
1960s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Category
20th Century Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$476
Original Oil Painting on canvas, Still Life, Flowers, Signed, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is a beautiful original oil painting on canvas. This painting is a classical and elegant floral still-life composition, featuring a lush bouquet of vibrant flowers arrang...
Category
20th Century Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of John Rogers, A Sculptor for the Common Man
Located in San Francisco, CA
So American, this sculptor. Both a right brain and left-brain kind of guy. Working in the mid to late 19th century, John Rogers was innovative, imaginative, and stylistically a reali...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Early 17th-Century Spanish Colonial School, Virgin Of The Immaculate Conception
Located in Cheltenham, GB
US buyers pay no import tariffs on this item.
This early 17th-century Spanish colonial oil painting depicts the Virgin Of The Immaculate Conception surrounded by an array of symboli...
Category
Early 17th Century Baroque Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Olive Trees in Manosque, Provence, Large French Modernist Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: A. Davy, French School, late 20th century
Title: Olive Trees, Manosque (Provence).
Medium: signed, oil painting on canvas, framed and inscribed verso.
Size:
...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Salami, Bread, Biscuits and Glass Bottles-Oil Paint-17th century
Located in Roma, IT
Outstanding still life Salami, Bread, Biscuits Glass and Glass Bottles, realized with the technique of Oil on Canvas and surrounded by a modern wooden frame.
With its soft tones and...
Category
Late 17th Century Baroque Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Lively abstract painting with primary tones of yellows, reds and greens with accents of blue and black on white background, 1952. Signed lower right.
Original artwork on paper dis...
Category
1950s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
18th Century Dutch Landscape Painting, Landscape With River, Wayfarer
Dog
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 18th-century Dutch oil painting, produced around 1720, reflects the enduring influence of the Amsterdam school and carries forward one of the Dutch Republic’s most cherish...
Category
Early 18th Century Baroque Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1900
s English Impressionist Watercolor Painting Silent Cloudy Meadow
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cloudy Meadow
English School, early 1900's
original watercolor painting on artists paper, unframed
overall paper size: 7.5x 11 inches
From a large private collection of English wat...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$167 Sale Price
30% Off
European School 18th Century Oil - Head Study of Socrates
Located in Corsham, GB
This intimate portrait captures the enigmatic Greek philosopher Socrates deep in contemplation. The work is beautifully presented in a distressed gilt wood frame. Though unsigned, th...
Category
Early 18th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Late 19th Century Oil - The League
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming depiction of a young boy reading a paper titled 'The League'. Inscribed verso 'Sketch by E. Brothers'. Presented in a gilt frame with elaborate foliate ornamentation. On c...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sailing Among the Moonlight, Moody Seascape, Tonalism
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
European School, 19th Century
" Sailing Among the Moonlight ", circa 1880s
Oil on Board
16" x 24"
Housed in a Period 4" Ornamented Frame
Overall Size: 23 5/8" x 31 1/2"
A wond...
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
La Anunciación (Según Bartolomé Esteban Murillo) - Óleo sobre tela
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra no va firmada, es de autor anónimo
Se presenta muy bien enmarcada (el antiguo propietario le costó 850€ el marco)
Medidas de la obra: 90 x 60 cm.
Medidas del marco: 130 x ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Baroque Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Modernist Surreal Figural Nude Portrait Large Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist nude portrait oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a modern molding. Excellent condition, ready to ...
Category
1950s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
18/19-th Century French Antique Original Oil Painting on canvas, Rococo, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is a fabulous Oil on canvas painting. French, late 18th to early 19th century. The artwork depicts a gallant scene, a shepherdess, and her lover resting in the forest. This stunning impressive piece of art is waiting to be a part of your collection. Collectible European Classical Paintings, Rococo, And Romanticism in Fine Art
More photos are available upon request.
Overall in very good condition.
Please see the photos, they are part of the description.
The painting is presented in a nice vintage ornate frame...
Category
Early 19th Century Rococo Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,520 Sale Price
47% Off
Large Signed Paris Street Scene Detailed Sidewalk Cafe Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French cafe scene landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 29 by 41 inches overall, and 24 by 36 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. H...
Category
1940s Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$1,180 Sale Price
20% Off
Hudson River School 19th Century American Landscape Mountains Haystack Horses
Located in Buffalo, NY
This finely executed 19th century oil painting exemplifies the pastoral grandeur and romantic vision associated with the Hudson River School. While the painting is unsigned, it was c...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dutch florals and vase by Georgian window in evening, 19th Century
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Floral painting in the Renaissance Dutch style, oil on canvas, likely dating to the 1800s.. A riot of color, flowers are illuminated in the dark room, framed by an arch and a paned g...
Category
19th Century Dutch School Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,183 Sale Price
30% Off
Indian Miniature Deccan School c1780 Ragamala Nature Figures River Trees
Located in Norfolk, GB
Indian Miniature
Category
Late 18th Century Other Art Style Unknown Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Parisians Strolling in The Park 1940
s
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6069 Oil on canvas of Parisians strolling in the park set in a period frame
Image size 22.5x27.5"
Category
1940s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Realist Horse Portrait Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American horse portrait oil painting. Oil on board. Signed verso. Framed. Measuring: 9 by 7 inches overall, and 7 by 5 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Hands...
Category
1940s Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Modernist Fruit Still Life Tablescape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 14 by 17 inches overall, and 9 by 12 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. Handsomel...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique Italian Luminous Venice Cityscape Gondola Framed Impressionist Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Italian venice cityscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 19 by 25 inches overall, and 12.5 by 18.5 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. Handsome...
Category
1890s Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Framed Mid 20th Century Oil - Mountain Landscape
Located in Corsham, GB
A rich impasto landscape depicting an autumnal view with rolling fields and a large hilltop. Well presented in a simple wood frame. On board.
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Daniel Schlumberger aged 34
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Early 20th-century French School
Portrait of Daniel Schlumberger at age 34
Pastel
H. 99.5 cm; W. 63.5 cm
Title and dated lower right. Unsigned
1913
The Schlumberger family, of Prote...
Category
1910s French School Unknown Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Birth of a Star in Daylight
Located in San Francisco, CA
Someone had Coltrane on the HiFi as they channeled Jackson Pollock. There’s a dark Gauloise going—a habit picked up in those student years in Paris—with smoke emitting from the chrom...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Antique American Modernist Still Life 1940s Nicely Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a modernt wood molding. Excellent cond...
Category
1940s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
Baroque Italian painter - 17/18th century figure painting - Franciscan friar
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (17th-18th century) - Franciscan pilgrim friar sitting writing (preparatory sketch).
14 x 16.5 cm without frame, 19 x 21.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on pa...
Category
Late 17th Century Baroque Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$953 Sale Price
33% Off
Cloisters, Grand National Steeplechase Horse Racing Champion 1892
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Signed oil on canvas painting of steeplechase race star ‘Cloisters’, winner of the 1893 Grand National in Aintree, Mercyside, England with ab impressive 40 length lead. The horse is ...
Category
1890s English School Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Tompe l
oeil still life of hanging birds
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
English School, c. 1800
Still life of hanging birds
Oil on panel
Panel size - 8 x 6 in
Framed size - 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 in
This trompe-l'œil still life is a striking example of illusio...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,000 Sale Price
37% Off
Vintage Signed American Modernist Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting. Signed and Exhibited. Oil on canvas. Measuring 17 by 31 inches overall and 16 x 30 painting alone. In excellent original condition,...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$624 Sale Price
20% Off
Copy of "Wall Street - The Noon Hour" by Felicie Waldo Howell created in 1925
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful copy by an unknown artist, of the original painting "Wall Street - The Noon Hour" originally created in 1925 by the great American artist Felicie Waldo Howell (1897-1968)...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Antique American Modernist Nocturnal Street Scene Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist nocturnal street scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed . Measuring: 14 by 12 inches overall, and 8 by 10 painting alone. In excellent original...
Category
1910s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Geometric Composition with Paper, Fibers, and Acrylic on Canvas (Red)
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Geometric Composition with Handmade Paper, Fibers and Acrylic on Canvas (Red)
Whimsical abstract composition by an unknown artist (20th Century). Red acrylic paint makes up...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Unknown Paintings
Materials
Jute, Acrylic, Washi Paper
Framed 19th Century Oil - Portrait of a Scholar
Located in Corsham, GB
A formal portrait of a smartly dressed gentleman, leaning casually against a desk. He holds a book in his hand as a symbol of his intelligence, and returns the viewer's gaze with cal...
Category
19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist Framed Coastal Seascape Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist signed coastal seascape oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 14 by 18 inches overall, and 12 by 16 painting alone. In excelle...
Category
1940s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$620 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique 18th Century Neoclassical Oil Portrait Young Lady Turban Unknown Master
Located in Stockholm, SE
This captivating oil portrait from the late 18th to early 19th century depicts a mysterious charming young woman, painted by an unknown but clearly professional master, presumably Fr...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Paris Modern Coastal Port City Framed Signed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage French modernist coastal scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, re...
Category
1960s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
Five mid 20th century Italian oil landscapes with figures, castles, Churchs
Located in Woodbury, CT
A very interesting set of five mid-20th-century Italian oils on copper.
All five are classical landscape subjects and are signed Roger, though we don't know which artist with the n...
Category
1950s Old Masters Unknown Paintings
Materials
Copper
$4,517 Sale Price
35% Off
1930
s Original Parisian Fashion Watercolor Burgandy Dress With Green Cape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1930's French fashion design, no doubt of Parisian origin.
The painting, executed in gouache/ watercolor and pencil, is dated to the upper corner ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
$143 Sale Price
30% Off
Vintage Original Oil Painting on Canvas Still Life, Framed, Signed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is a vintage original oil painting on canvas depicting Still Life Composition with fruits, yellow bottle and kettle.
Overall and impressive-looking medium size paintin...
Category
20th Century Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Animated Farm and Windmill Scenery
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Black wooden frame
51 x 73 x 5 cm
Category
18th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 19th Century Oil - A Threatening Presence
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming early 19th-century genre scene depicting figures having an altercation in a tavern interior. Unsigned. Presented in a wooden frame with a gilt-painted inner window. On can...
Category
Early 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American School Western Seascape Fauvist Modern Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school fauvist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, read...
Category
1940s Fauvist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Contemporary Oil - The Night Market
Located in Corsham, GB
Presented in a silver gilt effect frame. Unsigned. On board. Image size: 71 x 47cm.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Super Realist Trompe L
Oeil Framed Signed Still Life Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Early American super realist trompe l'oeil still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Signed. Image size, 14H by 10L.
Category
1890s Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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