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Artist: Unknown
20th Century Vintage Still Life Watercolour Painting - Nordic Table Setting
Located in Bristol, GB
NORDIC TABLE SETTING
Watercolour on paper
Size: 60.5 x 82 cm (including frame)
A finely detailed 20th century large watercolour still life that captures a traditional Nordic feast l...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Painting Genre Scene Bamboccioni, 1650
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Antique Italian painting from the 17th century. Oil painting on canvas depicting a lively popular genre scene of great charm, typical of the Bamboccianti school. Many Flemish and Ita...
Category
1650s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Modern Swedish Expressive Still Life Oil Painting - Yellow Flowers
Located in Bristol, GB
YELLOW FLOWERS
Size: 60.5 x 45 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A mid century modernist floral composition, painted in oil onto board.
This painting depicts a vibrant and expressi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Oil on canvas, "Madonna and Child" 1850, Eastern Europe
Located in Vicenza, VI
A painting that refers to Our Lady Eleusa, also known as the "Mother of God of Tenderness," which shows an undeniable feeling of affection and tenderness between mother and child. Th...
Category
1850s Other Art Style Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern British Mid 20th Century Oil - Barges on the Thames at Battersea
Located in Corsham, GB
This Modern British painting depicts an industrial Thames scene, with moored barges in the foreground and Battersea smokestacks rising in the distance. The artist employs muted earth...
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Belgian Modernist Judaica Oil Portrait of a Rabbi
Located in Surfside, FL
Judaica oil painting Rabbi portrait. In a Modernist style
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Linda Besse Leopard On The Hunt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Linda Besse was born in 1959. She lives mostly in Washington state but travels all over the world to paint her incredibly lifelike images of all kinds of wildlife. This incredibly li...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Folk Painting of Couple in a Garden With Dog
Located in New York, NY
Mystery Artist
Untitled, c. 1900 (Late 19th/early 20th century)
Oil on canvas
15 3/4 x 21 in.
Framed: 21 1/8 x 26 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Religious Painting Saint Sebastian
Located in Vicoforte, IT
A splendid 17th-century Italian painting. This painting oil on canvas depicts a dramatic scene, a Saint bound and presented to torture before his imminent martyrdom. The composition ...
Category
1670s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Cavalry Charge, Anglo-Dutch Wars, 17th Century Palamedes PALAMEDESZ
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Cavalry Charge, Anglo-Dutch Wars, 17th Century
attributed to Palamedes PALAMEDESZ (1607-1638)
Large 17th Century Battle scene of a cavalry charge during the Anglo-Dutch Wars, ...
Category
17th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moonlit River Landscape, 17th Century attr. Aert van der Neer (1603-1677)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Moonlit River Landscape, 17th Century
attributed to Aert van der Neer (1603-1677)
Large 17th Century Dutch landscape view of boats on a rover landscape, oil on canvas. Extensive no...
Category
17th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pansies and One Alone
Located in North Clarendon, VT
Beautiful Boston School oil on canvas still life of Pansies. 7" x 14" sight, 12" x 19" period frame. A fantastic addition to any collection. Apparently unsigned.
Category
1890s American Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cuzco School Early 20th Century Oil - Holy Child of Atocha
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming Cuzco style depiction of the 'Santo Niño de Atocha', or 'Holy Child of Atocha' a popular figure in Roman Catholic devotion, especially ...
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Newlyn School Contemporary Oil - Penzance Foreshore
Located in Corsham, GB
A vibrant abstract study depicting the foreshore at Penzance, Cornwall, with boats positioned in the middle ground. The work is captured in a style characteristic of the Newlyn Schoo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cupids Playing Large Bacchanal Rococo Scene Antique oil painting after Rubens
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Bacchanal Cupids Playing
French School, early 1900's
after the earlier work by Rubens, unsigned
oil painting on canvas, framed
canvas: 22 x 39 inches
framed: 27 x 44 inches
Large s...
Category
Early 20th Century Rococo Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,441 Sale Price
30% Off
Portrait of Henry IV, King of England (1367-1413), 16th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of Henry IV, King of England (1367-1413), 16th Century
English School Portrait - Early Oil On Panel
Large 16th Century court portrait of Henry IV, King Of England (1367-14...
Category
16th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$12,427 Sale Price
30% Off
The Death Of General Wolfe, The Battle of Quebec 1759 18th Century BENJAMIN WEST
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Death Of General Wolfe,The Battle of Quebec 1759, 18th Century
after of BENJAMIN WEST (1738-1820)
Large 18th Century scene of the Death Of General Wolfe, oil on panel. Excellen...
Category
18th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$5,257 Sale Price
30% Off
Six Antique Pith Rice Paper Chinese Watercolour Paintings Birds
Located in London, GB
Six Antique Pith Rice Paper Chinese Watercolour Paintings Birds
Chinese, 19th Century
Height 33cm, width 42.5cm, depth 1.5cm
This captivating set of six Chinese paintings, dati...
Category
19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rice Paper
Impressionist:, School of Pierre Bonnard, signed oil 1950
s
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine large oil, school of Pierre Bonnard. circa 1950's.
oil on canvas 55cmx75cm
The original wood and textured gesso frame 72cmx92cm
Titled 'On the Window Sill'.
Indistinctly sign...
Category
1930s Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$666 Sale Price
62% Off
Warm-Toned Abstract Figurative Portrait of Boxer Jack Johnson
Located in Houston, TX
Warm-toned abstract figurative painting by an unknown artist. The painting depicts Galveston, TX boxer John Arthur Johnson in profile view. Unsigned. Unframed but framing options are...
Category
1950s Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Modern Swedish Abstract Landscape Oil Painting - Windswept Winter
Located in Bristol, GB
WINDSWEPT WINTER
Size: 43 x 58 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
An atmospheric mid-century modern landscape painting captures a windswept winter scene with a rich, expressive impa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of Antique Indo Persian Illustrations of Cultural Events
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Pair of intriguing 18th Century Indo Persian gouache paintings on paper of Indian culture. Presented under glass in silver tone wood frames.
Category
Mid-18th Century Other Art Style Unknown Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Persian Illuminated Miniature with Three Hunters on Horseback in a Landscape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present illuminated folio page contains a fine miniature depicting three figures hunting while on horseback, an image meant to accompany a historic epic. During the medieval period, hunting was an important pastime of male nobility throughout the Islamic world. The Quran itself explicitly endorses hunting and the use of animals to aid in capturing prey: "Lawful to you are foodstuffs that are good to eat and any game that, at your wish, is captured by beasts of prey which train as you do dogs, according to the method that Allah has taught you, after you have spoken the name of Allah over it." (Q 6:4) Muslim princes and nobles enjoyed the chase of the prey via horseback, using bow and arrow, crossbows, and blowpipes to capture their prey Horseback riding itself trained young men in the necessary skills for armed combat and warfare, developing their speed and strength.
12 x 8.25 inches, artwork
19.75 x 15.88 inches, frame
accompanied on the back with an image of the verso
framed to conservation standards with a 100% rag silk-lined mat in a gold gilded frame
A Persian miniature is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa. The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts. Although there is an equally well-established Persian tradition of wall-painting, the survival rate and state of preservation of miniatures is better, and miniatures are much the best-known form of Persian painting in the West, and many of the most important examples are in Western, or Turkish, museums. Miniature painting became a significant genre in Persian art in the 13th century, receiving Chinese influence after the Mongol conquests, and the highest point in the tradition was reached in the 15th and 16th centuries. The tradition continued, under some Western influence, after this, and has many modern exponents. The Persian miniature was the dominant influence on other Islamic miniature traditions, principally the Ottoman miniature...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Unknown Paintings
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Laid Paper
Dutch or Flemish Landscape with Figures
Animals
Located in Milford, NH
A beautifully detailed late 17th or early 18th century Dutch or Flemish landscape with cows grazing in the water, goats, dogs, and other animals near the water’s edge, under the watchful eye of the herdsmen, on a backdrop of rolling hills and trees. Oil on wood panel, unsigned, and housed in a Rudolph...
Category
Late 17th Century Flemish School Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Mid-Century Modern Geometric Abstract Oil Painting - Mountain Monastery
Located in Bristol, GB
MOUNTAIN MONASTERY
Size: 74 x 52.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A large and captivating mid-century modernist geometric abstract painting, executed in oil onto canvas.
The co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Prism Tondo, Abstract Geometric Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: M. Morgenstern
Title: Prism Tondo
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed verso
Size: 38 inch diameter
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Still Life Oil Painting on Canvas by David Fox
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Mid century oil painting on canvas with an adept use of bold colors and a joyous spirit. The Classic still life genre re-invented over century is well represented here as a modernist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
1886 Oil - Portrait of a Monk
Located in Corsham, GB
This accomplished nineteenth-century portrait depicts a monk with his eyes closed in prayer. Dated and indistinctly signed to the lower right. Presented in a vintage black frame with...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hayle, Cornwall, 19th Century by EDMUND FULLER (1858-1944)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Hayle, Cornwall, 19th Century
by EDMUND FULLER (1858-1944) sales to $10,000
Large 19th Century view of Halle, Cornwall, oil on canvas by Edmund Fuller. Excellent quality panoramic ...
Category
19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,015 Sale Price
30% Off
William John Botten Jenkins (1912-1994) - Oil, Reflections in the Water
Located in Corsham, GB
A peaceful landscape scene by William John Botten Jenkins (1912-1994), featuring trees reflected in calm water rendered with broad, impressionistic brushstrokes. Well presented in a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Modernist Sunset Beach Dune Signed Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school signed original oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Signed. Displayed in a period frame. Image, 24"L x 18"H.
Category
1940s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
French Romantic School, 19th Century, Portrait of a man, oil on paper
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic School, 19th Century
Portrait of a man, a selfportrait ?
oil on paper
17.5 x 12 cm oval
Framed under glass : 43 x 34.5 cm
This rather mysterious portrait is perhaps a self-portrait of the artist who painted it. This is suggested by the three-quarter pose and the gaze fixed on the viewer.
What this man seems to be staring at is himself.
Similarly, the model's appearance is reminiscent of the image of the romantic, bohemian, tortured artist. It's also very interesting that he used a range of dark colours to reinforce this idea of melancholy.
It has been suggested that this small oil on paper is close to the art of François Bonvin (1817-1887) and Théodule Ribot...
Category
1860s Romantic Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Expressionist Landscape Oil Painting - Sea Catch
Located in Bristol, GB
SEA CATCH
Size: 54.5 x 87 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A brilliantly executed and lively mid-century modernist composition in oil, painted onto canvas.
In this scene, we see ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Alan Bengall Charlton (1913 -1981) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Corbridge Roman Site
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful study of Corbridge Roman Site in Northumberland. The site was once a major Roman fort designed to protect a bridge spanning the River Tyne. Signed. On canvas.
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Period Grand Tour Style Signed Italian Painting
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful oil painting on canvas depicting the Roman Forum, in particular
the Temple of Jupiter Stator.
An important example of Grand Tour painting, this wonderful painting evocati...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Landscape of Pond and Field After Rain Titled "Cranes After the Rain"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This serene landscape by a Hudson River School artist captures the quiet tension between storm and calm, rendered with luminous color and delicate brushwork. A soft sunset glows behi...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Judaica Original Oil Rabbi Painting Lubavitcher Rebbe 770 Chabad, New York
Located in Surfside, FL
Stretched but not framed
Hand signed and dated lower right
Alexander, 1994
I believe this was a Russian or Ukrainian artist but I am not certain.
This is a wonderful vintage judaic ...
Category
1990s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunset Over Copenhagen Harbour, 19th Century by Johan Jens Neumann (1860-1940)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Sunset Over Copenhagen Harbour, 19th Century
by Johan Jens Neumann (1860-1940)
Large 19th Century Danish view overlooking Copenhagen Harbour at sunset, oil on canvas by Johan Jens ...
Category
19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,867 Sale Price
30% Off
Chamba School Miniature Painting of Rāj Singh with Hawk
Located in Chicago, IL
This exquisite Indian miniature painting is a 19th-century reproduction of the Chamba School painting "Portrait of Rāj Singh of Chamba," dated circa 1785. Rendered with delicate brus...
Category
19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Early European Portrait Painting of a Young Woman
Located in Houston, TX
Portrait painting of a young woman dressed in black with a bonnet. The woman has a rose in her right hand and presents her left hand with a r...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Expressionst Painting on Canvas by Ken Nishi "Gaspe
the Laurenthians"
Located in Dallas, TX
Large scale abstract painting on canvas executed by Ken Nishi in 1978 titled "Gaspe and the Laurethians" inspired by his frequent visits to the mountains and peninsulas of Quebec, Ca...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
18th century tavern scene painting
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
Inside a 'tavern, which seems almost carved out of a cave, open to a rather barren countryside, some men eat, drink and relax at the table by the fire, while a woman s...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Petite Laitière Bretonne, dated 1898 by Maurice GRÜN (1869-1947)
Located in Blackwater, GB
La Petite Laitière Bretonne, dated 1898
by Maurice GRÜN (1869-1947)
Large 19th Century French Breton village girl portrait, oil on canvas by Maurice Grun. Exceptional quality and c...
Category
19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nine Miniature Paintings, Probably 18th Century
Located in Greding, DE
A group of nine finely executed miniature oil paintings on cardboard, framed in a simple wooden frame. The subjects range from landscape scenes with soldiers to ducks by a riverside ...
Category
18th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
1957 Mid Century Modern Abstract Oil Painting - Village Across the Water
Located in Bristol, GB
VILLAGE ACROSS THE WATER
Oil on Board
Size: 40.5 x 59 cm (including frame)
A very atmospheric mid century modernist landscape composition, painted in oil onto board and dated 1957.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey 16th Century Oil Portrait
Located in London, GB
English School
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
16th Century
Oil on oak panel
Image size: 22 1/4 x 18 inches (56.5 x 46 cm)
Contemporary style frame
Provenance
T. L. Thurlow Esq, Baynards Par...
Category
16th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Oak
1940
s French Fashion Illustration, Stunning Ballerina in White Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas.
The painting, executed in gouache and pencil, double sided
The sketch is original, v...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$105 Sale Price
30% Off
Newlyn School Contemporary Oil - Red Boat, Penzance
Located in Corsham, GB
A vibrant abstract study depicting fishing boats at Penzance, Cornwall. The work is captured in a style characteristic of the Newlyn School. The piece is mounted in a simple wooden f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
British School Mid 20th Century Oil - Summer in the Park
Located in Corsham, GB
Towering trees filter sunlight through their foliage, casting dappled shadows across the grass below. The artist's loose, impressionistic brushwork imbues the work with liveliness an...
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Geometric Yellow and Red Acrylic Abstract in the style of Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Pasadena, CA
This geometric abstract painting features bold intersecting forms in primary colors, evoking a dynamic sense of movement and balance. Dominated by arcs and angular shapes in red, yel...
Category
1970s Pop Art Unknown Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Bucket With Dripping Red"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Bucket With Dripping Red
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 27 x 23 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Year: 2000 Circa
Artist: Unclear
Provenance: Direct from the art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painted Landscape with Figures and Herds 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. French school of the 2nd half of the 18th century.
Bucolic is this verdant countryside landscape, opening up in the background into bluish fields and mountains.
In the...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Other Art Style Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,680 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Oil Painting on Board of a Sailing Ship at Dock
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive large maritime oil painting on boards of a ship at rest at a port of call with cargo, a lone figure, and sailing ships in the distance.
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Unknown Paintings
Materials
Paint
Contemporary Geometric Abstract Painting - White and Blue Pathways over Black
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary Geometric Abstract Painting - White and Blue Pathways over Black
Simple yet bold contemporary piece by an unknown artist. Utilizing a limited palette of black, pale blu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Henry Stanier British Born Artist, Beautiful Orientalist Painting, 1859
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Orientalist oil on board by Henry Stanier (1831-1894) in the ornate original frame.
Titled “The Narghuileh” and dated 1859.
Signed on the verso Stanier and initialed H.S.
Titled on ...
Category
1850s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
British Royal Navy Anchored Off Naples, 19th Century TOMMASO DE SIMONE
Located in Blackwater, GB
British Royal Navy HMS Encounter Anchored Off Naples, 19th Century
TOMMASO DE SIMONE (1805-1888)
Large 19th Century view of the British Royal Navy fleet off the coast of Naples, oi...
Category
19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Miss Anna Davenport, dated 1853 by Charles V BOND (19th century)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of a Miss Anna Davenport, dated 1853
by Charles V BOND (19th century)
Large 19th Century American School portrait traditionally identified as a Miss Anna Davenport of Detr...
Category
19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of Waikiki Bay Landscape Oil Paintings
Located in Pasadena, CA
Capturing the essence of Waikiki Bay, a visual symbol of Hawaii situated in Honolulu on the southern coast of Oahu, this pair of landscape-format oil paintings features the iconic trio of palm trees...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
W. H. Ford - 20th Century Oil, The Scramble
Located in Corsham, GB
This impressionistic landscape painting captures a lively outdoor scene, with figures on bicycles racing in Herringfleet, Norfolk. The artist's loose brushstrokes and vibrant colours...
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Portrait Oil Painting - Paul
Located in Bristol, GB
PAUL
Size: 58.5 x 53 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A striking and expressive mid-century portrait painting, executed in oil onto canvas.
The composition depicts a male figure ...
Category
1950s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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