YM Antiques Inc Paintings

Our oil painting on canvas depicting the Venus at the Forge of Vulcan is attributed to the circle of Jacob van Loo (French, 1614-1670). Previously erroneously attributed to Ambroise...

Our very large plaque, 20 by 26.5 inches (51 by 67 cm), is known as the Fiddler and Gypsy Woman, and Consolation, after the painting by Louis Gallait (Belgian, 1810-1887) that reside...

Our extraordinary paintings, attributed to Franz Xavier Karl Palko (1724-1767) depict Christ in the house of Simon the Pharisee, and Christ and the children of Zebedee. Stretchers 1...

Our self-portrait by Louis Theophile Hingre (1832-1911) is signed and dated 1891. Stretcher measures 25.5 by 32 inches. Frame measures 33 by 39....

Our charming painting, German School, circa 1890, depicts Sir Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 2nd Baronet (1840-1915), made Baron Rothschild in 1885, on the far right side, entertaining a g...

Our portrait of Alexandre Dumas fils (1824-1895) in pencil and watercolour heightened with white by Theobald Chartran (1849-1907) is the original artwo...

Our exceptional watercolor on paper by the American painter and illustrator, William Thomas Smedley (1858-1920), depicts a distinguished gentleman smoker standing beside a street lamp. Signed and dated 1894. Mounted in period giltwood frame originally glazed and now missing glass. We may install new plexiglass prior to shipment. William Thomas Smedley was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1858 and died in Bronxville, New York in 1920. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later entered the Paris studio of Jean Paul Laurens. He submitted paintings regularly at prestigious exhibitions both in America and abroad during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the Paris Salon and the Universal Exposition of 1900. Around the turn of the century the village of Bronxville, located just north of Manhattan, became the center of a small suburban artists' colony. Otto Bacher settled there in 1896 and was followed a year later by Will Hicock Low. Smedley moved to Bronxville in 1898 and was soon joined by his fellow Pennsylvanian, Milne Ramsey.

Our haunting and beautiful portrait on canvas of Medusa was painted by the Austrian-born artist Karel Eichhoff (1899-?).  Stretcher measures 12.25 by 13.25 inches and the period giltwood frame measures 20 by 21 inches. Signed in lower right. With written authentication completed by the independent appraiser, Antonin Kleinwachter, Brno, Czech Republic, in 1976. Provenance: Jay Waldmann, Southampton, New York. The artist was born in Graz (Štýrský Hradec) in the south-eastern part of Austria.  He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague from 1920 to 1924 under Professor Karl Krattner (1862-1926).  He exhibited at Krasoumná Jednota, the provincial association formed in 1835 to support fine arts. Members included patrons from royalty and the state, including Emperor Francis Joseph...

Our painting by Adolphe Pierre Francois Leofanti (1838-1890) depicts Roger freeing Angelica. Period ebonized frame with gilt border measures 74 7/8 by 64 1/8 inches, 163 by 190 cm. ...

Our still life depicting a metal brazier on ledge is a rare painting by Baudouin Yvart (French, 1611-1690).  Stretcher measures 15 1/4 by 19 inches.  It has an extraordinary ebonized sgraffito frame, 24 by 28 by 1 3/4 inches, with inlaid mother of pearl and pewter mounts.  Professionally relined and mounted on keyed stretcher. Provenance: Private Collection, Paris, by 1974; Anonymous sale; Boisgirard et Associés, Paris, June 26, 1985, lot 26; Jocelyn Fielding Fine Art Ltd., London; Mr. and Mrs. John H. Gutfreund, CEO Salomon Brothers, New York. Literature: Michel Faré, Le grand siecle de la nature morte...

Our magnificent oil on canvas by John Henry Frederick Bacon, A.R.A. (1868-1914), entitled The Golden Butterfly, depicts the family of John and Julietta Boyd-Harvey at Tondu House in South Wales in 1907. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1907, no. 572. This very large painting depicts the Boyd-Harvey family on the lawn of Tondu House in South Wales, with the mountain and valley of Tondu in the background. John Bacon...