Marie Philips-Weber Oil on Canvas "Young Girl Reading a Book"

Fanny Sugars (British, 1856-1933) A Charming Victorian Era Oil on Canvas Depicting a Portrait of Standing Young Girl Wearing a Bonnet, within a later giltwood frame. Signed and Dated: 'Fanny Sugars / 1881' (lower right). Museums: Lancaster City Museums Miss Dalton, possibly Alzira Eloise Dalton (1889–1983) c. 1904 by Fanny Sugars (1856–1933) Lancaster Maritime Museum Miss Dalton, possibly Alzira Eloise Dalton (1889–1983) by Fanny Sugars (1856–1933) Manchester Art Gallery My Mother by Fanny Sugars (1856–1933) Fanny Sugars (1856–1933) Is recorded in Union List of Artist Names - Getty Research Fanny Sugers (1856–1933) is recorded as having exhibited at The Royal Academy Of Art in London, 1903. Exhibition No. 1160 - Portrait of a Lady. Article from Woman, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England - The Hustle and the Scramable: Fanny Sugars was a ‘well-known Manchester artist’ who had been the only artist out of forty-one nominees to be elected to the Manchester Academy membership in 1897. ‘Women’s Doings’, Hearth and Home, 11 March 1897, 722. 64 ‘Women’s Doings’, Hearth and Home, 29 March 1900, 883. 65 Cherry, Painting Women, 70. 66 Arthur Fish, Henrietta Rae...

Henry John Yeend King R.B.A, R.I., R.O.I. (British, 1855-1924) "A Victorian Lady Standing by a Sundial in the Park" Oil on panel. Signed lower right: Yeend King. "YK" Sticker en ver...

Charles Joshua Chaplin (French, 1825-1891) 'The Bird's Nest' A very fine and charming Rococo revival style oil on canvas depicting a young girl, dressed in 18th century costume and r...

A Large Continental Oil on Canvas "The Prohibited Reading " after Karel Ooms (Belgium, 1845-1900). This beautiful executed painting depicts a historical scene of an old man and a young woman who are huddled over a bible. The pair is gazing in apparent concern or alarm, over the old man's shoulder, towards something outside of the picture. The scene is likely set in the 16th or 17th century when Protestants were prosecuted, amongst others, for reading the bible in the vernacular, a practice prohibited by the Catholic Church at the time. Signed (l/r) A. Ribas 15-12-913. Within a giltwood carved frame. circa: Probably Belgium, 1913. Karel Ooms was born in Dessel on January 27, 1845 as the youngest son of a large peasant family. At school his extraordinary talent for drawing was discovered. When he was twelve his hometown provided financial support which allowed him to study at the Antwerp Academy of fine Arts. One of his teachers at the Academy was Nicaise de Keyser, one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting and a painter of mainly history paintings and portraits. After graduating from the Academy 1865 Karel Ooms was welcomed with pomp in his home town Dessel. He painted two altarpieces for the local church Saint Nicolas, to express his gratitude to his city. Karel Ooms settled as an independent artist in Antwerp around 1871. He quickly established a reputation as a portrait painter. In addition, he received commissions for religious paintings and history paintings. He gained particular recognition with two large paintings...

This is a magnificent antique Italian School, 19th Century, oil on canvas painting of a young lady reading a scroll,mid 19th century in date. ...

This exquisitely rendered painting captures a moment of serene introspection — a fleeting glimpse into the stillness of domestic life. The young woman, immersed in her reading, is no...

A beautiful 1930's French oil on canvas portrait of a seated lady reading in an interior. Superb quality and striking work in very good original condition. Indistinctly signed lower...

Signed low left. Painted by Carl Theodor Blaas in 1914, member of the famous Von Blaas family of painters. Original condition.