Early 1900s Wall Decorations

True Arts & Crafts two-tone geometric pair of stained glass windows. Subtle workmanship which exudes simplified elegance. In very good or...

Wonderful print after Rembrandt Lovely colors. Chromolithograph Published by Connoisseur circa 1900 Unframed.

This poster from around 1905 is something extraordinary. It was created by the Art Nouveau artist Carl Schnebel, it was printed by the Hollerbaum & Schmidt art studio in the German c...

Brilliantly capturing the intensity and artistry of the sculptor at work, this large and important painting by Oscar Matthiesen depicts his subject with wild, unkempt hair and a lean...

Lovely Black Forest Carved Whip Holder with Bear ca. 1900s A very rare hand-carved coat hook or whip holder depicting a bear klimbing on a three. Hand carved in Brienz, Switzerland,...

Arts & Crafts Embroidery ‘Queen Eleanor Gives The Poisoned Cup To Fair Rosamond’ Silk on Linen In a large Arts & Crafts oak frame with copper hand cut nails Circa 1900 Framed:...

Wonderful red ochre print of an 18th Century Francesco Bartolozzi engraving after R.Cosway. Publshed by Otto Limited, London 1907 Text on verso The measurement is the paper size ...

Great images of apples and pears Lithographs with original color. Published, circa 1900 Unframed.  

Wonderful red ochre print of an 18th Century Francesco Bartolozzi engraving after Anjelica Kauffmann. Publshed by Otto Limited, London 1907 Text...

Antique Uzbek wall hanging made of combination of hand embroidery Suzani squares, silk Ikat, antique velvet and other textile all together with decorativ...

Dutch delft Porceleyne Fles applique after a painting by Louis Apol, 1908 An oval applique with an image after a painting by Louis Apol (1850-1936). A ...

Majolica Shell Dish Keller & Guerin Saint Clement Circa 1900. Decorated with a flower.  

Large Majolica sunflower platter Villeroy & Boch, circa 1900.

Original antique advertising poster for a Beaux Arts Exposition Municipale Geneve / Fine Arts Exhibition Geneva held at Batiment Electoral building from 25 August to 25 September 190...

Pair of French Faience wall pocket signed Henriot Quimper HR , circa 1900. Hand painted with a couple of bretons and flowers.

Antique Vanity Fair Print 'In the Winning Crew' Mr. R. McKenna, M.P. by Spy – 1906 This is an original Vanity Fair lithograph titled "In the Wi...

Antique Vanity Fair Print 'The Jockey Club' Frederick Barne – 1882 This is an original Vanity Fair lithograph dated August 5, 1882, titled "The Jockey Club," featuring Frederick Barne. Illustrated by Leslie Ward, known as "Spy," this caricature portrays Barne, a prominent member of the esteemed Jockey Club, dressed in a fur coat and top hat while mounted on a horse. With a cigar in his mouth and reins in hand, Barne exudes the confidence and prestige associated with his status in the world of British horse racing...

This early 20th-century oak shelf is all about honest, hardworking design with a rustic edge. The thick, unfinished wood shelf has a gorgeous, lived-in patina that only comes from de...

Sensational image by Frederick Simpson Coburn In the style of one of my favourite artists, Goya Photogravure Limited edition of 300. This is No. 84 From The Complete Works of Edgar Allen...

4 Drawings by a Boston Artist, Signed from 1908 D1 Four drawings of figures, each 7.25" x 4.5", were drawn in the early 20th century, 2 "Framed (16.75" x 22.5") under glass.

Sensational image by Frederick Simpson Coburn In the style of one of my favourite artists, Goya Photogravure Limited edition of 300. This is No. 84 From The Complete Works of Edg...

French Majolica Fish Platter Fives Lille Circa 1900. W / 11.5 inches.

French majolica plate with flowers & butterfly, Circa 1900.

Circa 1900 Watercolor by E. van Goethem "London Street in the Mist". Edward van Goethem, British, 1857-1924. Signed lower left "E. van Goethem". Traces of period gallery label preser...

Large German Majolica grape plate, circa 1900.

Antique map of Pennsylvania ( Eastern part ) Published By A & C Black. 1903 Original colour Good condition Unframed. Free shipping

Sensational image by Frederick Simpson Coburn In the style of one of my favourite artists, Goya Photogravure Limited edition of 300. This is No. 84 From The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe...

A set of 4 very large charming hand painted panels with figures, birds and flowers on paper. Could have been wallpaper. The frames are trompe l'oeil and a continuation of the paper.

Lovely image by Beatrix Potter Rescued from an early edition of " The Tale of Two Bad Mice " Possibly a 1st edition from 1904 The measurement given is the paper size not the actua...

Great image of medical interest. Unframed. Published, circa 1900.

One of a kind pastel depicting a group of women dancing in a romantic, ethereal spring landscape. The delicate figures, soft, luminous tones, and warm, almost golden atmosphere that...

Small Majolica sunflower plate Villeroy & Boch, circa 1900. Diameter / 6.6 inches.

A lovely little shelf made of hand carved wood, made in the black forest area in Germany. Found at an estate sale in Nuremberg, Germany. It is not marked. A nice addition to your col...

Very fine impressionist painting, signed, oil on canvas, circa 1880-1910. Good condition, and original frame. Measures: H. 83 W. 65 cm. H...

Wonderful set of military gentlemen in full dress Chromolithographs Published C.1900 Unframed. Free shipping

Magnificent French Floral Oil Painting from Paris Universal Exposition in 1900. This captivating 19th-century still life oil painting by the award-winning French artist Charles Henr...

This is an antique marquetry landscape panel. An English, mahogany, oak and burr walnut decorative scene of Ben Lomond, dating to the Edwardian period, circa 1910. Fascinating woode...

Large German Majolica Leaf Plate, Circa 1900. 9 inches diameter.

Exquisite & most rare! This French Art Nouveau wall shelf designed by art nouveau grandmaster Eugene Gaillard circa 1900. Superb organic design...

Pair of wonderful antique Chinese silk tapestries dating from the early 1900. Excellent quality and very well executed tapestries, silk w...

Majolica Art Nouveau asparagus plate with cyclamens signed Keller et Guerin Saint Clement. Every important French manufactures produced at the end of the 19th century asparagus and a...

Sensational image by Frederick Simpson Coburn. In the style of one of my favourite artists, Goya. Photogravure. Limited edition of 300. This is No. 84. From The Complete ...

Each hand-carved swag with plump fruit and vegetables nestled among flower heads and foliage.

Majolica dragonfly wall pocket by Desvres, circa 1900.     

Majolica Art Nouveau asparagus plate with mums signed Keller et Guerin Saint Clement. 9 inches diameter. Every important French manufactures produced at the end of the 19th Century a...

Oil on canvas, signed in the lower right and presented in a wonderful gilt frame. This vibrant still life measures 33.5" x 41.5" including the frame. 1855-1936, French Desire Alfred Magne...

Sensational image by Frederick Simpson Coburn In the style of one of my favourite artists, Goya Photogravure Limited edition of 300. This i...

Lovely image by Beatrix Potter Rescued from an early edition of " The Tale of Two Bad Mice " Possibly a 1st edition from 1904 The measurement given is the paper size not the actua...

Antique print titled 'Hechtfang im Winter'. Original antique print of ice fishing. Published circa 1900. Artists and Engravers: Anonymous. Condition:...

Small German Majolica Flowers Plate circa 1900.

Antique Vanity Fair Print 'A Judge' Rev. Cecil Legard – 1901 Dog Show Judge This is an original Vanity Fair lithograph dated July 11, 1901, fea...

An original platinum print on textured paper by iconic American photographer Edward Curtis titled "The Piki Maker" The print is hand-signed in ink, blind-stamped with Curtis' embos...

Pair of Pyrographed Panels – The Seasons: Autumn & Winter – Art Nouveau, France, circa 1900 An elegant Belle Époque diptych, this pair of pyrographed panels delicately embodies the...

French Faience Blue & White Bird Plate Moustiers Style Moustiers style Martres Tolosane, circa 1900.  

Majolica cherries plate Keller & Guerin Saint Clément, circa 1900.    

The collage consists of three antique botanical prints from Walter Müller's publication, which meticulously document various species of the genus Epipactis. These illustrations are characteristic of early 20th-century scientific botanical illustration...

This Vanity Fair caricature from May 5, 1904, features Sir Alfred Cooper, an English surgeon noted for his contributions to medicine during that era. The...

A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved two-tone gilt wood, gilt-patinated and gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting. Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Painting diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 55 1/8 inches (140 cm) Frame width: 46 inches (116.8 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 cm) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

Antique Original Oil on Canvas Painting A wonderfully energetic depiction of an Eastern battle scene, probably depicting the medieval Crusades including knights on horseback, pikem...

Magnificent French Floral Oil Painting by Charles Henri Franzini d’Issoncourt A striking original oil on canvas by the distinguished French artist Charles Henri Franzini d’Issoncour...