Continental US - Paintings

Beautiful acrylic painting on a 1800s paper by contemporary artist Afsoon Thayer. Flower motif painted with Farrow and ball and gold leaf on an original 1800s Napoleon III French Rep...

Very large 19th century oil on canvas depicting a large bouquet in a metal bowl (or brazier) beside a pitcher and bounty of fruits and vegetables. Mounted in a period giltwood frame...

Nude painting, circa 1959. The acrylic paint is done on hard paper. The art work is signed and dated. The frame is NOT included.

Oil on canvas, portrait of an aristocratic lady. The woman is sitting in a red armchair with a quiet gaze wearing embroidered trim dress with white lace...

Large Mid Century Still Life of Flowers Signed Metz. Framed in a plain white wooden frame. The colorful Impasto composition consists of Large Pinkish Orange gladiolas. This vibrant a...

Victor Burgin painting abstract color field red green blue signed. Acrylic on canvas. A student work by Burgin, who became well known as a photographer and a conceptual artist. Signe...

Early copy of Dutch painting. Oil on canvas in antique style wooden frame. “Elisabeth Bas (1571, in Kampen – 2 August 1649 in Amsterdam) was a figure in the Dutch Republic. She was the wife of Jochem Hendrickszoon Swartenhont, an admiral in the navy of the Dutch Republic and military hero. The portrait is now in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, where it is known as Elisabeth Bas and attributed to Ferdinand Bol...

This atmospheric antique French oil on canvas painting, dating to circa 1870, presents a beautifully rendered forest clearing opening toward a shimmering lake and distant mountains, ...

A large scale painted paper panel backed by board and with a plexiglass cover. The scene with a blue deity on horseback visiting court figures at a palace. Female figures are on a ba...

A very large square shaped Impasto still life of vegetables in a vintage wooden frame.

Bold in scale and breathtaking in composition, this one-of-a-kind vintage abstract oil painting makes an unforgettable statement in any interior. With an ethereal wash of blues, crea...

A monumental giclee on canvas floral still life with table top urn having garden flower arrangement including poppies and peonies, 20th century Measures - 56"h x 45.5"w x 2.5"d A lar...

Copy of a wildlife painting titled "Pair of Cheetahs" showing two big cats lounging with a gold background

An early and important work of Frederick Massa, who is best known for his murals for the Fort Ticonderoga Post Office and the Pacific Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, this fair...

A dynamic pair of steeplechase paintings capturing the intensity, risk, and rhythm of cross-country equestrian sport. Likely originating from the...

A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame (all high quality gilt is original) 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 Measures: Canvas height: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Canvas width: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Painting diameter: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm) Frame height: 57 7/8 inches (147 cm) Frame width: 45 1/2 inches (115.6 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...

This is an original impasto oil painting of a Parisian Street scene. It is most likely painted in Montmartre with the Sacre Coeur Basilica in the background.

A pair of brutalist modern acrylic paintings on canvas signed James on the lower right. Circa 1970s. Minimalist black and white tones with energetic brushstrokes. The compositions de...

A superb Italian 18th century reverse painted on glass painting in its original frame. The painting is set within its original and most elegan...

An interesting colorful painting (acrylic on canvas) by Eric Dennard, 1942-1993. Signed, dated 1971 in a period lucite frame. A note about the artist: "...

A master-level painting surrounded by a thick and detailed gold leaf frame, this large oval oil on canvas has an impressive scale for a nature morte (still-life) painting. The painting, which dates to circa 1850, is by an unknown, yet extremely talented French artist. In stark contrast to the dark gray background, the subject of the painting is a brightly colored floral bouquet. The vibrant flowers (blue, red, yellow, pink, and white) reside in a brown woven basket that sits atop a stone baluster railing. A cluster of darkly colored grapes is strewn across the top of the railing, next to the basket, as two butterflies flutter above the bouquet. If you look closely, you will even see a third butterfly perched on one of the large green leaves that accompany the irises, carnations, and sunflowers. The equally impressive original frame is adorned with rings of beading, foliate rinceaux, and spiral fluting, with a deep convex molding carved with additional fluting. In 19th-century France, an entire school devoted to floral still-life paintings emerged, located in Lyon, which was the capital of floral design. Although originally still-life art was classified as unimportant, acceptance by art historians of the 20th century elevated the public opinion of nature mortes. A painting such as our large and striking oval floral...

English Georgian print of a scene with models and sculpture of classic figures in a black and gold trim frame (titled: Analysis of Beauty-Plate I) (aft...

Standing nude by American artist Jane White. Well done and painted in the impressionist style during the fifties. 1 of 3 paintings by Jane white which ...

A lovely tall portrait painting by the late Oklahoma artist Clair Seglem. The piece has a muted pallet and depicts a woman in the buff with long blonde h...

This oil on canvas embodies the vibrant spirit of English Abstract Expressionism, reminiscent of Hans Hofmann's push and pull technique. It displays an energetic composition of sunse...

American Victorian oval mahogany framed oil painting portrait of Union soldier.

Charles Harry Eaton (1850-1901) Inspired by the Barbizon style of painting and devoted to the Detroit landscape for much of his career, Charles Harry...

A Napoleon III era oil on canvas painting of a chateau and landscape in a gilt frame. A lovely composition in very good condition.

Beautiful and extraordinary, this 1930s mural study by Dunbar Beck -- depicting a Pharaoh reading from a tablet while his legs are being wrapped by a servant, and a caveman cutting i...

Collection of Vintage Artist's Palettes, American, circa 1940s - 1960s. The largest palette measures 15.5"H x 19.5"W. The smallest measures 7.5"H x 10.5"W.

Large and impressive 1950s abstract oil painting by Monte This really is a magnificent abstract painting. It's large size will make this the centerpiece of most interiors. Beau...

Striking original oil on canvas painting of Madonna and child with the infant Saint John the Baptist. Unsigned. After the original by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) dated ca....

Painted in a lovely, colorful palette and full of hope and symbolism, this painting by Jocke Åkerblom depicts a standing male nude figure looking into the distance, the sky swathed i...

Original Abstract Painting in Antique Oval Gilt Frame by Shannon Weir

Painted with high good humor and a measure of slyness, this famed illustration of Jack Sprat and his cat with basket in hand, was painted in watercolor and gouache by Swedish-America...

Vintage Still Life Original Oil Painting on Canvas, Framed and Signed by the Artist. Features a Still Life with Cantaloupe and Chianti Bottle in Oil on Canvas, framed with a distress...

Textural Floral and Fruit Still Life Signed Leyster. Oil on Board in the style of Cezanne. Solid wooden frame. Perfect classical piece for that fine dining room or hallway entry. Ple...

A unique contemporary framed painting... no real subject matter, but wonderfully colorful and a very nice decorative piece for a grouping or to stand alone. The piece has not been re...

An oil on canvas depicting European ships in a turbulent storm, signed bottom right. - Framed dimensions: 54 in x 37 in

Charming and lovely, this quiet depiction of two young lovers sitting under a tree in 1942, while World War II was being waged not far away, was painted by G. Lundgren in Sweden and is a close copy of "Amity" by Bernard Fleetwood Walker, owned by the Walker Art gallery in Liverpool, England. The original is well known and was painted in 1933. The young blond female figure is shown with a basket of apples at her side, in a pale blue dress...

Copy of a Sir Alfred James Munnings painting of an open field race showing jockeys wearing colors queuing up in a broad line on their horses to race

This captivating landscape oil painting captures the essence of nature with a logger seated in a lush green meadow. The vivid hues and intricate details bring the scene to life, invi...

A vivid and striking example of Art Deco painting, this depiction of St. Sebastian in tones of gold and pink-papaya shows the figure with a rich, brown complexion, wounded with four ...

A fine original pastel portrait of a beautiful young woman in vibrant colors, representing a modern interpretation of a classical subject . She is portrayed as aristocratic, sensual,...

Copy of a portrait painting of a young man in high collared garb with gold frame

An impressive and large scale Continental 19th century Neo-Classical st. oil on canvas painting. The painting is set within its original giltwood framed with a fine mottled design an...

Constructed from salvaged antique wood that has been reinforced with more recent boards, this large-scale coat of arms shield has an outward curve, reminiscent of the bend of a real ...

A portrait of The Samian (Camea) Sibyl, Italian school oil on canvas, circa 1700. sight: 19 ½ by 25 ½ inches frame: 23 ¾ by 29 ¾ inches

16th Century Spanish Colonial Oil on canvas painting of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception. In this representation of the Virgin Mary being f...

A French framed oil on canvas still-life painting from the mid-19th century, depicting a colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase, set in a carved giltwood frame. Born in France at the ...

The artist behind this striking and original Art Deco portrait -- Agnes Tait -- is clearly emphasizing the parallels between a female figure and her Siamese cat, both shown with heavily-shadowed blue eyes and short, dark hair, the feline crouching familiarly on the shoulder of her companion. Because Tait painted a series of portraits for Florenz Ziegfeld of the young women who performed in the Ziegfeld Follies in 1932, it's possible that the figure here was one of her subjects. The woman is wearing an elegant black gown that bares her upper chest, and the background is a lovely shade of reddish purple. Tait was a native New Yorker, studying in her youth at the National Academy of Design under Leon Kroll and others, before becoming a WPA painter in the 1930s. She painted a series of tropical scenes for the United Fruit Company...

American engraving of the surrender of Cornwallis, depicting Cornwallis and troops presenting sword to George Washington and a fellow commander on the battle encampment, in a gilt wo...

Copy of a street scene painting of a man in Victorian garb looking at art in a street scene.

This very detailed miniature work designed to be set into an album of works for private viewing is of the Great Moghul Emperor Shah Jahan and was painted in...

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also a...

George Inness II (American 1854-1926), Barbizon style coastal landscape, circa 1887, an oil on panel view of coastal plain at sunrise with ocean close on horizon, signed and inscribed across the bottom and on the back. George Inness II was one of America's foremost figure and landscape artists. He followed in the footsteps of his father, one of the first American artists in the Barbizon and Impressionist Schools, and a founder of the Tonalist School...

Untitled, Large Abstract by Mandy Wilkinson, British B. 1970 Mandy Wilkinson, British 1970 Oil on canvas, 49 inches wide by 36 inches high Giltwood Fra...

This charming vintage botanical study offers a harmonious blend of traditional artistry and romantic, heavily textured finishing. The painting depicts delicate trailing florals, like...

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also an artistically talented woman, took her son and struggled her way to West Berlin...

Painted a year after the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes) debuted in Paris, i...