This wonderful circa 1870s-90s oil on canvas rendition of the Civil War Bouquet Battery memorializes a well known image that first appeared in the June 1, 1861 edition of "Harper's Weekly. This Battery was a strategic outpost at the Relay House erected on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad crossing on the Patapsco River near Baltimore. The Battery comanded the bridge at the Relay House and was manned by Union volunteers who searched all trains going west to Washington and points south. O ...click for details
This extremely well executed large miniature oil on ivory half-length portrait depicts a British officer in the Royal Artillery. He is in full dress uniform with his white-gloved hand resting on the bill of his forage cap. He sports large bushy sideburns and his sword rests at his side. The painting is quite large, measuring 4 x 3 inches, and sits in a new frame that measures 6-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. The portrait is behind UV museum quality glass.
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This incredibly detailed antique miniature painting depicts Venus, the goddess of beauty and love, emerging from the sea as a full grown woman and riding on a cockle shell. The best known depiction of this classical Greek myth is by Sandor Botticelli and may be viewed at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Venus, also known as Aphrodite in Greek, is blown toward the shore by the Zephyrs, who are symbols of spiritual passion. She is joined by the Horae, goddesses of the seasons. Dimensions are ...click for details
This delightful antique miniature portrait of the pretty young Comtesse di Folleville seated at her harp. Of watercolor on elephant ivory and enhanced with a silver gilt frame, the portrait depicts the young lady seated at her harp, dressed in a billowy pink gown, with hair fashionably powdered. The hallmarked frame is backed with the original silk, and the painting is signed lower right (appears to be the name Delaurent) and covered with glass. Dimensions: 3-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches.
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William Meyerowitz was born in the Ukraine, Russia 1885 or 1887 and died in New York City in 1981. He emigrated from Russia with his father to New York in 1908, leaving the rest of his family behind. They took up quarters in the Lower East Side of New York on Orchard Street. Through a childhood job with an architect, he began to show promise with his drawing. He studied at the National Academy of Design from 1912-1916, and won honorable mention in the Prix de Rome in 1917.
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This large and colorful Modernist oil of Times Square in New York City was painted by George Schwacha of New Jersey.
The bustling cityscape literally teems with buildings, signs, cars, lights and figures. Dimensions are 24 x 36 inches, sight size, and 27-1/4 x 39 inches framed. The artist was president of the American Artists Professional League and a past president of the Audubon Artists and Art Centre of New Jersey. He belonged to the American Water Color Society, The National Society of Pai ...click for details
The painter ETIENNE RET (1900-1996)was born in Bourbonnais, France on Jan. 6, 1900. He graduated from the College of Mesnieres and completed military service in 1924. He then began formal art training in Paris in the ateliers of Maurice Denis and Georges Desvallieres, and at Ecole des Beaux Arts and Ecole des Arts Décoratifs. His book of poetry, Blindmans Bluff, was a prize winner in 1929. Ret exhibited in London and Paris before settling in Hollywood, California in 1934. He taught at the Chouln ...click for details
This wonderful Cubist portrait by the American artist Jonah Kinigstein is oil on canvas. Using very heavy brushwork and heavy impasto to underscore the geometric forms, the artist has found a novel way to express the human figure. The painting is signed lower right and on reverse stretcher at top. It also reads Paris. It dates to circa 1947-1951, the period where the artist was studying in Paris. Dimensions: 31.75 x 25.25 inches, sight size; 33.5 x 27.25 inches in a floater frame.
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Julius Bloch, one of the prominent Jewish artists of Philadelphia, was a social realist painter whose subjects focused on the working classes. His admiration for Thomas Eakins, also a social realist, likely contributed to his interest in these subjects. For many years, he was a teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and his message to students was that one needed to know life in order to paint life.
Bloch began his career painting floral still lives, but witnessing Depressio ...click for details
This wonderful watercolor on artist board of a Confederate cavalry officer in full uniform with rifle, sword and horse is by Southern American artist William Henry Brown (1808-1883). With touches of graphite and red and white gouache, the painting is signed lower right and dated 1882. Known for his portraits and full-length silhouettes of prominent mid-19th-century Americans (as published in "Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans" in 1846 by lithographer E.C. Kellogg), Brown was b ...click for details
