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c.1850s PIETRA DURA/ITALIAN WINE MERCHANT Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Pre 1900 item# 987263 (stock# PietraDura)
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This charming example of Pietra Dura depicts a wine merchant holding his wares in each arm. The frame is new, but the mid-1800s label is on the back of the piece. Dimensions are 9 x 5-1/8 inches, sight size, and 10-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches framed. Pietra dura is an Italian phrase that means "hard stone" and refers to the technique of creating intricate inlaid pictures from shaped colored stones. The stones used are usually silicates, including agates, alabaster, amethyst, jade, jasper, lapis ...click for details

EARLY 20C FOLK ART SHEEP PAINTING/ INSIDE BARN Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1910 item# 960607 (stock# PastoralPain)
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This early twentieth century pastoral painting of a herd of sheep huddled inside a barn is one of the best folk art paintings we have seen in a long time. How many sheep paintings have you seen where the animals are indoors as opposed to in the barnyard or in a landscape? Dimensions are 22 x 36 inches, sight size, and 25 x 29 inches in its old gilt frame. This painting has tremendous charm and realism.

MODERNIST SURREAL PORTRAIT OF LADY IN GREEN/MID-CENTURY Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1960 item# 905216 (stock# Belkin)
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Murray Belkin (American, mid-to-late 20th century) painted "The Lady In Green", this Modernist surreal and dreamlike oil on canvas circa 1950. Dimensions are 39 x 17 inches, sight size and 40.5 x 18.5 inches framed.

MID-CENTURY MODERN IMPRESSIONIST HUDSON RIVER/T. SHOUDY Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1950 item# 903497 (stock# TShoudy)
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Theo (Theodore ) Shoudy (American, b. 1881 Brooklyn, NY), the Hudson River Valley Impressionist, painted and signed this great oil on board fall scene circa 1946. A painter and teacher, Shoudy studied at Adelphia College, the prestigious Arts Student League, and with William Merritt Chase and Jane Peterson. He has exhibited widely and has won awards in the New York area in the 1930s-1950s. He is listed in "Who Was Who in American Art". Dimensions: 12 x 16 inches, sight size, and 18-3/ ...click for details

MODERNISM O/B ALFONS BACH(1904-99) FLORIDA SAILBOATS Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1960 item# 894756 (stock# AlfonsBach)
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ALFONS BACH (American, 1904-1999) painted this Modernist oil on board depiction of Florida Sailboats circa 1950s-60s. Signed l.r., it measures 24 x 20 in., sight size, floating in a frame with overall size 27-3/4 x 23-3/4 in. Born in Magdeburg, Germany, Alfons Bach studied architecture at the University of Berlin and at the Reimann School. He came to the U.S. in 1926 and established an industrial design firm in 1932 in New York City. In 1937 he moved to Stamford, CT, becoming president of the Am ...click for details

LATE 19th CENTURY AMERICAN OIL FOLK GENRE PAINTING 4' Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: Pre 1900 item# 844891 (stock# GenrePtg)
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This large and busy late 19th Century American folk art genre painting is oil on cotton screen laid down on muslin, on a lattice wood frame. Against the backdrop of a fantasy image of a Philadelphia streetscape is the depiction of three unemployed men receiving money from a man in a coat and top hat, a young man caught in the act of pickpocketing, in front of a builder's shop, a federal building and a prison, possibly Fairmount Prison in Philadelphia. Dimensions are 48 x 48.5 inches. This is ...click for details

MACGOWAN TUTTLE (1861-1935)NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL 1925 Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1930 item# 801749 (stock# MacgowanTutt)
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Macgowan Tuttle(American, 1861-1935's oil on canvas depiction of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is viewed from the front along the Seine River. It is signed verso and the title “Notre Dame Paris 1925”. Originally from Muncie, Indiana, Tuttle studied under the greats William Merritt Chase and Frank Duveneck and in Paris at the Academie Julien with J.P. Laurens. He was a member of the prestigious National Arts Club, the Salmagundi Club, and the Paris Artist’s Association. Tuttle's works a ...click for details

ANTIQUE MINIATURE WATERCOLOR ON IVORY PORTRAIT/COMTESSE Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Miniatures: Pre 1900 item# 785695 (stock# Comtesse)
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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. For those wh ...click for details

1856 CHILD'S PORTRAIT 2 BALTIMORE GIRLS/ROBERT AKER Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1900 item# 777887 (stock# SkinnerChild)
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This absolutely charming oil on canvas double portrait of the Skinner children was painted in Baltimore by the British artist Robert Aker (Liverpool,England. The painting is signed verso "Miss/Sarah Skinner/Miss Mary nner,Baltimore/Robt.Aker/pinxt/Liverpool August 1856." Obviously the little Skinner girls are members of a family of privilege. One sister is wearing a white dress and holding a bunch of grapes; the other is in a red dress, kneeling & holding apples in her lap. Di ...click for details

OUTSTANDING C.1880-90 O/C PORTRAIT BLACK AMERICANA Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1900 item# 729181 (stock# LemonThief)
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This outstanding oil on canvas portrait, painted circa 1880-1890, is an excellent example of Black Americana. "The Lemon Boy" measures 23-1/2 x 17-1/4 inches, sight size, and 26-1/2 x 21 inches in its original gilt frame.

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