Friday, March 25, 2016

Peter Gertner painting

Crucifixion
by Peter Gertner
1537, oil on panel, 27.1" × 38.1"
Gertner was a German painter.

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Thomas Fearnley paintings

Duck Hunter
by Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842)
Oil on paper mounted on panel, 12.6" × 16.5"

Fearnley was a Norwegian romantic painter. He was born in Frederikshald, Østfold county, Norway
 
Tjugum Church, Balestrand
by Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842)
1839, oil on canvas, 10.4" × 13"
 
From Romsdal
by Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842)
1836, oil on cardboard, 11" × 15.2 "
 
The Labro Falls at Kongsberg
by Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842)
1837, oil on canvas, 59.1" × 88.2"

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Rudolf von Alt paintings

View of Salzburg
by Rudolf von Alt (1812-1905)
1897, watercolor on paper, 21.73" x 37.48"

von Alt was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter.
View of Klosterneuburg
by Rudolf von Alt
1890, watercolor on paper, 8.66" x 8.66"

Altaussee Lake and Face of Mount Trissel
by Rudolf von Alt
1839, watercolor on paper, 10.47" x 14.37"

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Jan Michiel Ruyten painting

The 'Metsys Well' at Antwerp
by Jan Michiel Ruyten (1813 - 1881)
1860s, oil on canvas, 20.67" x 11.18"
Belgian Romantic artist, born in Antwerp.

Monday, February 29, 2016

Giuseppe Canella painting

View of Rouen
by Giuseppe Canella (1788–1847)
1831, gouache on paper, 11.5" x 16.6"
Italian artist, born in Verona

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Paintings of Samuel Bough

Edinburgh Castle from Princes Street
by Samuel Bough (1822–1878)
by 1878, oil on canvas, 61.4" x 49.2"

Bough was an English landscape painter, born in Carlisle, Cumbria.
Helmsley Castle in North Yorkshire
by Samuel Bough (1822–1878)
oil on canvas, 18.3" × 26.3"
Fishing at Sunset
by Samuel Bough (1822–1878)
oil on panel, 10.5" × 14.5"
Peeling oak bark, Cadzow Forest
by Samuel Bough (1822–1878)
1851, oil on canvas, 40.5" × 60.2"

Monday, February 22, 2016

Charles Gleyre painting

Egyptian Temple
by Charles Gleyre (1806-1874)
1840, oil on canvas, 14.2" x 19.3"
Swiss Painter, born in Chevilly, Switzerland

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

William Westall artwork

The Quadrangle, Hampton Court Palace.
by William Westall (1781-1850)
The aquatint engraving of this picture was published as plate 35 of W.H. Pyne (1819), The History of the Royal Residences.
Westall was born in Hertford, England

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Bernardo Bellotto paintings

A Capriccio River Landscape with a Church to the Left
by Bernardo Bellotto (1721-1780)
Oil on Canvas

Bellotto was born in Venice, and is the nephew of Canaletto.
 
View of Pirna from the Fortress of Sonnenstein
by Bernardo Bellotto (1721-1780)
circa 1753-1755, Oil on Canvas, 53.1" × 94.9"
 
View of Pirna from the Sonnenstein Castle
by Bernardo Bellotto (1721-1780)
1750s, Oil on Canvas, 53.5" × 93.3"

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Franz Xaver Sandmann artwork

Charles Bridge, memorable lime-tree, 1840.
by Franz Xaver Sandmann (1805-1856)
1840, Color Drawing
Sandmann was a illustrator, lithographer, and landscape painter.
He was born in Strasbourg, Alsace.

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Robert Salmon paintings

Ferryboat
by Robert Salmon (1775 - c. 1845)
1835, oil on panel, 10" × 12.5"

Salmon was a British maritime artist, born in Whitehaven, Cumberland, England.
 
View of Venice
by Robert Salmon
1845, oil on canvas, 25.5" × 55"
 
British Merchantman in the River Mersey off Liverpool
by Robert Salmon
1809, oil on canvas, 28" × 50.6"

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Antoni Lange painting

Town by a Riverbank
Attributed to Antoni Lange (circa 1779-1844)
19th century, 29" x 41"
Austrian painter, lithographer, and set designer; he was born in Vienna.

Friday, January 15, 2016

Théodore de Gudin painting


Ships By The Coast
Jean Antoine Théodore de Gudin (1802 -1880)
circa 1834, oil on canvas
French painter, born in Paris


Friday, January 8, 2016

Paintings of Vilhelm Melbye


Shipping off Gibraltar
by Vilhelm Melbye (1824-1882)
1880, oil on canvas, 28.5" × 46"

Melbye was born in Elsinore, Denmark 

In dangerous waters off Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland
by Vilhelm Melbye (1824-1882)
1864, oil on canvas, 34.5" × 60"
 
From the coast of Cornwall
by Vilhelm Melbye (1824-1882)
1880, oil on canvas, 29.5" × 46.5"
 
A Spanish xebec and other commercial craft in the Mediterranean off Gibraltar at sunset
by Vilhelm Melbye (1824-1882)
1873, oil on canvas, 35.7" × 60"
 
Xebecs and other shipping off Gibralter at sunset
by Vilhelm Melbye (1824-1882)
1876, oil on canvas, 21.7" × 34.3"
 

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes painting

Classical Landscape with Figures Drinking by a Fountain
by Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (1750-1819)
1806, oil on canvas, 17.8" x 28.94"
French painter, born in Toulouse