Arch at the Portico of Octavia in Rome

Arch at the Portico of Octavia in Rome
by an unknown German artist
1860, oil on canvas, 32.5" x 22"

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Carl Hummel painting

Villa Carlotta on Lake Como
by Carl Hummel (1821-1907)
1874, oil on canvas mounted on wood, 30.3" x 41.1"
German landscape artist

Dominik Schuhfried painting

Castle Ruins on the Cliff
by Dominik Schuhfried
1866, oil on canvas, 20.9" x 16.7"

Charles Hoguet painting

The Market in Rouen, 1858
by Charles Hoguet (1821-1870)
German painter, from the French Huguenot colony in Berlin.

Carl Spitzweg painting

The Letter Messenger in Rosenthal
by Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885)
Circa 1858-65, Oil on Canvas, 28.9" x 19.1"
Spitzweg was a romantic artist who was born in Unterpfaffenhofen in Bavaria, Germany.

Vilhelm Kyhn painting

Winter Evening in a Forest
by Vilhelm Kyhn (1819-1903)
1853, Oil on Canvas, 51.4" × 77.4"
Danish landscape painter

Literature Pick #89

The Cornish Fishermen's Watch-Night
By The Religious Tract Society
The story of a faithful man's struggle against wickedness.

Wilhelm Steinfeld painting

Vast Landscape in the Salzkammergut
by Wilhelm Steinfeld (1816–1854)

1841, Oil on Canvas, 30.1" x 23.8"

Painting Attributed to George Lambert

Landscape with Ruins

Attributed to George Lambert (1700-1765)

Oil on Canvas, 48.5" × 34.6"

Nicolas Henri Joseph de Fassin painting

Twilight
by Nicolas Henri Joseph de Fassin (1728-1811)
1798
Landscape painter born in the city of Liège, Belgium.

Matthias Stom painting

The Adoration of the Magi
by Matthias Stom
17th century Dutch Golden Age painter.

Literature Pick #88

A Christmas Eve in the Far South Seas
by Louis Becke
A Christmas tale from the 1899 short story collection Rídan The Devil And Other Stories.

John Martin painting

The Eve of the Deluge
by John Martin (1789-1854)
1854, Oil on Canvas, 56.3" x 85.8"
Martin was a Romantic artist, born in Haydon Bridge, Northumberland, England.

Paris Bordone painting

The Annunciation
by Paris Bordone
Circa 1555, Oil on Canvas, 39" x 52.8"
Italian Renaissance painter, born in Treviso