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

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"

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

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

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"

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.

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"

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.

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



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"

 

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

Marco Zoppo painting

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
by Marco Zoppo (1433-1478)
1471, poplar wood, 103.1" x 100"
Italian Renaissance painter, born in the city of Cento

Literature Pick #98

Christmas Eve at Swamp's End
by Norman Duncan
A selection from the 1911 novel The Measure of a Man: A Tale of the Big Woods.

Paintings of Julius Caesar Ibbetson

George Biggins' Ascent in Lunardi's Balloon
Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759–1817)
1785, oil on canvas, 19.9" x 24"
Ibbetson was born in Leeds, England 



Langdale Pikes from Lowood
Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759–1817)
between 1800 and 1806, oil on canvas, 14.02" x 19.02"

 

Lake Windermere
Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759–1817)
between 1801 and 1805, oil on canvas, 19.76" x 25.51"

 

A Beached Collier Unloading into Carts
Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759–1817)
circa 1790, oil on canvas, 12.4" x 16.8"

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky paintings

The Great Pyramid at Giza
by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900)
1871, oil on canvas, 17.4" × 25.7"

Night at Gurzof
by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900)
1891, oil on canvas, 24" × 32"

Inspection of the Black Sea Fleet in 1849
by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900)
1886

Mountain Village Gunib in Daghestan. View from the East.
by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900)
1869