British School, late 19th century

Oil on artist board, unsigned.

Frame: 17 ¼” x 15 ¾”

The Captain’s Tales

Oil-on-canvas, signed on the stretcher and dated 1889

Painting: 24 ¾” x 33 ¾”
Frame: 32 ¾” x 42”

Henningsen was born in Copenhagen and studied art at the Danish Academy. In 1877, he traveled to Paris and studied with Léon Bonnat...

Village Maid Resting by a Stone Wall

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left, and dated “1905”

Painting: 29” x 36”
Frame: 44” x 51”

Beauduin was a draughtsman, illustrator and painter of landscapes and genre scenes. He is most known for his paintings of peasant maidens posed in fields and villages in the soft light at the end of the day, often accented with trailing mounds of flowers...

Fishermen in the Venetian Lagoon at Daybreak

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left

Painting: 16” x 20”
Frame: 22” x 26”

There is little biographical information on Simonetti, and it has been suggested that it is a pseudonym for Gian Gianni who was one of the last of the view painters of Italy. Gianni worked mostly in watercolor and produced views of Naples and Venice for people who were making the Grand Tour...

A Gentleman and His Sulky

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right and dated “1854”

Painting: 19 ½” x 23 ¼”
Frame: 23 ½” x 27 ¼”

Clark was born in London and was noted as an “animal painter” on his first child’s baptismal record. Three of his sons, Octavius, Samuel and Albert, became artists.

Clark specialized in painting portraits of prize winning pigs, cattle, dogs and horses...

The Letter

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right

Painting: 24” x 20”

Frame: 36” x 32”

Baxter was born in London the son of a bookclasp maker and started his career apprenticed to a bookbinder. He soon gave that up in favor of life as a professional portrait and miniature artist. In 1834 he began studying with portrait artist George Clint and later that year exhibited at the Royal Academy for the first time...

Boy Fishing in a Stream

Oil-on-canvas.

Provenance: By descent from his gallery assistant.

Painting: 21” x 28”
Frame: 26.5” x 33.5”

Kaufman is known as a landscape and marine painter. Initially self taught, he studied with Marcke de Lummen in Paris as well as undertaking numerous study trips throughout Europe and the Orient...

The Log Haulers’ Repast Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left and dated “1867'

Painting: 30” x 25”
Frame: 38 ½” x 30”

Woollett was a painter of rural scenes, especially with horses and other farmyard animals. His style and subject matter is closely related to that of John Frederick Herring, both Snr and Jnr...

View of Venice

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right

Painting: 23 ½” x 19 ½”
Frame: 25 ¼” x 21 ½”

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Still Life with Fruit and Flowers

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left on the tabletop edge

Painting: 15 ¾” x 19”
Frame: 20 ¼” x 23 ¾”

Born in and active in Berlin, Schultz is noted for his realistically executed sill lifes of fruit and flowers. He was a student of Völker in Berlin, but soon eclipsed his master in talent.

Sources:
Benezit, E...

Oil on Oak Panel, unsigned, early 19th Century.

Painting: 17.5" x 11"
Frame: 22" x 16"

Farmyard Scene, Summer

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right

Painting: 20” x 30”
Frame: 32” x 42”

Samuel James Clark (sometimes mistakenly listed as Samuel Joseph Clark) was born 26 April 1841, the first son of animal painter James Clark and his wife Elizabeth (nee London).

Clark spent his early years learning to paint from his father and was noted as an “animal painter” on the 1861 census...

Aimé Barraud (Swiss 1902-1954)

Trompe L’oeil of Grapes

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left

Painting: 18” x 13”
Frame: 22 ½” x 17 ¼”

Barraud was a painter of still lifes, flowers, portraits and landscapes. Charles, Aurèle, François and Aimé were four brothers who were artists, sons of an engraver of watchplates. In 1928 and 1929 Aimé exhibited two paintings at the Salon des Indépendants (Paris)...

William Henry Wheelwright (English, active 1857-1897)

The Coaching Party

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right and dated “1870”

Painting: 24” x 36”
Frame: 31 ½” x 42 ¼”

Provenance: The Ritz Carlton, Cleveland, OH

Wheelwright was a painter of equestrian, coaching and sporting scenes as well as a variety of other subjects, working in a strong style. He exhibited at the Dudley Gallery (London) between 1878 and 1880...

Moonrise Over Snowy Fields

Oil-on-canvas, laid to board.

Provenance: By descent from his gallery assistant.

Painting: 22” x 20”
Frame: 29.5” x 25.25”

Kaufman is known as a landscape and marine painter. Initially self taught, he studied with Marcke de Lummen in Paris as well as undertaking numerous study trips throughout Europe and the Orient...

French School, Late 19th Century, unsigned

Oil on Canvas

Sight Size (oval): 19” x 14 ¼”
Frame: 25 ½” x 20 ¾”

This charming study of a young girl intent on cutting out paper dolls is reminiscent of works by Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and Pierre-Auguste Renoir (his earlier works).
She is beautifully captured with her rosebud lips, her hair tied up in a bow, a lacy pinafore over her nav...

View of the Old Bridge over the Neckar River and the Historic City Gate in Heidelberg, Germany

Watercolor and gouache on paper, signed with a "V" and retaining two inscriptions which are now mounted on the back of the frame.

Painting: 3.25" x 2.5"
Frame: 9.25" x 8"

Theodor Anton Maria Verhas (born August 1811 in Schwetzingen, and died November 1872 in Heidelberg) was a German artist and painter of the Romantic per...

"Warmiing Up" Jockey Galloping a Horse with a Plaited Mane

Oil on Canvas , signed"WV"

Painting: 16" x 24"
Frame: 20.75" x 28.5"