The Day’s Bag

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right

Painting: 12” x 16”
Frame: 15” x 19”

The record of Benson’s work shows almost exclusively hunting dogs as his subjects. Typical of many mid 19th century paintings, this work shows two spaniels guarding the day’s kill while patiently waiting the return of their master.

Sawmill by a River with Figures

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right and dated illegibly, verso stamped with artists’ suppliers’ stencil “Geo Rowney and Co.”

Painting: 14” x 20 ½”
Frame: 19” x 25 ½”

Cammidge was born in Withernsea near Hull in 1846. He studied at the Scarborough School of Art where he lived and died in 1916.

Coming Home - Dusk

Oil on canvas, signed and dated: “1906”

Painting size: 12” x 24”
Frame size: 15.5” x 27.5”

Maidment was a painter in oil of rural scenes and landscapes. He is variously catalogued as Robin or Robert Fenson but usually just signed “R. Fenson” in red, often with a date. This was a pseudonym for Henry Maidment who also was known to have signed “A...

Stepping Stones

Oil on canvas, signed

Painting size: 9” x 12”
Frame size: 13.5” x 16.5”

Maidment was a painter in oil of rural scenes and landscapes. He is variously catalogued as Robin or Robert Fenson but usually just signed “R. Fenson” in red, often with a date. This was a pseudonym for Henry Maidment who also was known to have signed “A. Wynn”...

Two Cats

Pastel on board, signed lower right, located and dated “Roma, 1958” lower left

Painting: 14” x 18”
Frame: 20” x 24”

Elica Balla was the daughter of the Italian Futurist painter Giacomo Balla and often a subject in his works. She became an established artist herself.

Farm by a Pond

Oil on canvas, signed lower right

Painting: 24" x 30"
Frame: 30" x 42"

Maidment was a painter in oil of rural scenes and landscapes. He also used the pseudonyms of "R. Fenson" and “A. Wynn”. Dated examples of his work have been seen spanning from 1898 until 1914...

Byron and Annabella

Oil on canvas, titled on front and signed on reverse

Painting: 10" x 12"
Frame 17" x 19"

Adrian Wiszniewski was born in Glasgow in 1958. He was educated at the Mackintosh School of Architecture and then the Glasgow School of Art from 1979 to 1983. He was influenced by New Image painting in the early 1980s, combining figurative art with social commentary...

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...

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. Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateu...

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

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