Charcoal on board with applied marble dust, also known as a Marble Dust Painting. This was a popular mid 19th century medium used by amateur painters, often young women who were inspired by the well known painters of the day. This scene is a highly romantic fantasy typical of early Hudson River School Paintings and like many Sandpaper Paintings this is an actual location along the Hudson River, however romanticized...

Charcoal on board with applied marble dust, also known as a Marble Dust Painting. This was a popular mid 19th century medium used by amateur painters, often young woman who were inspired by the well known Hudson River School Painters of the time. This scene is an unusual subject as most were typical Hudson River Valley pastoral scenes. This example appears to be Venice. Many of the Hudson River School artists travelled and painted in Europe...

Two Siamese Cats

Mabel Gear (British, b. 1900)

Pastel on colored paper, signed.

Mabel Gear was a painter of birds and animals. She was born at the Ashby Rectory in Surrey, 1900. She studied at Colchester School of Art and under Septimus Power at Bushey. Gear exhibied at the Royal Academy; Royal Institute of Oil Painters; Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours; the Royal Society of British Artists, and abroad. She married Ivor I.J...

Pastel on paper, in carved and gilded frame, overall size 34".5" x 27.5"

House on a Canal

Signed: “ Romer”

Pastel on grey paper, signed.

Sheet size: 13” x 18.25”
Mat size: 20” x 24”
Unframed

She is listed in Who Was Who in American Art by Falk.

American School, Early 20th century

Western Landscape

Pastel on paper, signed indistinctly.

Sight size: 3.5” x 5.75”
Frame size: 8” x 10.5”