Exceptional large scale miniature of a child in a fully developed landscape, approx. 6" x 4.5" image size, watercolor on ivory. Now in a modern frame and we may reframe this in a period frame upon request.
Antique, 19th Century, Fine Boston Seafaring Portrait, Oil Painting on artist card panel; handwritten note on verso states "oil painted on pastel board." Signed, "Ehrlich" lower left. Spectacles worn by the subject were produced middle 19th Century, and were called "turn pin." Panel is 14" x 11" (35.56 x 27.94 cm), having been cut down from its original, unknown size; newer wood frame, 18.5" x 21.5" (46.99 x 54.61 cm). c. 1850-1870. $40 US Shipping.
Portrait of a man, oil on canvas, singed and dated 1855. In the original gilt frame, 22" x 18.5"
Biography from AskART:
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, George Durrie was known as the "snowman" because of the many winter scenes he painted. He lived most of his life in New Haven and earned a reputation for rural landscape scenes, especially snow scenes, which he introduced as subject matter in American painting. His paintings "provide an excellent record of rural life in the mid-nineteenth ce... Click for details
16" x 24" signed lower left and dated '67 and with original stretcher and in custom fluted cove frame, approx. 21" x 29"
Biography from AskART:
Landscape painter Joseph Foxcroft Cole was born in Jay, Maine in 1837, but grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He went to France in 1860, alternating, for several years, study in winter at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and summer with the popular painter of Normandy landscapes, Emile Lambinet. Cole returned to Boston, but yet again in 1865 went back to Par... Click for details
