Oil on canvas, approx. 25 3/4" x 21.5" and in a period gilt French frame, approx. 35" x 32"--this work inscribed lower left and attributed in good faith to the artist as a work after the David and dated 1832.
16" x 24" oil on canvas, signed lower left. Bio from askart.com:Walter Francis Brown was a painter and illustrator whose specialty was scenes of Venice, his adopted home. He studied at Brown University and in Paris with Jean Leon Gerome.
His work can be found at the Hay Library in Providence, Rhode Island. He was an illustrator for 'A Tramp Abroad', by Mark Twain, and 'Roger Williams', by Charles Miller.
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Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"
10" x 8" oval painting, signed and dated 1860--finely detailed painting in a later maple frame with gild spandrel. Frame dimensions: 15 1/4" x 13.5"--the frame could be changed to an oval frame of the period. Bio from ask art.com: Anna Eliza Hardy, the daughter of the artist Jeremiah Pearson Hardy and Catherine Sears Wheeler Hardy was born Jan. 26, 1839 in Bangor Maine. Anna Eliza, or Annie as she was known, was the only daughter and youngest of four children. Hardy's early education was tha... Click for details
Oil on canvas, on the original stretcher, unlined. Signed lower right. Bio from Ask art.com: Wesley Webber was born in Gardiner, Maine and became interested in art at an early age. About 1858 he went to Boston and was apprenticed for three years to J.C. Roberts of Haymarket Square, an ornamental sign and carriage painter. Webber entered the Sixteenth Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment in July 1862 and was reportedly the only artist on hand at the surrender of Lee's forces at Appomattox. He pro... Click for details
Oil on heavy artist board, signed lower left and dated lower right 1920. 11" x 8.5"
Bio from askart.com:Born near Newark, New Jersey, Louis Eilshemius was an eccentric artist with a vision of his own that conformed to no school or tradition of painting. He referred to himself as the "Grand Parnassian and Transcendental Eagle of the Arts" (Falk).
He lived in Europe from 1873 to 1881, attended Cornell University and the Art Students League in New York, and from 1886 to 1887, the Academie Jul... Click for details
