Oil on wood panel, 8" x 10" and 16" x 18" in the custom gilt frame. Signed lower left and dated '82.. Biography courtesy of askart.com:Born September 1, 1823, in Nimjegen, Holland, Arnold Wydeveld became a still life and genre painter known primarily for fruit and floral still lifes. He also did numerous depictions of fish from the 1870s.
His original Dutch name was Arnoldus. His parents were Evert Andries van Weydevelt and Hendrina Emmerik. He had a brother Henri, whose son Hendrikus Theod... Click for details
Oil on canvas, signed lower left, 20" x 30" image size and 26" x 36" in the frame. Titled "Adam and Eve"
Bio from Owen Gallery: Arthur Bowen Davies, the fourth of five children, was born in Utica, New York. His first formal art training was at the Art Institute of Chicago in the early 1880s. By the end of the decade, Davies moved to New York City and began exhibiting his artwork.
He was one of eight artists included in the landmark exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery in 1908. The show w... Click for details
Oil on canvas, approx. 17" x 13"--bearing inscription verso by family member, a work he painted while he was in France. Priced unframed. From askart.com this biography:
The following is from Peter Kostoulakos, ISA ˜ Fine Art Consultant
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Frederick Porter Vinton
1846-1911
Frederick Porter Vinton — painter of portraits, figures, and landscapes — was born in Bangor, ME on January 29, 1846 and died in Boston, MA on May 19, 1911. He was active from the 1870s right up to his dea... Click for details
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.
Source:
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
