Impressive floral still life, attributed to Monnoyer and thought to have been housed in one of the King's (Louis XIV) royal palaces during his reign. 50" x 65" are approximate dimensions.

Oil on canvas, signed lower right , 16" x20" Bio from ask art. courtesy Roger King in RI:Sidney Lawrence Brackett (1852-1910) was born in Boston and studied under John B. Johnson and Frederic Porter Vinton. He was a member of the Boston Art Club, where his work appeared in exhibitions throughout the 1890s and into the first decade of the twentieth century. Brackett is particularly known for his detailed and lifelike animal paintings, which remain among the most outstanding American examples...

Oil on canvas, 26" x 22"--signed lower right. Portrait of the wife of Gerit Beneker (1882-1934) who was a friend or Miller and this work was held in a collection of works by Beneker that were sold in the Boston area some years ago. We might guess it was painted about 1915 and was not placed on a stretcher until more recent times. Bio from askart.com: A plein-air and impressionist painter as well as illustrator, Richard Miller was especially known for his paintings of female figures in sunli...

Prosper Lecourtier (French, 1855-1924)

Bear

Bronze sculpture, signed.

Height: 10”
Length: 11”

Lecourtier was born at Grimilly in 1855 and studied under Fremiet and Coutan. He exhibited at the Paris Salons and was awarded medals in 1879, 1880, 1900 and 1902. He also won a bronze medal at the Exposition Universalle in 1900.

Lecourtier specialized in animal bronzes and is represented in the Provins Museum and the Tourcoing Museum. He died in Paris in...

Sunrise Over the Sea

John F. Hawkins (American, 19th/20th century)

Oil on canvas laid down, signed dated: “1919”.

Hawkins was a New York painter who exhibited at the Argent Gallery and he is listed in Mallett’s Index of Artists. He is represented in The Frederick R Weisman Art Museum at The University of Minnesota.

Painting size: 12” x 22”
Frame size: 18.75” x 28.75”

George Elmer Browne (American, 1871-1946)

Brittany Village at Night

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right.

Painting: 22” x 26”
Frame: 25.75” x 29.75”

Browne was born in Gloucester, MA, May 6, 1871. He studied at the School of Drawing and Painting, the Museum of Fine Arts, and Cowles Art School all in Boston, as well as at the Academie Julien in Paris, under Lefebvre and Robert-Fleury. He was a member of the most prestigious artists’ societies exhibiting...

D.C. Transit Garage

James Francis O’Brien (American, 1917-1996)

Oil on canvas, inscribed on the reverse

. Painting size: 18” x 24”
Frame size: 23” x 29”

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Born in...

Marine Painting, Ships Sailing into Harbor by Stanfield

Shipping off the Coast

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right

Painting Size: 10” x 16”
Frame Size: 14 ” x 20”

The son of artist Clarkson Stanfield, George Stanfield trained and worked with his father and also attended the Royal Academy Schools. He painted both in oil and watercolor, exhibiting at the British Institution and at the Royal Academy. He most often painted views in France, Holland, Germany, ...

Neo-Classical ormolu mounted dressing table in mahogany having a rectangular top with two incurved small drawers and an elevating cheval mirror above a frieze drawer and two cabriole legs ending in hoof form feet on an incurved platform base. Probably Baltic, circa 1830-1840.

Height: 38” (closed)
Height: 59.75” (open)
Width: 37.25”
Depth: 16.25”

Heading Out

Attributed to Alfred Stannard (British, 1806-1889)

Oil on artist board. From the supply label on the back we can date this to the 1830’s.

An artist in a family of artists, Stannard was the brother of Joseph and father of Alfred George.

Although known primarily as a landscape painter, he also produced a few highly regarded marine and coastal scenes. Stannard’s works were exhibited at Norwich and at the British Institution from 1826-1860.

The Norw...

Geo. Colanze (19th century)

Young Beauty with Flowers

Oil on panel, signed.

Painting size: 14” x 18”
Frame size: 18.75” x 22.75”

The Waterfall

American School, mid 19th Century.

Oil on artist board.

Painting Size: 11.5” x 8.5”
Frame Size: 16.75” x 13.75”

Hudson River School (mid 19th century)

View of The Oxbow

Oil on canvas.

Painting: 22" x 36"
Frame: 30" x 44.5"

Founder of the Hudson River School, Thomas Cole, painted the most famous work depicting the Oxbow of the Connecticut River in 1836 (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts) and influenced a generation of Hudson River School artists. In this rendering by an unidentified artist, the serene panorama of the Connecticut River Valley with the re...

Tunis Coast

Porter Woodruff (American, early/mid-20th century)

Oil on panel, signed.

Provenance: from the Estate of Ella Poe Burling, Washington, DC.

Woodruff, a painter and illustrator, exhibited at the Salons of America in 1934. He created a striking Art Deco cover for Vogue in 1928 and is listed in Who Was Who in American Art by Falk.

Painting size: 19.75” x 26”
Frame size: 24.75” x 31”

Eli Delburt Maybee (American, 1881-1950)

Portrait of a Dog

Oil on canvas, signed lower right.

Painting Size: 11.5” x 9” Frame Size: 17.5 ” x 15”

Eli Maybee was born April 14th, 1881 in Ontario, Canada. He immigrated with his parents in 1886 to the US and they settled in Onondaga, New York. He was winner of a Hiram Gee Fellowship in Painting in Syracuse, NY in 1911. By 1918 he was living in Colorado Springs, Colorado with his wife Mattie Maud Maybe...

Louis de Berg (European. late 19th Century)

A Harbor Town

Oil on Canvas

Painting Size: 5.5" x 8.5"
Frame Size: 15.5" x 18.5"

English Victorian Reading or Dictionary Stand: partially ebonized figured walnut and fruitwood, having a sloped bookrest supported by a ring and vasiform turned pillar and raised on four scrolling legs with ebonized turned finials and ending in porcelain castors. Circa 1880.

28" x 15" x 42' tall

American School, early 20th Century

Impressionist Fall River Landscape

Oil-on-canvas, signed indistinctly lower right

Painting: 30" x 34"
Frame: 34" x 37"