Landscapes by American painter Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925). Various collections. Mostly with trees, one with just water.
Family portraits by American painter Eastman Johnson. Living from 1824 to 1906 he studied art in Düsseldorf, The Hague and Paris. One of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Glass champagne coupes (flutes) from Viennese firm A J & L Lobmyer. Founded in 1823 they are still in business.
Floral form shaped enamel champagne coupes (flutes). ca. 1900. Art Nouveau/Jugendstil. Glass. Austrian, made in Vienna. A. J. and L Lobmyer, makers. Maker’s marks: signed with makers marks on the underside. Image © 2022 Incollect.com. Fair use license. via https://www.incollect.com/listings/decorative-arts/tablewares/lobmeyr-champagne-flower-form-enamel-art-glass-1905-299431
Chromolithographs of orchids, plates from various works in the series “Lindenia”, published by Belgian horticulturalist and explorer Jean Linden who was the scientific director of the Royal Society of Zoology and Horticulture in Brussels. He also traveled to Central America and saw orchids growing wild. From the same lot and folio, these are all up for bid at Sotheby’s.
Travel to India and back by the Cape Horn route on a sailing ship back in 1859 if only in your mind. Lithographic plates from John Corbet Anderson’s 1859 work “To India and back by the Cape” which was a self-published guide book for adventurous travelers.
Have a drawing room just like Marie Antoinette’s Trianon. Rococo designs taken from Adolph Hoffman’s 1800 work “Holzsculpturen und Möbel in Rococo : Stühle, Sessel, Tische, Schemel, Guéridons, Uhrgehaüse, Consolen, Spiegel- und Bilder-Rahmen, Ornamente, etc.”
Art Deco/1920s era hand-fans, taken from the June offerings of Fan d’eventails, Paris.
Illustrations by Victorian illustrator Eleanor Vere Boyle who mostly illustrated children’s books. Living from 1825 to 1916, she was strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites.
https://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/pdfs/37131009552274d.pdf In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eleanor_Vere_Boyle_Beauty_and_the_Beast.jpg
John James Audubon animals. All from a current Swann auction catalog.
Garden ornaments that they don’t sell at Home Depot. Plates from Salomon de Caus 1620 work “Hortvs Palatinvs: A Friderico Rege Boemiae Electore Palatino Heidelbergae Exstructus.” Collections of the University of Heidelberg.
19th century orchids, painted by American artist Charles Storer. Living from 1817 to 1907, he also painted landscapes and still-lifes.
Orchids from Nature. 1902. American. Oil on canvas. Charles Storer, artist (1917-1907). Signed and dated Chas. Storer/1902 on the lower right. Signed and dated ORCHIDS, painted /from nature by/Charles Storer,/1902. on the reverse, identified on a label from The Boston Art Club affixed to the frame backing. Image © 1999 – 2022Bonhams SKINNER, INC, Fai use license. via https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/4110M/lots/39
Cows in summer. American. Thomas Bigelow Craig, painter. Living from 1849 to 1924, sometimes he painted sheep, too. Studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Cattle on a country road. Undated, by 1924. American. Oil on canvas. Thomas Bigelow Craig, painter (1849-1924). Signed Thos. B. Craig on the lower left. Image © CHRISTIE’S 2022, Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. Fair use license. via https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4559006
