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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Portraits of women and children taken from a leather covered album titled “Portraits” which consists of thirteen watercolor portraits by Vladimir Gau (Hau), one by Eduard Hau and fifteen photographs. Russian. ca. 1840, it was auctioned by Christies London in 2018.
Please note that some of these are signed and that others identify the sitter. The handwriting is quite faded out so I can’t read it. I’m sorry. The Haus were very well known watercolorists in Saint Petersburg and did many commissions for the tsar, the Imperial family and the court.
Out and about and going to parties. Théodore Cériez, Belgian genre painter. Living from 1832 to 1904, he also painted animals and children.
After the party – Commedia del’Arte characters sleeping on a stairway. Undated. Belgian. Oil on panel. Signed T. Ceriez on the lower right. Image © Christies 2022. Fair use license. via https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-1544276?ldp_breadcrumb=back&intObjectID=1544276&from=salessummary&lid=1
Living a sort of exciting life back a bit . . .maybe it looked like that, maybe it didn’t. Crowd scenes painted by Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret who lived from 1782 to 1863. Studied with Jacques-Louis David.
Women out and about just a little while ago. Genre scenes, painted by George Dunlop Leslie RA who lived from 1835 to 1921. His father and his uncle were artists, too.
Fortunes. Undated. British. Oil on canvas. Image source: Christies. Artwork in the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 70 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Dunlop_Leslie_-_Fortunes.jpg
The lives of the ancients seen through a French Neoclassical haze. François-André Vincent, painter. Living from 1746 to 1816, he was the son of the miniaturist François-Elie Vincent. Master of drawings to King Louis XVI.
Views of Venice at mid century, the 19th century, that is. All of these with interesting sky treatments. Ippolito Caffi, artist. Living from 1809 to 1866, his first works were produced at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice.
Views of Ancient Greece as seen in the mid 18th century. Plates from Julien David LeRoy’s work “Monuments de la Grèce, considérées du côté de l’histoire et l’architecture”. Printed in 1770 in Paris by Louis-François Delatour. Collections of the BnF Gallica, the digital version of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Plates from the portfolio of prints “Meister der Innen-Kunst: Haus eines Kunstfreundes” which has artwork by various people. Designed in 1901, it was published in Darmstadt, Germany in 1092. Part of a contest by Zeitschrift für Innendekoration
Lying around pretending to be one of the ancients when you are a Pre-Raphaelite person. Art by Sir William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens. Living from 1862 to 1943, he was born in America but painted in Great Britain. Studied at the Royal Academy School.
http://www.italialiberty.it. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/summer-william-reynolds-stephens/3AHzTLJ0BahnYw
More from Percy MacQuoid’s work “History of English Furniture: Age of Satinwood.” Published in Edinburgh by T. and A. Constable, printers to His Majesty (Edward VII). Collections of the Society of the Four Arts.
