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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Bowls decorated with seahorses. One in aluminum and the other in Waterford Crystal but all fun.
A prettied up world it is fun to admire. Maybe it looked like that, maybe it didn’t. Not sure it really matters. American Symbolist artist Pinckney Marcius-Simons. Living from 1867 to 1909, he was born in the United States but mostly lived in Europe. Studied at the Vaugirard College in Paris.
Parsifal and the Knights of the Holy Grail. Undated, by 1909 American, Pinckney Marcius-Simons, artist (1867-19i09), Oil on canvas. Signed MARCIUS-SIMONS on the lower right, artist identified on a label from the Pennsylvania Museum of Art affixed to the back of the frame. Image © Skinner Auction Galleries. Fair use license. via https://live.skinnerinc.com/lots/view/4-5ZWH5B/pinckney-marcius-simons-american-1867-1909
A mere bagatelle for the mantelpiece. 19th century garnitures. Gilt, silver bronze and other fun things.
Three piece garniture comprised of a central clock and a pair of flanking vases, all veneered in lapis lazuli with gilt bronze mounts. The clock with a central circular drum case holding the movement, fronted by the dial with enamel roundel showing the time in Roman and Arabic numerals. The clock with a hanging pendulum below and with clockworks set within a case flanked by two columns on each side. Two Greek sphinx figures with female heads and the wings of a bird are placed atop the lintel, set in line with the columns and facing outwards. The clock is surmounted by a lidded urn with flowers and fruit. The flanking vases with similar decorations and featuring twin intertwined serpent handles. Neoclassical, made in the late 19th century with the lapis lazuli veneer added later. French. Image © 2022 Mayfair Gallery Limited. Fair use license. via https://www.mayfairgallery.com/gilt-bronze-and-lapis-lazuli-three-piece-clock-garniture
Garniture with a central mantel clock and pair of flanking candlesticks. Ormolu with the malachite veneer added later. The mantel clock features a shaped malachite base raised by two ormolu toupie feet and two scrolled acanthus leaf feet. The base supports, via a waisted plinth, the circular white enamel clock dial which is inscribed with Arabic numeral hours indices. The dial is contained within an ormolu bezel and is set within the malachite case. The clock case is flanked by twin malachite and ormolu quiver and arrow elements and is surmounted by a malachite urn-form finial draped with ormolu foliate garlands. The candlesticks are similarly decorated, each raised on a conforming malachite and ormolu base and terminating in a single candleholder. Late 19th c,. Neoclassical French. The enamel dial is signed Ovington Brothers Co. / New York / Made in France for the retailer that originally sold the set. Image © 2022 Mayfair Gallery Limited. Fair use license. via https://www.mayfairgallery.com/antique-french-malachite-ormolu-three-piece-clock-set
An envisioning . . . 1950 and an apartment next to the railway line outside Munich.
Oh to be here.
January in Bavaria. The drafts so bad all the hot tea in the world barely warms anyone up.
But home. Years in Africa bouncing around country to country wherever the foreign office says. The Pacific after with the same effect. A treat. One’s home country and own language. Funny. So many dialects heard but the other never forgotten.
Husband napping and the children coming later. Daughter to make the sauerbraten. English, her family is, with the others still in Italy. One country they all were once but spread out all over now like bees swarming out of a hive. The wars and everything rearranged. Places needing to be gotten out of and going wherever they will give you a visa even if it’s hotter than a Finnish sauna in mid-winter or so cold only a polar bear could smile.
But journals at the end of the bookcase shelf to help remember it all with. Photo after photo with the best at the end. First husband and honeymooning at his grandfather’s estate in Poland. Being a bride and a walk down the lane . . .umbrellas but no rain that day. . . no . . .sun and country air and a joy in being together . . . mind gone in the first war and it never came back but no way to know that then . . . a blessing . .
Image: Archduke Karl of Austria and Hungary and Archduchess Zita taking a walk. Ca. 1911. Collections of the Library of Congress. http://www.LOC.gov. https://www.emperorcharles.org/blog/2018/10/7/blessed-karl-a-humble-king
Images of a Russia that isn’t coming back painted by Fedor (Fyodor) Slavyansky. Living from 1817 to 1876, he studied with artist Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov. 
Home on a quiet afternoon. Dutch mothers and their children painted by Bernard Pothast. Living from 1882 to 1966, he was a genre painter whose favorite subjects was the peasant family.
19th century birds painted by Danish artist Niels Peter Rasmussen. Living from 1847 to 1918, he also painted portraits and flowers.
Plates that illustrate the harmony and contrast of colors. From M. E. Chevreul’s work “The laws of contrast of colour and their application to the arts of painting, decoration of buildings, mosaic work, tapestry and carpet weaving, calico printing, dress, paper staining, printing, military clothing, illumination, landscape, and flower gardening.” Published in 1861 in London and New York by Routledge, Warne and Routledge, an English translation of the French.
A place to be in your dreams. Marianne Stokes, artist. Living from 1855 to 1927, she was born in Austria but moved to England after marrying landscape painter Adrian Scott Stokes.
Make your new house look very old even if it is new. Decor ideas from back in time, taken from H. Davis Benn’s work “Style in furniture” which was illustrated by W. C. Baldock. Published in London in 1920.
