Category: Paintings of interiors

 Watercolors of fashionable interiors in houses and hotels that look to be from the 1840s. From an album probably kept by a female member of the  Coote family whose family seat was at Ballyfin, Leinster, Ireland. The album being up for sale on the website of rare book dealer Justin Croft.

Untitled interior with woman reading by a fireside with the room looking to be the same as that in the watercolor titled “Caza Leoli, Pise,” Italy. ca. 1840s. Anglo-Irish. Watercolor that is part of an album that was probably kept by a female member of the  Coote family whose family seat was at Ballyfin, Leinster, Ireland. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7779/coote-family/album/.
Caza Leoli – à Pise. Two men seated on chairs with a third standing in front of the fireplace in the same hotel parlor or suite as the first image, as the furnishings and wallpaper are identical, located in Pisa, Italy. ca. 1840s. Anglo-Irish. Watercolor that is part of an album that was probably kept by a female member of the  Coote family whose family seat was at Ballyfin, Leinster, Ireland. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7779/coote-family/album/.

Salon au Quai du Midi (Nice?). ca. 1840s. Anglo-Irish. Watercolor that is part of an album that was probably kept by a female member of the  Coote family whose family seat was at Ballyfin, Leinster, Ireland. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7779/coote-family/album/.
Un salon d’Hôtel – 1842. à Tours. Anglo-Irish. Watercolor that is part of an album that was probably kept by a female member of the  Coote family whose family seat was at Ballyfin, Leinster, Ireland. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7779/coote-family/album/.
Eté 1842 Maison Viallon (La Mulatière, Lyon).  Anglo-Irish. Watercolor that is part of an album that was probably kept by a female member of the  Coote family whose family seat was at Ballyfin, Leinster, Ireland. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7779/coote-family/album/.
Eté 1844. Bagni di Lucca (Italy). Anglo-Irish. Watercolor that is part of an album that was probably kept by a female member of the  Coote family whose family seat was at Ballyfin, Leinster, Ireland. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7779/coote-family/album/.
Eté 1845. Viareggio (Italy). 1840s. Anglo-Irish. Watercolor that is part of an album that was probably kept by a female member of the  Coote family whose family seat was at Ballyfin, Leinster, Ireland. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7779/coote-family/album/.
Salon. Chez le Prince Méncherski. 1840s. Anglo-Irish. Watercolor that is part of an album that was probably kept by a female member of the  Coote family whose family seat was at Ballyfin, Leinster, Ireland. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7779/coote-family/album/.
Untiled watercolor of an interior. 1840s. Anglo-Irish. Watercolor that is part of an album that was probably kept by a female member of the  Coote family whose family seat was at Ballyfin, Leinster, Ireland. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7779/coote-family/album/.
Untitled interior with a woman in a black dress reading by the fire. 1840s. Anglo-Irish. Watercolor that is part of an album that was probably kept by a female member of the  Coote family whose family seat was at Ballyfin, Leinster, Ireland. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7779/coote-family/album/.
Maison de Roubion. 1840s. Anglo-Irish. Watercolor that is part of an album that was probably kept by a female member of the  Coote family whose family seat was at Ballyfin, Leinster, Ireland. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7779/coote-family/album/.
Maison Gilly. 1840s. Anglo-Irish. Watercolor that is part of an album that was probably kept by a female member of the  Coote family whose family seat was at Ballyfin, Leinster, Ireland. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7779/coote-family/album/.
Petersbourg – Caserne des Chevaliers Gardes. 1840s. Anglo-Irish. Watercolor that is part of an album that was probably kept by a female member of the  Coote family whose family seat was at Ballyfin, Leinster, Ireland. Image © 2023 Justin Croft. Fair use license. via https://www.justincroft.com/book/7779/coote-family/album/.

Interior spaces in North Frisia with painter Karl Ludwig Jessen. (1833-1917). Born in Schleswig-Holstein in what is now Germany, he studied art in Copenhagen. A member of the Naturalism school.

Die blaue Stube. 1912. Schleswig-Holstein/Frisian. Signed and dated on the lower right. Karl Ludwig Jessen, painter (1833-1917). Image source: NordseeMuseum Husum, Husum. Artwork itself in the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1912_Jessen_Die_blaue_Stube_anagoria.JPG
Interior of a Friesian house with two cats. 1907. Schleswig-Holstein/Frisian. Karl Ludwig Jessen, painter (1833-1917). Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://oldpaintings.tumblr.com/post/668481936187129856/interior-of-a-friesian-house-with-two-cats-1907
The brown parlor. 1874. Schleswig-Holstein/Frisian. Karl Ludwig Jessen, painter (1833-1917). Signed and dated on the lower left. Collections of the Museumsberg Flensburg. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Art/Paintings/CarlLudwigJessen/en/PartCLJessen0020.html
Rotes Zimmer bei Paul Moritzen. 1869. Schleswig-Holstein/Frisian. Karl Ludwig Jessen, painter (1833-1917). Signed and dated on the lower left. Collections of the Museumsberg Flensburg. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jessen_Carl_Ludwig_Rotes_Zimmer_Museumsberg_Flensburg_Heinrich-Sauermann-Haus.JPG

The insides of rooms, mostly in Vienna. If you stare at them long enough you can time travel back long enough to take a nap on the sofa. Austrian artist, Rudolf Ritter van Alt. Living from 1812 to 1905, he studied at the  Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. Part of a 19th century fashion for having watercolor portraits done of the rooms in your mansion.


The Morning Room of the Palais Lanckoronski, Vienna. 1881. Austrian. Watercolor heightened with white on paper. Private collection. Image source: the-athenaeum.org. Artwork in the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rudolf_Ritter_von_Alt_004.jpg
Salon in the Apartment of Count Lanckoroński in Vienna. 1881. Austrian. Watercolor heightened with white on paper. Collection of Thomas le Claire, art dealer, Hamburg as of 2003. Image source: Image source: the-athenaeum.org. Artwork in the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rudolf_Ritter_von_Alt_002.jpg
 Innenansicht des Palmenhauses von Schloss Eisgrub. 1842. Austrian. Watercolor. Collections of the Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rudolf_von_Alt_011.jpg

Rooms to gaze at while everyone who lives there is out for the day. Danish. Christian Tilemann-Petersen, artist. Living from 1874 to 1926, he is known for his depictions of interiors and architecture.

 Interiør fra Eremitagen. 1917. Danish. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1917 Christian Tilemann-Petersen on the bottom left. Image source: bruun-rasmussen.dk. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 80 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_Tilemann-Petersen_-Interi%C3%B8r_fra_Eremitagen-_1917.png


 Interiør fra Rosenborg Slot. 1921. Danish. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated Christian Tilemann-Petersen 1921 on the lower left. Image source; bruun-rasmussen.dk. Artwork itself in the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 80 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_Tilemann-Petersen_-Interi%C3%B8r_fra_Rosenborg_Slot-_1921.png



Castle interior. 1908. Danish. Oil on canvas. Image ©2021 Artnet Worldwide Corporation.  Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://www.artnet.com/artists/christian-tilemann-petersen/castle-interior-h-72m2h6gL071kJlyAmx9Q2

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Decorate every room in your home in Gothic Revival with no faux pas. Go shopping with “Pugin’s Gothic furniture” put out by Augustus Pugin in 1830 and published by R. Ackermann in London. Pugin did work at the Palace of Westminster, too.

“Group of Gothic Furniture.” Frontispiece. 1830. Page 5. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/puginsgothicfurn00pugi_0/page/n5/mode/1up
“Decorations and Furniture of a Room.” Title page. 1830. Page 6. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/puginsgothicfurn00pugi_0/page/n6/mode/1up
“Horizontal Grand Piano Forte.” 1830. Page 10. Page 5. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/puginsgothicfurn00pugi_0/page/n10/mode/1up

More coming.

Sitting down to tea with Austrian still life painter Lea Reinhart. Living from 1877 to 1970, she probably studied at the Vienna Art School for Women.

“Still Life with Antiques,.” Undated. Austrian. Oil on panel. Signed “L. Reinhart.” © Estate of the artist. Image © 2021 Dorotheum GmbH & Co KG. Fair use license. via https://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/580154/
“Still Life with Antiquities and Strawberries.” Undated. Austrian. Oil on panel. Signed “L. Reinhart.” © Estate of the artist. Fair use license. via https://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2017/03/Lea-Reinhart.html and dorotheum.com.
Still life. Undated. Austrian. Oil on panel. Signed “L. REINHART” on the upper left. © Estate of the artist. © Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22689/lot/309/

Dutch men and women going along and living life. Painted by Dutch Golden Age artist Pieter Janssens Elinga. Living from 1623 to 1682, he mostly painted domestic interior scenes.

“Room in a Dutch house”. 1655. Dutch. Oil on canvas. Collections of the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. Image source: Jane023. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dutch_Masters_from_the_Hermitage_20180411_23.jpg
Interior with Painter, Woman Reading and Maid Sweeping. 1666.Dutch. Oil. Collections of the  Städel Museum, Frankfurt. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1668_Elinga_Interieur_mit_lesender_Dame_und_kehrender_Magd_anagoria.JPG
Interior scene. 17th c. Dutch. Signed “PJE” as a monogram. Collections of the Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/interior-scene-pieter-janssens-elinga/ewGcX0hqwXL-6w

Aspirational decor to spruce up your home for when the Prince Regent stops by. Illustrations from the 1816 work by H. Repton, Esquire and his son J. Adey Repton , F.A.S, “Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture.” Published in London.

“Window at Barningham.” Page 75. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ARNROAEXKQQ7R38Y/pages/ACB3R7B4CWXU3F8J
“Window at Barningham.” Page 76. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ARNROAEXKQQ7R38Y/pages/AAO7SHRC5YAGOK8J
“Barningham Hall, Norfolk/. J. T. Mott Esquire.” (stairhall detail). Page 78. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ARNROAEXKQQ7R38Y/pages/ABO74KVBEQUXAP8U
Interior with chairs with red upholstery.(upper image) Page 113. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ARNROAEXKQQ7R38Y/pages/AGO5PWJ3Q47FA78R
Interior with bookcases. Page 113. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ARNROAEXKQQ7R38Y/pages/AGO5PWJ3Q47FA78R
“The Vinery.” Page 210. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ARNROAEXKQQ7R38Y/pages/AONVN57XL7RQWE8L
“The Rosary at Ashridge.” Page 233, Collections of the University of Wisconsin. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ARNROAEXKQQ7R38Y/pages/AQK27H2O2PZW5D8K

How to dress up the house for when the empress comes to call. Plates from “Recueil de décorations intérieures,” published for Napoleon and his Josephine. All of these from Cahier 3 which appeared in 1801. French. Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, creators.

“Vue perspective de la Chambre à coucher du Cit. V. à Paris.” Plate 13. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?type=article&did=DLDecArts.PercierIII.i0003&id=DLDecArts.PercierIII&isize=M&q1=Percier
“Lit du Cit. V. exécuté par Alex Regnier.” Plate 14. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. In the public domain due to age. via https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?type=article&did=DLDecArts.PercierIII.i0004&id=DLDecArts.PercierIII&isize=M&q1=Percier
“Camées peints sur Email, placés dans la traverse du Lit.” Plate 15. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. In the public domain due to age. via https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?type=article&did=DLDecArts.PercierIII.i0005&id=DLDecArts.PercierIII&isize=M&q1=Percier
“Peintures exécutées dans les Panneaux de la Chambre du Cit. V.” Plate 16. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?type=article&did=DLDecArts.PercierIII.i0006&id=DLDecArts.PercierIII&isize=M&q1=Percier
“Peintures exécutées dans divers Panneaux de la Chambre du Cit. V.” Plate 17. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?type=article&did=DLDecArts.PercierIII.i0007&id=DLDecArts.PercierIII&isize=M&q1=Percier
“Vases exécutés dans la Maison de Me … à Paris.” Plate 18. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?type=article&did=DLDecArts.PercierIII.i0008&id=DLDecArts.PercierIII&isize=M&q1=Percier

Paintings of rooms in people’s houses just a while ago. Plenty of time to examine the decor before they come back. Danish. Hans Hilsøe, artist (1871-1942).

Interior scene. Undated. Danish. Oil on canvas. Signed “H. HILSØE” on the lower right. Image
© Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/18859/lot/3/
“Kamma Rahbeks Dagligstue.” Undated. Danish. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image © 2021 Mutual Art Services, Inc. Fair use license. via https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/-Kamma-Rahbeks-Dagligstue-/03858D8C87635BB1
A room with a view. Undated. Danish. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image © 2021 Thomas Fine Art. Fair use license. via https://thomasfineart.net/product/a-room-with-a-view-hans-hilsoe/