Catalog: Fine Art: Paintings (144)

Signed lower right in original frame, 20" x 24" Bi from askart.com: Alice Estelle James (1889-1970) Alice James studied art privately with a number of important painters of her time beginning with Emil Carlsen in New York. In Europe she received instruction from Valentin Hennemann in Belgium and from Kate Holson Carpenter, an English artist, who had studied at the National Academy of Design in New York...

Rare pair of Southern portraits at this poiint unattributed, by Family history depicting a brother and sister from North Carolina and I have not yet had them studied at MESDA. I original frames, outside dimensions are approx 40" x 34" The boy grew to be killed in the Civil War. The hand is strong enough to trace with time and effort. The mountains behind the girl suggest the area west of Winston Salem.

Approx. 20" x 23.5" oil on canvas laid down on masonite. I have recently cleaned this work and it is priced without a frame.

Circular, oil on plasterboard, 16: diameter. Folk art image and a very unusual still life. Life is not a bowl of cherries over time--- so great idea to buy a bowl of cherries!!

Pastel on paper, in carved and gilded frame, overall size 34".5" x 27.5"

26" x 22" oil on canvas, in the frame, approx. 31" x 27" Provenance: Christie's, NY Formerly the property of Mellon Evans estate. I would love to attribute this portrait to the right artist.

In what appears to be the original frame, I cannot find a bio on this artist. It appears to be a Bermuda view, 52.5" x 40" and canvas size: 28.5" x 40"

37.5" x 32.5" in the original frame, canvas size approx. 32" x 27" Original frame

Oil on wood panel, 10 3/8" x 16 1/8" panel size., signed.

Ann Sophia Towne Darrah (1819 - 1881) Canvas Size: 12.5" x 18" Overall Size: 21" x 27" Pastel portraitist, landscape and marine painter; born in Philadelphia, September 30, 1819; died in Boston in 1881. Mrs. Darrah exhibited regularly at the Boston Athenaeum from 1855 to 1865, as well as the Pennsylvania Academy. The catelogues of the latter institution list her in 1856 as a resident of Philadelphia, in 1858 as of South Charleston (N.H.), and in 1867 as of Boston...

Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1753. 39.5" x 52" currently unframed. Nymph running from a satyr in an extensive landscape. For bio, see Benezit, and listings of museums holding work of this artist who had a way of painting large works over mantles. I can make a custom frame for this work or allow the purchasing client to make that decision.

Approx 11.5" x 17" Very good quality. Bears old label from original frame on the back (see photo)

Oil on canvas, approx 13 .5 x 19.5" Horse cart. signed.

Oil on canvas, signed upper right. Charming portrait of African-American Boy with basket of bread. Bio from askart.com: An artist whose specialty was depiction of children, especially street urchins and newsboys in the style of John George Brown. He was born in Austria or Poland and lived in New Jersey, having studied in Paris at the Academie Julian in the late 1880s. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design.

Oil on canvas, 18" x 24" canvas size. Approx 23" x 30" in the frame. Fully signed but most Danish makers not well known or researched.

Oil on wood board, signed lower left "RH Fuller", approx 7" x 12" and fully restored and framed with a custom frame of our own manufacture and with gold leaf. This is an American view likely from NH. Bio from ask art.com: Richard Henry Fuller, an artist known for his landscapes and portraits in oil and crayon, was born in Bradford, NH on October 19,1822 and died in Chelsea, MA on December 24, 1871. Fuller was orphaned at the age of seven and moved to Boston, MA in 1840...

Oil on panel, 12" x 16" signed lower right and bearing original title and inscription verso, "The Afterglow" priced unframed.

35" x 48" oil on canvas, seemingly unfinished usually bright topographical landscape without a signature. Lined and on a 19th C stretcher, I believe this to be a work after or in the style of a 17th C Dutch artist. Priced unframed.