Oil on artist board in the original frame, 8" x 12" image size, frame: 15" x 18.5". Unsigned.

Nice bright impressionist landscape, 25" x 43" canvas size and signed lower left. Framed. Bio from askart.com: He was born in Middleboro, May 5, 1861, the son of August and Ardelia (Monk) Lamb. At the age of 17 he entered Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston and studied under Arthur Smith of England. This school was the first of its type in America. Later he taught modeling in clay and casting and painting in oil from still life at the New England Consevatory of Music...

Oil on canvas, 18" x 1 22" signed lower left and in custom carved and gold leaf frame: 27" x 31"--New England impressionist landscape. Bio from askart.com: Benjamin Foster's painting specialty was bucolic scenes of the New England countryside. His style was predominantly Tonalist* with subdued colors and limited tones---almost exclusively autumn colors, muted browns, grays and rusts...

Oil on wood panel, in what appears to be the original fine gilt frame. Approx. 14" x 9"

Circa 1860-80, circular oil on compo panel, approx. 12" diameter.

Oil on wood panel, in what appears to be the original frame. Signed lower right. Approx. 9" x 14"--Bio: De Penne was a landscape and animal painter, born in Paris in 1831. He was a student of Leon Cogniet. In 1857, after attending art school, he won the Rome Grand Second Prize with his painting Jesus et la Samaritaine, a subject inspired by Victor Hugo. De Penne also deeply loved the forest of Fontainebleau, animals and hunting...

Oil on canvas, approx. 10" x 14" --unsigned but surely by Armfield. Bio fromo ask art.com: George Armfield Smith (for by this name he was known until the year 1840) was born in Wales. (Actually Bristol: according to Armfield family information) His father was a painter, who for some time had a studio at 54, Pall Mall, London, (His father was the portrait painter William Armfield Hobday (1771-1831)) and from his father, George Armfield obtained any artistic tuition he may have received...

Approx. 8" x 10", Thought to be painted by a Brit named Smyth--after original composition by Emms.

19" x 26" oil on canvas, signed lower left. Titled in artist's hand, on back stretcher "The Willows" and with imprint of sale of Murphy's work after his death in 1926 at the American Art Association and bearing exhibition label. A large example of Murphy's work.

Oil on canvas, 20" x 24", unsigned and in decorative frame. Provenance: Christie's, London sold as Collyer for approx. $3500.

18" x 30" oil on canvas, signed lower right, unlined on original stretchers and what appears to be the original frame, a view of the Berkshire mountains. Bio from askart.com: Born in Hillsdale, near Hudson, New York, John Bristol was primarily a self-taught artist. He did study briefly with the landscapist Henry Ary, who moved to the Hudson area in the early 1840s...

Portrait of a young lady from Pennsylvania holding a book, signed and dated 1830, 30" x 25". Bio from askart.com: A highly respected and popular portraitist of his time but largely forgotten today, Robert Street also did historical and Biblical scenes, but many of his paintings have been lost...