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8.5" high, 8" wide and engraved. Cast construction.

Gourds Grapes and Fruit an Italian School Still Life from the 18th Century. This still life of fruit is oil on canvas measures 24 inches tall by 20 inches wide and has been restored. In the frame this oil painting measures 29 inches tall by 25 inches wide.

12.5" high. Circa 1680.

American School Portrait of Rebecca Sterns by Robert Street circa 1840. Oil on canvas, 36" x 28" approx. 42" x 34" in the frame. Bears inscription verso that apparently relates to the original inscription on the back before lining. Robert Street was born in 1796 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, the grandson of an English immigrant who had mistakenly been disinherited. His activity as an artist is undocumented until 1815, when he exhibited a painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fin...

New England view. Oil on canvas, signed lower right, 18" x 14"

37" x 72" are the inside (mirror plate) dimensions

60" x 32"

A New England Gentleman Folk Art oil painting by John Brewster Jr John Brewster Jr, American (1766 - 1854) Born in Hampton, Connecticut, John Brewster was a deaf-mute born to Dr. John Brewster and Mary Durkee, his first wife. The son was raised in a highly cultured family with seven brothers and sisters. His mother died when he was seventeen years old, and the father then married Ruth Avery. Brewster worked successfully as an itinerant portrait painter, especially of children, along t...

"A Society Matron" Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861-1948) This portrait is of a woman sitting forward with her gaze directed towards the viewer. She wears a white off-the-shoulder dress adorned with a gold brooch along the neckline. This portrait painting is oil on canvas and measures 22 inches wide by 26 inches tall and is signed in the upper right corner. Painted in the first decade of 1900. In the frame this portrait oil painting measures 28 inches wide by 32 inches tall. Provenanc...

7" high, one candle holder with repair

Antique George III Giltwood Mirror with Verre Eglomise Panel with Original Gilding. 40" high, 23" wide, circa 1810. Note original gilding and eglomise panel.

20" x 15" framed, prob. English

13" diameter, bone knobs

34" high, 23,5" wide, prob. 20th C.

An extraordinary piece of Americana folk art. Jacob Henry Wrestling's Family, 18" x 20" watercolor and ink on paper in the original frame. Wonderful border with grape clusters, leaves and berries. See details in the enlargements. Signed and dated March 4, 1826. No holes or tears.

Frosted glass, 17" diameter and approx. 25" high

13" high, 9" wide Later electrified and wired for US electrical standards

26" high