Academic Landscape Paintings

The art is signed AB..6. lower right corner Albert Bierstadt, a luminary of 19th-century American landscape painting, was born on January 7, 1830, in Solingen, Prussia (now Germany)...

"Sunrise on the Shore" by Andreas Schelfhout stands as a testament to the extraordinary talent of the Dutch artist, born in The Hague in 1787. A prominent figure of the Romantic move...

Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2021 Style: Impressionism Subject: Sunset, Size: 17.5" x 23.5" x 0.8...

Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2021 Style: Impressionism Subject: Ocean, Size: 16.5" x 21.5" x 0.8'...

Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2021 Style: Impressionism Subject: Near to Cliffs, Size: 15.5" x 21....

Antonietta Brandeis (Czech / Italian, 1848 – 1926) Piazza San Marco, Venice Oil on panel Inscribed with studio stamp on the reverse 8.1/4 x 4.3/4 in. (21 x 12.1 cm.) Born in the small Bohemian village of Miskowitz on January 13, 1848, Antonietta Brandeis lost her father at an early age, and probably then moved north to Prague with her widowed mother. At some point in the 1860s, she began studying painting with the Czech artist Karel Javůrek (1815-1909). Although nothing is known about the Brandeis family finances during this period, it would have been unusual for a bourgeois young woman to study painting in any serious fashion; this suggests that perhaps Antonietta’s mother was hoping to provide a marketable skill for her daughter in the world of fine art. During the 1850s-and 1860s, Prague was the center of the Czech National Revival, a cultural movement whose purpose was the rejuvenation of the Czech language as well as the reclamation of a uniquely Czech identity after centuries under the domination of the Hapsburg Empire. Brandeis’s instructor Javůrek seems to have sympathized with this movement, creating history paintings based on Czech–rather than Hapsburg–moments of significance. Brandeis studied with Javůrek for a brief period, undoubtedly learning the basics of academic painting. It is likely that he also introduced her to the artistic ideas then current in Belgium and France, having studied himself with Gustave Wappers at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and with Thomas Couture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. This exposure to European Romanticism and Realism would have offered the young Brandeis a sophisticated understanding of contemporary aesthetic issues. In the late 1860s, Brandeis left Prague and moved to Venice with her mother, who had married a Venetian gentleman. Once there, she enrolled in the Accademia di belle arti (Academy of Fine Arts) studying with Michelangelo Grigoletti, Domenico Bresolin, Napoleone Nani, and Pompeo Marino Molmenti, all of whom were mainstream academic painters. She graduated in 1872 with a number of honors to her credit, and a Premio award in landscape painting. According to the listing in the Atti della reale Accademia di belle arti in Venezia dell’anno 1872, Brandeis was one of only two women graduating that year, the other being Carolina Higgins, an English woman. The admission of women to officially sponsored fine arts academies in Europe and the US was rare in the 1870s, and enrollment in life classes where nude models posed was almost universally unacceptable for female students. The fact that Brandeis and Higgins seem to have been the only women at the Accademia in the early 1870s tends to suggest that they participated in the same classes as their male classmates. In fact, Brandeis is cited for an award in the “study of the nude”. After graduation, Brandeis began to establish a career as a landscape painter in Venice. In 1873, she showed four paintings at the annual November exposition at the Accademia; these included one portrait, two landscapes, and one vedute of the Grand Canal that was commissioned by an English woman. Although there is no record of who this English woman was, it is tempting to think that she may have been someone Brandeis met through her classmate Carolina Higgins. Over the next few decades, Brandeis seems to have exhibited regularly at the annual Accademia shows, but her primary focus was increasingly on painting Venetian scenes (vedute) that appealed to the always plentiful crowd of visitors to Venice. She specialized in relatively small scale paintings of landmarks in her adopted city, and gradually became part of a community of expatriate artists who shared this interest. Among her friends were the Peruvian artist Federico de Campo and many of the Spanish artists then living in Venice such as Mariano Fortuny, Martin Rico and Rafael Senet. It should be noted too that by the end of the nineteenth century, Venice had become a regular stop for any painter who was particularly fascinated with color and light. Some, like the Americans Walter Gay and John Singer Sargent, spent months or even years living there, and others simply made regular visits, such as Pierre-August Renoir and Claude Monet. However, nearly all painters who traveled through Europe made at least one journey to see Venice’s unique environment. More important for painters like Brandeis were the travelers who came as tourists and wanted a souvenir to take home with them. By the late nineteenth century the aristocratic tradition of the Grand Tour had been considerably democratized by the industrial revolution, which had not only created a newly wealthy merchant class, but had provided the railroad as a means of convenient travel across long distances. Venice was no longer the exotic province of the European aristocracy, but a city that lured bourgeois romantics from all over the world. Brandeis’s images of the city were especially popular with Austrian and English visitors. Brandeis also painted at least three known altarpieces, all for churches in what is today southern Croatia. In the late 1870s when she received the initial commission, the Dalmatian coast of Croatia had trading and cultural ties to Italy dating back to the Roman Empire; however, it was the region surrounding the Republic of Venice that was most influential in the nineteenth century. During this time, the new bishop of Split (Spoleto), Marko Kalogjera, was actively involved in building new churches in Croatia as well as updating the older ones, and it is likely that he was instrumental in hiring Venetian painters for a variety of commissions. In fact, Michelangelo Grigoletto, one of Brandeis’s instructors at the Accademia, had earlier received a commission for a painting in a parish church in the town of Vodice. Given the remote location, it is not surprising that Bishop Kalogjera would turn to Venice when hiring artists for major projects in the towns of Blato and Smokvici. The religious traditions of Venetian painting are clearly evident in Brandeis’s Madonna and Child with St. Vitus at the Church of St. Vitus in Blato. The composition is based on the tradition of the sacra conversazione (sacred conversation) between the Virgin Mary and the saints. In this image, Brandeis presents not only St. Vitus, but also a young man who is apparently suffering from one of the illnesses that the saint was known to cure. The large canvas is surrounded by architectural elements above the altar and creates a dramatic statement as worshippers look up at the elegant Madonna. Brandeis also created two paintings for the church of Our Lady of Carmel in the neighboring town of Smokvici. One features another sacra conversazione, this time with St. Lucia, St. Anthony of Padua and St. Roch. The other is an altarpiece showing the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. These three large scale paintings must have been started in 1879 or 1880 and probably finished several years later. Concurrent with the major altarpiece commissions, Brandeis continued to produce many vedute for travelers in Venice. She also made a number of trips to Florence, Bologna and Rome where she painted cityscapes of the architectural and urban scenes featuring classical and renaissance motifs. The popularity of her work was further enhanced by the production of chromolithographs of her paintings, probably beginning in the late 1880s or 1890s. She expanded her market even further in 1880 when she exhibited three paintings at the International Exposition in Melbourne. In her personal life, Antonietta married Antonio Zamboni on October 27, 1897; Zamboni was a knight of the Order of Saints Maurizio and Lazzaro, originally founded by the Duke of Savoy in 1572, but closely affiliated with the newly united Kingdom of Italy in the late nineteenth century. Brandeis’s enthusiasm for Venice seems to have waned somewhat by 1900 when she was quoted as saying that she was still “a foreigner” in Venice, and she no longer participated in any Italian exhibitions, but sent all of her paintings to London. [v] Brandeis’s early association with English collectors seems to have evolved into a relationship that served her well for many decades. Nonetheless, she remained in Venice until the death of her husband in 1909, at which time she moved to Florence. The full story of Antonietta Brandeis’s life remains unknown, but she seems to have been a woman who challenged social conventions on many levels: as a woman studying in an almost exclusively male academy...

ADAM-LAURENS Suzanne Adrienne, aka Nanny (1861-1915) Venice, Lagoon with gondolier Oil on canvas signed lower left Frame gilded with leaf canvas size: 55 X 42 cm Frame size: 64 X 77 cm French painter born in Crest (Drôme ) February 20, 1861 Died in 1915 Landscape...

Original oil on wooden oak panel of a traditional figural landscape of an incoming storm with figures fishing in the foreground. No visible signature. Condition is excellent. Wonder...

This painting of a classic nude at a pool, "Hilda at the Pool," is both a portrait and a landscape. Leon Kroll rejected Modernism to triumph in the beauty of Classicism. During his l...

Emanuel Aage PETERSEN (1894 - 1948) Polar bear in a snowstorm Oil on canvas H. 70 cm; L. 100 cm Signed lower left Emanuel A. Petersen was educated to be a theater set painter, havin...

Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind. Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism Title: South Bay Size: 27.5" x 31.5" x 0.8...

Very well executed oil on canvas painting of a French countryside view by J.S. Dorange. Signed lower right. Condition is very good. Circa 1920. The style is academic with more of an...

Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2023 Style: Impressionism Title: Beehives Size: 12" x 17" x 0.8'' inc...

Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France. He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...

Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA. Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France. He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...

Original oil painting on academy board by the American artist, Frederic Louis Thompson. Signed lower left and dated 1887. Condition is very good. Original walnut and gilt Victorian ...

Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA. Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France. He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...

Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism Title: Sunrise Size: 9" x 13.5" x 0.8'' in...

Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism Title: Emerald Waves Size: 8.5" x 12" x 0.8...

Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism Title: Ocean Side Size: 29.5" x 39" x 0.8'...

Original oil on canvas painting of a three mast clipper under full sail. Signed by the artist lower right. Condition is very good to excellent. Mild stretch...

George Henry Smillie Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley, 1871 Signed and inscribed board verso "Cathedral Rocks-Morning-Yo-semite Valley Aug. 71 Geo. H. Smillie", also inscribed "Yo-se...

Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism Title: After Storm Size: 29" x 39" x 0.8''...

Giovanni Calamia Lombardo (Palermo 1849 - 1894) The plain of Palermo as seen from Mt. Pellegrino. Oil painting on panel 26 x 44 cm signed lower left.

Giuseppe Canella (Verona 1788 - Firenze 1847), Bacino San Marco Dipinto ad olio su tavola di cm 14 x 20 firmato in basso a sinistra.

Domenico Bresolin (Padua 1813 - Venice 1890), Riva d'Arno in Florence Oil on canvas applied to cardboard 26 x 40 cm. INFO: to get more information Publications D. Ritter, Venedig...

LECOZ (XIXe) "Venice" Oil on canvas signed low right New golden frame Dim canvas : 50 X 100 cm Dim frame : 80 X 130 cm

Paul ARMANDI (19th Century) Wood Landscapes by the river Oils on canvas in pair signed low right New golden frames Chassis Dim: 40 X 65 cm Frame Dim: 50 X 75 cm Paul ARMANDI is o...

Pastel and ink painting on Vellum paper by Thomas Symington Halliday (1902 - 1998), titled: Bridge Construction, and signed bottom left corner: T.S. Halliday. This interesting indust...

Original oil on canvas painting of Canadian geese flying south under a twilight sky. Beautiful light reflection in the water below Signed lower right and attributed to Alice Roge...

Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism Title: Summer Valley, Size: 9" x 13.5" x 0...

Very well executed oil on academy board by the well known American marine and portrait painter, Sam Sargent. Signed lower left “S. Sargent”. Signed verso, “Newburyport Studio, S. Sa...

Alfredo Tominz (Trieste 1854 – 1936), Passeggiata a cavallo a Trieste Dipinto ad olio su tela di cm 69 x 110 firmato e datato 1890 in basso a destra. Provenienza: Asta Stadion Trie...

LEBAS Léonie (19th-20th) "Lady in Paris Street 1900" Oil on wood panel signed low right Old Frame regilded with gold leaves Dim panel : 16 X 22 cm Dim frame : 50 X 41 cm LEBAS Léoni...

This enchanting painting called Birch Trees by the Stream by Alfred Thörne captures the serene beauty of a small forest scene, measuring just 27 x 17 cm. The artwork is a testament t...

Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2022 Style: Impressionism Title: Landscape Size: 27.5" x 31.5" x 0.8'...

A very attractive view of a rural lane in Pirbright by this highly collectable artist who was a contemporary and friend of John Constable. Dr William Crotch (1775-1847) Mr Pear's House at Pirbright from the Turnpike Signed with initials on reverse and inscribed as title and additionally " Thunder about/ 1 pm" watercolour and pencil 4 x 6½ inches without frame 11 x 13 inches with frame William Crotch (5 July 1775 – 29 December 1847) was an English composer and organist. According to the British musicologist Nicholas Temperley, Crotch was "a child prodigy without parallel in the history of music", and was certainly the most distinguished English musician in his day. Crotch was a professional musician, becoming the first Principal of the Royal Academy of Music...

Gouache, also known in the French form gouache, is a type of tempera color made heavier and more opaque by the addition of a white pigment mixed with gum arabic. The result is precis...

COUSIN Charles Carnival in Venice Oil on canvas signed low right Old frame regilded with leaves Size canvas : 73 X 116 cm Size frame : 96 X 138 cm French painter 19th-20th century...

Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2015 Style: Impressionism Title: Vienna Size: 9" x 12" x 0.8'' inch,...

Beautiful and historic original painting of the red fishing shack known as “motif number one” at the end of Bradley’s Wharf in Rockport, Massachusetts. The artist of the painting is the well known American marine...

GARAT Francis (1870 - NC) The Farm of The Donkey Oil on canvas signed and dated 1883 low right Frame guilded Size canvas : 50 X 76 cm - Size frame : 60 X 76 cm GARAT Francis (1870 -...

Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2016 Style: Impressionism Title: Cold Winter Size: 14" x 18" x 0.8'' ...

Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2021 Style: Impressionism Title: In the Beach Size: 19.5" x 27.5" x 0...

A very attractive and meticulously executed view of a rocky landscape within the woods dating to 1823. This would suit a library or study with its muted tones and skifull draughtsmanship. William Nicholson (1781-1844) Near Croxdale Hall Signed with initials and inscribed with title and date 1823 Pen, ink and grey wash 11 x 8 inches, image only 17 x 13 inches without frame The portrait-painter and etcher William Nicholson was born in Ovingham-on-Tyne, Northumberland, on Christmas Day 1781. His family transferred to Newcastle when his father was appointed Headmaster of the city's Grammar School. At an early age, though, Nicholson appears to have moved to Hull where he made his artistic debut, painting miniatures of officers garrisoned there. He was almost entirely self-taught, learning his craft through the close study of artworks in private and public galleries. He subsequently returned to Newcastle where he received many commissions to paint portraits of the old families of Northumberland. In 1808, he began to exhibit at the Royal Academy, continuing to do so until 1822. By 1814, Nicholson, whose mother was a Scot, had moved to Edinburgh where he set up as a miniaturist and painter in oils. Soon, however, he began to specialize in watercolour portraits. Early subjects included the actor Daniel Terry and the poet and novelist James Hogg. In 1818 he began to publish a series of Portraits of Eminent Scotsmen, etched from his own portraits and those of other painters. Besides Scott and Hogg, the subjects included the writers Robert Burns, John Wilson ('Christopher North'), and Lord Jeffrey, the painters Sir Henry Raeburn, the divines Alexander Carlyle and Alexander Cameron, the engineer James Watt, the architect John Playfair, and the song-collector and composer George Thomson...

Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Style: Impressionism Title: In the Village Size: 19" x 23" x 0.8...

Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Style: Impressionism Title: Village Road Size: 19.5" x 23.5" x 0...

Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind. Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Style: Impressionism Title: Autumn Size: 19.5" x 23.5" x 0.8'' ...

Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2020 Style: Impressionism Title: Roses Size: 19.5" x 27.5" x 0.8'' in...

Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Year: 2022 Style: Impressionism Title: Color-full Winter Size: 19.5" x 27.5...

Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Style: Impressionism Title: Conversation Size: 19" x 23" x 0.8''...

Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2020 Style: Impressionism Title: Roses Size: 19.5" x 23.5" x 0.8'' in...

Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Style: Impressionism Title: By the Sea Size: 27.5" x 31.5" x 0.8...

Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2021 Style: Impressionism Title: In our Yard Size: 25.5" x 29.5" x 0....

Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "November" is an oil painting that depicts trees in autumn with a rock foreground. Elizabeth Zanzinger is an award-winning painter with an enthusiastic international following. She developed her artistic voice through her studies at the Aristides Atelier and Gage Academy of Fine Art in Seattle. Elizabeth finished her education with a fellowship award (Grand Prize, 2nd Annual Utrecht Art Competition) at the Grand Central Academy, New York City, in 2012. Since then she has completed a number of commissioned portraits of accomplished individuals, including former Chief Justice...

Artist: Shimshon Holzman (1907-1986) Title: Torah Scholar Year: 1962 Medium: Watercolor and graphite on wove paper Size: 13.75 x 19.75 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed...

Here for your consideration is an out standing example of the landscape mastery of American artist, Edmund Darch Lewis. Fabulous light and clarity of the bucolic scene. Signed lower right and dated 1870. Recently cleaned. Several old patches verso with corresponding in paint. Condition is very good The painting is framed in its original gold leaf period frame which is in fine condition. Overall measurements are 35 by 46.5 inches. Edmund Darch Lewis was born in Philadelphia, the son of a prominent businessman. According to family tradition he was educated at a private school...

Federico Del Campo (Lima 1837 - Venice 1923), The Toy Seller (1877) Oil painting on panel 22 x 37 cm signed Campo on the left, on the back is an old label from Williams and sons ga...