Mezzotint Engraving Etching "A Fruit Piece" '1779' by Josiah Boydell

GIUSEPPE MARCHI (ENGRAVER) AFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS R.A. (PAINTER) "Mrs. Harriet Bouverie and Mrs. Frances Ann Crewe" Mezzotint on paper Published circa 1770 Item # C104058 A ...

"STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS AND BIRD'S NEST" AND "STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS AND FRUIT" BY JOHANN PETER PICHLER AFTER JAN VAN HUYSUM Mezzotints on paper, housed in contemporary frames; Austria, created circa 1806 Item # C104030 A handsome pair of mezzotints by Austrian printer Johann Peter Pichler circa 1806 after the original painting on copper by Jan van Huysum. They remain in a nearly pristine overall condition. The same prints are carried in the permanent collections of the Winterthur Museum, the British Museum of Art and the National Galleries of Scotland; the original painting for the print with the bird's nest is also held in the permanent collection of the National Galleries of Scotland. Pichler's representation of van Huysum's iconic work was cherished for the exquisite tones and richly textured surfaces. They were completed in Vienna, Austria circa 1806 while the van Huysum paintings were still part of the Czernin collection. The pair are professionally hung in contemporary Dutch ebony...

WILHELM FRIEDRICH GMELIN (GERMAN, 1760-1820) AFTER GASPARD POUSSIN (FRENCH, 1615-1675) "IL TEMPORALE DEL PUSSINO" (1813) Engraving on paper Item # C104052 A well-preserved untinted engraving on paper published circa 1813...

GEORGE III STYLE FIVE-PIECE STERLING SILVER COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE SET By Whiting Manufacturing Co., New York; each with Whiting hallmark (two-headed chimera w/ encircled W), "3358 / 3 GILLS / PAT. 1892 / 925/1000 FINE" Item # 104VAD21S An exquisite five-piece tea and coffee service executed entirely in .925 sterling silver by Whiting...

MORSTON CONSTANTINE REAM United States, 1840-1898 Still Life of Six Peaches in a Porcelain and Glass Bowl with a Knife Oil on canvas unsigned circa 1880 Item # 403EDF06S An exquisite still-life rich with texture, color and brilliant use of light. This tranquil scene features six peaches in a beautifully decorated ceramic bowl with a translucent glass rim resting on a table covered in two layers of cloths. The first has a a pearl color with a greek-key border, overall having a silky sheen and a chaotic fringe edge; the second is a green fabric with geometric patterns. Along the side of the bowl is situated a pearl handled bread knife, something of a hallmark for Morston Ream, as he used several styles of pearl-handled knives in almost this exact orientation for several of his paintings. For a nearly identical knife and placement, see Christie's, New York, 3 March 2011, lot 76 ("Fine American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture"), 10" x 11 3/4", achieved $ 8750. Another example with identical angling of the knife sold at Doyle, New York, 2 November 2021, lot 71 [achieved $ 4250]. A solitary bead drips from the center peach as a fly stands perched at the top. The work is unsigned, but is without any question the work of Ream. It likely dates between 1880 and 1888, as the original frame had a label on it from Thomas A. Wilmurt, a well-established framing and looking glass company in New York City that moved to its 54 East 13th Street premises noted on the label around 1880. Images of that label and the original frame from when this painting was offered at Tremont Auctions of Sudbury, Massachusetts (lot 209, 25 April 2021) will be included with the information packet our gallery provides. ARTIST Born in Lancaster, Ohio in 1840, Morston Constantine Ream was the younger brother of Carducius Plantagenet Ream (American, 1837-1917), an artist who became at least as famous as Morston for his brilliant fruit pictures. Morston began painting in the late 1860s, leaving his career as a daguerreotypist for fear it was damaging to his health. He exhibited extensively, his first exhibit recorded at the National Academy in 1872 while he was living at 56 Bank Street in the west part of Greenich Village in New York City. He listed his address at Union Square in Philadelphia from 1876 through 1882 when he listed his address as 862 Broadway. He began sending paintings to the exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1888, then listing his address as 1244 Broadway in New York City, but by 1896 he had moved to Chicago to live at 558 50th Street. He actively sent paintings to the major exhibitions, regularly exhibiting at the National Academy from 1872 through 1883, sending paintings to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1876 and 1881, as well as exhibiting at Moore’s Art Rooms and the Brooklyn Art Association. He died in 1898 at 58 years of age in New York City. Similar market examples: Still Life with...

MODERNIST 3-PIECE STERLING SILVER TEA SERVICE BY PETER LUNN Hallmarked PML to each underside; circa 1979 Item # 011FRP21Z A very fine sterling silver tea service by silversmith Pet...

Plate : 'Chirurgie, Frontispice.' (Surgery, frontispiece). This plate shows Hippocrates with a Rod of Asclepius, a naked woman cutting a branch, young children playing, a stork fly...

This dry point, mezzotint, aquatint etching by Jack Levine is titled "Election Night" and was acquired from a Palm Beach estate. Here Levine has captured the electricity of an electi...

Description: Antique print titled 'Batsheba bringing Abishag to David'. Large mezzotint depicting David, naked to the waist and sitting up in a luxurious bed, holding up his right ha...

Antique print titled 'Amaranthus tricolor (..)'. Hand-finished mezzotint engraving of amaranthus tricolor, known as edible amaranth. This print originates from 'Phytanthoza Iconograp...

Golf mezzotint of 'Henry Callender Esq' (Captain of the society of Golfers at Blackheath) after Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760-1803). Henry Callend...

French Engraving Hand Colored Galerie des Modes Costumes Francais, 1779. Rare antique French fashion print hand colored published first ...