Nellie E. Brown

In the Farmyard

Two donkeys grazing and a young man seated by them are bathed in light at day's end. The artist, Thomas Barker (known as 'Barker of Bath'), was a British painter of landscape and rural life. Born in 1769, at Trosnant near the village of Pontypool, in Monmouthshire, Barker showed a talent for drawing figures and designing landscapes at an early age although he was entirely self-taught. When he was sixteen his family moved to Bath where the patronage of a coach-builder named Charles Spackman allowed him to continue working as an artist. During the first four years he copied the works of the old Dutch and Flemish masters. Barker exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institution. His paintings were copied onto Staffordshire pottery, Worcester china...

Born in Brussels in 1809, genre painter Franz Van Severdonck studied at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts. A painter of landscapes, animals and ar...

Born in 1813 in Paris, Charles Emile Jacque began his training in etching as an apprentice to a map engraver. By 1833 he was painting and debuted at the Paris Salon and contributed r...

Clinton Loveridge was born in Troy, New York, in 1838. By 1859 Loveridge had his own studio and was known primarily for his pastoral landscapes with cattle and sheep. He exhibited at...

"A Girl with Her Cat" was painted by EM Watts in 1947. The portrait is oil on canvas The painting measures 26 3/4" x 22 3/4" with its frame.

Born in Philadelphia John Hamilton was known for portraits, figure paintings and illustrations. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Christian Schuessel and Thomas Eakins and then traveled to Europe where he studied in Paris with Jean-Léon Gerome at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He lived abroad, mostly in London, for many years, although he maintained a Philadelphia address. He was the official painter to the English Prime Minister, William...

A fine 18th century Continental School landscape oil painting with animals including cows, horses, dogs, and chickens in a farm setting...

This painting by artist Ray Simonini titled "Ethel" is a 8x10 farm animal oil painting on canvas featuring a portrait of a pink pig against a colorful background. About the artist:...

Trip Park's "Daisy Dancer" is a 24x24 oil painting on canvas of a colorful and whimsical bumblebee flying against a tan background with pink underpainting. The bee is is colored in c...

Trip Park's "Hippie Flies" is a 24x24 oil painting on canvas of whimsical colorful butterflies surrounded by flower branches on a pale blue background with o...

Antique Animal Painting "3 Rabbits in a Meadow" Dated 1920 Johan Cornelis Jacobus Lodewijk Stern (Dutch 1879-1939) OIl on canvas Signed and dated 1920 17 1...

Dynamic depiction of a rider with a group of horses near the water's edge. Several horses are in for foreground, running towards the viewer. Just behind them, a rider in American col...