PORTRAITS

Oil / Canvas, Laid down on Wood Paneling, “Sleeping Venus- The Dresden Venus” This unsigned, early 20th c. student  museum copy of Giorgione’s unfinished masterpiece residing in the Dresden Museum was painted c. 1510. It is almost universally accepted as a work started by the Venetian and finished by Titian after Giorgione’s untimely death. Giorgione’s obsession with the human natural […]

Oil on Canvas, “Il Cavaliere”, signed L/R “Carlo Kappo” This Early 20th Century Italian Painting has been Restretched and Conserved. The artist was the mentor of Colorado artist Ed J. Hummer and this painting was given to Hummer by the artist, who inscribed the back of the canvas, “Ed J – May 8, 1961”. 38 1/2 x 31 3/4 in Period […]

Oil on Canvas “Rebecca of York” This Unsigned Interpretation of an Important Character from Sir Walter Scott’s 1820 “Ivanhoe” probably depicts the Tournament at Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Canvas Bears New York Canvas Stamp on Verso. 41 1/2 x 33 1/2 in Period Framd c. 1840-60. $3200

Oil on Canvas, “Puddle Jumpers” signed and dated L/L”Patti Andrews, ’21” This early 20th. century New Jersey Artist representative of the Ashcan Group painted in a style similar to Potthast. $650

Oil on canvas, Signed r/r “S. G. Kirtland”. (Chicago Genre Painter) 27 x 21 in Original Frame, 1st. Quarter, 20th. Century. $650

Romantic woman’s head. Signed with initials and dated 1896 L/R. This lovely study is from a prominent Charleston, SC estate. In order to make a plaster like this, a clay model is made from a drawing or model. The clay was then framed and packed in sand, which was then tamped with a mallet. The resulting pack-sand negative was used […]

Oil on artist board. Signed L/R “Pauli” circa 1960. Originally a French children story which was abbreviated and translated by the English into a nursery rhyme by selecting a single stanza from the original French text. American folklore believes Mother Goose was a Bostonian widow in the 1660’s who joined a new family and helped rear their 16 collective children. […]

Oil on canvas after Sir Joshua Reynolds. English school, mid-19th century. 37″ x 31 1/2″ in original Gilt wood frame. A prominent Irish poet, playwright and novelist whose portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in DC. Most likely painted an art student in the Royal Academy of which Joshua Reynolds was the first president. Copying […]