Drawing by Raffaele Postiglione Leaving for War 19th Century

Departure for the war

China ink and watercolor on paper. Signed in the lower left corner. The scene depicts a Greek soldier, already dressed up for the war is saying goodbye to the desperate wife and son. Raffaele Postiglione used to paint historical and religious subjects. The painting is presented in coeval frame. 19th century.

Italian Glimpses

Set of seven watercolors

A set of seven watercolors. Signed H. Trench and dated 1823. "Grand Tour" watercolors depicting different glimpses of the Campania Region in the early 1800: from Naples a glimpse of the Vesuvius and the Queen Joan's palace, the cave in Posillipo and the tomb belonging to Virgil in Pedigrotta, the Roman aqueduct of Vietri, the temple in Paestum and finally the Powerscourt waterfalls, the highest waterfalls of Ireland. They are presented in frames of the early 1900 (closed on the back with some newspaper's sheets belonging to the "The Times" of 1901).

Ettore Solvegni

S. Marco after Mass

Oil on plywood. Title and signature on the back. Valuable view of San Marco in the eighteenth century. Figures linger in front of the basilica after attending mass. Ettore Solvegni, a Venetian painter used to portray his city and its inhabitants in genre scenes and pleasant views. In frame.

Female portrait

Oil on cardboard. Unsigned, the portrait is still of good quality and expressive. It is presented in a stylish frame.

Portait Of A Man Oil On Canvas Late '800

Oil on canvas. The large portrait of a gentleman, depicted in full length, standing in his study, is presented in a beautiful coeval gilded frame, with a frieze decoration on the top. This frame is what mainly gives importance and validity to the piece.

Large Painting Orientalist Subject Oil On Canvas Late '800

Oil on canvas. Anonymous author, probably English (on the back of the canvas there is a stamp of the London origin of the canvas itself), the large painting portrays two figures, a man and a girl, who are walking away from the city in the background, with its minarets and domes; the girl holds a long palm branch on a shoulder, while she supports the man with her other shoulder and her hand, guiding him along their way. The colours stand out in the painting, the darker colours of the clothes and the skin of the figures contrast the light ones of the city and the clear and bright sky. The painting is presented in a coeval frame decorated with gilded shells.

Male portrait

Oil painting on canvas. Italian school. The portrait of the young gentleman in a frock coat is effective; the face stands out in particular, well rendered in features and colors. The painting is presented in a styled frame.

Landscape with Figures

Oil painting on canvas. Central-Italy school. The foreshortening shows a river that flows rather quickly in a hilly landscape: on the bank, in the foreground on the left, two women who have washed their clothes and a traveler; on the other bank, in the background on the hill, the small village. The painting has several diffuse color drops. It is presented in a gilded frame from the early 1900s.

Portrait of a little girl

Pastel on paper. Unidentified signature lower right. Presented in a coeval worked frame, with wooden ribbon decoration with flowers.

Portrait Of A Man Oil On Canvas 19th Century

Oil on canvas. French School. It is the portrait of a distinguished gentleman, in his studio, intent on writing a letter: on the sheet, the text in French bears the date 1814. Restored, the painting is presented in a frame from the late 19th century, regilded.

Maria Magdelene Down The Cross Oil On Paper 19th Century

Oil on paper. on the back there is another drawing with St. Peter. Both the drawings are placed in a revival frame with glass on the back.

The Arrest Oil On Canvas 19th Century

Oil on canvas. Inside a large woodland landscape, animated by figures of commoners, there is a squad of soldiers of the National Guard who are escorting two men under arrest in the centre. The scene refers to episodes that happened frequently during the Renaissance, like the historically documented and portrayed arrest of Ugo Bassi and of captain Livraghi, patriots in support of Garibaldi. Even if it is an historical subject, the portrayal leaves room mostly for the landscape element, which fills the whole scene and is portrayed in great detail. There is a signature "L. Corsi" bottom right: a painter from Florence called Luisa Corsi (born in 1830) is well known, but she is mostly well known for her miniatures. On the back of the painting there is an antique label of an inventory. In an antique frame from the 19th century.

Hilly Landscape Oil on Canvas 19th Century

Oil on canvas applied on cardboard. The painting shows a a view over bushy hills that are crossed by a river that opens up to a pod where a man is fishing; in the background we can glimpse a bay. The painting comes with a 19th century gilded frame.

Glimpse Of Garden With Figures Tempera On Paper 19th Century

Tempera on paper, applied on canvas. It belongs to the genre of paper peint, the panel depicts a scene of Romantic taste, with a family group - a man, a woman and kid - in a public garden near an exterior gallery, with a statue and an obelisk. Good condition.

Landscape With Figures Tempera On Paper On Canvas 19th Century

Tempera on paper applied on canvas. It is composed by four pieces of paper, conceived as papier peint, and later assembled on a single canvas mounted on a frame from the beginning of the 20th century. The great scene of romantic taste depicts a glimpse of a lake on which there is a garden with arches, a turret, a pier for moorings; on the body of water sails a small boat with a gentleman and two dames, in a romantic promenade. Good condition.

The Sicilian Vespers Oil On Canvas 19th Century

Copy From Francesco Hayez

Oil on canvas. It is a copy of the famous painting by Francesco Hayez (1791-1882), which tells the famous episode of the Sicilian uprising against the French domination of the Angevins, which took place in 1282, triggered by an offense that a French soldier did to a young Sicilian woman. Hayez realized three different versions of the same episode, for different clients. This is a copy of the first version, made in 1821-22 by Hayez on commission of the Marquise Visconti d'Aragona, who wanted the artist to give the main characters the physiognomy of her friends: in fact the figure of the outraged young woman was identified as the Countess Martini Giovio, and the man who supports her as Count Pompeo Belgiojoso. The copy proposed here looks more like a study of Hayez's work, due to the lack of finishes. It is presented framed.

Antonio De Simone Gouache On Paper

The Astrea Ship 1904

Gouache on paper. Signed and dated 1904 bottom right. On the left, the name of the ship. Antonio De Simone belongs to the category of the Marinist masters, a category that was born in the 16th century and was received with great fervour in the Countries with great seafaring traditions, from the Netherlands to England, from France to Spain, in Italy and almost everywhere in the rest of the European continent, using everything related to seafaring as a subject. The highest popularity of this art genre was achieved in the 19th century and continued until the 1940s, in the last period of sailing and the advent of steamships. In Italy, the artists from the Campania and Liguria schools of painting and sea produced many paintings, some of which are called "portraits of ships": the production of the Neapolitan brothers De Simone is a part of this group. They specialized in painting portraits of important and famous luxury ships, both sailboats and steamboats. The gouache is presented in a frame.

Male Figure Oil On Canvas 19th Century

Oil on canvas. It is a study from life, probably for a larger scene, of the figure of a rower: the model is in the pose required for the character, with his foot resting on a step and his hands holding a generic stick, in the place of an oar. Although from an academic cut, it is well refined in the shapes, in the already complete anatomy, and in the chromatic choices. Restored and relined (unfortunately the restoration of colour is not very effective in some areas), it is presented in a frame in style.

Landscape With Farmhouse Oil On Canvas 19th Century

Oil on canvas. English School. Signed at the bottom right (L.Weston). The painting comes with a photo and an evaluation of 1970s-1980s that attributes it to Lambert Weston (1804-1895). It is displayed in a revival frame.