Joseph Horlor

Oil Painting by Joseph Horlor "A View of St Michaels Mount"

1890

Oil Painting by Joseph Thors "A Quiet day by the River" 1843- 1907 Popular painter of rural landscapes and regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy RBA, BI. Both Oil on canvas. Signed...

Oil Painting by William Pitt "The Severn above the Lowerloud Tewksbury" 1818 - 1900 A Midlands Landscape painter of local views and south-west scenes and regular exhibitor in London ...

Oil Painting by John Horace Hooper "Harvest Time Near Henley" 1851 - 1906 London Painter of atmospheric landscapes of rural England. Exhibited at he Royal Academy, Liverpool and Roya...

STANLEY G. ANDERSON., flourished 1960 - 1990 Bedfordshire painter of local landscapes, often on commission to farm owners. He also painted some Lakeland scenes. Original oil on canv...

Thomas Fransioli, born in 1906 in Seattle, Washington, trained as an architect at the University of Pennsylvania. He worked as an architect before his service in World War II. Largel...

Elisee Maclet (1881-1962) Very well listed French artist. Studied in Paris, was influence by many famous French artists of the beginning of the 20th century. “Paris. L'lle Saint L...

It was Henry Cross's portraits of horses belonging to the prominent breeders and trainers of the second half of the nineteenth century that won the artist renown as an animal painter. Born and raised in upstate New York, Cross's proficiency in both drafting and caricature was revealed while he was still a student at the Binghamton Academy, New York. In 1852, when he was only fifteen years old, Cross joined a traveling circus that took him to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and to the first of many Indian encampments that he would draw upon for subject matter throughout his career. Biographers differ as to the year Cross left for Europe, however, he was in Paris from 1852 to 1853 or 1854, where he studied with Rosa Bonheur, a highly esteemed French painter of horses. Upon Cross's return to the United States he was commissioned to paint the studs of wealthy horsemen, including those of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Robert Bonner, the owner-publisher of The New York Ledger, and "Copper King" Marcus Daly, whose 18,000 acre stock farm was reputed to be the greatest and most valuable horse ranch in the world. Although Cross received the highest pay of any equine artist of his day (up to $35,000. for one order, according to The Horse Review of April 10, 1918, p. 328), he frequently joined traveling circuses and painted the locales where they visited. He also painted portraits of notable contemporaries, such as President Abraham Lincoln, ex-president Ulysses S. Grant, King Edward VII of England, W. F. "Buffalo Bill...

This painting by Lee Tiller is an invitation to rest, breathe and recuperate from the chaos of life. There are few artists alive that can capture the fleeting and transient effects o...