Robert Berran

"Letters to a Lady"

1993

Hanger Books Signed lower right. Robert Berran has been a prolific romance and historical book cover illustrator since the 1970s.

Balantine books Signed lower right. Robert Berran has been a prolific romance and historical book cover illustrator since the 1970s.

From the Estate of Charles Martignette. A soldier home on leave taking a walk with his lady. Signed lower right. The work of Henry James Soulen is richly colored a...

Initialed center right. Saul Tepper was born on the Lower East Side of New York City, and remained a New Yorker all his life. As a youngster, Tepper was awarded a correspondence course from the Landon School of Art. He also studied at The Cooper Union, the Art Students League, and at the Grand Central School of Art, under Harvey Dunn. Tepper first worked as a letterer in a fashion catalog...

A late 18th Century oil on canvas laid on board of a young beauty in period costume carrying a basket of flowers on her head. Presented in a very fine gilt, period 'Directoire' frame...

Large scale colourful figurative portrait of a fashionable lady in a blue hat by French artist Jean-Louis Dubuc. The painting is signed bottom right and titled to the rear cross stre...

Mid 19th Century oil on canvas portrait of an Italian brigand, unsigned, in painted wood and gilt frame. The painting is a fine and fascinating rendition with plenty of wonderful character and detail to the costume, accessories, landscape and seascape. Very atmospheric and imposing much like the character it portrays. There is a trade stamp to the back of the canvas for the Paris firm of Susse Freres. The canvas is on a fine quality stretcher with 'keys'. There is an artist's name or title written on the top of the rear stretcher (see photo). Bands of brigands who populated the hills of southern Italy were steady fodder for the Romantic imagination, and their exploits were reported both factually, fancifully and artistically The painting dates from a period when France, under its then leader Napoleon III, was involved in the conflicts in the Italian states and the unification and eventual creation of the nation of Italy. An earlier and similar portrait exists of the infamous brigand Mazzocchi by Achille-Etna Michallony . Léon Cogniet...

This is an original unique oil painting by the artist. Bernard Pothast was born on 30th November, 1882 in Hal, Belgium. He studied painting at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam between ...