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Period: Late 19th Century
1870's Antique Italian Hunting Scene trompe l’oeil Oil Painting Birds Game Gold
Located in Buffalo, NY
This striking 19th-century painting signed "A. Malevolti 1877 Florence" is a fine example of the trompe l’oeil tradition, in which artists skillfully render imagery that "tricks the ...
Category
Photorealist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fine Victorian English Still Life Oil Painting Birds Nest Mossy Earth & Flowers
By Oliver Clare
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Flowers & Birds Nest
by Oliver Clare (English, 1853-1927)
signed lower right
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 15.5 x 13.5 inches
canvas: 8 x 5.5 inches
Provenance: private collection, S...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
19th Century American Realist Fruit Still Life Finely Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted 19th Century American realist still life painting. Oil on canvas. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a period giltwood molding. Excellent c...
Category
Realist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Victorian still lives of fruit and Plums on a mossy bank landscape
By Oliver Clare
Located in Woodbury, CT
This exquisite painting by renowned Victorian English artist Oliver Clare beautifully captures a vibrant still life of fruit on a mossy bank. The composition is a testament to Clar...
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Victorian Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Classical Still Life of Flowers Ornate Display Antique Dutch Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Profusion of Flowers
Classical Still Life
Dutch School, 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 32 x 21 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound con...
Category
Old Masters Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
E. Stanfield - Framed Late 19th Century Oil, Still Life of Fruit on a Ledge
Located in Corsham, GB
Still life of grapes, peaches and red currants on a stone ledge. Well presented in a gilt-effect frame with a crisp white mount. Signed 'E. Stanfield' to the lower right and dated 18...
Category
Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
English School Late 19th Century Oil - Still Life of Oysters and Lobster
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming still life study depicting oysters, lobsters and a platter of fruit painted in a Dutch Golden Age style. Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame. On canvas.
Category
Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hubert Henrard - 19th Century Belgian Still Life of wildflowers
Located in London, GB
HUBERT HENRARD
(Belgium 1816-1898)
Still Life with Cornflower and Harebells
Signed l.r.: Hubert Henrard
Oil on canvas
Framed
25 by 20.5 cm., 10 by 8 in.
(frame size 41.5 by 36.5 c...
Category
Realist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
J. Urban - Late 19th Century Oil, Still Life, Fruit & a Pheasant
Located in Corsham, GB
A large late 19th century still life of fruit, captured alongside a freshly shot pheasant. Signed' J. Urban' to the lower left. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oranges
Located in Spokane, WA
Measures
Painting 22.25 x 16.25 inches
Framed 30.25 x 24.125 inches
Hugo Possner was a 19th-century California artist known for his still-life paintings, particularly of fruit and f...
Category
Academic Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
John White Alexander's graceful depictions of beautiful women earned him critical acclaim both in Europe and America. However, his career did not get off to an easy start—Alexander b...
Category
American Impressionist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
F. Richard - c.1880 Oil, Birds Nest and Flowers
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming oil study of a birds nest full of eggs nestled between lilies, cornflowers, primroses and forget-me-nots. Painted with a delicate hand, he artist captures the intricate fl...
Category
Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique French Farm House Oil Painting Landscape 19th Century
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1-4064 Oil on canvas applied to board of a vintage French farmhouse illegibaly signed lower left set in a hand carved gilt wood frame
Category
Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique French Still Life Strawberry Bowl Abundant Still Life of Fruit Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life of Fruit
French School, mid 19th century
indistinctly signed lower right corner
oil on canvas laid on board, framed
framed: 27 x 35 inches
board: 25 x 33 inches
provenance...
Category
Old Masters Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique still life painter (Italyl) - 19th-20th Still life painting - Flowers
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (19th-20th century) - Still life with vase of flowers.
83 x 62 cm without frame, 96.5 x 76.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on wood, in a wooden frame.
Condit...
Category
Naturalistic Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
'Happy Tabby', 19th Century Danish School, Swedish Embroidered Armchair
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed upper right, 'C.N.' (Danish, 19th Century) and dated 1898.
A late nineteenth-century oil composed with a fresh palette and finely-observed detail. This elegant feline stud...
Category
Naturalistic Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine Victorian Scottish Loch Scene with Mountains, Signed Antique Oil Painting
By David Hicks
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: David Hicks, British late 19th century, signed
Title: The Scottish Highlands
Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, oak wood framed
Size:
framed: 27.5 x 23.5 inch...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Still Life of Figs and Melon
Located in St. Albans, GB
Jean Baptiste Olive
This premiere piece shows his work and influence which he had with Antoine Vollon. It is in its museum quality gold leaf frame. The piece has been exhibited in many shows with the exhibition labels on the reverse testimony.
Artwork Size: 22 x 18" (56 x 46cm)
Artwork Size with Frame: 31 x 27" (79 x 69cm)
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French, 1848-1936
Jean-Baptiste Olive was undoubtedly one of the greatest masters of the Marseille school at the end of the 19th century, along with Paul Guigou...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
C.S.H. - Late 19th Century Oil, Seashells and Dahlias
Located in Corsham, GB
This elegant still life painting showcases a vibrant floral arrangement in a glass vase, accompanied by delicate seashells on a draped surface. The composition balances the lively co...
Category
Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life - Oil on Canvas - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an artwork realized by an unknown artist in the late 19th Century.
Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board.
Original wooden frame.
18 x 13 cm.
Good conditions
Category
Modern Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Antique Painting Plethora of Ripe Raspberries in Fruit Basket signed Bohner
Located in Buffalo, NY
Original frame to the painting. Dramatic highlights and shadows.
Category
Realist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 19th Century French Flower Oil Painting Large Canvas Major Listed artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Flowers in a White Bowl
by Alfred Rouby (French 1849-1909)
Rouby lived in Paris and trained under Pierre-Marie Beyle (1837-1902).
signed oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 25.5 x 32 in...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique French Signed Watercolor Painting Still Life of Roses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life of Roses
French artist, late 19th century
signed watercolour painting on thin board, unframed
painting: 17 x 22 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: ve...
Category
French School Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Antique American Oil Painting Framed Fruit Table Still Life Pineapple Strawberry
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible early American realist still life featuring pineapple and strawberries on a table. Oil on canvas. Incredible detail and masterfully painted.
Signed illegibly, last n...
Category
American Realist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
J. Clays (British painter) - 19th century Still Life painting - Fruits
Located in Varmo, IT
J. Clays (British, 19th-20th century) - Still life with fruit basket.
61 x 51 cm without frame, 67.5 x 58 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame.
...
Category
Old Masters Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1896 Oil - Hanging Fruit
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed with the initials 'A. M. G.' Presented in a gilt frame with acanthus details and a panel slip. On canvas laid to board.
Category
Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century English oil of still life of fruit, German Stein with silver lid
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding English 19th century still life of fruit, a German Stein with silver top in an interior.
Charles Thomas Bale was born in Soho, London in 1849, the son of Thomas Bale, a basket maker. His older brother Thomas Charles Bale (1831-1899) was an artist and picture restorer. He lived with his family in St James, Westminster and although little is known about his education, he would have undoubtedly received encouragement and drawing tuition from his brother. Bale started exhibiting in 1866 at the Institute of British Artists, Suffolk Street. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1872, the same year he married Caroline Leathem. Together, they spent their married life in St Pancras. He specialized in still life paintings predominantly of fruit, but he frequently incorporated baskets, a homage to his family’s profession, as well as pottery, glass, and game. Bale’s work was influenced by the English still-life artists George Lance and William Duffield...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Charles Bale (British) - 19th century still life painting - Fish and shrimp
Located in Varmo, IT
Charles Thomas Bale (British, 1845 - 1925) - Still life of fish and shrimp.
30.5 x 60.5 cm without frame, 50 x 80 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in wooden frame.
-...
Category
Naturalistic Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oyster and a Copper bowl with other Crustaceans
Located in St. Albans, GB
Alfred Arthur BRUNEL DE NEUVILLE
A wonderful painting for any situation whether it is as a statement, piece due to the undoubted quality, or as a piece for a kitchen/dining area due...
Category
French School Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Meules - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed landscape oil on canvas circa 1885 by French impressionist painter Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin. The work depicts a farmland with haystacks pilled up into the distance unde...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowers Stil-Life
By Edouard Michel Lançon
Located in Pasadena, CA
Edouard Michel Lançon (1854-c.1930), Nice still-life painting with flowers
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Oil Painting Still Life of Wine & Open Book
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, late 19th century
Post Impressionist painter, circa 1880-1890 period
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 12.5 x 15 inches
canvas: 7.75 x 10 inches
provenance: private collec...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Wicket basket with Anemones a humble festive gift 19th century floral still life
Located in Norwich, GB
A charming 19th Century painting of Anemone flowers in a wicker basket. It has a warm, seasonal and festive feel. I love the great simplicity and sincerity it exudes. French in origi...
Category
French School Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century French or Flemish Still life of fruit, original frame
Located in Woodbury, CT
Very High quality French or Flemish still life of fruit.
Framed in its original 19th-century hand-made counted corner frame the painting is a wond...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Plums"
By Oliver Clare
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an outstanding still life painting of plums and assorted fruits by the master English artist, Oliver Clare. Signed lower right. Circa 1890. In very g...
Category
Academic Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Realist Framed Flower Jug Still Life Oil Painting Yellow Roses
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive antique American flower still life oil painting.
Stunning and unique original frame.
Oil on canvas.
Painting size, 18H by 14L.
Exceptional quality. Signe...
Category
Modern Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Naturalistic European painter - 20th century still life painting - Flowers Fruit
Located in Varmo, IT
European painter (19th-20th century) - Still life with tray, flowers and fruit.
81 x 100cm.
Oil on canvas, unframed.
- Work signed lower left.
Condition report: Original canvas. ...
Category
Naturalistic Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life - Oil on Canvas - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an artwork realized by an unknonwn artist in the late 19th Century.
Oil on Board.
21 x 15 cm.
Good conditions
Category
Modern Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Victorian vintage fine art painting by Clare Vincent - fruits and grapes
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions ; Excellent condition, original canvas frame, no prior retouching or restauration, and no future restauration necessary. Original Victorian gilet frame in perfect conditio...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life - Oil on Canvas - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an artwork realized by an unknown artist in the late 19th Century.
Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board.
18 x 13 cm.
Good conditions
Category
Modern Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Interieur a la fenetre ouverte - Post Impressionist Oil by Edouard Vuillard
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on board interior by French Les Nabis painter Edouard Vuillard. The work depicts a room with a large window, outside of which are bare trees. Inside the room are three chairs and a patterned rug on the floor.
Signature:
Signed lower left
Dimensions:
Framed: 20"x13"
Unframed: 13"x6"
Provenance:
Prince Antoine Bibesco (1878-1951) - Special Envoy of Romania to the United States
Piasa Encheres - Paris Lot no. 88 - 8th April 2005 - Sold EUR 118,000 hammer price
Acquired at the above by Thomas Gibson Fine Art - London
Acquired by the previous owner from Thomas Gibson Fine Art - TEFAF Maastricht November 2005
Literature:
This work is included in the catalogue rasionne of the work of Edouard Vuillard under Ref Volume II No. 172 - illustrated and described
Access to the raisonne online can be found at the Wildenstein Plattner Institute website.
The work is described as being executed in the period 1899 to 1904 by Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval
Édouard Vuillard attended the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, where he made friends with Maurice Denis, Lugné-Poe, and Ker-Xavier Roussel, later his brother-in-law. He studied in Maillart’s studio; for six weeks came under the tutelage of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; and later under William Bouguereau and Robert at the Académie Julian, where he became closely linked with the Nabis group (from the Hebrew word for ‘prophet’). He met Marcel Proust in 1902. From 1908, he taught at the Académie Ranson. In 1937, he was elected member of the Institute.
At first, Édouard Vuillard painted small subjects, disciplined and proficient, qualities for which the prestigious École Française was famous. His earliest still-lifes (1888) are astonishing in their decisiveness and subtlety. His empathy for the object had already compelled him to soften its appearance; the object, which, by virtue of its bright or glossy presence, remained the nonego and the ‘thing represented’ for so many others. ‘Intimacy’ developed immediately between the painter and this modest environment; inhabiting it every day enabled him to celebrate its splendour, and it was to remain his favourite environment. But he was already alternating between small portraits and still-lifes, which gained recognition because of their natural qualities and dignity of tone: a rare combination in a beginner.
About 1890, influenced indirectly by Paul Gauguin, all the certainties which the self-styled Nabis painters had contented themselves with suddenly collapsed. Everything was called into question again: both the linear layout of the picture and its colour scheme; the choice of subject and its material aspect; its manufacture and its purpose. Vuillard’s paintings at that time show surprising, bold innovations and an arbitrary power, which one would expect 15 or 20 years later at the height of the Fauvist period. The preoccupation with an internal geometry set them apart from earlier studies. From then on, the paintings were based on forms, lines, and colours. Vuillard made concessions. He produced a portrait or interior with its furniture and its wallpapers, in which the family inhabiting it, evolves. Treated with flat areas of colour and solid shades of ochres, reds, blues, and saffron yellow, without modulation, they seem to prefigure certain paintings by Henri Matisse and Roger de La Fresnaye.
In 1891, Édouard Vuillard painted an Elegant Lady, a silhouette seen from the back; a long vertical shape starting from the hair decorated with brown feathers; there is a kind of pink cloak, the tight and never-ending black skirt, erect in front of a half-open, bright orange door in a green wall, from where the light of another vertical shape emerges, which is bright yellow, and is reflected in red on the parquet at the feet of the elegant lady. This painting meets his concerns about the actual moment of creating ‘harmonies corresponding to our feeling’, and by virtue of its almost geometric structure, its drawing entirely free of detail, its light effects and colour harmonies, very much prefigures aspects of the future Abstraction movement and is oddly reminiscent of the final period of Nicolas de Staël.
All too often, Édouard Vuillard is only admired in his role as the harmonist, the serene contemplator who combines an exquisite sense of nuance, rhythms, and values with the most acute observation. These singular investigations, these three-dimensional meditations including a table, a folding metal cot...
Category
Post-Impressionist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
English Vintage Oil Painting on Canvas, Spring Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Still Life Floral Display with Daffodils
by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905)
on linen canvas, unstretched, unframed, unsigned
measurements: canvas 10 x 12 inches
prove...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique French 19th century Still life of flowers in a basket
Located in Woodbury, CT
Lucienne Lemercier was a French painter from the latter part of the 19th century through the early 20th century.
She came from a family of creative people and took to painting at a...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life of Spring Flowers and Birds Nest - British Victorian art oil painting
By George Clare
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Victorian still life oil painting is by noted still life Birmingham artist George Clare. Painted circa1870 the composition is one of his favourites, a bird's nest...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Still Life with Cherries, Grapes" Annie L. Morgan, Academic Fruit Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Annie L. Morgan
Still Life with Cherries, Grapes, and Pomegranate, circa 1880
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
Category
Academic Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Flowers by Isidor Rosenstock
By Isidore Rosenstock
Located in Pasadena, CA
ISIDOR Rosenstock, born in Strasbourg in 1880, died in 1956. 20th century
painter of landscapes and flowers, watercolor.
He exhibited in Paris at the Salon of French Artists, the...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Still Life of Fruit - British 19th century Victorian art oil painting still Life
By George Clare
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Victorian still life oil painting is by noted still life painter George Clare. Painted circa1870 the composition is different fruit, including green and red grape...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Oil Painting Still Life of Hanging Fruit and Grapes
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American still life oil painting of hanging fruit and grapes. Oil on board. Framed
Category
American Realist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Roses and Chrysanthemums in a Vase
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
An expatriate painter, noted for figurative paintings of peasants as well as classical works, Biblical scenes, mythological subjects, and still lifes, William Babcock was born in Bos...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Still Life of Flowers by W. J. Wainwright
Located in London, GB
Antique still life of flowers by W. J. Wainwright
English, Late 19th Century
Canvas: Height 127cm, width 101cm
Frame: Height 144cm, wi...
Category
Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Signed Antique American 19th Century Realist Still Life Nicely Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 21 by 25 inches overall and 14.5 by 18.5 painting alone.
Category
Realist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Smoking a pipe and drinking wine (1893) - Henri Hebert Swiss school
Located in Geneva, CH
Henri A. Hebert was born in Geneva in the 19th century. Genre painter and son of Jules Hebert both belonging to the Swiss school. The Geneva museum prese...
Category
Modern Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"DUCK HUNT" MERGANSERS, DUCK CALL, SHOTGUN DATED 1889 FRAME 43 X 35 NEWCOMB
Located in San Antonio, TX
Edward Chalmers Leavitt
(1842 - 1904)
Rhode Island Artist
Image Size: 36 x 28
Frame Size: 42.5 x 34.5 Newcomb Macklin Frame.
Medium: Oil
Dated 1889
"Duck Hunt" Mergansers
Edward Chalmers Leavitt (1842 - 1904)
Edward Chalmers Leavitt, artist, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, March 9, 1842, the son of Rev. Jonathan and Charlotte Esther (Stearns) Leavitt. His paternal ancestor was John Leavitt, who came to Massachusetts Bay in the first ship and settled in Hingham. On the maternal side, he is descended from John Alden and Priscilla Mullens, who came to Plymouth in the Mayflower.
Leavitt was educated in private schools in Providence, and at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire. During the Civil
War in 1862 and 1863, he served in the navy on the U.S.S. Galena. In his profession of artist, Mr. Leavitt is especially noted as a painter of fruit, flowers and still life.
He exhibited in the National Academy for several years and has made many successful exhibitions in Providence and Boston. He was a member of the Boston and Providence art clubs, and the Providence Press Club. He was also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. In politics his proclivities are mainly Republican. He has been twice married: first, May 19, 1877, to Ellen M. Fuller; and second, April 22, 1880, to Elizabeth S. Chace.
Submitted November 2004 by Edward Bentley, Art Collector and Researcher from Lansing, Michigan.
Source is the publication "Men of Progress: Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life from the State of Rhode Island." New England magazine. 1896.
Edward C. Leavitt, born in 1842, has been described as "Providence, Rhode Island's leading still-life painter" in the late 19th Century. (Zellman 324) His teacher, James Morgan Lewin, was a prominent still-life painter in Fall River, Massachusetts, a neighboring town.
Leavitt, a detailed, sharp-focused, realistic painter, was in love with texture and light, and was prolific and successful, painting a variety of still life subjects including flowers, fruit and even fish and dead game animals. His objects, including costly antiques and household decorative items, were often placed on ornamental, gleaming surfaces.
He was a frequent exhibitor at the National Academy of Design in the 1870s and 1890s. The artist, who died in 1904, moved from a position of success and popularity to being ignored for many years until the publication of William H. Gerdts and Russell Burke's American Still-Life Painting in 1971. It is uncertain whether this disastrous loss of respect took place because Leavitt's work declined in quality during the last decade of his life, or because he was a victim of the periodic shifts in taste and fashion that afflict the arts.
Sources:
Michael David Zellman, 300 Years of American Art
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
Biography from Roger King Fine Art
Edward Leavitt was one of the leading still life artists of nineteenth century New England. He lived and worked in Providence, and studied with James Morgan Lewin, a leading painter of the Fall River School, which, in the late 19th Century, was one of the most important centers of still life painting.
While Lewin branched out into other types of painting, Leavitt remained devoted to the art of the still life. His paintings are sharply focused, realistic, and carefully finished. Ornate objects such as urns, ewers, platters, cut glassware...
Category
Realist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bouquet of chrysanthemums
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Steak
Located in Sheffield, MA
Henri Léon Mabboux
French, 1843-1895
Still Life with Steak
Oil on canvas
23 ½ by 32 ½ in, w/ frame 29 by 38 ¼ in
Signed upper left
Category
Naturalistic Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Realist Flower Still Life Original Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American realist flower still life oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1900. Unsigned. Image size, 10L x 14H. Housed in a period giltwood frame.
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Tree Branch With Apples, Watercolor, 1895
By Otto Strandman
Located in Stockholm, SE
A Branch with Apples, watercolor and gouache on paper by Swedish artist Otto Strandman (1871–1960). The composition features a delicately rendered branch with green and reddish apple...
Category
Naturalistic Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Victorian antique English still life of flowers, birds nest, eggs in a garden
Located in Woodbury, CT
Henry John Livens was born in 1858, in St Pancras, London the direct descendant of Jan Liebens who had left his native Holland in the 1600’s to paint a portrait of the King and subse...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil