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Style: American Empire
Antique Brass & Pietra Dura Portrait Miniature Painting George Washington 1880
Located in Portland, OR
A fine, antique brass easel with Pietra Dura panels and three handpainted portrait miniature paintings, circa 1880.
The brass easel of triangular ...
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1880s American Antique American Empire Paintings
Materials
Brass
American Oil on Canvas Landscape in the Original Floral Gilt Frame. Circa 1850
Located in Charleston, SC
American oil on canvas landscape with a flowing stream, trees and mountains, watering cows in the foreground, sun in the background, encompassed on the origi...
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1850s American Antique American Empire Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
American Oil on Canvas Ship Captain with Spyglass in Orig, Gilt Frame, C. 1840
Located in Charleston, SC
American portrait oil on canvas of a young ship captain holding a spyglass with a sailing ship, crew in rowboat, and gulls in lower background mounted in the original decorative gilt...
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1840s American Antique American Empire Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Giltwood, Paint
George Washington, A Masterful Portrait by The Circle of Gilbert Stuart C. 1820
By Gilbert Stuart
Located in New York, NY
George Washington: A Masterful Portrait from the Circle of Gilbert Stuart, Circa 1820
This distinguished oil on canvas portrait of George Washington, dating to circa 1820, is in the...
Category
19th Century Antique American Empire Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
19th Century Portrait of an Elderly Lady in the Style of Jacob Eichholtz
By EICHHOLTZ
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a lovely early 19th century portrait of an Elderly Lady In the Style of Jacob Eichholtz.
Nice sized portrait of an eldery lady of high status from circa 1820.
She has brown curly hair (suggesting that she may not have been as old as she appears) with a beautiful lace bonnet with intricate lace collar and black period dress which is suggestive of a ‘mourning’ period.
Oil on Canvas mounted on a wooden fame with nails and glue.
Unsigned …. but most definitely in the style and manner of Jacob Eichholtz who was a renowned Pennsylvanian artist known for his portraits of families of status and wealth in and around Pennsylvania in the early 19th century.
Jacob Eichholtz (1776–1842) was an early American painter...
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Early 19th Century American Antique American Empire Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Early 19th Century Portrait of a Gentleman in the Style of Jacob Eichholtz
By EICHHOLTZ
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a lovely early 19th century portrait of a gentleman in the style of Jacob Eichholtz.
Nice sized portrait of a Gentleman of high status from circa 1820.
He has brown hair with a period collar and bowed white silk cravat and a black period tunic or coat.
Oil on Canvas mounted on a wooden fame with nails and glue.
Unsigned …. but most definitely in the style and manner of Jacob Eichholtz who was a renowned Pennsylvanian artist known for his portraits of families of status and wealth in and around Pennsylvania in the early 19th century.
Jacob Eichholtz (1776–1842) was an early American painter...
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Early 19th Century American Antique American Empire Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Lawrence Glickman "Reverie" Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Astoria, NY
Lawrence Glickman (American, XX- XXI) "Reverie" acrylic painting on canvas, signed and titled on reverse. 44" H x 40" W. Provenance: From the artist's estate.
Category
20th Century American Empire Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pair of American Oil on Canvas Stills. Signed T. Maria. Circa 1830
Located in Charleston, SC
Pair of American oil on canvas stills in gilt and painted frames. Each painting consist of fruit in wicker baskets. Signed by artist. T. Maria. Early 19th Century.
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1830s American Antique American Empire Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
American Oil on Canvas of Landscape in Original Gilt Frame, Circa 1870
Located in Charleston, SC
American oil on canvas of landscape depicting mountains, meadows, and a stream in the original mounted foliage gilt frame. Late 19th Century.
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1870s American Antique American Empire Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
American Oval Pastel of Young Lady Grasping Dove, Cola, SC. Circa 1865
Located in Charleston, SC
American pastel of young lady grasping dove in the original oval floral gilt frame presented under glass, Mid 19th Century. Original paper label on back.
Ursuline Convent, Valle Cru...
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1860s American Antique American Empire Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Terryl Best "Ribbons VIII" Oil on Canvas
Located in Astoria, NY
Terryl Best (American, XX) "Ribbons VIII" oil painting on canvas depicting a Minimalist abstract polychrome composition on a butter yellow ground, signed to verso with National Assoc...
Category
20th Century American Empire Paintings
Materials
Canvas
American Oil on Canvas Portrait of Seated Young Lady, NY, Circa 1850
Located in Charleston, SC
American oil on canvas portrait of seated young lady in the original gilt wood floral flame, New York, Mid-19th century.
Category
1850s American Antique American Empire Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Paint
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Reverse Painting on Glass of George and Martha Washington by W. M. Prior
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Located in Water Mill, NY
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Antique Oil on Canvas Portrait Painting of a Gentleman, Giltwood Framed, C1880
Located in Big Flats, NY
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"George Washington" Engraving by James Fittler, after Gilbert Stuart, 1804
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American Portrait of George Washington Oil on Canvas in Gilt Frame, Circa 1820
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American Portrait of George Washington Oil on Board in Original Gilt Frame. 1880
Located in Charleston, SC
American portrait of George Washington oil on board in the original gilt carved wood molded frame. Late 19th century.
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H 35.25 in W 31.25 in D 3 in
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