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Italian romantic landscape oil painting by Michele Felice Corne Item # 8487 Click HERE to inquire about this item Italian romantic landscape circa 1800-1806. Attributed to Michele Felice Corne, born in Elba, Italy, in 1752, died in Newport, RI, in1845. Oil on canvas, 29" x 36.25". Dramatic view of ruins and stone towers. Listed in Christie's Important American Furniture Sale, NY, January 18th and 19th, 2007. Corne grew up in Naples and was brought to the US in 1799 by Salem merchant Elias Hasket Derby, Jr. He was active in Salem until 1806, and worked with Samuel McEntire and William King, and helped establish marine painting as a Salem Tradition. After moving to Boston, he became noted for paintings of ships and naval battles of the War of 1812, many of which were engraved. After 1822, he lived and taught in Newport. George Ropes and Hannah Crowninshield were among his pupils. His work hangs in the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT; Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA; NY Hist. Soc.; New Haven Colony Hist. Soc.; and Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Price: $26,750.00 Customer Feedback -How to Purchase -Shipping / Handling Shipping Extra. Connecticut residents add 6.35 percent sales tax. Buyers outside of the United States are responsible for any customs taxes or tariffs that may apply.

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Chinese watercolor paintng of a Tang Official Item # 8500 Click HERE to inquire about this item 19th century Chinese watercolor of a Tang official. He is dressed in a belted salmon colored literary robe and a blue fu tou head wrap. He is contempletively stroking his long beard and holding a sheaf of papers. He is seated on a tiger skin. Frame is 18 x 25.5"; image is 11.5" x 19". Silk matted. Price: $900.00 Customer Feedback -How to Purchase -Shipping / Handling Shipping Extra. Connecticut residents add 6.35 percent sales tax. Buyers outside of the United States are responsible for any customs taxes or tariffs that may apply.

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Thomas Sully ink pencil portrait drawing of a young girl Item # 8508 Click HERE to inquire about this item Portrait drawing by American artist Thomas Sully B 1793 D 1872. Sully was a very famous nineteenth century American artist. This drawing was done in ink, wash, pencil on paper and depicts a young girl with the most perfect smile. The artist drawing was found in a Connecticut estate. It is signed TS. Sully signed a large amount of his work using these two initials. This drawing measures approximately 6 inches by 9 inches and is in excellent condition. The later gold leaf frame measures 16 x 18 inches. See Sotheby's New York Auction 12.01.2004 lot 73 for a similar example of his work, same eyes, facial features and signature, or to see other examples of Sully's signatures go to Dictionary of Signatures and Monograms of American Artists page 407. The son of actors Matthew Sully and Sarah Chester, Thomas Sully was born at Horncastle, England, in 1783. The family emigrated to Richmond, Virginia, in 1792 and two years later settled in Charleston, South Carolina. There is a wonderful Bio of the artist at http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tsly/hd_tsly.htm Price: $8,500.00 Customer Feedback -How to Purchase -Shipping / Handling Shipping Extra. Connecticut residents add 6.35 percent sales tax. Buyers outside of the United States are responsible for any customs taxes or tariffs that may apply.

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Period American family portrait oil on canvas c1800 Item # 8542 Click HERE to inquire about this item Period American family portrait oil painting on canvas c1800 in original condition. The painting depicts a father and daughter with their pet dog. No repairs rips or inpainting. The frame measures 37.5 x 30.5 inches and the painting measures 23 x 30 inches. Unsigned. Just in from a CT Estate Price: $5,500.00 Customer Feedback -How to Purchase -Shipping / Handling Shipping Extra. Connecticut residents add 6.35 percent sales tax. Buyers outside of the United States are responsible for any customs taxes or tariffs that may apply.

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Vintage King Charles Spaniel portrait young girl Item # 8580 Click HERE to inquire about this item A charming vintage English Victorian style portrait oil on canvas of a young girl with a King Charles Spaniel in a period mahogany frame w/gold edging, signed by initials "YS", lower right. Note: this is not a period work, but a good, decorative 20thc. copy of an earlier portraiture.Dimensions: 10" H x 7 3/4" W, framed. 5 " W x 7" H , unframed. Price: $1,200.00 Customer Feedback -How to Purchase -Shipping / Handling Shipping Extra. Connecticut residents add 6.35 percent sales tax. Buyers outside of the United States are responsible for any customs taxes or tariffs that may apply.

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