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Pair of Grand Tour Venetian Views, c. 1900.
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Pre 1910 item# 788765 (stock# 2541C)
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Raymond Agler Fine Arts
978-281-5048
$950
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Italian School. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 14.5 x 10.5 inches, 23.5 x 19.5 inches framed, each signed lower right. Two extraordinary turn-of-the-century "Grand Tour" views of Venice. One is of the Piazzetta from the Bacino di San Marco. The view is toward the Piazza di San Marco and the Basilica, with a corner of the Doge's Palace and the column bearing the "Lion of St. Mark" in the foreground. The lion, incidentally, is thought to be Persian (4th C. AD) or even Chi ...click for details
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W. Abbott Cheever (1907-1986). Farnum's Sawmill.
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Pre 1960 item# 396907 (stock# 2565)
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Raymond Agler Fine Arts
978-281-5048
$2,500
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Watercolors on paper, 15 x 22 inches plus mat and frame, signed "Farnum's Sawmill, North Andover/Cheever '50" lower right. Abbott Cheever's long career in art began at the age of 12. At 18, he received his first major commission, a cover for "National Sportsman", which magazine subsequently employed him to do many more covers. For most of his adult career, he was a teacher-at the Boston Museum School and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Mostly for his personal ...click for details
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American School, 19th c. The Morning Lesson.
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Pre 1900 item# 1116611 (stock# 2567A)
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Raymond Agler Fine Arts
978-281-5048
$2,400
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Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, 32 x 28 overall. A picture of considerable charm and finesse, this c. 1850 rendering of an organ grinder or wandering pedlar and his becapped monkey is strongly reminiscent of the work of the American master of the intimate genre scene, Francis W. Edmonds (1806-1863), though the technique is less hard-edged. Edmonds painted a much more elaborate work on this theme, "The Organ Grinder", 1848. The precedents are in early Dutch art, particularly the genre ...click for details
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