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Carl Bille (1815-1898). USS Mississippi, 1861.
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Pre 1900 item# 875314 (stock# 2478A)
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Raymond Agler Fine Arts
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Oil on canvas, 12 x 18 inches, 17.5 x 23.5 inches with period frame, signed "Carl Bille '61" lower right. Both sides were woefully unprepared for the war that commenced with the fall of Fort Sumter, April 13, 1861. Lincoln immediately proclaimed a naval blockade, beginning the long cat-and-mouse game between Union blockaders and Confederate raiders and runners. This dramatic rendering of an American side-wheel 10-gun frigate undoubtedly depicts the Mississippi, the largest of the ...click for details
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William Malbon (1805-1877). On Alert.
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Pre 1900 item# 889714 (stock# 2484D)
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Raymond Agler Fine Arts
978-281-5048
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Oil on panel, 12 x 17.25 inches, 18 x 23 inches framed, signed "Will Malbon" lower left. This c. 1840 canine portrait deserves comparison with the earlier work of George Stubbs and with the later work of Edwin Landseer. The detail is anatomically sound and the expression of personality is pronounced. Little is known of Malbon, descended from a Norman/English family of the Midlands. His work is quite rare and includes a much-reproduced portrait of "Topsey", a bull-terrier. Fo ...click for details
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English School, 19thC., King Charles Spaniel
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Pre 1900 item# 965413 (stock# 2484E)
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Raymond Agler Fine Arts
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Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 17 x 23 inches plus frame, unsigned. Like the servant who married the master, the King Charles Spaniel, in the period from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century, "went from the scullery to the parlor in one jump." In Hogarth's famous 1742 portrait of Miss Mary Edwards (one of the richest women in England at the time), Miss Edwards is portrayed with one hand on the head of her favorite spaniel, who gazes adoringly at his mistress. By the 1820's Hen ...click for details
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Friedrich Fehr (1862-1927). Good Friends.
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Pre 1920 item# 860247 (stock# 2490)
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Raymond Agler Fine Arts
978-281-5048
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Oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches plus ebonized frame, signed lower left. Fehr was born in Werneck, Germany and studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste 1878-1884. A stipend from the sculptor Johann Martin von Wagner enabled him to travel to Italy 1885-1890 for further study. By 1890 he was again in Munich where he founded a private art school, his students including Emil Nolde. In 1899 he became a professor at the Karlsruhe Akademie where he conducted art classes until 1923. The following year ...click for details
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Anglo-Scottish Naive School, 18th C. Politics.
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Pre 1800 item# 789896 (stock# 2538A)
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Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches plus old maple frame, unsigned, professionally lined to show the original inscription verso. This intriguing survivor clearly illustrates that politics has always been an unruly affair. The assembled worthies, in various states of inebriation and/or dementia, have a lively discourse going, punctuated by calls for more potent libations. If nothing is being settled, at least a good time is being had by all. The ink inscription reads: "The Boden (?) Politicks in ...click for details
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