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American Fine Art Oil on Canvas Paintings - Raymond Agler Fine Arts

Raymond Agler Fine Arts

Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe (9)

British (4)

Carl Bille (1815-1898). USS Mississippi, 1861. Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: Pre 1900 item# 875314 (stock# 2478A)
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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

Henry Major (1829-1902). Pre-Raphaelite Still Life. Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: British: Pre 1900 item# 870663 (stock# 2483B)
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Oil on canvas, 12 x 14 inches, 17.75 x 19.5 framed, signed and dated "H.A. Major 1888" lower right. Known as the "Postman Artist", the talented Mr. Major was a letter-carrier in London for some 27 years. He was also an accomplished violinist, an actor and a playwright, with over 20 plays to his credit. As this and related works attest, he was a master of the intimate, meticulously-rendered still life in the true-to-nature mode beloved by the Pre-Raphaelites. Here is a rustic ...click for details

William Malbon (1805-1877). The Watchdog. Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: British: Pre 1900 item# 889714 (stock# 2484D)
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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 Paulus Potter and George Stubbs and with the later work of Landseer. The detail of the hound is anatomically exacting and the expression of personality is profound. Little is known of Malbon, descended from a Norman/English family of the Midlands. His work is extremely rare and includes a well-known portrait of a bull-terri ...click for details

Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803-1902).Landscape w/Cows,Sheep Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: British: Pre 1900 item# 769051 (stock# 2485A)
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Oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches plus frame, signed and dated "T.S.Cooper 1842" lower left. "Cow Cooper" was born in impoverished circumstances but managed to gain a coveted position at the Royal Academy school where he earned the encouragement of Sir Thomas Lawrence. Persistent money problems, however, forced him to seek a livelihood on the Continent. In a fortunate turn, he was befriended by the famous animal painter Eugene Verboeckhoven (1707-1881). Returned to England by 183 ...click for details

Louis Verboeckhoven (1802-1889). American 24-Gun Brig. Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: Pre 1900 item# 774242 (stock# 2486A)
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Oil on board, 8 x 12 inches, signed and dated on period paper label "Werboockooven, 1837", affixed to verso. Belgian-born in 1802 into a family of artists (his father and brother were painters), Louis was the first to specialize in marine subjects. His reputation had been established by the time of his participation in the Paris Salon of 1842. He died in Brussels in 1889 at the advanced age of 87. This jewel-like painting depicts a 24-gun American brig flying a red and blue pennant, wi ...click for details

Friedrich Fehr (1862-1927). Good Friends. Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: German: Pre 1920 item# 860247 (stock# 2490)
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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

James Francis Williams (1785-1846). Moorland Landscape. Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: British: Pre 1900 item# 427481 (stock# 2496)
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Oil on canvas, 14 x 20 1/2 inches plus frame, signed "J.F.Williams", lower left. Truly a "Scottish Constable", young Perthshire-born Williams found work in London as a stage-set decorator. Wanting to dedicate his life to "pure art", he returned to Edinburgh in 1810, exhibiting at the Associated Artists of Edinburgh. He was one of the founders of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1826 and continued to exhibit there and in London until his death in Glasgow at age 61. Roug ...click for details

Anglo-Scottish Naive School, 18th C. Politics. Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: 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

Dutch School. The Old Windmill Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: Dutch: Pre 1940 item# 853873 (stock# 2542A)
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Oil on canvas, 16 x 14 inches, 21.75 x 19.75 framed, unsigned. An intensely atmospheric painting executed by an accomplished palette knife painter. Housed in a reproduction Dutch frame.

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