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PRIOR TO 20th CENTURY ARTISTS
20TH CENTURY ARTISTS
Prior to 20th Century Artists


Adolphus Knell 1860 - 1890
Oil on board. SLR. Nautical scene with tall masted ship and figures in rowboat on choppy waves. 12"h x 17.5"w and 18"h x 23"w framed Adolphus Knell exclusively painted marine subjects and flourished during the latter part of the 19th Century. His work has become widely collected in recent years and may be due to the fact that he was quite prolific and that the quality of his work remained high.It is accepted that he was the brother of William Callcott Knell and the son of Wi


Revolutionary War
Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson: Letter Signed as Governor of Virginia. One page, 6 1/2" x 8"; Richmond; May 30, 1780. Framed to an overall size of 13" x 14 1/2". A Revolutionary War-era letter signed by Thomas Jefferson as Governor of Virginia, directing the tax commissioners of Rockingham County to submit overdue returns. Signed at conclusion, "Th: Jefferson." The letter reads, in full: "Be pleased to deliver for the use of this State to Messrs. Eaton and Brown, or order,


G. Moody
G. McMoondy, Farm Landscape with View to Village, oil on canvas, 20.5 x 25.5 in. Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA


N Henry Bingham
Henry Bingham is an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1939. Henry Harrison Bingham (December 4, 1841 – March 22,...


Adolph Schreyer
Adolph Schreyer studied art first at the Städel Institute in his native town, and then at Stuttgart and Munich. He painted many of his...


Antonio Zanchi
Antonio Zanchi was an Italian painter of the Baroque, active mainly in Venice, but his prolific works can also be seen in Padova,...


David Cox
David Cox (29 April 1783 – 7 June 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of...


Xanthus Russell Smith
Xanthus Russell Smith, Cape May Landing, 1869 colored pencil on paper sight: 7⅜ h × 11½ w in Watercolor on paper, "U.S. Steamer Iroquois, Navy Yard, Philadelphia", monogrammed and dated LR “X.S. / July 29th 1871.” Nautical study of the first U.S. Navy Mohican-class sloop of war with rigging and reflected hull. Watercolor on paper, "U.S. Sloop of War Brooklyn", monogrammed and dated LR “X.S. / Aug. 30th 1870.” Nautical study of a U.S. Navy steam sloop of war at anchor, Philade


Carl Weber
CARL WEBER American, 1850 - 1921 Carl Weber was born in Philadelphia, the son of the German immigrant and landscape painter Gottlieb...


American Primitive, 19th Century
Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA


Hermann Ottomar Herzog
He was born in Bremen, Germany and entered the Düsseldorf Academy at age seventeen. Herzog achieved early commercial success, allowing...


Henry Augustus Ferguson
Henry Augustus Ferguson (c. 1842–1911) was an American landscape painter of the Hudson River School, distinguishing himself by depicting...


Abraham Pether
Description Attributed to Abraham Pether (British, 1756-1812) oil on canvas depicting figures gazing out to a building aflame under the...


Victor Philippe Lemoine-Benoit
Victor Philippe Francois Lemoine-Benoit 1831 - 1850 Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA


Heinrich von Rustige
Heinrich Franz Gaudenz von Rustige 1810 – 1900) was a German painter specializing in historical subjects and genres. From 1828, he was a...


Carlton Theodore Chapman
Carleton T. Chapman was born on September 18, 1860, in New London, Ohio and he died on February 12, 1925, in New York City, New York. He...


Josiah Wood Whymper
Josiah Wood Whymper 24 April 1813 – 7 April 1903 Haslemere) was a British wood-engraver, book illustrator and watercolorist. Early life...


Unknown 17th/18th C
Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA


After Thomas Prichard Rossiter
Thomas Prichard Rossiter (1818–1871) was an American artist born in New Haven, Connecticut. Known for his portraits and paintings of...


Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Giovanni Benedetto CASTIGLIONE1609-1664 Portrait of an old man with a turban on his head.1645-1650 ca. Condition Etching of 189x135 mm....


School of Edward Hicks
C. Mid 19th Century National Gallery Edward Hicks (April 4, 1780 – August 23, 1849) was an American folk painter and distinguished...


Robert Hopkin
Robert Hopkin was a landscape, marine, animal, and historical painter. He immigrated to the United States from Scotland in 1843 and...
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