item name: Pair of Realist Still Life By Artist Eliot Candee Clarke [1883-1980]

item description: American born artist who was the son of impressionist landscape painter Walter Clark [1848-1917]. Studied at the Art Students League under John Twachtman (a family friend), under his father, and in Paris in 1904-1906. Eliot Candee Clark taught at the Art Student's League in New York City and New York City College. The pair of paintings are from his studies in Paris (both 1904). The paintings where sold by Clark's family directly and are not signed. the still life are typical period studies for students learning to newly paint (he was 21 when he painted these) and he kept them his whole life to remember his early Paris studies. Most of his later work was of landscape. both paintings have been completely restored, They were relined previously. The paintings have been claned and re-varnished as part of the new restoration.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions - unframed (each)
12" H X 8.5" W
30.5cm H X 21.6cm W

price: $5,600

item name: Alpine Scene By Austrian Artist Hubert Landa (1870 - 1938)

item description: Fine scene from the Austrian alps by Hubert Landa (1870 - 1938). Oil on canvas board, inscribed "Hochsgelau" on the back and signed H. Landa on the front. In a period gilt frame with anthemion relief. hubert Landa was born in 1870 in Branek, Moravia (now the Czech Republic) and died in 1938 in Kirnberg an der Mank, Austria. At first he studied lithography, then between 1894 and 1900 he continued his education at the Vienna Academy under Christian Griepenkerl and in 1900-1902 at the Vienna School of Applied Arts under Franz von Matsch. From 1902 Landa worked as an art teacher. From 1912 he was a professor at the Vienna School of Graphic Arts. In 1924 he established a private art school.

Dimensions: Frame Dimensions
22.5" H X 24.75" W
57.1cm H X 62.9cm W

Image Dimensions
18" H X 21" W
45.7cm H X 53.3cm W

price: $3,900

item name: Triumphal Arch at Susa - English Watercolor, 1816

item description: An English tourist's view of the Triumphal Arch at Susa, 1816. Watercolor applied with a brush, ink under-drawing. This watercolor records the Roman arch at Susa (ancient Segusium). Shelley visited the site on his entry to Italy and writes in a letter dated Milan, April 1818: "A ruined arch of magnificent proportions, in the Greek taste, standing in a kind of road of green lawn, overgrown with violets and primroses, and in the midst of stupendous mountains, and a blonde woman, of light and graceful manners, something in the style of Fuseli's Eve, were the first things we met in Italy". inscribed on the reverse: "Triumphal Arch at Susa erected to Augustus Caesar" and dated "August 14th 1816". Provenance: Rodgers Collection, U.K.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions - Image
8" H X 11" W
20.32cm H X 27.94cm W

Overall Dimensions - Frame
13" H X 16" W
33.02cm H X 40.64cm W

price: $1,800

item name: St. Peter's Illuminated By Fireworks

item description: Gouache over etched outline. In the 18th century, great events and holidays were celebrated with an Illumination, where buildings and monuments were strung with fireworks and torches. This gouache shows the Basilica of St. Peter, the Piazza and Bernini’s Colonnade outlined with fireworks against the night sky. Painted as a Grand Tour souvenir for a French visitor to Rome. Inscribed “S. Pierre au vatican de nuit avec la luminade de fiaccole” in pen and ink on the reverse. Provenance: Phillip's, London.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions - Image
10" H X 16" W
25.4cm H X 40.6cm W

Overall Dimensions - Frame
16" H X 22.5" W
40.6cm H X 57.1cm W

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