March at Sunset or The Old Story
Oil on canvas, signed and retaining two labels on the reverse with titles.
Painting size: 12.25” x 21.25”
Frame size: 18.75” x 27.5”
Born in Warrington, Virginia in 1847, Richard Norris Brooke made significant contributions to the development and posterity of the art community in Washington, DC...
Chestnut Hunter in a Stable
Oil on canvas, signed and dated: “1877”.
There is no known exhibition record of Harrowing’s work and little is known of his background other than that he is noted for his portraits of horses and dogs, particularly beagles, hunters, brood mares and coach horses. He is also known to have painted still lifes of game as well as various other farm animals...
James John Hill (British, 1811-1882)
Oil on canvas, signed and dated: “(18__)” and retainging its original gilt wood and gesso frame.
Painting size: 12” x 10”
Frame size: 32” x 42”
Edgar Hewitt Nye (American, 1879-1943)
Oil on artist board, signed lower left and located on paper label on reverse: “Brookland, D.C. (off Bunker Hill Road). Vicinity now a well built up residential section.”
Nye lived, worked and taught in Washington, DC for 58 years...
"The Old Ship Victory off Southampton Water"
Signed lower left and titled on an old label on the reverse.
Painting: 26" x 17.25"
Frame size: 32" x 23"
Colls was a painter of shipping and coastal scenes who lived in Camden Town, London and exhibited at the British Institution from 1852-4. The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich has a pair of his paintings...
by Ernest David Roth (Am. 1879-1964)
Drypoint on Paper, signed in pencil and in the plate and dated: "1913"
Retains the original gallery label from Frederick Keppel & Co., New York, with title, artist and an inscription reading: "Proof Printed by the Artist. 70 Proofs Only"
A painter and etcher, Roth was educated at the National Academy of Design...