Catalog (958)

Edgar Nye (American, 1879-1943)

The Boat Slip

Watercolor on paper, signed.

Painting size: 23.5” x 29.5”
Unframed

Nye lived, worked and taught in Washington, DC for 58 years. While he may have been born in Richmond, VA, his love for the city earned him the distinction of a "native" son.

Nye was educated in public schools before entering the Corcoran School of Art at age 13. He studied there for eight years before setting off on the requisite European tra...

Paul Désiré Trouillebert

(French 1829-1900) Landscape with Stream

Watercolor on paper, signed lower left

Sight Size: 13 ½” x 16 ½”
Frame: 20 1/” x 24 ½”

Paul Desire Trouillebert was a portrait, genre and landscape painter of the French Barbizon School. He was a student of Ernest Hebert [1817-1908] and Charles-Francois Jalabert [1819-1901], and made his debut at the Salon of 1865. At the Paris Salon of 1869, Trouillebert exhibited "Au bois ...

Antique American Tea caddy in maple with pewter stringing and a pewter plaque with the word "tea", inside are two lidded compartments. Circa 1870.

Height: 3.75"
Length: 7.5"
Depth: 4.5"

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Autumn, Pimmit Run, VA"

Oil on masonite, signed lower right and titled on the reverse

Painting: 10.5" x 12"

Frame: 16" x 17.5"

Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector

Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art with Messer and Brooke , and also with Max Weyl . He continued his studies in drawing at the Linthicum Institute under Ballenger...

Four Humorous Hunting Scenes

John Leech (English, 1817-1864)

Chromolithographs, Published by Agnes, circa 1865.

Provenance: The Jockey Club & The Fairfax Hotel, Washington, D.C.

All framed differently

Depending on the source, Leech was born on either August 23 or 29, and was the son of a coffee house keeper or vintner. While the beginning of his life may be unclear, there is no doubting the significant artistic contribution Leech left for posterity.
His early ...

Christ on the Sea of Galilee

European School, early 19th century

Oil-on-canvas, unsigned

Painting: 17.25" x 21.75"
Frame:23" x 27.75"

Fine Late Regency Papier-Mâché Tray having a shaped gallery with gilt stencil decoration and inlaid with mother of pearl. English, circa 1835, mounted on a later bamboo form ebonized stand.

Height: 23.25 ” Length: 29.5” Width: 21.5”

C. Henshaw (British, 19th C)

COTTAGE CHILDREN

Oil on canvas, laid down. Signed. Circa 1840

This composition is based on a sculpture of a boy and girl with their cat which was reproduced in parianware by Copeland (see enlargement #6). The title comes from a reference by the poet James Hoag to one of Robert Burns' dogs: "The Ettrick Shepherd, a judge of collies, says that Luath is true to the life, and that many a hundred times he has seen the dogs bark for very joy, when the ...

Lee Winslow Court (American, 1903-1992)

Farm in Winter

Oil on artist board, signed lower right.

Painting: 17” x 22”
Frame: 22.25” x 27.25”

Although Court traveled the globe painting in the Antarctic, Canadian Rockies, Norway and Ireland, he remains best known for winter landscapes of New England and shore scenes of Monhegan Island, Maine. He spent summers on Monhegan Island beginning in 1925 and eventually built a studio there in 1958 Court studied at ...

I. or J. Hoffmann (German, 19th - 20th century)

Cart in a Courtyard

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right and dated “1906”
Frame retains a label from the Exhibition: Munchener Jahres-Ausstellung 1910 im Kgl. Glaspalaste zu Munchen.

Painting Size: 29” x 21”
Frame Size: 37.5 ” x 30”

A charming snapshot of a town courtyard, the apartments above the workshop with their windows open to catch the spring breezes, the windowboxes bringing a ...

Rare Chinese Export Roll Top Lap Desk, Asian Hardwoods with ebony and brass mounts having single lower drawer that when opened reveals a fitted interior, sloped writing surface and "pop-up" storage compartment with tambour doors. Circa 1830.

Length 19", Depth 15"

*See Crossman, The ChinaTrade, color plate 96 (page 248) for another example.

Fine George III Book Form Desk Box in mahogany with satinwood stringing and rosewood banding with two inlaid oval shell form patterae on the top and two small drawers that form the faux spine. Provenance: Arthur Vernay, New York. (drawer interiors re-built) English, Circa 1790. 10.25" x 8.25" x 3.5" tall

Edgar Nye (American, 1879-1943)

Hillside Landscape

Watercolor on paper, signed lower right

Painting size: 11.5” x 17” Unframed

Nye lived, worked and taught in Washington, DC for 58 years. While he may have been born in Richmond, VA, his love for the city earned him the distinction of a "native" son.

Nye was educated in public schools before entering the Corcoran School of Art at age 13. He studied there for eight years before setting off on the requisite Euro...

Grace Woodbridge Geer (American, 1854-1938)

Portrait of a Woman

Oil on canvas, signed with initials, upper left.

Painting: 10” x 8”
Frame: 16” x 14”

Geer, a native of Boston, was a portrait and miniature artist. She attended the Massachusetts Normal Art School, established to train teachers of fine and decorative arts. She studied with F.H. Tompkins, Triscott, Tarbell and Vonnoh. Geer exhibited with several galleries and clubs in the Northeast, includ...

Albert Edward Sterner (American, 1863-1946)

"A Voice From the Sea"

Lithograph or monotype on Japan paper, signed and dated 1925 in the plate and pencil signed and inscribed indistinctly.

Sight Size: 11.25" x 7" Frame Size: 19" x 14.5" Sterner was born in England of American parents and studied in Birmingham and in Paris at the Académie Julian with Boulanger and Lefebvre. He also studied in Paris with Gérôme.
Although he lived and worked in Chicago as an ill...

Rookwood matte glazed vase with wave-form relief decoration and impressed mark dating it to 1931.

Height: 5.375"

Small Pair of Bronze and Slate 'Grand Tour' Candlesticks with naturalistic decoration of leafage and bugs. Italian, late 19th Century.

Height: 3.75"

Loring Wilkins Coleman, Jr. (American, 1918-2015)

Early Spring

Oil on Masonite, signed

Painting: 11.25" x 30.5"
Frame: 17" x 36.25"

Loring Coleman studied at the Middlesex School in Concord and the Scott Carbee School of Art, Boston. Coleman studied oil painting with Charles Dudley Murphy and his associate, John Enser. Murphy in turn, introduced Loring to his fourth teacher: Charles Curtis Allen. Under Allen, Loring's paintings matured, he...