1850s Portrait Paintings

This mid-19th-century American folk art painting depicts a young lady wearing a black dress with gold earrings and purple necktie. She’s holding a posy. During the 1850s, fashion te...

Antique French oil portrait of a woman on thick wood board by Jules Emmanuel Valadon (1826 - 1900) see last photo. This exquisite oil portrait was painted around mid 19th century. T...

This mid-19th-century Dutch oil painting depicts a well-tailored navigator sitting proudly alongside a table. With an expression that alludes to both accrued wisdom and mild terror,...

This exquisite mid-19th-century portrait by Austrian artist Heinrich Hollpein (1814-1888) depicts a lady before a classically-inspired landscape. Attired in a fine black dress with ...

ANNA WALENSKA "THE PATRIARCH" OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED ON VERSO AMERICAN, DATED 1950-51 29.5 X 25.5 INCHES FRAMED 38.75 X 33.75 INCHES ANNA WALINSKA 1906 – 1997 A painter, illustrator and teacher at the Master Institute of Arts in New York City, Anna Walinska was born in London, England and settled in New York in 1914. Showing obvious art talent as a youngster, she first enrolled in the Art Students League in 1918 when she was age 12. Walinska lived on and off in Paris from 1928-1930, and studied there with Andre Lhote. She founded the Guild Art Gallery on West 57th Street in 1935, where she gave Arshile Gorky his first New York one-man show. In 1939, she served as the Assistant Creative Director of the Contemporary Art Pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1939. She traveled around the world in 1955, including a four month sojourn in Burma, and she taught at the Riverside Museum from 1957-1971. Major exhibitions included: solo retrospective at the Jewish Museum, 1957; solo retrospective at the Museum of Religious Art, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1979; posthumous solo exhibition at the Ghetto Museum, Theresienstadt, Czech Republic, 2000. Group exhibitions included: Salon des Independents, Paris, c. 1926-30; first annual exhibition of the American Artists' Congress in 1937; Artists for Victory, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1942; Paintings of the Year, National Academy of Design, 1946; Recent Drawings USA, MOMA, 1956; Baltimore Museum of Art, 1957; numerous exhbit ions with the National Association of Women Artists and the Federation of Modern Painters & Sculptors. Walinska's are included in numerous museum collections both here and abroad, including: The National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of American Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Herbert Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Jewish Museum, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Yad Vashem. Walinska's scrapbooks of the Guild Art Gallery (see below), along with sketchbooks and journals on world travel are included in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MUSEUM PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: Asia Society, NYC Portrait of U Nu, 1955: oil on canvas, 41 x 50 Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Clark University, Worcester Massachusetts Victims, 1956, oil on paper, 30-3/4 x 24-1/2 Victims, 1959, oil on paper mounted on masonite, 72 x 36 Victims in Madhouse, oil & chalk on paper, 42-1/2 x 30-1/2 Elegy, 1978, charcoal & oil on masonite board, 25-1/2 x 38 Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Portrait of Arshile Gorky, 1975, oil on canvas, 61 x 35-1/2 Survivors: Exile in Landscape, 1957, oil on paper, 26 x 38-1/4 Victim: Buddha Figure, 1956, ink on paper, 58 x 34 Hyde Park Library, Long Island NY Portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, charcoal on canvas, 23-1/2 x 25-1/2 Jewish Museum, NYC Moses, 1962: charcoal on heavy paper, 23 x 43 Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley CA Victims: Ghetto Figures in Landscape, 1957, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 (Holocaust series #24) Victims: Figures in Ghetto, 1957, oil on canvas board, 20 x 16 (Holocaust series #25) Victims: Women & Girls on Way to Gas Chamber, 1978, charcoal on paper, 42-1/2 x 30-1/2 (Holocaust series #44) Survivors: Figures Behind Barbed Wire, 1973, oil on paper, 42-12/ x 30-1/2 (Holocaust series#46) Portrait of Mark Rothko, ink on paper, 42 x 30 Portrait of Louise Nevelson, 1978, ink on paper, 42 x 30 Portrait of Moshe...

Pink and blue pastel-toned realist watercolor painting by English painter Thomas Frank Heaphy of Eugénie de Montijo. Eugénie de Montijo (Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafo...

French Romantic School, mid 19th century Saint John the Baptist Oil on canvas transfered on cardboard 32.5 x 28 cm In a modern frame : 40.5 x 35.5 cm This St. John the Baptist, and ...

Wonderful well painted English 19th century Victorian period dog head study. Very much painted in the manner of George Earl this is a very authentic 1...

19th century English oils on canvas of two women in a classical landscape. Similar to the style of Angelica Kauffmann who was a painter of Classica...

19th Century American School Portrait of a Lady, circa 1850 Oil on canvas 36 x 29 inches Inscribed "Zubalsky" on the stretcher Housed in an original frame by Tracy & Newkirk, New Yor...

Well painted 19th-century portrait of a man playing the bagpipe.! The skill of the artist is oblivious with their ability to paint the hands and the face with great expression. Th...

Wonderful portrait of young woman resembling Émilie Louise Marie Françoise Joséphine Pellapra, (French, 11 November 1806 – 22 May 1871), (comtesse de Brigode, princesse de Chimay) h...