Hand-Painted Decorative Art

Fabulous abstract depiction of a Japanese Samurai in ceramic tile, 12 pcs framed and matted. Beautiful tiles, in absolute stunning colors with exquisite lines. In excellent vintage c...

Oil on masonite depicting a charming country landscape in summer. Signed and dated 1938 lower left. The pale green and brown colored fields of a farmstead are separated by fences wi...

A charming hand painted antique English Minton tile decorative wall panel depicting a country milkmaid, circa 1900. Stamped Minton and printed with the initials H & S by repute, it once resided inside the Angel Islington Public House, London, UK. Dating from the Victorian era, this large decorative...

French Rouen faience decorative wall plate, hand painted with blue, green and yellow decors. Dimensions: Length 32 cm / 12.59 in, height 22 cm / 8.66 in,...

German Porcelain Hand Painted Plaque of The Penitent Magdalene; Gold, circa 1900 Golden wooden frame. Original label on the back. Addition...

Tina Turner, Prince and Fats Domino Or Percy Sledge (?) , all together on a large carnival banner. A handpainted canvas banner used at the fairground at a bumper car - dodgem car attraction. All 3 of them iconic artists and legendary singers. They will never be forgotten. Tina Turner with her typical stage clothing was a real trendsetter. Sexy but so stylish and do not forget her typical dancemoves and her incredible talent to sing ! Prince at his motorbike, the typical image for the famous purple rain song. This large carnival banner - fun fair banner...

Vintage oil painting on canvas of fisherman in the bay of Naples.

Very large, stunning Nordic decorative hanging wall plate / centerpiece / bowl in muted earth tones. Peanut brown matte glaze with navy ...

Carvings with a military, musical, hunting, or agricultural theme, known as trophies, became popular during the period of Louis XVI. This pair of large trophy panels have Neoclassica...

Meaningful and decorative work of religious art. This hand-painted, cast iron replica of the world famous fresco by Leonardo da Vinci is in excellent condition. This Renaissance sty...

Henri Victor Lesur (Roubaix, France 1863-1900) a very fine French 19th century oil on panel titled "The Flower Seller by the River Seine" (Marchand de fleurs, par la Seine, Paris) Depicting an 18th century street scene of a flower stand by the river Seine in Paris, the young flower seller attending to an aristocrat couple buying flowers; within its original ornately carved giltwood carved frame. circa: Paris, 1890. Note: The artist is also known as Henry Victor Lesur. Like many of his contemporaries during the last quarter of the 19th Century, Lesur's works took inspiration from scenes of French 18th century life, romance and every day enjoyment. Victor Gabriel Gilbert, Louis Marie de Schryver, Vittorio Reggianini, Maurice Leloir, Charles Soulacroix...

Allegorical scenes with ebonized frames.

A lovely antique pair of large Art Nouveau decorative majolica wall plates with kingfishers sitting on branches above a lakeside with waterlillies ...

Unsigned. Ca. mid-19th c. portrait of a lovely seated lady wearing a black dress with a fine broad lace collar, a sign of her high status in socie...

1970s Jaime Parlade Designer hand painting "elephants" oil on canvas.

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely original circa 1930s Belgium oil on canvas of young boy in a cap which is part of a suite I have seven of these lifestyle, natural D...

A large modernist ceramic panel depicting a singing choir in an ecclesiastical setting, set in a gilt frame. Mid-20 Century.

A blue-brown, antique Swedish oil on canvas painting of a sunny day at the Piazza Barberini, in Rome, Italy painted by Gustaf Wilhelm Palm in a hand carved original gilded wooden fra...

Architectural Capriccio of Roman Ancient Ruins with Figures. Italian, 18th century large painting in oil on canvas is from the school of Giovan...

Sylvia Tait - "The Merry Fiddler" (after the original Dutch painting by Gerard van Honthorst) - vintage hand painted ceramic cabinet plate - painted on a vintage Japanese plain white fine china...

Highly decorative artisanal folk art Mexican tree of life inspired ceramic wall decoration. Shiny mustard ochre colored organic plant shaped base ...

1970s Jaime Parlade designer hand painting "tigers" oil on canvas.

1970s Jaime Parlade designer hand painting "Walking Horse" oil on canvas Horse.

The fine pair of wallpaper panels was hand-painted in gilt paint on rice paper, reproducing the 19th century Chinese export chinoiserie painti...

Signed Moorcroft Shallow Bowl or deep plate, in deep blue and purples Handpainted floral with raised details. Impressed mark, and Signed by artist Additional information: Feature...

19th Century Spanish set of four hand-painted framed tiles. The frame measures 37x36cm.

Pair of hand colored engravings by Jacques Grasset de Sainte-Sauveur, 1797 Paris publication, 'Costumes de Different Pays', (Costumes of Different Countries). This pair depicting two...

Manner of Titian (Tiziano Vecelli - Italian, 1485-1576) An Oil on Canvas "Sleeping Cupid" within a gilt and black decorated gesso frame. A label on reve...

1970s Jaime Parlade designer hand painting "Tiger" oil on canvas.

Beautiful colorful Mid-Century Modern 1977 watercolor abstract Leaf artwork painting #3 maple frame colorful. Wired on back to be hung horizontal. Vintage condition. Neil R Anderson...

1970s Jaime Parlade designer hand painting "Walking Horses" oil on canvas Horse.

From our Hand-Painted Furniture Collection, we are pleased to introduce you to our Moro Screen. Nature has always been a source of inspiration for our hand-decorated furnishings. We...

Follower of Simon Vouet (Paris, 1590 - 1649) The Holy Family with bird Oil on glass, cm 20.5 x 23.5; with frame cm 27.5 x 29.5 The small painting examined, made on glass and...

Add some color to your kitchen wall or dining room shelf with this beautiful antique Majolica wall platter. Crafted in France, circa 1880, the plate features sculptural fruit motif in high relief which includes a pair of pears hanging from tree branches covered with green leaves. The colorful hand-painted faience round plate with pink flowers...

Exceptional painting by indigenous Haitian artist ,of beautiful school of parrots overlooking lush colourful jungle, acrylic paint on canvas, fram...

A wonderful set of four antique Dutch ‘Delft’ style manganese tiles hand decorated with biblical scenes probably originating from Rotterdam and dating f...

Etching Mark Catesby, Anas Bahamensis (The Ilathera Duck) Chrysanthemum &c T93. Wonderful print by the “Founder of American Ornithology”, Mark Catesby, from his 18th century monumental Natural History, the first natural history of American flora and fauna. A later small edition etching original hand coloring. Plate imprint on the paper. Later frame, back unopened. This is one of the finest natural science prints...

A lovely antique 18th-Century Dutch Delft faience hand painted floral plate in vibrant cobalt blue and white. It would look fabulous display...

Large late 20th century Maitland-Smith framed wall painting. circa 1990s Features a Primitive art style hand painted image of a Tigre with a tro...

1950s Spanish decorative tile framed in wood in different colours.

A striking 1960s abstract painting, possibly of a Northern England Industrial street scene. Oil on board signed FD Taggart (British born 1937), with indistinctive title to the back. ...

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also an artistically talented woman, took her son and struggled her way to West Berlin where they settled. This is where Peter Robert Keil grew up in the working-class neighborhood of Berlin-Wedding and where he discovered his interest in painting – particularly in expressionistic artists and in Pablo Picasso's work. From 1954 on, the East Berlin...

For zinc lovers, a mid 19th century zinc/metal hand painted flower crown.

A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame (all high quality gilt is original) which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting, circa 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Measures: Canvas height: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Canvas width: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Painting diameter: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm) Frame height: 57 7/8 inches (147 cm) Frame width: 45 1/2 inches (115.6 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 cm).   Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

Elegant hand-watercoloured print representing two Ctetas-Green Parakeets in blue nuance. Image reproduced from the famous illustrations by Axel Amuchastegui. Printed manually on 100...

Large manuscript sheet with Gregorian Chant on parchment "Sacerdos In Eternum" Gregorian Chant composition book sheet as wall decoration, Spain before XVth century...

A large-scale photogravure of The Forum in Rome, in original faux grain painted frame. Showing the impressive ruins of the Temple of Saturn in cent...

Elegant hand-watercolored print representing Corallium Rubrum in red nuance, Image reproduced from the famous illustrations by Albertus Seba' Cabinet of Natural Curiosities. These pr...

1970s Jaime Parlade designer hand painting "Tiger" oil on canvas.

A blue-grey, white vintage Russian, French oil on canvas painting, portraying a cloudy day of the Notre Dame Cathedral from across the Seine river in Paris, painted by Vladimir Volod...

Elegant hand-watercoloured print representing two South American Macaws Ara Chloraptera in blue nuance. Image reproduced from the famous illustrations by Axel Amuchastegui. Printed ...

Featuring a bouquet of roses and peonies in a rich color palette to complement various styles of décor. Incorporates nicely with Tuscan, shabby chic, or French country themes, accent...

Beautiful colorful Mid-Century Modern 1977 watercolor abstract Leaf artwork painting #2 maple frame colorful. Wired on back to be hung horizontal. Vintage condition. Neil R Anderson...

Wenzel Ulrik Tornøe (Danish, 1844-1907) A very fine and large oil on canvas titled "Systue" ("The Sewing Room"). The finely executed artwork depicting the interior of a sewing room w...

Elegant hand-watercoloured print representing Tucan Ramphatos Discolorus in blue nuance, with a botanical details on the back. Image reproduced from the famous illustrations by Axel ...

Cuadro de aves en lago con flores pintado a mano sobre lienzo años 1970.

This is a pair of Czechoslovakian bronze hand painted porcelain plates. It depicts a bronze mounted plates hand painted with scenes of a ...

Danish modernist decorative plate / wall decoration / centerpiece with strong graphic decor from the Tribal Harlekin series by ceramic artist Marianne Starck (1931-2007). Shiny bone white glaze with hand-carved sgraffito graphic lines and patterns in raw anthracite colored clay...