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Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen “Portrait of a Lady in Profile Holding A Book” Oil on panel 13 ¾” x 10 ½” (34.9 x 26.7 cm) S71791-86
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Francesco Di Simone da Santa Croce (1480-1548) “Joseph’s Escape from Potiphar’s Wife” From the collection of Pinero Migliorati Lugano, Taken from Old Church in Northern Italy (one of five). @NB-1040 #88
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Bartoloméo Estenban Murillo 1618-1682, Spanish “The Virgin with the Infant Christ Standing” Oil on canvas 62” x 42” 157.5 x 106.7 cm CL102794-63 9115603-2 @AC-NB
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Francesco Solimena (Italian, 1657-1747) “The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine” Oil on canvas, Oval 12 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (31.8 x 24.7 cm) CL102794-97 430602-2 @NB-1040 #61
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Duccio di Buoninsegna (Italian, 1255-1318) “The Madonna and Child” Oil on panel 18 ½ x 13 inches Duccio di Buoninsegna (Italian; c. 1255–1260 – c. 1318–1319) was an Italian painter active in Siena, Tuscany in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. He is considered to be the father of Sienese painting and, along with a few others, the founder of Western art. He was hired throughout his life to complete many important works in government and religious buildings around Italy. Duccio is credited with creating the painting styles of Trecento and the Sienese school, and also contributed significantly to the Sienese Gothic style. Although much is still unconfirmed about Duccio and his life, there is more documentation of him and his life than of other Italian painters of his time. It is known that he was born and died in the city of Siena, and was also mostly active in the surrounding region of Tuscany. Other details of his early life and family are as uncertain, as much else in his history. Nevertheless, his artistic talents were enough to overshadow his lack of organization as a citizen, and he became famous in his own lifetime. In the 14th century Duccio became one of the most favored and radical painters in Siena. CL102794-10 561202-2 @NB-1040 #7
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David Teniers ‘The Palm Reader’ oil on panel 6 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (17.5 x 11.7 cm) CL102794-253 39520-2 @AC-NB
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Pieter Aertson (Dutch, 1507-1575) Virgin Mary Oil on panel 22 ½” x 41 ½” Inscribed lower left Pieter Aertsen (Amsterdam, 1508 – 3 June 1575), called Lange Pier ("Tall Pete") because of his height, was a Dutch painter in the style of Northern Mannerism. He is credited with the invention of the monumental genre scene, which combines still life and genre painting and often also includes a biblical scene in the background. He was active in his native city Amsterdam but also worked for a long period in Antwerp, then the centre of artistic life in the Netherlands. His genre scenes were influential on later Flemish Baroque painting, Dutch still life painting and also in Italy. His peasant scenes preceded by a few years the much better-known paintings produced in Antwerp by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
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David Teniers ‘Topers in a Tavern Interior’ oil on white metal 10 3/8 x 12 ½ in. CL102794-244 318702-2 Price:4,500 @AC-NB
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Antonio Allegri, il Correggio “The Holy Family with Saint Francis” Oil on Canvas 47 ½” x 41” CL102794-64 374802-2
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Carlo (Vavaliere) Maratta (Italian, 1625-1713) “Time Revealing Truth and Justice” Oil on canvas 53 x 43 ½ inches (134.6 x 110.5 cm) CL102794-128 3108801-2 NB-1040 #49
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Willem de Poorter (Dutch, b. 1608) “Pharaoh’s Army Drowning in the Red Sea” Oil on panel 20 x 32 ½ inches (50.7 x 82.5 cm) CL102794-108 123802-2 @NB-1040 #16
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Sir Anthony van Dyck ‘Portrait of the Marchesa Lomellini-Durazzo, three quarter length, in a black Coat and white Sleeves’ oil on canvas 33 5/8 x 24 in. 85.4 x 61 cm. CL102794-266 5115602-2 @AC-sAlbert.
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Henri Gascars ‘Portrait of a Lady, half length in a blue Dress with a white Chemise and a brown Wrap, holding a Spaniel' Bears inscription on a label on the reverse ‘Mrs. Cunliffe' oil on canvas, in a painted oval 27 x 19 ½ in. 68.6 x 49.5 cm. Henri Gascar (1635 – 1 Jan 1701) (also Gascard, Gascars) was a French-born portrait painter who achieved artistic success in England during the reign of Charles II. He painted many leading ladies at court, including several of the King's mistresses, before returning to Paris. He subsequently relocated to Rome, where he died in 1701. Gascar came to England about 1674, probably at the behest of Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, Charles II's favourite mistress. Gascar (or Gascard, as he seems to have spelt his name at first) was already known as a skillful portrait-painter; among the portraits already painted by him was that of Nicolas de Lafond, author of the "Gazette of Holland", painted in 1667, and engraved by Peter Lombart. The patronage of the Duchess of Portsmouth ensured Gascar a rapid success in England. His flamboyant style, contrasting with the stolid English approach, seemed to suit the frivolity of the time and he painted many of the ladies of Charles II's court. His lack of attention to detail in the likeness he made up for by the sumptuous draperies and tawdry adornments around the subject. For a short time he became fashionable, and is said to have amassed a fortune of over £10,000.
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Donato Creti “Studies of Heads” Pen and brown ink on paper 10 ¾ x 7 ¼ inches @NB-1040 #26 Donato Creti (24 February 1671 – 31 January 1749) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna. Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bolognese Marco Benefial", in that his style was less decorative and edged into a more formal neoclassical style. It is an academicized grand style, that crystallizes into a manneristic neoclassicism, with crisp and frigid modeling of the figures. Among his followers were Aureliano Milani, Francesco Monti, and Ercole Graziani the Younger. Two other pupils were Domenico Maria Fratta and Giuseppe Peroni.
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Andrea (‘dAnqiolo) del Sarto (Italian, 1487-1531) “The Madonna of the Harpies” Oil on canvas 20 x 8 inches (50.8 x 20.3 cm) Andrea del Sarto (Italian: 1486–1530) was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. Though highly regarded during his lifetime as an artist senza errori ("without errors"), his renown was eclipsed after his death by that of his contemporaries, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. Andrea del Sarto was born Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco di Luca di Paolo del Migliore in Florence on 16 July 1486. Since his father, Agnolo, was a tailor (Italian: sarto), he became known as "del Sarto" (meaning "tailor's son"). CL 102794-91 322101-2 @NB-1040 #18 OM-294
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Carlo Dolci (Italian, 1616-1686) “The Madonna and Child with Saint Clare” Oil on copper 8 ¼ x 6 inches (21 x 15.3 cm) Carlo (or Carlino) Dolci (25 May 1616 – 17 January 1686) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence, known for highly finished religious pictures, often repeated in many versions. He was born in Florence, on his mother's side the grandson of a painter. Although he was precocious and apprenticed at a young age to Jacopo Vignali, Dolci was not prolific. "He would take weeks over a single foot", according to his biographer Baldinucci. His painstaking technique made him unsuited for large-scale fresco painting. He painted chiefly sacred subjects, and his works are generally small in scale, although he made a few life-size pictures. He often repeated the same composition in several versions, and his daughter, Agnese Dolci, also made excellent copies of his works. Dolci was known for his piety. It is said that every year during Passion Week he painted a half-figure of the Savior wearing the Crown of Thorns. In 1682, when he saw Giordano, nicknamed "fa presto" (quick worker), paint more in five hours than he could have completed in months, he fell into a depression. Dolci's daughter, Agnese (died circa 1680), was also a painter. Dolci died in Florence in 1686.
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Lodewyck de Vadder ‘The Temptation in the Wilderness’ oil on canvas 17 ¾ x 44 in. (45 x 111.8 cm) CL102794-177 351003-2 @AC-NB
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F. Hohle (early 20th Century) after Frans Hals. ‘Two singing Boys’ signed lower right F. Hohle cop and with the monogram lower left FG, oil on canvas 66.5 x 53 cm The original, on canvas, 66x52 cm, is in the Staatliche Kunstammlung Kassel. It was acquired by Landgraf Wilhelm VIII of Hessen in 1749 (see S.Slive, Frans Hals, 1974, II.fig. 44 and III.pp.15/16, no.23) CA102894-46 734506-3 @Albertson
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Francisco Bayeu Y Subias (1734-1795) “An Allegorical Figure of Music, a Study for a Pedentive” Oil on paper laid down on canvas 13 ¼ x 16 ½ inches Francisco Bayeu y Subias (9 March 1734 – 4 August 1795) was a Spanish painter, active in a Neoclassic style, whose main subjects were religious and historical themes. Born in Zaragoza, Aragon, he received a broad childhood education. He then moved to Madrid, winning a scholarship with the painting of the ‘’Tyranny of Gerion’’ to study in the Academia Real de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. The death of his parents and the care of his brothers forced him to return to Zaragoza, until he was recalled by Anton Raphael Mengs to help decorate the Royal Palace of Madrid. He served as court painter to King Charles III of Spain. He was named a professor of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in 1765 and director in 1788. He painted in the Charterhouse of Aula Dei in Zaragoza. In 1767 he was named court painter for Charles III, king of Spain. He was involved in the decoration of various Royal palaces near Madrid. He helped provide designs for tapestries. He also painted for the College of San Ildefonso, the Royal Monastery of the Incarnation (Madrid), the Basilica of our Lady del Pilar in Zaragoza, and the cloister of the Cathedral of Toledo.
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JaquesNatoire with indistinct signature, ‘F Boucher’ “Zephyr Flora” Laid down on canvas 10 ½ x 8 inches (26.7 x 20.3 cm) CL102794-137 451003-2 @NB-1040 #62
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Antonio Allegri da Correggio “The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine” Oil on canvas 32 x 28 inches (81.3 x 71.2 cm) CL102794-78 3108802-2 @NB-1040 #68
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Diego Velaquez Bacchus – a detail Oil on canvas 16 x 20 ½ in. 40.7 x 52.1 cm CL102794-233 325501-2 @AC-GN
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Charles François Jalabert Women in the Forest Oil on canvas Within a painted arch 39.4 x 31.8 cm S71791-209 899001-3
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Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (Italian, 1675-1741) “The Young Bacchus” Oil on panel 11 x 7 ½ inches (27.9 x 19.2 cm) Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (29 April 1675 – 2 November 1741) was one of the leading Venetian history painters of the early 18th century. His style melded the Renaissance style of Paolo Veronese with the Baroque of Pietro da Cortona and Luca Giordano. He travelled widely on commissions which brought him to England, the Southern Netherlands, the Dutch Republic, Germany, Austria and France. He is considered an important predecessor of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. One of his pupils was Antonio Visentini. Pellegrini was a pupil of the Milanese painter Paolo Pagani. He travelled with his master to Moravia and Vienna in 1690 and was back in Venice in 1696 where he painted his first surviving works.
