Ludwig Dessoir, original name Leopold Dessauer was a German actor born in Posen, the son of a Jewish tradesman. He made his first appearance on the stage there in 1824 in a small part. After some experience at the theatre in Posen and on tour, he was engaged at Leipzig from 1834 to 1836.
Artist/Engraver Albert Henry Payne 1812-1902
Size 26 x17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3720/514
Wilson Barrett was an English manager, actor, and playwright. With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his success with melodrama, an instance being his production of The Silver King at the Princess’s Theatre of London
Wilson Barrett as Marcus Superbus in The Sign of the Cross at Lyric Theater, photo W & D Downey Photographers. Sepia tone photography. London, England, 1896.
Size 48 x 35 cms
Price £48.00
Ref:3703
Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens’s highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history.
Artist/Engraver Edward Mitchell after Antonio Van Dyck
Size 24 x 17 cms
Price £16.00
Ref:3628
Anton Raphael Mengs was a German painter, active in Dresden, Rome and Madrid, who while painting in the Rococo period of the mid-18th century became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting, which replaced Rococo as the dominant painting style.
Artist: A.Schule
Date:1821
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2459
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2460
Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history.
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2463
Italian painter who was influential in recovering the classicizing tradition of the High Renaissance from the affectations of Mannerism. He was the most talented of the three painters of the Carracci family.
Artist: D.Koch
Date:
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2464
French printmaker best known for his highly detailed etchings. His works chronicled his life and included soldiers, biblical stories, hunting, drunken tavern scenes, beggars, and the aristocratic courts of the time.
Artist: Massne
Date:
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3000
Pierre Mignard or Pierre Mignard I, called “Mignard le Romain” to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter known for his religious and mythological scenes and portraits
Artist: Delpech
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1678
Bertel Thorvaldsen was a Danish sculptor of international fame and medallist, who spent most of his life in Italy. Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen into a Danish/Icelandic family of humble means, and was accepted to the Royal Danish Academy of Art when he was eleven years old
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2465