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
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
Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2456
His family (originally “Begasse”) came from Belgium, in the region near Verviers and Liège. He was the third child of Franz Anton Begasse (1764–1842), a judge, and his wife, Susanne née Hoffstadt. In 1802, they moved to Cologne, where he received his first artistic training from the miniaturist, Franz Katz [de]. Later, he studied at the Lyceum in Bonn with Clemens August Philippart (1751–1825). In 1813, he went to Paris, where he became a student of Antoine-Jean Gros. While there, shortly after the Battle of Paris, his talent was noticed by King Friedrich Wilhelm III, who bought one of his works and became his patron. He remained in Paris until 1821. His first works dealt exclusively with Christian themes.
Artist: Weger
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2198
French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of Italian and French collectors
Artist: Geoffroy
Date:
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2455
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, 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.
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2457
Bernard Palissy was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain
Artist: Durupt
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2458