AR22. Pierson, Paris. Adolphe Yvon (1817-1893). Prolific French artist of historical, religious, military, genre, and portraits. Trained under Paul Delaroche at the Ecole des Beauz-Arts in Paris. Made his salon debut in 1841, won a succession of medals, became a member and an officer of the Legion of Honor. In 1861 he painted a portrait of Prince Imperial, in 1868 he painted the emperor. CDV. VG. $75
AR24. Ch. Reutlinger, Paris. Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1864). French Neoclassical painter. Trimmed at bottom. CDV. G. $25
AR47. No ID. George Cruikshank (1792-1878). English caricaturist and illustrator. Trimmed. CDV. G. $30
AR62. F. Mulnier, Paris. Gustave Dore (January 6, 1832 – January 23, 1883), French artist, engraver, illustrator, and sculptor. CDV. VG. $85
AR63. Nadar, Paris. Gustave Dore (January 6, 1832 – January 23, 1883), French artist, engraver, illustrator, and sculptor. CDV. VG. $125
AR64. No ID. Gustave Dore (January 6, 1832 – January 23, 1883), French artist, engraver, illustrator, and sculptor. CDV. VG. $85
AR67. Ch. Reutlinger, Paris. Gustave Dore (January 6, 1832 – January 23, 1883), French artist, engraver, illustrator, and sculptor. CDV. VG. $75
AR78. C.D. Fredricks & Co., NY. George Cruikshank (27 September 1792 – 1 February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the “modern Hogarth” during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience. Trimmed at bottom. CDV. VG. $95
AR79. The London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company. Sir John Everett Millais (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). Millais became the most famous exponent of the style, his painting Christ in the House of His Parents (1850) generating considerable controversy, and painting perhaps the embodiment of the school, Ophelia, in 1850-51. By the mid-1850s Millais was moving away from the Pre-Raphaelite style to develop a new form of realism in his art. His later works were enormously successful, making Millais one of the wealthiest artists of his day, but some former admirers including William Morris saw this as a sell-out (Millais notoriously allowed one of his paintings to be used for a sentimental soap advertisement). CDV. VG. $100
AR80. Charles D. Fredricks & Co., NY. Felix Octavius Carr “F. O. C.” Darley (June 23, 1822 – March 27, 1888) was an American painter in watercolor and illustrator, known for his illustrations in works by well-known 19th-century authors, including James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Mary Mapes Dodge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, George Lippard, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Donald Grant Mitchell, Clement Clarke Moore, Frances Parkman, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Nathaniel Parker Willis. CDV. VG. $85
AR90. Disderi, Paris. Rosa Bonheur, born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, (16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist, an animalière (painter of animals) and sculptor, known for her artistic realism. Her most well-known paintings are Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now at Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair (in French: Le marché aux chevaux), which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City. Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter during the nineteenth century. CDV. VG. $85
AR96. Maull & Polyblank, London. Thomas Faed (8 June 1826 – 17 August 1900) was a Scottish painter who is said to have done for Scottish art what Robert Burns did for Scottish song. Faed was born in Gatehouse of Fleet, Kirkcudbrightshire, and was the brother of John Faed, also a Scottish painter. He received his art education in the school of design, Edinburgh and was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1849. He went to London three years later, was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1861, and academician in 1864, and retired in 1893. He had much success as a painter of domestic genre. Three of his pictures, The Silken Gown, Faults on Both Sides, and The Highland Mother are in the Tate Gallery and a further two, Highland Mary and The Reaper hang in the Aberdeen Art Gallery. The Last of the Clan, completed in 1865 and arguably his best known work, is in the Kelvingrove Gallery in Glasgow. He produced several versions of this work, including a smaller version now in The Fleming Collection. Two other celebrated pictures are The Motherless Bairn and Scott and His Literary Friends at Abbotsford. CDV. G. $65
AR108. Carjat & Cie, Paris. Charles Amédée de Noé, known as Cham (January 26, 1818 – September 6, 1879), was a French caricaturist and lithographer. Raised by a family who wished him to attend a polytechnic school, he instead attended painting workshops by Nicolas Charlet and Paul Delaroche and began work as a cartoonist, taking on the pseudonym “Cham.” In 1839 he published his first book, Monsieur Lajaunisse, which began a career that would span 40,000 drawings. In 1843 he began to be published in newspapers like Le Charivari, whose staff he was on for thirty years. Later works included Proudhon en voyage and Histoire comique de l’Assemblée nationale. He wrote a number of comic plays towards the end of his life. CDV. VG. $85
AR110. Elliott & Fry, London. Myles Birket Foster (4 February 1825 – 27 March 1899) was a popular English illustrator, watercolour artist and engraver in the Victorian period. CDV. VG. $85
AR121. The London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, London. William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid color, and elaborate symbolism. These features were influenced by the writings of John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, according to whom the world itself should be read as a system of visual signs. For Hunt it was the duty of the artist to reveal the correspondence between sign and fact. Of all the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Hunt remained most true to their ideals throughout his career. He was always keen to maximize the popular appeal and public visibility of his works. CDV. G. $85
AR122. Elliott & Fry, London. Richard Ansdell (11 May 1815 – 20 April 1885) was an English oil painter of animals and genre scenes. CDV. VG. $65
AR124. John & Charles Watkins, London. Sir John Everett Millais (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). Millais became the most famous exponent of the style, his painting Christ in the House of His Parents (1850) generating considerable controversy, and painting perhaps the embodiment of the school, Ophelia, in 1850-51. By the mid-1850s Millais was moving away from the Pre-Raphaelite style to develop a new form of realism in his art. His later works were enormously successful, making Millais one of the wealthiest artists of his day, but some former admirers including William Morris saw this as a sell-out (Millais notoriously allowed one of his paintings to be used for a sentimental soap advertisement). CDV. G. $85
AR142. Ranger’s Photograph Parlors, Syracuse, N.Y. Sanford Thayer (7/19/20-11/15/80). American artist known for his portraits and Adirondack painted scenes. When Sanford was about seventeen years of age he gained employment at a wagon shop in Skaneateles, New York, where he joined artist Charles Elliot painting backs of sleighs. Sanford is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, in an unmarked grave. Faded inscription at top verso which indicates that this was “compliments of S. Thayer.” CDV. VG. $75
AR143. Ranger & Austen, Syracuse, N.Y. Sanford Thayer (7/19/20-11/15/80). American artist known for his portraits and Adirondack painted scenes. When Sanford was about seventeen years of age he gained employment at a wagon shop in Skaneateles, New York, where he joined artist Charles Elliot painting backs of sleighs. Sanford is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, in an unmarked grave. “S. Thayer” on verso, may be his signature. CDV. G. $75
AR153. Brady, Washington DC. Thomas Ustick Walter (9/4/04-10/30/87), Fourth Architect of the Capitol. Oversaw the expansion of the Capitol and the installation of the fire proof iron dome. VG. $200