AR3. John & Charles Watkins, London. George Cruikshank (1792-1878). Noted English artist and caricaturist. CDV. VG. $95
AR12. Fradelle & Young, London. John Everett Millais (1829-1896), Pre-Raphaelite English painter with palette. Cabinet Card. VG. $200
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. $30
AR26. Etienne Carjat & Co., Paris. Florent Willems (1823-1905). Portrait and genre artist, born in Belgium. CDV. VG. $50
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. $125
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
AR72. Brady’s National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. William Page (January 3, 1811 – October 1, 1885), American painter and portrait artist. CDV. G. $150
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. $125
AR84. Pierre Petit, Paris. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (July 16, 1796– February 22, 1875) was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism. CDV. VG. $150
AR87. Bingham, Paris. Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (21 February 1815 – 31 January 1891) was a French Classicist painter and sculptor famous for his depictions of Napoleon, his armies and military themes. He documented sieges and manoeuvres and was the teacher of Édouard Detaille. Meissonier enjoyed great success in his lifetime, and was acclaimed both for his mastery of fine detail and assiduous craftsmanship. The English art critic John Ruskin examined his work at length under a magnifying glass, “marvelling at Meissonier’s manual dexterity and eye for fascinating minutiae”. Meissonier’s work commanded enormous prices and in 1846 he purchased a great mansion in Poissy, sometimes known as the Grande Maison. The Grande Maison included two large studios, the atelier d’hiver, or winter workshop, situated on the top floor of the house, and at ground level, a glass-roofed annexe, the atelier d’été or summer workshop. Meissonier himself said that his house and temperament belonged to another age, and some, like the critic Paul Mantz for example, criticised the artist’s seemingly limited repertoire. Like Alexandre Dumas, he excelled at depicting scenes of chivalry and masculine adventure against a backdrop of pre-Revolutionary and pre-industrial France, specialising in scenes from seventeenth and eighteenth-century life. CDV. VG. $150
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. $125
AR93. Bingham, Paris. Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects, bringing the academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. He is considered one of the most important painters from this academic period. He was also a teacher with a long list of students. CDV. VG. $125
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. $85
AR98. [Sarony, NY.] Thomas Nast (September 27, 1840 – December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist considered to be the “Father of the American Cartoon”. He was the scourge of Democratic Representative “Boss” Tweed and the Tammany Hall Democratic party political machine. Among his notable works were the creation of the modern version of Santa Claus (based on the traditional German figures of Sankt Nikolaus and Weihnachtsmann) and the political symbol of the elephant for the Republican Party (GOP). Contrary to popular belief, Nast did not create Uncle Sam (the male personification of the United States Federal Government), Columbia (the female personification of American values), or the Democratic donkey, though he did popularize these symbols through his artwork. Nast was associated with the magazine Harper’s Weekly from 1859 to 1860 and from 1862 until 1886. Albert Boime argues that: “As a political cartoonist, Thomas Nast wielded more influence than any other artist of the 19th century. He not only enthralled a vast audience with boldness and wit, but swayed it time and again to his personal position on the strength of his visual imagination. Both Lincoln and Grant acknowledged his effectiveness in their behalf, and as a crusading civil reformer he helped destroy the corrupt Tweed Ring that swindled New York City of millions of dollars. Indeed, his impact on American public life was formidable enough to profoundly affect the outcome of every presidential election during the period 1864 to 1884.” CDV. VG. $150
AR99. Allen & Horton, Boston. Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 – October 3, 1860) was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale’s style was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties. CDV. G. $95
AR100. No ID. 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. G. $65
AR102. Disderi, Paris. 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. $125
AR103. Pierre Petit, Paris. Thomas Couture (21 December 1815 – 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher. He taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Karel Javůrek, and J-N Sylvestre. CDV. VG. $95
AR104. Carjat & Cie, Paris. Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (1 May 1827 – 5 July 1906) was a 19th-century French Realist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make Jules Breton one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence. CDV. VG. $95
AR106. Bingham, Paris. Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. According to Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, Cabanel is the best representative of the L’art pompier and Napoleon III’s preferred painter. CDV. VG. $100
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. $100
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
AR115. Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries, NY and Washington, DC. William John Hennessy (July 11, 1839 – December 27, 1917) was an Irish artist. Hennessy was born in Thomastown, County Kilkenny in 1839. His father, John Hennessy, was forced to leave Ireland in 1848 as a result of his involvement in the Young Ireland movement. He landed in Canada and settled in New York City. William, his mother Catherine, and brother joined their father there in 1849. He gained admittance to the National Academy of Design in 1854 and exhibited his first works there. Hennessy developed a skill in wood engraving and was hired to illustrate the works of renowned poets, including that of Tennyson, Longfellow and Whittier. As an American he became the co-founder of the Artists’ Fund Society, and an honorary member of the American Society of Painters in Watercolours. In 1870 he moved to London where he became a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1902. Between 1879 and 1907 the Royal Hibernian Academy displayed eight of his paintings. He married in Charlotte Mather (1842-1940) from New Haven, Conn., descendant of the old and illustrious Mather family of Early New England Puritan divines and had by her four children. Trimmed at bottom. CDV. VG. $100
AR117. Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries, NY and Washington, DC. William Jacob Hays (born Aug. 8, 1830 – March 13, 1875) was an American painter who spent most of his life in NYC. Hays, known chiefly as a painter of animal life, owes his reputation as an artist to material gathered on a trip up the Missouri river in the summer of 1860. His work is but little known at present, but in his prime (1855-1875) he received considerable recognition both at home and abroad. A London paper in 1865 commenting on one of Hays’ pictures then on display in London, said, “English artists must look to their laurels, or America will rob them of some of them in landscape and animal painting in which they have hitherto held their ground almost undisputed.” The Art Journal in 1875 called Hays “one of the most able painters in the country.” S. G. W. Benjamin in his review of American art stated that “William Hayes [sic] showed decided ability in his representations of bisons, prairie dogs, and other dogs. Weak in color, he yet succeeded in giving spirit and character to the group he painted, and holds among our animal painters a position not dissimilar to that of Mount in genre.” VG. $125
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. $95
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. $100
AR140. No ID. Charles Loring Elliott (1812–1868) was an American painter known for his portraits. He was active in central New York for 10 years as a young man, then in 1845 moved to New York City to pursue his career. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1846. G. $100
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
AR144. Jerome & McGlashan’s Sunlight Picture Rooms, 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. Inscribed on verso to someone, partially clipped at top, “Compliments of S. Thayer, Syracuse.” Sanford is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse in an unmarked grave. CDV, trimmed. G. $75
AR148. Photographic negative from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony. Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), American painter. Corners clipped. CDV. VG. $150
AR151. Thomas Nast(September 27, 1840 – December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist considered to be the “Father of the American Cartoon”. He was the scourge of Democratic Representative “Boss” Tweed and the Tammany Hall Democratic party political machine. Among his notable works were the creation of the modern version of Santa Claus (based on the traditional German figures of Sankt Nikolaus and Weihnachtsmann) and the political symbol of the elephant for the Republican Party (GOP). Contrary to popular belief, Nast did not create Uncle Sam (the male personification of the United States Federal Government), Columbia (the female personification of American values), or the Democratic donkey, though he did popularize these symbols through his artwork. Nast was associated with the magazine Harper’s Weekly from 1859 to 1860 and from 1862 until 1886. Albert Boime argues that: “As a political cartoonist, Thomas Nast wielded more influence than any other artist of the 19th century. He not only enthralled a vast audience with boldness and wit, but swayed it time and again to his personal position on the strength of his visual imagination. Both Lincoln and Grant acknowledged his effectiveness in their behalf, and as a crusading civil reformer he helped destroy the corrupt Tweed Ring that swindled New York City of millions of dollars. Indeed, his impact on American public life was formidable enough to profoundly affect the outcome of every presidential election during the period 1864 to 1884.” Trimmed, image tear at bottom right. CDV. G. $75