Portrait

(Unsigned)

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 36” x 28”
Frame Size: 42” x 34”
Price: $4000

Biography/Statement

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze, (1725-1805) French

Greuze, Jean-Baptiste (Copy of 'A Girl')

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 17.5” x 15”
Frame Size: 25” x 22”
Price: $4500
*Attributed to / Not signed (or copy of orig. work)

Biography/Statement

Jean Baptiste Greuze was a French painter best known for his portraits, genre scenes, and history paintings. Greuze’s work was known for having sentimental and sometimes titillating subject matter, as well as for its formal combination of Rococo and Dutch Realist styles. Born on August 21, 1725 in Tournus, France, Greuze studied with Charles Grandon in Lyon and later at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris. He would go on to apply to be a member of the Académie in Paris with mixed success, having applied with history paintings but only granted acceptance as a genre painter. Ultimately, Greuze’s marriage proved to be his downfall, since his wife both cheated on him and embezzled his money before their divorce. By the end of his life, Greuze, whose work had commanded some of the highest prices in France during the 1760s and 1770s, was nearly bankrupt. Today, his works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Louvre Museum in Paris, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among others. Greuze died on March 4, 1805 in Paris, France.

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(Unsigned)

Titian Grand Tour Copy of Flora

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 30” x 25”
Frame Size: 37” x 32”
Price: $4500

Biography/Statement

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Artist Profile Page: Unsigned/No Artist Affiliation / Categories: Portrait

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Charles Carlino (1902-1988) American

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 18” x 16”
Frame Size: 26” x 24”
Signature: Signed verso
Price: $3200

Biography/Statement

Charles Carlino was born in New York City, 1902.

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William Penn Morgan (1826-1900) English/American

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 38” x 32”
Frame Size: 47” x 41”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: $15000

Biography/Statement

William Penn Morgan was born in London in 1826. At age fourteen, he went to Paris and studied in the atelier* of Thomas Couture. However, during the early part of his residency he was much more interested in the “sights and sounds of Paris” than in academic studies, but eventually he settled into studying the Old Masters* and also studying at the French government school at Le Havre.

In 1851, he arrived penniless in Brooklyn, New York City, a place he died in 1900 and where he had remained for most of the rest of his career.

Between 1855 and 1860, he intermittently attended the school of the National Academy of Design* but later confessed to writer Theodore Dreiser that he had done “very little studying” during that time and wished he had devoted more time to his education. In 1852, he had begun submitting paintings to the annual Academy exhibitions.

He became accomplished and earned a distinguished reputation for portrait painting, but today is best known for his domestic genre subjects, especially women, young girls and and child figures. Upon his death, the minutes of the National Academy described Morgan “as a painter of ‘sterling merit’ whose treatment of subjects ‘reflected the sensitiveness and refinement of his own nature.”

Source:
Carol Lowry, “William Morgan”, Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design, David Dearinger, Editor.

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Frederick Larsen-Sarslov (1870-1942) European

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 19” x 15”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $2200

Biography/Statement

Frederick Larsen-Saerslov (Danish, 1870-1942) was primarily a landscape artist but his paintings often include figures. He studied at the well-respected school of Peder Severin Krøyer and also undertook several study trips to Europe.

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Mike Theise (1959-) Contemporary, American

Homage to Peale

Medium: Oil on board
Image Size: 18” x 14”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $3800

Biography/Statement

Michael Theise is an American master of the trompe l’oeil genre. Born in the Bronx and raised in Milford, Connecticut, Theise graduated from the nearby Paier School of Art in Hamden, where he studied under another trompe l’oeil master, Ken Davies. While studying under Davies, Theise experimented with realism, primarily by painting African wildlife with intense attention to detail. His passion segued naturally into trompe l’oeil, as he began using objects of compelling interest in his compositions. Captivated by the new direction of his painting, Theise dedicated himself to the trompe l’oeil tradition. Today, Theise is recognized nationally for compositions that employ diverse subjects such as American currency, playing cards, game boards, portrait miniatures, and nods to Rembrandt Peale, John Singer Sargeant, and Jackson Pollock to create visual allegories. “People look at trompe thinking it’s been pushed to its limit,” Theise says. “But I’m always looking for ways to take it further.” Michael Theise has exhibited extensively for the past two decades. The Cooley Gallery in Old Lyme, Connecticut has held four highly successful solo shows since 1992. Theise also exhibited at Vose Galleries and the St. Botolph’s Club, both in Boston. In October 2008, the New Britain Museum of American Art opened Theise’s first major museum exhibition, The Eye Deceived: Paintings by Michael Theise.

Artist Profile Page: Theise, Mike / Categories: Portrait, Trompe L'Oeil

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Impressionism, Portrait

Theodore Earl Butler (1861-1936)

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 23.25” x 19.75”
Frame Size: 31.5” x 28”
Signature: Signed lower left and verso
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Although one of America’s most innovative post-impressionist painters, Theodore Earl Butler did not receive the recognition he deserved in his lifetime, since he was all but eclipsed by his famous father-in-law, Claude Monet. Born in 1861, Butler enrolled in the Art Students League in New York, then he studied in various art academies in Paris. Already in the Salon of 1888 he exhibited a painting that received an Honorable Mention. That summer, with Theodore Wendel, Butler discovered Giverny, the village that was to become the foremost impressionist artists’ colony. Initially inspired by Monet, who had settled there in 1883, Butler surpassed the impressionist aesthetic of Monet; using the French painter’s high-keyed palette as a springboard, he developed his own technique, and a style that forecasts elements of the Nabis movement, such as the simplification of forms, a use of pronounced contours, and flattened spatial effects.

Butler sent his paintings regularly to American exhibitions: those of the Pennsylvania Academy, the National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists. Still tied to impressionist subject matter, Butler applied his own vivid, energy-charged brushwork, striking color, highly saturated pigment, and boldly executed compositions that anticipate the canvases of Matisse. Butler married Suzanne Hoschedé, the daughter of Alice Hoschedé, with whom Monet was living out of wedlock.

Butler exhibited at the progressive Barc de Boutteville Show in 1894, then the prestigious Vollard Gallery hosted a one-man show for Butler in 1897, however, French critics classified his art as imitative of Monet, as they joined in the anti-American sentiment of the fin de siPcle. Meanwhile he participated in the exhibitions of the Société des Artistes Indépendants and at the Salon d’Automne where the Fauves made their sensational debut. Butler traveled to New York, where he executed the innovative Brooklyn Bridge, which was very well received.

Henceforth, Butler turned from genre scenes to landscape painting. He expanded his virtuoso brushwork, Fauve-like color, fluid line, and abstraction of form. Various one-man shows took place. As an innovator, Butler took part in the Armory Show in Chicago, in 1913, then sent works to the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco two years later. Between 1912 and 1916 Butler executed murals for private patrons, including Cornelius Vanderbilt III. In 1917 he participated in the organizational work of the Society of Independent Artists, with John Sloan.

Limited exposure in America and anti-American sentiment in France prevented Butler from gaining the recognition commensurate with his pioneering achievements in art. Great dealers such as Le Barc de Boutteville, Vollard, and Bernheim-Jeune recognized Butler’s innovations but French critics assigned him to the shadow of his celebrated father-in-law. Butler, while remaining in the famous village, chose a more avant-garde path as he would become a leading American post-impressionist. Only recently has his proper place in the history of American art been affirmed.

Butler died in Giverny in May of 1936, by now a great modern American master.

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(Unsigned) European

Titian Grand Tour Copy

Medium: Oil on board
Image Size: 40” x 34”
Frame Size: 45” x 39”
Price: $7500

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Hallie Elizabeth Champlin-Hyde (1880-1935)

The Floral Gift (The Love Letter)

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 40” x 32”
Frame Size: 55” x 45”
Signature: Signed, dated, and inscribed 'Paris 1910' lower right
Frame: Placed in a very fine period appropriate frame in the Stanford White style with gallery plaque.
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Hallie Elizabeth Champlin was born in 1880 in St. Louis, Missouri. The daughter of Henry “Harry” Clay Champlin and Susan Isabella Champlin, Hallie started her young adult years as a tennis player.

In October of 1904, Hallie married Edward Breckenridge Hyde. At around this time, her artistic career began when she enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907, after graduating from the Institute, Hallie moved abroad to Paris, where she continued her training at the Blanche. Hallie remained in Paris for three years, during which time her paintings were exhibited at the Paris Salon.

In March of 1910, Hallie returned to the United States on the S.S. Amerika from Charbourg, France. In October of 1912, Hallie married Warden H. Fenton at her parents’ house in Chicago. In the years that followed, Hallie, now known as Hallie C. Fenton, received awards for her work in portraiture and life painting.  The Fentons continued to travel abroad, but their main residence was in Bronxville, New York. Hallie Champlin-Hyde Fenton was a member of the National Academy of Design and the National Association of Women Painters. In addition to the Paris Salon, she exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts during her career. 

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