A complex drawing is quickly lost when the oil colors go on, so simple shapes and contour lines make the best drawings for oil paintings. The drawing may be made directly on the canvas or it can be prepared before and transferred to the canvas.
When drawing directly on the canvas, paint that has been thinned with thinner is the best. Because it is paint, it doesn’t need to be isolated from subsequent colors. (more…)
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William Merritt Chase (1849-1916)
Remarkable full length portrait of a young boy playing the mandolin, oil on canvas dated 1876. The quality of the portrait is close to photographic with the finest brushwork throughout. The treatment of the sitters clothing, skin and light are equally unquestionable. The detail to the boys face, hair and fingers as he grips the mandolin is prefect. The date of 1876 ties into Chase’s travels to Italy to continue his training in Venice where this portrait is most likely from and later in Capri and thus its attribution to him. The style, period and composition all match previous works by Chase’s. The portrait is one of the finest and most interesting works we have listed on ebay to date. The painting has been signed p de laszlo at a later date to attribute it to Hungarian portrait master Philip de Laszlo. However the quality of the portrait exceeds even that of the De Laszlo’s. (more…)
Elbridge Wesley Webber is one of America’s finest 19th century landscape artists. Art Historians have placed him in the Hudson River School of American Art which includes giants such as Thomas Cole, John Kensett, Frederic Church and Albert Bierstadt. Elbridge Wesley Webber didn’t use his first name so all his paintings are signed W. Webber or Wesley Webber. He is in the top 1% of listed artists with 250 auction records as of the year 2000, and he has been written about in at least 17 books and his art hangs in museums such as the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, Brooklyn Museum, a gem in NYC, the Essex Peabody Museum, etc. and his paintings have sold at prestigious auction houses such as Christie’s, Skinner’s, Bonhams and Baridoff’s in Maine. (more…)
James Dudley Slay III Born on October 2, 1953, in Jackson, Mississippi. He began his formal instruction in illustration at the New England School of Art and Design, in Boston, Massachusetts. He briefly attended Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He followed this with instruction from Russian impressionist, Sergei Bongart who had a major influence on his artistic direction. His specialty is painting in the plain art of landscapes in California, Painting in the permanent collection of the American Museum of Art, Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, Russiarn Place Ribbons from Torrance Artist’s Guild and Lakewood Art Association. James Slay is listed in The Artist’s Bluebook by Lonnie Dunbier. (more…)
The fresh and often informal treatment of nature by the French painter Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) marked a significant departure from academic tradition and strongly influenced the development of landscape painting in the 19th century.
