{"title":"Wall","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"quietly-atmospheric-late-19th-century-unsigned-oil-on-board-landscape-still-lake-with-conifers-in-a-period-acanthus-and-foliate-gilt-frame-14-23-in","title":"Late 19th Century Lake with Conifers Landscape, Oil on Board, Period Gilt Frame","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 19th-century American lake landscape in oil on board: a still, conifer-lined lake with birds skimming the water under a soft, breaking sky, held in a period giltwood frame. It belongs to American landscape painting of the later 19th century, when artists favored quiet water, dense treelines, and atmospheric light over narrative incident. The piece is unsigned and undated, so the American attribution and the late-century date rest on style rather than documentation; the restrained palette of greens, browns, and grays and the wide horizontal format are the period markers to read. Oil on board in a period giltwood frame with acanthus and foliate carving, 14 x 23 in. framed, good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46960779755673,"sku":null,"price":425.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/conifers-removebg-preview.png?v=1776783731"},{"product_id":"antique-barbizon-school-oil-panel-river-landscape-signed","title":"Antique European River Landscape, Birch Trees and Fisherman, Signed, Gilt Frame","description":"\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003eA genuine late 19th-century European river landscape in oil, slender birch trees leaning over still water under an overcast sky, with a solitary figure fishing from a small boat at the water's edge. The grey-green palette and loose, confident handling place it in the broad Romantic landscape tradition of France, Belgium, and the Low Countries in the second half of the century. It is signed at lower left, but the signature is not legible enough to identify the artist, so it is carried as a signed work by an unidentified European hand rather than attributed to a name. It is held in a period ornate gilt frame that shows significant losses to the gilt-gesso ornament. Oil on panel, 14.5 x 22 in. framed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46960819011737,"sku":null,"price":395.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/barbizon2-removebg-preview.png?v=1776783298"},{"product_id":"carole-mallory-oil-canvas-autumn-river-landscape-american-impressionist","title":"Carole Mallory Oil, Autumn River Landscape, American Impressionist","description":"\u003cp\u003e49(h) x 36.5(w) inches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA bold and luminous American Impressionist autumn landscape — golden and amber foliage blazing against a cerulean sky, a dark river winding through the foreground, birch trunks catching the light. Painted with confident, energetic brushwork and a vivid palette that fills a room.Signed lower right Carole Mallory — a Pennsylvania-based artist with roots at Temple University's Tyler School of Art.Large in scale and immediate in impact. The kind of painting that stops you.In a simple oak float frame. Blue sticker and tag on verso suggest prior exhibition or gallery history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46961413718169,"sku":null,"price":999.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/carolemallory-removebg-preview.png?v=1776783597"},{"product_id":"antique-british-school-oil-canvas-sheep-highland-hillside","title":"Antique British Oil, Sheep on a Highland Hillside, 19th Century, Ebonized Frame","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA genuine 19th-century British animal study in oil on canvas, a flock of sheep gathered on a rocky Highland hillside beneath a heavy, cloud-filled sky, with cattle in the distance. The wool and the dark, atmospheric ground are worked with real confidence, in the Victorian tradition of British animal painting that prized livestock rendered with the seriousness of portraiture. It is unsigned and carried as British School; the resemblance to painters such as Ansdell and Cooper is a stylistic likeness, not an attribution to a named hand. A London colorman's stamp on the verso supports the British origin and the period of the canvas, though it identifies the supplier rather than the artist. Housed in an ebonized frame with gilt liner, a classic Victorian presentation. Oil on canvas, 14.75 x 20.75 in. framed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46968109793433,"sku":null,"price":650.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/sheep-removebg-preview.png?v=1776784069"},{"product_id":"antique-barbizon-landscape-oil-board-cattle-gilt-frame","title":"American or European Tonalist Landscape Oil, Trees and Marsh, Unsigned, c.1900","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA small late-19th to early-20th-century tonalist landscape in oil on board: dense dark trees at right against a soft overcast sky, with a low marshy foreground and reedy ground at left. The handling is loose and atmospheric in the Barbizon-influenced landscape tradition that flourished roughly 1880–1920, the palette held to deep greens, warm browns, and pale sky tones. It is unsigned, so the attribution is stylistic and the origin (American or European) is undetermined; the surface is now heavily darkened by aged varnish. The verso carries the label of Baker Street Gallery and Framers, Media, Pennsylvania, documenting a regional framing history. Oil on board in a period gilt cove frame with scrolled and floral ornament, 6.25 x 10 in. framed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46968319115417,"sku":null,"price":165.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/barbizonlandscape-removebg-preview.png?v=1776783515"},{"product_id":"antique-american-oil-painting-sunset-river-landscape-watermill","title":"Antique British Pastoral Oil, River Watermill at Sunset, Late Victorian, Framed","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA small genuine late-Victorian British pastoral in oil on board, figures tending sheep on the left bank and a watermill with a red-tiled roof tucked among trees at right, reeds and lily pads at the river's edge, the calm water catching the pink and peach of a sunset sky. The handling is soft and luminous in the academic pastoral tradition that ran through the second half of the Victorian era. It is unsigned and carried as British School; the trees frame the view and the river opens the middle distance in a formal, confident composition. A decorative period landscape with quiet domestic appeal, in a later frame. Oil on board, about 12.75 x 11.75 in. framed (board approx. 8 x 10 in.).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46968539938969,"sku":null,"price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/hudsonriverschool-removebg-preview.png?v=1776783936"},{"product_id":"elva-levy-oil-board-tree-study-texas-artist","title":"Vintage American Oil on Board Tree Study | Elva Levy Mid-Century Texas Modernist Listed Artist","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSigned lower left \u003cem\u003eElva Levy\u003c\/em\u003e — the documented Waco, Texas painter (1910–1994), listed on askART and best known for mid-century abstract work. A member of the Texas Fine Arts Association, Texas Water Color Society, and Southwestern Watercolor Society, with exhibitions at the McNay Art Museum, the Witte Museum, and Laguna Gloria, and multiple purchase prizes from the Texas Watercolor Society annual exhibitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA single tree, rendered in thick impasto in warm golds and olive greens against a luminous ochre ground. Levy spent most of her career on abstraction; here she stopped and painted a tree. The result is quietly compelling — a figurative subject treated with the same structural conviction she brought to her abstracts. Unframed, on board.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46968951996569,"sku":null,"price":275.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/solitarytree-removebg-preview.png?v=1776784123"},{"product_id":"french-oil-board-provencal-landscape-olive-trees-g-fauly","title":"Signed Provençal Landscape, Olive Trees and Mountain, Oil, French School c.1910","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA Provençal landscape, oil, of a dusty path through scrubland with gnarled olive trees in the foreground and a rocky mountain peak beyond, worked in broken plein-air brushwork and a Mediterranean palette of ochre, sage, dusty rose, and cerulean. The handling sits in the early-20th-century southern-French landscape tradition that followed Cézanne's Provence through a generation of regional painters. It is signed lower right, read as \"G. Fauly\"; the name does not resolve to a documented artist, so the attribution rests on the signature as read, not on an identified hand. The subject, palette, and brushwork place it in the French School of roughly 1900–1930. Oil, 8.5 x 10.5 in., unframed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46969220530329,"sku":null,"price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/frenchoilsigned-removebg-preview.png?v=1776783876"},{"product_id":"willem-van-den-berghe-dutch-coastal-landscape-oil-board","title":"Antique Dutch Oil on Board, Coastal Landscape, Attributed W.J. van den Berghe","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn antique Dutch coastal landscape, oil on board, showing thatched farm cottages low among the dunes under a wide gray-gold Zeeland sky. The verso carries an old Dutch label, \"Domburgsch Landschap door W.J. van den Berghe, overleden te Middelburg in 1901,\" attributing it to the Middelburg painter Willem Jan van den Berghe (1823–1901) — a landscape and animal painter trained at the Antwerp Academy, whose oils on panel still appear at Dutch auction. The label is posthumous, almost certainly written by family or the estate, so the attribution rests on that period inscription rather than a front signature; the work is unsigned on the face. This is the 19th-century W.J. van den Berghe, not the Dutch Golden Age painter Christoffel van den Berghe of the same city. Oil on board, 9.5 x 16 in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46969326403737,"sku":null,"price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/vandenberghe-removebg-preview.png?v=1776784256"},{"product_id":"antique-oil-board-dutch-winter-village-hague-school","title":"Antique Dutch Hague School Farm Village, Oil on Panel, Signed, Pollarded Willows","description":"\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003eA small antique oil on panel of a Dutch or Belgian farm village, thatched and tiled roofs clustered low beneath a wide grey moving sky, with pollarded willows and bare trees across the foreground. It is confidently and economically handled in the plein-air manner of the Hague School and the Low Countries Impressionist tradition that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, prizing the flat grey northern light and quiet rural subject. The work is signed lower right, but the signature is not legible enough to identify the hand, so it is recorded as a signed but unidentified painter rather than attributed. Oil on wood panel, 9.5 x 13.5 in., unframed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46969401802905,"sku":null,"price":325.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/dutchwinter-removebg-preview.png?v=1776783802"},{"product_id":"antique-alpine-landscape-oil-board-cattle-drover-gilt-frame","title":"Antique European Oil on Board Alpine Landscape | 19th Century Snow-Capped Peaks Period Gilt Frame","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA confident 19th century European alpine landscape, unsigned — snow-capped peaks rising behind a sunlit valley where a drover tends cattle among tall trees, warm light breaking through the mountain atmosphere. The composition follows the classical alpine tradition that dominated European landscape painting from the 1840s through the 1890s, when painters working the Swiss, Austrian, and Bavarian regions produced some of the most sought-after landscapes of the Victorian era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe handling is the work of a trained hand — atmospheric perspective, controlled palette, the quiet confidence of a painter who knew his subject. Housed in a substantial period gilt frame with acanthus leaf and scrollwork molding, intact and strong. Frame and painting belong to the same moment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46969986154649,"sku":null,"price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/cattledrover-removebg-preview.png?v=1776783659"},{"product_id":"antique-hand-colored-aquatint-royal-mail-coach-georgian","title":"Henry Alken \u0026 T. Sutherland, \\The Racer\\ Plate 3 from \\The High Mettled Racer,\\ 1821 First Edition Aquatint","description":"\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003eA first-edition hand-colored aquatint, plate 3 from Henry Alken and Thomas Sutherland's \"The High Mettled Racer,\" published March 1, 1821 by S. \u0026amp; J. Fuller at the Sporting Gallery, 34 Rathbone Place, London. The complete publication line is intact on the print: \"H. Alken Delt. — H. Alken \u0026amp; T. Sutherland Sculpt. — London Published March 1 1821 by S. \u0026amp; J. Fuller at their Sporting Gallery, 34 Rathbone Place.\" The scene depicts three racehorses at full gallop, jockeys whipping toward the finish, the winning post and a crowd of spectators with raised hats at right. \"The High Mettled Racer\" is a six-plate suite documenting the life of an English racehorse — The Foal, In Training, The Racer, The Hunter, The Post Horse, and The Death — cataloged in Siltzer's standard reference (p. 59). Henry Alken (1785–1851) was the foremost British sporting artist of the early 19th century; T. Sutherland was his premier engraver. Plate 17.5 × 22.25 in. framed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46972545040537,"sku":null,"price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/IMG_6550-removebg-preview.png?v=1776880300"},{"product_id":"antique-oil-painting-mediterranean-coastal-landscape-gilt-frame","title":"Antique Mediterranean Coastal Landscape, Olive Trees and Cliffs, Carved Gilt Frame","description":"\u003cp\u003eA warm 19th-century Mediterranean coastal landscape in oil, olive trees in the foreground, a calm blue bay reaching to chalk cliffs and a rocky headland, with small sailing vessels and golden late-afternoon light. The ochre, deep-blue, and silvery-green palette belongs to the Grand Tour landscape tradition that drew British and Continental painters to Italy and the Riviera through the 19th century. It is unsigned and not attributed to a named hand; the painting is competent and decorative, the appeal as much in its scale and warm presence as in the brushwork. It is housed in a substantial period deeply carved gilt-composition frame with acanthus and foliate ornament, a strong feature in its own right. Oil, 21 x 28 in. framed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46972760981657,"sku":null,"price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/medittcoastal-removebg-preview.png?v=1776783989"},{"product_id":"sporting-oil-canvas-english-pointer-pheasant-p-reitin","title":"Sporting Oil, English Pointer \u0026 Pheasant, Signed P. Reitin","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e24(h) × 36(w) inches. Oil on canvas, original unlined. Unframed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA large and accomplished 19th century sporting painting — an English pointer locked on point as a ringneck pheasant breaks from cover in a woodland setting, atmospheric light filtering through the canopy above. The dog is rendered with real anatomical conviction and field presence: weight forward, nose down, tail rigid. The pheasant catches the light at the moment of flush. It is a well-constructed composition, theatrical without being overwrought, and executed with the kind of fluency that comes from a painter who understood both the landscape and the sport.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSigned lower right: P. Reitin. The canvas is in good condition — unlined, structurally sound, retaining its original surface. Ready to be stretched to a new strainer or mounted directly into a period gilt or ebonized frame at this scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA natural fit for a study, library, sporting lodge, or any interior where the traditions of the field are at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003eCategory: Paintings \/ Oil on Canvas \/ Sporting \/ Animal Style: Sporting, Naturalist, Victorian Medium: Oil on canvas, original unlined Dimensions: 24 × 36 inches\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46972813017241,"sku":null,"price":545.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/sportingdog-removebg-preview.png?v=1776784190"},{"product_id":"d-a-fisher-1892-new-england-lighthouse-seascape","title":"Antique American Oil on Board Marine Painting | D.A. Fisher Signed and Dated 1892","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA New England lighthouse seascape, signed and dated 1892 by \u003cstrong\u003eD. A. Fisher (American, 1867–1940)\u003c\/strong\u003e — a documented Portland, Maine marine and landscape painter, member of the Brushians, and listed in Peter Hastings Falk's \u003cem\u003eWho Was Who in American Art\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe composition is Fisher at his most characteristic: a working stretch of the New England coast, the surf breaking white over weed-darkened rocks in the foreground, sailing vessels small against the horizon, and on a distant headland a substantial white-painted lighthouse complex with its keeper's quarters arranged behind. The light catches the surf, the green-grey sea moves with weight and conviction, and the sky carries the soft scudded clouds of a fair Atlantic morning. This is the Maine coast in 1892 — when Fisher was twenty-five years old and at the start of the working life that would make him a fixture of the Portland artist community for the next half-century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe signature reads clearly in the lower right: \u003cstrong\u003eD.A. Fisher 1892\u003c\/strong\u003e. The verso carries an original period label from \u003cstrong\u003eWadsworth, Howland \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/strong\u003e of Boston — \u003cem\u003eAcademy Boards\u003c\/em\u003e with their \u003cem\u003eTube Oil Colors \u0026amp; Prepared Canvas\u003c\/em\u003e mark, 82 \u0026amp; 84 Washington Street — the Boston artist supply company that prepared the board the painting is on. The label is contemporaneous with the work and documents the full Boston supply chain Fisher used.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe frame is original to the period — substantial gilt-gesso with deep carved acanthus and beaded ornament. There is honest wear at the corners and along the edges; the gilt has darkened to the warm tone that period frames acquire only with time. It is the kind of frame that signals serious commission rather than parlor decoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eD. A. Fisher's auction record runs $50 to $2,666, with his strongest results coming from signed and dated marine subjects of exactly this period and subject matter. \u003cem\u003eConway Meadows, White Mountain School\u003c\/em\u003e set his record at James D. Julia in 2016. New England lighthouse seascapes are his most desirable category, and an early dated example like this — signed, dated, period frame, period verso label — sits squarely in the upper portion of that band.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA piece for a Maine collector, a New England decorator, a sailing or lighthouse devotee, or any serious collector of late 19th century American marine painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCONDITION:\u003c\/strong\u003e Painting sound. Signature and date legible. Verso supply label intact and legible. Frame original to the period with honest wear: edge losses and small flakes to gilt-gesso ornament at the corners (consistent with age, do not affect display). Wire and back hardware in serviceable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDETAILS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eArtist: D. A. Fisher (American, 1867–1940)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSubject: New England coastal scene with lighthouse, sailing vessels, breaking surf\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMedium: Oil on academy board\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSignature: Signed and dated lower right \"D.A. Fisher 1892\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eVerso label: Wadsworth, Howland \u0026amp; Co., Boston — Academy Boards \/ Tube Oil Colors \u0026amp; Prepared Canvas, 82 \u0026amp; 84 Washington St.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSight: 11⅝ × 8⅞ in.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFramed: 18 × 16 × 3 in.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFrame: Period gilt-gesso with carved acanthus and beaded ornament\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46990913962137,"sku":null,"price":765.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/228180630_1_x.webp?v=1777223841"},{"product_id":"l-j-wenner-1942-clay-road-pennsylvania-landscape","title":"Vintage American Oil on Board Pennsylvania Landscape | \"Clay Road\" Signed L.J. 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Painterly impasto throughout — the foreground road built up in confident knife-strokes, the central tree's golden foliage worked into dimensional thickness against the sky. Pennsylvania regional landscape painting in its working tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Verso Label\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA typed period paper label is affixed to the back of the board:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"#12 \/ Media: Oil \/ Title: 'Clay Road' \/ Where: Near Easton, Penna. \/ When: November, 1942 \/ Size: 12\" × 16\" \/ Who: L.J. Wenner, 1017½ Tilghman Street, Allentown, Penna. \/ Hq. \u0026amp; Hq. Co. (Med. Det.), 2525 Service Unit, South Post, Fort Myer, Virginia\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe label tells us that Wenner kept a personal numbered inventory of his works — this was his \u003cstrong\u003epiece #12\u003c\/strong\u003e — and that he was actively painting his hometown Lehigh Valley landscape during his wartime service. The line marked \u003cem\u003e\"Where Exhibited\"\u003c\/em\u003e is left blank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Pennsylvania Regional Landscape Tradition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe painting belongs to the broader Pennsylvania regional landscape tradition that flourished in the Lehigh Valley through the 1940s and 1950s — an Allentown extension of Pennsylvania Impressionism centered on the \u003cstrong\u003eBaum Circle\u003c\/strong\u003e around Walter Emerson Baum, founder of the Baum School of Art and the Allentown Art Museum. Wenner is not a documented Baum Circle member, but his work belongs to the same regional landscape tradition that defined the artistic life of his immediate neighborhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Frame\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe frame is original to the work — gilt-finished with distressed corner ornaments, the gilding worn down to red bole and wood beneath at the high points in the warm decorator-prized way that period gilt frames acquire only with time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003ePainting sound on board with painterly impasto intact. Signature legible. Verso label intact and fully legible. Frame original to the work with honest period wear to the gilding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eArtist: L.J. Wenner (American, Allentown, Pennsylvania, active 1940s) Title: \u003cem\u003e\"Clay Road\"\u003c\/em\u003e Subject: Pennsylvania landscape, near Easton, Pennsylvania Date: November 1942 Medium: Oil on board Signature: Signed and dated lower right \u003cem\u003e\"L.J. Wenner '42\"\u003c\/em\u003e Verso: Detailed period typed paper label with title, date, location, dimensions, artist's address (1017½ Tilghman Street, Allentown, PA) and military unit (Hq. \u0026amp; Hq. Co. Med. Det., 2525 Service Unit, South Post, Fort Myer, VA) Board: 12 × 16 in. Framed: 14 × 17½ in. Frame: Original gilt-finished period frame with distressed corner ornaments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eValley House Antiques · Chester Springs, Pennsylvania\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46994676220057,"sku":null,"price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/IMG_6901.jpg?v=1777311757"},{"product_id":"antique-british-oil-portrait-gentleman-mid-19th-century-exeter-house-frame","title":"Victorian British Oil Portrait of a Gentleman, Royal Warrant Frame, c.1840-1860","description":"\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003eA mid-19th-century British oil portrait of a young gentleman in three-quarter profile, dark coat with a red drape across the shoulder, against a dark ground in the formal Victorian convention. 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