American School, circa 1920, oil on canvas portrait of Nancy Winslow Squire Hitch (b. 1913), at about age 9, wearing a blue dress with collar and her auburn hair in pigtails. Signed lower right with faint initials, possibly “J.P.” Whitewashed molded frame.  Stretcher: 17 in. H x 15 in. W. Frame: 24 in. H x 22 in. W. […]

Roy Henry Brown (American, 1879-1956), “The Lone Cottage,” oil on canvas landscape depicting a cottage in a stand of trees in a bare meadow on a cloudy day.  Signed lower right and dated 1909. Molded giltwood frame with brass label for Lucien Lefebvre Foinet, Paris, and several paper labels, including one for an undated Paris […]

Julian Rix  (American, 1850-1903), oil on canvas Barbizon / Tonalist landscape painting. Daylight illuminates a grove of trees at the center of the scene and the white walls of a cottage in the distance, distinguishing both from a shadowy treeline. The light also reflects off several white puffy clouds overhead. Signed lower right “Julian Rix” and dated 1899. Housed in […]

John Young Hunter (American, 1874-1955) portrait of Roy Wilson Howard, chairman of Scripps-Howard Newspapers (1883-1964). The subject is depicted in three quarter view in late middle age with receding gray hair and moustache, wearing a grey coat and checked shirt, bow tie and pocket square with red carnation in his lapel. The painting is signed […]