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Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle
The following information has been provided to p4A.com by Francois Grosjean, Professor Emeritus, Neuchetel University, Switzerland, a descendent of the artist:
Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle (1778 to 1865) was a Franco-English Victorian painter and portraitist, specialized in literary and historical subjects. For more than a 100 years, he was mistakenly given his son’s name, Henry Joseph Fradelle, who was trained as an artist but had several professions including clinic supervisor. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Troy Denton
It is believed that the name Troy Denton is a cover name for a copyist, especially of work by Howard Terpning.
The following article is reproduced with permission from Maine Antique Digest (http://www.maineantiquedigest.com).
Who Is Troy Denton?
Will the real Troy Denton please stand up?
The 24 inches x 36 inches oil on canvas was offered as lot 50 at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine, on February 26. Troy Denton [...] Click here to continue reading.
Francisco Zuniga (Costa Rican/Mexican, 1912 to 1998)
Francisco Zuniga was born in Costa Rica, where he began his career as a craftsman in his father’s workshop, which made religious images. It was in Mexico, however, during the great artistic movement, that he began to develop the ideas that would permeate his work for the rest of his life. Zuniga once said, “All art that is valid answers first to its regional characteristics and the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Eugene Galien-Laloue (French, 1854 to 1941)
Born of French/Italian parents in Montmartre, Galien-Laloue worked most of his life in his beloved Paris. He had no formal art training; his father was a set designer for a local theater, and it is believed that the elder man taught his son the rudiments of drawing and painting. Known for his captivating and vibrant street scenes of turn of the century Paris, Galien-Laloue initially began his artistic [...] Click here to continue reading.
Paul Henreid (1908 to 1992)
Paul Henreid’s sophisticated charm and continental elegance were forever immortalized in celluloid with the release of two films made in 1942 by Hal Wallis for Warner Brothers. Playing Victor Lazlo opposite Ingrid Bergman in Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca and Bette Davis’ lover, Jerry, in Irving Rappner’s Now Voyager, Henreid’s imperturable urbanity and impecable demeanor with the opposite sex became the envy of all women and the emulation of young men [...] Click here to continue reading.
Robert Henry Logan (1874 to 1942)
American Impressionist Robert Logan was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on June 24, 1874, and as a young man, enrolled in Brown and Nichols School in Cambridge. Soon after, he studied with Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. After winning the school’s top drawing prize in the early 1890s, Logan left to study in Paris at the Sorbonne and the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Mary Bradish Titcomb (American, 1858 to 1927)
Mary Bradish Titcomb was one of leading women painters of the Boston School. She was born in Windham, New Hampshire in 1858, and moved to Boston at age twenty-eight to join the swelling ranks of women training to be art instructors in the state’s public schools.[1] After completing her studies at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, she was employed as the director of drawing for the town [...] Click here to continue reading.
Collection of Earle and Yvonne Henderson, Charming Forge Mansion, Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania
CHARMING FORGE MANSION¦AT A GLANCE
Charming Forge Mansion, located in Berks County, Pennsylvania, is nestled atop a hill overlooking a site that once buzzed with industrial activity and the clanking of a forge hammer. The forge is closed now and many of the buildings are gone but the mansion still looks out over the Tulpehocken Creek that once powered this magnificent [...] Click here to continue reading.
A Chapter in the Mallard Legend: The Family Offers His Personal Possessions at Auction
Families that inherit historical artifacts related to their famous or infamous ancestors often possess both a blessing and a burden. So it was for the descendants of Prudent Mallard (1809 to 1879), the renowned New Orleans 19th century merchant and probable cabinetmaker.
When Mallard’s widow, Augustine, died in 1889 (ten years after Prudent) her will contained instructions for the division [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Prudent Mallard Legend
Prudent Mallard (1809 to 1879) was a renowned New Orleans nineteenth century merchant and probable cabinetmaker. Many collectors and experts consider Mallard to be the leading, even iconic, figure in nineteenth century furniture in the lower South. Tom Halverson, Director of American Furniture and Decorative Arts for the New Orleans Auction Galleries believes that Mallard’s fame was well deserved. “I believe that by the middle of the nineteenth century the [...] Click here to continue reading.
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