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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.
Weller Pottery decorators active between 1895 and 1936
Early Weller (1895-1915) lines are unbold. Middle Weller (1915-1936) lines are bold.
Decorator: Lines on which artist was known to work: Mark: Abel (first name unknown) Aurelian ABEL Abel, Edward Aurelian Adams, Virginia Louwelsa V and A joined Alsop, W Ansel, M Dickens II M Ansel Axline, Ruth Aurelian, Bonito, Hudson R and A joined Ayers, Elizabeth Aurelian, Louwelsa, Dickens EA and EA connected Best, [...] 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.
Kneehole
A kneehole is an open spatial volume at the center of a desk or dressing (bureau) table flanked by pedestals of drawers. The space is typically shallow and closed at the back by a compartment with door. In a desk, the kneehole is usually overlaid by a short ‘lap’ drawer flanked on either side by another short drawer. In a dressing or bureau table, the kneehole is usually overlaid by one long drawer. [...] Click here to continue reading.
View of Columbus, Georgia on Historical Staffordshire
The Magazine Antiques, November 1939, page 244, ‘New Studies in Old Staffordshire: Enoch Wood & Sons, Celtic China Series: Columbus, Georgia’ by Julia D. Sophronia Snow
‘This unmarked cup plate has recently been the subject of much speculation and controversy. The following should help to settle the dispute. A few years ago, a collector showed me a specimen that had been tentatively identified as Governor Wright’s mansion [...] Click here to continue reading.
Wax Jacks
Wax jacks were used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for heating and thus softening the hard wax discs or sticks that were used to seal letters and documents. A standard candle would have accomplished the same purpose, but the jack allowed the user to employ a thin, and thus less expensive, taper instead.
The wax jack was produced in a wide variety of forms in silver, wrought iron, brass or bell [...] 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.
Chateau Mouton Rothschild
From an auction catalogue note by Serena Sutcliffe M.W., Head of Sotheby’s International Wine Department: “Created a First Growth in 1973 but considered by all to have been at the top of the pyramid throughout the 20th century. Mouton is the most opulent and exuberant of all the Firsts, a reflection of the two huge personalities that have headed the Chateau since 1920, Baron Philippe and then Baroness Philippine de Rothschild. [...] 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.
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