Beautiful Portrait of Young Elegant Woman (Possibly The Blessed Virgin Mary) Antique Print This is a portrait antique print of a beautiful young lady, possibly The Blessed Virgin Mary. This print evokes a feeling of innocence and purity and radiates with beauty. The woman’s hair accessories are very elegant and elaborate and her face is flawless. The picture has lovely touches of light green and pink throughout. Original gold-painted wood frame with black trim. The print and frame are both in excellent original condition. Original glass and old wire hanger. Missing paper backing. Circa 1920's.
Circa: 1920's
Condition: Excellent Original Condition
Size: Frame Measurements: Height – 10 ½” Width – 8 ¼”
 

Inspiring Scene, Artist & Student, Adorable Little Girl w/ Art Teacher, Antique Victorian Hand-Colored Print, Great Gesso Frame This is an enchanting antique Victorian print that is hand-colored. The picture depicts an adorable little girl and her art teacher with a palette and paintings. They are both dressed in charming Victorian clothing. This inspiring hand-colored print is full of bright, cheerful, and vibrant colors. This is a large and very attractive picture in a beautiful fancy gold painted Victorian frame decorated with openwork and decorative gesso. There are tiny bits of gesso missing here and there. Original glass, torn old backing, and wire hanger. This piece is in excellent original condition. Circa 1900.
Circa: 1900
Condition: Excellent Original Condition
Size: Frame Measurements: Height – 23 ½” Width – 27 ½”
 

“Knowledge is Power” by Rembrandt, Profound & Interesting Antique Print This is a handsome antique print titled, "Knowledge is Power" by famous artist Rembrandt. It depicts a scholarly man resting comfortably in his room while he reads. There are so many pleasing details in this picture. It’s a very interesting scene with a powerful message and title. It is hand titled and signed on the matting. In the lower left corner or print it reads, "Copyright 1914 by Taber Frang Art Co.". This print is in its original cherry wood frame. Original glass and wire hanger. Missing paper backing. Overall, this print and frame are both in excellent original condition. Circa 1914.
Circa: 1914
Condition: Excellent Original Condition
Size: Frame Measurements: Height – 17 ½” Width – 19 ½”
Manufacturer: Taber Frang Art Co.  

“Hope” Intriguing & Fascinating Antique Art Nouveau Lithograph Print / Famous Listed Artist: George Frederick Watts This is a large antique lithograph titled, "Hope", by famous listed artist, George Frederick Watts. This is one of Watts’s best known works of art. This picture features a blindfolded woman sitting on what is believed to be the world. She embraces a lyre of which every string is broken … but one. Above, the sky entertains a single star. With its blues and grays, the work is reminiscent of some of Picasso’s blue period works, such as his ’Tragedy’. I have included extensive information about this famous work of art and the artist. This very compelling lithograph has wonderfully appealing colors. It has hand-colored highlights. The print is in excellent original condition. It has an original, complimentary cherry wood frame that retains a wonderful old patina. Original glass. New wire hanger. Circa 1920’s.

*** I’ve included some very interesting info, below, about the famous, well-known painting titled, HOPE:

"George Frederick (1817-1904) was a Victorian English painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist Movement. Forsyth notes that for Watts, ‘Art . . . is a branch of sacred hermeneutics. Let natural beauty be what it may, artistic beauty is higher. And why? because it is spiritual. Because you have in Art the finished product of which Nature is but the initial stage’. Art is nature ‘born again’ and ‘is to Nature what salvation is to the soul’.

Though Watts shares a Victorian fascination with death, Forsyth asserts that this fascination with death is not to be condemned as morbid since ‘Like Art itself, Death is one of the great interpreters and expanders of life’. Forsyth writes that of the artists of his day, ‘Mr. Watts is our only artist who is capable of wrestling with death and therefore the only one who understands life’. For beyond death Watts has seen the power of love triumphant and has recognized in death itself ‘the arm of the Lord and the shadow of His wing’. His work therefore expresses a truly ’supernatural hope’.

In one of his best known works, ‘Hope’, Watts pictures a blind folded woman sitting on what we take to be the world. She embraces a lyre of which every string is broken … but one. Above, the sky entertains a single star. With its blues and grays, the work is reminiscent of some of Picasso’s blue period works, such as his ’Tragedy’.

But is Watts depicting despair or something else? Forsyth argues that here in this work we have the depiction not of hope itself, but certainly of one who hopes. Like her Victorian Age, she has conquered the world, and yet such conquering has brought her neither joy, peace or power. She has turned her face away from ‘heaven’s light’ ‘and now, with earth searched and heaven to explore, her gaze is not up but down, her heaven-searching power of faith is quenched’. But quenched does not mean despair, for ‘the thirst to believe is still there. Look how the darkened soul stoops and strains for the one string’s note, for the one voice to tell her a gospel that all her achievement has not yet attained, and all the round and mastered world cannot promise. The soul has in its own self and nature a note that Nature has not. But is that note of nature only in the soul? Is it a subjective dream of its own? Is there any promise in the ‘not-ourselves’? . . . Yes, there is one star, though the poor soul sees it not. The painter sees it, and we see it. A star is there and a dim dawn.’"

- This article above was cited from: Cruciality.WordPress.com

*** I’ve also included, below, a short bio about the famous listed artist, GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS:

"In his own lifetime George Frederic Watts (1817-1904), was widely considered to be the greatest painter of the Victorian age, enjoying an unparalleled reputation. His ceaseless experimentation embodied the most pressing themes and ideas of the time. A complex figure, Watts was the finest and most penetrating portraitist of his age, a sculptor, landscape painter and symbolist which earned him the title ‘England’s Michelangelo.’

His fame and renown was not limited to Britain and in 1884 he was the first living artist to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, a show so enormously successful that it led to a longer run and a gift of his great work, Love and Life to the American people. His works also found great favour in Europe winning gold medals at the Paris Universal Exhibitions in 1878 and 1889. His influence among symbolists was profound and can be seen in the works of Gustave Moreau and Fernand Knopff.

The work of G.F. Watts is of seminal importance in understanding the Victorian period because he was one of its most notable artistic innovators. Watts’s own refusal to become part of any painting movement coupled with the reaction of early twentieth century critics to all things Victorian left his reputation a little tarnished. Ironically, that outspoken critic of Victorian painting, Roger Fry, considered Watts an exception. Fry recognized his great importance within the British School, as shown by his visits with his students to the Watts Picture Gallery. Until the late 1930s, the Tate Gallery had a Watts room which exclusively showed the work of the artist. The legacy of his Hall of Fame portraits form a major part of the National Portrait Gallery’s nineteenth century holdings and the Tate Gallery’s huge collection are a tribute to his importance."

- This article above was cited from: WattsGallery.org.UK/
Circa: 1920's
Condition: Excellent Original Condition
Size: Frame Measurements: Height - 23 ¾” Width - 19 ½”
 

“Happy Souls Never Die” X-Lg & Extremely Unique, Inspirational Wall Hanging Antique Wooden Motto This is such a unique piece. I’ve never seen anything like it. This is a very inspirational antique wall hanging wood motto. It’s extra large in size. The words read, "Happy Souls Never Die". What a splendid saying! The entire piece is made of wood, framed by a molded edge. It is in excellent original condition and it retains the original finish. This wonderful wooden antique motto retains the original eye hooks for possible door display and old cord for wall display. This would certainly be a great focal point in any room. Circa 1920’s.

***I've included below A THOUGHT-PROVOKING COMMENT in regards to the motto, HAPPY SOULS NEVER DIE:

"In my own experience having many out of body experiences, I know that it is only the body that dies, but the soul never dies. It passes on to the next realm which is more suitable for us according to the karma which we have created for ourselves.

In reality (from my own experience) there is no such place as hell. The universe is divided into various planes of existence. Some place, we can find good souls inhabiting, some place there are bad souls… meaning souls which has not realized itself to be soul.

Believe it or not, we all have some kind of guardians guiding us. If we could only become aware, we can communicate with them and find out what really happens in the life hereafter. In fact the prime purpose of life is to realize our own immortality, that we do survive beyond this thing we know as death. In order to do that, we learn the science of leaving the body and prove to our self the existence of life after death and our own immortality.

All souls are beautiful. There is no doubts about this. The difference is some souls knows its own identity, some does not. We are all in the process of learning that we are soul. It takes many lifetimes to get to the understanding of the true nature of our "self" but we always have a choice in all these life we take, to learn about our self. It’s really about whether we want to learn or not.

Souls never dies. Souls only translates from one plane of existence into another. Life persist. Life continues. Life really never end. What ends is only a transformation of something into another. When we see something transformed, the old thing disappear and something new appear." So be happy knowing that when a loved one dies, they never really died. They're just choosing to take the next step in their own spiritual growth.

God Bless!

~ This was cited from the following website as a response to a question/comment: WiseLifeAdvice.com
Circa: 1920's
Condition: Excellent Original Condition
Size: The Molded Edge Frame Measures: Height - 26” Width - 36 ½”
 

Interestingly Romantic Antique Print, Unique Engagement Proposal w/ 'Ring' of Smoke / Artist: James Montgomery Fingg This is a very unique, hard to find print titled, "With this Ring I Thee Wed". The picture features a man blowing a ‘ring' of smoke at the woman, as the woman puts her hand out, as if she’s going to put the ‘ring’ on her finger. How interestingly romantic! The fancy lettering is done in an Old English style. Below the sentiment, in the bottom left hand corner of print, it reads, "1906, By Juder Co.". The bottom right corner is signed by the artist, "James Montgomery Fingg". Original wood frame. Old glass and wire hanger. Paper backing is missing. This piece is in excellent original condition.
Circa: 1906
Condition: Excellent Original Condition
Size: Height – 11 ¾" Width – 14 ¾"
Manufacturer: Juder Co.  

All-in-One Antique Art Nouveau Mirror, “Hope” Lithograph Print, & Fancy Floral Gesso Frame! / Artist: George Frederick Watts This is a beautiful and inspiring antique lithograph print within a lovely Art Nouveau mirror within a floral gesso frame. The print is titled, "Hope", by famous listed artist, George Frederick Watts. This is one of Watt’s best known works of art. This picture features a blindfolded woman sitting on what is believed to be the world. She embraces a lyre of which every string is broken … but one. Above, the sky entertains a single star. With its blues and grays, the work is reminiscent of some of Picasso’s blue period works, such as his ’Tragedy’. I have included extensive information about this famous work of art and the artist. The print is in excellent original condition with original glass. The crest of the frame has a delicate shell motif flanked by pastel flowers. The entire frame is faced with delicate gesso flowers, vines, and shells. The mirror retains the original frame shop label. The print, frame, and mirror are all in excellent original condition. Fine, original finish and patina to the frame. Old wire hanger. Circa 1910.

*** I’ve included some very interesting info, below, about the famous, well-known painting titled, HOPE:

"George Frederick (1817-1904) was a Victorian English painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist Movement. Forsyth notes that for Watts, ‘Art . . . is a branch of sacred hermeneutics. Let natural beauty be what it may, artistic beauty is higher. And why? because it is spiritual. Because you have in Art the finished product of which Nature is but the initial stage’. Art is nature ‘born again’ and ‘is to Nature what salvation is to the soul’.

Though Watts shares a Victorian fascination with death, Forsyth asserts that this fascination with death is not to be condemned as morbid since ‘Like Art itself, Death is one of the great interpreters and expanders of life’. Forsyth writes that of the artists of his day, ‘Mr. Watts is our only artist who is capable of wrestling with death and therefore the only one who understands life’. For beyond death Watts has seen the power of love triumphant and has recognized in death itself ‘the arm of the Lord and the shadow of His wing’. His work therefore expresses a truly ’supernatural hope’.

In one of his best known works, ‘Hope’, Watts pictures a blind folded woman sitting on what we take to be the world. She embraces a lyre of which every string is broken … but one. Above, the sky entertains a single star. With its blues and grays, the work is reminiscent of some of Picasso’s blue period works, such as his ’Tragedy’.

But is Watts depicting despair or something else? Forsyth argues that here in this work we have the depiction not of hope itself, but certainly of one who hopes. Like her Victorian Age, she has conquered the world, and yet such conquering has brought her neither joy, peace or power. She has turned her face away from ‘heaven’s light’ ‘and now, with earth searched and heaven to explore, her gaze is not up but down, her heaven-searching power of faith is quenched’. But quenched does not mean despair, for ‘the thirst to believe is still there. Look how the darkened soul stoops and strains for the one string’s note, for the one voice to tell her a gospel that all her achievement has not yet attained, and all the round and mastered world cannot promise. The soul has in its own self and nature a note that Nature has not. But is that note of nature only in the soul? Is it a subjective dream of its own? Is there any promise in the ‘not-ourselves’? . . . Yes, there is one star, though the poor soul sees it not. The painter sees it, and we see it. A star is there and a dim dawn.’"

- This article above was cited from: Cruciality.WordPress.com

*** I’ve also included, below, a short bio about the famous listed artist, GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS:

"In his own lifetime George Frederic Watts (1817-1904), was widely considered to be the greatest painter of the Victorian age, enjoying an unparalleled reputation. His ceaseless experimentation embodied the most pressing themes and ideas of the time. A complex figure, Watts was the finest and most penetrating portraitist of his age, a sculptor, landscape painter and symbolist which earned him the title ‘England’s Michelangelo.’

His fame and renown was not limited to Britain and in 1884 he was the first living artist to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, a show so enormously successful that it led to a longer run and a gift of his great work, Love and Life to the American people. His works also found great favour in Europe winning gold medals at the Paris Universal Exhibitions in 1878 and 1889. His influence among symbolists was profound and can be seen in the works of Gustave Moreau and Fernand Knopff.

The work of G.F. Watts is of seminal importance in understanding the Victorian period because he was one of its most notable artistic innovators. Watts’s own refusal to become part of any painting movement coupled with the reaction of early twentieth century critics to all things Victorian left his reputation a little tarnished. Ironically, that outspoken critic of Victorian painting, Roger Fry, considered Watts an exception. Fry recognized his great importance within the British School, as shown by his visits with his students to the Watts Picture Gallery. Until the late 1930s, the Tate Gallery had a Watts room which exclusively showed the work of the artist. The legacy of his Hall of Fame portraits form a major part of the National Portrait Gallery’s nineteenth century holdings and the Tate Gallery’s huge collection are a tribute to his importance."

- This article above was cited from: WattsGallery.org.UK/
Circa: 1910
Condition: Excellent Original Condition
Size: Frame Measurements: Height - 28” Width - 8” / Print : Height - 7 ½" Width - 5 ½” / Mirror : Height - 17 ½” Width - 5
 

Silhouette of 2 Nymphs Gracefully Dancing against Horizon, Enchanting & Inspiring Antique Print / Artist: B. Majok This is a large and inspiring silhouette print of 2 nymphs dancing gracefully against the horizon. Great details and beautiful, vibrant sky. The print is signed in the lower right hand corner by artist, "B. Majok". The lower right hand corner of print reads, "Copyright Edward Gross Co. Inc.". The original, wood frame is decorative with textured gold and black paint. Original glass and wire hanger. This enchanting and inspirational print is in excellent, original condition, except it’s missing the paper backing. Circa 1920’s.
Circa: 1920's
Condition: Excellent Original Condition
Size: Height – 16 ¾" Width – 11 ¾"
Manufacturer: Edward Gross Company / E.G. Co.