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Oil on canvas. Unidentified signature on the lower right (Terzaghi?). The scene depicts Christopher Columbus arriving at the Convento de la Rabida in Andalusia accompanied by his son Diego. The navigator was welcomed in this Franciscan convent in 1490, after receiving the news that the Catholic Monarchs had rejected his request to launch an expedition to the Indies. With the intervention of the prior and confessor of Queen Isabella, Juan Pérez, Columbus obtained that his project be heard. The painting is presented in a late 19th century frame.

Study for Vegetation

Pencil on paper. Signed lower right. Michetti, originally from Abruzzo, studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he developed his realistic and naturalistic style. But rural Abruzzo, with its still uncontaminated nature, was always his main source of inspiration. Here is a small study of country vegetation. Framed.

Portrait of Lord Wood of Inchyra

Oil on canvas. On the back there is a cartouche with attribution and title of the work. Sir John Watson Gordon established himself as a portraitist, creating portraits of many illustrious English people in his life, and also becoming a court painter. The nobleman portrayed here belongs to the House of Wood of Inchyra, a town in Perthshire in Scotland. The painting is presented in a frame.

Oil on canvas. Nordic landscape, with green hilly countryside and rich in leafy vegetation, and with a rich watercourse on whose bank stands a small village; two figures of wayfarers pass on the path in the foreground. In the first canvas, the painting requires restoration for paint loss, and cleaning. It is presented in a contemporary frame.

Oil on canvas. Nordic landscape with countryside full of leafy plants, crossed by flowing watercourses and rocky mountains in the background. Two wayfarers on horseback are passing on the path on the left. On the first canvas, the painting requires restoration due to the presence of a slight tear in the lower right, several paint losses and the need for cleaning. It is presented in a contemporary frame.

Oil on canvas. The wide, very bright and spacious countryside landscape, allowing the gaze to wander towards the distant blue peaks, features a flowing stream in the center, from which sheep and oxen drink; on the path to the left, in the foreground, a couple in classical clothing is walking. The canvas requires restoration and color consolidation, due to some color losses, mainly on the left. It is presented in a late 19th century style frame.

Oil on canvas. Central European school of the 19th century. The large scene is set on the banks of a river, which flows near a village and is crossed by a small wooden bridge. On the banks, in the foreground, a woman washes clothes, a shepherd waters his animals and a traveler observes the figures, resting leaning on his stick. Bright and serene, the painting has a scenographic impact. Restored and relined, it is presented in a period frame.

Pencil on paper. Bottom right, on both, the writing "Pietro Mulazzi sketched", with the date 1883. By an unknown artist but skilled in the use of pencils, these are the portraits of a bourgeois couple, whose gray faces emerge clearly from the paper background red. They are presented in contemporary gilded frames, with several shortcomings (to be restored).

Family Lunch 1802

Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower left. Genre scene of popular taste, it portrays a bourgeois family preparing to have lunch: the father, already seated at the table, is about to bless the meal, while his wife and son, standing, follow the prayer. Little is known about Charles Christophe Coventry, an English painter of whom we know mainly genre scenes of popular settings, such as this one. Restored and relined, the painting is presented in a period frame.

Oil on canvas. The protagonists of the scene are a girl and a boy dressed in traditional Tyrolean clothes, a region to which the setting also refers, with its characteristic mountain chalets with flower-filled balconies; the girl, sitting knitting, joyfully receives the embrace of the boy, who takes her by surprise from behind. The pictorial style and subject matter refer to the production of some Tyrolean artists who tried their hand at popular and traditional genre scenes, including for example Hugo Kauffmann, specialized in popular interior scenes in costume. The painting, on the first canvas, shows traces of patches. It is presented in a gilded frame in style.