Established in 1842, it’s the oldest continuously operating public art museum in the U.S. and ... mermaids and satyrs. Other old-master standouts include Salvator Rosa’s dynamic “A Warrior ...

Romney was one of the leading society portrait painters of 18th ... first time that a valuable work of art has been rescued from the trash. The “Old Master, British and European Pictures ...

A chalk on paper study of the influential Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn as a child has sold at auction for £34,040, ...

“They assembled a one-of-a-kind collection spanning still life, landscapes, portraits ... and contemporary art sales, which benefit from a steady influx of new supply, Old Masters auctions ...

We are constantly being told that there are new buyers for Old Masters out there, even if recent auction history hardly bears this out. Earlier this year the New York sales at Sotheby’s and ...

“They wanted old masters; they told me to go out and get the best of the best,” added Wachter, who acted as the couple’s unofficial art adviser ... 19th-century “Portrait of Miss Julia ...