{"title":"Beauty and the Beast Collection","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"antique-dutch-style-oil-painting-woman-with-dog-19th-century-sold-as-is","title":"Antique Dutch Style Genre Oil Painting, Woman with Dog, 19th Century","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA young woman in a green bodice and ochre skirt rests one hand on a red table cover while a black and white spaniel stands on its hind legs to reach her. The interior is dark, with urns on a shelf behind and two shadowy heads in the gloom. It follows the domestic genre scenes Dutch painters made popular in the 17th century, but the handling reads as a 19th century revival. It is sold as found, with the condition described in full below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Unidentified\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | Unsigned\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | Young woman in 17th century dress at a table with a spaniel, in a dark interior\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | European\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | 19th century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCanvas Size | 26 in. H x 20.9 in. W\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e29 in. H x 24 in. W\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Gilt frame with a pierced scroll profile\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e[d]Style | 19th century genre scene painted in the Dutch manner. The dark interior, single figure, and small domestic animal follow the genre tradition Dutch painters established in the 1600s, here with 18th century dress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Canvas on a wooden stretcher, unlined\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e[d]Notes | Bearing ink inscriptions on the stretcher reading \"Cullum Inv. P166\" and \"P.166\". Not offered as provenance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSold as is, in distressed condition. Craquelure runs across the whole surface. In the dark upper background, above the shelf and figure, the paint is cupped and lifting, with numerous flake losses exposing pale ground. The apron has a run of small flake losses along its lower left edge showing brown ground, with cracking beside them. Smaller losses sit at the skirt hem, the red table cover, the flask at right, and the dark foreground at lower left. The sleeve cuffs are abraded and the canvas weave shows through. The sitter’s face shows no visible loss in the photographs. The raised paint is unstable and needs consolidation by a paintings conservator before the work is moved much or hung. The surface is dark with uneven gloss, strongest in the upper background.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe canvas is on a keyed wooden stretcher. The reverse has mottled brown spotting and one vertical brown stain near the center. Modern D-rings, wire, and felt pads are fitted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe gilt frame has fine cracks throughout. The top left corner has lost gilding and gesso down to white ground and wood, the top right corner shows bare wood where the outer carving ends, and the bottom left corner is chipped. The frame is not claimed as original to the painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePlease review all photographs closely, as they form part of this description.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51899910553878,"sku":"ENM-20000","price":685.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/October2026-15339.jpg?v=1794099932"},{"product_id":"after-reynolds-antique-18th-century-stipple-engraving-prudence","title":"After Sir Joshua Reynolds, Antique 18th Century Stipple Engraving, Prudence","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePrudence holds up a hand mirror and looks into it, Reynolds's way of showing self-knowledge in the Virtues he designed for the west window of New College Chapel, Oxford. The lettering credits the painting to Sir Joshua Reynolds, the drawing to Josiah Boydell, and the stipple engraving to the brothers Facius. It carries a dedication to the Warden and Society of New College and a London imprint for John Boydell. The window itself was admired by Walpole and then dismissed by the Victorians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Engraved by Georg Siegmund and Johann Gottlieb Facius after Sir Joshua Reynolds. The Facius brothers were German-born stipple engravers who came to London in the 1770s at John Boydell's invitation and worked for his publishing house for many years. This plate belongs to the set Boydell published after the New College window.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | Lettered in the plate: \"Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds,\" \"Drawn by Josiah Boydell,\" and \"Engraved by G.S. \u0026amp; J.G. Facius.\" No hand signature seen through the glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Stipple engraving\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | Prudence, one of the seven Virtues from the New College west window, shown with a hand mirror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | London, published by John Boydell per the imprint\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | 18th century. The imprint reads June 1, 178_ and the plate lettering is the basis for the date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Sheet Size | 11.6 in. W x 19.3 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 13.6 in. W x 21.3 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Portrait, rectangular\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Ebonised wood with a gilt beaded inner slip, period in appearance, not confirmed original to the print\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style | Stipple engraving. The image is built from thousands of tiny dots struck into the plate instead of continuous lines, which gives the soft, hazy tonal range you see in the sky and skin. It was the favoured method in Georgian London for reproducing oil paintings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Paper, framed behind glass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eViewed through glass and not examined out of the frame. The paper is toned overall. A dark brown spot sits in the lower margin near the Facius lettering, and grey blotches affect part of the dedication lettering. Faint crease lines cross the lower margin. The sheet runs under the frame rebate on all sides, so the platemark and full margins are not visible. The frame shows scratching, chips to the gilt, and loss at the lower right mitre. The glass is scratched. The reverse is sealed with modern kraft backing and was not opened. Please review all photographs closely, as they form part of this description.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51899912356118,"sku":"ENM-20009","price":485.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/October_2026-14956.jpg?v=1793726786"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/collections\/October_2026-15323.jpg?v=1794167145","url":"https:\/\/austyn-marie.myshopify.com\/collections\/beauty-and-the-beast-collection.oembed","provider":"Austyn Marie Design","version":"1.0","type":"link"}