by Martha Walter (American, 1875-1976). An American impressionist painter, Walter studied in Philadelphia and Europe, ultimately returning to teach at William Chase’s New York School of Art. She was a master at capturing small-town imagery and local landscapes filled with rich colors and light.
Category: Religion
Morning Prayer
by Enoch Wood Perry, Jr. (American, 1831-1915). Perry studied under Emanuel Leutze (several of whose paintings are held by the Pamplin Collection) in Germany and began his career in New Orleans at the outset of the Civil War. He painted the well-known Signing of the Ordinance of Secession of Louisiana in 1861 as well as…
Madonna and Child, with Two Angels
by Frans Francken, the Younger (Flemish, 1581-1642). Francken was a versatile painter and the best-known member of a large family of artists. He played a prominent role in the development of Flemish art in the first half of the 17th century. He was particularly skilled at introducing new subject matter and allegorical works. Greatly skilled…
Walking Home from Church
by Anthony Thieme (American 1888-1954). Thieme was a highly regarded landscape and marine painter and a prominent figure in the Rockport (Maine) School of American regional art. Born and schooled in Europe, he moved to the United States in 1910. Continuing his education in the U.S. and Europe, he traveled widely and settled in Rockport,…
Young Girl Praying With Her Mother,
by Lawrence Wilbur (American, 1897-1988). Wilbur was born in Whitman, MA. He moved to California to work in the engraving department of the Los Angeles Times. In 1925 he relocated to New York City and enrolled in the Grand Central Art School where he studied under Harvey Dunn, N.C. Wyeth and Pruett Carter. In 1957…
Two pen and ink religious scenes
by Girolamo Bonini (Italian, 1620-1680). Christ Giving Communion to the Apostles at the Last Supper. Lucas Medicus, Salutat Vos. Bonini was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna. He was the pupil of the painter Francesco Albani and part of a team of painters who decorated the Sala Farnese of the…
Freedom of Worship
by Norman Rockwell (American, 1884-1978). Rockwell was perhaps America’s greatest illustrator, whose evocative scenes of American life graced thousands of magazines and books. Here is a numbered print of a series titled the Four Freedoms. These were created during the Second World War to inspire confidence and patriotism in the country. The Four Freedoms included…
The Saints Dorothea, Apollonia, and Agatha
by Hans Baldung Grien, considered the Master of the Lautenbach High Altar (German, ca. early 1500s). This painting of three saints (with a name on their halo) is on the wooden panel that once served as the wing of an altarpiece. The style is in the German (Franconian) School. The high altar was from the…
A page of rare Bibles
The Bible above is a rare Geneva Bible. This is one of the most-significant translations of the Bible into English. It was the Bible of 16th century Protestantism and was read by Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Donne, among others. It was the first mechanically printed, mass-produced Bible made available to the general public. The volume…
Silver-plated Spanish Colonial Bible and Bible stand
The Bible is from the Spanish colonial South America dating from the 19th century. The hand-wrought silver enfolding the book and its stand shows fine craftsmanship and likely would have graced a bishop’s or archbishop’s pulpit. This is a book of Common Prayer from a Confederate Episcopal Church with the inscription: “God Save the President…