Important Antique Italian Oil on Panel Painting Costume Genre Dog & Beauty Francesco Vinea, 1873 Paintings 4" tall X 3

4" tall X 3

the base drawer with a carved cartouche to the center and the underside having a compressed ball finial at each corner

Francois Backvis (1857-1926)

the bowl decorated in under-glazed blue with a pagoda and water scene

width: 18") 124 cm X 44

Important Antique Italian Oil on Panel Painting Costume Genre Dog & Beauty Francesco Vinea, 1873 Paintings 4" tall X 3A very good antique oil on panel costume genre painting by the celebrated Northern Italian artist, Francesco Vinea (1845 1902), the painting dated signed and dated 1873. Vinea studied at The Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and then worked as a designer of illustrated periodicals, he returned to Florence and studied under professor Enrico Pollestrini. Vinea unapologetically produced incredibly high quality humorous and whimsical scenes that were