John Bell, Anatomia, Skull

John Bell, Anatomia, SkullThis late 18th century engraving by John Bell (1763 1820) is a precise study of a skull from two angles. Its exquisitely rendered and equally macabre. Bell was apprenticed to a surgeon and, in 1793, produced The anatomy of the bones, muscles, and joints to aid his studies. It applied practical surgery to anatomy in a simple, understandable way, and was later accompanied by a collection of engravings. There were 28 plates in total, of which this skull

Aigens often painted this lad and he’s likely related - perhaps it’s his son

A worn mid-18th-century oil on canvas depicting an arrangement of fruit including cherries and grapes

we’re looking through into the sitting room - the walls adorned with Sinding’s works

Overall size: 24” x 29” / 61cm x 73cm

It’s been painted with a great deal of affection and perhaps it’s the artist’s own home

Landenburger was employed as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts

it was listed as an unknown artist and signed ‘Solby’

The painting is signed in the bottom right and housed within a frame that’s probably the original

The painting is housed within a decorative foliate frame and signed in the lower right

certainly interested

A fine late 19th-century portrait of a dashing young German officer in his parade uniform

This charming mid-19th-century portrait of a seated young lady once hung in a family home in France and was looked upon fondly over the years