BUY OR SELL RARE MUSEUM-QUALITY ORIGINAL FINE ART PAINTINGS AND COLLECTIONS BY PRIVATE PLACEMENT - SPECIFICALLY EUROPEAN MASTERS FROM 1200 - 1900

AlphaNautical offers its clients the confidential and totally private option to buy or sell rare museum-quality original fine art paintings and collections by private placement - specifically European masters from 1200 through 1900.

 
 Although there are many great world-class auction houses for fine art, we only cater to those museums and individuals who want the utmost privacy.

Our interest is very restricted to museum quality original fine art from the great European masters dated 1200 to 1900. A specific list of acceptable artists may be found at www.alphanautical.com by using the "Fine Art Gallery Info" drop down menu and then selecting "Private Placement".

We are able to handle a single painting or an entire collection. We guarantee that no painting will will be auctioned for sale or displayed on the Internet. We generally work with museum management, curators, and owners of important collections of fine art. We can work with you if you are a dealer and working with a specific client to buy or sell but our preference is to deal directly with the actual buyer or seller.

There are only two ways of "registering" with us. We must receive either an email at jestep@alphanautical.com or a fax at 972-803-4107. Use these two methods to inform us what you have for sale or what you want to purchase.

We prefer to deal with signed pieces that have an exhibition history and a documented provenance. Unfortunately, some works by the listed artists were never signed and those will be the exceptions to the rule.

If you have any questions, please contact Joe Stephenson directly at 214-725-3393.

If you are a potential seller, then this is an ideal time since we are actively seeking rare pieces and collections for our most important buyer. Time is of the essence in this search period as they seek to acquire sufficient art for a brand new museum.

• WE ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN THESE ARTISTS (*):

• Gothic/International Gothic/Proto-Renaissance

Cimabue (Italian, 1240–1302) Frescoes in the Church of St Francis of Assisi
Giotto di Bondone (Italian, 1267–1337) First Renaissance fresco painter
Duccio (Italian, 1255–1318) Early acclaimed Sienese painter
Simone Martini (Italian, 1285–1344) Gothic painter, Sienese school, pupil of Giotto and Duccio
Jean Pucelle (French, 1290–1334) French manuscript illuminator, miniturist painter
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (Italian, fl 1319–1348) Italian gothic artist, Sienese school of painting
Pietro Lorenzetti (Italian, fl1320–1345) Sienese school, influenced by Giotto
Lorenzo Monaco (Italian, 1370–1425) Siena born International gothic style
Masolino (Italian, 1383–1440) Goldsmith trained painter
Limbourg Brothers (Flemish, 1390–1416) Manuscript illuminators for Jean, Duc du Berry
Pisanello (Italian, 1394–1455) International gothic Italian painter and medallist
Sassetta (Italian, 1395–1450) Sienese International Gothic painter
Jean Fouquet (French, 1420–1481) French 15th century painter, brought Renaissance art to France

• Early Renaissance

Gentile da Fabriano (Italian, 1370–1427) Influential International gothic painter
Filippo Brunelleschi (Italian, 1377–1446) Architect who designed the Dome of Florence Cathedral
Lorenzo Ghiberti (Italian, 1378–1455) Florentine sculptor who specialized in International gothic and Classical styles
Donatello (Italian, 1386–1466) Important early Renaissance sculptor
Paolo Uccello (Italian, 1397–1475) Schematic use of perspective/foreshortening
Fra Angelico (Italian, 1400–1455) Religious painter noted for San Marco convent frescoes
Masaccio (Italian, 1401–1428) Important early Florentine painter
Leon Battista Alberti (Italian, 1404–1472) Genovese architect
Piero della Francesca (Italian, 1415–1492) Italian Renaissance painter who pioneered linear perspective
Antonello da Messina (Italian, 1430–1479) Sicilian painter who pioneered oil painting
Andrea Mantegna (Italian, 1431–1506) Renaissance master who mastered perspective and detail
Donato Bramante (Italian, 1444–1514) High Renaissance architect
Sandro Botticelli (Italian, 1445–1510) Florentine Renaissance master
Domenico Ghirlandaio (Italian, 1449–1494) Prolific Florentine fresco painter

• High Renaissance

Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519) Acclaimed great Renaissance oil painter/draughtsman
Michelangelo (Italian, 1475–1564) Acclaimed great Renaissance sculptor
Raphael (Italian, 1483–1520) Acclaimed great Renaissance painting prodigy
Correggio (Italian, 1490–1534) Parma painter noted for illusionistic frescoes and altarpiece oils

• Venetian painting Renaissance

Gentile Bellini (Italian, 1429–1507) Noted for historical scenes of Venice and Doge portraits
Giovanni Bellini (Italian, 1430–1516) Pioneer of luminous oil painting
Giorgione (Italian, 1477–1510) Pioneer of Venetian School of painting
Titian (Italian, c.1477–1576) Important Renaissance exponent of color painting in oils and frescoes
Jacopo Bassano (Italian, 1515–1592) Mannerist painter noted for portraiture and religious genre painting
Jacopo Tintoretto (Italian, 1518–1594) Major Venetian painter of monumental religious works
Paolo Veronese (Italian, c.1528–1588) One of Venice's leading colorists

• Northern Renaissance

Robert Campin (Flemish, 1375–1444) Northern Renaissance artist who painted Merode Altarpiece
Jan van Eyck (1395–1441) Pioneer oil painter
Stefan Lochner (German, 1400–1451) German painter of the Cologne School
Rogier van der Weyden (Flemish, 1400–1464) Dutch artist and leading religious panel painter
Hans Memling (German born-Flemish, 1430–1494) Flemish artist of the Bruges School
Hugo van der Goes (Flemish, 1440–1483) Oil painter from the Netherlands
Hieronymus Bosch (Dutch, 1450–1516) Greatest of all medieval painters
Matthias Grunewald (German, 1470–1528) Noted for his intense expressionist religious paintings
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) Greatest painter and printmaker of the Northern Renaissance
Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, 1472–1553) Leading German Renaissance painter
Albrecht Altdorfer (German, 1480–1538) Danube School of painting
Hans Baldung Grien (German, 1484–1545) German Renaissance artist
Joachim Patenier (Flemish, 1485–1524) Pioneer landscape painter of the Netherlandish Renaissance
Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497–1543) One of the greatest portrait painters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Flemish, c.1525–1569) Leading Flemish artist of his day

• Mannerism

Pontormo (Italian, 1494–1556) Florentine fresco/oil painter
Parmigianino (Italian, 1503–1540) Mannerist painter/etcher from Parma
Giorgio Vasari (Italian, 1511–1575)Known for his "Lives of the Artists"
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italian, 1527–1593) Best known for his bizarre Mannerist fruit and vegetable portraits
Giambologna (Italian, 1529–1608) Hugely influential Mannerist sculptor
El Greco (Greek-born Spanish, 1541–1614) Noted for his dazzling spiritual works and portraits
Caravaggio (Italian, 1573–1610) Milanese painter noted for his figurative realism and tenebrism
Adam Elsheimer (German, 1578–1610) Influential German landscape and history painter who influenced Rubens

• Baroque painting

Annibale Caracci (Italian, 1560–1609) Bolognese Baroque artist noted for his Farnese Gallery frescoes
Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640) Foremost Baroque history painter and portraitist
Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish, 1591– 1652) Naples based Spanish religious realist painter
Georges de la Tour (French, 1593–1652) French caravaggesque painter
Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665) Possibly the greatest classical academic painter of all time
Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596–1669) Italian High Baroque fresco painter
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish, 1598–1664) Master of chiarscuro who did religious paintings and still lifes
Gianlorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598–1680) The dominant sculptor and architect of Counter Reformation Baroque
Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641) Infant prodigy and pupil of Rubens who was noted for his portraits
Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660) Court painter who was possibly the greatest Spanish old master
Claude Lorrain (French, 1600–1682) Classical landscape artist who developed Claudean Style
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Italian, 1609–1664) Genoa painter and etcher who founded monotype
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617–1682) Successful Spanish Baroque artist

• Dutch Golden Age Painting

Frans Snyders (Flemish, 1578–1657) Undisputed master of Baroque still life from the Antwerp School
Frans Hals (Dutch, 1580–1666) One of the greatest post Renaissance portraits
Hendrick Terbrugghen (Dutch, 1588–1629) Dutch Realist genre painter and Utrecht Caravaggisti
Adriaen Brouwer (Flemish. 1605–1638) Noted for his tavern based genre paintings
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669) World's greatest portrait artist
Jan Havickszoon Steen (Dutch, 1625–1679) Leiden School, tavern genre scenes
Jan Davidsz de Heem (Dutch, 1609–1683) Still life artist, Utecht/Antwerp School
David Teniers the Younger (Flemish, 1610–1690)Dutch Realist, peasant/guardroom scenes
Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610–1685) Peasant scene artist, Haarlem School
Gerard Terborch (Dutch, 1617–1681) Haarlem School genre painter
Willem Kalf (Dutch, 1619–1693) Noted for still life pictures
Albert Cuyp (Dutch, 1620–1691) Dordrecht School landscape painter
Samuel van Hoogstraten (Dutch, 1627–1678) Genre painter
Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628–1682) Haarlem School landscapes
Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) Intimate small scale genre scenes
Pieter de Hooch (Dutch, 1629–1683) Delft School of Dutch genre painting
Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632–1675) Delft School Dutch genre painter, unrecognized in his own lifetime
Rachel Ruysch (Dutch, 1664–1750) Important female flower painter from Amsterdam

• Rococo

Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721) Noted for "Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera" and "fetes galants"
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1691–1770) Known for his Wurzburg Palace frescoes
Canaletto (Italian, 1697–1768) Famous topographical/architectural landscape paintings
Francois Boucher (French, 1703–1770) Created "mythologie galante"
Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712–1793) view painter of Venice School
Bernardo Bellotto (Italian, 1720–1780) Canaletto's nephew, urban landscape paintings
Jean Honore Fragonard (French, 1732–1806)Best known for "The Swing"

• Rococo era painting

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (French, 1699–1779) Important 18th Century still life artist
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725–1805) Important 18th Century painter

• British

Thomas Gainsborough
John Constable
J.M.W. Turner

• Neoclassicism

Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825) Passionate classical style political master painter
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867) Neoclassical and Romantic exponent of "academic art"

• Romanticism

Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723–1792) Influential English portrait painter
Francisco Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828) Spanish court painter and great portraitist
William Blake (British, 1757–1827) Symbolist religious painter, printmaker and book illustrator
Antoine-Jean Gros (French, 1771–1835) French Romantic painter, pupil of Jacque Louis David

 RATES:
SELLERS: The final negotiated sale price less our 15% fee

BUYERS: The final negotiated purchase price plus our 5% commission
All crating and shipping paid by BUYERS

(*) "SPECIFIC ARTISTS" are only those artists above as recognized by Wikipedi under "Old Masters"