
John S. Dewar (19th century British) - The Cruel Separation (also known as "Love subservient to Glory), 1856. Oil on canvas, 12 x 14 inches. Signed and dated lower left: J.S. Dewar, 1856. Excellent condition, framed. John S. Dewar was a British born painter who came to the United States and exhibited in the first exhibition of British painters in America in 1856. Original frame.

Un Théologien, 1885 - Henry Mannier (French 1861-1937). Oil on canvas, 29 x 24 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed lower left: Henry Mannier, Paris/1885. Excellent condition, framed. Exhibitions: Paris Salon, 1885 (number 1657).
Henry Prosper MANNIER
Born 16th March 1861 in Strasbourg (France), dead after the 16th December 1937
Son of Prosper Alfred MANNIER (Artillery Captain in the French Army based in Strasbourg) and Mathilde Clémentine GROS (died few days after the birth of Henry)
Nephew of Charles Alexandre Prosper MANNIER (1823-1849), painter
His sister married the eldest son of Ernest MEISSONIER
Henry was the pupil of his own oncle Lucien Alphonse GROS (Strasbourg, 1845-Poissy, 1913), himself pupil of Ernest MEISSONIER.
Henry get married with Mathilde Constantine Marie Marthe GRONOW (1861-1937) in 1890. He has got one son: Guy Mortimer MANNIER (Officer in the French Army) and one daughter: Germain Edith MANNIER.
Information courtesy of GALERIE de LARDEMELLE, Paris.