ORIGINAL WORKS OF ART by
recognized listed artists
Each picture is a “one-of-a-kind,” original work of heritage art, created by a well-established recognized listed artist working on paper, wood, or board, using oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, pastel, charcoal, pencil, or pen and ink.
These works are rare because there is only one of each in existence and it almost never becomes available to the public.
Emily Louise Orr Elliott (1867-1952)
- Still Life c 1918
Each original print is a “one-of-a-kind,” hand done by a craftsman or artist pressing or rolling paper against an inked surface of stone, wood, or metal. Original prints – no two are ever exactly the same - may be lithographs, hand-painted lithographs, chromolithographs, engravings, wood cuts, stone cuts, aquatints, or etchings.
These were made in the 19th and early 20th century to make original art images available to more people. They used technology like chromolithography, which is superior to colour processes used today, but was too expensive and labour intensive to continue.
Since some of the finest historical works of art, and original antique prints, are no longer available to the public, we have produced high quality modern art reproductions of some of the more rare works.
Each LEAP is digitally copied directly from an original antique print or work of art in our vaults, and reproduced in limited quantities so that collectors, who don’t have the original painting or original print, can get as fine a reproduction of historical art as it’s possible to make with modern technology.
Giclée Fine Art Canvas Prints - We offer the same High Quality Giclée canvas print technology preferred by modern artists in Britain, the US, and Canada, to make limited edition prints of their finest original works, using fade-resistant, archival quality ink-jet inks, that were first introduced in the 1990s. Modern giclée inks are said to be resistant to fading for at least 100 years.
Giclée ink-jet printing uses a wide variety of colour cartridges to give the same rich hues and smooth tonal transitions of the original art work.
Far superior to ordinary paper prints - but more expensive - giclée canvases lack the original art work's imperfections, which are digitally removed before printing. (We also offer more economical giclée paper prints but they are not as durable as canvas, and lack the convincing "punch" that canvas gives to prints of original art.)
Giclée fine art canvas prints allow you to have a fabulous picture that is affordable and virtually impossible to tell from the original, of which only one exists, and might cost tens of thousands of dollars to own.
So giclée canvas prints are the perfect fine art solution for corporate offices, hotel rooms and lobbies, big city homes, larger yachts, rural retreats, or cottages, where they look stunning, but are no real loss if stolen, damaged, or destroyed. You can just order another one. But you cannot replace a lost $20,000 painting, or the money it cost.
Affordable and stunning giclée fine art canvas prints have put an end to the necessity of hanging up cheap looking, and quickly fading, calendar art in homes, cottages, hotels, and places of business.
CW Jefferys (1869-1951) - Governor Simcoe Building Fort York (1793)
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Owen Staples (1866-1949)
- Building the Dundas St Bridge 1910
Arthur Heming (1870-1940) - Canadian Pioneers 1931
Art Hider (1870-1952) - Prince of Wales Steams Towards Doom 1941
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rare antiques & memorabilia
We offer some rare historical memorabilia and antiques that are virtually impossible to find anywhere, anymore, at any price...
Right a very valuable Carruthers-Gould Wilkinson Jug from World War I, of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. He is one of the Big Four conquerors who forced Germany to "shell out," and drafted a Peace to end World War I in such a way that ensured that the same two sides would have a rematch again, only twenty years later, in World War II.
Only 350 of these huge and fabulous jugs were ever made. After two World Wars and domestic disputes how few are left is anyone's guess. This one is mint.
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