Antique Oil Paintings for Your Home and Office

Landscape oil paintings can transport us all over the world. We can wonder at mountains, plains, and valleys. If it's an antique painting, then it can transport us to another time as well. I love antique paintings that show this country in it's earliest times. Eighteenth century paintings show us vast land teeming with wildlife, Native Americans and ancient trees.

When I see the mountains and rivers that the American pioneers faced, I am amazed that this country expanded as rapidly as it did. I love the romantic imagery that those early landscape painters used. The mountains just floated up to meet the sky. 

If you love to travel, you can show where you've been by hanging an antique oil painting that shows the country or city. You can even put a small plaque beside it or under it that says what country it was and when you were there. I like to think of them as unique travel logs.

Remember those old creepy horror movies where portraits of all of the relatives hung in a long corridor? Well all antique portraits aren't creepy. You can find a variety of interesting portraits to bring the corners of your home to life. 

Because I live in a 19th Century farmhouse that was built by a sea captain, I love to find old paintings of sailors. You can tell the time period by their uniform. They really look like they came with the house. People often see one portrait of a grizzled old sea captain and really think it was the person who built this house. 

The best part is that it cost under $100. Not all antique oil paintings are expensive. You'd be surprised the art pieces that get sold for $10 at yard sales. Often the family inherited them from deceased relatives.