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silla was born out of a passion for beautiful objects: special pieces with aesthetic and historical significance. In 2009, after years of collecting, Andrew Silla and his wife Grace began to work privately with clients from their residence in Southern Maryland. Quickly outgrowing the space, the business was moved from Maryland to Pennsylvania in 2012 and after several warehouse location changes it was firmly settled in the present brick-and-mortar location in downtown Shippensburg.

The 9000 square foot brick-and-mortar gallery is home to a large collection of works of art and estate jewelry. We specialize in sculpture circa 1860 through 1930 with a particular emphasis on the Animaliers and as such the gallery always has a very large collection of exceptional European and American sculpture available on display.

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Bonheur, Rosa

Marie-Rosalie (Rosa) Bonheur was born in Bordeaux, France on March 16th, 1822.  After unsuccessfully trying to persuade Rosa to pursue a different occupation, her father agreed to train her and eventually decided to send her for formal training with historical and portrait painter Léon Cogniet.  She first exhibited at the Salon in 1841 with a selection of paintings while she was just nineteen years old, exhibiting again in 1842 and bringing her first sculpture to debut in 1843. Over the next seven years, she produced roughly fifteen animalier models, many of these sculptures in terra cotta and plaster that were cast later in bronze. Among her numerous awards was a Salon Gold Medal in 1848, the LH in 1865 and the LHO 1893. After winning the Gold Medal at Salon for a painting, she began to focus more entirely on her paintings, her most famous of which is “The Horse Fair” in 1853.  Bonheur is widely acknowledged as one of the most successful and influential female artist of the nineteenth-century.

Literature:

  • Rosa Bonheur, Rosalia Shriver, 1982
  • Rosa Bonheur, sa vie et son ouevre, Anne Klumpke, 1908
  • Dictionairre des Sculpteurs de L'Ecole Française, Vol I, Stanislas Lami, 1970, p. 127
  • Bronzes: Sculptors and Founders 1800-1930, Harold Berman, 1974
  • Art Bronzes, Michael Forrest, 1988
  • The Animaliers, James Mackay, 1973
  • Bronze Sculpture of “Les Animaliers”, Jane Horswell, 1971
  • Animals in Bronze, Christopher Payne, 1986
  • Bronzes of the Nineteenth Century: Dictionary of Sculptors, Pierre Kjellberg, 1994, p. 106-107
  • Rosa Bonheur: Sa Vie, Son Oeuvre, Léon Rodger-Milés, Lyon, 1901

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