Evelyn Avery began selling art from her dining room table in 1992 - an endeavor that became so popular that she soon hired a staff and began offering custom framing.
Nearly 20 years later, Eveyln's elegant atelier at Avery Fine Art has become a destination for designers in search of 18th, 19th and 20th century oils and works on paper as they decorate their clients' homes. Private clients rely on her to find - and frame - just the right piece for their collections.
Evelyn travels to Europe every year, hand-picking art and antique frames to bring back to her workshop. The shop employs eight highly skilled artisans who use old-world methods to design and create frames and finishes for each piece of art. They also painstakingly restore the antique frames, which Evelyn designates for specific works she has chosen abroad.
The shop also builds custom media cabinets, upholstered headboards, lamp bases, and mirrors in any shape or size. And Evelyn offers private consultation services, too, traveling to clients' homes to help them reframe or re-hang existing collections.
Avery Fine Art features Evelyn's collection of oils and works on paper mainly from France, Russia, and the United Kingdom, dating from the 18th century to the middle 20th century. She taught herself French so she wouldn't have to rely on a "picker" to select works for her - she does it all herself. As a wise art dealer once told her, "You can't train your eye if you don't see the bad."
"We will make one piece, one time, one way," Evelyn says. "We are the designer's tools. We allow the designer to become the craftsman."
Every frame at Avery Fine Art is made to order in any style or finish, from gold or silver leaf to faux tortoise shell. There is also a large collection of whimsical designs and children's frames. If you don't see a frame you like among the existing samples, Evelyn's workshop will create a custom design. The workshop also does period reproductions and antique frame restoration.
Designers and private clients make custom requests all the time. Some requests, such as framed media screens, have become a staple of the Avery Fine Art collection.
Mirrors are also a great way to highlight a special frame, and the design - and size - possibilities are endless.
And more recently, the Avery artisans have started designing and building home furnishings, such as custom headboards and lamp bases. Please click on each category to see some of the offerings.
The skilled artisans at Avery Fine Art are capable of restoring damaged art and frames that might otherwise seem gone forever. A current project in the shop includes restoring a decorative screen that was heavily damaged in a New Orleans home during Hurricane Katrina.
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Our media screens can house flat-screen televisions, sound and stereo equipment or even white boards for conference rooms. Each screen is designed and built specifically for the object it will cover and the space where it will be hung. Customers can choose art from the Avery collection or supply their own, and the framing, of course, is designed around it.
15 1/2" x 12 1/2"
The design, size and materials for a mirror frame are only limited byt the client's imagination. The artisans at Avery Fine Art individually sketch each design, which they keep in a large portfolio. Do you like the one round design, but want it square? No problem. Do you like the gold frame, but want it in a natural wood finish? Done. Evelyn and her artisans have the most fun with mirrors, because there are absolutely no limitations on how they can be made.
Loyal customers have encouraged Evelyn and her staff at Avery Fine Art to branch into new areas outside of what can simply be hung on a wall - to the point where there is almost nothing they cannot do. They can now build custom headboards, create specialized lamp bases and other accessories, and even mix a leather dye to restore upholstery on an old chair. Give them a new challenge and they will embrace it.
14 1/4" x 17 1/2"
11"x 14 1/2"
22 1/2" x 26 1/2"
16 1/2" x 21"
Zrani Reife 26" x 27 1/2"
Vanitas 20" x 24"
Magnolia for Atlanta 22" x 27 1/2"
Papillion 21 1/2" x 28"
Horatius 39" x 52 1/2"
Non-Omnium 30 1/2" x 34 1/2"
Diana 36 1/2" x 30 1/2"
13"x10 3/8"
22 7/8" x 19 3/4"
Pot with Onions 19 1/2" x 23"
Grapes and Peaches 27 3/8" x 24"
Cantaloupe 37 1/2" x 31 1/2"
Mushrooms 29" x 25 3/8"
Apple with Pot 21"x23"
Grapes in Basket 26 1/2" x 21"
24"x21"
19 1/2" x 23"
Portrait of Forbes Leith Family from Fyrie Castle 11" x 12 1/4"
13 1/4" x 15 3/8"
11 3/8" x 13"
12 1/2" x 16 1/2"
Arman Berton 1854-1927 17 1/2" x 18 1/4"
Louis Caradot 1896-1980 17"x17 1/2"
Kevin Kadar 15" x 12"
Edmund Calzaroni 1885-1964 11 1/4" x 15 3/4"
Darbour 12"x14"
11 3/8" x 14"
Watercolor 17"x14"
French 41 1/2" x 52"
Snaffles c.1930
19 1/2" x 23 3/4"
Thomas Frank Heaphy 53 3/4" x 46 1/2"
Thereuin 1905-1950 16 3/4" x 16 2/3"
Louis Charles Bombled 1862-1927
23"x18"
13 1/2" x 11 1/2"
Nicolas Moreau 19"x16"
Bunassit 1833-1902 22"x 25 3/4"
14 1/4" x 10 1/2"
Viddmir Mironenko 14 1/4" x 11 1/4"
27 3/4" x 24"
Frank Mason 20"x18"
Auguste Bonheur 1826-1886 12 1/2" x 15 1/2"
Watercolor Hunt Scene 23" x 13 1/2"
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9"x11"
12"x14"
19"x10"
17"x21"
12 3/4" x 12 3/4"
13 1/4" x 13 1/4"
20 1/4" round
Greek bronze medallion 13 1/2" x 13 1/2"
Round relief after David c 1831 14 1/2" x 14 1/2"
19 1/4" x 15 1/4"
Victor Sokolov 25 3/4" x 19 1/2"
Sergei Zaitsev 29 3/4" x 20 3/4"
24"x18 1/2"
Andre Lauren 1922- 18"x14 1/2"
Andre Ragot 1894-1961 20"x17"
Sea Side 16 3/4" x 10 1/4"
Men by Sea 18 3/4" x 15 5/8"
Stairs Up Mountain by Sea 17" x 13"
Sunrise 15 1/4" x 13 1/2"
stormy Sailing Ships 14 3/4" x 11"
River Scene 20 3/4" x 17"
Sunset 15 1/4" x 13 1/2"
Castle on Lake 22 1/8" x 18 1/2"
Richet Barbizon Sunset 48" x 36 3/4"
Victor Sokolov 23 1/4" x 15"
Eugene Jiakov 19 3/4" x 24 3/4"
Etienne Descargneo 13 7/8" x 13 1/2"
Jean Charles Millet 21 3/4" x 25"
18 5/8" x 15 7/8"
N. Diaz 12 3/8" x 10 3/8"
18 1/4" x 15 1/4"
26 1/4" x 19"
15 1/2" x 13 1/4"
Jean P. Theodore LeBuffe 1805-1871 14 1/2" x 12 1/2"
16 7/8" x 12 5/8"
Sergei Zaitzev 22 1/2" x 17 1/2"
13"x10 1/2"
Attributed to Riduette 10 5/8" x 11 1/8"
Monogram L.R. 14"x11"
Julien Pelrigne 12 1/4"x 10 1/4"
Jole Neuville 1798 11 1/8" x 9"
Joel Neuville 16 1/2" x 13 1/2"
Jole Neuville 1798
18th c. 19 1/2" x 16"
Laubier 20 3/4" x 17 1/2"
Nathalide Arbeu 1890-1966 17 7/8" x 14 1/8"
Andre Lauran 1922-1960 20 1/4" x 17 1/4"
Etienne Descargues 1876-1967 13 3/4" x 13 1/4"
Andre Ragot 1896-1961 20" x 17 1/4"
Andre Ragot 1894-1961 20" x 17 1/2"
Achille Nohrien 1870-1939 12 1/4" c 13 3/4"
Andre Renmeson 17 1/2" x 15 1/2"
Lucien Ott 1870-1927 14 3/8" x 18 1/8"
Henry d'Amty 11" x 13 1/2"
Vander Busch 21"x18"
Achille Nohrein 26 1/2" X _#"
Achille Nohrein 26 1/2" x 23"
Achille Nohrien 1870 - 1939 22 3/4" x 18 3/4"
Henri Narchal 1878-1949 23 1/2" x 18 1/4"
Jean Baptiste Frenet 16 1/2" x 12"
Pierre Thereuin 1905-1950 31" x 24 3/4"
Formal Garden - pastel 16" x 13 1/2"
Plowing by Moonlight - pastel
Foreau Cows - pastel
Foreau Rainbow - pastel 21 3/4" x 17"
Path in Woods 19 14/" x 16"
Russian 31 1/2" x 25 1/4"
Jidkof "Horses in Field" - Russian
Landscape with Moon 42 1/2" x 32 1/4"
Youkin Haystacks - Russian 39" x 30"
Rigolot Pastel Early Morning 46 1/2" x 32 3/4"
Barbaizon Woman After Storm 43 1/4" x 33"
Vertical Barbizon 35 1/2" x 43"
Piere L'Epinors 1779-1848 18" x 16"
Henri Pierre de Valencienne 1750-1819 17 !?$" x 14 1/4"
14 1/8" x 12 1/8"
19th c. 16" x 14 1/4"
17 3/4" x 20"
Francesco Guiseppir Casanova 1727-1802 21 1/2" x 17"
18th c. 21 1/2" x 19 1/2"
Fleury Epinat 22"x20"
18th c. North School 17 1/4" x 19"
18th c. 19 1/2" x 21 1/4"
18 7/8"X15"
Cherub 17th c. 17 1/4" x 16 1/4"
Meyer Drawing 11"x13"
Victor Jean Nicolle 1754-1826
18th c. Furran Botanical 16 1/2" x 14 1/2"
18th c. botanical 14" x 16 1/2"
Avery Studios
100 South Early Street
Alexandria, VA 22304
703-823-3935
WestEnd 25
1255 25th Street, NW
Apartment #1020
Washington, DC 20037
202-506-4180
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