Peggy Mills

Self Portrait, 20th Century Female Artist Oil Painting

Oil on canvas on board Image size: 7 x 5¼ inches (18 x 13.5 cm) Framed This portrait of Thomas Gotch is by his lifelong friend and confidante, Jane Ross, whom he met at Heatherley’s...

Oil on canvas Image size: 15 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches (39.5 x 28.75 cm) Original gilt frame This is a touching head and shoulders portrait of a young peasant girl. Wearing a headscarf, a...

Oil on canvas Image size: 17 3/4 x 13 inches (45 x 33 cm) Contemporary hand made frame and oval mount The Artist Joan Fairfax Whiteside was a prodigious artist and illustrator. Bor...

Oil on canvas Image size: 30 x 25 inches (76 x 63.5 cm) Hand carved gilt frame This is a charming 18th century portrait of a young boy, sporting a golden child's two-piece with a fl...

Oil on oak panel Image size: 25 1/2 x 19 inches (37.5 x 27 inches) 18th Century Auricular gilt frame Provenance New York private collection This portrait of the King Edward VI dep...

Provenance By descent through the sitter's family to The Collection of R. W. Vivian-Neal of Poundisford Park, Somerset, from whom acquired by With Lane Fine Art, UK, where purchased by the present owners in 1996 Literature 'Poundisford Park, Somerset' in Country Life, 22 December 1934, ill. A.W. and C.M. Vivian-Neal, Poundisford Park, Somerset: A catalogue of pictures and furniture, Taunton 1939, cat. nos. 11 and 13 This is a three-quarter-length portrait of Ralph William Grey in a mole-coloured velvet coat and a long waistcoat of green satin, heavily embroidered in gold. Under his left right hand is a black chapeau bras. He has white doe-skin gauntlet gloves. Son of William and Ann Grey of Backworth: born 19 December 1707. He married Mary the daughter of William Rawstorne of Newall in 1741 and died 5 November 1786. He was educated at Eaton and Trinity College, Oxford. Within a year of his birth Mrs Grey died and, according to the Country Life article 'From that time forward all Mr Grey's faculties were concentrated on the well-being of his son. The possession of an heir gave zest to his efforts to build up the family fortune: he was successful in most of his ventures. Years later his interest in life was centred in the home of his daughter-in-law and grandchildren'. Grey's right hand is depicted in the present portrait resting on Locke's Essays and the Country Life article also records that there are constant references to John Locke...

Portrait Of Lady Francklin of Bedfordshire, 17th Century Studio of Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680) Fine 17th Century English portrait of Lady Fr...

A black and white spaniel standing on a yellow silk damask covered day-bed in a sumptuous interior. Provenance: With Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd., London. Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 15 May 2007, lot 284 Private collection, London Samuel John Carter...

A 19th century black and white spaniel standing in a landscape, with a country house in the distance. Signed C B Spalding, lower right. Oil on canvas in a giltwood frame. Charles B...

Portrait of a young aristocratic girl - 18th century English style Oil on canvas. Silvered wood frame. Size with frame cm 85 x 72.5 Size without frame cm 74.5 x 62.5 At the hear...

Antique English oil on canvas portrait painting, circa 1900. A very handsome Impressionist portrait of a youthful lady in Edwardian dress. Oil on canvas, signed to the upper left "F ...

Portrait Of A Gentleman & His Estate, 18th Century attributed to Arthur DEVIS (1712-1787) One of a matching pair - the other is believed to be the brother Large 18th century Eng...