Nora Butson

Venice Lagoon - Fine Antique English Italy Watercolor Sunset Landscape Painting

1903

This beautiful view of St James's Square in central London was painted by William Benjamin Chamberlin in the 1920's. The work has been painted from a window on a high floor of a bui...

A quite wonderful signed and dated 1959 large scale watercolour depicting the Riviera town of Laigueglia in Northern Italy. This is a lively scene with sailor in a striped t-shirt bringing in his ropes, as a sun bather in swimming trunks chats with a figure holding a large pole, possibly a sand spike or fishing rod. Locals go about their business in the background and mamas hang their washing from balconies to dry. The quality of this modernist work is superb throughout with fine detail and excellent rendering of the numerous figures and boats. Inscribed, signed and dated lower left. Artist: R. T. Horley (British, 20th century) Title: Laigueglia Medium: Watercolour & wash over pencil Size: 15.5 x 22.5 inches (39 x 57 cm) unframed We can arrange framing to your specification if required Laigueglia is a small coastal town situated along the Riviera di Ponente in the northern Italian coastal region of Liguria Laigueglia is a town that has maintained a more peaceful aspect and atmosphere, typical of a classic Ligurian seaside village. In fact, together with Bordighera, it is one of the few remaining authentic towns in a western Ligurian strongly oriented towards tourism. With its alleys, the squares, the lilac-pink tones of the houses gathered in the protective shade of the monumental church...

A fine signed and dated 1868 watercolour and pencil on laid paper depicting a bustling scene on Rue Galande in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, by Alfred-Alexandre Delauney. Excellen...

A fine c.1960 watercolour by James Ingham Riley depicting the Northern Cuillin mountain range on the Isle Of Skye in Scotland. Signed lower left. One of a pair of Isle of Skye paintings that we have available by this artist. Artist: James Ingham Riley (British, 1928-2015) Title: The Northern Cuillin Medium: Watercolour on paper Size: 10.25 x 14.5 inches (26 x 37 cm) unframed / 17.5 x 21 inches (45.5 x 53 cm) including the mount Condition: Very good original condition James Ingham Riley was a respected Lake District artist who exhibited frequently with the Lake Artist's Society. He had a lifetime interest in climbing and hill walking in the Lake District, Wales, the Pennines...

A fine c.1960 watercolour by James Ingham Riley depicting Coire Lagan corrie in the Cuillin mountain range on the Isle Of Skye in Scotland. Signed lower left. One of a pair of Isle of Skye paintings...

A beautiful large signed and dated 1937 watercolour by Roland Vivian Pitchforth RA depicting the River Medway at Rochester in Kent. Fine quality and important pre-war view of Roche...

Inscribed “159” in the upper right Provenance: (Possibly) The Van Goyen sketchbook which in 1845 belonged to Andrew Geddes, A.R.A. (1783-1844), London; his sale, Christie's, London,...

just purchased more information to follow Cypher lower right Within a grey mount, 14cm high, 28cm long The gilded cavetto moulded frame 28 cm high, 41 cm long, 3.5cm deep

Wilhelm Heine (Dresden 30 January 1827-Löbnitz 5 October 1885) ‘Funeral of Robert Williams in the cemetery of the Temple Gyokusen-ji at Shimoda in April 1854’ With a sticker on the reverse of the frame by Coupil & Co. 1855 Watercolour on paper, H. 57 x W. 92 cm Depicted is the Bay of Shimoda with seven American ships including the two paddle-wheel warships USS Mississippi and Susquehanna. On the Gyokus- en-ji temple grounds on the right is the coffin in the middle with the remains of US marine Robert Williams, ready to be lowered into the grave. Looking on from the left are the Buddhist monks and Japanese officials who joined the first Christian funeral on Japanese soil. Around the grave are US marines, Commodore Perry...

Marius Bauer (1867-1932) ‘Devotie in de Woestijn’ (Devotion in the Dessert near the pyramids of Gizeh, circa 1919) Signed lower right and titled lower left Watercolour on paper, H...

FRANÇOIS MATHURIN ADALBERT, BARON DE COURCY (1805-1839) 'Le Negrito à l’ancre. Dans le port de la havanne' Indistinctly signed lower left Titled on the mount Pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, on paper, 24.8 x 34.6 cm Literature: The present watercolour will be illustrated in: - Prof. Manuel Garcia’s projected book on the disease and the slave trade provisionally titled “Fighting the Yellow Demon of Fever: The Struggle against Disease in the Illegal Slave Trade”. - Prof. Micael Zeuske’s forthcoming Global history of slave trade. Exhibited: Mexico City, 1998, Palacio Virreinal, El Barón de Courcy, illustrationes de un viaje, 1831-1833, no. 108 Note: Baron de Courcy was in the Caribbean in late 1832 and early 1833, following his tour of Mexico in 1832, on the last leg of his “Grand Voyage...

A fine mixed media plien air painting by Gradwell. The Amalfi coast, Italy . An evening study in low light. mixed media on paper: 34cmx 54cm Glazed gallery frame: 52cm x 73cm