20th Century British School

Otter Fishing the River and Bird Quiet Encounter Signed English Oil Painting

20th century

"Touch it if you dare!" English artist, signed and dated 1927 oil on canvas, framed framed: 25 x 31 inches canvas: 18 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: v...

Farmyard Friends Continental School, second half 20th century oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 20 x 24 inches Provenance: Private collection, Dorset, England Condition: very good cond...

Portrait of a Horse in a Landscape English artist, mid 20th century indistinctly signed oil on board, framed: 14.5 x 18.5 inches board: 12 x 16 inches provenance: private collection...

The Winding River by Andrew Grant Kurtis (British, 20th century) signed oil on canvas, framed Framed: 25.5 x 35.5 inches Canvas: 20 x 30 inches Provenance: Private collection, UK Con...

‘On the Arun, Sussex’ by George Vicat Cole RA, RBA (1833-1893). The painting is signed with the artist’s monogram and dated 1869, in which year Vicat Cole was elected an Associate ...

‘Summer Shade’ by Henry Dawson R.B.A. (1811-1878). The painting – which depicts cattle in the shade of a large tree on the river Ribble in North Yorkshire – is signed by the artist...

A bay hunter and a black and white short haired dog (possibly a bull terrier) in an extensive English landscape. a rustic barn in the near distance. Indistinctly signed 'Br...' and d...

A painting of a chestnut hunter in a landscape with a horse and rider accompanied by two hounds by a woodland river in the distance. Signed and inscribed 'Melton Mowbray', lower left. Oil on canvas in a giltwood frame. John Ferneley Sr (1782-1860) was born the son of a Leicestershire wheelwright, the youngest of six children. He is known as one of the great British equine artists, perhaps only second to Stubbs in terms of raw ability. Ferneley originally worked with his father, until by chance the Duke of Rutland saw some of his work on the side of a cart on which Ferneley and his father had been working. The Duke was so impressed with Ferneley that he persuaded John's father to allow him to become the pupil of Benjamin Marshall. Ferneley was so talented that apparently he produced almost perfect copies of his tutor's paintings and they were said to have been indistinguishable from the master’s. Marshall also enrolled him as a student of the Royal Academy Schools. In 1804 Ferneley paid a man named Thomas Harrison...