Anrid Banniza Johnson

Pigs delight

1926

Lucy Kemp-Welch 1869-1958, was a British artist who specialised in painting horses and was one of the best known female painters of her time. This portrait is of a working horse and ...

Lucy Kemp-Welch 1869-1958, was a British artist who specialised in painting horses and was one of the best known female painters of her time. This portrait is of a working horse and ...

Marcel Dyf 1899-1985, born Marcel Dreyfus, was a French artist who painted in an impressionist manner. He was promoted by Frost and Reed, London, with his first solo exhibition. They...

Francis Dodd R.A. 1874-1949 British landscape artist, portrait painter and printmaker. Much travelled, Italy, France and Spain, settled in Manchester and moved to Blackheath London ...

Jacob Epstein produced a number of watercolours of flowers during the 1930's until the outbreak in 1939. This particular picture is very well balanced and is one of the best presente...

David Gentleman 1930- , is a living English artist who specialised in pen and ink pictures with a wide variety of subjects, rural and urban landscapes, illustrations, logos, mural...

Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1775–1850) ‘Camelopard – a present from the Pacha of Egypt to the King – at Malta on its way to England’ Signed and dated C.F. de Brocktorff. / 1827. lower right, inscribed as titled in the painted margins lower centre. Pencil and watercolour heightened with gold paint and gum arabic on paper, 36.8 x 27.9 cm A gift so majestic, it made kings blush, and a gift so grand, it would startle Europe into a craze. Pasha Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1805-1848) did it in 1827: he sent to Europe three magical spotted, horned creatures, each with a neck reaching the skies and legs as long as a house is high. One giraffe to King Charles X of France, one to Francis I of Austria and the most fabled one to King George IV of England. A curious sight for Europeans, who had not seen such a beast since the Medici giraffe in 1487. Few animals created more of a stir in Europe than these royal...

Follower of Zacharias Wagener (1614-1688) Tamanuâguasû (Giant Anteater) On Italian 17th or 18th-century paper, H. 28 x W. 43.5 cm ​The present painting is a copy after Wagener’s painting of the anteater, Tamanduá-bandeira, which is illustrated in his “Thier Buch”, with 109 drawings of Brazilian fish, birds and mammals, published in Amsterdam c. 1641, in German. ​ Zacharias Wagener, or Wagenaer in Dutch, (Dresden 1614 – Amsterdam 1668) was a real adventurer who became Opperhoofd on Deshima and Governor of the Cape of Good Hope in the service of the VOC. During the Thirty-Year War in Germany Wagener tried his luck in Amsterdam where he worked for the map-maker Willem Blaeu. In 1634 he joined the WIC and left for Dutch Brazil where he worked as writer and painter, together with Frans Post...

John Aldrich Ruthven American Painter Bison in a Snow Blizzard Watercolor and Gouache on Paper signed lower left

Decorative Chinese school painting. Fine detail and painted with rich colors. In a wonderful carved frame painted in pastel blue.

A beautiful watercolor painting by Israeli artist Reuven Rubin. Featuring a camel trainer and his camel. Signed and framed. In very good condition.

Marino Marini - El Greco Abstract Gouache, oil & collage on paper, 1968 Signed 'MARINO' and dated '1968' in ballpoint pen Verso; signed 'MARINO' in pencil, wi...