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Ashton Booth - Framed 20th Century Oil, Portrait of a Gyrfalcon

20th Century

A beautiful landscape in oil showing the expansive, rolling hills of the Antony Estate in Cornwall. The artist has captured the moment of sacred stillness one feels when encountering...

A delightful oil painting after the 1899 original by the artist Géza Vastagh, entitled 'Repose'. Signed and dated to the lower left-hand corner. Presented in a gilt-effect frame, as...

Study of a dog Oil on paper laid down on panel, 17.5 x 25.5 cm Provenance Private collection, the Netherlands Note: We are grateful to Mr Fred Meijer for his attribution to Ludolf de Jongh Ludolf de Jongh was the son of a shoemaker. When his father moved to Rotterdam, the young Ludolf decided to learn art rather than shoemaking and became a pupil of Cornelis Saftleven. Later he studied under Anthony Palamedes in Delft and still later with Jan van Bijlert in Utrecht. In 1635 he travelled to France with Francis Bacon. Seven years later, in 1642, he returned to the Netherlands when he heard that his mother had fallen ill. He set up a shop in Rotterdam, and his earliest signed paintings date from that year. According to Houbraken, his travels had caused him to speak French so fluently, that his parents had to learn French in order to speak with him. De Jongh’s work shows a strong influence from the Utrecht school of Caravaggio admirers, especially Jacob Duck...

'Disruption', created by Diana Tremaine, who uses swans as a metaphor for beauty and resilience rising above chaos during difficult times. Rich colors — blue, cream, burgundy and whi...