George Smith

Here's Granny by George Smith

1870

Reference number F296 Framed with a natural oak floated frame 51 x 66 cm frame included (46 x 61 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a canva...

"A vibrant tapestry of color and texture, celebrating pure abstraction with a dynamic, tactile rhythm." Pierre Coquet (1926–2021) Abstract Composition Oil on board, 44 x 64 x 2 cm (...

Pierre Coquet (1926-2021) Sitll life with a white and yellow cloth Reference number F283 50 x 60 cm Still lives are one of Pierre favourite subjects. Always in a very quiet atmosphere, with simple objects or alive nature. This work is painted with oil on a board. It is signed in the bottom left. Provenance : Workshop of the artist Pierre Coquet (1926-2021) is a French painter who was born in Limas near Lyon, France. He entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon in 1942 and followed the teaching of Antoine Chartres, Henri Vielly and René Chancrin...

Blessed with natural artistic ability and finding encouragement from her family at an early age, Sally Swatland has traveled the proper paths to find herself in a unique place: the foremost American woman painting children at the seashore. With a romanticized nod to yesteryear, Swatland's characters are innocent and fair, in an array of matching springtime and summery apparel. Adept with brush and palette knife, she blends many artistic influences and styles into her own unique presentations. This painting features a fair-haired young girl dipping her feet in the shallow waters along a rocky shoreline. The sea behind is a brilliant blue with small white-capped waves rolling into shore. The brushwork alternates between smooth strokes in the child's form and dress and more impasto work and sharper edges on the rocks and in the more active parts of the sea. The overall effect is that of being at the sea and finding serenity in the contrast between the calm shore and the always moving ocean. The seas' eternal inspiration form a common backdrop to many of Swatland's artistic works. Born in Washington D.C., her family moved to Greenwich, Connecticut and often summered at Tod's Point, Long Island Sound. She would go on to become an art major at Mount Saint Vincent College, study under Robert Schulz in the Art Students League of New York, and come to be represented early by Alistair Stair in his New York and Florida galleries...

A bright portrait of a woman in pageant dress before a St. Louis skyline and riverboat.

Oil on board, signed (lower left), 40cm x 56cm, (51cm x 67cm framed). The picture is good condition and the work comes directly from the artist. Painter, draughtsman and teacher, b...

Alkyd-oil on board, 81cm diam., (100cm diam framed). Although most famous for his portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth in the National Portrait Gallery, London, from the late 1970s up un...

Alkyd-oil on Masonite, signed and dated (middle left), 61cm (diam.), (83cm diam. framed). (This work was kept by the artist for his personal collection. It remained in his collection...

Tom Lovell (1909–1997) called himself "a storyteller with a brush," a description appropriate for an artist who spent over five decades capturing the sweep o...

Leuus’s interest in art began at a young age, and he later moved to Guadalajara, where he attended the Escuela de Artes Plásticas. This formal training in the traditions of Mexican a...