Circle of Duncan Grant, Bloomsbury set, Rye Windmill by the river

An idyllic summer scene of a river glimpsed from a leafy river bank - more than likely the Seine as the artist lived and worked in Paris. Georges Moisaut (exhibiting early 20th Cent...

A most atrractive, verdant view of Isle's Bridge in Swaledale painted with wonderful impasto. The overall effect is reminiscent of the work of Charles Ginner...

This late 19th-century oil painting by English artist Edward Robert Smythe (1810-1899) depicts a picturesque bay with buildings, fishing boats, figures and horses. Smythe was a maste...

A fine & large antique maritime oil painting of the war ship HMS Britannia, by Robert Strickland Thomas (1787-1853), the painting circa 1835. The painting depicts HMS Britannia broadside with several other war ships of the British fleet, most likely returning from the Mediterranean. In the foreground are several small boats with sailors variously occupied attending to them. A yacht with a crowded deck is visible on the left. In the center foreground there is a barrel or possibly a buoy in the water, a device commonly employed in some of Thomas's paintings. To the verso is an old auction label from the 1920s and another partial label, there are also some annotations on the stretcher with details of photographic images of the painting. There is also an old label of ownership "Mrs. Strange 6 Elvaston Place", this address was a large Georgian house in the prestigious London borough of South Kensington. The painting is in very good condition, this investment quality antique maritime painting...