Frederick James Aldridge

Coastal Fishing Boats - Frederick James Aldridge painted under pseudonym J. Hill

Late 19th Century

Walter Henry Sweet's watercolor of the interior of Bramall Hall is both delicate and romantic. His characteristic soft pinks and greens illicit the grandeur of this Cheshire manor ow...

A fine watercolor by Thomas Miles Richardson senior, (1784-1848). A view of a Swiss lake and Alps with the Matterhorn mountain. One of the fine En...

This very modern drawing presents a view of Ariccia, a small town 25 kilometres south-east of Rome. The Palazzo Chigi (in which the film-maker Luchino Visconti would film a large part of The Leopard a century later) and the adjoining church are seen from the bottom of the ravine that surrounds the town. This drawing is a moving testimony to the attraction of the city for artists of the Romantic period, who established in Ariccia a vivid artists' colony. 1. Achille Bénouville...

Neapolitan gouaches appeared in the eighteenth century when tourism in the Naples area was developing: the discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii made this city a mandatory stop on the Grand Tour, the journey made by wealthy Europeans to complete their education. Generally small in size for ease of transport and affordable in price, these gouaches were the ideal travel souvenir that these tourists of the early days were bringing back to capture the idyllic landscapes they had discovered during their journey and to share them with family and friends upon their return at home. The Bay of Naples and the eruptions of Vesuvius are the favourite themes of these views. Here we have a view of the Ovo Castle, which was rebuilt on the island of Partenope, in the middle of the Bay of Naples and about a hundred metres from the shore by the Normans in the 12th century on antique ruins...

Netherlands, 1817-1891 Cornelis Springer (Amsterdam, May 25, 1817 - Hilversum, February 20, 1891) was born as the fourth son of carpenter and contractor Willem Springer. Springer received training as a house painter from the house and carriage painter Andries de Wit and from his eldest brother, who was an architect, lessons in architectural drawing and perspective. After studying at the Amsterdam Academy, he painted accurately executed cityscapes with a lot of sunlight effect in Amsterdam, temporarily in Brussels and in Germany. As a member of the 'Felix Meritis' society in Amsterdam, he won a gold medal for a church interior in 1847. Together with Barend Cornelis Koekkoek...

Matheus is greatly influenced by the city he now calls home -- New York has long been the epicenter of fashion, hip hop, and street art, where he feels his interest in contemporary a...