Les Parsons

Traditional English Oil Country Cottage Children Playing in Lane & Chickens

Artist/ School: British School, late 19th century, signed Title: Sunset in the Scottish Highlands Medium: oil on canvas Framed: 25 x 35 inches Canvas: 20 x 30 inches Provenance: ...

Artist/ School: British School, second half 20th century, signed lower left 'Champion' Title: a copy after de Loutherbourg's 1795 painting of Lord Howe's action of 1 June 1794 in th...

Artist/ School: Norwich School, circa 1876 Title: 'Norfolk Clay Lump and Thatched Cottages'. Medium: oil on canvas, framed Framed: 24 x 31 inches Painting: 19 x 26 inches Provenance: private collection, East Anglia...

John T. LeMon, Irish 1866-1941 Born in Belfast in 1866, LeMon emigrated to the U.S. in 1898 and practised as an artist in San Francisco. He worked in oils and pastels, and depicted l...

Clement Nye Swift "Breton Chores" 1870 Oil on Canvas Signed and Dated Lower Right Canvas Size: approx 27 x18 inches Framed Size: approx 34 x 35 inches Provenance: Private Midwes...

Ludwig Hermann German, (1812-1881) A Bustling Harbour Town Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1863 Image size: 26 inches x 36.5 inches Size including frame: 35.25 inches x 45.75 inches A wonderful continental townscape scene of a bustling harbour by Ludwig Hermann. The Medieval architecture is reminiscent of North Germany and the Baltic sea area with its busy trading ports. Figures can be seen chatting to traders as ships sail around the harbour. Ludwig Hermann or Herman was born Elias Ludwig Julius Herrmann at Greifswald, Germany in 1812 to Wilhelm and Sophie Herrmann. Although little is recorded about his early life and education, he is known to have left his home in 1831 at the age of 19, to pursue an artistic career in Berlin. There he entered the Prussian Academy of Arts where he studied under Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764-1850). Hermann started exhibiting at the Berlin Academy exhibitions in 1836. A year later in 1837, he travelled to Paris to study under Eugène Isabey (1803-1886) and Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-1870). By 1841 he had returned to Berlin where he married Caroline Wilhelmine ‘Auguste’ Dupont on 16 October, 1841. From his base in Berlin he travelled around Europe painting views of France...

Ludwig Hermann German, (1812-1881) Winter on the Quay Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 15.75 inches x 22 inches Size including frame: 23 inches x 29.25 inches This highly detailed...

Ludwig Hermann German, (1812-1881) A Busy Quayside Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 15.75 inches x 22 inches Size including frame: 23 inches x 29.25 inches This atmospheric contin...