An Engagement with Barbary Corsairs, 17th Century Dutch Maritime Oil Painting

William Henry James Boot 1848 - 1918 Kirkstall Abbey Oil on canvas, monogrammed lower right and dated 1876 Image size: 24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.5 cm) Exhibited Royal Academy, 1878 no. 692 Much like his contemporary, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Boot appears to have been influenced by the Pether family who were renowned painters of nocturnes. He was a book illustrator as well as a renowned oil and watercolour artist, producing engravings for the London Illustrated News and Art Journal. He wrote 'Trees and How to Paint Them' in 1883. Boot was born in Manchester. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1874 to 1884, showing mainly English and Continental landscapes. He is known to have travelled extensively in Germany, France and North Africa. Boot was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and of the Arts Club, who listed him as a "painter and writer on Gothic architecture". Boot also painted domestic genre and interior scenes but tended to concentrate on landscapes. Boot lived and married in London. He is buried with his wife in Hampstead. The subject of this painting, Kirkstall Abbey in Yorkshire, was a place Boot often visited. Three figures to the right gaze admiringly at the view, with the moonlight reflected on the path they stand on. THIS PAINTING IS IN THE 'MOONLIGHT IN PAINTINGS AND WATERCOLOURS' EXHIBITION CURRENTLY SHOWING AT DARNLEY FINE ART...

Gordon Scott 1914 - 2016 Crescent Grove, Clapham Oil on canvas Image size: 18 x 24 inches Contemporary style frame GORDON SCOTT EXHIBITION AT DARNLEY F...

Sir Herbert James Gunn, RA, PRP 1893 - 1964 Paris Oil on canvas, signed lower right Image size: 36 x 28 inches (91.5 x 71 cm) Hand made frame An early work by Gunn probably from his first studying days in Paris around 1919. James Gunn was born in Glasgow and briefly studied art at Glasgow and Edinburgh before moving to the Académie Julian in Paris in 1911. After serving with the 10th Scottish...

John Brett 1831-1902 Autumn Gold, Betws-Y-Coed Oil on canvas, singed lower left Image size: 24 x 13 ½ inches Gilt frame John Brett ARA was an artist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, mainly notable for his highly detailed landscapes. John Brett was an artist associated with the Pre- Raphaelite movement, mainly notable for his highly detailed landscapes Brett was born near Reigate on 8 December 1831, the son of an army vet. His sister Rosa Brett...

Winter Landscape - Oil on canvas cm. 60x120 by Paolo De Robertis, Italy 2002. Beautiful oil on canvas inspired by the work “Glacier in the Spitzbergen” by the artist Friederich Ka...

Italian landscape with a bridge, tower, shepherd and animals. Scope of Jan Both ( Utrecht, 1618-1652), arrival in Rome and Venice in addition to his native Holland. The 17th-century...

Beautiful and important painting by the great Dutch artist Karel Klinkenberg who lived at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It depicts a canal in Utrecht depicted with his usu...

Sweeping early 20th century figurative landscape of a Swiss Alps harvest scene by Daan Donker (Dutch, early 20th Century). Signed "Daan Donker" lower right. Presented in a gold-toned...