Still Life with fruit and Delft plate

Oil on canvas Image size: 23 1/4 x 19 1/2 inches (59 x 50 cm) Dutch Ripple frame PROVENANCE Private Collection, London Here a glass vase containing an exuberant display of flowers stands on a ledge. With only one known exception, Verelst included vases in all of his flower paintings. The asymmetrical arrangement of the flowers fills most of the canvas and the vibrant bouquet contains peonies, a bearded iris and a poppy set amidst a perfusion of twisting leaves and stems. Poppies were one of Verelst's favourite flowers and were commonly featured in his still life's. This painting shows a superb understanding of light and colour that is consistent with Verelst's other works. Indeed, the strong contrast between the brightly lit, the colourful blossoms and the surrounding darkness lends to the flowers and foliage a hyper realistic quality and a strong sense of three-dimensionality. The Artist Verelst was born in The Hague in 1644 and came from a family of painters. His brothers Johannes and Herman also became painters and, like Simon, were trained by their father. In 1663 Simon became a member of the Confrérie Pictura, the painter's association in The Hague, and soon afterwards moved to nearby Vooburg with his brother Herman, who also painted flowers. In 1668 Simon he moved to London where the Duke of Buckingham became his principle patron and on 11 April 1669 he met with Samuel Pepys. He was enormously successful in London and his elegant portraits became popular for a time during the 1670s among court circles. He painted this portrait of Prince Rupert, son of Frederick V, Count Palatine and Elizabeth Stuart...

William Henry Hunt 1790 - 1864 Bird's Nest Oil on canvas Image size: 11½ x 8⅜ inches William Henry Hunt was a painter and watercolourist of fruit and flowers, landscapes and rust...

Gordon Scott ARCA 1914 - 2016 Summer Flowers Oil on canvas, signed lower left Image size: 23.5 x 20 inches Contemporary style frame Gordon Scott was trained at the Royal College of Art (1934-38) under Gilbert Spencer, Alan Sorrell and Charles Mahoney. In 1938 he was awarded a Travelling Scholarship by the R.C.A. for painting. A reserved and highly principled man, during WWII he was a conscientious objector, stationed at Bulford Camp on Salisbury Plain. His defined role there is unknown, but during his time there he produced a number of sketches and paintings of soldiers and other personnel who passed through the camp. In 1946 Joseph Dixon...

Oil on canvas, inscribed on reverse Image size: 18 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (47 x 47 cm) This abstract still life has been painted intuitively by the artist in a limited palette of soft ...

Oil on canvas, signed on the reverse Image size: 19 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches (49.5 x 59 cm) Contemporary frame This still life provides an example of neo-impressionism, specifically of m...

Oil on canvas, signed and titled on reverse Image size: 12 x 16 inches (31 x 40 1/2 cm)

Strange Tracey are proud to be the exclusive agent for Fran Mora in the United Kingdom. Born in Huelva in the south of Spain in 1979, Mora studied at the School of Fine Arts in Sev...

Oil on canvas painting by Jill Davenport (American, 20th Century) still life titled "Banjo Player" from the Attic series. Signed and dated on bottom lef...

Early substantial, expressionist abstract still life by Lee Lippman (American 1926-2020). Bursting with color and movement titled "Still life with onions" ...

Les Coloquintes oil on canvas painting by Paul Charlemagne (1892-1972) born Paris, France. Still life of gourds with a haunting blue and aubergine backdrop. Signed lower left. Provenance: Purchased in 1934 from the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Set in a thick giltwood frame with a distressed finish. Notes of provenance and other correspondence on back of frame.

Anthony Ackrill applies his classical training at Florence Academy of Art to create still life studies which are both realistic and dramatic. Enlightened Apple is a perfect example ...

Roger Marcel Limouse, (Algerian/French 1894 - 1989) Still Life, October 1939, Oil on canvas. Signed upper right and marked Oct 39 on back. Greens, Blues, and Yellow/Browns prevail in this still life of a table with fruits, cake, and a candle. Nude is painted verso on stretched canvas under frame. Frame 24.5 x 28.875 x 1.625, Canvas 21.875 x 23.875 A student of Paul Albert Laurens (1870-1934) at the Académie Julian, his figurative work, very colorful, with powerful and stripped down forms, made him one of the last representatives of Fauvism and the eldest of the group of Painters of Poetic Reality. He belongs to the School of Paris. In 1943, Jacques de Laprade dedicated a book to Roger Limouse in the collection "The Masters of Tomorrow" directed by Francis Carco. He writes, "One of the characteristics of this personality is strength. There is nothing in Limouse that lacks relief. This small and extremely vigorous man seduces by his direct and dru language, by his deep conviction, by the picturesque of his stories, by his very life which testifies to his energy. In 1948, Roger Limouse was appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (Professor at the School of Fine Arts). He held this position until 1964. In 1949, the journalist Gisèle d'Assailly (1904-1969) devoted a book "With the Painters of Poetic Reality" to eight friendly painters, supporters of a colorful and intimate figurative painting of French inspiration, Maurice Brianchon, Christian Caillard...