William Oxer F.R.S.A.

The Quietest Of Whispers, Painting, Gouache on Canvas

2018

Mexican doorway in the vibrant residential community of Mirasol in Riberas del Pilar, Jalisco. :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authent...

Pacific Ocean. It was a sunny day and the sky shone with joy. Clouds, like emerald facets, reflected the blue of the sea and the lines of the waves. The warm and favorable wind carefully held the wings of the sailboats...

In the reading rooms I wanted to represent a very simple idea, namely how much the content of a book can acquire reality for those who are reading it, becoming as present as the true...

˜The Feminine Mystique. Rublev Oils and Michael Harding Oils on on Professional Quality primed gessoed stretched duck cotton canvas, on Museum Quality ...

Mountain ranges are among my favourite sights. Their majesty rises across the horizon and reminds me of how magnificent powerful nature is. Rocks literally thrusted from the ground ...

Atop Mt. Ranier, in a setting of my own creation, a house shares it's field with a pair of goats. :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an ...

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...

Alexander Sharpe Ross gives us a voyeur view of an attractive couple kissing and embracing on a couch. Sharpe's radical use of composition is on ...

This impeccably rendered mid-century double portrait of a quarreling man and woman exhibits a supreme academic training knowledge lost in almost all contemporary art. It features an ...

Julia (Elsie Julia Miller) Schleicher (Canadian/American, 1916-1988) Woman Tennis Player Pastel and gouache on board 18 x 13-5/8 inches (45.7 x 34.6 cm) S...

A handsome man and a beautiful woman are depicted in a rapturous pose. Their bodies are intertwined with each other and with the surrounding floral elements. This masterfully render...