Adolphus Knell Landscape Paintings

This late 19th-century oil painting by British painter George William Mote (1832-1909) depicts a shepherd and his flock before an extensive view across the Surrey countryside near Gu...

19th Century English Landscape, with a cottage, pond and trees. This exquisite English Victorian 19th-century landscape by Charles Morris, circa 1890, beautifully captures the idyll...

This James Webb English marine painting, circa 1870, is a masterpiece of atmospheric charm and technical precision that would appeal profoundly to an interior designer or fine art co...

This early 20th-century oil painting by British artist David Bates (1840-1921) depicts a rural view in Capel Curig, North Wales. Bates was an accomplished landscape painter who often...

Thomas Lucop 1834-1911 was a Hull painter and Master Mariner, friend and pupil of the Henry Redmore. He was a careful delineator of shipping and it’s act...

This mid-19th-century oil painting, attributed to English artist Edward Charles Williams (1807-1881), depicts a wooded river landscape with a boathouse, cottage, fishermen and figure...

This James Webb English marine painting, circa 1870, is a masterpiece of atmospheric charm and technical precision that would appeal profoundly to an interior designer or fine art co...

"The Loch Keepers Cottage" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed, lower corner oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 16 x 24 inches framed: 20 x 28 inches Fine quality antiq...

Off the Harbour by William Henry Williamson (British 1820-1883) signed and dated 1874 oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 12 x 18 inches fr...

This idyllic late 19th-century oil painting by English artist Edward William Cooke RA (1811-1880) depicts a west-country cove with two cottages, donkeys, figures, and fishing boats. Cooke was a highly renowned painter of marine scenes and landscapes who exhibited extensively at London’s Royal Academy. From our elevated vantage point, the view extends between two quaint cottages and across the beach before sweeping around the sandy coastline. Crystalline waters lap the shore, where moored craft rest. It’s an accomplished rendering of a challenging composition. It’s enhanced by trees, which essentially ‘frame’ the right side, while a wooded track provides interest on the left. Cooke was a keen admirer of the Dutch old masters, and the spirit of the Golden Age underpins this splendid work. In diaries, he recorded how he travelled by donkey to access elevated spots in the southwest, so it’s conceivable that he did so here. In his catalogue raisonné, it lists a work from the same year titled ‘Bay with Donkeys’. Born in Pentonville, London, Cooke was raised in the company of accomplished artists as both his father, George Cooke (1781-1834), and his uncle, William Bernard Cooke (1778-1855), were engravers. As such, they were associated with a circle of Victorian painters who aided Cooke’s early development. These included the highly regarded marine painter Clarkson Frederick Stanfield RA RBA (1793-1867), who provided frequent advice and inspiration. Indeed, as a teenager, Cooke produced numerous drawings after Stanfield’s works. A precocious talent, by the age of nine, he was already displaying an advanced understanding of engraving, particularly for ships, coupled with a natural, seemingly in-built skill as a draughtsman. Many of his early drawings depict pastoral landscapes after the masters, such as Nicolaes Berchem (1620-1683), Paulus Potter (1625-1654), and Karel Dujardin (1626-1678). In an extraordinary turn of events, in 1820, his advanced abilities led to his first commission when he provided botanical illustrations for John Loudon's 'Encyclopaedia of Plants’. These were followed by drawings published in the 'Botanical Cabinet...

Tom Ivester Lloyd 1871-1942 was a fine artist who worked mainly in water colour but was also very accomplished in oils. He served in the first war and produced pictorial records which are now in the army museum. He was a keen hunting man and was Master of the Sherrington Foot Beagles. He was a great hound man and wrote and illustrated a book on hounds. Acquiring an early 20th-century English fox hunting...

Pretty and well-painted, View of Vevey on the north shore of Lake Geneva. Dating from the early 20th century this painting would have been painted for one of the many visitors who w...