Margaret McClean Paintings

Giovanni Stanchi (Rome 1608 - 1675) or Niccolò Stanchi (Rome 1623 - 1690), workshop of GARLAND OF FLOWERS WITH PORTRAIT OF THE VIRGIN Rome, First half of the Seventeenth century o...

Wonderful mid century vertical still life with folk-art feel and vibrant colors by T. Tinney (American, 20th Century) 1957. Signed "T. Tinney" and dated "1957" lower right. Unframed...

Pocket Chocolate Doughnut (with Sugar Sprinkles) 209 (canvas size 5x5cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale r...

French school, circa 1840, Portrait of a Gentleman, monogrammed D.L. on the lower right oil on wood panel 28.8 x 24,8 In a beautiful antique frame : 48 x 43.5 cm This gentleman’s...

This elegant English 19th-century portrait of a young boy dressed in a Cavalier costume, painted circa 1860, is a striking example of Victorian portraiture that seamlessly combines h...

This atmospheric Western scene may be just what a themed room or collection needs. Listed American artist Frederic Burnett is known for his depictions of the American West and this ...

Kirsten Savage is one of Colorado’s top representational artists. As an avid world traveler and experienced mountaineer, Kirsten spends her time seeking out beautiful spaces where th...

Kirsten Savage is one of Colorado’s top representational artists. As an avid world traveler and experienced mountaineer, Kirsten spends her time seeking out beautiful spaces where th...

Julien Celos 1884 – Antwerp – 1953 Belgian Painter 'Mother and Child in Zeeland' Signature: signed lower middle left 'Julien Célos' Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: image size 64 x 52 cm; frame size 84 x 73 cm Biography: Julien Célos (Antwerp, 30 September 1884 – 8 September 1953) was a Belgian painter and etcher, born to a French father, celebrated for his poetic views of Flemish towns and his remarkable colour prints. He trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp under Franz Courtens and also benefited from the teaching of Albert Baertsoen, whose influence is evident in his taste for urban atmospheres, misty canals and subtle tonalities. Working at a time when luminism shaped much Belgian painting, Célos adopted certain aspects of its research into light and atmospheric effects while maintaining a distinctive, calm and lyrical sensibility. The greater part of his output was devoted to rural landscapes and the towns of Belgian Flanders—Bruges, Mechelen, Ghent and Antwerp—as well as Zeeland in the Netherlands and various regions of France. Bruges and Mechelen occupied a privileged place in his iconography: beguinages, narrow alleys, silent quays and ancient squares became the motifs of an intimate and timeless painting. He also travelled in Brittany and spent several months in Tunisia on a study trip. Alongside his painting, Julien Célos developed an important body of graphic work, notably colour etchings published by prestigious firms such as Georges Petit in Paris, Dietrich in Brussels and Caspers in Berlin. In both technique and subject matter, his work is comparable to that of artists such as Emmanuel Viérin. Highly active in Belgian artistic circles, he was a member of the Antwerp artists’ association Als Ik Kan, founded in 1883 and active until 1952, as well as of the committee of La Gravure Originale Belge. Even before the First World War, Julien Célos enjoyed notable critical recognition. In 1907 he took part in the Exposition Générale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, presenting oils, etchings, pastels and drawings, including En ville morte, Automne and L’Église à Veere. The following year he received an honourable mention at the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1914 he again exhibited in Brussels and at the Cercle Artistique et Littéraire, where the press praised the poetry of his urban views and the excellence of his colour etchings. Like many Belgian artists, he lived in exile in England and the Netherlands during the First World War. This period was marked by intense exhibition activity: in 1915 he participated in a major exhibition in Brighton devoted to the new Belgian painting, alongside James Ensor, Félicien Rops, Emile Claus, Albert Baertsoen and Théo van Rysselberghe, where he was described as “one of the finest artists in interpreting the picturesque character of small Flemish towns.” That same year his works were shown at the Royal Institute in London and in a solo exhibition of forty-five pieces at the Goupil Gallery. In 1917 he exhibited in Amsterdam with Alfred Van Neste...

Kirsten Savage is one of Colorado’s top representational artists. As an avid world traveler and experienced mountaineer, Kirsten spends her time seeking out beautiful spaces where th...

Portrait of a Gentleman with Periwig and Blue Cloak c.1695-1710 Attributed to Thomas Murray (1663–1734) This accomplished oil-on-canvas portrait, presented by Titan Fine Art, was al...

Margaret Sarah Carpenter (Salisbury 1793-1872 London) Double portrait of a brother and sister, formerly identified as the Poulett children, c. 1830s Half-length, within a park landscape Oil on canvas Inscribed to the stretcher frame verso, ‘Ms Carpenter’ 91.5 x 71.6 cm.; (within frame) 104.2 x 84 cm. (Unsigned) Provenance: Private collection, United Kingdom; Portobello Road, c. 2014; Where acquired by a private collector United Kingdom; By whom sold, Dreweatts, Old Master, British and European Art, 10 February 2026, lot 145; Where acquired by Haveron Fine Art. Painted by the most celebrated female artist of her generation, this charming double portrait of a brother and sister belongs to Margaret Sarah Carpenter’s highly productive output of the 1830s, and is characteristic of the accomplished duality of her child portraits. Both endearing and elegant, the siblings are pictured at the cusp of adolescence, and Carpenter navigates this moment of tender transformation with a subtlety no doubt informed by her own motherhood of five children. The young boy embraces his elder sister with a fraternal warmth, resting his hand on her wrist with a hint of Regency Romanticism. Their cheeks are flushed with the vitality and pictorial sweetness of youth; their lips are delicately coloured; and their eyes gleam with enlivening highlights. Meanwhile, they have graduated to the fashion of young adults: the boy has been ‘breeched’, and wears a double-breasted velvet jacket with a black cravat, while his sister’s fashion is altogether adult, albeit comprising softer materials, with delicate lace trim and pink ribbons. Moreover, their knowing gaze towards the viewer speaks to a primed sensibility, and their standing within a park landscape perhaps foresees the responsibilities of familial inheritance come adulthood. It was this intuitive and measured approach which earned Carpenter a reputation that vastly exceeded those typically afforded to public women of the 19th century. Indeed, she was for a time considered the natural successor to Thomas Lawrence, whom she is rumoured to have briefly studied under. A typewritten label affixed to the stretcher frame gives the traditional identification of the children as ‘John and Charlotte Poulett / children of / Lt. Gen. Hon. Vere Poulett’. Himself a son of Vere Poulett, 3rd Earl Poulett (1710-1788), the Hon. Vere Poulett (1761-1812) did have a number of children, including John (b. 1789) and Charlotte. However, their birthdates are not fitting with the painting’s date of creation or Carpenter’s own age, and thus leaves the children’s identities uncertain. Indeed, there is no record of any Poulett sitters in a transcript of Carpenter’s sitter book, held in the collection of the National Gallery, London (GB 1082 MSC); however, the record is by no means exhaustive, and does not include some 500 of Carpenter’s other works (particularly her child portraits). It is nonetheless apparent that the siblings’ fashion is belongs to the established classes, and the rural setting presumably suggests a landed family, possibly of noble descent. Margaret Sarah Carpenter (Salisbury 1793-1872 London) Carpenter was born in Salisbury to Alexander Geddes, a retired army officer, and Harriet Easton. Carpenter’s early talent was developed under the tuition of Thomas Guest (1754-1818) in Salisbury, where her skill was noticed by the 2nd Earl of Radnor, who allowed her to make copies of the Old Master pictures at Longford Castle. On Lord Radnor’s advice, Carpenter sent pictures for three successive years to the Royal Society of Arts, receiving a public acknowledgement for each as well as gold medals in 1813 and 1814. Aged 21, Carpenter moved to London in 1814 with Radnor’s funding, and established her early practise in his London residence. That same year, she first exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution. Her works received high praise in the press, and some pictures were acquired by the Marquess of Strafford, an influential patron of the arts. Her works were heavily influenced by Lawrence and Reynolds, and it is possible that she studied for a year under Lawrence in 1812. Indeed, she later finished Lawrence’s portrait of Mrs Brandling. Carpenter married William Carpenter in 1817, who later became Keeper of Prints at the British Museum. Together, their five surviving children included artists William, Percy, and Jane Henrietta ‒ a model for some of her mother’s most tender portraits. Carpenter enjoyed a broad professional and social circle, being a close friend of Richard Parkes Bonington, and being reasonably well-acquainted with Constable ‒ who suspected that her incessant work was resulting in physical problems for her, as well as the neglect of her children (Gaze, p. 350). She introduced her sister Harriet to the artist William Collins RA...