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Salisbury Lanes, 20th Century English Landscape
By Eric Brown
Located in London, GB
ERIC BROWN
1894 - 1955
Salisbury Lanes
Oil on board, signed lower left
Image size: 7 x 10 inches
Contemporary frame
Eric Pitt Brown was born in 1894 in Sal...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Salisbury Cathedral, 20th Century English Artist, Oil Landscape
By Eric Brown
Located in London, GB
Eric Brown
1894-1955
Salisbury Cathedral
Oil on board
Image size: 20 x 14 inches
Hand made frame
Eric Pitt Brown was born in 1894 in Salisbury. H...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
St John the Baptist, Stained Glass
By German School
Located in London, GB
Stained glass with lead frame and soldering
Height: 8 3/4 inches (22.25 cm)
Unsigned
This is a beautiful small stained glass window showing John the Baptist, created with bright coloured glass and painted details in brown and gold stain.
Here, John is shown holding a lamb, a common attribute given to St John to symbolise his recognition of Jesus as the Son of God. Indeed, when John baptised Jesus in the River Jordan he said 'Behold, the Lamb of God'. His reed cross and camel skin...
Category
18th Century More Art
Materials
Glass
Portrait of a Lady in a Black Bonnet
By Arthur Ambrose McEvoy
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 30 3/4 x 26 1/8 inches (78 x 66.5 cm)
Handmade contemporary style frame
Provenance
Collection of David Sellin, Washington, D.C. Sellin was an American art ...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Foreshore - Dover, 20th Century Oil Landscape
By Norman Wilkinson
Located in London, GB
Norman Wilkinson
1878 - 1971
The Foreshore - Dover
Oil on canvas, signed lower left and dated 1959 on verso
Image size: 24½ x 38¾ inches
Art Deco frame
Proven...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Doorway, Baalbec - David Roberts - Orientalist - Lebanon
By David Roberts
Located in London, GB
David Roberts R.A.
1796 - 1864
The Doorway, Baalbec
Antique First edition lithograph
Full plate 81
Presented in a acid free mount
We have a full set of the 250 David Roberts prints in stock.
Hand coloured lithograph printed in 1847 by F.G. Moon and Son.
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of a Gentleman
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 17 x 23 1/2 inches (43 x 60 cm)
Contemporary William Kent hand made frame
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dorking, Southern Railway
By Gerald Mac Spink
Located in London, GB
Gouache
Image size: 5 x 4 inches (13 x 10 cm)
Acid free mount and oak frame
As well as being an accomplished artist and illustrator, Gerald Spink worked an aeronautical engineer for Hawker Engineering in Kingston-on-Thames. He designed artwork for a number of travel and advertising posters, for such clients as Southern Railways...
Category
1920s Art Deco Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Head of a Arab Horse
By John Lewis Shonborn
Located in London, GB
Oil on cardboard mounted on canvas, signed lower right
Image size: 9 x 7 1/4 inches (23 x 18.5 cm)
Original gilt frame
This painting shows a horse standing in profile in front of, w...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Una
Located in London, GB
Richard Waller
1811 - 1882
Una
Oil on canvas, signed lower right and dated 1879
Image size: 23 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches (59.5 x 49.5 cm)
Original frame
Una is one of the main characters in the first book of Edmund Spenser...
Category
19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shepherd with his Herd at Dusk
Located in London, GB
Oil on oak panel
Image size: 11 1/2 inches circular diameter (29 cm)
Hand carved gilt frame
Category
17th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oak, Oil
The Distraction, Late 19th Century Oil Painting, Orientalist
Located in London, GB
Walter Charles Horsley
1855 – 1921
The Distraction
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
Image size: 25 x 20 1/2 inches (63.5 x 52 cm)
Orientalist ha...
Category
Late 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Lady in Veil
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed & dated '1890' lower right
Image size: 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (16.5 cm round)
Cushion size: 19 x 19 inches (48cm square)
Original gilt frame
This wonderful round...
Category
1890s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pastoral Scene with Figures
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
Image size: 23 1/4 x 23 1/2 inches (59 x 60 cm)
Hand made contemporary style frame
This exciting newly discovered work by Guthrie is quite a rarity....
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sanctuary, Cliffs at St Just, Cornwall - newlyn school
Located in London, GB
Oil on panel, signed lower right
Image size: 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (32 x 39 cm)
Art Deco style frame
Inscribed verso "Sanctuary, St Just, Cornwall"
Also with sketch by the artist a...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Death of Cyllarus
By Doris Zinkeisen
Located in London, GB
Gouache on board, signed lower left
Image size: 18 x 15 inches (46 x 38 cm)
Contemporary frame
This painting illustrates a passage from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', specifically from th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
The Kitchen Table
By Caroline Hutchinson
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seated Female Nude
By Caroline Hutchinson
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 15 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches (39 x 49 cm)
Contemporary hand made frame
Caroline Hutchinson was from the North East. She was a member of the Sunderland Art Club a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude in Bedroom
By Caroline Hutchinson
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed on the reverse
Image size: 19 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches (49.5 x 59 cm)
Contemporary frame
Caroline Hutchinson was from the North East. She was a member of the Sunder...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Woodcutter
By Alfred East
Located in London, GB
Alfred East
The Wood Cutter
Oil on board
Signed lower right and titled on back
Image size: 10 1/4 x 15 inches (26 x 37.5 cm)
Carved gilt frame
This romantic landscape by East, certainly shows the influence that the Barbizon school had on his work. The Barbizon school were drawn together by their passion and desire to elevate landscape painting as a response to the Academic elevation of historical and mythological themes. Here, East truly revels in the beauty of the English landscape but also captures the mood of the time in which there was a growing concern at the rapidity of social change and its impact upon the countryside.
East regularly painted the Cotswolds from the early 1890s until the end of his life - it is probable that this scenes depicts that part of the country. He focused principally on the area around Upper Swell, which he referred to as 'Over Swell', hoping to avoid the village becoming a focus for visitors seeking out the views that he portrayed.
East adopted a well established three-stage-technique that made great use of the under-painting, a second layer concerned with the correction of values, and a final stage for the addition of details; all painted with lean oil paint. As can be seen in the work, during this process East practically repainted the entire canvas after the first layer and then proceeded to pick out isolated sections that required further reworking and detail.
Provenance
Pelter Sands Gallery Bristol, 1975 Exhibition of Twentieth Century British Painting.
This work was part of Andrew Vicari...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Study for Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 inches (19 x 23 cm)
Carved gilt frame
Literature
Illustrated in Malcolm Bell's 'Sir Edward Burne-Jones, A Record and Review', London, 1899, p.127.
Provenance
Major Charles Sydney Goldman 1958
By descent to his Sons
John and Margaret Monck (John Goldman Monck) 1958-1963
Commander Victor Robert Penryn Monck (Victor Robert Penryn Monk Goldman) 1958-1963
Christie's London (Christie, Manson and Woods) 1963, John Monck and Cmdr Penryn Monck sale 26 April 1963 part lot 71
Sir John Richardson, 2019
Burne-Jones decided that the folds in the drapery in this study were too complex for the final painting and fairly soon after he simplified the draperies.
The work is a drapery study for the seated figures at the centre of Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones monumental The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon (Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico). The artist spent seventeen years working on the complex narrative, even moving his studio to a larger space to accommodate the canvas. Born as a commission from his patron George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle, to decorate a wall in his library at Naworth Castle, The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon was left unfinished in Burne-Jones’ studio upon his death. The work was bequeathed to a studio neighbour whose descendants sold it at auction in 1963, where it was purchased by Luis A. Ferré, politician and founder of the Museo de Arte de Ponce.
To his friends and family, Burne-Jones was known for his 'unpainted masterpieces'. Indeed, from his youth he made swift sketches, such as this study, that appeared effortless in contrast to his carefully crafted paintings and allowed him to work out ideas and refine details. He also drew outside of the studio, and his contemporaries remarked at his uncanny ability to do so while fully engaged in other activities. The painter W. Graham...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Ruins of Hailes Abbey, 19th century landscape sketch
Located in London, GB
Graphite on buff paper
'Hales Abbey, Gloucestershire' initialled, inscribed and dated 1837 bottom left
Image size: 8 x 13 1/2 inches (20 x 34.5 cm)
18th Century Hogarth frame and was...
Category
1830s Victorian Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Portrait of Miss Tonks, Signed and dated 19th Century Oil
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right 1882
Image size: 36 x 29 inches (92 x 74 cm)
Gilt Watts frame
LITERATURE
The Life and Work of Frank Holl, Ada ...
Category
19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Ralph William Grey
By Bartholomew Dandridge
Located in London, GB
Provenance
By descent through the sitter's family to
The Collection of R. W. Vivian-Neal of Poundisford Park, Somerset, from whom acquired by
With Lane Fine Art, UK, where purchased by the present owners in 1996
Literature
'Poundisford Park, Somerset' in Country Life, 22 December 1934, ill.
A.W. and C.M. Vivian-Neal, Poundisford Park, Somerset: A catalogue of pictures and furniture, Taunton 1939, cat. nos. 11 and 13
This is a three-quarter-length portrait of Ralph William Grey in a mole-coloured velvet coat and a long waistcoat of green satin, heavily embroidered in gold. Under his left right hand is a black chapeau bras. He has white doe-skin gauntlet gloves.
Son of William and Ann Grey of Backworth: born 19 December 1707. He married Mary the daughter of William Rawstorne of Newall in 1741 and died 5 November 1786. He was educated at Eaton and Trinity College, Oxford.
Within a year of his birth Mrs Grey died and, according to the Country Life article 'From that time forward all Mr Grey's faculties were concentrated on the well-being of his son. The possession of an heir gave zest to his efforts to build up the family fortune: he was successful in most of his ventures. Years later his interest in life was centred in the home of his daughter-in-law and grandchildren'.
Grey's right hand is depicted in the present portrait resting on Locke's Essays and the Country Life article also records that there are constant references to John Locke...
Category
Mid-18th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Ann Austen, nee Grey
By Bartholomew Dandridge
Located in London, GB
Signed 'BDandridge/ pinxit' lower left
Provenance
By descent through the sitter's family to
The Collection of R. W. Vivian-Neal of Poundisford Park, Somerset, from whom acquired by
With Lane Fine Art, UK, where purchased by the present owners in 1996
Literature
'Poundisford Park, Somerset' in Country Life, 22 December 1934, ill.
A.W. and C.M. Vivian-Neal, Poundisford Park, Somerset: A catalogue of pictures and furniture, Taunton 1939, cat. nos. 11 and 13
This is a portrait of Ann Austen, nee Grey, three-quarter-length seated in a landscape with her dog. Painted in a superb white satin dress, she holds horn spectacles and a spectacle case...
Category
Mid-18th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Head of a Young Woman
Located in London, GB
Karl Parsons
English 1884 - 1934
Head of a Young Woman
Graphite on paper
Signed and dated '(19)07' lower left
Image size: 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (16 x 21.5 cm)
Contemporary Pre-Raphaelite style frame
One of Britain's leading stained glass designers during the early decades of the 20th century, Karl Parsons drew portraits invariably for pleasure rather than commissions, throughout his life, and it is in these that one sees most clearly the influence of some of the artists whom he most admired, notably Botticelli, Rossetti and Burne-Jones.
Though harkening back to these illustrious forebears, both technically and compositionally, this portrait also epitomises the type of portraiture that was fashionable in British high society at the start of the 20th century. Karl Parson's technique here, with delicate shading and strong outlines, is certainly comparable to Gerald Leslie Brockhurst's graphic style. It is clear that Parsons took delight in demonstrating his skill at sculpting human forms through gentle shading.
Karl Parsons was an English stained glass artist associated with the arts and craft movement. Parsons was born in Peckham in Surrey in 1884, the 12th child of Arthur William Parsons...
Category
Early 20th Century Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
A Young Lady
By William Edward Frost
Located in London, GB
Oil on board
Image size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (14 x 11.5 cm)
Original 19th century oval mount and frame
Provenance;
With Richard Naworth, Blackburn
William Edward Frost (September 1810 – 4 June 1877) was an English painter of the Victorian era. Virtually alone among English artists in the middle Victorian period, he devoted his practice to the portrayal of the female nude. Specialising in portraiture from about 1830, Frost painted more than 300 portraits during a 15-year period, and showed some as his first exhibits from 1836.
William Edward Frost was born in Wandsworth, then in Surrey, in September 1810. He showed artistic talent from an early age, and was encouraged in this by his father: first by his arranging drawing lessons with a Miss Evatt, a neighbouring amateur, and then, in 1825, by his introducing him to William Etty, who became his mentor. On Etty’s recommendation, he entered Henry Sass’s School for Drawing and Painting at 6 Charlotte Street, in 1826, and spent three years there, while also studying at the British Museum each winter.
Frost was educated in the schools of the Royal Academy, beginning in 1829; he established a reputation as a portrait painter before branching into historical and mythological subjects, including the subgenre of fairy painting...
Category
19th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Pool of London
By Norman Wilkinson
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated '1902' lower right
Contemporary style hand made frame
Provenance:
Tryon Gallery
Private collection
In this painting we can we Blackfriars Bridge in the background reaching across the River Thames with smoke billowing up into the sky behind. On the far right the unmistakable, and instantly recognisable, silhouette of St Pauls also breaks the sky line of the city. Finished in the early 18th Century, St Pauls has been a noticeable addition to the London cityscape ever since.
This work by Wilkinson depicts 'The Pool' of London, a stretch of the River Thames from London Bridge to below Limehouse. As part of the Tideway of the Thames, the Pool was navigable by tall-masted vessels bringing coastal and oversea goods to the wharves that originally made up the Port of London. In 1909 the Pool came under the jurisdiction of the Port of London Authority. The docks here thrived until the late 1950s, despite suffering from extreme bomb damage during the Second World War.
The tall-masted ships that Wilkinson has depicted here are perfect examples of traditionally rigged sailing craft of the time. They differ from modern sailing vessels in that they did not use newer materials (such as aluminium and steel) and have more complex rigging as a result. The term tall ship later came into widespread use in the mid-20th century with the advent of Tall Ships' races. Here, incredible attention to detail has been applied by Wilkinson in the accurate depiction of the various ships rigging...
Category
20th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Beekeepers Mid 20th Century Female Artist Graphite
By Alice Headley Neave
Located in London, GB
Alice Headley Neave
1903-1977
The Beekeepers
Graphite on paper, signed and dated 'Christmas 1942'
Image size: 9 x 9 inches
Contemporary frame
The daughter of Dr Arthur Henry Headley Huckle, a surgeon and 'painting dealer', Alice was...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Christmas in the City 20th Century Pastel & Watercolour London Scene
Located in London, GB
English School
Early 20th Century
Pastel, ink and watercolour on paper
4 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches (11.5 x 9.5 cm)
Acid free mount and contemporary frame
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Ink, Watercolor
Bust of Frederick William Walker, 19th Century Figurative Sculpture
Located in London, GB
Hope-Pinker was born in Peckham, Surrey, the son of a stonemason and builder employing 5 or 6 men c.1871 in Hove, Sussex, who seems to have taught his son much of his stone-carving skills, although he also attended the Royal Academy Schools (c.1871). Hope-Pinker typically carved without a model from drawings. The bulk of his work was portrait sculpture and John Hunter...
Category
19th Century English School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Summer on the Seine, Mid 20th Century Art Deco Oil
Located in London, GB
Norman Lloyd
Australian 1897 - 1985
Summer on the Seine
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Image size: 30 x 38 inches
Hand made frame
Norman Lloyd was born in 1895 near Newcastle, New South Wales, where he attended school. He left school in 1911 and started to work and study painting with Julian Ashton and James R. Jackson in Sydney.
On his 21st birthday in 1916 he enlisted with the Australian Imperial Forces. He was transported to Europe where he was seriously wounded in battle a year later. After returning to Sydney in February 1918, he took up painting lessons at the Julian Ashton Art School again.
From 1921 to 1926, Lloyd exhibited with galleries in Sydney and Melbourne, showing landscapes and Sydney harbour scenes painted in the more traditional style of his teachers.
From 1926 to 1929, Norman Lloyd visited Europe and travelled widely in Italy and France, exhibiting in the UK, France and Australia, culminating in a solo exhibition at Macquarie Galleries in Sydney.
In the 1930s, Lloyd migrated to London with his wife Edith for good, setting up a boarding house in upmarket St Johns Wood and establishing himself quickly in the new society, being a kind, generous and interested man with a broad horizon.
His mansion became a meeting point and home for many Australian expats, among them painters Will...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Woman in Blue Original Oil Painting Modern British
By Lionel Ellis
Located in London, GB
Lionel Ellis
1903 - 1988
Portrait of a Woman in Blue
Oil on canvas
Image size: 16 x 13 3/4 (40.5 x 35 cm)
Lionel Ellis ARCA (1903-1988) was an important ...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Sleeping Woman Original Oil Painting Modern British
By Lionel Ellis
Located in London, GB
Lionel Ellis
1903 - 1988
Portrait of a Sleeping Woman
Oil on canvas
Image size: 14 x 18 inches (35.5 x 45.5cm)
Framed
Lionel Ellis ARCA (1903-1988) was a...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
By LMS to Buxton Original Railway Travel Poster Artwork Gouache 20th Century
Located in London, GB
English School
20th Century
By LMS to Buxton
Gouache on board
Image size: 6 1/4 x 9 inches (16 x 23 cm)
Contemporary Frame
Original artwork for a LMS poster. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) was a British railway company that was formed in 1923 and operated until 1948. At the time it was the world's largest transport organisation, by 1938 it operated 6,870 miles of railway serving routes in England, Norther Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
This painting depicts Solomon's Temple, a Victorian folly on the summit of Grin Low hill near the spa town of Buxton, in the Peak District...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
The Moat at Scarborough Castle 20th Century British Gouache
Located in London, GB
Gordon Haslam
Early 20th Century English School
The Moat at Scarborough Castle
Gouache on board, signed and dated 1923
Image size: 13 1/2 x 17 1/2 inche...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Back Gardens Original Oil Painting 20th Century Urban Landscape British Art
By Alice Headley Neave
Located in London, GB
Alice Headley Neave
1903 - 1977
Back Gardens
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
Image size: 19 x 15 inches
Contemporary style frame
The daughter of Dr Arthur Henry Headley Huckle, Alice was...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait. Original Oil Painting Austrian 19th Century
Located in London, GB
Joseph Weidner
Austrian 1801 - 1870
Self Portrait
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
Image size: 23 x 19 inches (58.5 x 48.5 cm)
Original gilt swept fra...
Category
1860s Vienna Secession Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Train Station Original Watercolour 20th Century
By Arthur Charles Conrade
Located in London, GB
ARTHUR CHARLES CONRADE
1863–1955
The Train Station
Watercolour & pencil, signed lower left
Image size: 12 x 14½ inches (30 x 37 cm)
Gilt frame
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Portrait of Cecil Day Lewis 20th Century Original Chalk Drawing
By Sir William Rothenstein
Located in London, GB
Sir William Rothenstein
1872 - 1945
Portrait of Cecil Day Lewis
Black and white chalk on paper
Image size: 13 ½ x 9 inches
Period gilt frame
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Portrait of a Young Man Original Charcoal and Pastel French 18th Century
Located in London, GB
French School
18th Century
Portrait of a Young Man
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Image size: 11 x 7 inches
Contemporary gilt frame
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
The Scholar Red Clay Contemporary Sculpture
By Christian Mizon
Located in London, GB
Christian Mizon
Contemporary
The Scholar
Red Clay
Height: 6 ¼ inches (16 cm)
Stamped by artist
Christian Mizon is a graduate of Camberwell College of A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Clay
The Lamentation of Christ, 16th Century Oil Old Master
Located in London, GB
Circle of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio
1483 - 1561
Oil on panel
Image size: 20 ½ x 16 ½ inches (52 x 42 cm)
Handmade contemporary style gilt frame
The lamentation of Christ was one of the most popular scenes depicted in European art from the 11th to the 18th century. Depicting the lamentation or pieta from the Italian word for ‘Pity’ of Christ with Jesus’s mother Mary cradling his body.
Christ is depicted nude, wearing only a blueish loincloth around his waist, a horizontal scar marking his rib cage. His head and torso are held upright, and his eyes are closed, his right arm lays to his side as does his left. Standing behind him, is the Virgin Mary, outfitted in her traditional dress of a robe with a white veil. She stands behind Christ and bends slightly, looking looking away from Christ to something that has caught her attention, her right hand holding his shoulder. Her left-hand carefully holds his arm.
This work is quite unusual with Mary . This stunning work jumps out with its dark background and strong flesh colours.
Ridolfo Ghirlandaio was the son of the eminent painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. Following his father’s death in 1494, when he was just eleven years old, Ridolfo is thought to have continued his training with his uncle Davide, who had taken over the Ghirlandaio workshop. Vasari noted that Ridolfo also studied with Fra Bartolommeo...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Young Man - 17th Century Portrait in Oil
By Pieter Harmensz Verelst
Located in London, GB
Circle of Pieter Harmensz Verelst
1618 - 1678
Portrait of a Young Man
Oil on oak panel
Image size: 7 ½ x 5 ¾ inches
Dutch ripple frame
Category
18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Consecration of a Church 15th Century English School Illuminated Manuscript
Located in London, GB
English School
15th Century
The Consecration of a Church
Illuminated manuscript on Vellum
Image size: 5 ½ x 5 inches (14 x 12.7 cm)
18th century ornate Tabernacle frame
Category
15th Century and Earlier Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Vellum
Portrait of Lady, 18th Century English Pen and Ink
By Ozias Humphry
Located in London, GB
Ozias Humphry
1742-1810
Portrait of Frances Abington
Pen and brown ink on paper
Image size: 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches
Giltwood frame
The actress Frances (Fanny) Barton, better known as M...
Category
18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
The Forest Pool 20th Century Original Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Ethelbert White
1891-1972
The Forest Pool
Oil on board
Image size: 14 x 11 1/4 inches (35.5 x 28.5 cm)
Original frame
Ethelbert White is probably best...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Touchstone and Corin, British Pre-Raphaelite 19th Century Oil on Canvas
Located in London, GB
Adolphus M. Madot
Circa 1833 - 1861
Oil on canvas
Image size: 36 x 24 inches (91.4 x 61 cm)
Arched Pre-Raphaelite style frame
The subject of the present picture is the dialogue between the court jester Touchstone and the shepherd Corin in the Forest of Arden ( As You Like It, Act III, scene 2). The work of William Shakespeare 'As You Like It' was a popular literary source in Pre-Raphaelite circles, inspiring such artists as John Everett Millais, Walter Howell Deverell and Arthur Hughes. The present picture is comparable in style to the work of Edward W. Rainford and Henry Stacy Marks...
Category
1850s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Girl, 18th Century Oil Old Master
By George Knapton
Located in London, GB
George Knapton
1698-1778
Portrait of a Girl
Oil on canvas
Image size: 20 x 18 inches
Original giltwood frame
This beautiful half length portrait of a young woman, turned to left, gazing at the spectator, wearing a pink, white lace-embroidered, dress, in her hair a pink bonnet trimmed with lace to match her dress.
The depiction of a young girl epitomises child portraiture of the late eighteenth century, in which painters such as William Beechey, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough had begun to discover and express the true character of children, in contrast to the stiff, miniature-adults of previous generations.
The Artist
Knapton was born in Lymington, one of four sons of James Knapton. He was apprenticed to Jonathan Richardson from 1715 to 1722, and in 1720 was a founding subscriber to the academy of St. Martin's Lane established by Louis Chéron...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Gentleman Commoner at Oxford, 18th Century Oil on Canvas
By James Northcote b.1746
Located in London, GB
James Northcote
Portrait of a Gentleman Commoner at Oxford
Oil on canvas
Image size: 30 x 25 inches (76 x 63.5 cm)
Original gilt frame
This painting is a comparatively rare example ...
Category
18th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn Gold, Betws-Y-Coed, Late 19th Century Victorian British Oil
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Battle of Flodden, English School Early 20th Century Oil, Knights
Located in London, GB
English School
1910
The Battle of Flodden
Oil on canvas, monogrammed and dated 1910 lower right
Image size: 25 x 50 inches (63.5 x 127 cm)
Original frame
Provenance
Dacre Castle
The Battle of Flodden or Flodden Field, sometimes called the Battle of Branxton was part of a conflict between England and Scotland. The Scots were allied with France and at the time of the battle Henry VIII was in France fighting there and had left his kingdom under the regency of his queen Catherine of Aragon.
The battle was fought in Branxton in Northumberland on 9 September 1513, between an invading Scots army under King James IV and an English army commanded by the seasoned warrior Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey.
Invoking the Auld Alliance with France, James IV of Scotland crossed...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Portrait of a Lady
Graphite on paper
Image size: 15 x 12 inches
James Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of a Boy, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Portrait of a Boy
Graphite on paper
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
James Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of a Lady, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Portrait of a Lady
Graphite on paper
Image size: 24 x 15 inches
James Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of Adriane Madami, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Portrait of Adriane Madami
Graphite on paper, signed and inscribed '1930, Adriane Madami, Assisi'
Image size: 19 x 16 inches
James Stroudley was born in...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of Julieta, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Portrait of Julieta
Graphite on paper, signed and inscribed '1931'
Image size: 15 x 12 inches
James Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of a Young Man, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Portrait of a Young Man
Graphite on paper
Image size: 18 x 16 inches
James Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of a Hunter, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Portrait of a Hunter
Graphite on paper
Image size: 24 x 15 inches
James Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Florentine Lady, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Florentine Lady
Graphite on paper, signed and inscriber '1932 Florence'
Image size: 24 x 19 inches
James Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
