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Country Byways, Original Artwork for Railway, 20th Century English
Located in London, GB
Charles Henry Collins Bake
1880 - 1959
Country Byways
Gouache on paper, signed lower left
Image size: 17 x 21 inches (43 x 53 1/2 cm)
Contemporary gilded oak frame
This fabulous artwork was a commission by the railways to use as a poster to encourage people to travel by railway to the countryside.
Charles Henry Collins Baker was an English painter and art historian.
Baker was born in Ilminster, Somerset, the son of John Collins Baker and Fanny Henrietta Remmet. He was educated in Berkhamsted and the Royal Academy Schools.
A landscape painter at the beginning of his career, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1907 and at the New English Art Club in 1909–16; from 1921 to 1925 he was the club's honorary secretary. In 1911 he became the art critic...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Self Portrait, 20th Century Female Artist Oil Painting
By Joan Fairfax Whiteside ARRC FMAA
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, on board
Image size: 10 3/4 x 12 inches (27.25 x 30.5 cm)
Original frame
The Artist
Joan Fairfax Whiteside was a prodigious artist and illustrator. Born into an emin...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Saint Sebastian, 15th Century Religious Oil Painting on Panel
Located in London, GB
Oil on panel
Image size: 16 x 13 1/4 inches (41 x 34 cm)
Early gilt frame
Saint Sebastian was a Roman centurion who converted to Christianity and, in punishment, the Roman Emperor D...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italian School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Backgardens, Oil on canvas, 20th century painting, Contemporary style frame
By Alice Headley Neave
Located in London, GB
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 born on 6th October 1903 in Hastings. She appears to have inherited her grandfather’s artistic interests. She trained at the Slade School of Fine Art, studying with Sir Walter Restley Russell and Henry Tonks.
She painted local scenes, usually in oil on board. She is noted as a prolific exhibitor. In the 1960s HMAG acquired pictures from single artist shows including Alice Headley Neave...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Melancholic Gentleman, 17th century Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 25 x 29 1/4 inches (63.5 x 72.25 cm)
This is a striking 17th century half-portrait of a man. He sits with his body turned to the left and his head to the right. His left hand is held in front of him with thumb and finger together. He wears a loose white shirt that is opened low down onto chest while being closed at his neck with a black ribbon. An orange cloak has also been draped across his arms in a rather dramatic manner.
This choice of costume is immediately notable and must be compared to other portraits of this time of Elizabethan courtiers wearing slashed silk outfits with ostentatious finery and silver swords. Indeed, if one examines 17th century English...
Category
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The String Puppet, 20th Century Oil Painting
By Alice Headley Neave
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed bottom left
Image size: 30 x 25 inches (76.25 x 63.5 cm)
Alice Headley Neave was the daughter of Dr Arthur Henry Headley Huc...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Damascus Orientalist Watercolour 19th Century
By Colonel Barton
Located in London, GB
COLONEL BARTON
Early 19th Century
Damascus
Watercolour & bodycolour, signed & inscribed & dated 1847 lower right
Image size: 9 ½ x 13 inches (24 x 33 cm)
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Leda and the Swan, 20th Century Art Deco Signed Oil
By Arthur Moody
Located in London, GB
Arthur Moody
Flourished 1920 - 1940
Leda and the Swan
Oil on board
Signed lower left and dated 1925
Image size: 15 × 8 inches (33.5 x 54 cm)
Gilt frame
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Ballet in Covent Garden, 1946
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed lower right and titled and dated lower left
Image size: 19 1/2 x 16 3/4 inches
Contemporary hand made frame
Category
1940s Modern Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Kingston Bridge
By Horace Mann Livens
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and gouache on paper, signed and dated '09 bottom left
Image size: 11 x 10.5 inches (28 x 27 cm)
Hand made contemporary frame
Painted on his characteristic dark backgrou...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
A Boxing Tournament RA Artist, British Oil, Major Sporting Event
By Anna Katrina Zinkeisen
Located in London, GB
Anna Zinkeisen
1901-1976
A Boxing Tournment
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Image size: 29 x 36.5 inches (73 x 93 cm)
Original hand made frame
A Boxing Tournament is a vivid and impactful snapshot of a professional boxing match from the late 1920s/1930s. It depicts the Len Harvey vs. ‘Kid’ Nitram fight held at the Royal Albert Hall on 19th January 1928, which Zinkeisen went to watch.
The umpire of this match was the well-known Sam Russell. Here, Russell is seen wearing a dinner jacket as well as a shirt - an indication that this was a match in a professional tournament.
Both Len Harvey and 'Kid' Nitram were esteemed boxers. Harvey boxed at every weight division available at the time, from flyweight to heavyweight and became the light-heavyweight and heavyweight champion of the British Empire. During the Second World War Harvey joined the Royal Air Force as an officer.
Anna enjoyed noticeable publicity from the painting at the time. She appeared in photographs, alongside her sketches for the painting, in numerous newspapers including The Daily Mail (31st January 1928) and The Sketch (8th February 1928).
This painting is featured in Highly Desirable: The Zinkeisen Sisters & Their Legacy by Philip Kellaway, page 178 (Leiston Press, 2008).
The Artist
Anna Zinkeisen was born at Kilcreggan, Dumbartonshire on 29 August 1901, the daughter of Victor Zinkeisen, a timber merchant, and his wife Clare.
In 1901 the family moved to Middlesex. Anna and her sister Doris attended Harrow School of Art before they both won scholarships to the Royal Academy Schools, where Anna studied sculpture from 1916-1921, winning several medals. She received a commission for some plaques from the Wedgwood company and although her designs were awarded a silver medal at the Exposition des Art Decoratifs in Paris in 1925, she decided to specialise in portrait painting and mural work.
In 1935, Anna and her sister Doris Zinkeisen were commissioned by John Brown & Co. (Shipbuilders of Clydebank) to paint the murals in the Verandah Grill of the famous ocean liner the RMS Queen Mary. Their work can still be seen on the ship, now permanently moored in Long Beach, California. They also painted murals for the Queen Elizabeth.
In 1941, during World War II, the Zinkeisen sisters were both employed as war artists for the North West Europe Commission of the Joint War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of an Officer, Cornelius Johnson, 17th Century Old Masters
By Cornelius Johnson
Located in London, GB
Circle of Cornelius Johnson
Circa 1620’s
Portrait of a Officer
Oil on canvas
Image size: 28 x 24 inches
Period style hand made frame
Provenance
Private European Estate
This striking portrait dates to around 1620, as you can see from the images of the sash the detail is very high. The sash is decorated with gold thread and would have cost a small fortune at the time. Sashes were originally developed for a military function (making officers more visible for their men during combat), but soon became a primarily male fashion...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
'I Sleep but my Heart Waketh', 18th Century Italian School
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 12 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (32.5 x 24.25 cm)
Here, we see a sleeping putti lying underneath a set of trees, holding a ribbon. The text that can be seen on the scroll is from the Song of Solomon, chapter five, verse two; ' I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night'.
This work was created after a well-known painting by the Spanish artist Alonso Cano...
Category
18th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, Mid 16th Century Oil
Located in London, GB
Oil on panel
Image size: 12 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (31.75 x 22.25 cm)
Period style hand made frame
This is a portrait of Thomas Cranmer (1489 - 1556). Cranmer was the Archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Henry VIII and launched the English Reformation. Few people have played so important a part in shaping the course of English history or had a more profound influence on England's language and literature than Thomas Cranmer.
At the bottom of the painting Cranmer's name and title is inscribed. At the centre there is also Cranmer's coat of arms, the left half is the arms that all archbishops of Canterbury adopt and it has been enjoin to his own family arms...
Category
16th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ophelia, Victorian 19th Century Royal Academy Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Image size: 33 1/2 x 56 1/2 inches (85 x 143 cm)
Original gilt frame
Provenance
With the artist's son, Millie Dow Stott Esq., until 1912.
Artist's Studio Sale, Christies, November 1913.
Private Collection
Exhibitions
London, Royal Academy, 1895, no. 679.
Paris, Societe de la Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1896, no. 1179.
Berlin, VII Internationale Kunstausstellung 1897. no. 3533.
Manchester, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1912, no. 339.
In the 1890s William Stott exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, mainly highly decorative works with subjects derived from classical mythology and literature. This painting was Stott's 1895 entry to the Royal Academy and was subsequently exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1896 and then on to the Berlin, VII Internationale Kunstausstellung 1897. Shakespeare was a favourite source for Victorian painters, and the tragic romance of Ophelia, from Hamlet, was an especially popular subject, featuring regularly in the Royal Academy exhibitions.
The most popular and iconic image of Ophelia's death was, and is to this day, John Everett Millais's 1851 painting showing the confused and tragic Ophelia floating downstream on her back in a state of mad ecstasy, arms raised in a gesture of inevitable submission. However, although Stott chose not to pastiche this image, it seems highly likely that he was prompted to take up this subject, which had almost become a 'rite of passage' among Victorian painters, by the fact that in 1894 Millais's Ophelia was presented to the National Gallery of British Art by Sir Henry Tate.
It appears that Stott was much influenced by John William Waterhouse...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Lady as a Shepherdess
By Gerrit van Honthorst
Located in London, GB
Oil on oak panel
Image size: 18 x 17 inches (45.5 x 43.5 cm)
Period style frame
This painting is a half-length portrait of a lady in the guise of a shepherdess. She is holding a ho...
Category
Early 17th Century Dutch School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oak, Oil
Portrait of a Man with a Rifle
Located in London, GB
Oil on layered paper
Image size: 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (26.5 x 21 cm)
Contemporary swept frame
This is an eighteenth century portrait of a...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Laid Paper
Portrait of John Hoppner
By Sir John Hoppner
Located in London, GB
After Sir John Hoppner
1758 - 1810
Self Portrait
Oil on canvas
Image size: 18 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (47 x 55 cm)
Original gilt Carlotta frame
This wonderful painting is after John Ho...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harbour Scene
By Ezelino Briante
Located in London, GB
Oil on panel, inscribed and dated '1946' bottom right
Image size: 19 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (49.5 x 39.5 cm)
Period frame
This painting stands out for its use of full-bodied brushstrokes and thick impasto application of paint. It depicts an Italian harbour in the 1940s, probably on one of the islands in the bay of Naples, such as Procida.
The Artist
Ezelino Briante was born and trained in Naples and he traveled around Italy and abroad (France, Switzerland, Sweden, Brazil, United States of America) looking for naturalistic subjects that he preferred. This celebrated painter studied at the Accademia di Bella Arti di Napoli and his scenes of Italy won him great support and fame in Italy and internationally.
His paintings of Italian piers, in particular those of Campania; well known are also his marine landscapes of Sorrento, Capri, Maiori, Amalfi Coast and Sorrento Coast...
Category
1940s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
This Side and That
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on canvas, signed and dated '1973' on verso
Image size: 17 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches (44 x 29.5 cm)
Contemporary style frame
Exhibition label 'Royal Academy Exhibition 1973' on ve...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of a Young Man
By Sir Allan Ramsay
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 10 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (27.25 x 19.5cm)
Handmade William Kent frame
This quickly created oil sketch is a study for a larger work, its purpose being to aid the artist and give the client a visual representation of the final piece.
The subject is a young gentleman in a colourful pink and white outfit. He also wears a powdered wig and bears a decorative sword...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Solemn Morris Dancer
By Yosl Bergner
Located in London, GB
Oil on board
Image size: 5 3/4 x 7 inches (14.5 x 17.75 cm)
As can be seen in this painting, Surrealism served as a source of inspiration for Bergner, though he did not consider himself a surrealist but a lover of stories, and indeed narrative elements appear frequently in his work. He uses the “displacement” element, as the Surrealists did, and that is detaching the figures, objects or landscapes from the logical context and into a poetical-magical climate.
Nissim Aloni noted in 1983 He paints as though to install stabilizers against the turbulence of the dream, and perhaps these stabilizers serve him in time as a touchstone'.
The Artist
Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1920 and grew up in Warsaw, Poland.
With rampant anti-Semitism in Europe, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonization was formed in the United States in July 1935, to search for a potential Jewish homeland. Soon afterwards a pastoral firm in Australia offered the League about 16,500 square kilometres (6,400 sq mi) in the Kimberleys, stretching from the north of Western Australia into the Northern Territory. As history showed, the plans went nowhere. But for a time, the Australian idea was at least worth considering. Bergner's father, Melech Ravitch, became involved in a serious investigation of the Kimberley Plan.
In this way the Bergner family moved to Australia. Yosl emigrated to Australia in 1937 and studied in the National Gallery School in Melbourne. During World War II he served for four and a half years in the Australian Army, and later continued his studies at the Art School.
In Melbourne from 1937–48, Bergner befriended many of the local artists who now epitomize modern Australian art: Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Firing the Salute
By Peter Monamy
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 19 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (49 x 39.5 cm)
Original frame
This is a a wonderful marine scene depicting a flotilla of battleships, warships and Admiralty yachts....
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, Early 18th Century Oil Painting
By Dominicus van der Smissen
Located in London, GB
Dominicus van der Smissen
Early 18th Century
Portrait of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch
Oil on canvas
Image size: 20½ x 16¼ inches
Period gilt frame
This is a portrait of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, composer, Kapellmeister and organist, whom Van der Smissen most probably portrayed during his stay in Hamburg, Brunswick or Amsterdam. The identification is based on the reproduction of the portrait which was engraved by Pieter Anthony Wakkerdak (1740- 1774).
Van der Smissen has reduced the face of the sitters to an egg-shaped oval in three-quarter view, applying diminution to one half of the figure’s torso, which is farther away from the viewer. This partial side view, with the head turned to look at the viewer over the shoulder, creates spatial depth and brings the figure to life by avoiding the stiffness of a frontal depiction.
Because the artist chose to highlight the figure from above, a distinct shadow is cast under the tip of the nose, in the shape of a triangle. This is an often recurring and almost ‘signature’-like feature in Van der Smissen’s oeuvre.
Hurlebusch's garments are of a very high quality and serve to reflect the sitter’s wealth, status and elegance. During this period, gentlemen often shaved their heads in order to facilitate the wearing of a wig, which wouldbe worn with a suit. Here Hurlebusch has been depicted in a luxurious turban-like cap lined with lynx fur, a highly fashionable and expensive material at the time.
Over his shirt, he wears a velvet fur-lined gown adorned with decorative clasps fashioned from silver braid. The elegant informality of his appearance can be seen in his unbuttoned shirt and the unfastened black ribbon hanging from his button hole, which has been artfully arranged into a fluttering drape by the portraitist.
The Sitter
Hurlebusch was born in Brunswick, Germany. He received the first instructions in his field from his father Heinrich Lorenz Hurlebusch, who was also a musician. As an organ virtuoso, he toured Europe, visiting Vienna, Munich and Italy.
From 1723 to 1725 he was Kapellmeister in Stockholm; later he became Kapellmeister in Bayreuth and Brunswick, and lived in Hamburg from 1727 to 1742, where he had contact with fellow composers Johann Mattheson and Georg Philipp Telemann. He made his living composing, performing and teaching.
In 1735 and 1736, he is believed to have visited Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig, who promoted Hurlebusch’s compositions as the local seller...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Evening, The Lizard Lighthouse, 20th Century Art-Deco Signed Oil
By Norman Howard
Located in London, GB
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Norman Howard
1899 - 1955
Evening, The Lizard Lighthouse
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
Image size: 23 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches
Art D...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paysage du Viviers, French Post-Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Robert Deborne
French 1870 - 1944
Viviers
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Image size: 25 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches
Gilt frame
Robert Deborne (1870-1944) ...
Category
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life, 17th Century Oil on Panel Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on panel, monogrammed mid left
Image size: 15 x 12 1/4 inches (38 x 31 cm)
Dutch ripple style frame
Loeding was born in Leiden in around 1637 and was admitted into the Leiden Guild of St Luke in 1664. Like other Dutch cities, Leiden required membership in the guilds in order to sell wares falling under the various specifications. There is no record of his artistic training or influences, but he likely belonged to the circle of artists including Pieter de Ring and Gerrit Dou, who founded and maintained the Guild. Loeding is last registered as a member in 1673.
One of the most versatile genres that emerged from Dutch 17th Century artistic specialisms is that of 'pronkstilleven'; a laden table with a variety of rich textures, like ornate glassware, gilded goblets, exquisite nautilus cups...
Category
Mid-17th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
An Irish Rogue
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed and dated '44 lower right
Image size: 15 x 19 inches (38 x 48.25 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
This portrait of an unknown man certainly captures the personality of the chosen sitter. With hat tilted to the side, eyebrow lifted and a half smile of the man's face, one gets the impression that he is finding the whole process of having his portrait painted rather amusing.
Still in Ireland at this time, the sitter is likely to have been a friend of the artist, from Belfast.
In 1944 there was a group exhibition in Belfast held at the textile business of William Ewart & Sons on Bedford Street. Here Smith showed his works alongside the artists Colin Middleton...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Conversation at the Old Mill
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 12 x 16 1/2 inches (30.5 x 42 cm)
In this scene we see the in the doorway the miller with his back turned to us in conversation. To the right two people sit on the wall...
Category
19th Century French School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life of Apples in Fruit Bowl
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (34.25 x 29 cm)
Original Giltwood frame
It is likely that this work was inspired by Matthew Smith's wor...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ready and Waiting
By Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
Located in London, GB
Ink & Watercolour
Image size: 4 x 5 1/2 inches (10 x 14 cm)
Contemporary frame
Provenance
Private family collection
This painting was created in the early 1900's when the Decadent Movement...
Category
Early 1900s Aesthetic Movement Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
The Charming Ghost
Located in London, GB
Ink and watercolour
Image size: 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (9.5 x 14.5 cm)
Contemporary frame
Provenance
Private family collection
This painting was created in the early 1900's when the Decadent Movement...
Category
Early 1900s Aesthetic Movement Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Little Hampton - seascape - James Webb - oil sketch
By James Webb
Located in London, GB
James Webb
1825 - 1895
Littlehampton, Sussex
Oil on board, signed lower left
Image size: 8 x 12 inches
Contemporary silver gilt frame
This painting has on ...
Category
1860s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Sand Pit, 1905 Oil Painting, English Pastoral Landscape
By Alfred Robert Hayward
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed lower left
Inscribed and dated 1905 on reverse
Image size: 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (21 x 27 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
This is a scene of the outskirts of the village of East Ruston, found near the coast in Norfolk. The setting is a sand and gravel pit with the houses of the village just identifiable through the trees in the background.
This small sand pit...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Tempest 19th Century Oil British School
Located in London, GB
British School
19th Century
TempestOil on board
Image size: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (24 x 32 cm)
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Still Life with fruit and Delft plate
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 15 ½ x 19 ¼ inches (39.5 x 49 cm)
18th Century carved gilt frame
Provenance
Irish Country Estate
This complex and convincing composition is painted from a...
Category
17th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
William, 1st Viscount Bateman and Family
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 24 x 18 1/2 inches (61 x 47 cm)
Gilded wood framed
Provenance
Estate of Judge Davis Norton and Florence Edelstein.
William Bateman was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1721 and 1734. He was made Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath...
Category
Early 18th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Girl with Book, 18th Century Regency Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 28 3/4 x 24 inches (73 x 61 cm)
Contemporary style gilt frame
This portrait is an evocative example of Devis' Regency period portraiture, featuring a pleasant looking young girl holding a book in an outdoor setting.
Working with a darker palette, a strongly accented diagonal recession, and dramatic contrasts of light and shadow, Devis heightens the girl's three-dimensional physical presence in the foreground of the composition.
The Artist
Arthur William Devis (10 August 1762 – 11 February 1822) was an English painter of history paintings and portraits. He painted portraits and historical subjects, sixty-five of which he exhibited (1779–1821) at the Royal Academy. Among his more famous works are a depiction of the Death of Nelson and a posthumous portrait of Nelson.
Devis was born in London, the nineteenth child of the artist Arthur Devis and his wife Elizabeth Faulkner. Devis was the younger brother of the painter Thomas Anthony Devis (1757–1810) and of the schoolmistress and grammarian Ellin Devis (1746–1820), teacher, among others, of author of Maria Edgeworth and Frances Burney (later novelist Madame d'Arblay).
He followed his elder brother Thomas Anthony in becoming a pupil at the Royal Academy Schools in 1774 and like his brother exhibited at the Free Society of Artists, of which in 1768 their father had become president, and at the Royal Academy. Early on he came to the notice of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
He was appointed draughtsman on the British East India Company's packet Antelope in a voyage in 1783, under Captain Henry Wilson. In her he was injured in an encounter with Papuans near the Schouten Islands and was then wrecked on the Pelew Islands before proceeding to Canton and thence to Bengal. During his voyages, the artist received arrow wounds, one of which inflicted permanent injury on his lower jaw. During his time in Bengal, he painted a portrait of Sir William Jones, at the time a judge in Fort William. The painting now hangs at the British Library.
He was back in London by 1795 and is recorded on 21 July 1797 as living at 27 George Street, Hanover Square, where he was insured by the Sun Assurance Office.
He is noted for his involvement in the creation of the posthumous cult of Horatio Nelson. As she returned from Trafalgar, Devis went out to meet HMS Victory and was present on board the ship during the autopsy of Nelson's body conducted by Dr Beatty, the ship's surgeon. With the help of sketches he took at that time, he painted a heroic Death of Nelson, which proved a sensation.
Devis also painted Dr Beatty, and was commissioned by him to produce a half-length painting of Nelson as vice-admiral, which he lent to Emma Hamilton (who later lost it in an accident whilst travelling). Either the original or a copy of this portrait was exhibited at the Royal Academy two years after the Battle and many copies were made of it. Lord Howe owned one, and another ended up in the collection of the National Maritime Museum. It also appeared as an engraving in Beatty's published account of Nelson's death.
Other work includes a portrait of King George III on horseback, and a range of portraits of admirals and generals, along with historical subjects, such as the Babington Plot and the signing of the Magna Carta...
Category
18th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life of Pink Roses, Souter, 20th Century Oil painting
By John Bulloch Souter
Located in London, GB
John Bulloch Souter
1890 - 1972
Still Life of Pink Roses
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
Image size: 11 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches (28.5 x 39.5 cm)
Period Gilt frame
This still life shows...
Category
Early 20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait, 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 9 1/4 x 7 inches (23.5 x 18 cm)
Original pierced gilt frame
This wonderful Pre-Raphaelite self-portrait contributes to the artistic tradition of representi...
Category
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hampshire Landscape 20th Century Oil Original Railway Artwork
By Eric Hesketh Hubbard
Located in London, GB
Eric Hesketh Hubbard
1892 - 1957
Hampshire Landscape
Oil on canvas, signed bottom left
Image size: 24 x 18 inches (61 x 46 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
This painting was c...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Head Study
Located in London, GB
Joseph-Auguste Rousselin
French 1841 - 1916
Head Study
Oil on board, signed with initials and signed verso
Image size: 12 x 11 inches
This head study provides an unbelievably moving portrait of an androgynous sitter. Employing incredible technique, the artist has achieved the highly finished porcelain skin, thoughtful eyes and pink lips of the sitter with incredible softness.
The unfinished quality of the background make the composition of the work particularly satisfying to the modern eye. Loosely sketched dashes and brushy swoops outline the model's head. The mix of finished and more expressive elements reveals the artist's brilliant eye, technique and personality.
Artistically, Rousselin does not seem to be influenced by the friendships that he forged with the Impressionists but rather he has remained rather faithful to the academic technique of William Bouguereau, whose studio he also used to frequent.
This study is certainly comparable to the work by Bouguereau, specifically his graceful portraits of women. Bouguereau championed the traditional academic style and his methods were taught to him by a pupil of Ingres. Similar academic inspiration is apparent in this work, from the conscious posing of the subject to the evenly laid colours. Indeed, alike the work of Bouguereau this follows the same classical approach to composition, form and subject matter.
The Artist
Born in Paris in 1841, Rousselin grew up to be a French painter and art collector. From a young age he studied in the workshops of Charles Gleyre and Thomas Couture, here he met the young impressionist generation. His studio peers included Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Édouard Manet, with whom he forged strong bonds of friendship. It was at his invitation that his two friends Renoir and Sisley exhibited at the Salon of the Society of Friends of the Arts in Pau, a region where Rousselin had family ties.
Manet invited him to his family home in Boulogne-sur-Mer where he had him pose in the summer of 1868 for 'Le Déjeuner dans l'Atelie'. Rousselin can be seen in the background of the painting as the man with the cigar, wearing a grey hat...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self Portrait
By Gerald Goddard Jackson
Located in London, GB
Gerald Goddard Jackson
1878-1941
Self Portrait
Oil on canvas
Image size: 23½ x 19½ inches
Original frame
Jackson was born at Duddington, Northamptonshire on 5 March 1878. He enrolled at the Slade School of Art in 1893 where he studied alongside fellow students Wyndham Lewis, Orpen, Gertler, Nash and Nevinson. He left the Slade in 1899 in order to travel to Canada, USA and Mexico, spending three years in Italy.
In 1911, he joined the Army. Upon the outbreak of the First World War, his battalion was sent to France. He was captured in 1916 and was held at various German prisoner of war camps, largely at Schwarmstedt in Saxony. Whilst in captivity he befriended the poet Frederick William Harvey...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
By the River, Montreuil Oil Landscape 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Frank Lewis Emanuel
1865 - 1948
By the River, Montreuil
Oil on board, signed and inscribed on reverse
Image size: 13 1/4 x 10 inches (33.5 x 25.5 c...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Looking across Buttermere, Victorian 19th Century Oil Landscape
By John Atkinson Grimshaw
Located in London, GB
John Atkinson Grimshaw
1836 - 1893
Looking across Buttermere
Oil on canvas, signed & dated '1868' lower right
Image size: 13 ½ x 20 ½ inches (34.2 x 50.5 cm)
Hand made gilt frame
This work is dated 1868 making it one of his early works, painted during the same period as Grimshaw's other Lake District paintings...
Category
1860s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Board, Oil
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
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
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