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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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Canvas, Oil
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
Reclining Nude, 20th Century Oil
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Reclining Nude
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
Image size: 17 x 25 inches
Original frame
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 Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Kirkstall Abbey, 19th Century Romantic Moonlight Oil Landscape
Located in London, GB
William Henry James Boot
1848 - 1918
Kirkstall Abbey
Oil on canvas, monogrammed lower right and dated 1876
Image size: 24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.5 cm)
Exhibited Royal Academy, 1878 no. 692
Much like his contemporary, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Boot appears to have been influenced by the Pether family who were renowned painters of nocturnes. He was a book illustrator as well as a renowned oil and watercolour artist, producing engravings for the London Illustrated News and Art Journal. He wrote 'Trees and How to Paint Them' in 1883.
Boot was born in Manchester. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1874 to 1884, showing mainly English and Continental landscapes. He is known to have travelled extensively in Germany, France and North Africa.
Boot was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and of the Arts Club, who listed him as a "painter and writer on Gothic architecture". Boot also painted domestic genre and interior scenes but tended to concentrate on landscapes.
Boot lived and married in London. He is buried with his wife in Hampstead.
The subject of this painting, Kirkstall Abbey in Yorkshire, was a place Boot often visited. Three figures to the right gaze admiringly at the view, with the moonlight reflected on the path they stand on.
THIS PAINTING IS IN THE 'MOONLIGHT IN PAINTINGS AND WATERCOLOURS' EXHIBITION CURRENTLY SHOWING AT DARNLEY FINE ART...
Category
19th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Willow Tree - British landscape, 20th Century, Oil
Located in London, GB
Leslie Ernest Parkinson
1903 - 2001
A Willow Tree
Oil on board, initialled and dated 1930 top left
Image size: 10 x 12 inches
Handmade frame
Parkinson was born in Islington in 19...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Paris, Early 20th Century Urban Oil
By Herbert James Gunn
Located in London, GB
Sir Herbert James Gunn, RA, PRP
1893 - 1964
Paris
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Image size: 36 x 28 inches (91.5 x 71 cm)
Hand made frame
An early work by Gunn probably from his first studying days in Paris around 1919.
James Gunn was born in Glasgow and briefly studied art at Glasgow and Edinburgh before moving to the Académie Julian in Paris in 1911.
After serving with the 10th Scottish...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of William Russell, Lord Russell, Oil on Canvas
By Sir Godfrey Kneller
Located in London, GB
Style of Sir Godfrey Kneller
1646 - 1723
Portrait of William Russell, Lord Russell
Oil on canvas
Image size: 12 x 11 inches (30 x 28 cm)
In a period carved gilt frame
Category
18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Cricket Match, Mid 20th Century British School Oil
Located in London, GB
British School
Mid 20th Century
The Cricket Match
Oil on board
Image size: 18 x 24 inches (46 cm x 61 cm)
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Peasants Playing Bowls Outside an Inn, 17th Century Oil on Oak Old Master
Located in London, GB
Studio of David Teniers the Younger
1610 - 1690
Peasants Playing Bowls Outside an Inn
Oil on oak cradled panel, signed
Image size: 16 ½ x 22 ½ inches
Gilt s...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Boy in a Black Tunic - Early 17th Century Oil
Located in London, GB
Flemish School, Early 17th Century
Portrait of a Boy in a Black Tunic
Oil on panel
Image size: 15¾ x 13⅛ inches
This accomplished portrait of an unknown boy in his early teens was p...
Category
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Study of the Violinist for Holy Motherhood, pre-raphaelite, newlyn school, Oil
By Thomas Cooper Gotch
Located in London, GB
Thomas Cooper Gotch
1854 – 1931
Study of Violinist for Holy Motherhood
Oil on canvas, on board
Image size: 28 ¾ x 21 inches
18th century frame
Illustrated in "The Golden Dream, A bi...
Category
Early 1900s Aesthetic Movement Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The New Teacher, 19th Century Victorian Interior Oil
Located in London, GB
George Bernard ONeil
1828-1917
Oil on canvas, signed & dated (18)76 lower right
Image size: 22 ½ x 17 inches
Original frame
The painting depicts the arrival of the new teacher, a curious pupil peeps around a door to see her, while her friends look through the open door to the classroom to catch a glimpse.
The artist has gone to great lengths with the painting, such as the highly detailed Dutch tiles on the bottom right of the picture or the window above the door in the background. O'Neil often painted works with several doorways leading off and giving a sense of depth to the work. The use of light and shadow is also cleverly depicted across the work, one light source arrives from where the viewer stands filling the room and the new teacher with light, while the other window above the door in the background also gives a warm glow.
George Bernard O'Neill was born on 17th July 1828 in Dublin the ninth of fifteen children of Bernard and Sarah O...
Category
1870s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
David with the Head of Goliath, 19th Century Victorian Oil
By John Rogers Herbert
Located in London, GB
John Rogers Herbert RA
1810- 1890
Oil on canvas, dated '1850' lower right on sword strap
Image size: 33 ½ x 23 ½ inches
Gilt Watts frame
This striking painting, depicts David as a y...
Category
1850s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sleeping Angel, English School 19th Century Reclining Figure Oil
Located in London, GB
English School
19th Century
Sleeping Angel
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29 x 40 inches
Contemporary gilt frame
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Mary Hardy (nee Sulman), Late 19th Century Victorian Oil
Located in London, GB
Slade School
Late 19th Century
Portrait of a Mary Hardy (nee Sulman)
Oil on panel
Image size: 8 x 7 inches
Contemporary frame
Provenance
Lady Town (Grandda...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Self-Portrait - Royal Academy Founding Member, 18th Century
By Francis Hayman
Located in London, GB
Francis Hayman RA
1708–1776
Self-Portrait
Oil on oak panel
Image size: 8 x 6¼ inches
Contemporary gilt frame
This newly discovered work is the earliest known self portrait by Francis Hayman, dated to the mid to late 1720’s. The small scale of the portrait gives it a strong sense of intimacy. Whereas clients would often dress themselves in their best clothes for a sitting, Hayman has portrayed himself in informal attire, with his shirt unbuttoned and a wig cap.
Born in 1708 to a respectable Devonshire family, his training began at the tender age of ten under the tutelage of the historical painter Robert Brown, who was probably an uncle. By the 1730’s he is known to have been engaged in painting scenery for the popular theatres on Goodman’s Fields and Drury Lane. He established a studio on St Martin’s Lane, and demonstrated his versatility as one of the most
important painters of his time in portraits, illustration and history painting.
Indeed, he was one of the first English painters deemed to have the skill and proficiency to rival that of the foreign masters, such as Holbein and Kneller, who were brought in by the court to make up for the perceived shortcomings of the native artists. Led by William Hogarth, Hayman and other artists began to create a new movement in the English art world. Thomas Gainsborough was one of his pupils, whom he is said to have introduced to the more lascivious and debauched underbelly of London life.
After mostly making his living as an illustrator, in the 1740’s Hayman was commissioned by the proprietor of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, Jonathan Tyers, to produce a series of four large celebratory canvases depicting British victories from the Seven Years War. His association with Tyers continued, and over the next ten years he produced a number of large decorative paintings...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oak, Oil Pastel
Bird's Nest, Victorian 19th Century Royal Academy Oil
By William Henry Hunt
Located in London, GB
William Henry Hunt
1790 - 1864
Bird's Nest
Oil on canvas
Image size: 11½ x 8⅜ inches
William Henry Hunt was a painter and watercolourist of fruit and flowers, landscapes and rust...
Category
19th Century Victorian Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunday Afternoon, Gouache 1960
Located in London, GB
Grace Homer
Born 1907
Sunday Afternoon
Gouache, signed & dated (19)60
Image size: 7 x 9 inches
Framed
A painter and teacher. Born in Liverpool. She attend...
Category
1960s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer Flowers 20th Century Modern British
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Gordon Scott ARCA
1914 - 2016
Summer Flowers
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
Image size: 23.5 x 20 inches
Contemporary style frame
Gordon Scott was trained at the Royal College of Art (1934-38) under Gilbert Spencer, Alan Sorrell and Charles Mahoney. In 1938 he was awarded a Travelling Scholarship by the R.C.A. for painting. A reserved and highly principled man, during WWII he was a conscientious objector, stationed at Bulford Camp on Salisbury Plain. His defined role there is unknown, but during his time there he produced a number of sketches and paintings of soldiers and other personnel who passed through the camp.
In 1946 Joseph Dixon...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Mrs Faber, 18th Century Oil Painting
By Thomas Hudson
Located in London, GB
THOMAS HUDSON
1701 – 1779
Portrait of Mrs Faber
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29 x 24 ½ inches
Contemporary gilt frame
Mrs Faber was the wife of John Faber J...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a King's Messenger, 18th Century English Artist, Original Frame
By Charles Philips
Located in London, GB
Charles Philips
1703 - 1747
Portrait of a King's Messenger
Oil on canvas
Image size: 35 ¾ x 28 inches
Original gilt frame
King's Messenger
The job of a King's Messenger was that of a diplomatic courier, hand-carrying important and secret documents around the world. Some say that the history of the sovereigns' messengers goes back to 1199, but the first known messenger was John Norman, who in 1485 earned 4d (1½ pence) per day for carrying the state papers of Richard III.
The silver greyhound on the messenger's badge dates back to Charles II. In 1660, during his exile at Breda, Netherlands, Charles II issued a declaration of amnesty to all those who had opposed him and his father. He used messengers to make his intentions known. In answer to the messenger's question "How will they know me?", Charles reached forward to a silver bowl on the table in front of him. This bowl, with four decorative greyhounds standing proud above the rim, was well known to all courtiers. Charles broke off a greyhound and gave it to the messenger as a guarantee that the message came from him. From that date, the King's Messenger always wore a silver greyhound around his neck.
Later, dating from George II or III, a badge with the Royal Arms in enamel, with the greyhound suspended beneath, was worn. A George III example of the King's Messenger Badge, pre 1800, sold for over £30,000 pounds some years ago.
The silver greyhounds were minted for each new reign, except the brief one of King Edward VIII. The sovereign's messengers were originally controlled by the Lord Chamberlain, being Messengers of the Great Chamber. When the Foreign Office was created in 1782, the messengers remained common to the three Secretaries of State.
Charles Philips was an English artist known for painting a number of portraits and conversation pieces for noble and Royal patrons in the mid-eighteenth century.
Philips was baptised in the combined parish of St Mildred, Poultry with St Mary...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
En Plein Air Sketch, 20th Century Oil Sketch
Located in London, GB
George Thomson NEAC
1860-1939
En Plein Air Sketch
Oil on paper, signed & dated '1916' lower left
Image size: 15 x 12 inches
Contemporary style frame
Ge...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
London Costmongers, Urban 20th Century English Oil
Located in London, GB
Attributed to Mary Adshead
1904 - 1995
London Costmongers
Oil on canvas
Image size: 30 x 36 inches
Framed
Costermongers were London people that sold fruit and veg and other ‘perishables’ from barrows. Often wheeling and then stationing their barrow on the street, so their customers could easily come and buy from them.
Costermongers were fiercely independent, rebellious in their dress and outlook, and had little time for ‘middle class moralising’ and attempts to suppress or restrict their way of life. (Much like modern teenagers)
The men depicted stop work for a break with cups of tea and a few read the newspapers. Next to the man with the yellow apron can be seen some cakes on a plate. A work place , a factory can be seen in the distance on the right.
It is possible that the painting depicts a cabmen's shelter, as some did serve outside and many still survive today in London.
The style of the painting is very much that of a student of the Slade School in London and has similarities with other artists work such as James Batemen or Herbert Ashwin Budd. On the back of the painting it has in chalk the name 'Rhoades', which could refer to the artist Geoffrey Hamilton Rhoades...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Haze, Early 20th Century Original Oil
By David Forrester Wilson
Located in London, GB
David Forrester Wilson
1873 - 1950
"Summer Haze"
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
Image size: 18 x 24 inches
Original gilt frame
David Forrester Wilson's sensitive portrayal of ...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Knole House, English School 19th Century Country House Landscape Oil
Located in London, GB
English School
19th Century
Knole House
Oil on canvas
Image size: 22 ½ x 35 ½ inches
Gilt frame
This is not only a very beautiful work of art but also a v...
Category
1850s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Dressing Table, 20th Century British Oil
Located in London, GB
Charles McCall
1907 - 1989
The Dressing Table
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1951
Image size: 30 x 25 inches
Gilt frame
Charles McCall was born in Edinb...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pont du Gard, Nimes 19th Century Landscape, oil
By Etienne Duval
Located in London, GB
Etienne Duval
Swiss 1824 - 1914
The Valley of the River Gardon, near Nimes, with the Pont du Gard in the distance
Oil on board, signed with initial
Imag...
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Evening Drink, Late 19th Century English Oil Landscape
By Frank Dean
Located in London, GB
Frank Dean
1865 - 1947
Evening Drink
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1894
Image size: 29 ½ x 49 ½ inches
Handmade frame
Dean was born in Headingly, near Leeds, in 1865. He was a pup...
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Triple Deity, 20th Century Egg Tempera
By Francis Plummer
Located in London, GB
Francis Plummer
1930 - 2019
The Triple Deity
Egg Tempera on board, signed lower left
Image size: 24 x 20 inches
Gilt Framed
Plummer specialised in th...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
The Prelude, Early 20th Century Egg Tempera on board
By Francis Plummer
Located in London, GB
Francis Plummer
1930 - 2019
The Prelude
Egg Tempera on board
Image size: 39 ½ x 49 ¼ inches
Original Frame
This work comes from a rare collection of w...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Exiled, Early 20th-Century Pre-Raphaelite Oil on board
By Francis Plummer
Located in London, GB
Francis Plummer
1930 - 2019
Exiled
Oil on board
Image size: 20 ½ x 24 ½ inches
Framed
This rare collection of works from the artists estate, painted i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self Portrait, Mid-20th Century Oil
Located in London, GB
Sheila Holland
1932-2002
Self Portrait
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Image size: 30 x 22 inches
This is a wonderfully dynamic self portrait by the female artist Shelia Holland. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Turkish Scene, 19th Century British School Victorian
Located in London, GB
British School
19th Century
Turkish Scene
Oil on board
Image size: 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Steam Room 4, 20th Century Contemporary Acrylic
By Graham Dean
Located in London, GB
Graham Dean
1980
Steam Room 4
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: 14 x 10 inches
In keeping with Dean's passion for experiencing the subjects of his work, this ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Refugee from England ( Memories), 20th Century Contemporary Acrylic
By Graham Dean
Located in London, GB
Graham Dean
1975
Refugee from England ( Memories)
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: 47 x 41 inches
Provenance
Nicholas Treadwell Gallery
This painting was reproduced internationally, ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of a Young Girl, Polish Late 19th Century Oil
Located in London, GB
Szymon Buchbinder
1853 - 1908
Portrait of a Young Girl
Oil on canvas
Image size: 19 x 13 inches
Original frameSimon Buchbinder (1853-1908) was a Polish painter. Most of his works we...
Category
Late 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl in a Green Scarf, 20th Century Oil Portrait
Located in London, GB
A.M. Coates
20th Century
Girl in a Green Scarf
Oil on canvas
Image size: 14 x 10 inches
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mischief, 19th Century British School Signed Oil
Located in London, GB
British School
19th Century
Mischief
Oil on canvas
Image size: 30 x 25 inches
Signed and inscribed indistinctly
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Wooded Landscape, 20th Century Oil Landscape
Located in London, GB
Percy Thornton
20th Century
Landscape
Oil on board
Image size: 15½ x 19 inches
Framed
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a Girl, British School 20th Century Oil
Located in London, GB
British School
20th Century
Oil on canvas
Image size: 12 x 8 inches
Framed
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady, Old Masters 18th Century Oil
By Thomas Hudson
Located in London, GB
Thomas Hudson
1701 – 1779
Portrait of a Lady
Oil on canvas
Image size: 30 x 25 inches
Original carved giltwood frame
Hudson had many assistants, and employed the specialist drapery ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yellow Pairing, 21st Century Contemporary Oil
By Keith Holmes
Located in London, GB
Keith Holmes
Contemporary
Yellow Pairing
Oil on board, initialled bottom right
Image size: 15 ¼ x 9 ¾ inches
Framed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
