Sarah Colegrave Fine Art Figurative Paintings

ANDRE AMSTUTZ (1925-2015) Punting Signed l.l. Oil on board Framed 27 by 19.5 cm., 10 ½ by 7 ¾ in. (frame size 45.5 by 38 cm., 18 by 15 in.) Reproduced: Guinness Time, Summer 1968...

FREDERICK CAYLEY ROBINSON, ARA, RWS (1862-1927) A Summer Evening Signed l.r.: CAYLEY-ROBINSON; inscribed on the reverse: A Summer Evening/Exhibited at Leicester Galleries Oil on paper 16.5 by 18.5 cm., 6 ½ by 7 ¼ in. (frame size 38.5 by 40 cm., 15 ¼ by 15 ¾ in.) Exhibited: London, Leicester Galleries, Small Paintings and Sketches by the Late F. Cayley Robinson, ARA, RWS, December 1929 Born in Brentford-on-Thames, the son of a stockbroker, Robinson began his artistic training at the St John’s Wood...

CHARLES MARCH GERE, RA, RWS (1884-1963) A Cotswold Stonebreaker Signed l.l.: CHARLES GERE; signed and inscribed with title and the artist’s address on the stretcher Oil on canvas ...

ELIZABETH TAGGART (Born 1943) An Outside Performance Signed l.l.: TAGGART; signed, inscribed with title and dated 1978 on the backboard Oil on board Framed 12 by 20.5 cm., 4 ¾ by 8 in. (frame size 21 by 29 cm., 8 ¼ by 11 ½ in.) Elizabeth Ferguson Taggart was born in Donaghadee, Co Down, Northern Ireland. She trained under John Luke and Romeo Toogood in Belfast’s College of Art. Painting highly individual, surreal, flamboyant and quirky works, she has exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Hibernian Academy, Irish Exhibition of Living Art...

ARTHUR BOYD HOUGHTON (1836-1875) Sunday Afternoon Signed l.l.: Houghton Oil on canvas Framed 20.5 by 25.5 cm., 8 by 10 in. (frame size 30.5 by 34.5 cm., 12 by 13 ½ in.) Provenance: William Drummond; Private collection. Probably painted in 1864, the present work evokes the peaceful contentment of everyday family life, with its small scale further reinforcing the intimacy of the scene. It is one of a series of small intimate family scenes produced during this happy period of his life. A male figure, possibly the artist’s himself, slumbers in a chair, a handkerchief draped over his face whilst Susan, the artist’s young wife reads by the window. Their child, either Arthur or Georgina, plays on the floor with a discarded newspaper. The room is at 4 Adelaide Villas, St Mary’s Grove, Richmond, the house Arthur and Susan moved to shortly after their marriage in 1861. The chaise and window, with its pots of geraniums, also feature in the 1864 painting Coach and Horses (private collection) which depicts Susan, with her hair down, playing with Arthur and Georgina. A pot of daffodils placed beside the same geraniums in the present work suggest it may have been painted in the spring of that year. Such domestic bliss would shortly come to a tragic end when Susan died of pyaemia following the birth of their third child in June 1864. Houghton was born in India, the son of a captain in the East India Company’s marine service. Both is father and older brother were accomplished military draughtsmen and he probably received early training from them. His family returned to England in the early 1850s and he began studies at Leigh’s and the Langham...

BRITISH SCHOOL (circa 1890) The Farmer Oil over a photographic base, on card and mounted onto original canvas Framed in original frame and behind glas...

PERCY ANGELO STAYNES (1875-1953) Chinese Mandarin Signed and inscribed on a label on the reverse Oil on board 31 by 27 cm., 12 ¼ by 10 ¾ in. (fram...