Antique English

Antique Victorian English Oil Winter Tree's Woodland Landscape

Artist/ School: British School, late 19th century Title: Sunset over a Highland Loch. Most likely Scottish but possibly Irish. Medium: oil painting ...

Artist/ School: F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950), signed Title: 'Returning Home', a mother and child returning home along the riverside pathway through a mountain glen at sunset. ...

John White was a Cornish painter from the 19th century. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and also at the British Institute, in London. His work is Victorian in its com...

Oil on panel, signed and dated 1894 in the lower left and inscribed on the reverse. The frame measures 15.25" x 19.25". Leader was born in Worcester as Benjamin Leader Williams, the son, and first child of eleven children, of notable civil engineer Edward Leader Williams (1802–79) and Sarah Whiting (1801–88). His father was described as a "non conformist dissenter" and his mother was a Quaker – their marriage in an Anglican church resulted in them being disowned by the Society of friends. Leader's father was a keen amateur artist – a friend of John Constable – and Benjamin would often accompany him on sketching trips along the banks of the River Severn. His brother, also Edward Leader Williams, later became a notable civil engineer who was knighted for his work, and is now mainly remembered for designing Manchester ship canal...