British Paintings

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of original Barry Leighton-Jones (1932-2011) salon oil paintings with the original certificates. ...

Vintage Original Oil Painting Depicting a Male Sitter A quick expressive portrait sketch in oils on paper. Depicting a male sitter with a heavy brow in shades of brown. Framed and...

Oliver Clare (British, 1853-1927) Pair of Still life oil paintings on board, each signed ‘Oliver Clare’ Set in gilded gesso frames.

An English oil on canvas equestrian painting from the early 20th century signed George Paice (1854-1925), depicting a horse standing in a field, in a new custom brown and gilded frame. Created in the early years of the 20th century by British painter George Paice, this horizontal oil on canvas painting features an elegant brown horse with a single white sock...

A lovely terrace scene of a stunning young lady draped in classical dress with a rich background of the sea, trees, flowers, fruits and fabrics, painted with oil on canvas by Oliver Rhys...

Fall farm scene painting by John Linnell, oil on board signed and dated in the lower right. The painting measures 26.5" x 28.5" including the fram...

A wonderful vintage oil painting titled “Harbour Scene”, by the important Irish painter and author, Ronald Ossory Dunlop (1895-1973). This would h...

One of the most stunning and monumental depictions of male nude figures -- and male athletes -- ever accomplished in the Modern era, this large painting shows five nude rowers, relaxed and conversational, as they hold their oars and await the next round of competition. The figures are shown with flushed, ruddy complexions, contrasting with the fresh green of the grass and trees surrounding them. The artist, James Stroudley, presents his rowers as consummate modern British men...

Circa mid 19th Century watercolor on paper. Clatworthy Church of St Mary Magdalene, Somerset England. Shows graveyard with iron mortsafe cages over g...

JOHN WILSON CARMICHAEL British, 1800-1868 "View over Lake Nemi, Italy" (1865) Oil on canvas Signed lower right "1865 J. W. Carmichael" Item ...

19th century English portrait, oil on canvas in ebonized wood frame.

Miss Ethel Mortlock an oil on canvas called 'Town' of Marie Adelaide Brassey (aged 3) who became Marchioness of Willingdon (see below) and is buried in the Nave at Westminster Abbey, signed and dated 1878. Picture 60 x 45 cm Ethel Mortlock (1865-1928) an extraordinary woman and sought after portrait painter, she painted this aged 16!. Born in Cambridge and lived in London. She exhibited at The Royal Academy between years 1878-1893 no less than 29 paintings also at the Grosvenor Galleries. Many of Paintings in museums (See History below and her sitters). Marie Adelaide Brassey - Marie Adelaide Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon, GBE, CI DStJ (née Brassey; 24 March 1875 – 30 January 1960) was a daughter of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey. On 20 July 1892, she married Freeman Thomas , 1st Marquess of Willingdon (12 September 1866 – 12 August 1941), the future Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India. She became : Invested as an Imperial Order of the Crown of India (C.I.) in 1917, Decorated with the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal , Invested as a Dame of Justice, Venerable Order of St John (D.J.St. J.),Decorated with the Order of Mercy. Invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in December 1917. Invested as a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1924 Birthday Honours. Marie Canyon on the Cowichan River, Vancouver Island is named for her, commemorating a 1930 canoe trip from Cowichan Lake down that river to the city of Duncan, British Columbia. The Lady Willingdon Hospitol in Lahore, Pakistan is named after her .The Lady Willingdon Hospital in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India, is named after her. About Ethel Mortlock : Her clientèle of sitters included members of the aristocracy and European nobility and included, by her account, the Shah of Persia (1900) and the ‘Chinese Ambassador’, Li Hung Chang (who was actually the Chinese Viceroy), à propos which sitting the Sketch published an illustrated interview with Ethel in August 1896. Ethel was thought pretty grand by the American papers who reported that Chang had to go to her studio for sittings in 1896 rather than she wait upon him. He brought her a roll of silk and a white jade palette as presents. Li Hung Chang was a pretty big cheese; his wife had two thousand servants waiting on her. The Chatham, NY, Courier reported that Ethel had painted every Ambassador who had come to London. These last clients, allegedly by failing to pay the £1000 charged for their portraits, landed Ethel in trouble. They were, of course, conveniently unavailable to the bankruptcy commissioners so this sob-story could not be checked. Strapped for cash she was caught out when the executors of a racehorse owner called Edward Overall Bleakley found, in his effects, IOUs for hundreds of pounds (Bleakley had bequeathed his own portrait by Ethel to Manchester Infirmary [Daily News, 1.8.98]). Ethel went to court, claiming that these were offset by painting commissions, but the court found against her and she was told to pay up. Now saddled with legal costs, she was caught again when Captain Noel Hoare, her man of business, died and it was found that he had mortgaged to Hoare’s Bank, without her knowledge (she said), three properties in Sloane Street that she had been building. She tried to buy back one of these but lost a £500 deposit when she could not complete, making a bad situation rather worse. Bleakley’s executors now broke her and her examination in bankruptcy in 1901 can be read in the PRO as above. Her troubles were attributed to extravagance and betting - the Bleakley IOUs were assumed to be in fact gambling debts and the creditors now included all sorts of tradesmen and the Hotel Cecil where Ethel was then living, presumably in some style. She did not help herself by claiming an income of £250 p.a. when individual commissions were on her own account at the £1000 mark as above, meaning that the Chinese and Persian portraits alone would have occupied her last eight years and she would have obtained these prestigious commissions at the age of 18 (she gave her age as 26). Faced by the raised eyebrows of her superiors in mental arithmetic Ethel then upped her declared usual income to a still rather modest £800. She claimed to keep no sort of cash book, accounts, or any memoranda. Proceedings closed with Ethel declared bankrupt and a number of people out of pocket; the settlement was at 7/6 in the pound. Ethel went back to her easel. Some financial aspects seem never to have been sorted out; funds in Chancery relating to her, Hoare and Bleakley were still being recorded in the London Gazette every few years at least up to 1938; maybe the born in Cambridge; she appears never to have married. The 1881 census had not heard of her - she may have been in the United States at that time. However, standard works about Victorian painters, such as the Antique Collectors’ Club Dictionary of British Artists (Johnson %26 Greutzner, 1976) and their Dictionary of Victorian Painters (C Wood, 2nd edition, 1978) tell us that she was a pupil of Sir William Orchardson (who came to London in 1863) and that by 1904 she had exhibited 29 works at the Royal Academy. I have listed these, usually prestigious, sitters, who included Don Carlos...

Roving Rooster - New original work by Seren Bell. Mixed media on Fabriano paper, 17 inches x 21 inches. Sold unframed. Can be framed for local buyers. ...

Maria Harrison (XIX-XX) - 'Delphiniums & Daisies' (Untitled) - Antique watercolor floral still life painting on paper - J. Green & Son watermark to the paper (this watermark used cir...

E. M. MILLER - "Untitled" - Antique Impressionist fine art watercolor painting on paper - featuring a thatched roof cottage with an elaborate flowe...

Beautiful oil on canvas scene of a brook running through a woodland. Lovely old patina and warmth of tone highlight this stately piece, clearly created by a master painter. The gilt ...

A very good painting of an English Sailing ship by the listed Artist Daniel Sherrin . Listed in the Benezt ! The title is ( the Black Adder ) Oil on Canvice and signed in lower left side in red. Was purchased in London 35 years ago and held in a private collection of Antique Ships Oil Paintings...

Seascape painting set in it's original gilt-wood frame., English, 20th century, oil on canvas. Dimensions: H 53 x W 61.5 x D 6.5 cm (framed dimensions)

A Highly Decorative Pair of Still Life's, Oil On Canvas's, Both framed same, one indistinctly signed other presumed by same hand. Both are very attr...

A pair of original gauche paintings by Charles John de Lacy, illustrating the interior of two different warships. These detailed cutaway technical drawings wer...

A 19th C three quarter length portrait of an aristocratic gentleman with his personal valet shown behind him. The young man with flowing long hair is portrayed from the waist up and ...

Oil on canvas, signed lower left. Measures 32.25" x 37.5" including the frame. Know for his paintings of scenes in the highlands of Scotland, John Barker, British 1811 to 1886.

Impressive antique pair of beautifully rendered portraits, moody realism against dark chiaroscuro backgrounds, gorgeously framed in giltwood moldings having simple carved hieroglyphi...

This abstract painting features lines of gradient blues triangles entangled like festive garlands . Cubism influenced the combination of triangle shapes of different sizes in this artwork . Edward Wolfe is known for semi-abstract figure, still life, landscape and portrait painting and drawing, some cubism. Edward Wolfe (29 May 1897 – 8 July 1982) was a British artist who was a Portrait, flower, and landscape painter, mainly in oil, illustrator, and draughtsman in pen and ink and pencil. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wolfe came to England and studied at the Slade School 1916–8, having in his native country worked for periods as a child actor and for a jeweler, during which time he had his first serious art lessons with the British painter George Smithard. Whilst at the Slade was invited by Nina Hamnett to join Roger Fry...

Antique English oil on canvas painting "The Marketplace" by George E. Butler (1872-1936).    

ALLAN GWYNNE-JONES (1892-1982) "H M The Queen when Princess Elizabeth" study for No. 47 depicting the Princess in Windsor Great Park, oil on board, ...

Chicken coop, Oil on canvas, late 18th century

Watercolor artwork "The Message" by Allen Jones. Watercolor is 29.5" H x 22.25" W without framing and matting.

MEE (Possibly Margaret Mee) - Vintage river view watercolor landscape painting on paper - mounted with adhesive to card - unframed - signed lower left - U...

Important watercolor painting representing a beautiful landscape with sailboats in front of a rocky coastline Dimensions without frame cm 5...

Mahogany furniture to keep paintings, plans and special documents. It can be oriented in different positions.

An English oil on board equestrian painting from the 19th century by John Alfred Wheeler (1821-1903) titled "The Watering Trough". Created by British artist John Alfred Wheeler durin...

Oil on artist panel, signed and dated lower left. It measures 19.75" x 22.75" including the frame, which is likely the original. Benjamin Williams Leader RA (12 March 1831 – 22 Ma...

Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945 by James Stourton. Publisher; Scala Books, London, 2008. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. "Great Collectors of Our Time" is the first major survey of contemporary collecting and collectors since Douglas Cooper's "Great Private Collections," published in 1963. It examines many of the greatest collectors of our time in Europe, North America and the Far East, and follows their tastes - whether in the Old Masters or the avant garde - from the 20th century into the 21st. In 1945, Paris was still the cultural capital of the world, but its culture was being increasingly challenged by America. American collecting was soon to pull up its European anchor and move across the Atlantic, in growing acceptance of America's own art, the decline in the domination of three European schools of art - Italian Renaissance, English 18th century and French 19th...

An English regency domed leather portrait box with a doré bronze border and a velvet interior. The box opens to a 19th century painting on ivory. Si...

A Wonderful Thomas Blinks 'Full Cry' - Oil on board - Highly sought after artist from a family originally probably purchased from artist , never been to auction. Measures: In Frame W...

An original British School Regency Period watercolor study of two birds eggs, mounted in a Georgian Period Birdseye Maple frame – Circa 1835. These watercolors were largely painte...

Sampson & Dalilah, At the gate of prison. Colored copper engraving in contemporary Empire mahogany frame with internal line intarsia, gilt with ...

DAVID THOMAS ROSE (1871-1964, Scottish) - 'Brighton Lanes' - Post War watercolor painting on paper - unframed - signed lower right and titled verso -...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very large and decorative oil on canvas of some early Victorian ships on the Thames. This is a wonderful painting that looks really quite e...

Lovely Art Deco painting, portrait of a young lady in the make-up room. painting is gouache / chalk on paper. It is framed with a beautiful passe-partout, from the same time, in a si...

Sotheby's, Easton Neston, May 17-19 2005. Pair of auction catalogs, softcover 1st Ed. 734pp. English text. A pair of large and well illustrated catalogue...

This is a vintage oil painting. An English, gilt framed poppy field scene on canvas, dating to the late 20th century. Gaze upon a classically e...

A very nice quality pair of marine paintings by Thomas Rose Miles (English 1869-1910). He is best known for producing dramatic marine scenes...

Early 19th Century English Pair of Regency Period Portraits. Full length portraits of a husband and wife in a household setting oil on wood panel. Bot...

Oil on canvas ''the Descent from the Cross'' or "La Descente de la Croix" in the style of Peter Paul Rubens the Descent from the Cross has been called a Baroque masterpiece — perhaps due to its monumentality — but it is also considered to be the first work of Rubens' “Classicist” period, which characterized his style from about 1612 to 1620. Highly sought after original copy of the masterpiece that Rubens painted, it shows it's age well, some repairs but when it hangs on the wall it is an impressive antique canvas...

The caption of this charming pen and ink, watercolor and gouache vignette reads "A troupe of Eastern Entertainers taken from diary of G. Copeland 1830." Perhaps a rememberance from...

Exquisite quality painting by the English artist Frederick Goodall R.A depicts the Nile river in Egypt, Signed 'F.G.' lower right; dated 1875, in a gilded wooden frame and glass. ...

A pair of oil on canvas hunt paintings attributed to Henry Alken (1785-1851) entitled "The Find" and "The Death", in original giltwood frames. Provenance: Provenance: The Hon. Mr...

19th Century coastal landscape water colour, monogram lower right. Delightful picture capturing the softness light and colours of the English coast on an overcast day Wide compo...

Vintage mid 20th century gouache on turquoise paper of an artist rendering design for wrought iron design on a cabinet. Pencil notation on lower right margin "Hancock Industries." Li...

Oil painting On board Dystopian view Mid Century.

A beautiful watercolor of a church interior. Trimmed corners Inscribed Malta on the page of the album it came from Fabulous quality. Lovely bright colours. Not faded at all. By Edwin...

Photolithographic reproduction of Henry Moore's work for Bolaffiarte Made in England, circa 1971. Copy 279 of 5000 limited copies. Framed and signe...

This original painting is signed "A. Larren" presumably from England, and dating to approximately 1920 and done in the period Art Deco style. The painting is done in oil paint on a c...

Oil painting On canvas Abstract Labelled.   

A charming watercolor on paper of a barnyard scene with a family of chickens painted and signed lower right A.F. Tate 1871. The back of the piece has la...

An original British School Regency Period watercolor study of a Blackbird’s nest and eggs, mounted in a Georgian Period Maple frame – Dated 1863. These...