18th Century Folk Art Half Length Portrait Naval Officer Oil on Board Antique

A late 18th/early 19th century gouache on paper landscape, an unusual composition with passing ships two large naval, small rowing and sail boats centred by a large country estate. It has the feel of being American in origins, but we could be wrong. Some creasing lines are apparent, but apart fro that is good untouched condition, housed in a period maple and gilt slip frame and glazed. Provence By descent from Douglas Shepherd (1922-1989), a designer and architect working on public houses for the brewery firm Ind Coope. He was heavily influenced by and was a serious collector of Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau, including leading designers and artists such as Charles Ashlee and Jessie M King...

A rather wonderful pen and ink on paper sailors chess board, with a aesthetically pleasing geometric pattern and with what appears to be Scottish castles, HMS Alert & Discovery. Hou...

A wonderful naive collection of six fighting scenes, with baker boys and chimney sweeps. The six spilt up into two tryptic's one showing a fight in a ring that's abruptly slowed ...

An early 19th century British/Irish provincial school oil on canvas painting Three Quarter Length Portrait of a Naval Officer, possibly Lieutenant Henry Anderson, housed within a gi...

A charming oil on board painting of a pondering dog in a country house kitchen. Age related craquelure to the painted surface, the odd knock and abrasion to the gilt gesso frame. But...

A wonderful provincial scene of a revering William Shakespeare holding a pen, in a fanciful woodland. The outdoor scence would appear to be the wild woods outside of Athens from A M...

Antique Italian painting from the mid-18th century. Oil on canvas artwork depicting a portrait of a young girl with a bouquet of flowers of good pictorial quality. Painting of beauti...

Circa 1780 Virgin of the Scapular, Anon Venezuelan School, a fabulous painting in the original carved wood gilded frame. Something was originally in the small square holes on either ...

Wonderful Folk aRT / outsider art Oil on Board painting by Charles Moore ."Tattoo Legs" .Western nEW yORK aRTIST,,

Exquisite 18th century French oil on canvas. There is a note at the back of the painting saying... "Oil on canvas given to me by my ...

Large Italian landscape from the 18th century. Oil on canvas artwork depicting landscape with architecture and farmers of good pictorial qualit...

Antique Italian painting from the end of the 18th century. Non-coeval wood and plaster frame, from the 19th century, finely carved, lacquered and gilded. Artwork oil on canvas depict...