Coaching Scene, Tits and Trampers

Oil on canvas fishing river scene painting. A charming colourful oil on canvas painting of a chocolate box river scene, could easily be the Thames. In the foreground can be seen a r...

Oil painting Of Rissersee, Germany. A very scenic oil painting of Rissersee, a lake in Grainau near Garmisch - Partenkirchen, surrounded by the Bavarian Alps. Painted by the German ...

Impressive modern Golf Portrait, William Laidlaw Purves. Large oil on canvas of Dr. William Laidlaw Purves after the original oil painting by the Hon. John Collier (1850 - 1934), a prominent London artist. The painting is un-framed but is stretched and ready to hang, artist of this particular painting is unknown. The original painting now hangs at Royal St. George's, Sandwich. William Laidlaw Purves, oculist and obsessive golfer, was an Edinburgh born surgeon who worked in London, but remembered by most for his contributions to the golfing world. A very influential man, he was one of the key figures behind the spread of the game of golf in England towards the end of the 19th century. He won many important club trophies, the last being in 1914, aged 71 with a handicap of 3. He died at his home Hardwick Cottage, Wimbledon Common on 30th December 1917, and at the time he was a member of no fewer than 32 golf clubs. As a student Purves had played golf at Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh and by the time of his London appointment he was a member of both the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers and the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. Upon his move to London in 1874 he joined the London Scottish and Wimbledon Golf Club. The two clubs shortly separated into two separate clubs, The London Scottish Golf Club and the Wimbledon Golf Club, but both continued to play on Wimbledon Common. In 1882 the Wimbledon became the Royal Wimbledon Golf Club and Purves became an active committee member, later being elected Captain. As the two clubs also shared the Common with the public play was restricted, so together with a fellow Scot and keen amateur golfer (Henry Lamb...

Original Fox Hunting Watercolor, Finch Mason. A wonderful original hunting watercolour signed by the renowned sporting artist George Finch Mason, titled ...

A charming watercolor of golfers on the golf course, possibly at Callander, with Ben Ledi beyond. This view typifies the glorious scenery of "Rob Roy Country"...

A fine golf painting, "A View of Rye Harbour - Rye from the 3rd Tee" oil on canvas. Signed and dated Charles M. Orchardson, 1904. The artist was the...

18th century: Religious scene with Christ and his disciples. Unsigned. Oil on canvas laid on board.

An early 19th century coach panel, larger than the norm, oil on board of an armorial centred by a typical shield, drapes and a warriors arm holding a s...

Beautiful early 19th century Italian oil painting on board, not signed. Biblical scene probably "the Emmaus supper". High pictorial quality. Sold with frame.  

Beautiful early 20th century oil painting on board, signed unidentified artist. The painting is small in size but has a very high artistic quality. A scene of peasants resting during...

A 19th century oil painting with original silver frame. Most probably representing the big river Garonne in Toulouse, France. Garonne was famous for its intense traffic of steamboat...

London, 1882, illustrated. Fine tooled leather with exterior. The illustrations are colored.