One of a pair of red and orange pictures on WWII vehicle canvas by Martin Scorey

‘Spoons’ by Martin Scorey, a collection of eight spoons of various sorts mounted on a white painted board with a metal plaque ‘Spoons by Martin Scorey’. English, circa 2010.

These extraordinary ‘paintings’ were created using coloured grains of sand rather than paints. Each is after an original painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg. The first scene shows the Battle of Hastings with a central mounted figure, presumably William the Conqueror, with a red plume in his helmet, raising his sword against a fighter on foot. A printed version of this image, shown above, was made by William Bromley. (See the British Museum registration number 1858,1009.115 for a fine impression.) The second scene, composed with a similar central mounted knight with a raised axe (sword in the original) represents Richard the Lionheart in combat against Saladin at the Battle of Acre. In this case the print was made by Anker Smith...

A Pair Of ‘Sorrento’ Stained Olive and Fruit Wood Pictures By Michele Grandville (Italian, 1821-1893). Depicting ‘Roman Tarantella Dancers’ and ‘A Pompeian Harp Recital’, each with ...

With French Regence style frames. One scene depicting wolves playing in a well and the other a wolf and an Ibis.