Portrait of Miss Hall with a Lion, After Chippendale Engraving by Benjamin West

"Saul with the Pythoness Evoking the Shadow of Samuel". Beautiful oil on Canva, work of the English school of the entourage of Benjamin West. This oil on canvas represents a bibl...

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...

Orientalist engraving after Horace Vernet, wood frame, Empire period Orientalist engraving depicting Rebecca at the Fountain giving a drink to...

A fine Grand Tour copy of the Italian Renaissance portrait of "the baker's daughter" for many years attributed to Raphael but now attributed to Sebastian del Piombo...

Benjamin West Oil on Canvas Painting, "St. John" Putto with Lamb, 18th Century The painting depicts a putto praying with a lamb near him towards the lower...

A 19th century steel plate engraving depicting the Banishment of Cleombrotus after the original by Benjamin West oil on canvas painting executed in 1768 and held at the Tate Gallery. The engraving is presented with beige matting and a gilded wooden frame. Benjamin West showed this painting at the second exhibition of the newly formed Royal Academy. After several years in Italy, West had established himself in London as the leading painter of subjects from classical history...