American School Oil On Canvas Laid On Board, "Ladies In A Carriage Saluted"

Oil on canvas portraits of a Victorian boy and girl set against an outdoor landscape.. The boy in nicely tailored attire of white pants and black jack...

Signed lower left. A genre scene along a Venice canal with ladies shopping. They stop at a vegetable stall under a white awning. The proprietor is seated doing needlework with her da...

Oil on canvas depicting a young lady in a parlor setting wearing a green dress and looking down at the book in her hand. Circa 1872. Presented in a fine gilt fluted, beaded and carve...

Oil on canvas with covered wagons heading west in an open prairie. Signed lower right. Sight measures 23 1/2" wide and 17 1/2" high. Frame measures 27 1/2" wide and 21 1/2" high. ...

19th Century English Equestrian Scene Oil on Canvas Painting by Elizabeth Shelly. Painting features riders in formal riding attire with three riders and a dog in a wooded area. The f...

Engish Victorian gilt framed oil painting of stage coach with 4 horses (signed) VIntage condition

A fine antique oil painting, on canvas, of horses pulling a tandem at speed. signed and titled lower left, Vine Colchester 1834 This fine painting shows two horses pulling an open carriage /gig with gentleman in extensive landscape/park The size of the painting is approx 50 x 80 cms, whilst overall the size framed is 100cm x 71 cm This is a fine painting in very good condition housed in a gilt frame ready to hang Provenance: The E. W. Towler Collection, formerly of Glympton Park, Woodstock, Oxfordshire see details below The artist John Vine was born with a disability that did not appear to interfere with his ability to draw and paint, largely self-taught as an animal painter, as his reputation grew he exhibited at the Society of British Artists in Grosvenor Square. Based at Colchester he painted many different subjects including farms, houses, children and animals. Eric W. Towler was a remarkable man. He was born in 1900 and left school at the age of 12 to work in a Yorkshire pit and through a lifetime of hard work, self-improvement, luck and a refusal to limit his horizons achieved many of his aspirations. As a Yorkshireman through and through, he believed in ‘spending the brass in his pocket’ and over time he was successful enough to acquire enough ‘brass’ to enable his purchase of Glympton Park and furnish it as a traditional country house with all the trappings – in his case collections of...

A late Nineteenth early Twentieth century English Colonial painting on board by C. Wilson presented in a gilt wood frame. Depicting a group of men with top hats riding on a horse-dra...