Important British Painting by James H.C. Miller

This painting of a bulldog features a happy dog who celebrates a 50th birthday with a cake. It’s a very decorative painting with a beautiful frame . The artist is George van van Herwaarde (1938-2011) was born in Haarlem, where he photographed the youth scene in and around club Xeno. His serious photography career began as an assistant to fashion photographer Hans Dukkers in 1957. In the 1960 group portrait of Dutch photographers for De Telegraaf by Paul Huf, he is still literally on the sidelines. After a full-page of his free work in Haarlems Dagblad in 1962, he decided to establish himself independently as a fashion, advertising and, to a lesser extent, portrait photographer. George van Herwaarde...

Arman (American/French, 1928–2005) was born Armand Pierre Fernandez in Nice, and became an American citizen in 1973. The artist is best known for his sculptures made from the accumulation, combustion, or destruction of ordinary objects. Arman studied at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Nice and at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris, where he concentrated on archaeology and Asian art. In the early 1960s, he signed the New Realism...

Pieter Haaxman (24 May 1854, in The Hague – 31 January 1937, in Haarlem), was a Dutch painter whose work is held in museum collections in the Netherlands. He was born in The Hague, Netherlands in 1854, the son of the coach maker Andries Jacobus Haaxman and became pupil of Herman ten Kate (1822–1891) at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten there and became a member of the Pulchri studio and Arti et Amicitiae. He is known for portraits and genre works, but he created paintings with a classical look as well. Haaxman's miniatures were commissioned by Queen Emma...

Jules-Arsène Garnier (1847–1889) was a French painter known for his historical and genre works. Born in Paris, he began his education at the Académie de Toulouse, one of the most pre...