Lesley Arthur Wilcox ‘World Commerce’

‘Tea at the Vicarage’ by Margaret Dovaston, dated 1952, an oil painting showing four gentlemen having an earnest conversation over a cup of tea on a terrace outside a cottage garden, Margaret Dovaston, dated 1952. English. Margaret Isabel Dovaston (1884 – 1954) was a British artist who became particularly well known for her historical genre scenes, often depicting groups in Georgian costume. In the course of her education, she was taught by Thomas William Cole at the Ealing School of Art and Arthur Stockdale Cope at the South Kensington School of Art. Her crowning achievement was winning a five-year scholarship the to the Royal Academy Schools (1903-1908) where she won many medals. She exhibited at the Royal Academy (1908 and 1910) and helped set up The Ealing Art...

A fine genre oil painting by William Arthur Breakspeare depicting the fictional meeting of Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton in the Studio of the Painte...

Nelson's tomb in St. Pauls Cathedral by Amy Sawers (Exh. 1887-1909) Painted in gouache by this well listed artist who exhibited at many different venues including 16 at The Royal Ac...

An oil on canvas by R G Thurgood of HM Cruiser 'Vindictive', Assaulted the 'Mole' at Zeebrugge against the Germans, April 1918. Thomas George Thurgood (1876–1953) A very simi...

Oil on board with two men playing chess in an 18th century interior while a third smokes a clay pipe, in the original frame, signed.          

These charming English School portraits show the subjects half-length by a desk, the surgeon with a skull at his elbow and his wife with an open writing box. Oil on canvas within a gilded frame and accompanied by five related letters. English, circa 1810. Footnote: Robert Prideaux died aged 36 in 1818 but in his short life he managed to rise rapidly through the ranks as a naval surgeon. The Naval Chronicle Vol. 19 (1808) records his appointment as a surgeon, aged only 26, on the cutter Sprightly and that he moved to the Lily by the end of the same year. In 1809, a member of the crew of the vessel Polyphemus was involved in a drunken incident that culminated in him being sick on the quarter-deck of the Lily whilst both vessels were docked at Port Royal in Jamaica. This led to a Court Martial appearance for one Joseph Fountain, the Master at Arms...

Large torn paper painting/collage similar to Arthur Secunda. Each color has been painted and torn then reconstructed to create a beautiful collage. Vibrant color and rich texture.

Painting by the Danish painter Bente Ørum 2017. Nino is a boy aged somewhere between 6 and 18 in Bente Orum’s universe. He symbolizes the challenges of g...

Contemporary, naturalistic painting by the Danish painter Bente Ørum, 2017. Nino is a boy aged somewhere between 6 and 18 in Bente Orum’s universe. He symbolizes the challenges of...

A bold and colorful abstract artwork from DK with lots of texture and layering of paint on canvas. An interesting Brutalist painting from the mid-1990s, a cross between street art ...

This work is signed "PLUM" recto of the canvas; canvas size - 36" x 60"; framed size 63" x 38.5" x 1.5" profile. Andrew Plum was born in Lancashire, England in 1965 and moved to Cana...

Between two worlds Large format acrylic work. The moment relates to an important life. My head was straddling two worlds, the rural world from which I come and which gives me the t...