British Paintings

Oil on canvas, signed lower right. Dimensions listed include the frame. Featuring sailboats off the coast on a beautiful day for a sail. Brereton was born in Derby in 1954. He rece...

PRESENTING A STUNNING & RARE Pair of 19C Oils on Canvas of Highland Cattle by John W Morris. Circa 1890-1900 and painted by John W. Morris, a renowned B...

A beautiful original oil painting on canvas 'Sleeping Figure' 2024. Painted by a young artist Archie Francis who is currently studying at Camberwell College art, London. This pai...

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...

Pair of 1960s reverse painted and gilt glass paintings depicting zodiac imagery of Taurus and Cancer. Signed "C. Oakley."

'Les Lavandieres' William Samuel Henry LLEWELLYN (1858-1941) Sir (Samuel Henry) William Llewellyn (1858-1941) was a noted and important English painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and served as President of the Royal Academy from 1928 to 1938, and was awarded the Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts) in 1933. Llewellyn has 67 paintings in British national collections, including a portrait of industrialist and philanthropist Sir Alexander Grant...

In 1845 British Officer Sir John Franklin and crew disappeared on an arctic exploration. Captain Francis Leopald McClintock was commissioned to explore that disappearance on the yacht "Fox" in 1857. Here is a watercolor rendering of that ship painted...

Clarence Hailey Newmarket (British born 1867-1949) famous for his painting of stallions and jockeys Portraits of a jockey and racehorse Newmarket, Su...

An Art Deco Style Contemporary painting by Vera Jefferson depicting a stylised pond filled with Koi and Carp. Dimensions: H 95cm W 125cm Origin: English Date: Contemporary Ver...

A beautiful watercolor of the North Wales coast Fabulous quality. Lovely colours. Not faded at all. On paper applied to paper Unsigned Unframed Free shipping *Robert Hindmarsh Grundy...

Lovely oil painting of a gothic interior Wonderful colours and simplicity Oil on board. 1960's. Unframed Free UK shipping  

Whimsical oil on canvas "The Bicycle". Unusual oil on canvas representing a cyclist en route to London. Initial TS.

I love this! It is a framed English sea captain with his child dating to approximately 1850. It is a watercolor on paper. The frame is burl walnut, and both painting and frame show w...

This 19th-century oil on mahogany board titled 'The Cut Finger' by William Hemsley, R.B.A., depicts a familial pairing in a cottage home. The girl tends to the eponymous cut with a white cloth pressed on the boy's finger. A dim light is cast from the window to the left, illuminating a cut loaf of bread, a knife, and simple stoneware to set the scene. The girl sits in a wooden chair wearing a salmon-colored blouse, while the young boy is dressed in a golden overshirt. William Hemsley, R.B.A., (1819-1906) was a prolific draughtsman and painter of genre scenes depicting English provincial life. Hemsley’s scenes of everyday reality, which were usually painted on a small scale, follow the gentle tradition of Webster and F. D. Hardy. He was, like them, fond of painting children at play. Many of his works depicted rustic domestic scenes, leading to him being described as "pre-eminently the painter of cottage life". He was also a member of the Society of British Artists. He exhibited frequently in London, particularly at the Royal Academy and the Suffolk Street Gallery. This gentle painting faithfully represents a moment between two people caring for one another. Hemsley painted in a style reminiscent of earlier golden-age Dutch genre painting, using light and color in a vibrant but elegant manner—signature on the lower left-hand corner. In the 19th century, it was common to paint on wood due to its durability, smooth surface, and long-standing tradition. Wood panels were preferred for their sturdiness and versatility, suitable for detailed artworks and various shapes and sizes. While wood was popular, especially for smaller works, canvas started gaining popularity later in the century for its lighter weight and ease of use. This rustic genre scene resides in an ornate Louis XIV Régence style convex frame with foliate shell cartouche corners, strap work, and c-scrolls on a cross-hatched ground with white pigment dispersed throughout. In the early 18th century the Louis XIV styles blended into the Régence frame style (c.1715-1723) which placed greater emphasis on the corners and centers. The full Regency style was both opulent and delicate, with the order and linearity of this period giving way to the swirling delicacy of the Rococo. This painting would be a wonderful addition to a home office, entryway, or library...

This is an antique landscape painting of Plymouth Breakwater. An English, framed watercolour, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1860. ...

A dynamic pair of steeplechase paintings capturing the intensity, risk, and rhythm of cross-country equestrian sport. Likely originating from the...

Lovely 19th century English watercolor by Thomas S. Cooper in beautiful gold gilt frame. The scene depicts 2 cows in a rural setting. Incredible detail in this painting. A very fine ...

A fine golf painting, "A View of Rye Harbour - Rye from the 3rd Tee" oil on canvas. Signed and dated Charles M. Orchardson, 1904. The artist was the...

Wonderful drawing of a Spanish dancer by Karl Hagedorn. Displaying the characteristic futurist, cubist and Bauhaus influences reminiscent of his early work. Signed and dated 1915. ...

A beautiful watercolor of Peacock Island Fabulous quality. Lovely bright colours. Not faded at all. By Edwin Landseer Grundy*. Provenance- From an alb...

Original 19th-Century oil painting on canvas of an English hound hunting dogs. This beautiful portrait depicts a majestic English sporting dogs in the field. The talented artist has ...

A superb Art Deco Crown Devon fieldings framed ceramic plaque depicting two sporting gun dogs by R Hinton and dating from around 1920. The plaque is well ...

English Victorian gilt framed landscape oil painting of forest scene with 2 figures.

This is a lovely pair of watercolor paintings of two young children by British portrait painter James Ramsay (1789-1854). One depicts a little girl clutching her kitten and the othe...

Beautiful antique English watercolor painting of an Adam Style palace interior. A pair of impressive twelve pane formal windows accented ...

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...

A very pleasing oil on canvas late 19th century painting entitled 'Picnic on Hampstead' Signed; Charles Walker.

Fine 19th century English oil painting on canvas, within the original ornate giltwood frame. Depicting foggy mountain landscape with a forest and stream with waterfalls. Circle of James Stark...

An oil on panel signed and dated in the lower left depicting two riders on horseback sharing a drink outside a country inn. The painting measures 17.75" x 21.75" including the frame...

Donald Plenderleith British Artist Landscape of Villeneuve-sur-Lot France Oil Painting on Board This stunning painting beautifully captures the sunlight in a landscape architectural...

Donald Plenderleith British Artist Landscape of a Dordogne Farmhouse France Oil Painting on Board This painting beautifully captures the serene charm of a rustic countryside French ...

Lady Macnaghten of the Eddystone Lighthouse Painting on oil of the three masted 588 ton carvel built ship "Lady Macnaghten" sailing under reduced sail. In the original gilt frame. ...

A charming pair of late 18th English century oil paintings on canvas. Each painting portrays a portrait of a young lady in oval within carved giltwood fra...

A Large Landscape Oil on Canvas by Alan Rankle A large and beautiful atmospheric landscape painting of by leading U.K artist Alan Rankle...

Tea clipper ‘Taeping’ closing on ‘Ariel’ by Henry Scott FRSA, oil on canvas showing the two clippers racing home with their cargoes in the Great Tea Race of 1866, Ariel in the lead s...

Miss Ethel Mortlock an oil on canvas called 'Town' of Marie Adelaide Brassey (aged 3) who became Marchioness of Willingdon (see below) and is buried in the Nave at Westminster Abbey, signed and dated 1878. Picture 60 x 45 cm Ethel Mortlock (1865-1928) an extraordinary woman and sought after portrait painter, she painted this aged 16!. Born in Cambridge and lived in London. She exhibited at The Royal Academy between years 1878-1893 no less than 29 paintings also at the Grosvenor Galleries. Many of Paintings in museums (See History below and her sitters). Marie Adelaide Brassey - Marie Adelaide Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon, GBE, CI DStJ (née Brassey; 24 March 1875 – 30 January 1960) was a daughter of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey. On 20 July 1892, she married Freeman Thomas , 1st Marquess of Willingdon (12 September 1866 – 12 August 1941), the future Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India. She became : Invested as an Imperial Order of the Crown of India (C.I.) in 1917, Decorated with the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal , Invested as a Dame of Justice, Venerable Order of St John (D.J.St. J.),Decorated with the Order of Mercy. Invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in December 1917. Invested as a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1924 Birthday Honours. Marie Canyon on the Cowichan River, Vancouver Island is named for her, commemorating a 1930 canoe trip from Cowichan Lake down that river to the city of Duncan, British Columbia. The Lady Willingdon Hospitol in Lahore, Pakistan is named after her .The Lady Willingdon Hospital in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India, is named after her. About Ethel Mortlock : Her clientèle of sitters included members of the aristocracy and European nobility and included, by her account, the Shah of Persia (1900) and the ‘Chinese Ambassador’, Li Hung Chang (who was actually the Chinese Viceroy), à propos which sitting the Sketch published an illustrated interview with Ethel in August 1896. Ethel was thought pretty grand by the American papers who reported that Chang had to go to her studio for sittings in 1896 rather than she wait upon him. He brought her a roll of silk and a white jade palette as presents. Li Hung Chang was a pretty big cheese; his wife had two thousand servants waiting on her. The Chatham, NY, Courier reported that Ethel had painted every Ambassador who had come to London. These last clients, allegedly by failing to pay the £1000 charged for their portraits, landed Ethel in trouble. They were, of course, conveniently unavailable to the bankruptcy commissioners so this sob-story could not be checked. Strapped for cash she was caught out when the executors of a racehorse owner called Edward Overall Bleakley found, in his effects, IOUs for hundreds of pounds (Bleakley had bequeathed his own portrait by Ethel to Manchester Infirmary [Daily News, 1.8.98]). Ethel went to court, claiming that these were offset by painting commissions, but the court found against her and she was told to pay up. Now saddled with legal costs, she was caught again when Captain Noel Hoare, her man of business, died and it was found that he had mortgaged to Hoare’s Bank, without her knowledge (she said), three properties in Sloane Street that she had been building. She tried to buy back one of these but lost a £500 deposit when she could not complete, making a bad situation rather worse. Bleakley’s executors now broke her and her examination in bankruptcy in 1901 can be read in the PRO as above. Her troubles were attributed to extravagance and betting - the Bleakley IOUs were assumed to be in fact gambling debts and the creditors now included all sorts of tradesmen and the Hotel Cecil where Ethel was then living, presumably in some style. She did not help herself by claiming an income of £250 p.a. when individual commissions were on her own account at the £1000 mark as above, meaning that the Chinese and Persian portraits alone would have occupied her last eight years and she would have obtained these prestigious commissions at the age of 18 (she gave her age as 26). Faced by the raised eyebrows of her superiors in mental arithmetic Ethel then upped her declared usual income to a still rather modest £800. She claimed to keep no sort of cash book, accounts, or any memoranda. Proceedings closed with Ethel declared bankrupt and a number of people out of pocket; the settlement was at 7/6 in the pound. Ethel went back to her easel. Some financial aspects seem never to have been sorted out; funds in Chancery relating to her, Hoare and Bleakley were still being recorded in the London Gazette every few years at least up to 1938; maybe the born in Cambridge; she appears never to have married. The 1881 census had not heard of her - she may have been in the United States at that time. However, standard works about Victorian painters, such as the Antique Collectors’ Club Dictionary of British Artists (Johnson %26 Greutzner, 1976) and their Dictionary of Victorian Painters (C Wood, 2nd edition, 1978) tell us that she was a pupil of Sir William Orchardson (who came to London in 1863) and that by 1904 she had exhibited 29 works at the Royal Academy. I have listed these, usually prestigious, sitters, who included Don Carlos...

A nicely executed mid C19th British School oil on canvas, depicting a clipper vessel named ‘Jennie’, with other vessels and cliffs of Dover in the background, and realistic seas. Set...

Amazing artwork by Jon Groom Acrylic on canvas. We have mounted it on a white acrylic painted board Excellent provenance- Nicola Jacobs Gallery and then to owner The mea...

A large beautifully hand painted oil painting of an English gentleman, possibly a lord or duke. Set in the country side with trees and foliage, typical English landscape. Surrounded ...

A beautiful and wonderfully executed English 19th century Louis XVI st. oil on canvas painting in the manner of Sir Peter Lely. The painting depicts a beautiful maiden dressed in an elegant flowing robe with a red jewel clasp...

Walter Greaves English, 1846-1930 “Portrait of James Abbott McNeill Whistler in front of the Thames” Oil on canvas Signed & dated 1874 36 by 28 in. W/f...

A charming early 20th century landscape oil painting. c.1910 Very skilfully painted landscape scene focusing on a herd of cattle. Some very minor damage to the edges as pictured.

WILLIAM SHAYER, SR. British, 1788-1879 "Sussex Coast" (1854) Oil on canvas signed lower left "William Shayer '54" titled in graphite on stretcher bars verso Item # 404REX19W Th...

Beautiful antique English watercolor painting of an Adam style palace interior. Depicting a generously proportioned space with a magnificen...

Bucolic Joinings’ by Lexden Lewis Pocock. Oil on canvas, depicting a kneeling maid and her swain in the carpenter’s shop, she tending a turtle dove, while it’s mate waits on the ...

A 19c naive oil painting on a thin wooden panel of a young girl in an architectural and wooded landscape in a black painted frame with gilt slip. A regency period portrait...

This is a 19th century English still life oil painting depicting fruit and books casually displayed on a dining table. It appears to b...

Oil painting by Henri Miloch, a French artist known for his depictions of Breton maritime life. Miloch was born in Trieste, Italy, in 1898, but he spent most of his life working in B...

Early 19th Century English Pair of Regency Period Portraits. Full length portraits of a husband and wife in a household setting oil on wood panel. Bot...

Abstract oil painting on canvas of a Venetian cityscape. Unframed. No signature. It is attributed to Sadanand k. Bakre. In muted colors consistent with his early work in Europe. ...

Golf Picture, Henry Callender ESQ. Framed golf mezzotint of 'Henry Callender Esq' (Captain of the society of Golfers at Blackheath) after a painting by Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760 - 1803). The colourful print signed in pencil by the engraver Will Henderson...

William Churchill (American, (1858-1926) Four drawings of figures, each 7.5" x 5", were drawn on October 2, 1908, in Rosemond Coolidge's Diary at the Museum School, Boston, for Philip Leslie Hale. Sign "WC" three times dated Oct. 2, 08 and "Full of Energy After Vacation Oct. 2 "Framed under glass. William W. Churchill (1858-1926) Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, William Worcester Churchill entered the inaugural class at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston in 1877 along with Edward H. Barnard and Charles Henry Hayden...

This serene oil on canvas was painted by a British artist known for peaceful pastoral landscapes, Annette Elias--1849-1921. This composition captures a sun-dappled birch grove beside...

A distinguished set of two 19th century Continental oil on canvas portraits, depicting an important British military officer in full dress uniform and a refined lady posed in a forma...

Copy of an animal portrait titled "White Horse" set in a classical landscape Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use

Beautifully painted in the deco manner of Tamara De Lempicka. Kirsta, a Russian artist escaped to Western Europe during the revolution, pursued a career as a painter and theatrical s...

A wonderfully atmospheric and exquisitely painted oil on canvas late afternoon waterfront view of the English seaside resort town of St. Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex in 187...

Late 19th or Early 20th Century Oil on Panel Landscape Roberto A.K. Marshall Painting by Roberto Angelo Kittermaster Marshall British Artist (1849-1926)

Pair of oil on panel ships scene paintings, English. Signed enverso Arthur Smith, M.P. 1847 - the owner. Panels from "Dimes & Elam, Manufactures, 91. Gt. Russel St. Bloomsbury, Londo...

Dated 1873 English watercolor of Scottish Highland cattle. These long-haired horn cattle are a hearty breed indigenous to the area. Grazing in the Highlands of Scotland. Signed & Dat...