England - Paintings

PITCHER AND GRAPES Size: 55 x 73 cm (including frame) Gouache on paper A lively and brilliantly executed mid-century modernist style interior still life composition, executed in gou...

Artist/ School: Jill Jackson, British contemporary, signed initials lower right corner Title: Interior scene with a writing desk or bureau, illuminated b...

ARTIST: Christopher Compton Hall RBA RCA (1930-2016) British TITLE: “Letterard Northern Ireland" SIGNED: lower right and dated 1969 MEDIUM: oil on board S...

Dame Ethel Walker DBE ARA (1861-1951) Young Man in a Red Tie Oil on canvas 51 x 40.6 cm.; (within frame) 70 x 59.7 cm. Provenance: The Lefevre Gallery, London, stock number X890; Christie’s, London, Modern British Pictures, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture, 12 September 1996, lot 58; Bonhams, London, Modern British and Irish Art, 23 November 2022, lot 177; Private Collection, United Kingdom. This focussed composition is dominated by a handsome young man in profile, frowning with a concentrated glare. His slender cheeks meet a jaw brushed with a masculine grey, complimented by the blue of a flower or pocket square, and the shadow of a loose strand of oiled hair that rests across his forehead. The stylistic sophistication shows Walker at her best, ambitiously combining measured figuration with expressive abstraction, as delicious dashes of pigment appear still wet, and dissonant swipes energetically mark the surface of the canvas. With an elegance that borders on the effete, the sitter’s urbane style includes a spearpoint collar, framed by the wide lapels of his suit jacket. Most significantly, the young man’s dandyish fashion is augmented by the conspicuous titular red tie which he wears – an established expression of queerness in the 20th century. Painted by the lesbian artist Dame Ethel Walker, it is likely that the portrait is that of a gay man belonging to London’s queer artistic circles. Indeed, Walker’s male sitters (who constitute but a fraction of her output) are typically conceived as modish, and often wear striking colourful ties. Walker was one of the earliest lesbian artists to overtly explore her sexuality in her works, and an aesthetic fascination with the female form culminated with her glorious large-scale ‘decorations’, exemplified by Decoration: The Excursion of Nausicaa (Tate, N03885). Red neckties had been established in the 20th century as a coded (though appropriately colourful) expression of queerness, not dissimilar to the green carnation of the Wildean aesthetes. The gay writer and musician Mikhail Kuzmin was painted in 1909 in a stark red tie. Two decades later, the Anglo-French physician Havelock Ellis described the red necktie as an emblem amongst queer New Yorkers: ‘[…] there has been a fashion for a red tie to be adopted by inverts [homosexuals] as their badge’ (Ellis, p. 299). The motif permeated fiction, and in Thomas Mann’s 1912 novel Death In Venice, the protagonist Gustav von Aschenbach begins to wear a red necktie after he develops an infatuation with a beautiful young boy staying at his hotel. William Faulkner’s 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury includes an unnamed male character identified throughout by his distinctive red necktie, which is the subject of veiled insinuations against his masculinity. Walker must surely have been familiar with this symbolic importance when she executed the present portrait. Her few portraits of male sitters include colourful neckties almost exclusively, and include numerous examples of red neckties. Indeed, the artist herself preferred to wear a red tie, a declaration which so impressed itself on Virginia Woolf that she noted it in a diary entry after tea with Walker (Bell, p. 282). Walker, who painted Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell, had once offered to paint Woolf in the nude, as Lilith. Around the same time, Augustus John painted the gay peer Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar, in a loose red necktie or neck scarf. The portrait passed through the Lefevre Gallery, which also represented Walker, and which inventoried the present work. While the sartorial choice may have been incidental, a colourful accessory chosen to enliven the portrait, its prominent inclusion would suggest a personal significance to Walker, the recognition of a shared experience between artist and subject. Dame Ethel Walker was hailed as a leading female artist of her generation, and as late as 2010 was one of only four women artists to have been honoured as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Walker was born in Edinburgh in 1861 to the botanist Arthur Abney Walker, a descendent of the Walker family of iron industrialists, whose estates included Clifton House (Rotherham) and Blythe Hall (Nottinghamshire). She attended school in London after the family moved to Wimbledon, and in 1880 met the fellow artist Clara Christian, with whom she would form an important personal and professional bond. The women’s relationship was later allegorised by the writer George Moore as that of Stella (Christian) and Florence (Walker) in his fictionalised three-volume memoir Hail and Farewell. Walker went on to Putney School of Art and Westminster School of Art, and studied under Frederick Brown, who became a lifelong mentor. Around 1893 Walker took further study at the Slade School of Art, partly under Walter Sickert, and returned in 1912, 1916, and 1921. Although Walker enjoyed painting floral still lifes and seascapes, her best work was portraiture. She worked from her studio at 38 Cheyne Walk for most of her career, and enjoyed a prominent role in London’s artistic milieu. Her sitters included the artists Lucien Pissarro, Orovida Camille Pissarro, Vanessa Bell, and Barbara Hepworth; she painted Nancy Astor, the Countess of Strathcona, the editor Joan Werner Laurie, and author Leo Walmsley. The actors Flora Robson and Elsa Lanchester sat for Walker, as did the young Christopher Robin Milne. Walker herself was photographed by the bisexual photographer and painter Humphrey Spender...

"Bridge Scene" by Camille Meriot (French 1887-1975) watercolour on unframed paper paper: 6.5 x 8.75 inches Fine original French Impressionist painting...

A charming late 19th-century oil study depicting a lush green countryside scene. In the foreground, two bunnies can be seen resting under the shade of an oak tree. Well presented i...

An atmospheric composition by the British artist Jack Ducker, depicting a glowing orange sunset over mountain peaks with Scots pines by the loch edge. Signed by the artist to the low...

Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Large Oil of Ludlow Castle, Shropshire. Very Large Oil Painting on box canvas by well known Contemporary Artist. Beautiful misty foreground and stormy skies, depicting the Castle in its splendour with St Laurences Church on view to the left of the painting. Rene Legrand...

Signed oil on canvas still life in landscape circa 1980 by sought after French post impressionist painter Marcel Dyf. The work depicts a view of a harbour from beyond the open green ...

Harvest Time in a farm on East Coast of England by 20th Century British Artist Art measures 8.75 x 6.25 inches Frame measures 11.5 x 9 inches Don Micklethwaite is a British Post...

Superb French Impressionist oil painting on canvas depicting this lady walking along a beach, sheltering from the heat of the overhead sun. She carries a basket under her arm, possib...

Roses & Lilies in Vase by Annie Faure (French 1940-2021) signed lower corner oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 36 x 29 inches condition: ove...

"The Canal" by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013) oil painting on canvas, framed stamped verso framed: 8.37 x 11.25 inches Very fine 20th century oil painting on canvas by th...

Signed pointillist oil on panel figures in landscape by French neo-impressionist painter Yvonne Canu. This stunning piece depicts a couple resting under a parasol in a field of wildf...

A charming oil portrait depicting a mother with an infant in a christening gown on her knee. Both smile towards the artist, who captures them against a dark background. Signed to the...

Italian artist, 19th century Still Life with Hunting Dogs indistinctly signed oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 14.25 x 24 inches Provenance: private collection, UK Condition: very goo...

Still Life Simone Forge 1930's French Impressionist oil on canvas laid on board unframed board: 15 x 18 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: great condition For more a...

George Dannatt (1915-2009) Monoprint -Black Brown, 2000, Oil on paper, Image: 26.0 x 21.0 cm Frame: 44.5 x 38.0 cm Provenance: The Estate of George & Ann Dannatt/George Dannatt T...

Artist/ School: American School, mid 19th century Title: Portrait of a Child dressed in a hat and their 'Sunday best', with small pet dog in a landscape. Medium: oil on canvas, un...

John Wootton (1686 - 1764) The Bloody-Shouldered Arabian Oil on canvas Inscribed below, 'Bred by Lord Oxford in 1755 & Sire of many famous Racers, including the Duke of Bolton's 'Swe...

Expressionist Landscape signed gouache painting on artist paper painting: 9.75 x 12.75 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: very good and sound condition Descr...

This superb British 1950's abstract oil on board painting is by noted Slade School trained contemporary artist Leo Davy. Davy was born in Yorkshire but settled in Cornwall in 1968 an...

'Perdu dans la Poésie’ by Alfred Stevens (1823-1906) The painting - which depicts a young Parisian society beauty reading beside an open window – is signed by the artist and present...

PRICE IS FOR THE SET OF TWELVE "Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with origina...

The Luberon Hilltop Perched Village French Impressionist artist, signed lower corner, inscribed verso dated 2016 oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 32 x 39.5 inches provenance: private...

Artist/ School: British School, late 19th/ early 20th century Title: Mother & Daughter walking along the coastal path, with the sea beside them. Medium: oil painting on canvas, f...

Peter Joyce was born in Poole, Dorset, and was educated at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design from 1980. He went on to study at Stourbridge College of Technology & Art and q...

This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Dive into the ethereal world of "Always in my Dream" by the ac...

Oil Painting of Seated Female Nude Figure by British Contemporary Artist Art measures 13 x 20 inches Frame measures 18 x 25 inches Mark Clark is a British Artist, born in 1959. Cla...

Leading them Home English School, mid 19th century oil on board laid on canvas, framed framed: 18.5 x 15.5 inches painting : 14 x 11 inches Provenance: private collection, the City o...

Fishing the Stream by Ted Dyer, British artist, 21st Century Oil painting on canvas, framed Signed by artist framed size: 14.5 x 18.5 inches canvas: 12 x 16 inches Ted Dyer is one o...

The painting was painted Plein Air, in Artist's own garden of the memorial roses she planted. This is Rosa Albertine, the first Old English variety Artist Shizico Yi planted in her garden in 2016, before her late dog died. Old English Roses...

Born of his love of the Indian subcontinent Paul Wadsworth created this series of paintings. The canvasses are lavishly painted and imbued with the myriad of colours one associates w...

This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. This small scale still life study by John D Martin imparts a s...

Title: Original Oil Painting of Reflective Gentleman in Tuxedo with a Martini Glass Artist: Roland Pichard Medium: Oil on oil paper, mounted on card Size: 13.75 (height) x 10.75 (...

‘Diana Nemorensis’ by Max Nonnenbruch (1857-1922). The painting – which depicts the Roman Goddess Diana of the Woods beside Lake Nemi – is signed by the artist and presented in a fi...

Signed to the lower left. Presented in a gilt frame with a silver slip. On paper.

John Nost Sartorius (London 1759-1828) A bay horse in a wooded landscape Signed 'J.N.Sartorius' lower right Oil on canvas Canvas Size - 12 x 14 in Framed Size - 19 x 21 in John Nost...

Signed lower right. Presented in a decorative silver-gilt frame. On canvas on stretchers.

From Sax Berlin's Wine Drinkers series painted whilst he stayed at the famous Chateau Lescours in St Emillion, France. This Neo-Expressionist work is vibrant and relatable; a real to...

Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Market Scene in Dol-de-Bretagne By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 6.75 x 8.25 inches (height x width) Signed: Yes Oil painting on card...

Stunning original oil painting by the French abstract artist, Yvette Dubois-Habasque (1929-2016). The painting has excellent provenance having come from the artists studio sale in Pa...

Winter landscape with snow covered fields & farmhouse in the English Countryside by British Artist Art measures 30 x 20 inches Frame measures 35 x 25 inches Richard Wood was born i...

This is a fabulous, large tribal painting on cloth canvas with dung wash and white paints. Anil Vangad is a master at playing with the traditional forms to produce a natural minimal...

**PLEASE NOTE: EACH PAINTING INCLUDING THE FRAME MEASURES 23.75 INCHES X 27.75 INCHES ** Albert Clark & Son British, (1843-1928) Bay Horse in a Stable & Companion Oil on canvas, pai...

'Echoes No.2 ' London, United Kingdom 2024 Limited edition of 10 Pinted on archival Hahnehmule Photo rag paper, with care and attention to detail. The process involves layerin...

Vintage French Watercolour Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back watercolour pa...

Artist/ School: F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950), signed Title: Scottish Highlands Loch Scene with warm sunset. Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 20 x 28.5 ...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 12.75 x 10 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we ha...

Based in Kent, UK, Adam De Ville says - I am a self taught painter of landscapes, cityscapes, still life, abstract and portraits. Painting is about storytelling, feeling, character...

Sunlit Path by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary) signed oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 20 x 26 inches condition: very good provenance: from a large private collection...

Charming Village by the Water signed by Regine David (French mid 20th century, female) dated 1967 oil on canvas, framed framed: 21 x 25 inches canvas: 19.5 x 24.5 inches Provenance: ...

This serene landscape painting captures a coastal view framed by towering trees, offering a glimpse of distant blue waters through their trunks. Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame w...

Beatrice By Wendi Weller [2023] original Acrylic on canvas Image size: H:30 cm x W:30 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:30 cm x D:3.5cm Fram...

Flamenco Dancer by Annie Faure (French 1940-2021) signed lower corner oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 18 x 15 inches condition: overall very good, minor surface scuffs ...

Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) signed oil on unstretched canvas, unframed painting: 27 x 21 inches provenance: the artists estate, France condition: the painting is on unstretched...

William Richard Waters Picture Size: 36 x 28" (92 x 72cm) Outside Frame Size: 44 x 36" (112 x 92 cm) Oil on Canvas signed bottom right and dated 1847 This painting is nearly 200 year...

Sunflower Bouquet signed by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 11.75 x 9.5 inches Gouache painting on cardboard, unframed Inscribed verso Condition: The painting is in good condition,...