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Maxwell Ashby Armfield Portrait Of The Artist's Mother Margaret Armfield Maxwell
By Maxwell Ashby Armfield
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of the Artists Mother,
MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972)
Portrait of the artist's mother, Margaret Armfield née Maxwell, depicted full length in a mock entourage with t...
Category
20th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oak, Tempera, Panel
Portrait of a Girl with Book, 18th Century Regency Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 28 3/4 x 24 inches (73 x 61 cm)
Contemporary style gilt frame
This portrait is an evocative example of Devis' Regency period portraiture, featuring a pleasant looking young girl holding a book in an outdoor setting.
Working with a darker palette, a strongly accented diagonal recession, and dramatic contrasts of light and shadow, Devis heightens the girl's three-dimensional physical presence in the foreground of the composition.
The Artist
Arthur William Devis (10 August 1762 – 11 February 1822) was an English painter of history paintings and portraits. He painted portraits and historical subjects, sixty-five of which he exhibited (1779–1821) at the Royal Academy. Among his more famous works are a depiction of the Death of Nelson and a posthumous portrait of Nelson.
Devis was born in London, the nineteenth child of the artist Arthur Devis and his wife Elizabeth Faulkner. Devis was the younger brother of the painter Thomas Anthony Devis (1757–1810) and of the schoolmistress and grammarian Ellin Devis (1746–1820), teacher, among others, of author of Maria Edgeworth and Frances Burney (later novelist Madame d'Arblay).
He followed his elder brother Thomas Anthony in becoming a pupil at the Royal Academy Schools in 1774 and like his brother exhibited at the Free Society of Artists, of which in 1768 their father had become president, and at the Royal Academy. Early on he came to the notice of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
He was appointed draughtsman on the British East India Company's packet Antelope in a voyage in 1783, under Captain Henry Wilson. In her he was injured in an encounter with Papuans near the Schouten Islands and was then wrecked on the Pelew Islands before proceeding to Canton and thence to Bengal. During his voyages, the artist received arrow wounds, one of which inflicted permanent injury on his lower jaw. During his time in Bengal, he painted a portrait of Sir William Jones, at the time a judge in Fort William. The painting now hangs at the British Library.
He was back in London by 1795 and is recorded on 21 July 1797 as living at 27 George Street, Hanover Square, where he was insured by the Sun Assurance Office.
He is noted for his involvement in the creation of the posthumous cult of Horatio Nelson. As she returned from Trafalgar, Devis went out to meet HMS Victory and was present on board the ship during the autopsy of Nelson's body conducted by Dr Beatty, the ship's surgeon. With the help of sketches he took at that time, he painted a heroic Death of Nelson, which proved a sensation.
Devis also painted Dr Beatty, and was commissioned by him to produce a half-length painting of Nelson as vice-admiral, which he lent to Emma Hamilton (who later lost it in an accident whilst travelling). Either the original or a copy of this portrait was exhibited at the Royal Academy two years after the Battle and many copies were made of it. Lord Howe owned one, and another ended up in the collection of the National Maritime Museum. It also appeared as an engraving in Beatty's published account of Nelson's death.
Other work includes a portrait of King George III on horseback, and a range of portraits of admirals and generals, along with historical subjects, such as the Babington Plot and the signing of the Magna Carta...
Category
18th Century Victorian England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mother and daughter by Lélia Pissarro - Oil painting
By Lelia Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Mother and daughter by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963)
Oil and gold leaf on canvas
100 x 100 cm (39 ³/₈ x 39 ³/₈ inches)
Signed lower right Lélia Pissarro.
Executed in 2020
This work is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
By Orovida Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm (28 ³/₄ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated upper right Orovida 1951
Provenance
Estate of the artist
With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist
G Hassell, 25th November 1988
With John Noott, 10th June 1992
Literature
K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 141 (illustrated)
Exhibition
London, Redfern Gallery, Recent Paintings: Orovida, 3rd-26th January 1952, no. 51
Artist biography
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy.
Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects...
Category
1950s Modern England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In The Garden, 19th Century - Robert Reid
By Robert Reid
Located in Blackwater, GB
In The Garden, 19th Century
circle of Robert Reid (1862-1929) American Impressionist & Mural Artist
19th Century American Impressionist portrait of a gir...
Category
Early 19th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stay
By Tina Spratt
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on linen
Linen size: 16 x 24 inches
Framed size: 22 x 30.5 inches
Monogrammed lower left
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
$6,840
Ronny Moortgat, First Over the Line, Original Oil Seascape
Located in London, GB
Signed lower right.
Image dimensions: 40cm x 50cm, 15 ¾" x 19 ¾"
A beautiful original oil seascape painting by Ronny Moortgat.
Ronny Moortgat is one o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Albert Mathys - The Weedes
By Albert François Mathys
Located in Naples, Florida
Albert Mathys - The Weedes
Category
20th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor visiting wounded soldiers, 19th century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor visiting wounded soldiers, 19th century
Signed indistinctly - Large & Important War Of The Austrian Succession scene...
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study of Woman in Black
Located in London, GB
Glasgow artist James Klinge is renowned for some of the city’s finest street art.
Specialising in stencils, spray-paint and acrylics he has easily made his name as one of the top st...
Category
2010s England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint
I Was Here All Along
By Danny O'Connor
Located in London, GB
Danny O’Connor is an artist based in Liverpool, he graduated from Liverpool John Moores Art School where he studied graphic arts.
Danny is predominately a figurative and portrait ar...
Category
2010s Abstract England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Graphite
The Blue Blouse
By Yves Meriel Bussy
Located in Naples, Florida
The Blue Blouse
Category
20th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Stanley Bate, 20th Century Musician
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 24 x 29 inches (61 x 73.5 cm)
Contemporary style gilt frame
Provenance
From the estate of the artist, Clara Klinghoffer
This portrait is by an artist who propelled rapidly into the limelight after her first solo exhibition in 1920, at the age of 19, with the Daily Graphic naming her as the 'Girl Who Draws Like Raphael'. Yet today Clara Klinghoffer's name is little know.
Klinghoffer's early success resulted in numerous portrait commissions, including this one of the English composer Stanley Bate. The bold use of colour and naive execution of this portrait clearly reveals the modernist influence of fellow Jewish artists such as Bernard Meninsky, Jacob Kramer and Mark Gertler...
Category
20th Century Modern England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of A Gentleman Holding Flowers, circa 1600 Flemish School
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Gentleman Holding Flowers, circa 1600
Flemish School
Large circa 1600 Flemish School portrait of a man holding flowers wearing a plumed hat, oil on panel. Exceptional...
Category
17th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Fine Bouquet (Pair)
By Fritz Wagner
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 14.5 x 12 inches each
Framed size: 21 x 19 inches each
Signed upper
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Thomas Cooper Gotch, 19th Century Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas on board
Image size: 7 x 5¼ inches (18 x 13.5 cm)
Framed
This portrait of Thomas Gotch is by his lifelong friend and confidante, Jane Ross, whom he met at Heatherley’s...
Category
1880s English School England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stay
By Tina Spratt
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 16 x 24 inches
Framed size: 22.5 x 30.25 inches
Signed lower left
Category
20th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$9,603
Enjoying a Smoke
By Fritz Wagner
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 9.5 x 7 inches
Framed size: 13.25 x 11 inches
Signed upper right
Provenance: Private collection, Herefordshire
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
What a Picture
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 20 x 16 inches
Framed size: 27 x 23.5 inches
Signed lower left
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Quiet Smoke
By Fritz Wagner
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 8.75 x 7 inches
Framed size: 13.75 x 11.75 inches
Signed upper left
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Prima Ballerina
By Yuri Krotov
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 23 x 19.25 inches
Framed size: 30 x 26 inches
Signed lower right
Category
20th Century Impressionist England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,367
Portrait of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, Early 18th Century Oil Painting
By Dominicus van der Smissen
Located in London, GB
Dominicus van der Smissen
Early 18th Century
Portrait of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch
Oil on canvas
Image size: 20½ x 16¼ inches
Period gilt frame
This is a portrait of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, composer, Kapellmeister and organist, whom Van der Smissen most probably portrayed during his stay in Hamburg, Brunswick or Amsterdam. The identification is based on the reproduction of the portrait which was engraved by Pieter Anthony Wakkerdak (1740- 1774).
Van der Smissen has reduced the face of the sitters to an egg-shaped oval in three-quarter view, applying diminution to one half of the figure’s torso, which is farther away from the viewer. This partial side view, with the head turned to look at the viewer over the shoulder, creates spatial depth and brings the figure to life by avoiding the stiffness of a frontal depiction.
Because the artist chose to highlight the figure from above, a distinct shadow is cast under the tip of the nose, in the shape of a triangle. This is an often recurring and almost ‘signature’-like feature in Van der Smissen’s oeuvre.
Hurlebusch's garments are of a very high quality and serve to reflect the sitter’s wealth, status and elegance. During this period, gentlemen often shaved their heads in order to facilitate the wearing of a wig, which wouldbe worn with a suit. Here Hurlebusch has been depicted in a luxurious turban-like cap lined with lynx fur, a highly fashionable and expensive material at the time.
Over his shirt, he wears a velvet fur-lined gown adorned with decorative clasps fashioned from silver braid. The elegant informality of his appearance can be seen in his unbuttoned shirt and the unfastened black ribbon hanging from his button hole, which has been artfully arranged into a fluttering drape by the portraitist.
The Sitter
Hurlebusch was born in Brunswick, Germany. He received the first instructions in his field from his father Heinrich Lorenz Hurlebusch, who was also a musician. As an organ virtuoso, he toured Europe, visiting Vienna, Munich and Italy.
From 1723 to 1725 he was Kapellmeister in Stockholm; later he became Kapellmeister in Bayreuth and Brunswick, and lived in Hamburg from 1727 to 1742, where he had contact with fellow composers Johann Mattheson and Georg Philipp Telemann. He made his living composing, performing and teaching.
In 1735 and 1736, he is believed to have visited Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig, who promoted Hurlebusch’s compositions as the local seller...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Recital
By John Arthur Lomax
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 12 x 10 inches
Framed size: 18.25 x 16 inches
Signed lower left
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$10,985
Self Portrait in a Mirror with Artist's Tools, Oil on canvas, Signed, Polish
By Joseph Biel
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed bottom left
Image size: 24 x 20 inches (61 x 51 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
Joseph Biel
Joseph Biel was a painter and photographer who was born in ...
Category
20th Century Modern England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cleopatra, Mistress of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony by Lélia Pissarro
By Lelia Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Cleopatra, Mistress of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963)
Oil and gold leaf on canvas
100 x 100 cm (39 ³/₈ x 39 ³/₈ inches)
Signed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pathfinder - Abstract Map - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media by George De Goya
By George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...
Category
1960s Abstract England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Steam Room 4, 20th Century Contemporary Acrylic
By Graham Dean
Located in London, GB
Graham Dean
1980
Steam Room 4
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: 14 x 10 inches
In keeping with Dean's passion for experiencing the subjects of his work, this ...
Category
1980s Contemporary England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
A Distinguished Gentleman
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 5.5 x 7.5 inches
Framed size: 12 x 10.5 inches
Signed upper right
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Rise
Located in Nottingham, GB
Original, mixed media on canvas.
Rich Parker uses blocks of paint and stylised graffiti techniques to build upon figurative artwork. Almost cubist in form crossed with street art hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$3,385
A Young Lady
By William Edward Frost
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, unsigned
Image size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (14 x 11.5 cm)
Original 19th century oval mount and frame
Provenance;
With Richard Naworth, Blackburn
William Edward Frost (September 1810 – 4 June 1877) was an English painter of the Victorian era. Virtually alone among English artists in the middle Victorian period, he devoted his practice to the portrayal of the female nude. Specialising in portraiture from about 1830, Frost painted more than 300 portraits during a 15-year period, and showed some as his first exhibits from 1836.
William Edward Frost was born in Wandsworth, then in Surrey, in September 1810. He showed artistic talent from an early age, and was encouraged in this by his father: first by his arranging drawing lessons with a Miss Evatt, a neighbouring amateur, and then, in 1825, by his introducing him to William Etty, who became his mentor. On Etty’s recommendation, he entered Henry Sass’s School for Drawing and Painting at 6 Charlotte Street, in 1826, and spent three years there, while also studying at the British Museum each winter.
Frost was educated in the schools of the Royal Academy, beginning in 1829; he established a reputation as a portrait painter before branching into historical and mythological subjects, including the subgenre of fairy painting...
Category
19th Century English School England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait Of John Gilbert Seale, The Artists Father, With Sherry And A Cigar
By Barney Seale ARBS
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of John Gilbert Seale, The Artists Father, With Sherry And A Cigar, circa
by Barney SEALE (1896-1957)
Circa 1940 English portrait of the artists father John with a sherry and cigar in hand, oil on canvas by Barney Seale. Excellent quality and condition example of the eccentric artists work. Signed and presented in a gilt frame with losses.
Measurements: 27" x 23" framed approx
Barney Seale (1896–1957)
National Portrait Gallery, London
Sculptor and painter, noted for his portrait sculptures in bronze, but also as an architectural sculptor. He worked with the sculptor William Silver Frith, who taught at Lambeth School of Art and who was also an architectural sculptor. Seale was elected RBA in 1938, also exhibiting at RA, RCamA and RSA and having solo shows in London and New York. He was an associate of RBS. Seale’s striking figure I Write for the New Kensington Library, one of a series of three and in stone, is illustrated in Arthur T Broadbent’s Sculpture Today in Great Britain 1940–1943, published in 1949. In 1986 the Fine Art Society included him in the survey Sculpture in Britain Between The Wars. Seale, a huge, hard-drinking man...
Category
Early 20th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Bearded Man Tortured By A Spiked Sandal, 17th century
Located in Blackwater, GB
A Bearded Man Tortured By A Spiked Sandal, 17th century
Italian School - rare unusual depiction possibly of a martyr
Fine 17th Century Italian Old Master depiction of a bearded m...
Category
17th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Self Portrait
By Hugó Scheiber
Located in London, GB
HUGO SCHEIBER 1873-1950
1873 - Budapest - 1950 (Hungarian)
Title: Self Portrait
Technique: Original Signed Pastel Drawing on Paper
Size: 37.7 x 30 cm. / 14.8 x 11.8 in.
Additiona...
Category
1940s Futurist England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Sweet Dreams
By Tina Spratt
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 19 x 27 inches
Framed size: 24 x 32 inches
Monogrammed lower right
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,263
Female Portrait - Russian Ukrainian Cubism
By Pinchus Krémègne
Located in London, GB
This oil painting is signed by the artist "Kremegne" in the lower right part.
It was painted circa 1920's.
Provenance:
Madame Line Playfair, Chiswick, London
Exhibited:
Redfern Ga...
Category
1920s Cubist England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of the Artist's Assistant, Watercolour and Ink, 20th Century British
By Frank Dobson
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and ink on graphite, signed lower right
Image size: 22 x 17 1/2 inches (56 x 44.5 cm)
Original frame
POA
Inscribed on reverse 'Frank Dobson's Assistant - Celia Gills'
F...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Portrait of a Young Girl Oil Painting 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Circle of Thomas Derrick
British 1885 - 1954
Oil on panel
Image size: 21 1/2 x 14 inches (55 x 36 cm)
Hand made frame
Category
1950s England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Pot Carrier - Bright Colour Portrait, Women, Texture, Face
Located in London, GB
Nicolle was born in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia as it was then) and grew up in Africa and then travelled the world for some years before settling in the Uk.
“My love of colour stems from my ...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Chalk, Acrylic
'A Fireside Read' and 'Threading the Needle' (Pair)
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 10 x 8 inches each
Framed size: 13 x 10.5 inches each
A signed lower left
B signed lower right
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Italian painting of Alphonsus Liguori in French Neo-Gothic Frame
Located in London, GB
Italian painting of Alphonsus Liguori in French Neo-Gothic Frame
Italian and French, Late 18th and 19th Century
Frame: Height 61cm, width 39cm, depth 6cm
Panel: Height 28cm, width 22...
Category
Late 18th Century Gothic England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Reflections, American 20th Century Oil Painting
By Philip Campbell Curtis
Located in London, GB
Philip Campbell Curtis
American 1907 - 2000
Reflections
Oil on board, signed and dated 1960
Image size: 12 ½ x 5 ½ inches
Original frame
Category
1960s Surrealist England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Beauties (Pair)
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 15.25 x 11.25 inches
A signed lower right, B signed lower left
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Self Portrait
By Gerald Goddard Jackson
Located in London, GB
Gerald Goddard Jackson
1878-1941
Self Portrait
Oil on canvas
Image size: 23½ x 19½ inches
Original frame
Jackson was born at Duddington, Northamptonshire on 5 March 1878. He enrolled at the Slade School of Art in 1893 where he studied alongside fellow students Wyndham Lewis, Orpen, Gertler, Nash and Nevinson. He left the Slade in 1899 in order to travel to Canada, USA and Mexico, spending three years in Italy.
In 1911, he joined the Army. Upon the outbreak of the First World War, his battalion was sent to France. He was captured in 1916 and was held at various German prisoner of war camps, largely at Schwarmstedt in Saxony. Whilst in captivity he befriended the poet Frederick William Harvey...
Category
20th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Russian oil portrait of Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky by A. Ivasenko
By Anatolii Ivasenko
Located in London, GB
Russian oil portrait of Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky by A. Ivasenko
Russian, 1987
Frame: height 106cm, width 111cm
Canvas: height 95cm, width 100cm
This excellent portrait was executed by the artist A. Ivasenko, and depicts Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky, the famed Soviet filmmaker, and son of the noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky. Tarkovsky wasthe most important Soviet filmmaker after Sergei Eisenstein, and his approach to cinematic time and space, as well as his commitment to cinema as a form of poetry, means his oeuvre is regarded as one of the most defining collections of modern film. He first achieved international acclaim with 'Ivan's Childhood' in 1962, which won top prize at the Venice Film Festival, and other career highlights include 'Andrei Rublev...
Category
1980s England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl in a Green Scarf, 20th Century Oil Portrait
Located in London, GB
A.M. Coates
20th Century
Girl in a Green Scarf
Oil on canvas
Image size: 14 x 10 inches
Category
20th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Fine Wine
By Benjamin Eugène Fichel
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 7 x 5 inches
Signed and date '1859' lower left
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Feeding the New Brood
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
Framed size: 14.75 x 17.75 inches
Signed and dated 1870 lower right
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait of a Lady
Located in London, GB
Gilbert Soest
1605-1681
Portrait of a Lady
Oil on canvas
Image size: 30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Original carved gilt frame
Provenance
Private Estate, England
This portrait dep...
Category
17th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gaze
Located in Belfast, GB
"Encountering the work of Ian Cumberland is a peculiar, unsettling experience, as if the viewer has intruded into a 'space' and a 'moment' to which they...
Category
2010s Realist England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$7,195
Study of Lockdown
Located in London, GB
Glasgow artist James Klinge is renowned for some of the city’s finest street art.
Specialising in stencils, spray-paint and acrylics he has easily made his name as one of the top st...
Category
2010s England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Spray Paint
The First Taste
By Joan Fairfax Whiteside ARRC FMAA
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed lower right
Image size: 14 1/4 x 16 inches (36 x 40 1/2 cm)
Hand made frame
Joan Fairfax Whiteside was a prodigious artist and illustrator. Born into an eminent...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Possible Portrait of William Shakespeare
Located in London, GB
Oil on oak panel
Image size: 17 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches (44 x 56.5 cm)
Period oak frame
This is a portrait of a Tudor gentleman in an open next shirt with one hand raised to his chest. ...
Category
Early 1600s England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oak, Oil
Christ as a Boy
Located in London, GB
Attributed to Francesco Bonsignori
Italian 1455-1519
Christ as a Boy
Oil on wood panel
Image size: 12 1/4 x 16 inches (31 x 40.5 cm)
Original gilt frame
In this painting on panel, ...
Category
16th Century Italian School England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$62,873
Portrait of Nicholas Poyntz
Located in London, GB
Remigius Van Leemput
Portrait of Nicholas Poyntz
1607-1675
Oil on oak panel
Image size: 13 x 10 1/4 inches (33 x 26 cm)
Contemporary style frame
Provenance
The Dalva Brothers Colle...
Category
17th Century Flemish School England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey 16th Century Oil Portrait
Located in London, GB
English School
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
16th Century
Oil on oak panel
Image size: 22 1/4 x 18 inches (56.5 x 46 cm)
Contemporary style frame
Provenance
Tudor Exhibition, New Gallery, ...
Category
16th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Oak
Portrait of Lady Mansfield of Ringwood
By Thomas Hudson
Located in London, GB
Portrait of Lady Mansfield of Ringwood
Oil on Canvas
Image size: 25 x 30 inches (63 x 76 cm)
Original carved & gilded frame
POA
Provenance
Descended through the Family Estate
Born in Poland in 1760 to the 2nd Earl of Mansfield and his wife, Elizabeth Mary Murray would later come under the care of her uncle, William Murray (1st Earl of Mansfield) at Kenwood House in Hampstead. David Murray (2nd Earl of Mansfield) was set to inherit the title and full wealth of his uncle, including Kenwood House. Lady Mansfield’s second cousin would soon join her at Kenwood, where they would be raised together and featured in multiple portraits of the time. Her younger sister, Henrietta, is seen in a separate portrait done by Thomas Hudson as well. At the age of 25 she married George Finch-Hatton, an English aristocrat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1772-1784.
Gazing out at the viewer, Lady Mansfield wears a decorated dress, with an abundance of pearls and lace, and a transparent gold lined veil surrounding her right shoulder. The excess of luxurious fabric matches another Hudson portrait of another Lady Mansfield, with the lace detailing and complementary bodice. The depiction of this Lady Mansfield epitomizes the style of portraiture in the 18th century, such as the styles Hudson’s pupils Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Wright, and Peter Toms. From Hudson’s travels to the Low Countries and Italy, he no doubt brought back artistic inspiration from the international pieces he encountered.
Thomas Hudson
Hudson was a celebrated 18th century portrait painter. Born in Devon in 1701 he studied under the artist Jonathan Richardson and married his daughter, against Richardson’s wishes.
He had many artistic friends including William Hogarth and Francis Hayman and travelled with them in Europe in 1748. He also visited Italy with the sculptor Louis-François Roubiliac in 1752. Hudson’s style of portraiture proved so successful that for a decade from 1745 to 1755 he was London’s most popular portrait painter and made a fortune painting the cream of London society and members of the Royal Family.
He was also a talented teacher, perhaps too good, as subsequently a number of his former assistants overtook him in popularity including the artist Joshua Reynolds.
Hudson retired in the late 1750’s and died in Twickenham in 1779. His most notable works include portraits of King George II and George Friedrich Handel and his “Portrait of a Nobleman in Van Dyck dress.” Many of Hudson’s works may be seen in art galleries. These include the National Portrait Gallery, the National Maritime Museum, the Tate Gallery, the Foundling Museum and the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. His works are also in Museums across the world...
Category
18th Century English School England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Lady Mansfield of Ringwood
By Thomas Hudson
Located in London, GB
Portrait of Lady Mansfield of Ringwood
Oil on Canvas
Image size: 25 x 30 inches (63 x 76 cm)
Original carved & gilded frame
POA
Provenance
Descended through the Family Estate
The y...
Category
18th Century English School England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), bust-length, in armour
By Robert Walker
Located in London, GB
After Robert Walker
1599 - 1658
Portrait of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), bust-length, in armour
Oil on canvas
Image size: 24 x 29 inches (61 x 73 cm)
Original carved gilt frame
This...
Category
17th Century English School England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Virgin and Child Enthroned
Located in London, GB
Studio of Adriaen Isenbrandt
1510 - 1551
The Virgin and Child Enthroned
Oil on oak panel, wax seal verso
Image size: 10 3/4 x 8 inches (27 x 20.5 cm)
Contemporary style frame (image below)
POA
Provenance
Collection of Mrs Marianne Hudson
Mary, holding Jesus in her arms, is centrally positioned against a gold detailed architectural backdrop, reflecting the traditional iconography of the enthroned Virgin and Child. This composition suggests the theme of “Maestà” or “Majesty,” emphasising the figures religious significance.
In the painting from the studio of Adriaen Isenbrandt, the artist masterfully infuses the scene with rich symbolism and hidden meanings that reflect the cultural and religious context of the period. The infant Christ, seated on the Virgin Mary’s lap, is draped in a delicate, translucent white garment that symbolises his purity. In his hand, he clutches a piece of coral, a multifaceted symbol representing immortality, youth, and health. Notably, coral was also a common teething tool during that era, adding another layer of contemporary relevance.
A scarlet-headed blackbird, native to South America, perches gracefully on Christ’s outstretched finger. This bird is a potent symbol of creation and protection, enhancing the divine narrative of the scene. Mary, with a tender and loving gesture, caresses Christ’s back while gazing adoringly at her son, underscoring her role as the nurturing mother of God.
Mary is centrally positioned within an architectural alcove, which subtly suggests a heavenly halo without explicitly depicting one. The alcove’s niches, traditionally used to emphasise the importance of sculptures, further highlight her significance. She is adorned in a voluminous red gown, with the undulating folds of the fabric accentuated by white highlights. The red colour of her dress symbolises maternal qualities, while the iridescent blue undercoat, visible in certain areas, signifies sanctity and purity due to its rarity and expense at the time.
Moreover, Mary is depicted as the epitome of contemporary Medieval...
Category
16th Century Dutch School England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of a Young Man
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 13 x 16 1/2 inches (33 x 42 cm)
Contemporary style frame (Image below)
Provenance
Private European Collection
Darnley Fine Art offers this boldly brushed ...
Category
17th Century England - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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