England - Paintings

Jan van der Vaart (1647-1727) Portrait of Dorothy, Lady Brownlow (1664-1700) Oil on canvas; held in a period carved wood frame circa 1687 Considered a beauty of the age, Dorothy, Lady Brownlow was painted on a number of occasions by some of the most talented and respected artists of the day; Kneller, Riley, Closterman, Dahl and Wissing, all rendered her features in oil for posterity. The portrait presented here is by Jan van der Vaart who from 1685-1687 was employed by Willem Wissing as a drapery and landscape painter. After Wissing’s death in 1687 he practiced as an independent portraitist much in the style of his master with some influence also of Kneller. This work is in fact the head and shoulders taken from Wissing’s three-quarter length of Lady Brownlow which hangs at Belton House, Lincolnshire and produced as a mezzotint in 1687. Van der Vaart has made some intriguing alterations particularly as the sitter now looks directly at us, appearing rather more provocative and self assured of her beauty. The confident rendering of the dress and pearls and the thickly drawn copious hair are hallmarks of Van der Vaart’s work. It is likely he completed this portrait – shortly after Wissing’s version – as a smaller variant intended for another family member as was often the practice. Dorothy Mason married Sir William Brownlow 4th Bt. in July 1688; she was the daughter and heir of Sir Richard Mason a politician and courtier to Charles II who owned estates at Bishop’s Castle, Salop and Sutton Surrey. She came from, and married into extreme wealth; her dowry upon marriage was £10,000 and on her death her husband inherited the estates that were once her father’s. In June 1697 William Brownlow succeeded his brother to the baronetcy and to most of his landed estates including Belton House. In 1698 he abandoned his Peterborough seat to contest Bishop’s Castle on behalf of his wife and in the interest of his mother-in-law, Lady Anna Mason...

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...

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- Oy vey - wonderful antique oil painting of a rabbi - Very characterful piece, artist has really captured the details with talent - We date this to circa 1930 - Very evocative,...

We are delighted to offer this absolutely exquisite 19th-century Continetal School oil painting of a mother and child in a gilded and pierced foliate Florentine frame This paintin...

Path to the Beach by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021) watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed unsigned stamped verso A glorious summer scene of red roofed cottages lin...

Figures walking by the Beach by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021) watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed initialled lower right stamped verso Measures: Painting: 14.5 inches x 10.75 inches A delightful original painting by the 20th century French Impressionist artist, Maurice Mazeilie. The painting has excellent provenance having come from the artists estate sale in Paris. Mazeilie lived and worked in Montmartre, with a studio on the famous Place du Tertre. His love of the coast led him to also maintain a studio on the Brittany coastline. Born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, Paris in early 1924, Mazeilie painted coastal scenes in Brittany, Parisian landscapes...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley (British, 20th century, 1908-1996), 1993, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - "Rochester Cathedral Priory Gate from St Margaret's Mews", a finely painted street scene, with two figures approaching the gate. Medium: watercolor (artist indicates pencil and watercolor on the label verso but this is predominantly watercolor) on board, unframed. Painting : 14.5 x 10.5 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come from a private UK collection of this artists work. Condition: The painting is in overall very good and sound condition. We have measured to exclude the unpainted edges. Artist: Norman Arthur Olley was born in 1908 to a British Army family stationed in Lucknow, Bengal India. His mother died there in 1911, and his father in 1936. Norman married in Gravesend Kent in 1937, and at the beginning of the war in 1939 he was an aircraft sheet metal worker. He and his wife to Surrey in the late 1940's -early 1950's where he was a long term member of the Thames Valley Arts Club and where he regularly exhibited his work. In 1951 his painting "View from Richmond Park" was held in high regard at a very well attended exhibition in Esher, Surrey. The East Molesey area was one of his favourite areas to paint, a 1953 Art...

Thomas Whitcombe: ‘Flora’, this oil on canvas shows the action, within a gilt frame with a panel reading ‘British Frigate “Flora”, 36 guns commanded b...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), dated 1993-95, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - In the Oast House at ...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1993, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Rochester Cathedral, Priory Gate on Minor Canon Row. Kent,...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1991, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Solitary Angler on the River Thames at Teddington near L...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1995, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Church and Village at Altarnun. Cornwall. Church of St N...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), dated 1991, signed to the front Title - This one has no inscription verso but we feel confident it is another ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of late Victorian watercolors signed H Brock and dated Apr 1894 The first is titled “An Uninvited Guest” and the second “A Lion...

Artist Juno Doran Portugal b.1966 Title: No.4 (self-portrait after a Week's Sleep Deprivation finishing a Painting for the BP award) Oil on canvas Measures: 184 x 122 cm Exhibited: National Portrait Museum London 2003 The fantastic painting was a finalist in the BP Portrait award...

Wonderful watercolor of working dogs by Raoul Millais. Signed with Monogram HRM Raoul Millais (1901-1999) : Born in Horsham, Sussex in 1901, Raoul Millais was the grandson of the artist Sir John Everett Millais. His early introduction to art and culture was supplemented by his enrolment at the Byam Shaw School of Art and later the Royal Academy Schools in 1921. During his studies, Millais became interested in the depiction of animals, a field in which he excelled. In 1924 he accompanied his father, the artist John Guille Millais, to Africa where Millais spent time in Sudan completing a series of studies which would later become illustrations in the book ‘Far Away Up the Nile’ (1924). The following year, Millais travelled to Angola where he continued to sketch studies of exotic animals. Upon his return to England in 1925, he settled in Wiltshire where he established himself as an equestrian portraitist. His career as an equine painter proved to be very successful, and in 1936 the artist participated in a one-man exhibition of almost 50 paintings in London. During the Second World War Millais served in the Scots Guards and continued, where possible, to paint and draw. In 1943 the artist was given leave to complete a commission to paint the Royal horses Big Game and Sun Chariot for King George VI. In the years that followed, Millais completed a great number of portraits of winning racehorses, including commissions from Sir Winston Churchill. In 1958 the artist purchased...

19th Century coastal landscape water colour, monogram lower right. Delightful picture capturing the softness light and colours of the English coast on an overcast day Wide compo...

An antique 20th Century oil on canvas piece by Frederick Thomas Daws portraying an English Bull Terrier. Daws, famed for his depictions of champion dogs created this piece in the 192...

You are viewing a gorgeous antique Italian needlepoint tapestry Lovely scene with the shoe maker - or cobbler - and the male and female subject I a...

Maggy Clarysse (1931-2011) oil on canvas, unframed 16 x 20 inches signed front and back condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come from ...

Interior Scene by Albert Demoen (1916-1992) – Oil on Canvas This charming oil painting by Bruges artist Albert Demoen captures the warmth of a rustic interior. A smouldering fire gl...

Gorgeous large still life oil painting in the Georgian manner Shows a large still life display with fruits, a bowl with lobsters in it and various animals including pheasants, a rabb...

Inscribed verso, Southampton and dated 99' Size 11 x 15 inches Superb original watercolour painting by the well listed and popular Irish painter, Frank Forty (1902-1996). The painting came from a private collection of this artists work. Frank Forty was an Irish painter best known for his landscapes of County Donegal and Kerry, as well as locations in England. He was born in 1902 and died in 1996. As well as being a Consultant Surgeon and a musician, Frank Forty was a highly accomplished and accredited artist, having exhibited with the Royal Society of British Artists, the Medical Art...

French landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) Original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed Size: 12.5 x 19.75 inches Condition: very good and re...

"Watercolour Beach Scene" by Maurice Mazeilie (French) Watercolour painting on paper, unframed Stamped verso Painting: 5 x 6.25 inches A delightful original oil painting by ...

French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed size: 12 x 9 inches condition: very good and ready to...

French landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) Original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed Size: 8.25 x 11.75 inches condition: very good and re...

French landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, mounted on board size: 14 x 17 inches condition: very good and...

"Watercolour Beach Scene" by Maurice Mazeilie (French) Watercolour painting on paper, unframed Stamped verso Painting: 5 x 8 inches A delightful original oil painting by the...

French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour/ gouache painting on paper, unframed size: 11.75 x 8.5 inches condition: very good and ready to b...

French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed size: 9.75 x 12.5 inches condition: very good and rea...

French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour/ gouache painting on board, unframed size: 13.5 x 9.5 inches condition: very good and ready to be...

French landscape by Bernard Labbe (French, mid-20th century) Signed original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, mounted on board unframed Size: 11.5 x 16 inches Condi...

French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed size: 9.5 x 6.25 inches condition: very good and read...

French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid-20th century) Signed original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper , mounted on card, unframed Size: 15.75 x 12 inches Cond...

Orange Building by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) Signed original watercolour/ gouache painting on board, unframed Size: 9.75 x 12.75 inches Condition: very good and rea...

Three boats by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) Signed original watercolour/ gouache mounted painting on paper board, unframed Size: 11 x 12.5 inches Condition: very good ...

Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her stud...

Male Portrait by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) Signed original watercolour/ gouache painting on board, unframed Size: 11 x 10.5 inches Condition: very good and ready to...

Harry Newman's Derelict cottages, Stagsden 1986 Watercolour, ink, crayon, gouache Signed lower right : Clifford Knight 1986 label verso : Ghosts & Silent Witness Exhibition, North...

An amazing and unique set of three vintage comic strip oil paintings of The Black Widow. We would date these to around the 1970’s. They are beautifully executed and are made to sit together as a comic strip, depicting a scene from Marvel’s Black Widow. Each is signed in the lower corner with the artists initials GM...

Bright and breezy Italian still life of fruits in a bowl Artist has really captured the scen with great skill as the fruits are placed in a blue and white porcelain bowl Love how the...

JENS KJAER, (DANISH : b1938) Seed Pods Oil Board Abstract Earth Pigments Ochre Sienna Umber 28.5" The theme of fertility and fecundity is explored in this ...

A 20th Century oil on canvas piece by Frederick Thomas Daws portraying "Musket", a beautiful Basset Hound.Daws, famed for his depictions of champion dogs created this piece in the 1930's in England. This unfinished work...

Edward John Gregory (1850-1909) Edward John Gregory (1850-1909) A seated girl in Oriental costume signed 'E J Gregory' and dated 1896 l.l., watercolour 34 x 48cm Framed Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, Oil Paintings and Watercolour Drawings by the late Edward John Gregory, RA, 1910, no.194. Gregory was born in Southampton, the son of a ship’s engineer and grandson of John Gregory, engineer-in-chief on Sir John Franklin’s last Arctic expedition...

Far Eastern Vintage Far Eastern Shop Signs A batch of far eastern vintage shop signs and nameplates. Wooden and brass displaying lettering and numb...

I, II, III, 2023 This is now a set of 3 - they are available individually too - please ask. Paint, ink, graphite on paper 75 x 57cm Series: Midnight Series Signed & dated verso All rights, the artist. Mark Houghton...

An important pair of large micromosaic plaques from The Vatican Studios of Rome Gold Gilt frames of portrait form enclose the plaques, which depict male and female Italian villagers...

David Cox 'Snow Scene' c1840 , inscribed verso. Very much in the manner of David Cox (1783 - 1859), has a framers and board label 'G Rowney & Co. Rathbourne Place, London'. Rown...

An antique 20th Century oil on canvas piece by Frederick Thomas Daws portraying a German Shepherd dating to 1926. Daws, famed for his depictions of champion dogs, commenced this artw...

19th-century oil on wood panel painting featuring a man in a tavern. This oil painting, delicately rendered on a wooden panel, captures a captivating scene from the 19th century. Th...

Very interesting oil painting of Igor Stravinsky Russian composer, pianist and conductor, later of French (from 1934) and American (from 1945) citizens...

Vintage Mary E Carter oil on canvas painting of a girl with a hat. Made in England, 1989 Hand signed. Dimensions: Actual painting size: 8 cm in width and 8.5...

Henry George Gawthorn (1879–1941) Rare watercolor study of two fishermen examining a large fishing net in the harbour. Inscribed ‘rough sketch for poster’ & signed H G Gawthorn in pencil. With a pencil sketch of one of the fishermen on the reverse Reputedly Newlyn. probably artwork for GWR, Great Western Railway...

A late 19th century botanical watercolor study. Watercolor on paper set within a reeded giltwood frame.

A late 19th century botanical study depicting a red lily. Watercolor on paper held within a reeded giltwood frame.

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning original 1882 dated Frederick George Cotman oil painting of a blacksmith A well good looking and well made high Victorian painting, this really offers a window into another time and place Frederick George Cotman (14 August 1850 Ipswich–1920) was an English painter of landscapes, portraits and interiors and a member of the Norwich School of painters Frederick was born into the Cotman family of artists. His parents were Henry Edmund Cotman (1802–1871), formerly a Norwich silk merchant and his wife Maria Taylor (1813–1895). His elder brothers, Henry Edmund Cotman (1844–1914), and Thomas Cotman (1847–1925) were born in London before the family moved to Ipswich. Frederick was born at 186 Wykes Bishop Street, Ipswich in 1850 and was the youngest child of the family. He was the nephew of John Sell Cotman and the cousin of John Joseph Cotman and Miles Edmund Cotman. He was a private pupil of William Thomson...