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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 London - Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

River View - French Impressionism School of Paris
By Charles Kvapil
Located in London, GB
This original oil painting is signed in oil by the artist "Kvapil" in the lower left corner. Condition: Very good condition. Note: This work will be shipped from Israel.
Category

20th Century Impressionist London - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Summer
Located in London, GB
Oil on panel, signed & dated lower right 1975 Image size: 9 1/2 x 10 1/5 inches (24.13 x 25.9 cm) Ebonised Dutch style frame In this painting by Newcombe, the warmth of a summer sunset envelopes the rolling landscape. As part of his four-seasons collection this panel, Summer portrays the gentle heat of an orange sky, casting its glow upon the abundant fauna and ruined castle in the hilltop. The castle could be Corfe Castle. Peter Newcombe...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern London - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

The Blue Headdress, Group Portrait Orientalist Oil Painting, Signed and Dated
By Emile Deckers
Located in London, GB
Émile Deckers 1885 - 1968 The Blue Headress Oil on canvas, signed lower left, inscribed and dated "Algers, 1958" Image size: 26 x 33 inches (66 x 84 cm) Hand made Orientalist gilt f...
Category

1950s London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Gentleman
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas Image size: 17 x 23 1/2 inches (43 x 60 cm) Contemporary William Kent hand made frame
Category

18th Century London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Yellow Pairing, 21st Century Contemporary Oil
By Keith Holmes
Located in London, GB
Keith Holmes Contemporary Yellow Pairing Oil on board, initialled bottom right Image size: 15 ¼ x 9 ¾ inches Framed
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary London - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Paysage d'Annay-sur-Serein by Michel Kikoïne - Landscape painting
By Michel Kikoïne
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Paysage d'Annay-sur-Serein by Michel Kikoïne (1892-1968) Oil on canvas 54 x ...
Category

1950s London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Les enfants de la liberté by Lélia Pissarro - Contemporary painting
By Lelia Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Les enfants de la liberté by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963) Acrylic, pigment and gold powder on canvas 100 x 120 cm (39 ³/₈ x 47 ¹/₄ inches) Signed lower right, Lélia Pissarro Signed, titl...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary London - Paintings

Materials

Gold

Asleep in the Manger
By Walter Hunt
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Pastel on paper Paper size: 13.75 x 20.5 inches Framed size: 21.5 x 28.25 inches Signed lower left
Category

19th Century London - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel

The Holy Family, 16th Century Venetian School, Oil on Canvas, Hand Carved Frame
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas Image size: 26 x 37 inches (66 x 94 cm) Period hand carved gilt frame The pictorial arrangement of the Holy Family, with various saints in a landscape, was very popular in sixteenth-century Venice, following the prototype of Giovanni Bellini. Possibly intended for private devotion, this picture is a representative example of the compositional type known as the sacra conversazione...
Category

16th Century London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tourists
By Tony Karpinski
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on board Board size: 12 x 8.75 inches Framed size: 17.75 x 14.5 inches Signed lower right Further signed and inscribed verso
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary London - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Village Life
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas Canvas size: 10 x 18 inches Framed size: 15.5 x 23.5 inches Signed
Category

19th Century London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Celestial Metamorphosis: Embracing the Ascended- butterfly contemporary realism
Located in London, Chelsea
"Celestial Metamorphosis: Embracing the Ascended Self"is a captivating and transformative painting that invites viewers into a vibrant realm of spiritual growth and enlightenment. In...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Ethereal Symphony: Vibrations of 5D Mushroom- butterfly contemporary realism
Located in London, Chelsea
Ethereal Symphony: Vibrations of 5D Mushroom Ascension" is a captivating artwork that transports us into a mystical realm where the ethereal and the earthly converge. This painting i...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Portrait of a Judge, 17th Century English Oil Portrait Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, on board Image size: 30 1/4 x 27 inches (76.75 x 68.5 cm) Contemporary style handmade frame This is a attention-holding portrait of a 17th century English judge...
Category

17th Century English School London - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

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 London - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Ascension-butterfly blue contemporary realism negative space acrylic paint
Located in London, Chelsea
This original painting by Mandii Pope takes a unique painterly approach to the butterfly motif. Pope here contrasts the traditional painterly portrayal of the butterfly against a mod...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Stone Lion
Located in London, GB
G R Neale Oil on Canvas, Signed and dated ‘1933’ lower right Image Size: 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches ( 34.3 x 24.1 cm) Hand made ebonised and gilded frame Accentuated by the works golden tones, the painting is a duality of strength and stillness. Explored through the compositions stoic stone lion; angled to gaze just out of frame; in contrast with the draped ochre curtain of the piece’s background. Reeves and Sons...
Category

20th Century Modern London - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Abstract composition in black
By Avigdor Arikha
Located in London, GB
Gouache on paper
Category

20th Century London - Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Harbour View - Cityscape Abstract Dada Romanian Israeli
By Marcel Janco
Located in London, GB
This work is signed by the artist “Janco”, in the lower right corner. Condition: Good condition. Minor areas of craquelure, particularly along the edges of the canvas. Mild surface ...
Category

1930s Abstract London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Peak - Contemporary Acrylic Artwork: Retro Style, Simple, Colourful and Linear
By Rachel Wickremer
Located in London, GB
Born in Buckinghamshire in 1976, Rachel Wickremer is a Canterbury based painter known for her colourful work. Exploring the relationship between the maker and the prefabricated, she ...
Category

2010s Contemporary London - Paintings

Materials

Thread, Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic

Brave - Vigorous - Manful by Lélia Pissarro - Abstract Contemporary painting
By Lelia Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Brave - Vigorous - Manful by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963) Black and red acrylic, red glitter 121 x 126 cm (47 ⁵/₈ x 49 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed, titled and dated on the reverse Executed in 2007 Literature Lélia Pissarro, Abstraction, London, 2008, p. 3 (illustrated) This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the artist. Artist biography Born in Paris in 1963, Lélia is the third and youngest child of Hugues-Claude and Katia Pissarro. She was raised, however, in the loving care of her grandparents Paulémile Pissarro, Camille’s youngest son, and his wife Yvonne, in Clécy, Normandy. From a young age, Lélia’s interest in drawing and painting was nurtured by her grandfather while she sat beside him at his easel, captivated. He taught her the fundamental Impressionist and Post-Impressionist techniques he had learnt from his father and brothers before him and watched as her skills blossomed rapidly. Standing readily on the shoulders of giants, Lélia sold her first painting to New York art dealer Wally Findlay, when she was only four years of age. When Lélia turned 11 she moved to Paris to live with her parents where, with the guiding support of her father’s teachings she began to broaden her skill sets. Under the watchful eye of her father Hughes Claude Pissarro, she became exposed to new environments and learnt to experiment with abstract styles and subjects. At age 14 Lélia submitted some of these works to the exhibition ‘Salon de la Jeune Peinture’ at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris. Being underage, however, she had to submit these works secretly under the pseudonym Rachel Manzana Pomié. With her parents dividing their time between France and California, Lélia found herself moving between Tours, Paris and San Francisco, all the while studying fine art and psychology at the University des Beaux Arts. She eventually settled in Paris to teach art at the Moria School and study oil painting conservation under the guidance of a teacher from the Louvre museum. During this time she began to present her work in solo exhibitions in Paris, Lyon, Mulhouse and Rennes. In 1988 Lélia married English art dealer David Stern and moved to London. Their three children Kalia, Lyora and Dotahn, all paved their own way in the art world. From 1995 Lélia participated in a series of exhibitions entitled Pissarro – The Four Generations, which were held in galleries in London, Tel Aviv, Boston, Austin, San Francisco, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Los Angeles as well as a number of museums in Japan in 1998 and the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2000. In 1999 Lélia also became one of the founders of the Sorteval Press, a group of artists dedicated to developing techniques in etching and printmaking. Their first exhibition took place at the Mall Gallery in London. In 2005 following a long break in painting because of cancer, Lélia started a journey into modern art creating a number of different series: Circles, Shoes, Animals, exploring these until she reached the point of abstraction and minimalism. Developing innovative techniques, she began incorporating in her work new materials such as gold, wax and encaustic paint. To coincide with a major exhibition at Stern Pissarro...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Glitter, Acrylic

Self-Portrait - Royal Academy Founding Member, 18th Century
By Francis Hayman
Located in London, GB
Francis Hayman RA 1708–1776 Self-Portrait Oil on oak panel Image size: 8 x 6¼ inches Contemporary gilt frame This newly discovered work is the earliest known self portrait by Francis Hayman, dated to the mid to late 1720’s. The small scale of the portrait gives it a strong sense of intimacy. Whereas clients would often dress themselves in their best clothes for a sitting, Hayman has portrayed himself in informal attire, with his shirt unbuttoned and a wig cap. Born in 1708 to a respectable Devonshire family, his training began at the tender age of ten under the tutelage of the historical painter Robert Brown, who was probably an uncle. By the 1730’s he is known to have been engaged in painting scenery for the popular theatres on Goodman’s Fields and Drury Lane. He established a studio on St Martin’s Lane, and demonstrated his versatility as one of the most important painters of his time in portraits, illustration and history painting. Indeed, he was one of the first English painters deemed to have the skill and proficiency to rival that of the foreign masters, such as Holbein and Kneller, who were brought in by the court to make up for the perceived shortcomings of the native artists. Led by William Hogarth, Hayman and other artists began to create a new movement in the English art world. Thomas Gainsborough was one of his pupils, whom he is said to have introduced to the more lascivious and debauched underbelly of London life. After mostly making his living as an illustrator, in the 1740’s Hayman was commissioned by the proprietor of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, Jonathan Tyers, to produce a series of four large celebratory canvases depicting British victories from the Seven Years War. His association with Tyers continued, and over the next ten years he produced a number of large decorative paintings...
Category

18th Century Old Masters London - Paintings

Materials

Oak, Oil Pastel

Head of a Arab Horse
By John Lewis Shonborn
Located in London, GB
Oil on cardboard mounted on canvas, signed lower right Image size: 9 x 7 1/4 inches (23 x 18.5 cm) Original gilt frame This painting shows a horse standing in profile in front of, w...
Category

Late 19th Century Modern London - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Ivan Turetskyy - Euphoria, painting, contemporary, futurist, abstract, movement
By Ivan Turetskyy
Located in London, GB
Ivan Turetskyy (b.1956) Euphoria 2018 oil on canvas 120 x 85 cm signed, titled, dated and marked with the artisi's thumbprint (on the verso) Price: £13...
Category

2010s Futurist London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Peaceful Waters
By Walter Williams
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas Canvas size: 18.5 x 36.5 inches Framed size: 23.75 x 41.5 inches Signed lower right
Category

19th Century London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

24 hour Painting, Oil on Canvas by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié, 1992
Located in London, GB
24 hour Painting by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié (B. 1935) Oil on canvas 195 x 130 cm (76 ³/₄ x 51 ¹/₈ inches) Signed and dated May 1992 Painted in Co. Navan, Ireland where the artist ...
Category

1990s Modern London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Petite Fille - Jewish Russian Art
By Michel Kikoïne
Located in London, GB
This work is hand signed by the artist "Kikoine" in the lower right. This work was painted in circa 1950-1955. Literature: Cassou, Jean, Roditi Edouard, Mann, Mendel & Yankel, Jac...
Category

1950s Expressionist London - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

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 London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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 London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pastoral Scene with Figures
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed lower left Image size: 23 1/4 x 23 1/2 inches (59 x 60 cm) Hand made contemporary style frame This exciting newly discovered work by Guthrie is quite a rarity....
Category

20th Century London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sea Wrack- Nature, Beach, River, Painting, Contemporary
Located in London, GB
Born in Surrey in 1967, Lorna Holdcroft-Kirin is now based in Suffolk, England. Having trained at the Wimbledon School of Art she was awarded the Prize for Drawing. She then went on ...
Category

2010s Contemporary London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Being III - dreamlike oil and wax abstract painting
By Val Hudson
Located in London, GB
Val Hudson is a painter drawing on a wide spectrum of ideas and influences. Her paintings present a dreamlike quality of ephemeral spaces punctuated with half seen evocations of memo...
Category

2010s Contemporary London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Oil

The Solemn Morris Dancer
By Yosl Bergner
Located in London, GB
Oil on board Image size: 5 3/4 x 7 inches (14.5 x 17.75 cm) As can be seen in this painting, Surrealism served as a source of inspiration for Bergner, though he did not consider himself a surrealist but a lover of stories, and indeed narrative elements appear frequently in his work. He uses the “displacement” element, as the Surrealists did, and that is detaching the figures, objects or landscapes from the logical context and into a poetical-magical climate. Nissim Aloni noted in 1983 He paints as though to install stabilizers against the turbulence of the dream, and perhaps these stabilizers serve him in time as a touchstone'. The Artist Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1920 and grew up in Warsaw, Poland. With rampant anti-Semitism in Europe, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonization was formed in the United States in July 1935, to search for a potential Jewish homeland. Soon afterwards a pastoral firm in Australia offered the League about 16,500 square kilometres (6,400 sq mi) in the Kimberleys, stretching from the north of Western Australia into the Northern Territory. As history showed, the plans went nowhere. But for a time, the Australian idea was at least worth considering. Bergner's father, Melech Ravitch, became involved in a serious investigation of the Kimberley Plan. In this way the Bergner family moved to Australia. Yosl emigrated to Australia in 1937 and studied in the National Gallery School in Melbourne. During World War II he served for four and a half years in the Australian Army, and later continued his studies at the Art School. In Melbourne from 1937–48, Bergner befriended many of the local artists who now epitomize modern Australian art: Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker...
Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist London - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Portrait of a Young Girl, Polish Late 19th Century Oil
Located in London, GB
Szymon Buchbinder 1853 - 1908 Portrait of a Young Girl Oil on canvas Image size: 19 x 13 inches Original frameSimon Buchbinder (1853-1908) was a Polish painter. Most of his works we...
Category

Late 19th Century London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

I'll try anything with you by Lélia Pissarro - Contemporary painting
By Lelia Pissarro
Located in London, GB
I'll try anything with you by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963) Acrylic, pigment and gold powder on canvas 81 x 65 cm (31 ⁷/₈ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed and titled on the reverse This work is a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary London - Paintings

Materials

Gold

A Willow Tree - British landscape, 20th Century, Oil
Located in London, GB
Leslie Ernest Parkinson 1903 - 2001 A Willow Tree Oil on board, initialled and dated 1930 top left Image size: 10 x 12 inches Handmade frame Parkinson was born in Islington in 19...
Category

1930s London - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Pink Moon
Located in London, GB
A multidisciplinary artist and experimental musician with synaesthesia, Jake-Andrew's practice is centred around the way the mind can perceive audio stimulus as colour, texture, shape and movement. Exploring sensory perception, Jake-Andrew documents the emotional and physical response to the relationships that exist between colour and sound, and how they can reflect the minutiae and melancholia of the human condition through gestural abstraction and introspective layering; exploring the progression of his physical practice for the digital renaissance by introducing pixel manipulation to digital gesture and occasionally physical attributes through coding. Jake-Andrew's work exists as an expressive, physical performance that allows him to create projected installation environments and immersive experiences; either on screen or in situ. Which affects the relationship that all of us have with colour and sound. Undertaken projects with Glenfiddich, Braun Audio...
Category

2010s Abstract London - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Thames Dockland, Oil Landscape Painting, 1912 London
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed lower left and dated '1912' Image size: 16 x 12 inches (30.5 x 40.5 cm) Original gilt frame This is a scene of the Thames Docks. It is most likely to be on Ban...
Category

1910s English School London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Flowers, Fruit and Nuts - Expressive vibrant colourful semi abstract painting.
Located in London, GB
Moira Hazel has a compulsive desire to paint, create, make marks and produce vivid and expressive work. She uses lively surface texture and intense colours to capture the essence of ...
Category

2010s Contemporary London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Tempest 19th Century Oil British School
Located in London, GB
British School 19th Century TempestOil on board Image size: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (24 x 32 cm)
Category

19th Century Victorian London - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

La Maison de Sean Duffy à Maghery (Marée Basse en Hiver) by Hugues Pissarro
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
La Maison de Sean Duffy à Maghery (Marée Basse en Hiver) by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié (b. 1935) Oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm (36 ¹/₄ x 28 ³/₄ inches) Signed lower right, Hugues Pissarro ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Women in an Interior
By Alfred Aberdam
Located in London, GB
ALFRED ABERDAM 1894-1963 Lviv 1894-1963 Paris (Polish/French) Title: Women in an Interior, 1948 Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on panel size: 32.5 x 26.5 cm / 12.8 x 10.4...
Category

1940s Modern London - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Lago Smeraldo and Monte Rosa, Italy
By Peter Symonds
Located in London, GB
Image dimensions: 19cm x 29cm Framed dimensions: 32.2cm x 43cm Signed lower right As one of Britain's leading landscape artists, Peter Symonds is unde...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Les Maisons Neuves by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié, 1991 - Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in London, GB
Les Maisons Neuves by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié (B. 1935) Oil on canvas 130 x 162 cm (51 ¹/₈ x 63 ³/₄ inches) Signed lower right, Claude Pissarro Executed in 1991 This work is accom...
Category

1990s Contemporary London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cathedral View
Located in London, GB
A R Phillips 20th Century Cathedral View Gouache on board, signed and dated 1946 bottom right Image Size: 12 1/2 x 13 inches (30 x 32.5 cm) Handmade framed This painting, originally...
Category

20th Century Post-War London - Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Summer on the Farmstead, 20th Century Oil Landscape Painting, New Zealand
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas on board Image size: 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (19 x 14 cm) Hand made contemporary style frame This small-scale artwork depicts a working farmstead, in New Zealand. It is a textural work with lots of movement and life. Under blue skies luscious vegetation grows throughout this scene between the farm buildings. There are signs of life everywhere in this scene - the fence at the rear has seemingly just been constructed as spare planks of wood rest just next to it. The farm carts...
Category

20th Century Modern London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Crépuscule à Venise by H. CLAUDE PISSARRO - Post-Impressionist style painting
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Crépuscule à Venise by H. CLAUDE PISSARRO (b. 1935) Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm (15 x 18 1⁄8 inches) Signed lower...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist London - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Still Life with Plums, Apples and Peaches on a Mossy Bank
By Oliver Clare
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas Canvas size: 14 x 18 inches Framed size: 18 x 22 inches Signed lower right
Category

19th Century London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

THE PROMISE, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Monica Maja Richardson
Located in Yardley, PA
Acrylic, spray paint and natural pigments on canvas. Artwork stretched and ready to hang. Protected on top with liquitex matt varnish, to keep the colours safe and bright. Signed ...
Category

2010s Abstract London - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Portrait of a King's Messenger, 18th Century English Artist, Original Frame
By Charles Philips
Located in London, GB
Charles Philips 1703 - 1747 Portrait of a King's Messenger Oil on canvas Image size: 35 ¾ x 28 inches Original gilt frame King's Messenger The job of a King's Messenger was that of a diplomatic courier, hand-carrying important and secret documents around the world. Some say that the history of the sovereigns' messengers goes back to 1199, but the first known messenger was John Norman, who in 1485 earned 4d (1½ pence) per day for carrying the state papers of Richard III. The silver greyhound on the messenger's badge dates back to Charles II. In 1660, during his exile at Breda, Netherlands, Charles II issued a declaration of amnesty to all those who had opposed him and his father. He used messengers to make his intentions known. In answer to the messenger's question "How will they know me?", Charles reached forward to a silver bowl on the table in front of him. This bowl, with four decorative greyhounds standing proud above the rim, was well known to all courtiers. Charles broke off a greyhound and gave it to the messenger as a guarantee that the message came from him. From that date, the King's Messenger always wore a silver greyhound around his neck. Later, dating from George II or III, a badge with the Royal Arms in enamel, with the greyhound suspended beneath, was worn. A George III example of the King's Messenger Badge, pre 1800, sold for over £30,000 pounds some years ago. The silver greyhounds were minted for each new reign, except the brief one of King Edward VIII. The sovereign's messengers were originally controlled by the Lord Chamberlain, being Messengers of the Great Chamber. When the Foreign Office was created in 1782, the messengers remained common to the three Secretaries of State. Charles Philips was an English artist known for painting a number of portraits and conversation pieces for noble and Royal patrons in the mid-eighteenth century. Philips was baptised in the combined parish of St Mildred, Poultry with St Mary...
Category

18th Century London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Open Study (White Line on Beige No. 2)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and graphite on paper 77.5 x 55.9 cms (30 1/2 x 22 ins)
Category

1960s London - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Hampshire Landscape 20th Century Oil Original Railway Artwork
By Eric Hesketh Hubbard
Located in London, GB
Eric Hesketh Hubbard 1892 - 1957 Hampshire Landscape Oil on canvas, signed bottom left Image size: 24 x 18 inches (61 x 46 cm) Contemporary style hand made frame This painting was c...
Category

20th Century London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Forgotten Flying Machine - Oil on Canvas - Romanian French Surrealism
Located in London, GB
JULES PERAHIM 1914-2008 Bucharest 1914-2008 Paris (Romanian) Title: A Forgotten Flying Machine Une machine volante oubliée, 1978 Technique: Signed, Da...
Category

1970s Surrealist London - Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Cricket Match, Mid 20th Century British School Oil
Located in London, GB
British School Mid 20th Century The Cricket Match Oil on board Image size: 18 x 24 inches (46 cm x 61 cm)
Category

20th Century London - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Aurum 21 -Decorative Flowers Birds Animal Painting Gold Contemporary Circles
By Keng Wai Lee & Marco Araldi
Located in London, GB
The collaboration between Keng Wai Lee and Marco Araldi is based on the contrast between the techniques used. Marco uses ink pen and gold, creating geometrical patterns and graphic i...
Category

2010s Contemporary London - Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Neige au Manoir de Miettes (Le Parapluie Bleu), Oil on Canvas, 2019
Located in London, GB
Neige au Manoir de Miettes (Le Parapluie Bleu) by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935) Oil on canvas 50 x 61 cm (19.75 x 24 inches) Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro Executed in 2019 Th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist London - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Country Byways, Original Artwork for Railway, 20th Century English
Located in London, GB
Charles Henry Collins Bake 1880 - 1959 Country Byways Gouache on paper, signed lower left Image size: 17 x 21 inches (43 x 53 1/2 cm) Contemporary gilded oak frame This fabulous artwork was a commission by the railways to use as a poster to encourage people to travel by railway to the countryside. Charles Henry Collins Baker was an English painter and art historian. Baker was born in Ilminster, Somerset, the son of John Collins Baker and Fanny Henrietta Remmet. He was educated in Berkhamsted and the Royal Academy Schools. A landscape painter at the beginning of his career, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1907 and at the New English Art Club in 1909–16; from 1921 to 1925 he was the club's honorary secretary. In 1911 he became the art critic...
Category

Early 20th Century London - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

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