United Kingdom - Paintings

This charming mid-18th-century half-length French portrait depicts a lady wearing an olive green gown, together with a red cloak, and exquisite sapphi...

Thomas Spencer (British, active c. 1740-1756) A Portrait of Flying Childers Oil on canvas With an incorrect label "a racehorse second at new market by John Wotton” With an indistinct...

Loch Garten in the Scottish Highlands Vintage Impasto Painting by British Artist, Gerald Hodgson (Born 1942) Dated 1980 Art measures 30 x 20 inches F...

The Guildhall, Worcester English School, mid 20th century indistinctly signed verso oil on canvas canvas: 20 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition: very good and sound condition The Worcester Guildhall was originally built as a meeting place for Worcester merchants around 1227. As with many other guildhalls, it became the centre for civic administration, a role it maintained after the merchant guild had disappeared. The present Worcester Guildhall is a superb Queen Anne building, begun in 1722 by Thomas White, a pupil of Sir Christopher Wren. White was badly paid for his efforts, and he died in poverty in 1738, bestowing the money he was owed on the Worcester Royal Infirmary. The city finally paid its debt in 1753. The exterior of the Guildhall is brick, dressed with stone. White himself is said to have carved the figure of Queen Anne over the entry, as well as those of Charles I and II, a reminder of the city's long history of royal support. The interior is superb, boasting exceptional period decoration. The Tourist Information Centre is now located in the Guildhall. HISTORY In 1227 Henry III granted the citizens of Worcester a royal charter granting them the right to establish a guild of merchants. The guild was responsible for controlling trade in the city, but their meeting place gradually became the main centre of administration for city government and acted as a courthouse. So, in effect, the Guildhall was the town hall, and though the city guilds have long since vanished, the Guildhall name lives on. The medieval guild merchants would not recognise the building that faces onto High Street now. Their guildhall was a large timber-framed building, occupying the same site, with a piazza for shops fronting the street, courts of justice at each end, and a prison to the north of the building. Part of the prison was a cell called 'the peephole', which gained a notorious reputation. There was a gaoler's house, and attached to it an alehouse from which the gaoler sold ale at extremely high prices to any prisoner who could afford the cost. In 1717 the city administration decided on a new Guildhall, and they knew just who to call; upon to build it. Thomas White was not an architect in the way we think of it today, but a stonemason. In 1705 he had carved a statue of Queen Anne to stand in front of the medieval Guildhall and was made a Freeman of the City. The total cost of the fashionable new red-brick building was £3727. The Corporation only put forward £800, and the rest had to be raised by public subscription. The centre section of the new Guildhall was finished by 1724 and has remained almost unchanged since then. The central facade is a wonderful example of early Georgian style, with three bays flanked by Corinthian pillars. Over the entrance is a huge carving incorporating the Hanoverian royal arms. White's earlier statue of Queen Anne was placed in a niche over the door, and on either side were statues of Charles I, depicted holding a church, and Charles II, with an orb and royal sceptre. On the rooftop are figures of Labour, Peace, Justice, Plenty, and Chastisement. North and south wings were added within a few years of the central block. The south wing was used as a judge's lodging when the assizes were taking place, but throughout the rest of the year it housed a coffee shop. The most striking external feature of the Guildhall is a set of iron gates...

MOUNTAIN MONASTERY Size: 74 x 52.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A large and captivating mid-century modernist geometric abstract painting, executed in oil onto canvas. The co...

Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of Country Lane with Autumn Trees by Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Dimensions: 11 x 15.25 i...

Pocket Puffin Wildlife Collection is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to b...

Fisherman Portrait by Annie Faure (French 1940-2021) signed lower corner oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 47.5 x 24 inches condition: overall very good, minor surface s...

The Favourite Pet, portrait of young lady with Alsatian dog. French Schoo, signed indistinctly, dated 1940 oil on canvas, framed framed: 23 x 29 inches c...

Title: French Watercolor of "Château de Plessis-Bourré" Reflected on Tranquil Waters by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017) Signed: Yes Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, ...

Title: French Coastal Oil Painting of Small Rowboat at Sea Under Dramatic Sunset Sky By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 13 x 16 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Co...

Artist/ School: French School, signed lower left Title: 'Janine a la campagne' Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed and inscribed verso Size: canvas : 13.75 x 10.5 inches Pr...

This stunning French 17th century Old Master oil painting is by Baroque artist Laurent de la Hyre. It was painted circa 1645 and has excellent prove...

'Abstract Composition' by Michael Haswell (British, 1931-2020) inscribed verso acrylic painting on box canvas (painted edges so do not require framing)...

Oil Painting by Igor Talwinski "Nude Study, Blonde Mode Seated" 1907 - 1983. Polish portrait and figure study painter who came to live in Paris after ...

Arthur William Devis. English ( b.1762 - d.1822 ). Portrait Of Charlotte Shore, Daughter Of The Governor General Of India, The 1st Lord Teignmouth. Oil On Canvas. Oval Image size 26.2 inches x 20.5 inches ( 66.5cm x 62cm ). Frame size 34.6 inches x 28.7 inches ( 88cm x 73cm ). Available for sale; this original oil painting is by Arthur William Devis and dates from around 1792 to 1795. This painting was created when the sitter and the artist were both in India, the sitter's father being the Governor General of India from 1793 to 1798. The painting is presented and supplied in a 19th century decorative frame. The painted surfaces and the frame have benefitted from some restoration, cleaning and conservation, which was performed on our instruction, supervision and approval. The canvas is lined. This antique painting is in very good condition, commensurate with its age. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display. Provenance: By descent in the family of the sitter. Exhibited: Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, 2000, Arthur William Devis, no.52. Charlotte was the eldest child of the first Baron Teignmouth, a title that was created in 1798 for Sir John Shore. The title became extinct in 1981 on the death of the seventh Baron. This portrait was almost certainly painted by Devis in India at a time when the sitter’s father was Governor General. As such, this is a historically significant piece. John Shore was an anti-slavery campaigner, born in London but brought up in Romford. In 1769 he went to work in Bengal where he was one of the first to learn a number of local languages. In 1785 he returned to England and on 14 February 1786 he married Charlotte, the only daughter of James Cornish, a medical practitioner at Teignmouth. The couple’s first child, Charlotte, the subject of this painting, was born the following year, on January 26, 1787. The family quickly returned to India, where John Shore served as Governor from 1793 to 1798. John and his wife had three sons and six daughters over the following fifteen years. Sir John Shore left Calcutta for the final time in March 1798, sailing back to England with his wife and young family. The family settled in Clapham and Sir John became the first president of the British and Foreign Bible Society. He was involved with the Clapham Sect and their anti-slavery campaign. This adorable original oil on canvas depicts Charlotte, the eldest child and first daughter of the first Lord Teignmouth, aged around five to seven years old. (On the basis that the family returned to England in 1798 when Charlotte would have been 11 years old, this painting was almost certainly created in India, during the time when her father was the Governor General of India. We also know that the artist was painting portraits in India the decade up to 1795, when he returned to England.) Charlotte is an attractive child, with thick dark brown curly hair framing her beautiful angelic features. She has fair skin, rosy cheeks and rosebud lips. Her dark eyes are wide and engaging. She has the sweetest expression on her face and we feel that she is kind and good natured. She is wearing a simple white gown, typical of the day, with a low neckline and three- quarter length sleeves and a pale blue sash around her waist. Arthur William Devis was one of the major English artists of the early nineteenth century, noted particularly for his portraits. His life was dynamic and engaging and he produced some of the definitive images of his generation. Devis was born in London on 10 August 1763, the nineteenth child of the artist Arthur Devis and his wife Elizabeth Faulkner. There were several artists in the family and Devis showed an early genius for art. He received some artistic training from his father and then studied at the Royal Academy Schools where he received a Silver Medal, and the good opinion of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Devis became extremely well-travelled, and even circumnavigated the world; when he was about twenty, he was appointed draughtsman on the British East India Company's ship Antelope in a voyage to the East Indies, under Captain Henry Wilson. The vessel was wrecked off the Pelew Islands, on which the crew took refuge. The island was uninhabited, but the sailors formed a friendly alliance with neighboroughing islanders and took part in the wars of the natives. The crew then built themselves a small vessel and sailed for Macao. During this voyage Devis received two wounds from arrows shot from the coast, one in his body, the other in his check, which caused a permanent injury to his jaw. Devis left the rest of the crew at Macao, spent a year in China, then proceeded to Bengal. He settled in India for ten years, establishing a modestly successful practice and receiving several lucrative commissions from British colonialists, of which this painting of young Charlotte is likely to be one. In 1795 he returned to England and worked with great zeal, earning himself a reputation as a serious artist. He painted a number of important historical pieces, including “The Conspiracy of Babington in the reign of Queen Elizabeth” and “Cardinal Langton and the Barons forcing King John to sign Magna”. He soon became established as one of the most talented British artists of his day. It is known that Devis created other portraits of the Shore family between 1797 and 1817. Devis is particularly noted for being involved in the creation of the posthumous cult of Horatio Nelson. After the battle of Trafalgar, he went out to meet the Victory, and painted the acclaimed piece ‘The Death of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B., in the cockpit of H.M.S. Victory, 21 Oct. 1805.’ For this work Devis made various sketches on board HMS Victory, including of Nelson’s body during the autopsy by Dr. Beatty, the ship’s surgeon. The completed picture has become the definitive image of Nelson’s heroic end; it was engraved by W. Bromley (1812), and presented by the Right Hon. Lord Bexley to the gallery of Greenwich Hospital in 1825. At 8 feet 7 inches by 6 feet 4 inches it is of stunning proportions. Devis’ large oil sketch for the piece was purchased by Queen Victoria, December 1852 Devis was also commissioned by Dr. Beatty to produce a half-length painting of Nelson as Vice Admiral, which was lent to Emma Hamilton, who later lost it 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, including one in the National Maritime Museum. Devis exhibited a total of sixty-five pictures at the Royal Academy between 1779 and 1821. His equestrian portrait of ‘Alexander Sinclair Gordon, Esq.’, was engraved by Anthony Cardon in 1805; ‘The Battle of Waterloo,’ engraved by John Burnet in 1819; ‘An Indian Interior,’ by P. W. Tomkins in 1797; ‘The Little Mountaineer,’ by E. Scriven in 1809, who also engraved Devis's illustrations to J. J. Howard's translation of the ‘Metamorphoses of Ovid,’ London, 1807. Thus images of Devis’ work have become well known through the years. Today there is a portrait of Arra Kovger by Devis in the British Museum, and a portrait of Governor Herbert (painted in Calcutta in 1791) in the National Portrait Museum. Despite his artistic talent, Devis was seemingly completely incapable of managing his financial affairs. He therefore failed to maintain the status in society that his talent deserved. Where money was concerned, he was generous beyond his means and was sadly declared bankrupt in 1800. In 1804 he was imprisoned for debt. Between 1802 and 1810 he received continual assistance from John Biddulph of Ledbury, but these well-intentioned interventions did not produce the results hoped for, and Devis continued to be hopelessly unreliable. Towards the end of his career he at last began to receive Royal patronage, but it came too late. When he died suddenly from apoplexy in 1822 he left his second wife and young children penniless. He was buried in St. Giles’s churchyard. Works by Arthur Devis are now very much in demand; his depiction of Bengali weavers made an eyecatching £130,000 in a UK auction...

Pocket Crimson Strawberry 3c (canvas size 5x5cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, ...

"Abstract Design" signed by Arlette Martin (French, b.1924) dated 76' gouache/watercolour painting on card, unframed painting: 19 x 20 inches Stunning original painting by the pop...

by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...

Francois Tattegrain This painting is named and listed in Benezit It was painted for the Paris Salon in 1911 and then sold in auction in 1919 (ref Benezit). For many years it hung i...

Rustic Bouquet signed by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 11.75 x 9 inches Oil painting on cardboard, unframed Condition: The painting is in good condition, with minor signs of aging...

original painting of "Man with an umbrella" by Sean Durkin. Sean uses very toned colours but draws attention to his bag and trousers, as well as uses white tones in his socks and shi...

Title: French Impressionist Winter Street Scene with Sacré-Cœur in Snow By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 13 x 16 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Condition: The ...

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Classical Dutch Winter Scene signed, 20th century oil on canvas, framed canvas: 22.5 x 30 inches framed: 24 x 36 inches provenance: private collecti...

Fruit, Flowers & Artists Palette by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed, titled verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 32 x 23 inches Very good condition Provenance: f...

Ireland Lake Seascape Landscape with Boats & Figures by Contemporary Irish Artist, Frank Fitzsimons Art measures 36 x 16 inches Frame measure 40 x 2...

This vibrant Post Impressionist oil on canvas painting is by Bernard Fleetwood Walker circa 1925. The painting is of a French vineyard with the picturesque landscape running up to a hillside village. The impressionist palette really gives one the sense of it being a hot summer's day. Signed lower left. Provenance. Midlands estate. Condition. Oil on board, 18 inches by 14 inches approx and in excellent condition. Framed in a complimentary frame 25 inches by 21 inches framed and in good condition. Bernard Fleetwood-Walker , PPRBSA, (1893-1965) was an English artist and teacher of painting. In variably known as B. Fleetwood-Walker, he was born in Birmingham, a twin and one of five children. His father William Walker was an electrical engineer and co-inventor of the Walker-Wilkins battery, while his mother Electra Amelia (née Varley) was granddaughter of the 19th century watercolourist Cornelius Varley...

Mediterranean Landscape II', ink on art paper, by Pierre Dionisi (circa 1930s). Sepia-toned, original drawing in a compelling style depicts a view of a ...

Blackberry Picking Victorian oil painting by Thomas James Purchas (British 1855-1930) with name plaque to frame oil painting on board, framed within ornate scrolled gilt frame framed...

Nude by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tears ...

Artist/ School: American School, 20th century, indistinctly signed Title: Soldiers on Horseback Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed. framed: 31.75 x 43.75 inches canva...

George Dannatt (1915-2009) Painting - Winter 1992 1993 Oil on prepared card 19.0 x 14.0 cm Vertical orientation George Dannatt’s long career as a painter and sculptor ended with t...

Summer Bloom series began in 2022, where Shizico Yi celebrating the season by painting en plein air in her garden. In 2024, she embarks on a fresh chapter with her new rose garden, w...

A sensitive oil study depicting a female sitter. Unsigned. On board.

With strokes of Gold, Oil, Gesso and Acrylic, Shizico orchestrates a visual symphony of abstract expression in this on-going series [Landscape Memories]; it's a part of her [Sunlit S...

Signed and dated oil on canvas by French impressionist painter Charles Theophile Angrand. This wonderful and good-sized piece depicts an artist painting "en plain air" in a beautiful...

A superb Scottish Edwardian Impressionist oil painting by noted artist William Alfred Gibson. One of my favourite Scottish artists, he was well travelled and has been influenced by ...

The Close of Day Italian School, early 18th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 17 x 22.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condition

Abstract composition oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 33 x 29 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition: good and sound condition

This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. "Villa the Private Pool" by Iryna Yermolova is a captivating a...

Henry Robinson Hall. English ( b.1857 - d.1927 ). Highland Cattle In A Scottish Upland Pasture, 1891. Oil On Canvas. Signed & Dated Lower Left. Image size 23.4 inches x 15.4 inches (...

Title: Mid-Century French Red Pastel Drawing of Mother Reading to Child on Small Stool by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977) Medium: Pastel and p...

‘Rita’ Spanish Flamenco Dancer By Spanish artist, signed, Mid 20th Century Oil painting on canvas, unframed Signed by the artist on the right hand corner size: 21 x 18 inches This ...

Title: Mid Century French Male Bust Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper Size: 19 (height) x 12.5 (width) Stamped: Verso Condition:...

A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, En...

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...

Elegant Portrait of a Woman Spanish/ French School, mid 20th century signed oil on canvas, framed in original period frame inscribed verso Framed: 30 x 27 inches Canas: 22 x 18 inche...

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...

* No US duty or taxes to pay on this item * A beautiful mid 20th century French naïf oil on canvas depicting a tree lined river bank, by Maurice Ghiglion-Green. The artist is feat...

The Old Fishing Harbor by André Salomon le Tropézien (French early 20th century) signed oil on on canvas, framed framed: 29 x 25 inches canv...

Lobster signed by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary) oil painting on board, unframed dated 1979 board: 18 x 22 inches condition: very good provenance: from a large private colle...

This delightful early 20th century oil attributed to Bernard de Falaye captures a day at the park. The artist employs impressionist brush strokes to create a sense of energy and move...

Cornish Light captures the time of the setting sun at low tide on a favourite part of the Cornish coast. Gold leaf reflecting the natural colours from cloud cover. Layering and textu...

Title: French Port Town with Boats and Reflections Watercolour Painting by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Signed: Yes Size: 12.5 inches (height) x 9.5 inches (width) Watercolour painting...

A deep Expressionist landscape painting exploring the play of colours and hues found in the Welsh countryside. Rossiter handles his palette beautiful...

Paul Elie Gernez. French ( b.1888 - d.1948 ). Danseuse De Cabaret. (Cabaret Dancer) Oil On Canvas. Signed Lower Left. Image size 15.6 inches x 12.2 inches ( 39.5cm x 31cm ). Frame si...

Josef Zenisek (1855–1944) Portrait of a Young Woman with Red Scarf, circa 1900 Oil on canvas Signed lower left This beautifully rendered portrait by Josef Zenisek captures the pois...

This late 19th-century portrait depicts a figure in dark clothing against a muted brown background, creating a stark contrast that draws focus to the subject's expressive features. I...

French School, second half 20th century Signed oil painting on board, unframed board: 26 x 21 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: overall good with a few scrat...