United Kingdom - Paintings

Vibrant Still Life signed by René GUINAND (1892-1983) dated 1967 oil on board, unframed Board: 13 x 16 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very good condition D...

Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of a Serene Coastal Beach Scene with Kite Flyers By Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Dimension...

Artist/ School: English School, 19th century Title: Cattle Watering from Woodland Pool Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed Size: painting: 16 x 24 inches, frame: 18.75 x 26.7...

Interior Scene by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) oil painting on board unframed: 10.75 x 8.75 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we have for sale by this artist h...

Title: Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Pastel of Boats Moored at a French Harbour by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977) Signed: Yes Medium: Pastel on unframed paper Siz...

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

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

A fine painting after George Romney of The Hon.Reverend Anchitel Grey (1774 – 1833) as a Boy The painting depicts a boy aged about ten, standing, turned to the left, gazing at the spectator, wearing a blue coat, and white linen collar, a spaniel with its paws on his chest. Shoulder length brown hair. Trees in the background on the right, distant horizon with cloudy sky on the left. The sitter was the third son of George Harry Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (1765-1845) and Lady Henrietta Cavendish-Bentinck (died 4th June 1827), daughter of the 2nd Duke of Portland...

The Village Square French School, early 20th century signed watercolor on artist paper, framed titled verso framed: 13 x 17 inches artist paper : 12.5 x 16.5 inches Provenance: priva...

Pocket Lime 4c 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 baroque still life p...

Who doesn’t love the indulgence of just watching the sky; clouds endlessly swirling in intricate patterns and constant movement resonate deep within us. Francesca Owen has captured t...

The Red Lobster signed by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary) dated 1978 oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 21.5 inches condition: very good provenance: from a large p...

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...

'Sailing to the Seas' by Spanish artist Bernard. Contemporary colourful blue, red painting of sail boats on the sea. The perfect addition to any home where colour is needed. the incr...

Fishing Boats at the Harbor with Lighthouse by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 15 x 18 inches Oil painting on board, unframed Condition: The painting is in good condition, with mino...

A charming still life study depicting oysters, lobsters and a platter of fruit painted in a Dutch Golden Age style. Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame. On canvas.

Portrait Of White Arabian Horses 19th Century circle of JOHN FREDERICK HERRING (1795-1856) Large 19th Century English study of three white Arabian horses, oil on canvas. Excellent quality and condition study of the heads of three white Arabians. Exceptional detail circa 1860 study taken from Herrings Seniors work titled "The Pharaohs Horses...

'Reclining Nude en Plein Aire', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1960s). The reclining figure is one of the most popular poses in art history...

Shipley Mill by Ronald Birch, British circa 1970's watercolour on art paper, unframed overall paper measures: 15 x 22 inches signed to lower left 'Ronald Burch' and titled lower cent...

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

Portrait of Mr. Gilbert (believed to be the founder of 'Gilberts Charity, Bridgwater, Somerset) English School artist, late 17th/ early 18th century oil...

The Old French Street by Claude Marin (French 1914-2001) signed and dated oil on artist card stuck on board, unframed board: 9 x 10.75 inches Inscribed verso Provenance: private coll...

A naive 19th century genre scene in oil, depicting an mother and daughter playing together in golden wheat fields. The artist depicts the two figures, mid piggy back ride, happy with...

Portrait of Lord Jeffreys of Wem British School, 20th century (presumably after an earlier work) oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 30.5 x 24.5 inches canvas: 26 x 20 inches prov...

Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953) Title: Impressionist oil painting Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed. dated 1966 Size: painting: 1...

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...

Title: Original Oil Abstract Still Life with Cheese Slices and Knife Artist: Roland Pichard Medium: Oil on oil paper, mounted on card Size: 9.5 (height) x 13.25 (width), (Includin...

Oil Painting by James Edward Meadows "An Essex Farmstead" 1826 -1893 He was a London painter or rural landscapes. He exhibited in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Dublin and Manchester...

Title: Oil Painting of Vibrant Still Life of Sunflowers and Orange Blooms in a Jug Artist: Roland Pichard Medium: Oil on oil paper, mounted on card Size: 10.75 (height) x 9.75 (wi...

New original landscape painting by Nicky Chubb. Colourful and textured landscape painting of a tree with a shiny background. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: signed and dated by artist on th...

Rural Landscape by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018) pencil painting on artist paper painting: 10.75 x 15 inches condition: This painting is in excellent condition. The ...

Church Countryside Service by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 8 x 8.5 inches Oil painting on cardboard, unframed Condition: The painting is in good condition, with minor signs of ag...

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

Intimate Kitchen Scene Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...

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Title: Villeneuve-lès-Avignon Watercolor of Medieval Tower and Riverside Village by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017) Signed: Yes Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper Size:...

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

Portrait of a Bavarian Gentleman with Pipe by Theodor Recknagl (1865-1945) German signed oil on board, framed board : 7 x 5.5 inches Provenance: private collection, UK Condition: som...

Title: French Street Scene with Windmill and Figures in Impressionist Style by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 10.5 inches (height) x 8.75 inches (width) Gouache painting on board, ...

Title: Original Oil Painting of Seated Man at a Table with Dog by His Side Artist: Roland Pichard Signed: Verso Medium: Oil on oil paper, mounted on card Size: 13.75 (height) x 1...

Signed figures in interior oil on canvas circa 1910 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Leon Cortes. This charming and nostalgic work depicts a family enjoying dinner in a typical Breton kitchen scene. A man and lady are seated at the table while a woman serves them from a steaming pot. The light of an overhead oil burner illuminates the room. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 26"x23" Unframed: 18"x15" Provenance: This work will be included in the supplement to Tome III of the Catalgue Raisonne of Edouard Cortes under preparation by Mme. Nicole Verdier This work is accompanied by a photo certificate from Mme. Nicole Verdier under reference EC221203/HT/GEO-241 Edouard Leon Cortes, the son of the painter Antonio Cortès, was sent to the front during World War I to sketch enemy positions. In civilian life, his base was in Lagny in the former studio of Cavallo-Peduzzi. Although he travelled extensively in France. Notably in Normandy, Brittany, the Champagne region and Savoy painting...

Oil Painting by John Bates Noel "A Rural Landscape" 1870- 1927. Noel was the son and pupil of David Bates, a leading Birmingham painter. Regular exhibitor at the Royal Birmingham so...

Title: Abstract Still Life with Pink and Orange Vases - Contemporary Oil Painting Artist: Roland Pichard Signed: Bottom right Medium: Oil on oi...

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

A truly striking and impressively sized architectural view of a French cathedral in an ornate Gothic style. The painting is in thinned oil that looks like gouache, due to the thinnes...

Still Life by Max Toutain (French 1935-2006) signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 10 x 12 inches canvas : 7 x 9 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have for sale by this artist h...

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...

Mid Century French Portrait Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided Size: 12 (height) x 9.5 (width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good Pr...

Coastal Scene signed by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) size: 18 x 22 inches oil painting on board, unframed condition: the painting is in very good condition. It has previously been stor...

Provence Coastal View from the Garden Terrace signed by Max Toutain (1935-2006) oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas : 35 x 51 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have by this...

SMALL RARE OIL PAINTING Antique 19th Century Fine Quality Piece GGF OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING BRITISH SCHOOL 19th Century in a Gold Frame Descrip...

Woodland Landscape French School, signed and dated 1855 indistinctly signed by artist Oil painting on canvas, unframed Canvas: 10.5 x 16 inches Condition: The painting is in very go...

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

Winter Evening Ducks Flying over Water - English Countryside - Vintage British Art by 20th Century Artist, Walter Robin Jennings (1927-2005). W R Jennings...

Gudrun Sibbons (1925- ) German-born British Artist. Oil Painting of Family Picnic by the River with Horse & Dog. Oil on Board, Signed. Framed in a high ...

Title: Colourful French Harbour with Figures and Boats in Expressionist Style by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 8.25 inches (height) x 11.75 inches (width) Oil painting on card, un...

Title: "Mid Century French Original Pastel Painting of a Vibrant Hillside Landscape" Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper Size: 19.75 (heigh...

Portrait of a Clerical Gentleman Italian artist, mid 18th century Circle of Giovanni Battista Carboni (1725-1790) oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 26 x 22 inches provenance: private c...