United Kingdom - Paintings

Early 20th century oil painting of the venetian lagoon by Vincent Manago (1880 – 1936) having original gilt frame this oil on canvas p...

A watercolour drawing of a three-fold screen design, depicting a nautical map of the Atlantic showing America and Europe, and centred with a three-masted...

A stunning vintage oil painting depicting a landscape of what I think is Venice. I would date this to around the early-mid twentieth century. It is beautifully executed and is a l...

Doylan : filtration, mixed media, signed lower right 41” square Striking, decorative, contemporary, abstract, mixed media work, highly textured Composition exploring the qualities...

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...

Very fine Mid 20th Century oil on canvas painting of a resting Woodcock with good naturalistic colour, signed Colin Burns to lower right. Framed in original wooden veneered frame wit...

Watercolour on paper of a Seagull Signed Paul-Louis Barruel encased in ebonies frame. Dimensions Height 27 Inches Width 22 Inches Depth 1.5 Inches.

These Indian miniature paintings showcases an elegantly dressed Indian man and a lady, the lady elegantly dressed in a traditional sari and adorned with int...

A late 19th century watercolor and pencil study of a golden clematis, Clematis Tangutica. Watercolor and pencil on paper set within a reeded giltwood frame.

1970s European nude portrait oil on canvas

A oil on canvas half length portrait of Maori Chief Kewene Te Haho, after the antique by Gottfried Lindauer that's housed in the Auckland Museum. Housed in its original glazed green...

Cutter in full sail with one man visible on board riding a wave past a lighthouse Oil on cardboard Characterful naive picture in the spirit of Alfred Wallis...

1950s European nude portrait oil on canvas

This 19th-century oil painting on canvas depicts the idyllic rural life of villagers. The scene captures a man and a woman seated in a carriage drawn by two horses. One horse appears...

An early 20th century oil on card portrait of a South Asian man in the manner of Glyn Philpot. Signed "GP". Damage to the frame in areas. H 27 W 23 cm Including the frame H 39....

This acrylic painting by Ali Hassoun celebrates the festival the Eid ul-Adha. One of the most important Islamic festivals, commemorating the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifi...

A rare of 6 mid C19th classical Grand Tour gouaches of unusual scenes depicting Naples, Pompéi and Vesuvius, with broad gold slips and ebonised reeded frames. Circa 1860 Largest 4 - ...

Unusual oil on canvas in the cubist style signed Roger Pierre. Although in the cubist style the colours and feel of the piece suggest it might have been painted as late as the 1940s....

A large and impressive oil painting of a male nude, by acclaimed British artist Alan Brassington. This dates from the late 20th century. Alan Brassington specialises in portraits an...

Antique Oil Painting – Studio of Robert Henri – Sailor Boy Mick – Early 20th Century Artwork Experience the timeless beauty of this Robert Henri Cozad Sailor Boy Mick Oil Painting o...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of rare hunting prints titled The Death and The Chase by T Sutherland Sculpt dated 1819 A very good looking and decorative pair...

‘Tea at the Vicarage’ by Margaret Dovaston, dated 1952, an oil painting showing four gentlemen having an earnest conversation over a cup of tea on a terrace outside a cottage garden, Margaret Dovaston, dated 1952. English. Margaret Isabel Dovaston (1884 – 1954) was a British artist who became particularly well known for her historical genre scenes, often depicting groups in Georgian costume. In the course of her education, she was taught by Thomas William Cole at the Ealing School of Art and Arthur Stockdale Cope at the South Kensington School of Art. Her crowning achievement was winning a five-year scholarship the to the Royal Academy Schools (1903-1908) where she won many medals. She exhibited at the Royal Academy (1908 and 1910) and helped set up The Ealing Art...

This oil-on-canvas portrait features an Oriental girl, likely from the mid-century period, depicted with a striking blend of realism and abstraction. Her face is softly illuminated, ...

This pair of portraits are of oval form and depict the half-length figures of a young boy and girl. The boy has fair, shoulder-length hair and wears a white shirt and green-lined bro...

Oil on canvas Danish Late 20th century.

Late 19th century painting of St. Jerome with halo and skull. A well painted canvas in original gilt frame generally in good condition. Some losses to the frame and small nic...

Trompe l'oeil by Michelangelo Meucci (Italian, 1840-1890) Period Victorian Artist Michelangelo Meucci (Italian, 1840-1890) Medium oil on oval panel Frame 51 x 69 cm / 2...

You are viewing a wonderful Victorian oil painting showing an interior scene in the Elizabethan era The painting is by Henry Stacy Marks (1829 - 1898) - a Royal Academy member - and ...

William Knox (1862-1925). A fine Watercolour Drawing of the Grand Canal, Venice. Signed to bottom right William Knox dated '23'. The Picture is currently without glass, but this can ...

19th Century Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentlewoman A Delightful portrayal of a kindly lady, she is seated wearing a Black Silk Gown and a white pleated lace collar and bonnet, g...

19th Century Painting of 'Approaching Checkmate', on ivory base and framed, dated 1836. After the original painting by Alfred Edward Chalon. Actual picture size 17cm x 13cm Note, ...

Pierre-Victor GALLAND (1822-1892) ‘Les Quatre Eléments’ Four, oil on canvas. France, Circa 1873. Each painting depicting one of the cardinal elements personified as a female figure in the presence of its most evident attribute. Painted with strong light and colour. Earth panel depicts one of the four elements in a compelling fashion with an ascendent female figure robed in flowing drapery with foot and arm extended reaching skyward: each with attendant putti below. Earth is shown swathed in robes of greens and white, with a fanciful foliate headdress of lush leaves and bullrushes. Air leaps effortlessly into the sky draped in blush pink and holding a slender fruiting bough. Fire ascends dramatically into the sky holding forth a flaming torch and draped in bright burnished orange and grey, her image seemingly lit from a fire kindled below by an ignipotent putto. Water suitably draped in billowing azure blue with a translucent undergarment, holds aloft a bubble representing water is portrayed with shimmering translucent wings, an attendant winged putto pulling at her hem. Under the Second Empire, Haussmann’s transformation of Paris went hand in hand with the construction of luxurious mansions for the new haute bourgeois. Gallards extensive work for wealthy patrons such as Lionel de Rothschild and Edouard André, led him to become one of Paris’s most admired and sought-after decorative artists. His fame quickly spread and led him to carry out projects outside the capital for, among others, Baron von Derwies in Nice, Prince Narischkine in Saint Petersburg and William Vanderbilt in the United States. Literature Pierre-Victor Galland, Un Tiepolo français au XIXe siècle. Published in 2006, Somogy, Piscine-musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent, Musée départemental de l'Oise (Paris, Roubaix, Beauvais). ISBN 978-2-7572-0027-8. (in French) Materials Oil on Canvas Provenance Acquired in France with four other panels (The Four Seasons), at the end of the 19th century by Herman Ossian Armour (1837-1901), businessman, and founder of the Armour Meat Company and American humanist. He brought them back to his USA residence at Fifth Avenue, New York Bequeathed to Mary Armour...

Maud Earl (1863-1943) ‘LARGO’, A POINTER IN A HALLWAY. Signed and dated Maud Earl 1910. Oil on canvas, in it’s original giltwood frame. Provenance:...

'Football on the Beach' by Margaret Green (1925 - 2003) , Gouache on card and framed.

Mixed-media on board on gesso ground, in gouache and oil using the impasto technique. The work also includes areas of collage using applied materials beneath the paint to add depth ...

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...

A Fine oil on canvas painting depicts a peasant women and her children. Frame: H: 114.5cm, W: 133cm, D: 14cm Canvas: H: 73cm, W:91cm, D: 2cm.

Head study with townscape Beyond’ by Jeet Chhabda. Original collage on canvas. Signed and dated to reverse by artist 1982. Additional information: H 43 cm (H 16 inches) W 53 cm ...

A pair of Sevres style painted porcelain plaques, depicting male and female in town scene, in elaborate gilt frames, signed H. Desprez 20th century school. Dimensions: Frame: H: 31...

An Italian mid-century lithograph of striking colours, in an ebonised framed with marbled backing paper. Artist unknown.

Oil on canvas English 1900s Sir Barnes Wallis was an English engineer and inventor of the bouncing bomb

A late 18th century Chinese export watercolour, depicting a man and a woman in a garden, a watermelon set upon the window sill.  

The abstract life painting of a seated figure by John Kaine 1960's was executed in acrylic paint on board framed with pine wood. As we gaze upon what seems to a sited figure at a tab...

Captivating modern oil on canvas painting of a business man and woman taking a romantic soujourn on a showery spring day. Signed lower right McKean, titled to rear and presented in a dark wooden stepped frame. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Unframed Height: 73 cm Unframed Width: 38 cm Condition: Excellent as new Condition Circa: Contemporary Materials: Oil on Canvas SKU: 299 ABOUT Graham McKean In 1996, after 17 years as a graphic designer, Graham McKean decided to commit himself totally to producing his oil paintings. Graham is presently registered as a self-employed artist, painting full-time from a W.A.S.P. studio at the harbour side in Irvine, Ayrshire. Graham McKean’s paintings have featured in numerous exhibitions and are increasingly appearing at the U.K.’s leading auction houses. His work has now become highly collectible and is held in prestigious private and public collections worldwide. Graham also supports a number of charities through events and auctions. A review by the late W. Gordon Smith...

Gorgeous large French oil painting of a colourful still life Signed N. Lules in the bottom right corner please see close up photo Good size at almost four feet across Love the style ...

Original varnished pastel by Richard Adams (born 1960). 'Harvest Supper' , and signed by artist Painting Size 23.5" (60 cm) x 39.25" (100cm) Previously exhibited at Brian Sinfield...

A beautiful antique impressionist style oil painting. It is signed by the artist and dated 1925, it’s not clear who the artist is but it appears to read: A. Madssen This was framed ...

Fabulous Signed 20th century oil painting on paper by Ding Bin, 1992, 106 x 106 cm. Ding Bin was born in Beijing in 1960, graduated from the Department of Chinese Painting, CAFA. ...

Gorgeous hand painted still life oil painting in the Regency manner Very vivid and bright, will add light and energy to any room Comes in elegant gilt frame Offered in great shape re...

A rare set of 4 exquisitely executed gouaches of Naples and surrounding area, showing unusual scenes of the bays of Amalfi, Sorrento, the golf of Baja (Sardinia) and Tempi Di Pesti ...

Midcentury Abstract Blue Painting Signed and dated 1972 Midcentury Abstract Blue Painting The Italian abstract art scene of the 1970s was transformativ...

'Autumn Glow' An Art Deco style contemporary painting by Vera Jefferson. Oil on canvas, depicting two alert deer against a stylised landscape. Signed V Jefferson to lower right. D...

France. Circa 1912 A large detailed architectural illustration and watercolour of an early twentieth century French chateau designed in the style of the spirit of follies which was ...

A 15/100 scale beautiful watercolor of a steam locomotive listing the technical names for the component parts and inscribed 'Pensionnat St Gabriel - Chatell...

Italian school late 20th century still life of fruit flowers and pottery. In the earliest years of the 20th century the still life genre underwent someth...

One of a series of eight very detailed abstract collage art works made like paintings in paper, each based on one colour group in great composition and framed in a white washed woode...

A pair of domestic conversation pieces by John Grenville Fennell (1807- 1885), Both showing rivers and streams within a mountainous landscape, possibly fishing expeditions for the mi...

One of a series of eight very detailed abstract contemporary art works in the technique of collage, made like a painting in paper, each based on one color group in great composition ...