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Posted on 09 March 2026
John Preston Neale (1780–1847) achieved lasting recognition with his major publication 'Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland'...
Posted on 07 March 2026
New this week, this exquisite Shakespearean portrait depicting Viola from Twelfth Night, disguised as the male Cesario, page to Duke Orsino...
Posted on 05 March 2026
Thomas Worlidge (1700–1766) was one of the most well-known portrait painters and etchers in England in the 18th century...
Posted on 05 March 2026
The vibrancy of colour in our new collection of hand-painted 19th-century French silk textile designs is quite incredible...
Posted on 19 February 2026
Newly listed this week, this fascinating collection of works by British reverend Whylock Pendavis (1852–1924) giving a rare insight into life on the island...
Posted on 19 February 2026
Percy French (1854–1920), one of Ireland’s foremost songwriters and entertainers in his day, found his true vocation in painting, his name becoming synonymous with watercolours capturing the rural landscapes of Ireland...
Posted on 11 February 2026
From our collection of drawings and watercolours after Old Masters by R.J. Blesard
Posted on 10 February 2026
Attributed to Irish-Australian artist Tate Adams (1922–2018), this striking symbolist work evoking Buddhist monks in saffron robes was possibly painted during Adams's time in Ceylon...
Posted on 08 February 2026
The contents of our O'Grady Vereker collection give interesting hints about the conflicting Unionist and Republican sympathies within the Irish aristocracy in the early to mid-19th century.
Posted on 05 February 2026
Pictures from our fascinating new collection of works connected with the aristocratic O'Grady and Vereker families of 19th-century Ireland.
Posted on 25 January 2026
There is something glorious about these intricate 19th-century architectural interior watercolours
Posted on 24 January 2026
From our William Page collection, this drawing in brown wash has us scratching our heads as to the location.
Posted on 22 January 2026
This week we have been researching a really interesting group of works by or attributed to William Page (1794–1872)...
Posted on 13 January 2026
We've been learning about the significance of horses in the history of the Scottish Borders region this week, with a charming collection of equestrian themed watercolours by members of the Hunter family of Anton's Hill near Leitholm in rural Berwickshire.
Posted on 09 January 2026
Discovering the virtuoso brilliance of Michela de Vito (fl.1820s/30s) this week...
Posted on 08 January 2026
The model in Arthur Croft Mitchell's 'The Orange Dress' is likely the artist's new wife, Evelyn Violet Ware (known as Molly)...
Posted on 27 December 2025
It doesn't make it easy for us, the British 18th/19th-century convention of naming children after their parents and grandparents...
Posted on 23 December 2025
Our special Christmas feature is this remarkably arresting image of a Sámi woman and children...
Posted on 22 December 2025
New this week we have a pair of floral still life oils dating from 1898 in a very en vogue palette of soft earthen pinks and browns.
Posted on 18 December 2025
This uplifting, luminous view across the rooftops of Venice by E. Leslie Gunston ARIBA (1895–1988) showcases the architect's hand and eye.
Posted on 10 December 2025
Just the most gorgeous poisonous mushroom study, I'm seduced by The Sickener (Russula emetica) in its large-scale Ruskinian glory...
Posted on 09 December 2025
This week we have been enjoying a beautiful collection of late-Edo period Japanese works in ink & colour on silk...
Posted on 07 December 2025
This exquisite drawing in brown wash by Friedrich Wilhelm Moritz (1783–1855) embodies intricate layers of cultural influence...
Posted on 04 December 2025
Fantastic to be celebrating our new website with the launch of a collection of sketches by the talented Mary Elizabeth Crawhall (1835–1917)...
Posted on 27 November 2025
So it turns out that creating a new website for over 2,000 stock items and a potential archive of over 25,000 sold works, is a rather involved process...
Posted on 10 November 2025
New this week, we have a beautiful rare pair of drawings by the 19th-century Italian sculptor Giosuè Bernardino Meli (1816–1893)
Posted on 08 October 2025
Robert Murdoch Wright (1858–1926) is best known for his depictions of the Middle East...
Posted on 01 October 2025
Voyage from Calcutta to Suez 1873, topographical sketches by by A.H. Walker
Posted on 25 September 2025
The technique in watercolour and pencil of Eleanor Hughes RI (1882–1959) has been compared to that of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Posted on 12 September 2025
Picturesque views in Maharashtra and Gujarat by Sir James Braithwaite Peile (1833–1906), at Thana, Ghogha, the Kathiawar peninsula and the Gulf of Khambhat
Posted on 23 July 2025
From our new collection of 19th-century landscapes after Leitch, McKewan and Cox, showing the British watercolour tradition in its humble glory
Posted on 11 June 2025
We have been foraging in the porous world of 19th-century mycology this week, with a beautiful collection of wild mushroom studies drawn from life at Malvern and Grasmere in 1858–9
Posted on 17 February 2025
This drawing c.1830s attributed to Joseph Nash OWS (1809–1878) is a jostling, visual fe...
Posted on 14 January 2025
Agnes Clara Tatham (1893–1972) excelled at portraiture, depicting female sitters in particular, characteristically painting in a restrained palette with a consciousness of colour, pattern and form
Posted on 04 January 2025
I'm not a parent of teenagers yet, but this still made me chuckle
Posted on 31 December 2024
As the sun sets on 2024, we wish all our wonderful customers all the very best for 2025
Posted on 28 December 2024
With the temptations of Bacchus all around, I'm trying to remain serene as this beautiful Neoclassical bacchante!
Posted on 14 December 2024
We have listed some gorgeous 19th-century Indian pictures today
Posted on 10 December 2024
Delighting us this week is this superbly painted biblical scene by Richard Westall RA (1769–1836)
Posted on 07 December 2024
This exquisite watercolour painted in 1835 by the German artist Carl Ludwig Rundt (1802–1868) depicts the decorated interior at the Monastery of Saint Benedict near Subiaco, Rome
Posted on 29 October 2024
Looking northwest towards Llyn Peris in the Vale of Llanberis, North Wales
Posted on 26 October 2024
John Frye Bourne (1912–1991) was the youngest student to be accepted at the Royal Academy Schools since J.M.W. Turner
Posted on 12 October 2024
Life on the Hooghly river in Bengal, through the eyes—and pen—of Malcolm Hamilton Beattie (1862–1941)
Posted on 01 October 2024
Two rare and poignant Italianate works by the young architect John Harper (1809–1842) who died of malaria on his way to Naples in 1842 aged just thirty-two
