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Versand am 11 Februar 2026
From our collection of drawings and watercolours after Old Masters by R.J. Blesard
Versand am 10 Februar 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, whilst serving with the British Admiralty in 1943
Versand am 08 Februar 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.
Versand am 05 Februar 2026
Pictures from our fascinating new collection of works connected with the aristocratic O'Grady and Vereker families of 19th-century Ireland.
Versand am 25 Januar 2026
There is something glorious about these intricate 19th-century architectural interior watercolours
Versand am 24 Januar 2026
From our William Page collection, this drawing in brown wash has us scratching our heads as to the location.
Versand am 22 Januar 2026
This week we have been researching a really interesting group of works by or attributed to William Page (1794–1872)...
Versand am 13 Januar 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.
Versand am 09 Januar 2026
Discovering the virtuoso brilliance of Michela de Vito (fl.1820s/30s) this week...
Versand am 08 Januar 2026
The model in Arthur Croft Mitchell's 'The Orange Dress' is likely the artist's new wife, Evelyn Violet Ware (known as Molly)...
Versand am 27 Dezember 2025
It doesn't make it easy for us, the British 18th/19th-century convention of naming children after their parents and grandparents...
Versand am 23 Dezember 2025
Our special Christmas feature is this remarkably arresting image of a Sámi woman and children...
Versand am 22 Dezember 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.
Versand am 18 Dezember 2025
This uplifting, luminous view across the rooftops of Venice by E. Leslie Gunston ARIBA (1895–1988) showcases the architect's hand and eye.
Versand am 10 Dezember 2025
Just the most gorgeous poisonous mushroom study, I'm seduced by The Sickener (Russula emetica) in its large-scale Ruskinian glory...
Versand am 09 Dezember 2025
This week we have been enjoying a beautiful collection of late-Edo period Japanese works in ink & colour on silk...
Versand am 07 Dezember 2025
This exquisite drawing in brown wash by Friedrich Wilhelm Moritz (1783–1855) embodies intricate layers of cultural influence...
Versand am 04 Dezember 2025
Fantastic to be celebrating our new website with the launch of a collection of sketches by the talented Mary Elizabeth Crawhall (1835–1917)...
Versand am 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...
Versand am 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)
Versand am 08 Oktober 2025
Robert Murdoch Wright (1858–1926) is best known for his depictions of the Middle East...
Versand am 01 Oktober 2025
Voyage from Calcutta to Suez 1873, topographical sketches by by A.H. Walker
Versand am 25 September 2025
The technique in watercolour and pencil of Eleanor Hughes RI (1882–1959) has been compared to that of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Versand am 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
Versand am 23 Juli 2025
From our new collection of 19th-century landscapes after Leitch, McKewan and Cox, showing the British watercolour tradition in its humble glory
Versand am 11 Juni 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
Versand am 17 Februar 2025
This drawing c.1830s attributed to Joseph Nash OWS (1809–1878) is a jostling, visual fe...
Versand am 14 Januar 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
Versand am 04 Januar 2025
I'm not a parent of teenagers yet, but this still made me chuckle
Versand am 31 Dezember 2024
As the sun sets on 2024, we wish all our wonderful customers all the very best for 2025
Versand am 28 Dezember 2024
With the temptations of Bacchus all around, I'm trying to remain serene as this beautiful Neoclassical bacchante!
Versand am 14 Dezember 2024
We have listed some gorgeous 19th-century Indian pictures today
Versand am 10 Dezember 2024
Delighting us this week is this superbly painted biblical scene by Richard Westall RA (1769–1836)
Versand am 07 Dezember 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
Versand am 29 Oktober 2024
Looking northwest towards Llyn Peris in the Vale of Llanberis, North Wales
Versand am 26 Oktober 2024
John Frye Bourne (1912–1991) was the youngest student to be accepted at the Royal Academy Schools since J.M.W. Turner
Versand am 12 Oktober 2024
Life on the Hooghly river in Bengal, through the eyes—and pen—of Malcolm Hamilton Beattie (1862–1941)
Versand am 01 Oktober 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
Versand am 25 September 2024
Rembrandt's Self-Portrait in Cap: Laughing from our collection of fine etchings after the master by Francesco Novelli (1764–1836)
Versand am 24 September 2024
Rare original orchid portraits from the greats of the genre, James Laird Macfarlane and Nellie Roberts
Versand am 21 September 2024
Newly listed this week is this elegant trio of 19th-century French frieze designs—hunting scenes in the style of Flemish tapestries of the 16th century
Versand am 17 September 2024
From our new collection of 19th-century cut paper silhouettes
Versand am 14 September 2024
Mary, Jane and Elizabeth. Three generations of portraits...
