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Posted on 21 March 2023
More miniature work in breathtaking detail, this time Indo-Persian in style
Posted on 19 March 2023
A beautiful—at once austere yet intimate—interior glimpse at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, the main summer residence at the time of Franz Joseph I, head of the Austrian Empire
Posted on 18 March 2023
Pleasing pair by Henry Earp Senior (1831–1914), head of a famous family of Brighton artists
Posted on 17 March 2023
Enjoyed discovering the riotous world of Richard Doyle's horses this week, galloping through his fantastical fantastical visions of fairydom, nostrils flared and hooves aloft
Posted on 15 March 2023
John White Abbott (1763–1851) tirelessly transcribed the landscapes of South Devon local to his home at Fordlands near Exeter—even, in this vital sepia work, at the grand old age of 80
Posted on 14 March 2023
Rare depictions of 19th-century Palestine by Anna Julia Grant-Duff (1839–1915), who in the 1880s spent a winter at Haifa in a house owned by the British author and traveller Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888)
Posted on 13 March 2023
This little piece of postal service history is an original 1930s Greetings Telegram design by graphic artist Warwick William Lendon SGA
Posted on 12 March 2023
This lovely Continental landscape by Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding (1781–1851), which is a small triumph in composition and colouring
Posted on 11 March 2023
We encounter and deal in the materiality of paper every day, so it is envigorating to once in a while handle non-paper
Posted on 10 March 2023
Our new collection of drawings by Exeter artist John White Abbott (1763–1851) is a tour de force from this gentleman amateur, who never sold a painting but whose oils were praised more highly those of his friend and teacher Francis Towne
Posted on 07 March 2023
From our new collection of Victorian capriccio subjects, an exquisitely painted cat with a bubble pipe
Posted on 06 March 2023
This captivating trio of Japanese paintings dates from the early decades of the 20th century
Posted on 04 March 2023
This beautiful impasto oil painting dates from 1930s India and is associated with the Ishwar Dass School of Arts, Lucknow
Posted on 03 March 2023
Claude Hayes RI ROI (1852–1922) captures the expansive horizontal striation of the fen landscape in this quietly expressive, wide-format watercolour
Posted on 25 February 2023
We've made new additions this week to our stunning collection of 1930s hand-painted Art Deco pattern designs
Posted on 24 February 2023
Newly listed is this small collection of early 20th-century kachō-e watercolours in the manner of Ohara Koson (1877–1945)
