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Publicado el 01 agosto 2023
New this week, a vivid collection of miniature mid-19th-century sketches in watercolour and bodycolour on blue paper after Masters such as Turner, Constable, Gainsborough and Rembrandt
Publicado el 30 julio 2023
A selection from our new collection of lithographs by Polish-British artist Josef Herman OBE RA (1911–2000)
Publicado el 25 julio 2023
This gorgeous watercolour is a rare example of the work of Erskine Edward Nicol (1868–1926), who had connections with 'The Glasgow Boys' and whose paintings recall the North African subjects of Scottish painter Arthur Melville (1855–1904)
Publicado el 23 julio 2023
A wonderfully civilised picnic 'between Croyde & Baggy Point', North Devon, 1866
Publicado el 20 julio 2023
Lovely watercolours from our Apollonia Griffith collection
Publicado el 18 julio 2023
For anyone heading south west for the summer, here is a lovely watercolour at Sennen, just a stone's throw from Land's End
Publicado el 16 julio 2023
We're in awe of the craftsmanship (or craftswomanship) in our newly listed pair of 18th-century silkwork embroideries
Publicado el 13 julio 2023
S&W Picture of the Month for July is this arresting, large portrait rendered with beautiful sensitivity by Octavius Oakley RWS (1800–1867)
Publicado el 11 julio 2023
John Hall Thorpe's joyful decorative style is instantly recognisable: think Mary Delany, pared back and infused with flattened forms of modernity for the interwar era
Publicado el 09 julio 2023
The naturalism with which George Cattermole RWS (1800–1868) rendered his historical subjects is quite breathtaking—our newly listed 'Grace at the Refectory' by Cattermole this week has allowed us to get up close and personal with his technique, combining watercolour and bodycolour to give the scene real depth
Publicado el 04 julio 2023
Our new pair of handpainted Berlin Woolwork designs tell an interesting story about the democratisation of embroidery
Publicado el 02 julio 2023
We have been vicariously off on our summer hols this week with our new collection of Edwardian travel sketches by Alice Horton
Publicado el 27 junio 2023
A wonderful rustic subject by the Scottish artist Hector Chalmers (1849–1943)
Publicado el 25 junio 2023
New this week, a collection of playful English illustrations spanning the period 1906 to 1936
Publicado el 20 junio 2023
Gorgeous new florals from the circle of James Holland OWS (1799–1870)
Publicado el 13 junio 2023
This lovely 1930s oil painting shows a leafy view in 'Church Street' in Enfield, north London
Publicado el 11 junio 2023
This fine pair of drawings after the 18th-century Italian painter and engraver Giovanni Battista Cipriani RA (1727–1785) depict Hebe, the ancient Greek goddess of youth, and a Bacchante, a priestess or female followers of the god Bacchus
Publicado el 01 junio 2023
This light-filled back street view in Port Isaac, on Cornwall's north coast, shows the celebrated St Ives painter John Anthony Park RBA ROI (1880–1962) working in a post-impressionistic style
Publicado el 30 mayo 2023
Feeling uplifted today by our new collection of brilliantly vibrant 1950s gouaches from the world travels of Ivy T. Attwell
Publicado el 28 mayo 2023
It's always interesting to see a really different view of a place—here looking towards the Isle of Wight from Southsea, Portsmouth
Publicado el 23 mayo 2023
There is mystery and mystique around the relocation of British artist Frank Hind to Granada, Spain in 1905 and his change of name to Francis Wallis-Markland—a curious story that adds to the other-worldly quality of his Symbolist inspired pastel renderings of Granada's gardens
Publicado el 21 mayo 2023
A gorgeous 19th-century kingfisher study, reminiscent of the bird studies in John Ruskin's teaching collection
Publicado el 16 mayo 2023
From our recent early 19th-century natural history collection associated with the Glegg family of Withington Hall, Cheshire
Publicado el 14 mayo 2023
A view from our window at Llandudno' by Elizabeth Wedderburn, from our new collection by the Wedderburn sisters, dating from the 1870s
Publicado el 09 mayo 2023
This striking collection of hand-drawn early 19th-century topographical observations has had me delving into the history of cartography
Publicado el 07 mayo 2023
Two rare works depicting Pembrokeshire landmarks by antiquarian Charles Norris (1779–1858), whose work is of importance in recording buildings that have subsequently been lost
Publicado el 02 mayo 2023
A selection from our delightful new collection of Japanese paintings on silk (or kenpon chakushoku), dating from towards the end of the Meiji period
Publicado el 30 abril 2023
This elegant portrait sketch of a boy in profile by George Dance the Younger RA (1741–1825) is possibly the artist's youngest son, Charles Webb (1785–1844), aged thirteen
Publicado el 02 abril 2023
Newly listed (and quickly sold), this wonderful Kosa school illustration, featuring the remarkable Japanese pigment 'gofun' or shell white: a form of calcite, calcium carbonate, made of crushed seashells, usually oyster shells
Publicado el 29 marzo 2023
Vibrant yet ethereal pictures that tell of the 'golden' age of British sea trade; a time when Britain was China's leading trading partner and had ambitions to push westwards from Shanghai up the Yangtze River
Publicado el 28 marzo 2023
Researching our John Thomas Serres sketch I got diverted by the story of his wife, Olivia Serres (1772–1834): also an artist but most famous—or infamous—for being 'an imposter'
Publicado el 21 marzo 2023
More miniature work in breathtaking detail, this time Indo-Persian in style
Publicado el 19 marzo 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
Publicado el 18 marzo 2023
Pleasing pair by Henry Earp Senior (1831–1914), head of a famous family of Brighton artists
Publicado el 17 marzo 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
Publicado el 15 marzo 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
Publicado el 14 marzo 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)
Publicado el 13 marzo 2023
This little piece of postal service history is an original 1930s Greetings Telegram design by graphic artist Warwick William Lendon SGA
Publicado el 12 marzo 2023
This lovely Continental landscape by Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding (1781–1851), which is a small triumph in composition and colouring
Publicado el 11 marzo 2023
We encounter and deal in the materiality of paper every day, so it is envigorating to once in a while handle non-paper
Publicado el 10 marzo 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
