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Publicado el 10 noviembre 2025
New this week, we have a beautiful rare pair of drawings by the 19th-century Italian sculptor Giosuè Bernardino Meli (1816–1893)
Publicado el 08 octubre 2025
Robert Murdoch Wright (1858–1926) is best known for his depictions of the Middle East...
Publicado el 01 octubre 2025
Voyage from Calcutta to Suez 1873, topographical sketches by by A.H. Walker
Publicado el 25 septiembre 2025
The technique in watercolour and pencil of Eleanor Hughes RI (1882–1959) has been compared to that of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Publicado el 12 septiembre 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
Publicado el 23 julio 2025
From our new collection of 19th-century landscapes after Leitch, McKewan and Cox, showing the British watercolour tradition in its humble glory
Publicado el 11 junio 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
Publicado el 17 febrero 2025
This drawing c.1830s attributed to Joseph Nash OWS (1809–1878) is a jostling, visual fe...
Publicado el 14 enero 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
Publicado el 04 enero 2025
I'm not a parent of teenagers yet, but this still made me chuckle
Publicado el 31 diciembre 2024
As the sun sets on 2024, we wish all our wonderful customers all the very best for 2025
Publicado el 28 diciembre 2024
With the temptations of Bacchus all around, I'm trying to remain serene as this beautiful Neoclassical bacchante!
Publicado el 14 diciembre 2024
We have listed some gorgeous 19th-century Indian pictures today
Publicado el 10 diciembre 2024
Delighting us this week is this superbly painted biblical scene by Richard Westall RA (1769–1836)
Publicado el 07 diciembre 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
Publicado el 29 octubre 2024
Looking northwest towards Llyn Peris in the Vale of Llanberis, North Wales
Publicado el 26 octubre 2024
John Frye Bourne (1912–1991) was the youngest student to be accepted at the Royal Academy Schools since J.M.W. Turner
Publicado el 12 octubre 2024
Life on the Hooghly river in Bengal, through the eyes—and pen—of Malcolm Hamilton Beattie (1862–1941)
Publicado el 01 octubre 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
Publicado el 25 septiembre 2024
Rembrandt's Self-Portrait in Cap: Laughing from our collection of fine etchings after the master by Francesco Novelli (1764–1836)
Publicado el 24 septiembre 2024
Rare original orchid portraits from the greats of the genre, James Laird Macfarlane and Nellie Roberts
Publicado el 21 septiembre 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
Publicado el 17 septiembre 2024
From our new collection of 19th-century cut paper silhouettes
Publicado el 14 septiembre 2024
Mary, Jane and Elizabeth. Three generations of portraits...
Publicado el 02 septiembre 2024
Summer memories on the Côte d'Azur
Publicado el 27 agosto 2024
A brooding landscape by interesting Slade School artist Philip Hugh Padwick ROI RBA, whose work has a timeless quality inspired by classical compositions by 18th-century masters, combined with a rootedness in the British landscape, particularly that around his home in Sussex
Publicado el 23 agosto 2024
Vibrant miniature 19th-century Company School bird studies on Indian mica
Publicado el 20 agosto 2024
Breezy days on the Pembrokeshire coast at Saundersfoot with Jane Dorothy Vickerman (née Harvey) and family
Publicado el 17 agosto 2024
The sublime 'Alpine' slopes pictured here are not European but rather in the Chamba district in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, named 'Alpine Beauty' by British officers
Publicado el 10 agosto 2024
Colourful figures—entertainers, ascetics and trades from everyday street life—from our fabulous set of Benares School Indian Company paintings on mica
Publicado el 07 agosto 2024
Rajasthan in the 1880s and 1890s through the eyes of a female Scottish expat
Publicado el 27 julio 2024
School's out and my thoughts inevitably turn to the far south-western reaches of the British Isles at this time of year, so here are some bright and breezy evocative depictions of Porthleven and St Michael's Mount in Cornwall, from our recent sell-out collection by S
Publicado el 25 julio 2024
Newly listed this week we have this respendent portrait pair by the Scottish artist John Stirling (1820–1871)
Publicado el 23 julio 2024
Newly listed, this pair of 18th-century French studies in sanguine
Publicado el 20 julio 2024
Amidst all the brown paper and stories (which we love!), it is sometimes refreshing to list pictures that are purely a visual delight of colour and form!
Publicado el 17 julio 2024
Further Chinese works from the Minnie Wright 1858 collection include unusual plant specimens collected at locations around Hangzhou, the southern terminus of the Grand Canal
Publicado el 09 julio 2024
From our new collection of mid-19th-century Chinese works, this gorgeous group of delicate Qing Dynasty botanical watercolours—8 available in total
Publicado el 06 julio 2024
This fabulous pair of artist's print proofs for the French satirical magazine Le Rire bring us the colour, opulence and acerbic wit of the Belle Epoque
Publicado el 02 julio 2024
This delightful drawing shows John Sell Cotman's influence as a teacher in the early decades of the 19th century—drawn by the daughter of one of his important patrons
Publicado el 30 junio 2024
A departure from our usual paintings and drawings, this week we have been cataloguing a fascinating group of albumen prints
Publicado el 29 junio 2024
From yesterday's Venus de' Medici to today's bathing beauty from the 1920s
Publicado el 22 junio 2024
Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds
Publicado el 18 junio 2024
This charming set of drawings by an English hand are a wonderful depiction of French society in the 1820s
Publicado el 16 junio 2024
William Neave Parker (1910–1961) spent much of his career working for the Natural History Museum in London and his illustrations were regularly reproduced in the London Illustrated News
