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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
Publicado el 07 marzo 2023
From our new collection of Victorian capriccio subjects, an exquisitely painted cat with a bubble pipe
Publicado el 06 marzo 2023
This captivating trio of Japanese paintings dates from the early decades of the 20th century
Publicado el 04 marzo 2023
This beautiful impasto oil painting dates from 1930s India and is associated with the Ishwar Dass School of Arts, Lucknow
Publicado el 03 marzo 2023
Claude Hayes RI ROI (1852–1922) captures the expansive horizontal striation of the fen landscape in this quietly expressive, wide-format watercolour
Publicado el 25 febrero 2023
We've made new additions this week to our stunning collection of 1930s hand-painted Art Deco pattern designs
Publicado el 24 febrero 2023
Newly listed is this small collection of early 20th-century kachō-e watercolours in the manner of Ohara Koson (1877–1945)
