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Posted on 04 juin 2026
This animated miniature street scene captures the bustling activity by the canal in 18th-century Amsterdam...
Posted on 04 juin 2026
This fine sheet of meticulously executed anatomical studies was drawn by Hans Anderla in Vienna in 1888...
Posted on 21 mai 2026
The lodge in this charming view is the summer retreat of the Urmstons at Dalhousie, India.
Posted on 12 mai 2026
A fabulous selection of works from our Vienna Secession Ex Libris Bookplates 1900–1925 collection...
Posted on 30 avril 2026
F.R. Pickersgill's stranded figure with siren aloft alludes to Homer's Odysseus, famously tempted by Sirens...
Posted on 20 avril 2026
Demolished in the 1950s-60s, Thoby Priory at Mountnessing in Essex was the birthplace of Charles Ranken Vickerman...
Posted on 19 avril 2026
This week we have listed an intriguing pair of wash drawings depicting Lady Rushout and Children, attributed to Henry William Bunbury (1750–1811)...
Posted on 16 avril 2026
Interesting botanical watercolours documenting the flora in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore during the period 1886 to 1890...
Posted on 16 avril 2026
The Austrian painter-decorator Josef Kott (fl.1880s/1890s) ran a Vienna-based company, whose commissions included the interior painting of palaces and theatres across the Austro-Hungarian Empire...
Posted on 16 avril 2026
Not so much a topographical study but an exercise in William Gilpin's picturesque...
Posted on 12 mars 2026
A glimpse behind closed doors at rectories and residences across Victorian England in the 1870s and 1880s...
Posted on 09 mars 2026
John Preston Neale (1780–1847) achieved lasting recognition with his major publication 'Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland'...
Posted on 07 mars 2026
New this week, this exquisite Shakespearean portrait depicting Viola from Twelfth Night, disguised as the male Cesario, page to Duke Orsino...
Posted on 05 mars 2026
Thomas Worlidge (1700–1766) was one of the most well-known portrait painters and etchers in England in the 18th century...
Posted on 05 mars 2026
The vibrancy of colour in our new collection of hand-painted 19th-century French silk textile designs is quite incredible...
Posted on 19 février 2026
Newly listed this week, this fascinating collection of works by British reverend Whylock Pendavis (1852–1924) giving a rare insight into life on the island...
Posted on 19 février 2026
Percy French (1854–1920), one of Ireland’s foremost songwriters and entertainers in his day, found his true vocation in painting, his name becoming synonymous with watercolours capturing the rural landscapes of Ireland...
Posted on 11 février 2026
From our collection of drawings and watercolours after Old Masters by R.J. Blesard
Posted on 10 février 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...
Posted on 08 février 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.
Posted on 05 février 2026
Pictures from our fascinating new collection of works connected with the aristocratic O'Grady and Vereker families of 19th-century Ireland.
Posted on 25 janvier 2026
There is something glorious about these intricate 19th-century architectural interior watercolours
Posted on 24 janvier 2026
From our William Page collection, this drawing in brown wash has us scratching our heads as to the location.
Posted on 22 janvier 2026
This week we have been researching a really interesting group of works by or attributed to William Page (1794–1872)...
Posted on 13 janvier 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.
Posted on 09 janvier 2026
Discovering the virtuoso brilliance of Michela de Vito (fl.1820s/30s) this week...
Posted on 08 janvier 2026
The model in Arthur Croft Mitchell's 'The Orange Dress' is likely the artist's new wife, Evelyn Violet Ware (known as Molly)...
Posted on 27 décembre 2025
It doesn't make it easy for us, the British 18th/19th-century convention of naming children after their parents and grandparents...
Posted on 23 décembre 2025
Our special Christmas feature is this remarkably arresting image of a Sámi woman and children...
Posted on 22 décembre 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.
Posted on 18 décembre 2025
This uplifting, luminous view across the rooftops of Venice by E. Leslie Gunston ARIBA (1895–1988) showcases the architect's hand and eye.
Posted on 10 décembre 2025
Just the most gorgeous poisonous mushroom study, I'm seduced by The Sickener (Russula emetica) in its large-scale Ruskinian glory...
Posted on 09 décembre 2025
This week we have been enjoying a beautiful collection of late-Edo period Japanese works in ink & colour on silk...
Posted on 07 décembre 2025
This exquisite drawing in brown wash by Friedrich Wilhelm Moritz (1783–1855) embodies intricate layers of cultural influence...
Posted on 04 décembre 2025
Fantastic to be celebrating our new website with the launch of a collection of sketches by the talented Mary Elizabeth Crawhall (1835–1917)...
Posted on 27 novembre 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...
Posted on 10 novembre 2025
New this week, we have a beautiful rare pair of drawings by the 19th-century Italian sculptor Giosuè Bernardino Meli (1816–1893)
Posted on 08 octobre 2025
Robert Murdoch Wright (1858–1926) is best known for his depictions of the Middle East...
Posted on 01 octobre 2025
Voyage from Calcutta to Suez 1873, topographical sketches by by A.H. Walker
Posted on 25 septembre 2025
The technique in watercolour and pencil of Eleanor Hughes RI (1882–1959) has been compared to that of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Posted on 12 septembre 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
Posted on 23 juillet 2025
From our new collection of 19th-century landscapes after Leitch, McKewan and Cox, showing the British watercolour tradition in its humble glory
Posted on 11 juin 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
Posted on 17 février 2025
This drawing c.1830s attributed to Joseph Nash OWS (1809–1878) is a jostling, visual fe...
