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postato su 23 luglio 2024
Newly listed, this pair of 18th-century French studies in sanguine
postato su 20 luglio 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!
postato su 17 luglio 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
postato su 09 luglio 2024
From our new collection of mid-19th-century Chinese works, this gorgeous group of delicate Qing Dynasty botanical watercolours—8 available in total
postato su 06 luglio 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
postato su 02 luglio 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
postato su 30 giugno 2024
A departure from our usual paintings and drawings, this week we have been cataloguing a fascinating group of albumen prints
postato su 29 giugno 2024
From yesterday's Venus de' Medici to today's bathing beauty from the 1920s
postato su 22 giugno 2024
Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds
postato su 18 giugno 2024
This charming set of drawings by an English hand are a wonderful depiction of French society in the 1820s
postato su 16 giugno 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
postato su 15 giugno 2024
The delectable still lifes of the celebrated Victorian painter of flowers, nests and fruit, George Clare
postato su 11 giugno 2024
New this week, a handsome marine work in ink and wash, heightened with white— a fine example by esteemed maritime painter Nicholas Matthew Condy (1818–1851) and an interesting subject in the history of competitive yachting
postato su 08 giugno 2024
Interesting pictures depicting 1940s Eritrea by Italian artist Giovanni Romagnoli (1893–1976)
postato su 04 giugno 2024
Working at a time when women could not gain the same recognition as men, Alice Squire RI (1840–1936) nevertheless exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Society of British Artists and Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours
postato su 01 giugno 2024
The prospect of ruin seems to permeate the very fabric of the buildings of Italy, the notion of ancientness somehow embedded in the country's architecture
postato su 31 maggio 2024
Keeping to a Grand Tour theme, newly listed this week is this sumptuous veduta oil showing an iconic view on the Grand Canal in Venice
postato su 30 maggio 2024
We were thrilled to have our artwork featured recently in the BBC's Rob and Rylan's Grand Tour! Episode 2, where the pair visit Florence, birthplace of the Renaissance, and get to ascend the magnificent Duomo—depicted in an exemplary manner in our Neapolital School veduta
postato su 28 maggio 2024
This fine portrait miniature of a dashing young Oxford scholar bears a close resemblance to the Regency arbiter of fashion Beau Brummell, who attended Oxford
postato su 25 maggio 2024
Thames barges carrying stacked hay were once a common site on the Thames, transporting hay from the farms of Suffolk, Essex and Kent to London, where it was required for the capital's thousands of horses
postato su 23 maggio 2024
We have enjoyed cataloguing this unsual group of gouaches recently
postato su 21 maggio 2024
Henry Wright Kerr RSA RSW (1857–1936) was a fine recorder of Scottish character and arguably Scotland's most famous painter of portraits and genre scenes in watercolour
postato su 18 maggio 2024
From our new collection of Etching Revival prints, this striking modernist landscape with an unusual story
postato su 14 maggio 2024
This miniature jewel of a painting by Sarah Louisa Kilpack (1839–1909) shows the rocky coast at La Corbière in southwest Jersey
postato su 12 maggio 2024
Glorious new 1930s pattern designs by the talented Jean Mary Ogilvie (1920–1997)
postato su 23 aprile 2024
Calming vibes from our new Japanese kenpon chakushoku (handpainted on silk), dating from towards the end of the Meiji period
postato su 21 aprile 2024
This week we have had the pleasure of discovering the work of the Lewis sisters, Isabel and Florence, who were leading artists for Royal Doulton in the 1880s
postato su 16 aprile 2024
This vivid little Neapolitan School gouache shows the 1839 eruption of Vesuvius from a slightly unsual viewpoint—part-way up the mountainside rather than the more typical (and more elegant) vantage point of across the waters of the Bay of Naples
postato su 07 aprile 2024
A charming Edwardian portrait of three-year-old Charles Jeffreys Allen (1905–1937) by artist Edith Scannell (1852–1940)
postato su 05 aprile 2024
Rather fallen in love with the exquisite embroidery on this Qing Dynasty rank badge
postato su 03 aprile 2024
These colourful Dahlias, celebrated and prized for their long blooming period—carrying on until the autumn frosts—bring welcome cheer this week, as the rain in the UK seems to know no end
postato su 26 marzo 2024
We have been down a vertitable rabbit hole this week—not in honour of a certain forthcoming bunny festival, but because we have entered the chaotic subterranean world of mycology
postato su 24 marzo 2024
For the blossoming of Spring this week, this exuberant gouache by sought-after illustrator Kay Nixon (1894–1988)
postato su 19 marzo 2024
Delving below the surface this week, we've had interesting conversations about when art belies biography, as was the case, by all accounts, for tenacious and eccentric Channel Islands artist Ethel Sophia Cheeswright (1874–1977)
postato su 17 marzo 2024
Fascinating cataloguing an intriguing group of early 19th-century views in Portugal this week, and thinking about the difficulty in verifying views in a time before photography and when the documentary evidence is scant
postato su 12 marzo 2024
New this week, we have a wonderful evocation of Victorian Wakefield by the celebrated watercolourist Louisa Fennell (1847–1930)
postato su 09 marzo 2024
From our new collection of pictures by talented late-Victorian architect Philip J
postato su 20 febbraio 2024
Fascinating to learn about Katharine Jowett (1883–1972), one of only a few Western female artists who chose to live and work in Japan, Korea and northern China in the years between the two world wars
postato su 18 febbraio 2024
From our new collection of drawings and watercolours after Old Masters by R.J. Blesard
postato su 11 febbraio 2024
The artists in our new Garbutt Hull collection read like a who's who of early-19th-century Hull, only these pictures are by the women behind the men who were the city's shipbuilders & brokers, timber merchants & sawmill owners, wine merchants & brewers
postato su 06 febbraio 2024
A lovely watercolour by James Duffield Harding OWS (1798–1863) exemplifying contemporary taste for the picturesque
postato su 04 febbraio 2024
New this week, this gorgeous set design featuring elements of decorative Art Nouveau, Art Deco and mystical Symbolism
