Please note that over the busy Christmas period the post may take longer than usual.

Our Free Shipping is by Standard Service, which is untracked Royal Mail (and equivalent local carrier for International). The speed of this service is not guaranteed, so if delivery is time-critical we recommend upgrading to either Special Delivery Guaranteed (UK) or Courier (International). Please bear in mind that offering free shipping comes at a substantial cost to us, with rising prices with carriers

Our last shipping day before Christmas is Monday 21 December | Orders placed after midnight on Sunday 20 December will ship on our return in the New Year on 4 January 2021. Thank you.

For Guaranteed UK delivery by Christmas please select £10.00 Royal Mail Special Delivery (UK Only) at checkout by midnight on Sunday 20 December. Your order will be shipped on Monday 21 for arrival on Tuesday 22 December. We regret that we cannot guarantee delivery in time for Christmas using

Please note that over the busy Christmas period the post may take longer than usual. Ongoing Covid restrictions, reduced air and freight capacity, high volumes and winter weather conditions are all impacting transportation and local delivery across the globe.

Our free shipping is by standard service. For the best chance of delivery before Christmas, we recommend the following final purchase dates:

Thursday 3 December — Australia, New Zealand

Sunday

We are delighted to announce the launch of our long-awaited upgraded site.

Read on to discover its many new features …

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Creating an Account not only ensures an optimal shopping experience, it means we are able to

Part IV: Original Prints

All the artworks we sell are original, and this extends

Part III: Watercolours

At Somerset & Wood our most widely stocked medium is watercolour. In contrast to richly worked up oils, the often effortless-looking lightness of watercolour paintings belies the skills of the watercolourist and the complexities of the medium.

Watercolour painting is interesting to study as a medium because it is relatively recent in its current form, and it is a particularly British art. Perhaps more than any other medium, the evolution of watercolour

Part II: Condition

In our business it is crucial that we describe condition accurately. Condition obviously plays a big part in the value of a work, and most importantly for us selling online, we want our pictures to meet expectations and not disappoint.

It is often very difficult to describe fully in words the condition of an object. Individually describing all marks of ageing and wear can over-emphasise their significance. When an artwork is for personal appreciation it is

Part I: Attribution

The art world like any other has its own vocabulary—or jargon, to give its less favourable name. Whilst part of the beauty of art is its ability to stand alone without attendant words or explanation, when we do try to describe an artwork it is important that the terms are specific and universally understood.

In this, the first post in this series about art terms, we look at the various phrases around attribution—a vital lexicon which can make or break the

One year on, we are delighted to follow up Somerset & Wood’s 2017 visit to Christie's, with the news that our drawing of an Aboriginal teenager named Toulgra by French artist Nicolas-Martin Petit has found a worthy home at the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.