Antique Oil Paintings

As a small boy, David collected books on Africa, and he had one ambition only, to be a game warden. His early career was, to quote his own words �...

Oil on canvas 30 x 30 inches Monogrammed lower right

Margaret Dovaston was born in Wandsworth, London. She studied at Ealing Art School and then South Kensington School, under C.W. Cope and J. Watson ...

A superb study reflecting John Ruskin's dictum "Always return to nature to find beauty" This is a wonderful example of high Victorian art and proo...

Robert Finlay McIntyre was a London based artist who exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, the New English Art Club and...

James Desvareux-Larpenteur was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1847 although he trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris principally under the w...

The Game Larder; painted oil on canvas and within the original gilt gesso frame. English circa 1830.

A fine and rare decorative panel from a Victorian tobacconist showing Sir Walter Ralegh enjoying the fruits of his ventures into colonization whic...

"Bulldog" was the nameship of the First Class wooden paddle sloops. She was built at Chatham dockyard and launched October 1845. Of 1124 tons, she...

Oil portrait of lady with a lute.

Oil on canvas of 'Sir Tatton Sykes' winner of the St. Leger 1846 after J.F. Herring Jnr.

ALEXANDRE-FRANÇOIS DESPORTES 24 February 1661 — 20 April 1743 French Pair of Still Life ...

A portrait of Anna Mulloch with her syce. Painted by Alfred Grenfell Haigh and dated 1907. Haigh started to paint professionally at the age of 30 ...

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Michael Ayrton and John Minton shared a studio in Paris between 1938-39 when they studied under Eugene Berman and strengthened their contacts with ...

This is the oil sketch for the third of the final larger paintings for The Allegory of War series, which numbered seven images in all. The quote co...

As an enthusiastic and successful gardener, Sir Cedric Morris regularly won prizes for his cultivation of irises, fruit, and vegetables. One of his...

Sir Kyffin Williams was one of the most celebrated Welsh artists of his generation. He was born in Llangefni, on Anglesey. He entered the Slade Sch...

Charles James Lewis was born in Chelsea in 1830 and by 1852 had begun exhibiting at the Royal Academy, which he continued to do until his death in ...

A small period portrait thought to be of Daniel O'Connell, painted three-quarter length and seated before a column and curtain with a distant lands...

Ullswater is a tranquil evening lake scene set in the English Lake District, painted by Alfred Fontville de Bréanski, son of famous artist father...

Painter and potter, born Almwick, Northumberland, the son of the artist T.H.Gibb. Harry Phelan Gibb studied in Newcastle, Edinburgh, Paris (unde...

A good early 19th century oil painting of an officer of the Coldstream Guards in Gilt frame.

Born in Cardiff in Wales, Merlyn Evans grew up near Glasgow, and from 1927 studied at the Glasgow School of Art. In 1930, he exhibited at the Roya...

An interesting painting of The Aldobrandini Wedding (after the antique)

An early, freely sketched work from the year when the artist began exhibiting professionally in London

Original artwork by Una Woodruff "Occasionally, I visit Cornwall. It’s an area rich in legend and striking imagery. This picture depicts Morga...

Venetian courtyard scene with ladies sorting their washing

“A Rest by the Stream” – is a peaceful, 19th century rural life scene of some country workers and their animals enjoying a restful break near...

An English School oil painting of various fish presented on a blue and white platter. Oil on canvas laid down onto board. Circa 1830.

A beautifully painted, light, airy and appealing village scene of Pryford in Surrey by leading 19th century landscape painter Frederick William Hul...

Franz Richard Unterberger was an Austrian artist who specialised in painting scenes of Italy. Born in Innsbruck, the son of an art dealer, he first...

Antoine Bouvard was born in France in 1870, and after initially training as an architect, his paintings went on to become some of the most recognis...

still life painting, oil on canvas.

Jacob Gillig was born in Utrecht where he spent his entire life. Early in his career he signed his work Gulek, and seems to have begun painting in...