Antique Paintings

Bernard Buffet was a French artist, working as a painter, lithographer, etcher, designer and sculptor. His paintings covered a wide range of subjec...

Jean Dufy was born into a large family, the seventh of eleven children. He spent his childhood in Le Havre and he and his brothers and sister were ...

Emilio Sanchez-Perrier painted landscapes, architecture, genre and water scenes. Sanchez-Perrier was a student at the school of Fine Arts in Sevill...

This is a sketch for the painting Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveller (1820): see Richard Ormond, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Philadel...

Born in Normandy in 1824, Eugène Boudin formed a crucial link between traditional French painting and the start of the Impressionist movement, for...

John Atkinson Grimshaw was a British landscape painter. Born in Leeds, he remained in the north of England for most of his life. He first began pai...

Arnoldus Bloemers was a Dutch artist who specialised in painting flowers and fruit. He was born in Amsterdam and died in The Hague in April 1844. ...

The botanical artist William King of Totteridge made watercolours for the eminent horticulturalist and plant collector Peter Collinson, FRS; other ...

Samuel Scott made his name as painter of marine subjects, strongly influenced in his early years by Van de Velde. In 1732 he and George Lambert pa...

Probably a study for Stark’s oil, ‘Back of Stoke Mills’, lent by J.J. Colman, M.P. to the 1887 Norwich exhibition of Stark’s work (no.26). ...

As a boy John Thirtle is said to have been sent from his native Norwich to London as a frame-maker’s apprentice. He was back in Norwich by 1805,...

Tempera on linen laid on board 30 x 25 inches Semaphore is a fine example of the highly distinctive imagery Wadsworth painted during 1935-193...

This drawing dates from the early years of Cornelius Varley’s long career. In 1800 he had begun to draw in earnest: as he later recalled, ‘by ...

Oil on canvas Size: 14.96 x 21.65 in / 38 x 55 cm Signed & dated 1892

St Benet’s Abbey was an Anglo-Saxon monastery that continued in use during the middle ages, but was largely demolished in the sixteenth century. ...

Peak Cavern in Castleton is the largest of Derbyshire’s natural caves. The cave became a visitor attraction in the nineteenth century, and was n...

Verso: slight sketch of a dog’s head In 1801 Ward began a project to depict various different breeds of British livestock for the Board of Agr...

This close-up view of rocks and trees was perhaps made on the slopes of Cader Idris when Ward visited north Wales in 1802, or on his return trip in...

A PAINTED THREE FOLD SCREEN Canvas on a wooden frame England Eighteenth Century The screen painted with a view of St. James’s P...

Born in Australia to Scottish parents, Edward Atkinson Hornel was brought up in Kirkcudbright, Scotland from the age of two. He was a Glasgow schoo...

John Hoyland was one of Britain's distinctive forces in contemporary abstract painting. He was born in Sheffield and studied there at the School of...

Edward Ladell was perhaps the best-known Victorian still-life painter. Little is known of his personal life. Born in Colchester, he spent his early...

A superb pair of small sporting dog pictures. Very detailed. Both signed.

Edward Armfield was a prolific and popular artist who specialised in paintings of terriers ratting and sporting dogs. He exhibited at the Royal Aca...