Derek Clarke was a British landscape painter, whose vivid and colourful works were supported by his religious faith. Born in Longthorpe, near to Peterborough, in 1912. He would study at…
It is likely that the painting represents an alternate view of Staithes, the fishing village that Pyne painted on numerous occasions. In the case of this view, the composition is…
Mariette Leslie Cotton (1866-1947) was a portrait painter, whose talent and status encouraged commissions from affluent circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Her similarities to John Singer Sargeant are…
This unusual miniature, painted during the Restoration of Charles II, uses a blue background that was already many decades out of date. By contrast the frame is typical of the…
Likely painted after the Jacobite uprising of 1715, this miniature takes its composition from a full-length painting in the Museo San Carlos in Mexico City. Likely the work of Alexis…
A turning point in the wars of the 1st Coalition, the year of 1796 saw the early successes of the allies undone by Napoleon’s ingenuity in Italy and the resolve…
John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies PC (1866 - 1944) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and civil servant, who participated in the 1900 Summer Olympics as a…
This portrait of the artist’s daughter Daphne was likely painted in 1953, when the sitter would have been fourteen. Visibly embarrassed at the idea of sitting for her own painting,…
Lake Derwentwater seems to be an important subject for Carter, and he attempted this composition on multiple occasions. An identical but larger painting is displayed in the South Shields Museum…
Cornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen, better known as Kees van Dongen was a Dutch painter and founding member of the 'Fauvist' movement. Born in Rotterdam in 1877, he moved to…
This arresting study was painted by the obscure Spanish orientalist, Diego Marin Lopez (1856-1917) on one of his frequent trips across the Straits of Gibraltar.Little is known of his life,…
It is fascinating to see the devastation of World War One shown from the other side. Both diplomatically and geographically, as this study was painted by Hugo Vogel in 1915,…