This view of the old medieval bridge at Rochester was likely painted by George Sidney Sheperd, just a few years after it was renovated in 1824. Gas streetlights line the…
Watercolour (and Gouache) on Card This intelligent and closely-painted view of Windsor Castle was painted by the Scottish artist William Macduff in 1863. The castle is seen in the early…
Charcoal on Paper This unusual study of an exploding shell would have been made on the spot, when the artist was with the XV Corps in 1917. A similarly spontaneous…
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unusual miniature, painted during the Restoration of Charles II, uses a blue background that was already many decades out of date.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…