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…
Ever wondered how a 16th century miniature portrait would react to copious amounts of radiation?Rather well it would seem.Paintings of this era are particularly good for infrared analysis, for their…
Though first recorded in the Doomsday Book of 1086, Widey House became prominent during the English Civil War, when Prince Maurice and the Royalist army were stationed there. The historian…
These small, but interesting additions to Simon’s known output includes three paintings all made in the same year. As well as illustrating the versatility of the painter, they also help…
Walter Geikie was born on 10th November 1795, to a wealthy Edinburgh family. A serious infection at the age of two, described as a “nervous fever”, lead to his permanent…
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unusual miniature, painted during the Restoration of Charles II, uses a blue background that was already many decades out of date.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…