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,…
Humphry Repton (1752 – 1818) was an English landscape designer of the late Georgian period and widely regaded as the heir to the great Capability Brown.Here, Repton is depicted as…
This unusual post-impressionist canvas was painted by the obscure and eccentric Hendrik George van Rinkhuyzen (1868-1922), a Dutch painter who moved to Paris in the early 1890s.It would seem that…