Landscapes
Landscapes
£29,950
‘Tombs of the Sultans’ by Frank Dillon R.I. R.O.I. (1823-1909).
The painting – which depicts the ancient Egyptian “City of the Dead” outside the old walls of Cairo – is signed by the artist and was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1873. It is presented in a fine 24 carat gold leaf Orientalist frame.
Frank Dillon studied at the Royal Academy Schools and as a private pupil of the eminent English vedute painter James Holland (1799-1870). In 1850 he made his debut at the Royal Academy, and subsequently became a regular exhibitor at all the major London and provincial venues. Frank Dillon was elected a full member of both the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.
- Discover more about 'Authentic Orientalism & the Art of Frank Dillon' at the News & Articles page.
Artists:
Frank Dillon RI 1823-1909
£3,950
‘On the Conwy, North Wales’ by Charles Smith (1841-1917)
The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1869 in which year it was exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists at the Suffolk Street Gallery in London.
Charles Smith was born in Cambridgeshire but moved to London in 1856 where he was apprenticed to the picture restorer Benjamin Roberts of Greenwich. The following year aged just 16 he made his debut at the Royal Academy and, as a popular and successful painter of English and Welsh landscapes, would go on to exhibit there for the next five decades. Few artists can boast of having exhibited at the major London venues for over sixty years and it is surprising that he was never elected a full member of the Royal Society of British Artists where he exhibited almost annually until 1893.
Between 1857 and 1918 Charles Smith exhibited 55 paintings at Royal Academy, 145 at Royal Society of British Artists, and 30 at the British Institution in addition to numerous other venues.
We only offer artwork for sale in the finest condition it can be for its age, having been professionally cleaned, conserved, and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.
Dimensions: (framed) 77cm x 102cm (30¼” x 40”).
Dimensions: (canvas only) 61.5cm x 86.8cm (24¼” x 34”).
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: 1869, exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists (cat.no.477). Private UK collection.
Presentation: Bespoke gold metal leaf frame.
Condition: Very good. Professionally cleaned, restored. Ready to hang.
Artists:
Charles Smith 1841-1917
£12,950
‘On the Arun, Sussex’ by George Vicat Cole RA, RBA (1833-1893).
The painting is signed with the artist’s monogram and dated 1869, in which year Vicat Cole was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy. The painting was one of the first to bear his monogram, which he adopted upon becoming an ARA. Vicat Cole was made a full Royal Academician in 1880.
George Vicat Cole was one of the most eminent and successful English landscape painters in the second half of the 19th century, considered by many to be the heir to John Constable and John Linnell. Vicat Cole trained under his father, George Cole RBA (1810–1883), and their work shares much in common. As well as emulating and eventually surpassing his father’s technical skill, Vicat Cole’s colouring and attention to detail owes something to the Pre-Raphaelite landscapes of William Holman Hunt, John Inchbold, and William Dyce. It was the greatest Pre-Raphaelite of them all, John Everett Millais, who championed Vicat Cole’s early career and the former’s presence on the Royal Academy hanging committee resulted in Vicat Cole’s painting ‘Spring’ being hung ‘on the line’ (at eye level, the most favourable and prestigious position) in the RA Exhibition in 1865. By the 1880’s Vicat Cole’s only rival as England’s greatest living landscape painter was Benjamin Williams Leader RA, although arguably the latter’s greatest work was already behind him.
Between 1852 and 1892 George Vicat Cole exhibited 76 paintings at the Royal Academy, 10 at the British Institution, and 48 with the Royal Society of British Artists in 1858. Today, the paintings of George Vicat Cole can be found in the Royal Academy, Tate Britain, and the Victorian and Albert Museum in London, Manchester Art Gallery, Glasgow Museum, the National Museum in Cardiff, the Walker Gallery in Liverpool, the Laing Gallery in Newcastle, and in the National Collection of the British Government, among many others.
Academy Fine Paintings only offers artwork for sale in the finest condition it can be for its age, having been professionally cleaned, conserved, and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.
Dimensions: (framed) 85cm x 120cm (33½” x 47¼”).
Dimensions: (canvas only) 67cm x 103cm (26½” x 40¼”).
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: 1992; Sotheby’s London. 2010; Sotheby’s, London. Private UK collection.
Presentation: Newly commission gold metal leaf frame.
Literature: 1886; ‘The Life and Paintings of Vicat Cole’ by Robert Chignell. 1988; ‘The Cole Family of Painters’ by T.J. Barringer (published 1988).
Condition: Very good. Professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.
Artists:
George Vicat Cole RA 1833-1893
£14,950
‘Piazza San Marco from the Palazzo’ by Edward Pritchett RWS (1807-1876).
The painting – which depicts St. Mark’s Square and the Campanile seen from the Porto della Carta entrance to the Doge’s Palace in Venice – is presented in a newly commissioned Chippendale design gold metal leaf frame.
Edward Pritchett was one of the most gifted and successful British vedute painters of the 19th century. Unlike a great many of his contemporaries, Pritchett spent time working in Venice whilst on a sketching tour of Europe in 1828. Every other biography of Pritchett you will have ever read will claim that “little is known of his life” other than he “spent more than three decades living and working in Venice”. Neither statement is true. For very much more about the life and work of Edward Pritchett visit the News & Articles page of the Academy Fine Paintings website.
Between 1828 and 1864 Edward Pritchett exhibited a total of twenty-three paintings at the Royal Academy, the British Institution and with the Society of British Artists at the Suffolk Street Gallery. Today his work can be found in numerous important collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Yale Centre for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut.
Academy Fine Paintings only offers artwork for sale in the finest condition it can be for its age, having been professionally cleaned, conserved, and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.
Dimensions: (framed) 61cm x 51cm (24” x 20”).
Dimensions: (canvas only) 46cm x 36cm (18¼” x 14¼”).
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: Private UK collection.
Presentation: Newly commissioned Chippendale design gold metal leaf frame.
Condition: Very good. Professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.
Artists:
Edward Pritchett RWS 1807-1876
£69,950
‘Venice by Moonlight’ by Henry Pether (1800-1880).
The painting – which depicts an extensive nocturnal view of the Grand Canal with the Palazzo Pisani Gritti to the left and the Dorsoduro to the right, the Santa Maria della Salute at the Punta della Dogana, and the Ducal Palace and St Mark’s in the background – is signed by the artist and presented in its original 19th century giltwood frame.
- Visit the News & Articles page for much more about the life and career of Henry Pether.
Artists:
Henry Pether 1800-1880
£44,950
'Calvary' by Pietro Sassi (1834-1905).
This monumental exhibition oil painting – which depicts the Light of Heaven shining upon Christ at Calvary with thousands of people outside the city of Jerusalem – is signed and inscribed by the artist and hangs in a newly commissioned gold metal leaf frame. Please note the large dimensions of this painting (details below).
Pietro Sassi was an eminent Italian painter of subject pictures and epic vedute scenes of Rome and the Campagna. Between 1863 and 1887 Sassi’s exhibited in Milan, Venice, and Turin, and in 1883 at the inaugural exhibition of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni Nazionali di Belle Arti in Rome.
The English author and art historian Brian Sewell was an admirer of Pietro Sassi and his painting ‘The Arch of Titus’ formed part of his famous collection. Today, paintings by Pietro Sassi can be found in the collections of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Rome.
Academy Fine Paintings only offers artwork for sale in the finest condition it can be for its age, having been professionally cleaned, conserved, and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.
Dimensions: (framed) 139cm x 218cm (55” x 86”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 120cm x 200cm (47¼” x 78¾”)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: Private European collection.
Presentation: Fine quality gold metal leaf frame.
Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.
Artists:
Pietro Sassi 1834-1905
£39,950
‘Fire and Moonlight’ by Abraham Pether FSA (1752–1812).
The painting – which depicts an extensive moonlit view across the City of London with a cottage on fire in the foreground – was exhibited at the Society of Artists Exhibition in London in 1790 and is sold with detailed provenance going back over 230 years. Such is the painting’s quality that for over 150 years it was thought to be by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) and was exhibited numerous times as such alongside many of Joseph Wright’s paintings then in the important private collection of Lord Belper of Kingston Hall.
This contemporary view of London in the late 18th century is seen from One Tree Hill in what was once the Great North Wood three miles south-east of the capital; prominent amongst the dozens of famous landmarks of Georgian London is St Paul’s Cathedral.
- A detailed look of the life and work of Abraham Pether and his son Henry is now available at the News & Articles page of the Academy Fine Paintings website.
Artists:
Abraham Pether FSA 1752–1812
£9,950
‘A Day in the Country’ by William Frederick Witherington R.A. (1785-1865).
The painting – which depicts a group of Victorian figures on a summer’s day before an extensive landscape of Wharfedale and the ruins of Bolton Priory – is signed by the artist and dated 1859, in which year it was exhibited at the Royal Academy.
Bolton Priory was originally founded in the 12th century as an Augustinian monastery known as Bolton Abbey. When King Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 the priory was abandoned and fell into ruin, but by the early 19th century interest in the Picturesque saw its Gothic ruins become one of the most popular destinations for Victorian day-trippers.
William Frederick Witherington entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1805. After making his debut at the Royal Academy in 1811, Withington exhibited there every year until 1863. Over the course of his long career, he found great success as a painter of well-executed pastoral landscapes and subject pictures in the manner of George Morland and David Wilkie. He was elected an R.A. in 1840. Between 1808 and 1863, Witherington exhibited 138 paintings at the Royal Academy and 62 at the British Institution.
Academy Fine Paintings only offers artwork for sale in the finest condition it can be for its age, having been professionally cleaned, conserved, and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.
Dimensions: (framed) 84cm x 110cm (33” x 43¼”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 66cm x 93cm (26” x 36¼”)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: 1859; exhibited at the Royal Academy (cat. no. 377. Private UK collection.
Presentation: Fine quality gold metal leaf frame.
Condition: Very good. Professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.
Artists:
William Frederick Witherington RA 1785-1865
£6,950
‘Vale of the Conwy’ by Samuel Lines (1778-1863).
The painting – which depicts a single female figure in Welsh dress walking with a goat in an extensive mountain landscape – is signed by the artist and inscribed verso.
All our paintings are sold in the finest condition they can be for their age having been professionally cleaned, conserved and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.
Samuel Lines was one of the most influential landscape artists and teachers of the early English School. Lines studied drawing under Joseph Barber at his academy in Birmingham alongside his friend and contemporary David Cox. In 1809 Lines became one of the founder members of the Birmingham Academy of Arts at which he both exhibited and taught. Lines’ many pupils included Thomas Creswick, and Lines’ own five sons. Between 1817 and 1833 the artist also exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.
Dimensions: (framed) 82cm x 109cm (32¼” x 43”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 65cm x 92cm (25½” x 36¼”)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: Private UK collection.
Presentation: Newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf frame. All of the new frames we commission are especially made for us to order by one of the UK’s top period frame makers.
Artists:
Samuel Lines 1778-1863
£7,950
'Morning in North Wales' by Edwin Henry Boddington (1836-1905).
The painting - which depicts an extensive view of sunrise over a Welsh lakeland landscape - is signed by the artist and dated 1867, in which year it was exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists in London. The painting hangs in a fine quality gold metal leaf swept frame.
As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in excellent condition, having just been professionally cleaned, restored and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.
Edwin Henry Boddington first exhibited in London aged 17 in 1853. Like his father – the eminent landscape artist Henry John Boddington (1811-1865) – his favourite subjects were sunrise and sunset scenes of the River Thames and North Wales. Edwin Bonnington’s work of the 1850s and ‘60s displays all of the fine detail and skilful lighting effects of his father’s best work. In the first 15 years of his career Edwin Henry Boddington exhibited extensively at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and especially with the Royal Society of British Artists but after 1869 the quality of his work fell dramatically.
A fondness for high living led him into bankruptcy and he was imprisoned for debt and then divorced by his wife. From 1870 Boddington’s work became routine and clearly painted to keep the wolf from the door. Although good prices are still achieved for his pictures after this date, in my opinion the only paintings by E.H. Boddington worth collecting are those executed before 1869. These examples can be very special, and every bit as accomplished as the work of the artist’s father and his uncle, Sidney Richard Percy.
The large example from 1867 being offered here is a wonderful testament to what Boddington could achieve before his private affairs got the better of him. The painting comes from the private collection of the Matthews family of Great Witchingham Hall, one of the finest stately homes in Norfolk.
Dimensions: (framed) 92cm x 142cm (36” x 56”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 76cm x 127cm (30” x 50”)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: 1867, exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists; private collection of Great Witchingham Hall, Norfolk.
Presentation: Newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf frame. All of the new frames we commission are especially made for us to order by one of the UK’s top period frame makers.
Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.
Artists:
Edwin Henry Boddington 1836-1905
Landscapes
‘Tombs of the Sultans’ by Frank Dillon R.I. R.O.I. (1823-1909).
The painting – which depicts the ancient Egyptian “City of the Dead” outside the old walls of Cairo – is signed by the artist and was exhibited at the Royal Academy
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Artists:
Frank Dillon RI 1823-1909
£29,950
‘On the Conwy, North Wales’ by Charles Smith (1841-1917)
The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1869 in which year it was exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists at the Suffolk Street Gallery in London.
Charles Smith w
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Artists:
Charles Smith 1841-1917
£3,950
‘On the Arun, Sussex’ by George Vicat Cole RA, RBA (1833-1893).
The painting is signed with the artist’s monogram and dated 1869, in which year Vicat Cole was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy. The painting was one of the firs
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Artists:
George Vicat Cole RA 1833-1893
£12,950
‘Piazza San Marco from the Palazzo’ by Edward Pritchett RWS (1807-1876).
The painting – which depicts St. Mark’s Square and the Campanile seen from the Porto della Carta entrance to the Doge’s Palace in Venice – is presented in
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Artists:
Edward Pritchett RWS 1807-1876
£14,950
‘Venice by Moonlight’ by Henry Pether (1800-1880).
The painting – which depicts an extensive nocturnal view of the Grand Canal with the Palazzo Pisani Gritti to the left and the Dorsoduro to the right, the Santa Maria della Salute at
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Artists:
Henry Pether 1800-1880
£69,950
'Calvary' by Pietro Sassi (1834-1905).
This monumental exhibition oil painting – which depicts the Light of Heaven shining upon Christ at Calvary with thousands of people outside the city of Jerusalem – is signed and inscribed
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Artists:
Pietro Sassi 1834-1905
£44,950
‘Fire and Moonlight’ by Abraham Pether FSA (1752–1812).
The painting – which depicts an extensive moonlit view across the City of London with a cottage on fire in the foreground – was exhibited at the Society of Artists Exhibition
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Artists:
Abraham Pether FSA 1752–1812
£39,950
‘A Day in the Country’ by William Frederick Witherington R.A. (1785-1865).
The painting – which depicts a group of Victorian figures on a summer’s day before an extensive landscape of Wharfedale and the ruins of Bolton Priory – is
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Artists:
William Frederick Witherington RA 1785-1865
£9,950
‘Vale of the Conwy’ by Samuel Lines (1778-1863).
The painting – which depicts a single female figure in Welsh dress walking with a goat in an extensive mountain landscape – is signed by the artist and inscribed verso.
All our painti
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Artists:
Samuel Lines 1778-1863
£6,950
'Morning in North Wales' by Edwin Henry Boddington (1836-1905).
The painting - which depicts an extensive view of sunrise over a Welsh lakeland landscape - is signed by the artist and dated 1867, in which year it was exhibited at
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Artists:
Edwin Henry Boddington 1836-1905
£7,950