The son of the artist and polymath Abraham Pether FSA (1756-1812), Henry Pether (1800-1880) was one of the 19th century’s finest exponents of the topographical …
Andrew MacCallum:
Truth to Nature, Truth by Nurture
Truth to Nature, Truth by Nurture
Fans of British comedy will recall the episode of ‘Blackadder’ in which Robbie Coltrane’s Dr. Samuel Johnson is furious to discover he has forgotten to …
Edward Pritchett: Painter of Venice
We currently have two paintings for sale by one of Victorian Britain’s finest painters of Venice, Edward Pritchett; ‘St, Mark’s Square from the Ducal Palace’ …
Henry Dawson: the Self-Made Man’s Man
Like the gifted 19th century English landscape painters of the Pether family, the artist Henry Dawson (1811-1878) was also an inventor and a musician who …
Frédéric Soulacroix & the Florentine Romantics
By the second half of the 19th century the city of Florence – once home to Raphael and birthplace of the High Renaissance – had …
Richard Morton Paye:
an Unfortunate Genius
an Unfortunate Genius
In the earliest days of the Royal Academy in London, during the reign of King George III, the name of Richard Morton Paye was a …
Frank Dillon & the Orientalist Landscape
“The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary.” David Hume, 1748 ‘Sunset on the Nile’ by Frank Dillon Image …
Frank Holl:
Van Gogh’s Favourite British Painter
Van Gogh’s Favourite British Painter
Frank Holl was one of the most gifted and influential artists of the 19th century, and his decency and depth of feeling as a human …
The Pether Family
& the 19th Century Nightscape
& the 19th Century Nightscape
Abraham Pether FSA (1756-1812) was a one-time child prodigy turned classic 18th century polymath whose experiments with electricity, mathematics, and astronomy led to the invention …
Composition and Compassion:
the Life and Career of Ursula Wood
the Life and Career of Ursula Wood
If each of us could choose the time and place of our birth – the when and where – I would guess the list of …