‘Llanberis Pass, North Wales’ by Sidney Richard Percy (1822-1886). Signed by the artist and dated 1879, this large fine 19^th century oil painting was exhibited at the Royal Society of Artists in London in 1879.   Newly professionally cleaned, restored and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.   Sidney Richard Percy was the fifth – and most gifted – son of the English landscape painter Edward Williams (1781-1855), one of the most famous families in British art history. Just as his elder brothers Henry John Boddington (1811-1865) and Arthur Gilbert (1819-1895) had done, Sidney Williams changed his name in order to distinguish himself from the other members of the Williams family.   Between 1842 and 1886 Percy exhibited at all the leading Victorian art venues showing 76 paintings at the Royal Academy, 48 at the British Institution, and 73 with the Royal Society of British Artists at the Suffolk Street Gallery.   Dimensions: (framed) 81cm x 116cm (32” x 45½”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 61cm x 98cm (24” x 38½”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Exhibited at the Royal Society of Artists in London in 1879. Purchased from Frost & Reed, London, circa 1960. Thence in 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. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.      

‘A Break in the Game’ by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1825-1904). A 19^th century oil on canvas depicting a turning point in the history of cue sports such as billiards and snooker when female players first began to use a cue instead of a mace to strike the ball. The painting hangs in a newly commissioned, bespoke gold metal leaf frame. As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in the very finest condition it can be for its age, having just been professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Clients should also note that fully insured, tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. As portrayed in the painting, it wasn’t until the 18^th century that women began using a cue. Even in the late 19^th century women playing billiards and snooker were not encouraged to use a cue. Instead, they were expected to push the cue ball with the wide, blunt end of the mace because male players feared they might otherwise damage the green baize! Robert Alexander Hillingford was a highly successful Victorian painter of historical and literary scenes. Between 1864 and 1902 Hillingford exhibited 29 works at the Royal Academy, and numerous others the British Institution, and the Royal Society of British Artists in London. Dimensions: (framed) 50cm x 60cm (19¾” x 23½”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 36cm x 47cm (14¼” x 18½”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private UK collection. Presentation: Fine quality gilt 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.      

This is a large fine 19th century oil on canvas depicting the meeting of a young shepherdess and a cattle herder before a breath-taking Scottish Highland landscape in ‘Glen Coe, Argyllshire’ by Sidney Richard Percy (1822-1886). Signed by the artist and dated 1878. Sidney Richard Percy was the fifth son of the celebrated English landscape painter Edward Williams (1781-1855), one of the most famous families in British art history. In my opinion Sidney Richard Percy was its most gifted painter. Just as his brothers Henry John Boddington (1811-1865) and Arthur Gilbert (1819-1895) had done, Sidney Williams changed his name in order to distinguish himself from the other members of the Williams family. Between 1842 and 1886 Percy exhibited at all the leading Victorian art venues showing 76 paintings at the Royal Academy, 48 at the British Institution, and 73 with the Royal Society of British Artists at the Suffolk Street Gallery. Dimensions: (framed) 97cm x 72cm (38” x 28”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 76cm x 51cm (30” x 20”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private UK collection. Presentation: Newly commissioned fine quality English Baroque frame in gold metal leaf. Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

‘A Little White Note’ by Albert Ludovici Jnr. R.B.A. (1852-1932). The painting was exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists in London in 1881. It is signed and dated and hangs in a newly commissioned, bespoke gold metal leaf frame. Albert Ludovici Jnr. studied at the Académie Charles and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris under Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) and Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). Ludovici’s paintings of fashionable London society around the turn of the century are a sympathetic blend of French Naturalism and Impressionism. His interior scenes are often characterised by areas of unpopulated space as much as their finely painted figures, a device seen in the work of of Sir William Orchardson (1832-1910) and Ludovici’s great friend James Abbott McNeill Whistler RBA (1834-1903), whose muted palette he also adopted. Ludovici exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1880, as well as the Paris Salon and the Royal Society of British Artists where he was elected a member. Dimensions: (framed) 55cm x 72cm (21¾” x 28¼”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 38½cm x 56½cm (15¼” x 22¼”) 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. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

‘Grange-over-Sands’ by Sidney Richard Percy (1822-1886). Signed by the artist and dated 1877.

 

A large fine 19^th century oil on canvas depicting figures, cattle and a dog on a coastal path overlooking Morecombe Bay in Cumbria.  He painting hangs in a superb quality, newly commissioned, bespoke gold metal leaf 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.

 

Sidney Richard Percy was the fifth – and most gifted – son of the English landscape painter Edward Williams (1781-1855), one of the most famous families in British art history. Just as his elder brothers Henry John Boddington (1811-1865) and Arthur Gilbert (1819-1895) had done, Sidney Williams changed his name in order to distinguish himself from the other members of the Williams family.

 

Between 1842 and 1886 Percy exhibited at all the leading Victorian art venues showing 76 paintings at the Royal Academy, 48 at the British Institution, and 73 with the Royal Society of British Artists at the Suffolk Street Gallery.

 

Dimensions: (framed) 81cm x 116cm (32” x 45½”)

Dimensions: (canvas only) 61cm x 98cm (24” x 38½”)

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Provenance: April 1972; purchased from the Leger Galleries, Old Bond Street, London. Thence in the same 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.

Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

‘Cornfield near the Coast’ by Sidney Richard Percy (1822-1886). Signed by the artist and dated 1865, this large fine 19^th century oil painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1865. The painting hangs in a superb quality newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf 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.

 

Sidney Richard Percy was the fifth – and most gifted – son of the English landscape painter Edward Williams (1781-1855), one of the most famous families in British art history. Just as his elder brothers Henry John Boddington (1811-1865) and Arthur Gilbert (1819-1895) had done, Sidney Williams changed his name in order to distinguish himself from the other members of the Williams family.

 

Between 1842 and 1886 Percy exhibited at all the leading Victorian art venues showing 76 paintings at the Royal Academy, 48 at the British Institution, and 73 with the Royal Society of British Artists at the Suffolk Street Gallery.

 

Dimensions: (framed) 81cm x 116cm (32” x 45½”)

Dimensions: (canvas only) 61cm x 98cm (24” x 38½”)

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Provenance: Exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1865. Purchased from Frost & Reed, London, circa 1960. Thence in 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.

Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

Conservation: Where necessary the paintings we sell are cleaned and restored by Fine Art Restoration (est.1974) or Simon Gillespie Studio, as seen on BBC Television\\’s \\’Britain\\’s Lost Masterpieces\\’.

Philip Hermogenes Calderon R.A. (1833-1898). The painting - which depicts a young Victorian beauty - is signed and inscribed by the artist verso, and hangs in a fine quality gold metal leaf Watts 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. Having studied in London and Paris, Philip Calderon began exhibiting historical and literary pictures and portraiture at the Royal Academy in 1853. A friend and contemporary of William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1828-1882) and John Everett Millais (1829-1896) his style was initially Pre Raphaelite yet in subject was initially closer to the artists of The Clique such as William Powell Frith (1819-1909) and Henry Nelson O’Neil (1817-880) and later to the classical themes of the Olympians Lord Leighton (1830-1896) and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912). Calderon was elected an ARA in 1864 and a full Academician three years later, aged just 34. In the same year he became the first British artist to be awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition. Perhaps above all else, Calderon was a superb painter of female beauty. In 1887 the artist received one of the Royal Academy’s highest honours when he was appointed Keeper of the RA. Dimensions: (framed) 82cm x 92cm (32¼” x 36¼”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 61cm x 71cm (24” x 28”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private UK collection. Presentation: Newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf Watts 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.  

Sidney Richard Percy (1822-1886). The painting – which depicts cattle watering on the River Glaslyn before Cnicht mountain in Snowdonia – is signed by the artist and dated 1873 in which year it was exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists. Sidney Richard Percy was the fifth son of the celebrated English landscape painter Edward Williams (1781-1855), one of the most famous families in British art history. In my opinion Sidney Richard Percy was its most gifted painter. Just as his brothers Henry John Boddington (1811-1865) and Arthur Gilbert (1819-1895) had done, Sidney Williams changed his name in order to distinguish himself from the other members of the Williams family. Between 1842 and 1886 Percy exhibited at all the leading Victorian art venues showing 76 paintings at the Royal Academy, 48 at the British Institution, and 73 with the Royal Society of British Artists at the Suffolk Street Gallery. Dimensions: (framed) 116cm x 91cm (45½” x 36”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 96cm x 61cm (38” x 24”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: 1873; exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists (no.351). Thence in private UK collection. Presentation: Fine quality 20^th century Louis XV giltwood swept frame. Condition: Good. Professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

‘Une Fille de Filature’ by Charles Louis Lucien Müller (1815-1892). The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1862 and hangs in a newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf frame.

 

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.

 

Charles Louis Muller entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1831 where he studied under Baron Gros and Léon Cogniet. Three years later he began exhibiting at the Salon where he would contribute paintings each year for the rest of his working life. Muller was awarded numerous medals of honour at the Salon including first-class medals in 1848 and 1855. He was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in 1849, and an Officer in 1850. Perhaps the crowning achievement of Muller’s career came when he was commissioned to decorate ceilings in the Louvre Museum with four compositions representing periods in the history of French art.

 

Dimensions: (framed) 68cm x 88cm (27” x 34½”)

Dimensions: (canvas only) 49cm x 69cm (19¼” x 27¼”)

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.

Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

 

Henry Siddons Mowbray (1858-1928). The painting is signed by the artist. Augustus Saint-Gaudens was the foremost American sculptor of the 19^th century and one of the most important figures in the history of American Art. 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. Henry Siddons Mowbray studied in the great French Academic tradition at the studio of Leon Bonnat in Paris. Between 1880 and 1885, Mowbray exhibited at the Salon before moving back to the US where he became a leading figure in the ‘American Renaissance’ and a close friend of one of the fathers of American Art, Augustus Saint-Gaudens. In his illustrious career, Siddons Mowbray painted numerous commissions for many of the period’s most famous personalities including J.P. Morgan and F.W. Vanderbilt. Between 1902 and 1904, Siddons Mowbray served as director of the American Academy in Rome. Dimensions: (framed) 41cm x 43cm (16” x 17”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 26cm x 27cm (10¼” x 10¾”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private UK collection. Presentation: Fine giltwood frame. Condition: Very good. Professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

‘Rydal Water, Westmorland’ by Sidney Richard Percy (1822-1886). The painting – which depicts cattle watering in the Lake District – is signed by the artist and dated 1882. It hangs in a bespoke gold metal leaf frame. 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. Sidney Richard Percy was the fifth son of the celebrated English landscape painter Edward Williams (1781-1855), one of the most famous families in British art history. In my opinion Sidney Richard Percy was its most gifted painter. Just as his brothers Henry John Boddington (1811-1865) and Arthur Gilbert (1819-1895) had done, Sidney Williams changed his name in order to distinguish himself from the other members of the Williams family. Between 1842 and 1886 Percy exhibited at all the leading Victorian art venues showing 76 paintings at the Royal Academy, 48 at the British Institution, and 73 with the Royal Society of British Artists at the Suffolk Street Gallery. Dimensions: (framed) 64cm x 84cm (25¼” x 33”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 46cm x 66cm (18¼” x 26”) 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. Condition: Very good. Professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

'The Careful Nurse' by Frank Holl R.A. (1845-1888). The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1880, and was exhibited at the Arthur Tooth Gallery in the Haymarket in the spring of 1880. It is sold in a fine quality newly commissioned bespoke gilt metal leaf frame. Frank Holl was 15 when he became a student at the Royal Academy Schools. Whilst still a pupil he began producing the provocative Social Realism pictures which were to become his trademark. Between 1864 and his premature death in 1888, Holl exhibited 87 paintings at the Royal Academy in London and was elected a Royal Academician in 1883. Vincent van Gogh – today arguably the most famous painter in the world – considered Frank Holl to be a Master, and whilst living in London fastidiously cut out and collected Holl’s engravings published in The Graphic. Everyone even remotely interested in art should take some time to read the fascinating letters of Van Gogh (sent to his brother Theo and friend Anthon van Rappard). One name mentioned reverentially again and again is that of Frank Holl. Dimensions: (framed) 74cm x 64m (29” x 25”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 56cm x 45cm (22” x 18”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private UK collection. Presentation: Fine gold metal leaf swept frame. Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

A very large fine 19th century painting depicting a group of noblemen appearing before king Edward VI, the young son of Henry VIII, and his court by the eminent Victorian painter Charles Cattermole RI (1834-1900). ‘Petitioning the Young King’ is signed by the artist and dated 1875. This important and very detailed gouache and watercolour would have been painted for exhibition and is the largest known work by Cattermole.

In addition to Edward VI, the painting depicts the Lord Protector of the Realm; Edward Seymour (symbolically leaning on the throne), together with Henry VIII’s widow Catherine Parr kneeling beside the young king, with the future queen Elizabeth I and archbishop Thomas Cranmer also in attendance.

As with all of the original antique paintings we sell it is offered in the finest condition it can be for its age having just subject to complete professional examination and conservation. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.

Charles Cattermole was one of the most gifted and successful watercolour painters of historical subjects in 19th century Britain. From 1858 he exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists (to which he was elected Member in 1876), the New Watercolour Society (elected Member in 1870), the Royal Institute (elected Member in 1870), the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (elected Member in 1883), the Royal Society of Artists in Birmingham, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

Today, paintings by Charles Cattermole are held in the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, and Sydney Art Gallery in Australia.

Dimensions: (framed) 146cm x 96cm (57½” x 37¾”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 129cm x 76cm (50¾” x 30”)
Medium: Gouache and watercolour.
Provenance: Private UK collection.
Presentation: Fine quality gold metal leaf frame.
Condition: Excellent. Ready to hang.

'La Fille de la Nymphe' by Auguste-Émile Pinchart (1842-1920). The painting - which depicts a girl teasing a bust of the god Pan with a reed - is signed by the artist and presented in a superb quality, bespoke gold metal leaf frame. In Greek mythology, when the lustful Pan attempted to seduce a nymph by the name of Syrinx, she ran to a nearby river and asked for assistance from the water nymphs, the Naiads. As Pan reached out to grab Syrinx the Naiads transformed her into a cluster of water reeds. When Pan let out a frustrated sigh, his breath blew across the hollow reeds producing a haunting tune. These reeds became the Pipes of Pan. All our paintings are sold in the finest condition they can be for their age having just been professionally cleaned, conserved and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Auguste-Émile Pinchart studied in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme, and achieved considerable financial success after signing a contract with the pre-eminent French art dealer Jean-Baptiste Goupil. Pinchart exhibited at the Salon in Paris between 1864 and 1893, receiving an honourable mention in 1883 and a medal the following year. In 1905 he became a member of the Société des Artistes Français. Dimensions: (framed) 66cm x 76cm (26” x 30”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 51cm x 61cm (20” x 24”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private European 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. Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

'En Garde' by Jean Beraud (1849-1936). The painting - which depicts a fashionable young Parisienne escrimeuses - is signed by the artist and presented in a fine quality, bespoke gold metal leaf frame. As with all the paintings we sell it is offered in the finest condition it can be for its age having just been professionally cleaned, conserved and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Jean Béraud was one of the most famous painters of Paris during La Belle Époque. Rather like his contemporary Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) his evocative paintings of Parisian high society glimpsed in the gardens, salons and boulevards of the French capital are a blend of the academic art of the Salon and that of his friend Édouard Manet and the other French Impressionists. Béraud studied at the Lycée Bonaparte before enrolling with the studio of Léon Bonnat (1833-1922). Béraud first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1873. His association with Alexandre Bernheim (1839-1915), one of France’s most influential dealers, helped bring him considerable commercial success and by 1890 Beraud had established himself as the painter of Parisian life. Jean Beraud was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 1887 and an Officer in 1892. Today his paintings are found in the National Gallery in London, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Dimensions: (framed) 52cm x 74cm (20½” x 29”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 33cm x 55¼cm (13” x 21¾”) Medium: Oil on mahogany panel. Provenance: Artist’s panel supplied by F. Dupre of Paris circa 1900. Various auction stencils verso. Private collection. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity issued by Patrick Offenstadt, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, November 20, 2019. 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: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

George Cole (1810-1883). The painting - which depicts a vast landscape with waterfall in the Lake District of England - is signed and dated by the artist and was exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1879. As with all the paintings we sell it is offered in the finest condition it can be for its age having just been professionally cleaned, conserved and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. George Cole was one of Victorian Britain’s most successful landscape painters, although most of his early work comprised animal portraits. Cole’s first important patron was the British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel who commissioned the young artist to paint his dog, Cato. He first exhibited in London in 1838, at the Suffolk Street Gallery of the Society of British Artists, and shortly afterwards began studying with the eminent Scottish landscape painter, John Wilson (1774-1855). This association culminated in Cole making his debut at the Royal Academy in 1849 with a landscape entitled ‘The Gravel Pit’. The following year he was be elected a member of the Society of British Artists in 1850, and later its Vice-President in 1867. Between 1838 and 1883 Cole exhibited 19 paintings at the Royal Academy, 35 at the British Institution, and 223 at the Royal Society of British Artists. Following his death in September 1883, George Cole’s obituary in The Times remembered him as “a notable example of one who, though commencing life in a dull provincial town, unassisted by a master or any regular art education yet by perseverance and hard work, fought his way to, and won, eminence.” Today, paintings by George Cole can be found in the collections of Manchester City Galleries, Museums Sheffield, and the Royal Academy in London. Dimensions: (framed) 108cm x 141cm (42½” x 55½”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 86½cm x 122¾cm (34” x 48¼”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1879. 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. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

‘A Welsh Hillside Path’ by Benjamin Williams Leader (1831-1923). This very large fine oil on canvas is signed and dated by the artist and was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1874. The painting is presented in a newly commissioned, bespoke gold metal leaf frame.

 

As with all the paintings we sell it is offered in the finest condition it can be for its age having just been professionally cleaned, conserved and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.

 

Benjamin Williams Leader entered the Royal Academy Schools from 1856 and exhibited his first painting at the Summer Exhibition the following year. Leader would go on to become one of the most celebrated landscape artists of the Victorian age and at the height of his fame his paintings commanded the highest prices of any British artist. He exhibited at the Royal Academy every year from 1857 to 1922, an unbroken 65 continuous years, which still stands as a record today.

 

Benjamin Williams Leader was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1883, and an Academician in 1898. He also exhibited abroad, winning a gold medal at the Paris Salon and awarded the Legion of Honour in 1889. Examples of Leader’s work can be seen in Birmingham and Manchester Art Galleries, and the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Gallery in London.

 

Dimensions: (framed) 124cm x 170cm (48¾” x 67”)

Dimensions: (canvas only) 106½cm x 152¾cm (42” x 60”)

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Provenance: Royal Academy Exhibition, 1874. 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.

Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

 

‘La Belle Fille Marocaine’ by Jean-François Portaels (1818-1895). The painting is signed by the artist and hangs in a superb quality, newly commissioned gold metal leaf 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.

 

In 1841 Jean-François Portaels enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and became a pupil of the great French history painter Paul Delaroche (1797-1856). The following year Portaels won the Belgian Prix de Rome and would go on to become one of the most successful Belgian artists of the second half of the 19^th century.

 

In addition to being a renowned painter of subject pictures and orientalist subjects, Portaels was in great demand as a portrait artist with wealthy French clients and members of the Belgian aristocracy. In 1851 he received the Grand Cordon in the Order of Leopold and later admitted as a member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts. In 1865 had was appointed artistic advisor to King Leopold II and became director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent and the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Today, his paintings are held in numerous important private collections and European museums.

 

Dimensions: (framed) 61cm x 71cm (24” x 28”)

Dimensions: (canvas only) 43cm x 54cm (17” x 21¼”)

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.

Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned, restored and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

 

 

A very large fine 19th century oil on canvas depicting ‘Katherine and Petruchio’ in a scene from Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ by the eminent Royal Academician Charles Robert Leslie RA (1774-1859). This superb, exhibition-sized Victorian painting is signed, and hangs in a fine quality newly commissioned gold metal leaf frame.

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in the very finest condition it can be for its age, having just been professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Clients should also note that fully insured, tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.

“There is no man now living who seems to me to come close at all near Mr Leslie, his work being in places equal to Hogarth for decision, and here and there a little lighter and more graceful”.
John Ruskin

Charles Robert Leslie was one of the most famous and successful British artists of the 19th century. The close friend and biographer of John Constable, C.R. Leslie exhibited 76 paintings at Royal Academy between 1813 and 1858, and was elected at full Royal Academician in 1826.

For many years the painting was erroneously thought to depict Queen Elizabeth I receiving news of her assent to the throne of England, but now with the kind assistance of Professor Rosalind King and Dr Patrick Gray we have correctly identified it’s actual subject; Act II, scene I of Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ (a favourite of C.R. Leslie), and more precisely the 1754 reworking of the play by the famous actor/manager David Garrick. Throughout Georgian and Victorian Britain it was Garrick’s version that was most often performed, and the one that the artist would most likely have seen.

“The painting represents Act II of David Garrick’s ‘Catharine and Petruchio’ and offers a genuine insight into 18/19th century interpretations of Shakespeare’s play.”
Professor Rosalind King, Oxford University

We would like to thank Professor Rosalind King and Dr Patrick Gray for their invaluable expertise in the identification of the subject in this painting. Professor King is Professor Emeritus at the University of Southampton, the Visiting Plumer Fellow at St Anne’s, University of Oxford, and has served on the academic committee of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London and on the Board of Directors of the English Shakespeare Company.
Dr Gray studied at Oxford, Yale, and the Sorbonne before joining Durham University as Associate Professor of English Studies.

Dimensions: (framed) 165cm x 135cm (65” x 53”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 142cm x 112cm (56” x 44”)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: Private collection.
Presentation: Superb quality 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 and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

A very large fine 19th century oil on canvas depicting the 1554 imprisonment of ‘Princess Elizabeth in the Tower’ by the eminent Royal Academy painter Robert Alexander Hillingford (1828-1904). The painting is signed by the artist and hangs in a fine quality, newly commissioned, bespoke gold metal leaf frame.

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in the very finest condition it can be for its age, having just been professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Clients should also note that fully insured, tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.

On 18th March 1554 Princess Elizabeth -daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn – was incarcerated in the Tower of London by her sister, and rival for the English throne, Mary Tudor. The Princess’ worst fears were soon realised when a warrant for her execution was delivered to the Lieutenant of the Tower, Sir John Brydges (shown in the painting standing, in armour, to the right). It was signed by every member of Mary’s Privy Council but upon examination Sir John saw that the signature of the Queen herself was absent and refused to act upon the death warrant. Although a staunch Catholic and servant of the Queen, Sir John Brydges was also a man of principle and duty and his intervention saved the life of the future Queen Elizabeth I.

Dimensions: (framed) 145cm x 95cm (57” x 37”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 127cm x 76cm (50” x 30”)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: Sold at auction in 17th June 1927. Thence in private UK collection.
Presentation: Superb quality gilt 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.

Vittorio Reggianini (1858-1938). The painting - which depicts three young 18th century beauties enjoying the attentions of an enthusiastic suitor - is signed by the artist and hangs in a newly commissioned, gold metal leaf 'Chippendale' 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. Vittorio Reggianini was a famous Italian painter of elegant Rococo interior scenes featuring stylish young Parisians of pre-Revolutionary France. One of a number of Florentine painters of superbly executed bourgeois interior scenes like Frederic Soulacroix (1858- 1933), Federico Andreotti (1847-1930) and Arturo Ricci (1854-1919), Reggianini is considered perhaps the finest painter of fashionable young ladies of the Ancien Régime and of the sumptuous fabrics they wore. Dimensions: (framed) 82cm x 95cm (32¼” x 37¼”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 60cm x 72cm (23¼” x 28¼”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Purchased at Harrods Fine Paintings department on 20th March 1974. Thence in 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. Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

‘Spring’ by Cecil Kennedy (1905-1997).

A fine floral style life oil on canvas depicting a silver vase of spring blooms by perhaps the most eminent British flower painter of the 20th century. ‘Spring’ is signed by the artist and is one of only two pictures Cecil Kennedy is known to have painted to feature a self-portrait, here seen as a reflection in the vase.

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.

During his long and successful career Cecil Kennedy had many patrons including the Duke of Windsor, the Astor family and Queen Mary who said, “When I see Cecil Kennedy paintings, I can smell the flowers and hear the hum of the bees”. Queen Mary went on to encourage Kennedy to paint with the ongoing use of a ladybird – as seen in the painting being sold here – and from that moment forward it became one of his signature trademarks. Cecil Kennedy exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, the Paris Salon, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy. He was awarded a silver medal in 1956 and a gold medal in 1970 at the Paris Salon.

Dimensions: (framed) 53cm x 63cm (21” x 24¾”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 41cm x 51cm (16” x 20”)
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.
Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

A large fine 19th century oil on canvas depicting the famous events of AD64 and ‘The Great Fire of Rome’ with the triumphant Emperor Nero and his attendants – including Seneca and the Praetorian Guard – looking-on as St Peter and others are crucified, the city in flames beyond, by the eminent history painter Eduard Buchler (1861-1958). The painting is signed by the artist and is presented in a superb quality, newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf frame.

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in excellent condition, having just been professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.

Roman historians Pliny the Elder, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio all wrote that Nero was responsible for the Great Fire. The Emperor blamed the city’s Christians, large numbers of whom were crucified including Saint Peter. The events of July AD64 are the subject of the film ‘Quō Vādis’.

Dimensions: (framed) 120cm x 88cm (47¼” x 34½”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 101cm x 70cm (39¾” x 27½”)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: Private European collection.
Presentation: Superb quality gilt 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 and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

‘The Source of the Moon’ by Benjamin Williams Leader R.A. (1931-1923). The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1875. It is presented in a newly commissioned gold metal leaf frame. Meaning “Moon River” in English, Afon Lloer is a watercourse in Snowdonia, North Wales which flows from the high mountain lake Ffynnon Lloer. As the headwater of the Moon River, the Old Welsh name for the lake (or llyn) literally means “the source of the moon”. A renowned beauty spot for centuries, Ffynnon Lloer was a popular destination for intrepid Victorian sightseers in the 19th century. When Leader visited the lake in 1875 it was still only accessible via a three hour walk from the village of Capel Curig. 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) 56cm x 76cm (20” x 30”). Dimensions: (canvas only) 41cm x 61cm (24” x 16”). Medium: Oil on Windsor & Newton artist’s board. Provenance: Lower Nupend Gallery, Broadway, Worcestershire. Private UK collection. Private UK collection. Presentation: Newly commissioned gold metal leaf frame. Condition: Very good. Professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

This is a large fine 19th century oil painting depicting the Emperor Napoleon entering a Spanish garrison during ‘An Incident in the Peninsular War’ circa 1809 by the celebrated Royal Academy painter Robert Alexander Hillingford (1828-1904). The painting is signed by the artist and sold in a superb quality newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf swept frame. It is testament to the enduring popularity of the painting that it is widely available today to buy as a print. The painting being sold here is, of course, the original oil painting by Hillingford.

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in excellent condition, having just been professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.

Robert Alexander Hillingford was a highly successful Victorian painter of historical and literary scenes. He is most famous for his highly detailed paintings of the Napoleonic Wars as well as Shakespearean subjects. Between 1864 and 1902 Hillingford exhibited 29 works at the Royal Academy, and numerous others the British Institution, and the Royal Society of British Artists in London.

Dimensions: (framed) 94cm x 68cm (37” x 27”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 76cm x 51cm (30” x 20”)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: Private UK collection.
Presentation: Superb quality gilt 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 and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845-1902). ‘Madeleine’ is signed by the artist, and also titled and dated 1901. This important full-length portrait by one of the world’s foremost society painters of the period hangs in a newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf neoclassical frame. In the final quarter of the 19th century Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant was one of the world’s leading painters of Orientalist scenes and society portraits – the favourite artist of the English aristocracy – whose patrons included Queen Victoria and the Pope. North American tycoons queued-up with patriarchs of the English nobility to commission portraits of their wives and daughters. The full-length portrait being sold here being a superb example. Today, the rich and famous dream of being photographed by Mario Testino or Annie Leibovitz, back in 1900 they wanted to be painted by Benjamin-Constant, and his society portraits brilliantly convey the individual personality of the sitter. Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1896, made a commander of the Legion d’Honneur, and with Jean-Léon Gérôme foundered the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français. Paintings by Benjamin-Constant are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. Dimensions: (framed) 150cm x 116cm (59” x 45¾”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 131cm x 98cm (51½” x 38½”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private UK collection. Presentation: Fine gold metal leaf neoclassical swept frame. Condition: Excellent. Professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

A large mid-19^th century landscape oil on canvas of cattle being herded across a river at sunset by the world famous British painter John Linnell (1792-1882). Entitled ‘The Ford’, this very important Victorian landscape painting is signed by the artist and dated 1858. Such was John Linnell’s success and fame in the first three quarters of the 19^th century that a great many copies of his work and outright fakes purporting to be by Linnell were painted.

 

Crucially the painting being sold here can be traced back to the definitive catalogue of Linnell’s known works initially compiled by the artist’s biographer A.T. Story in 1892. Once you have seen and studied a genuine Linnell the fakes become easy to spot. Naturally you will always find one or two of these on ebay, but even those unfamiliar with his work need only to google images of Linnell’s vivid, dramatic landscapes to recognise the real thing.

 

If you were to ask most people today who were the two most famous landscape painters of Victorian Britain they would probably say Turner and Constable. Turner is certainly one, but the other is John Linnell. Prior to 1900, Constable’s work always played second fiddle to the highly charged romanticism of Linnell.

 

John Linnell exhibited at the Royal Academy from the age of 15 and despite initially becoming famous at a portraitist, it was as a brilliant painter of poetical landscapes that prompted both his great acclaim and the resentment of John Constable. Linnell’s confident and forthright nature – especially his readiness to ensure his wealthy patrons paid promptly for the paintings they purchased – never endeared him to the elite grandees of the Royal Academy, but it was malicious and false gossip spread by John Constable that probably help prevent Linnell’s election as a Royal Academician.

 

So successful and famous was Linnell that by the 1860s his exclusion was considered a public scandal, and a panicked Royal Academy repeatedly invited Linnell to put his name down for an associateship. He refused, and instead published a pamphlet attacking the Academy’s exclusivity; a unique and brilliant man, as well as painter.

 

Nevertheless, Linnell was greatly esteemed during his lifetime by most of his peers, and as a landscape artist he was considered second only to JMW Turner. Upon his death in 1882, The Times obituary said ‘A glory seems to have faded from the domain of British Art. England mourns John Linnell, the most powerful of landscape painters since Turner died’.

 

Between 1807 and 1881 John Linnell exhibited 177 paintings at the Royal Academy, and 92 at the British Institution. During his long career John Linnell was a patron and financial supporter of William Blake, Samuel Palmer and the young Pre Raphaelites.

 

Recommended reading: ‘The Life of John Linnell’ by A.T. Story’ and ‘Blake, Palmer & Linnell’ by David Linnell.

 

Dimensions: (framed) 119cm x 91cm (46¾” x 35¾”)

Dimensions: (canvas only) 96cm x 68cm (37¾” x 26¾”)

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Provenance: Very fine private UK collection.

Presentation: Magnificent Louis XV style swept giltwood frame.

Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned. Lined circa 1980. Ready to hang.

‘Galileo before the Roman Inquisition’ by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1825-1904). The painting depicts Galileo’s appearance before the Roman Inquisition in 1633 when he was accused of heresy for his belief in the theory of heliocentrism. After refusing to recant, despite the threat of torture, Galileo was placed under house arrest where he remained for the rest of his life. Robert Alexander Hillingford was a highly successful Victorian painter of historical and literary scenes who became most famous for his portrayals of the Napoleonic Wars. Between 1864 and 1902 Hillingford exhibited 29 works at the Royal Academy, and numerous others the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists in London. Further Reading: ‘The Hillingford Chronicles’, a detailed account of the life and work of the artist, is now available via the News & Articles page of the Academy Fine Paintings website.  

This is a fine 19th century oil painting of a young woman in late mediaeval costume ascending the steps of large stone building carrying a ewer by the eminent Victorian painter Sir Hubert von Herkomer RA (1849-1914). This superb example of Herkomer’s figural work is signed by the artist and dated 1876.

Herkomer was born in Bavaria but settled in England in 1857 where he underwent his artistic training at the South Kensington Schools and would earn a reputation as one of the most versatile and gifted European artists of the day.

In 1883 Herkomer founded one of Europe’s most important art schools near his palatial home in North London. After becoming a full Royal Academician in 1890, the artist was ennobled by King Otto of Bavaria allowing him to add the honorific ‘von’ to his name. Sir Hubert von Herkomer exhibited 210 paintings at the Royal Academy in London between 1869 and 1914. He was knighted by King Edward VII 1908. Four works by Herkomer hangs in the Tate gallery in London.

Dimensions: (framed) 90cm x 70cm (35½” x 27½”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 59cm x 39cm (23¼” x 15½”)
Medium: Oil on panel.
Provenance: Private UK collection.
Presentation: Superb 19th century carved bolection frame.
Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

This is a large fine 19th century English landscape oil on canvas depicting an extensive view across the county of Surrey on a fine summer’s afternoon by the eminent Victorian painter Arthur Gilbert (1819-1895). The painting is signed and dated 1886, and is a superb example of Gilbert’s finest work.

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in superb condition, having just been professionally cleaned and re-varnished.

Arthur Gilbert was the fourth son of the important English painter Edward Williams and a member of the famous Williams family of artists. Like his five brothers, Gilbert enjoyed a long and successful career as one of Britain’s foremost landscape painters. He was equally adept at rendering the English landscape as was its farm workers and animals.

Between 1836 and 1894 Arthur Gilbert exhibited 49 oil paintings at the Royal Academy, 51 at the British Institution and a further 111 with the Royal Society of British Artists at the Suffolk Street Gallery. Gilbert’s pre-eminence was recognised in 1857 when he was personally invited by W.M. Rossetti to send paintings to the first Exhibition of Living British Artists, held in New York.

Dimensions: (framed) 93cm x 67cm (36½” x 26½”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 76cm x 51cm (30” x 20”)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: Private UK collection.
Presentation: 20th century Louis XV giltwood swept frame.
Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

This is a large fine mid-19th century oil on canvas of an extensive landscape view of a busy town on the banks of the Moselle river in Germany by the famous Victorian painter George Vicat Cole (1833-1893). This important antique oil painting is signed by the artist and dated 1856.

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in superb condition, having just been professionally cleaned and re-varnished.

Vicat Cole was the son of the eminent landscape painter George Cole (1810–1883). In 1851, aged 18, he accompanied his father on a sketching trip to the Moselle region of Germany, and in 1853 had his first painting – of the river Moselle – accepted by the Royal Academy. The majority of Vicat Cole’s paintings are English landscapes and only a handful of his early views of the Moselle are known to be in existence. The painting being offered for sale is one of those important rare works of the Moselle.

In total George Vicat Cole exhibited 76 paintings at the Royal Academy, 10 at the British Institution and 48 with the Royal Society of British Artists.

All of the artist’s painting produced between 1854 and 1870 are signed ‘Vicat Cole’. On being elected an ARA by the Royal Academy in 1870 he henceforth signed his works with a monogram composed of the initials VC. George Vicat Cole was made a full Royal Academician in 1880.

Dimensions: (framed) 105cm x 75cm (41¼” x 29½”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 92cm x 61cm (36¼” x 24”)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: Sold in 1976 by Frost & Reed of New Bond Street, London, thence in Private UK collection.
Presentation: 20th century Louis XV giltwood swept frame.
Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

This is a very large fine 19^th century oil on canvas depicting a magnificent black Highland longhorn bull by the distinguished Scottish painter Joseph Denovan Adam RSA RSW (1841-1896). ‘Laird of the Highlands’ is signed by the artist and dated 1885.

 

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in the very finest condition it can be for its age, having just been newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished.

 

Between 1859 and 1892 Joseph Denovan exhibited 25 oils at the Royal Academy in London, as well as many more at the British Institution, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Paris Salon.

 

The son of the Scottish landscape painter Joseph Adam, Joseph Denovan Adam would go on to eclipse the achievements of his father becoming late Victorian Britain’s most celebrated painter of Highland cattle. Where others painters of the Highlands such as Horatio McCulloch were content to dot their landscapes with a few cattle Adam gave them pride of place.

 

Adam was a stickler for painting from nature, and had a large studio – part wooden hut, part glass conservatory – built on his house to serve as an all-weather observation base. He called it his “cattle atelier”, and here he established a school of animal painting where he kept many live animals for his students to draw.

 

Dimensions: (framed) 133cm x 89cm (52¼” x 35”)

Dimensions: (canvas only) 107cm x 67cm (42” x 26¼”)

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Provenance: Private UK collection.

Presentation: Fine 20^th century Louis XV giltwood swept frame.

Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

This is a large fine floral still life oil painting of ‘Chrysanthemums’ in a blue and white Chinese bowl by the famous British artist Cecil Kennedy (1905-1997). The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1929 and is as striking a work by this eminent painter as I have ever seen.

 

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in the very finest condition it can be for its age.

 

Cecil Kennedy was one of the foremost flower painters of the 20th century, blending the technical accuracy of a botanist with a modern use of colour and atmospheric lighting. Kennedy exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, the Paris Salon, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy.

 

He achieved not only critical acclaim but was awarded a silver medal in 1956 and a gold medal in 1970 at the Paris Salon. Kennedy’s many private patrons included Queen Mary, the Duke of Windsor and the Astor family.

 

Dimensions: (framed) 75cm x 65cm (29½” x 25½”)

Dimensions: (canvas only) 62cm x 51cm (24½” x 20”)

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Provenance: Private UK collection.

Presentation: Fine new Louis XV style swept frame. All of the new frames we commission are especially made for us to order by one of the UK’s finest period frame makers.

Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

This is a fine large mid-19th century oil on canvas depicting ‘Rosalind and Celia’ in the Forest of Arden from Act 3, Scene 2 of William Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’ by the famous English Victorian artist Henry Nelson O’Neil ARA (1817-1880). The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1856. It was in this year that the painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London where O’Neil exhibited a grand total 94 paintings between 1838 and 1879.

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in the very finest condition it can be for its age having just been professionally cleaned, restored and re-varnished.

Henry O’Neil was a founder member of The Clique, one of the most important artist groups of the 19th century, alongside Richard Dadd, William Powell Frith, John Phillip, Edward Matthew Ward, Augustus Egg, and Alfred Elmore.

In the 1850’s O’Neil was a famously virulent critics of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood though ironically his own luminous technique and fastidious attention to detail compares to anything produced by Millais, Rosetti, and Holman Hunt.

Henry Nelson O’Neil also exhibited 34 painting at the British Institution and 14 with the Royal Society of British Artists.

Dimensions: (framed) 109cm x 88cm (43” x 34¾”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 92cm x 71cm (36¼” x 28”)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: Private UK collection.
Presentation: Bespoke Baroque style swept frame. All of the new frames we commission are especially made for us to order by one of the UK’s finest period frame makers.
Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned, restored and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

This is a large fine 19^th century oil painting portrait of a young society beauty captured in semi-undress by the eminent French Academic painter Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825-1891). ‘Belle Femme en Déshabillé’ is signed by the artist and sold in a superb quality newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf neoclassical frame. The painting is in my opinion one of the artist’s most striking three-quarter length portraits, and certainly captures one of his most attractive sitters.

 

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in the very finest condition it can be for its age having been professionally cleaned and re-varnished.

 

Chaplin’s celebrated portraits of young women are reminiscent of the 18th century romanticism of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) and François Boucher (1703–1770) but his subjects are nevertheless recognisable as more modern Belle Epoque women. The critical and commercial success of Chaplin’s beautifully lit portraits of sensual young women captured en déshabillé established him as one of the foremost French academic painters of the period.

 

By the late 1850’s Chaplin was being inundated with commissions from the French aristocracy requesting portraits of their wives and daughters. Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, was also a big fan and appointed him an artist of the court. Her and her husband’s enthusiastic support would soon come in especially useful when, in 1859, the Chaplin’s portrait ‘Aurora’ was banned by the judges of the Salon for being “too erotically suggestive”. The disqualification order was subsequently overturned when Napoleon III himself sprung to Chaplin’s defence.

 

During his lifetime Chaplin was awarded numerous medals at the Paris Salon and in 1865 he was declared a Chevalier and later Officer of la Légion d’Honneur (1881). Today, works by Charles Chaplin are held in the collections of the Louvre in Paris, the Hermitage in St Petersburg, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

 

Dimensions: (framed) 90cm x 65cm (35½” x 25½”)

Dimensions: (canvas only) 72cm x 47cm (28¼” x 18½”)

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Provenance: Private UK collection.

Presentation: Fine gold metal leaf swept frame.

Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

SoldVirgilio Tojetti (1851-1901). The painting -which depicts a young Italian beauty reclining in a lavender chiffon wrap – is signed by the artist ‘Virgilio Tojetti, Rome’ and hangs in a superb quality gold metal leaf 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. Italian-born painter Virgilio Tojetti moved to Paris in the 1860s to study with Jean-Léon Gérôme and William Bouguereau. In 1870 he moved to live and work in the US, first in San Francisco, before settling in New York in 1883 where he painted important murals in the Savoy Hotel and Hoffman House. He exhibited with the Boston Art Club, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Brooklyn Art Association. Tojetti’s work was also much in demand back in Rome where he was commissioned by both Pope Gregory XVI and Pius IX. Dimensions: (framed) 69cm x 79cm (27” x 31”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 51cm x 61cm (20” x 24”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Fine private collection of Pittsburgh family. 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, lined, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

This is a fine large floral still life oil painting depicting a springtime arrangement of ‘Tulips & Daffodils’ in a green glazed vase by the celebrated British painter Cecil Kennedy (1905-1997). The painting is signed by the artist, and hangs in a carved wooden Chippendale style giltwood frame.

 

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in the very finest condition it can be for its age having been professionally cleaned and re-varnished.

 

Cecil Kennedy was one of the foremost flower painters of the 20th century, blending the technical accuracy of a botanist with a modern use of colour and atmospheric lighting. Kennedy had many famous admirers and patrons including the Duke of Windsor, the Astor family and Queen Mary who said, ‘When I see Cecil Kennedy paintings, I can smell the flowers and hear the hum of the bees’. Queen Mary went on to encourage Cecil Kennedy to paint with the ongoing use of a ladybird – as seen in the painting being sold here – and from that moment forward it became one of his signature trademarks.

 

Cecil Kennedy exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, the Paris Salon, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy. He was awarded a silver medal in 1956 and a gold medal in 1970 at the Paris Salon.

 

Dimensions: (framed) 77cm x 67cm (30¼” x 26¼”)

Dimensions: (canvas only) 63cm x 51cm (24¾” x 20”)

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Provenance: Private UK collection.

Presentation: Fine quality carved wooden Chippendale style giltwood frame.

Condition: Excellent. Professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

This is a large fine oil 19th century oil on canvas depicting a young woman of Ancient Rome in a sheer subucula tunic selling ‘Oranges’ by the Victorian neoclassical painter Arthur Hill RBA (1820-1920). The painting is signed and dated by the artist, and was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1877. It hangs in a newly commissioned bespoke fine quality gilt metal leaf frame.

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in excellent condition, having just been professionally cleaned and re-varnished.

Arthur Hill was a renowned painter of ancient Greek, Egyptian, and Roman scenes typically depicting poor yet always alluring young women. Like John William Godward, Ernest Normand, and Thomas Ralph Spence, Hill was greatly influenced by the great Olympian masters of British neo-classical painting Lord Leighton and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, but unlike them he chose to portray young working women rather than the idle rich.

Arthur Hill exhibited 26 paintings at the Royal Academy (‘Oranges’ being one of these), and 28 at the Suffolk Street Gallery of the Royal Society of British Artists of which organisation he was a member.

Dimensions: (framed) 90cm x 60cm (35½” x 23½”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 110cm x 80cm (43¼” x 31½”)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: Private US collection.
Presentation: Fine neoclassical gilt 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 and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

This is a fine 19th century oil on canvas depicting an elegant Parisienne beauty in an opulent salon interior contemplating the contents of a love letter by the celebrated French painter Auguste Toulmouche (1829-1890). ‘Declaration of Love’ is signed by the artist and dated 1879. The painting hangs is a fine quality Louis XV design giltwood frame. Toulmouche first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1848, winning the first of many medals. Four years later his fame was secured when his painting ‘La Fille’ was purchased by the emperor Napoleon III. Auguste Toulmouche was awarded the Legion d’Honneur in 1870. Dimensions: (framed) 62cm x 40cm (24¼” x 15¾”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 78cm x 56cm (30½” x 22”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private US collection. Presentation: Fine Louis XV design giltwood frame. Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

This is a very large fine 19th century oil on canvas depicting the royal court of King Charles II in the gardens of an English stately home in Kent by the distinguished Royal Academy painter James Digman Wingfield (1800-1872). ‘Summer Hill, time of Charles II (They went every day to court, or the court came to them)’ is signed by the artist and dated 1855, in which year it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. It hangs in a superb newly commissioned handmade gold metal leaf frame.

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in excellent condition, having just been professionally cleaned and re-varnished.

Summer Hill House is a Grade I listed Jacobean mansion near Tonbridge in the English county of Kent. Following the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, King Charles II gave Summer Hill to Viscountess Muskerry, a lady of extravagant tastes who subsequently – and notoriously – played host to the King and his entire court.

The house and its history of royal debauchery is mentioned numerous times in Count de Grammont’s scandalous ‘Memoirs of the English Court’ and was immortalised in a poem of 1833 entitled ‘The Country Seat’ which names four of the King’s most famous mistresses; Nell Gwynne, Moll Davis, Frances Stewart, and the Countess of Castlemaine…

“Oh, Summer Hill if thou wert mine,
I’d order in a pipe of wine,
And ask a dozen friends to dine!
Once tenants of this fair domain,
Soft Stewart, haughtiest Castlemaine,
Pert Nelly Gwynne, gay Molly Davis,
And many another Rara Avis.
E’en now, midst yonder leafy glade,
Methinks I see thy Royal shade,
In amplitude of wig arrayed.”

Dimensions: (framed) 131cm x 106cm (51½” x 41½”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 114cm x 89cm (45” x 35”)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: Private collection.
Presentation: New handmade gold metal leaf swept 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 and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

This is a fine large 19th century oil on canvas depicting a double portrait of two young Belle Epoque beauties at a masked ball by the eminent Paris Salon painter Jean-François Portaels (1818-1895). ‘Masquerade’ is signed by the artist and hangs in a superb quality newly commissioned gold metal leaf frame. The painting is also sold with its original 19th century French frame. In 1979, the painting was part of the exhibition ‘From Navez to Devos’ featuring important Belgian art from 1787 to 1954.

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in excellent condition, having just been professionally cleaned and re-varnished.

In 1841 Jean-François Portaels enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and became a pupil of the great French history painter Paul Delaroche (1797-1856). The following year Portaels won first prize in the Belgian Prix de Rome and would go on to become one of the most successful Belgian artists of the second half of the 19th century.

In addition to being a renowned painter of subject pictures and orientalist subjects, Portaels was in great demand as a portrait artist with wealthy French clients and members of the Belgian aristocracy. In 1851 he received the Grand Cordon in the Order of Leopold and later admitted as a member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts. In 1865 had was appointed artistic advisor to King Leopold II and became director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent and the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Today, his paintings are held in numerous important private collections and European museums.

Dimensions: (framed) 86cm x 69cm (33¾” x 27”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 68cm x 51cm (26¾ x 20”)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: 1979; shown in Brussels at the ‘From Navez to Devos’ exhibition. Private French collection.
Presentation: Fine neoclassical gilt 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 and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

This is a fine Belle Epoque oil painting portrait of a young redheaded beauty strikingly lit from behind by the eminent American painter Harry Herman Roseland (1867-1950). ‘American Beauty’ is signed by the artist, and hangs in a superb quality, newly commissioned gold metal leaf frame.

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in excellent condition, having just been professionally cleaned and re-varnished.

Harry Roseland was one of the most prominent American subject picture painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is most famous today for his poignant and compassionate scenes depicting the working lives of poor African-Americans but his early portraits of young society beauties are much rarer and no less impressive.

Today, Roseland’s most famous admirer is perhaps Oprah Winfrey whose favorite painting from her own personal collection is Roseland’s 1904 work ‘To the Highest Bidder’.

Dimensions: (framed) 56cm x 46cm (22” x 18”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 41cm x 31cm (16¼” x 12¼”)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: Private French collection.
Presentation: Fine neoclassical gilt 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 and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

This is a large fine mid-19th century oil on canvas depicting a family bringing in ‘The Harvest’ at sunset on a summer evening by the eminent Victorian landscape painter Henry Dawson (1811-1887). The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1866. Between 1838 and 1875 Henry Dawson exhibited 28 paintings at the Royal Academy, 33 at British Institution, and 6 with the Royal Society of British Artists.

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 fully insured, tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.

Apart from a few lessons with James Baker Pyne, Henry Dawson was an entirely self-taught artist and his breath-taking English landscapes show a pure gift for detail and originality. His canvas’ became brighter and more vivid as his confident mature style developed, and his Turneresque landscapes became much in demand amongst fellow artists and private collectors. Eventually word of his talent spread and his sale prices rose with that of his wider fame.

Today his work is held in the collections of the Walker Gallery in Liverpool and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Literature: ‘The Life of Henry Dawson, Landscape Painter’ (1891) by Alfred Dawson.

Dimensions: (framed) 100cm x 71cm (39¼” x 28”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 84cm x 56cm (33” x 22”)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Provenance: Private UK collection.
Presentation: 19th century Louis XV design carved giltwood frame.
Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

This is a very large fine 19th century oil on canvas depicting a young Highland bull by the distinguished Scottish painter Joseph Denovan Adam RSA RSW (1841-1896). ‘The Highlander’ is signed by the artist and dated 1877. It is sold in a superb quality, newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf frame.

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in the very finest condition it can be for its age, having just been newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Clients should also note that fully insured, tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.

Between 1859 and 1892 Joseph Denovan exhibited 25 oils at the Royal Academy in London, as well as many more at the British Institution, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Paris Salon.

The son of the Scottish landscape painter Joseph Adam, Joseph Denovan Adam would go on to eclipse the achievements of his father becoming late Victorian Britain’s most celebrated painter of Highland cattle. Where others painters of the Highlands such as Horatio McCulloch were content to dot their landscapes with a few cattle Adam gave them pride of place.

Adam was a stickler for painting from nature, and had a large studio – part wooden hut, part glass conservatory – built on his house to serve as an all-weather observation base. He called it his “cattle atelier”, and here he established a school of animal painting where he kept many live animals for his students to draw.

Dimensions: (framed) 169cm x 126cm (66½” x 49½”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 152cm x 106cm (59¾” x 41¾”)
Medium: Oil on artists’ board.
Provenance: Private UK collection.
Presentation: Fine gold metal leaf swept 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 and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

This is a very large fine 19th century oil on canvas depicting a magnificent Highland stag by the distinguished Scottish painter Joseph Denovan Adam RSA RSW (1841-1896). ‘The Young Pretender’ is signed by the artist and dated 1877. It is sold in a superb quality, newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf frame. This is one of a pair – the other being of a Highland bull – that we are currently offering for sale.

As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in the very finest condition it can be for its age, having just been newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Clients should also note that fully insured, tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.

Between 1859 and 1892 Joseph Denovan exhibited 25 oils at the Royal Academy in London, as well as many more at the British Institution, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Paris Salon.

The son of the Scottish landscape painter Joseph Adam, Joseph Denovan Adam would go on to eclipse the achievements of his father becoming one of late Victorian Britain’s most celebrated painters of Highland cattle. Adam was a stickler for painting from nature and had a large glass studio built onto his (large) house to serve as an all-weather observation base. He called it his “cattle atelier”, and here he established a school of animal painting where his students could paint cattle and deer etc. in their natural environment.

Dimensions: (framed) 169cm x 126cm (66½” x 49½”)
Dimensions: (canvas only) 152cm x 106cm (59¾” x 41¾”)
Medium: Oil on artists’ board.
Provenance: Private UK collection.
Presentation: Fine gold metal leaf swept 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 and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

Geskel Saloman (1821-1902). The painting - which depicts a young female nude at a marble baths - is signed by the artist and was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1855. Though born in Denmark, Geskel Saloman trained with Joahn Ludwig Lund at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts where he was awarded a medal in 1846. From 1850 his reputation grew rapidly to the point where he became one of the most popular portrait and genre scene painters in Sweden. Saloman exhibited widely in Scandinavia and abroad, and from 1854 he lived and worked in Paris where he studied with Thomas Couture (1815-1879). In the following year, the painting being offered for sale here was given an honourable mention at the Salon de Paris. Between 1860 and 1863 Saloman’s preoccupation with Orientalism lead him to travel to North Africa where he lived in the city of Algiers. In the 1870s Saloman taught at the Gothenberg Academy of Arts, became a professor of the Stockholm Academy and official portrait painter to the Swedish Royal Family. Dimensions: (framed) 82cm x 132cm (32” x 52”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 57cm x 107cm (22” x 42”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private UK collection. Presentation: Ornately carved gold metal leaf Sansovino style frame. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.    

‘The Changer of Hearts’ by Philip Hermogenes Calderon R.A. (1833-1898).

 

A fine 19^th century three quarter length portrait of a Vestal Virgin of the Temple of Venus by the important Royal Academician Philip Hermogenes Calderon. The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1887, and hangs in its original gold leaf exhibition 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.

 

“The changer of hearts\” was an epithet of the Roman goddess Venus, alluding to her ability to change hearts from lust to chastity.

 

Having studied in London and Paris, Philip Calderon began exhibiting historical and literary pictures and portraiture at the Royal Academy in 1853. A friend and contemporary of William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1828-1882) and John Everett Millais (1829-1896) his style was initially Pre Raphaelite yet in subject was initially closer to the artists of The Clique such as William Powell Frith (1819-1909) and Henry Nelson O’Neil (1817-880) and later to the classical themes of the Olympians Lord Leighton (1830-1896) and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912).

 

Calderon was elected an ARA in 1864 and a full Academician three years later, aged just 34. In the same year he became the first British artist to be awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition.

 

Calderon was the leader of the St John\’s Wood Clique which included (several of the most important painters of historical subject pictures and academic portraiture of the 1860s and 70s) John Evan Hodgson RA, George Dunlop Leslie RA, Henry Stacy Marks RA, Val Prinsep RA, George Adolphus Storey RA, and Frederick Walker ARA. Perhaps above all else, Calderon was a superb painter of female beauty. In 1887 the artist received one of the Royal Academy’s highest honours when he was appointed Keeper of the RA.

 

Dimensions: (framed) 70cm x 76cm (27½” x 30”)

Dimensions: (canvas only) 47cm x 54cm (18½” x 21¼”)

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Provenance: Private UK collection.

Presentation: Original Victorian exhibition gold leaf frame.

Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

 

‘The Banishment of Cordelia’ by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1825-1904). The painting – which depicts the famous opening scene from ‘King Lear’ by William Shakespeare – is signed by the artist and presented in a fine quality gold metal leaf frame. In Shakespeare’s tragedy, the King foolishly banishes his sincere and loving daughter Cordelia and hands over his kingdom to her sisters, the scheming Goneril and Regan. All of our paintings are offered in the finest condition they can be for their age having been newly professionally cleaned, conserved, and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Robert Alexander Hillingford was a highly successful Victorian painter of historical and literary scenes who became most famous for his portrayals of the Napoleonic Wars. Between 1864 and 1902 Hillingford exhibited 29 works at the Royal Academy, and numerous others the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists in London. Further Reading: ‘The Hillingford Chronicles’, a detailed account of the life and work of the artist, is now available via the News & Articles page of the Academy Fine Paintings website. Dimensions: (framed) 62cm x 85cm (24½” x 33½”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 43cm x 67cm (17½” x 26½”) 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. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

‘Summer in a Silver Tankard’ by Cecil Kennedy (1905-1997). The painting – which depicts a large bouquet of white lilies and fuchsia in a silver chalice – is signed by the artist and presented in a newly commissioned gold metal leaf Chippendale design frame. Perhaps the most eminent British flower painter of the 20^th century, Cecil Kennedy counted the Duke of Windsor, the Astor family and Queen Mary among his patrons. Kennedy often included a ladybird, and occasionally a bee, in his floral compositions which began a tradition amongst buyers to see who could spot the insects first. When Queen Mary was heard to remark; “When I see Cecil Kennedy paintings, I can smell the flowers and hear the hum of the bees”, the artist never again painted a still life without one. The absence of a bee in the present work dates it to pre-1953. In addition to the Royal Academy in London still lifes by Cecil Kennedy were exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Hibernian Academy, and the Salon in Paris where he was awarded both a gold and silver medal. Academy Fine Paintings only offers artwork for sale in the finest condition it can be for its age. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Dimensions: (framed) 89cm x 76cm (35” x 30”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 76cm x 64cm (30” x 25”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Circa 1990; with McConnal-Mason Galleries, Duke Street, St. James’s, London. Thence in private UK collection. Presentation: Fine quality gold metal leaf Chippendale design frame. Condition: Very good. Ready to hang.  

‘The Thames near Runnymede’ by Henry Dawson R.B.A. (1811-1878). The painting – which depicts an angler fishing on the riverbank under a spectacular evening sunset – is signed by the artist and dated 1863. Although a student of James Baker Pyne (1800-1870), the majority of Henry Dawson’s art instruction came from studying the landscapes of J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Dawson’s fine draftsmanship and colouring earned him a considerable reputation among many influential British artists before he ever exhibited at the major London galleries. Between 1838 and 1875 Henry Dawson exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and the Royal Society of British Artists, to which he was elected a full member in 1875. During this period, his fame earnt him the patronage of two of the most important art collectors of Victorian Britain; James Orrock and John Burton, owners of numerous paintings by J.M.W. Turner. Following the death of the latter in 1851, John Burton told Henry Dawson that his “powers are not equalled by any living or working man." In 2000 Dawson's 1857 painting of a sunset over ‘The New Houses of Parliament, Westminster’ sold at Phillips in London for £185,000. Today, works by Dawson feature in the collections of the Walker Gallery in Liverpool and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Academy Fine Paintings only offers artwork for sale in the finest condition it can be for its age having been professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Dimensions: (framed) 70cm x 94cm (27½” x 37”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 51cm x 76cm (20” x 30”) Medium: Oil on mahogany panel. Provenance: Private UK collection. Literature: ‘The Life of Henry Dawson, Landscape Painter’ (1891) by Alfred Dawson. Presentation: Fine quality gold metal leaf frame. Condition: Very good. Professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

‘Cherry Blossom’ by Cecil Kennedy (1905-1997). The painting – which depicts pink and white blossom in a blue Salviati glass vase with peaches and grapes on a mahogany table – is signed by the artist and presented in a newly commissioned gold metal leaf Chippendale design frame. Perhaps the most eminent British flower painter of the 20^th century, Cecil Kennedy counted the Duke of Windsor, the Astor family and Queen Mary among his patrons. Kennedy often included a ladybird, and occasionally a bee, in his floral compositions which began a tradition amongst buyers to see who could spot the insects first. When Queen Mary was heard to remark; “When I see Cecil Kennedy paintings, I can smell the flowers and hear the hum of the bees”, the artist never again painted a still life without one. The absence of a bee in the present work dates it to pre-1953. As well as exhibiting at the Royal Academy in London, still lifes by Cecil Kennedy were hung at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Hibernian Academy, and the Salon in Paris where he was awarded both a gold and silver medal. 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 52cm (24” x 20½”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 48cm x 39.5cm (19” x 15½”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Circa 1950; with the Fine Art Society. Thence in private UK collection. Presentation: Fine quality gold metal leaf frame. Condition: Very good. Professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

‘The Waterfront, Venice’ by William Wyld R.I. (1806-1889). The painting – which depicts a panoramic view of the Palazzo Ducale, the campanile of St. Mark’s, the Punta della Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute in the Italian city of Venice – is signed by the artist and presented in a gold leaf frame handmade by Paul Mitchell Ltd, one of the UK’s finest period frame makers. Although born in London, William Wyld lived in France from 1827 where he became a pupil of François Louis Francia (1772–1839) alongside Richard Parkes Bonnington (1802-1828), before travelling to Italy with the great French painter of military subjects and Orientalism Horace Vernet (1789-1863), who was to become his greatest early supporter. Returning to Paris in 1831, Wyld set up a studio in the Rue Blanche and quickly achieved critical and commercial success as a painter of Venetian and Orientalist scenes characterized by superb draftsmanship and attention to detail. That same year he had the first of many paintings accepted at the Salon des Artistes Français where he would go on to exhibit almost annually over the following decades. Wyld did not begin sending paintings for exhibition in England until the French Revolution of 1848 forced his return to England. Thereafter, he showed regularly at the Royal Academy, British Institution, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Agnew’s, the Fine Art Society, and Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts. William Wyld was awarded a gold medal at the Salon in 1839 and became a Knight of the Légion d'honneur following the Paris Exposition of 1855 where his works were shown alongside those of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), John Everett Millais (1829-1896), and William Holman Hunt (1827-1910). Amongst William Wyld’s many important patrons were Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and the paintings commissioned by them from Wyld are held today in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. 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) 111cm x 163cm (43¾” x 64¼”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 96cm x 148cm (37¾” x 58¼”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private UK collection. Presentation: Fine gold leaf frame by Paul Mitchell. Condition: Very good. Professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

‘Othello recounting his adventures to Desdemona and Brabantio’ by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1828-1904). The painting – which depicts Shakespeare’s Venetian general, his lover Desdemona, and her senator father – is signed by the artist and hangs in a newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf frame. Robert Alexander Hillingford was a highly successful Victorian painter of historical and literary scenes who became most famous for his portrayals of the Napoleonic Wars and the plays of Shakespeare. Amongst his patrons Robert Hillingford counted many of the most famous art collectors of the 19^th century including Thomas Baring of the famous banking dynasty, the King of Württemberg, Prince Michel Kotchoubey, and many of the newly monied industrialists of Manchester and Halifax. Between 1864 and 1902 Hillingford exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and the Royal Society of British Artists in London. ‘The Hillingford Chronicles’, a detailed account of the life and work of the artist, can be found at the News & Articles section of the Academy Fine Paintings website. 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) 71cm x 96cm (28” x 37½”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 51cm x 76cm (20” x 30”) 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 leading period frame makers. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

‘Carnevale di Venezia’ by James Holland RWS (1799-1870). The painting – which depicts an extensive view of the Grand Canal with hundreds of masked revellers before the Ducal Palace at the entrance to St. Mark’s Square – hangs in a fine quality gold metal leaf frame. Although primarily a watercolour painter, James Holland was equally comfortable working in oils and is regarded today as one of the finest colourists of the 19^th century British School. Holland’s oils of Venice show two quite different stylistic phases; the first demonstrating his precise draftsmanship lasted until around 1845 and a second period thereafter in which his execution became much loser and his colouring even more vibrant. This has led to some confusion over the attribution of some of his work. His name has also been mistakenly attached to several paintings by the Victorian landscape painter John Holland (1830-1886) of Nottingham but their techniques, subjects, and in particular palettes are quite different. Between 1815 and 1869 James Holland exhibited 32 pictures at the Royal Academy, 91 at the British Institution, 108 at the Society of British Artists, and 194 at the Old Watercolour Society. 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) 120cm x 146cm (47¼” x 57½”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 102cm x 128cm (40¼” x 50¼”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private UK collection. Presentation: Newly commissioned fine gold metal leaf frame. All of the new frames we commission are especially made for us to order by one of the UK’s leading period frame makers. Condition: Very good. Cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

‘The Grand Tour, Venice’ by Josef Carl Püttner (1821-1881). The painting – which depicts a group of 19^th century Grand Tourists on the Riva degli Schiavoni waiting for a boat trip on the Grand Canal in Venice – is signed by the artist and dated 1879. Josef Püttner was an eminent mid-19^th century painter of naval seascapes and romantic vedute scenes. Based principally in Vienna and Italy, he was a founder member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus and exhibited regularly at the Academy of Fine Arts. In the second quarter of the 19^th century, he became the official court painter to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria. Today works by Püttner are held in the collections of the National Military History Museum in Vienna and the German Historical Museum in Berlin. 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) 94cm x 133cm (37” x 52¼”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 79cm x 118cm (31” x 46½”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private UK collection. Presentation: Fine quality gold metal leaf frame. All of the new frames we commission are especially made for us to order by one of the UK’s foremost period frame makers. Condition: Very good. Professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

'Venice from the Riva degli Schiavoni' by Keeley Halswelle RSA, RI (1831-1891). The painting is signed by the artist and presented in a bespoke gold metal leaf frame. Aged 20, (John) Keeley Halswelle was commissioned to produce a series of drawings in Scotland, and subsequently studied at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. In 1862 he made his debut at the Royal Academy in London where he continued to exhibit for next thirty years. Although the artist’s early work primarily consisted of English or Scottish scenes, his move to Italy in 1869 lead to a series of spectacular landscapes and subject pictures set in Rome and Venice. Keeley Halswelle was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1866, and a full member in 1881. The following year he became a founder member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Today, works by Keeley Halswelle can be found in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Gallery in London. 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) 50cm x 68cm (19¾” x 26¾”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 35cm x 54cm (13¾” x 21¼”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private UK collection. Presentation: Fine quality gold metal leaf frame. Condition: Very good. Professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

‘Harvesting in Surrey’ by George Cole RBA (1810-1883). The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1864 in which year it was exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists in London. 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. George Cole was one of Victorian Britain’s most successful landscape painters although most of his early work comprised animal portraits. Cole’s first important patron was the British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel. He first exhibited in London in 1838 at the Suffolk Street Gallery of the Society of British Artists and made his debut at the Royal Academy in 1849. The following year he was be elected a member of the Society of British Artists, and later its Vice-President in 1867. Cole’s son George Vicat Cole who was taught by his father went on to become a Royal Academician and one of the late 19th century’s finest landscape painters. In the latter’s biography, George Cole was remembered as “a man of great capabilities and force of character. His native genius raised him from an obscure position to an honourable place in the ranks of English artists.” Following his death in September 1883, George Cole’s obituary in The Times remembered him as “a notable example of one who, though commencing life in a dull provincial town, unassisted by a master or any regular art education yet by perseverance and hard work, fought his way to, and won, eminence.” Between 1838 and 1883 Cole exhibited 223 at the Royal Society of British Artists, 19 at the Royal Academy, and 35 at the British Institution in London. Today, paintings by George Cole can be found in the collections of Manchester City Galleries, Museums Sheffield, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Dimensions: (framed) 70cm x 95cm (27½” x 37½”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 50½cm x 77cm (20” x 30”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: 1864; exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists. 1896; sold at Robinson & Fisher Auctioneers, London, seller Edward Priestman (Bradford mill owner) buyer Herbert A.K. Gribble (architect of Brompton Oratory) for £372 (£40,000 equiv. 2023). Thence in 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. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned, restored,

‘Cardinal Richelieu at the Château de Rueil’ by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1828-1904). The painting – which depicts a scene from Act 3 of Edward Bulwer‐Lytton’s play ‘Richelieu; or, The Conspiracy’ – is signed by the artist and presented in a fine quality gold metal leaf frame. In Bulwer-Lytton’s play about the life of the famous 17^th century French cardinal and statesman, Richelieu attempts to thwart King Louis XIII’s amorous designs on his ward Julie de Mortemar by marrying her off to the young Chevalier de Mauprat. The play is remembered today for Richelieu’s famous line, “The pen is mightier than the sword”. All of our paintings are offered in the finest condition they can be for their age having been newly professionally cleaned, conserved, and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Robert Alexander Hillingford was a highly successful Victorian painter of historical and literary scenes who became most famous for his portrayals of the Napoleonic Wars. Between 1864 and 1902 Hillingford exhibited 29 works at the Royal Academy, and numerous others the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists in London. ‘The Hillingford Chronicles’, a detailed account of the life and work of the artist, is now available via the News & Articles page of the Academy Fine Paintings website. Dimensions: (framed) 69cm x 85cm (27” x 33½”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 51cm x 66cm (20” x 26”) 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. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

‘Thirlmere and Helvellyn from Raven Crag’ by George Cole RBA (1810-1883). The painting – which depicts Thirlmere lake in Cumbria prior its damming, with the mountain of Helvellyn in the distance - is signed by the artist and dated 1878, in which year it was exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists. All of our paintings are offered 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. George Cole was one of Victorian Britain’s most successful landscape painters, although most of his early work comprised animal portraits. Cole’s first important patron was the British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel who commissioned the young artist to paint his dog, Cato. He first exhibited in London in 1838, at the Suffolk Street Gallery of the Society of British Artists, and shortly afterwards began studying with the eminent Scottish landscape painter, John Wilson (1774-1855). This association culminated in Cole making his debut at the Royal Academy in 1849 with a landscape entitled ‘The Gravel Pit’. The following year he was be elected a member of the Society of British Artists in 1850, and later its Vice-President in 1867. Cole’s son George Vicat Cole who was taught by his father went on to become a Royal Academician and one of the late 19th century’s finest landscape painters. In the latter’s biography, George Cole was remembered as “a man of great capabilities and force of character. His native genius raised him from an obscure position to an honourable place in the ranks of English artists. A gentleman always, he had singularly attractive and winning manners. Geniality, kindness of heart, and unaffected modesty were united in him with keen humour and bright intelligence. In early days, as a painter of horses and other animals, he was a frequent guest in many a country house, where his presence was always acceptable.” Following his death in September 1883, George Cole’s obituary in The Times remembered him as “a notable example of one who, though commencing life in a dull provincial town, unassisted by a master or any regular art education yet by perseverance and hard work, fought his way to, and won, eminence.” Between 1838 and 1883 Cole exhibited 223 at the Royal Society of British Artists, 19 at the Royal Academy, and 35 at the British Institution in London. Today, paintings by George Cole can be found in the collections of Manchester City Galleries, Museums Sheffield, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Dimensions: (framed) 81cm x 112cm (32 x 44”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 61cm x 91cm (24” x 36”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: 1878; exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists (catalogue no.53) where sold for £350 (£33,000). Circa 1980; with Lyver and Boydell Galleries, Liverpool. Thence in 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. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

‘Flora’ by Ralph Peacock (1868-1946). The painting – which depicts the Roman Goddess of Youth and Springtime – is signed by the artist and features one of his favourite models, the English society beauty, Edith Brignall. It is one of three portraits of her painted by Peacock in the summer of 1897, the two others being in the collection of Tate Britain. The goddess Flora was a popular figure with the Pre-Raphaelite movement and also featured in paintings by both John William Waterhouse and Evelyn de Morgan. All of our paintings are offered 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. Ralph Peacock entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1887 where he won a gold medal for figure painting, and (perhaps more surprisingly) the Creswick Prize for landscape painting. Whilst still at the Academy, Peacock was widely considered to be the most gifted English painter of his generation and the heir to the mantle of Leighton, Dicksee, and William Holman Hunt whose portrait he would go on to paint in 1902. An immensely popular figural painter, Peacock was much in demand in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain and painted many superb society portraits of young English society beauties. Of all his many illustrious patrons and sitters probably the most famous was US President Herbert Hoover, the two becoming life-long friends. Peacock also achieved great success internationally, winning a gold medal in Vienna in 1898 and another in Paris at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. Between 1888 and 1934 Ralph Peacock exhibited 94 paintings at the Royal Academy and numerous others at the Royal Society of British Artists, and the Grosvenor Gallery. Today, paintings by Peacock are to be found in the collections of Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Dimensions: (framed) 79cm x 69½cm (31” x 27½”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 61cm x 50½cm (24” x 20”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private collection of Colonel Sir James Reynolds, 1^st Baronet, Dove Park, Woolton, Liverpool. Trinity House Maas Gallery, Duke Street, St James's, London. 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: Very good. Professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

‘The Siege of Oxford’ by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1825-1904). The painting – which depicts an envoy of Sir Thomas Fairfax delivering terms of surrender to the Royalist capital city’s commanders – is signed by the artist and presented in a fine quality gold metal leaf frame. The loss of Oxford was the final blow for King Charles I and the Royalist cause and signalled the end of the English Civil War. In May of 1646 the Parliamentary forces of Sir Thomas Fairfax repeatedly attempted to secure the surrender of the Royalist garrison at Oxford. In his diaries, Sir William Dugdale noted that on the evening of May 30^th, 1646; "Sir Thomas Fairfax sent in a Trumpet(er) to Oxford with articles concerning the delivery thereof." The scene depicts the moment the young trumpeter has his blindfold removed so that he can deliver Fairfax’s terms to the Royalist commanders. Seated at the table, left to right are; Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Sir Thomas Glemham (Governor of Oxford), and Prince Maurice of the Palatinate.

• We would like to thank Colonel Nicholas Lipscombe FRHistS, Dr David J. Appleby FRHistS, Lecturer in Early Modern British History, Nottingham Trent University, Simon Marsh, Battlefield Research and Threats Coordinator at the Battlefields Trust, and Professor Martyn Bennett, B.A. (Hons), PhD. F.R.Hist.S. for their assistance in the identification of the subject of this painting.

All of our paintings are offered in the finest condition they can be for their age having been newly professionally cleaned, conserved, and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Robert Alexander Hillingford was a highly successful Victorian painter of historical and literary scenes who became most famous for his portrayals of the Napoleonic Wars. Between 1864 and 1902 Hillingford exhibited 29 works at the Royal Academy, and numerous others the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists in London. Further Reading: ‘The Hillingford Chronicles’, a detailed account of the life and work of the artist, is now available via the News & Articles page of the Academy Fine Paintings website. Dimensions: (framed) 72cm x 99cm (28¼” x 39”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 51cm x 76cm (20” x 30”) 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. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

‘The Fallen Knight’ by Briton Rivière R.A. (1840-1920). This mid-19th century Pre-Raphaelite oil painting is signed by the artist and dated 1863. The starting point for Rivière’s painting is an 18th century Scottish ballad about two crows who find a mortally wounded knight abandoned by his comrades, his hawk, his hound and even his lover. The "twa corbies" hungrily discuss feasting on his corpse. However, unlike every other depiction of this story, here the crows are reduced to shadowy supporting characters in the background whilst the dying knight is very deliberately placed front and centre as the focus of the composition. But not the sole focus. The entire mood and message of what would otherwise be a morbid tale is turned on its head by the inclusion of the little hare in the foreground. He (or she) is the one creature that has chosen to – literally – stand by the dying soldier. In Anglo-Saxon mythology the hare is a symbol of rebirth. Crucially, unlike the ballad on which it is based, the painting doesn’t dwell on the crows and death and those who profit from it, but instead on the knight and the hare and the promise of resurrection. Rivière’s painting recalls another Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece, ‘The Stonebreaker’ by Henry Wallis which depicts a manual labourer who has been worked to death. On the face of it, the theme of both paintings is the tragic hero exploited, victimized and abandoned, but in ‘The Fallen Knight’ Briton Rivière has chosen to add a note of optimism with the addition of this steadfast little hare. The artist revisited a similar theme twenty-five years later with his Royal Academy painting of 1888. In ‘Requiescat’, a dead knight in full armour lies in state and sitting beside the tomb, mourning his master, is a devoted hound. All of our paintings are offered 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. Briton Rivière trained under his father, the artist William Rivière (1806-1876), master of the drawing school at Cheltenham College and Oxford University. At the age of eleven, two of his pictures were exhibited at the British Institution, and at seventeen he made his Royal Academy debut. Whilst still in his teens Rivière came under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites and in particular John Everett Millais (1829-1896) who was so impressed with ‘Charity’, Riviere’s Royal Academy painting of 1870, that he sought out the young artist to convey his compliments. Briton Rivière’s great success came as a painter of animals, and in particular dogs and lions. By 1873, following the death of Sir Edwin Landseer, he was considered Britain’s greatest painter of animals. Rivière was elected Associate of the Royal Academy in 1878 and became a full Academician two years later. After the death of Millais in 1896, he was narrowly defeated by Sir Edward John Poynter in the vote for President of the Royal Academy. Today, paintings by Briton Rivière are held in the collections of Tate Britain, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Chrysler Museum of Art. Dimensions: (framed) 46¼cm x 61½cm (18¼” x 24¼”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 59cm x 75cm (23¼” x 29½”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Circa 1860; with Robert Cumming, Edinburgh. Circa 1980; with Cider House Galleries, Surrey. Thence in private UK collection. Presentation: Newly commissioned gold metal leaf Pre-Raphaelite 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: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

‘Loch Lomond’ by Alfred de Breanski ARCA (1852 – 1928). This large fine 19^th century oil painting of the Scottish Highlands is signed by the artist and hangs in a superb quality newly commissioned gold metal leaf 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.

 

One of the most popular and successful landscape painters of the late 19th century, Alfred de Bréanski Snr became famous for his dramatic scenes of the Scottish Highlands. Between 1869 and 1919 he exhibited at all of the major British venues including 44 paintings at the Royal Academy, 80 with the Royal Society of British Artists at the Suffolk Street Gallery, 12 at the Royal Institution and the Grosvenor Gallery in London as well as many more at the Royal Cambrian Academy, Royal Hibernian Academy and the Walker Gallery in Liverpool.

 

Dimensions: (framed) 81cm x 128m (32” x 50¼”)

Dimensions: (canvas only) 61cm x 108cm (24” x 42½”)

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Provenance: With Mandell’s Gallery, circa 1960. Thence in 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.

Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

 

‘Charles I on the Phoenix Tower’ by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1825-1904). The painting – which depicts the King on the fortified city walls of Chester having just witnessed the rout of his army at the Battle of Rowton Heath – is signed by the artist and presented in a fine quality gold metal leaf frame. Rowton Heath saw the comprehensive defeat of the last significant Royalist force in England and Charles I is said to have watched the battle with dignified stoicism from the Phoenix Tower alongside the Mayor of Chester Sir Francis Gamul. Today, the inscription upon the tower states: ‘King Charles stood on this tower, September 24^th, 1645, and saw his army defeated on Rowton Moor.’ All of our paintings are offered in the finest condition they can be for their age having been newly professionally cleaned, conserved, and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Robert Alexander Hillingford was a highly successful Victorian painter of historical and literary scenes who became most famous for his portrayals of the Napoleonic Wars. Between 1864 and 1902 Hillingford exhibited 29 works at the Royal Academy, and numerous others the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists in London. Dimensions: (framed) 72cm x 97cm (28” x 38”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 51cm x 76cm (20” x 30”) 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. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

‘An Awful Deed’ by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1825-1904). The painting – which depicts Oliver Cromwell contemplating Anthony van Dyck’s portrait of King Charles I – is signed by the artist and dated 1885. The subject is taken from a scene in Sir Walter Scott’s 1826 novel ‘Woodstock’ in which Oliver Cromwell surveys Anthony van Dyck’s famous portrait of the King whom Cromwell had sent to his death during the English Civil War. In the presence his daughter (and a terrified Royalist), Cromwell looks upon the painting and remarks that though the killing of the king had been “A stern necessity” it was nevertheless “an awful deed”. Every painting we sell is offered in the very finest condition it can be for its age having just been professionally cleaned, conserved, and re-varnished. Clients should also note that fully insured, tracked, and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Robert Alexander Hillingford was a highly successful Victorian painter of historical and literary scenes who became most famous for his portrayals of the Napoleonic Wars. Between 1864 and 1902 Hillingford exhibited 29 works at the Royal Academy, and numerous others the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists in London. Dimensions: (framed) 94cm x 132cm (37” x 52”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 76cm x 116cm (30” x 45½”) 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. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

‘Evening Glow’ by Benjamin Williams Leader R.A. (1831-1923). The painting – which depicts a dramatic sunset over an extensive Worcestershire country landscape - is signed by the artist and dated 1893. It is presented in a fine quality gold metal leaf frame. 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. Benjamin Williams Leader entered the Royal Academy Schools from 1856 and exhibited his first painting at the summer exhibition the following year. Leader would go on to become one of the most celebrated landscape artists of the Victorian age and at the height of his fame his paintings commanded the highest prices of any British artist. He exhibited at the Royal Academy every year from 1857 to 1922, an unbroken 65 continuous years, which still stands as a record today. Benjamin Williams Leader was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1883, and an Academician in 1898. He also exhibited abroad, winning a gold medal at the Paris Salon and awarded the Legion of Honour in 1889. Examples of Leader’s work can be seen in Birmingham and Manchester Art Galleries, and the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Gallery in London. Dimensions: (framed) 72cm x 97cm (28¼” x 38”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 51cm x 76cm (20” x 30”) 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. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

‘Elizabeth and Dudley, Doubt’ by John Robert Dicksee (1817-1905). The painting – which depicts Queen Elizabeth I deep in thought whilst gazing at her favourite, the Earl of Dudley – is signed by the artist with monogram. In 1870 the painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. John Robert Dicksee was the first of an eminent family of British painters of highly detailed and luxurious subject pictures. Dicksee was a master at telling a story – invariably historical – in his paintings and excelled at portraying figures and fabrics. The uncle of the future President of the Royal Academy, Sir Frank Dicksee (1853-1928), John Robert Dicksee exhibited 45 paintings at the Royal Academy, 13 with the Royal Society of British Artists, and a further 6 at the British Institution. Dimensions: (framed) 90cm x 112cm (35¼” x 44”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 71cm x 92cm (28” x 36”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: 1870; Royal Academy Exhibition, London. Thence in 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.  

‘Picking Flowers for a Posy’ by Charles Haigh-Wood (1856-1927). The painting – which depicts two young ladies in an English garden in summertime – is signed by the artist and presented in a fine quality, bespoke gold metal leaf frame. All of 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. Charles Haigh-Wood studied at Manchester College of Art and later entered the Royal Academy Schools in London. In 1877 he had his first painting shown at the Royal Academy Exhibition and quickly built a reputation as fine subject painter, typically young society beauties in bucolic landscapes and drawing room scenes. Between 1874 and 1916 he exhibited 42 paintings at the Royal Academy and various others with the Royal Society of British Artists. Today, his work can be found in the collection of Manchester City Art Gallery and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Dimensions: (framed) 63cm x 130cm (24¾” x 51”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 40cm x 107cm (15¾” x 42”) 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.    

‘Napoleon after Waterloo’ by Ernest Crofts RA (1847–1911). The painting – which depicts the emperor in the aftermath of the battle and soldiers attempting to control his horse Marengo – is signed by the artist and dated 1896. 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. Ernest Crofts was one of the leading military-historical painters of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. He favoured historical subjects of the Napoleonic era and English Civil War. Crofts had an outstanding knowledge of military costumes and built a large collection of original uniforms and militaria enabling him to depict these in minute and authentic detail. Crofts was also known to have sketched on various battlefields during the Prussian war with France and was present at the battle of Gravelotte. Between 1867 and his death in 1911, Ernest Crofts exhibited 47 paintings at the Royal Academy in London, as well as at the Royal Society of British Artists. Crofts was made an Associate of the RA in 1878 and a full Royal Academician in 1896. Dimensions: (framed) 40cm x 51cm (15¾” x 20”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 26cm x 37cm (10¼” x 14½”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Circa 1900; with H & P de Casseres, 47 Duke St, St James's Square, London. Thence in 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. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

‘The Wounded Cuirassier’ by Gustave Wappers (1803-1874). The painting – which depicts a fallen cavalryman at the end of battle – is signed by the artist and presented in a bespoke gold metal leaf frame. 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. Gustave Wappers studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and later in Paris where he was greatly influenced by the literature and art of the French Romantic Movement. Upon returning to Belgium, he found great success exhibiting at the Brussels Salons becoming one of the most celebrated painters of his generation. As the founder and foremost painter of Belgian Romanticism he had a profound effect on Flemish art in the 19^th century, and in 1834 was appointed official painter to King Leopold. From 1839 he served as director of the Antwerp Academy where his many pupils included Ford Madox Brown, Jozef Van Lerius, and Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Dimensions: (framed) 75cm x 84cm (29½” x 33”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 58cm x 67cm (22¾” x 26¼”) 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. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

‘Wellington before Waterloo’ by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1828-1904). The painting – which depicts the Duke of Wellington astride his charger Copenhagen talking to an innkeeper whilst Life Guards water their horses – is signed by the artist and presented in a fine 19^th century gold metal leaf frame. As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in the very finest condition it can be for its age, having just been professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Clients should also note that fully insured, tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Robert Alexander Hillingford was a highly successful Victorian painter of historical and literary scenes who became most famous for his portrayals of the Napoleonic Wars. Between 1864 and 1902 Hillingford exhibited 29 works at the Royal Academy, and numerous others the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists in London. Dimensions: (framed) 79cm x 105cm (31” x 41”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 51cm x 76cm (20” x 30”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private UK collection. Presentation: Fine quality gilt metal leaf frame. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.      

'The Muse Terpsichore' by Franz von Lenbach (1836-1904). The painting – which depicts the Ancient Greek goddess of music, song, and dance playing a harp before Mount Olympus – is signed by the artist and dated 1898. This large painting by one of the finest European portrait painters during the second half of the 19^th century hangs in its original hand-carved gold metal leaf frame. 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. Franz von Lenbach studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under the eminent German Realist painter Karl Theodor von Piloty (1826-1886). Lenbach was a star pupil and accompanied Piloty on a working trip to Rome during which time his reputation continued to grow. In 1867 he won a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle and his international reputation was made in 1869 when – although in competition with many of the most prominent French artists of the day – he was awarded the gold medal at the Glaspalast in Munich. From 1870 he exhibited at the most important international venues in London, Vienna, and Paris where he won a prestigious Grand Prix medal. In 1882, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown, and later became a Knight in the Legion of Honour. Among Franz von Lenbach’s most famous paintings are portraits of William Gladstone, Richard Wagner, Pope Leo XIII, Johann Strauss, Emperor Franz Josef, King Ludwig I of Bavaria, Emperor Wilhelm II, and Count Otto von Bismarck. Dimensions: (framed) 143cm x 168cm (56¼” x 66¼”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 100cm x 125cm (39¼” x 49¼”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private European collection. Presentation: Late 19^th century carved and scrolled gold metal leaf frame. Condition: Excellent. Professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

Luis Jiménez Aranda (1845-1928). The painting - which depicts  large fine oil painting is signed by the artist, inscribed and dated 1880. The smaller study for the masterwork offered here sold at Sotheby’s, London in 1999 for £77,000. ‘Le Concours de Violon’ hangs in its original water gilded exhibition frame. All of the paintings we sell are 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. Luis Aranda initially studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Seville before moving to Rome in 1868 to study with the Spain’s foremost artist of the period Marià Fortuny (1838-1874). Here Aranda began painting historical costume scenes similar to those that would be developed in Florence by Vittorio Reggianini (1858-1938) and Frederic Soulacroix (1858-1933). In 1874 Aranda moved to Paris in 1876 and began his long association with France’s most important art dealer Adolphe Goupil. His successes at the annual Paris Salon were augmented by awards at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid and the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and in 1877 he became a French citizen. After becoming friends with the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, Aranda’s style changed quite dramatically, and he achieved further acclaim as a sensitive painter of social realism. Further reading: 'Spanish Modernism in 19th century France; the Art of Luis Jimenez Aranda’ by Katie Medina Dillow, 2008. Dimensions: (framed) 91cm x 141cm (35¾” x 55½”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 71cm x 121cm (28” x 47½”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private Swiss collection. Presentation: Original water gilded exhibition frame. Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

'La Liseuse’ is a 19^th century pastel portrait attributed to the French Impressionist painter Eva Gonzalès (1847-1885). It is presented in fine, period water gilded frame. The portrait comes directly from the deceased estate of a French art dealer and has long been thought to be a work by Gonzalés. It was purchased by him in Rome in the 1980s from a collector who, in lieu of payment, requested that a donation be made to the Pasteur Institute of Paris. Academy Fine Paintings only offers artwork for sale in the finest condition it can be for its age. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Dimensions: (framed) 80cm x 92cm (31½” x 36¼”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 61cm x 79cm (24” x 31”) Medium: Pastel on paper, laid to canvas. Newly re-glazed behind Museum glass. Provenance: Circa 1980; private Italian collection. Thence in private French collection. Presentation: 19^th century water gilded frame. Condition: Very good. Ready to hang.  

'A Montenegrin Girl' by Nathaniel Sichel (1843-1907). The painting - which depicts a young Balkan beauty in traditional dress - is signed by the artist and presented in its original carved and gilded Orientalist frame.

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Nathaniel Sichel initially studied under Julius Schrader (1815-1900) in the academic tradition at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin before enrolling at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Sichel’s success in the 1864 Prix de Rome with a painting entitled ‘Joseph explains the Dreams of the Pharaoh’ made his reputation as a painter of Orientalist subjects. During the 1860s and 70s Nathaniel Sichel became one of the most popular portrait painters in Germany and a leading artist of the Orientalist School, making a speciality of well-drawn and elegantly painted figures. Dimensions: (framed) 74cm x 92cm (29” x 36¼”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 55cm x 73cm (21½” x 28¾”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private UK collection. Presentation: Fine quality carved and gilded Orientalist frame. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

Alfred de Breanski ARCA (1852 – 1928). The painting - which depicts cattle watering in the Highland of Scotland - is signed by the artist and hangs in a fine quality, newly commissioned gold metal leaf 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. One of the most popular and successful landscape painters of the late 19th century, Alfred de Bréanski Snr became famous for his dramatic scenes of the Scottish Highlands, Snowdonia and the River Thames. Between 1869 and 1919 he exhibited at all of the major British venues including 44 paintings at the Royal Academy, 80 with the Royal Society of British Artists at the Suffolk Street Gallery, 12 at the Royal Institution and the Grosvenor Gallery in London as well as many more at the Royal Cambrian Academy, Royal Hibernian Academy and the Walker Gallery in Liverpool. Dimensions: (framed) 70cm x 94cm (27½” x 37”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 51cm x 76cm (20” x 30”) 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. Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

‘The Taming of the Screw’ by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1825-1904). Hillingford became famous for his paintings of British military campaigns such as Waterloo, Sebastopol, and the Peninsular War, as well as his wonderfully detailed Shakespearean scenes. This outstanding work features the entrance of Petruchio and Kate in Act 4, Scene 1 of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, and bears an old handwritten transcription from the scene, verso. Robert Alexander Hillingford was a highly successful Victorian painter of historical and literary scenes who became most famous for his portrayals of the Napoleonic Wars. Between 1864 and 1902 Hillingford exhibited 29 works at the Royal Academy, and numerous others the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists in London. Further Reading: ‘The Hillingford Chronicles’, a detailed account of the life and work of the artist, is now available via the News & Articles page of the Academy Fine Paintings website.