Saturday, July 18, 2009

(Rev) Thomas James Judkin


[Children playing by a Watermill]
signed T J Judkin/182 l.c.
oil on canvas
50 x 40"
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1788 - 1871

John Berney Crome


[The Broads by Moonlight, St Benet's Abbey and Norwich beyond]
oil on canvas
31 x 44"
.
1794 - 1842.

Philip Tennyson Cole


[Portrait of the sixth Marquess of Donegal (1903 - 1975) with his Mother (d. 1952)]
signed : Tennyson Cole/1907 u.l.
oil on canvas
61 x 47"
the Marquess is here aged 4 with his Mother, Violet.
.
fl. 1880 - 1930.

George Vincent



[Aylesford Church, Kent]
oil on canvas
14 x 20"
[Cattle Grazing in a wooded landscape]
oil on panel
11 x 17"
.
1796 - 1831.

Friday, July 17, 2009

William Powell Frith - Annie Gambart


oil on canvas
54 x 43cm
1851/2
Commissioned by Ernest Gambart for his wedding
A portrait of Annie Gambart (1835-1870), who was the third wife of Ernest Gambart, the great Victorian art dealer and publisher. She married him in 1851 at just sixteen, half the dealer's age. Gambart seems to have indulged her every whim at first with beautiful clothes and jewellery. However in 1867 the couple separated and Annie went on to die of liver disease at the early age of 35.

William Powell Frith - Measuring Heights


1863

Victorian period - Irish School

[Portrait of a Lady, in profile]
signed O'BRIEN
oil on canvas
18 x 15"