Thomas Worsey

[Still Life of Primroses, Apple Blossom and a Birds Nest]

1857

oil on panel

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1829 - 1875.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/18126/thomas-worsey.html

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added 21 Feb 09 courtesy of Dianne Brown

Thom W, RBSA, 1829-1875
The Ws all came from S Staffordshire, but his branch had moved to B'ham. The Ws are best known for being canal boat builders in Tipton.
Thomas began work in his uncle's japanning and papier mache business but as he had obvious talent he was apprenticed elsewhere to become an ornamenter of papier mache wares. He remained at this till about 21, when he decided to branch out as an artist. He painted 10 pictures and sent them off, 9 were sold and this decided him to become an artist.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy and was a member of the Royal B'ham Society of Artists..He also lived in Scotland for a time. He was never in very good health and died perhaps before he became truly well known
I have 3 of his pictures, and there was one once on the Antiques Road Show.

Annie Feray Mutrie

[Margaret's Corner]

1867

oil on canvas

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1826 - 1893.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/12328/annie-feray-mutrie.html

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp82134

George Clare - Still Life with Primroses and Bird's Nest

oil on canvas

Benjamin Williams Leader - A Sunny Afternoon, North Wales

1867

oil on canvas (retouched)

Purchased from the artist by Mr Wallis (French Gallery) for £25 in June 1867

Alfred de Breanski - Loch Lomond at Sunset

oil on canvas

Edward Armitage - Herod's Birthday Feast

1868

oil on canvas

Guildhall

Showing Salome dancing

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1817 - 1896.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Armitage

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=11&page=1

http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/artist/7752/Edward_Armitage

George Turner - Hamlet of Ingleby, Derbyshire

1887

oil on canvas

William Linnell - Over the Heath

1873

oil on canvas

exhibited at the RA the same year

William Stephen Coleman - Teasing the Kitten

oil on panel
http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/artist/2623/William_Stephen_Coleman
http://www.artnet.com/artist/4267/william-stephen-coleman.html
http://www.antiqbook.co.uk/boox/fran/013829.shtml

George H. Bernasconi - Meeting of the City of Birmingham Pharmaceuticals, 1888

[Meeting of the City of Birmingham Pharmaceuticals, 1888] 1888

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fl. 1861 - 1886.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/722509/george-h-bernasconi.html

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 4,025 GBP (1998)


meeting of the city of birmingham pharmaceuticals, 1888
signed and dated l.r.: Geo. H. Bernasconi/1888
oil on canvas, unframed
120.5 by 151 cm., 27 1/2 by 59 1/2 in.

The present work shows Sir Thomas Barclay and members of Southalls and William Spencer & Sons and includes may exact portraits of the firm's directors and their families. Sir Thomas Barclay, Kt JP, leans against the depiction of 'Ye Apothecary's Laboratorie - Southalls' in the centre. He was the prime mover for piping fresh water from the Welsh mountains to Birmingham and thereby virtually eradicating cholera and typhoid from that city where epidemics had raged in the 19th century. He was also a Liberal councillor for Birmingham. The Lord Mayor of Birmingham and many city fathers stand on the balcony in the background.

George H. Bernasconi was a member of a Birmingham family of artists and exhibited in both London and Birmingham.

James Collinson - The Bazaar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Collinson

http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=james-collinson

http://artyzm.com/e_artysta.php?id=244

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 11,500 GBP
the bazaar
signed l.r.: James Collinson
oil on canvas, painted oval
29 by 24.5 cm., 11 1/2 by 9 1/2 in.

This is one of a number of related paintings by Collinson which have oval formats and show the half-length figure of the girl occupying the centre of the composition. It is possible that the first in the series was the painting For Sale (Castle Museum, Nottingham), which Collinson showed at the 1857 Royal Academy and which was included in the exhibition Great Victorian Pictures (Arts Council, 1978, no.5). Another version, entitled At the Bazaar and also dated 1857, is in the Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield. A third version, entitled The Empty Purse, is in the collection of the Tate Gallery. A companion to the present subject, showing a somewhat older woman placing an advertisement in a window and entitled To let, also exists in various versions

George Goodwin Kilburne - Absence

oil on canvas

http://www.artnet.com/artist/9461/george-goodwin-kilburne.html

http://www.haynesfineart.com/artists/george-goodwin-kilburne.htm

John Anthony Puller - A Street Fight

oil on canvas

http://www.rewart.com/johnanthony.htm

Sidney Richard Percy - Blea Tarn, Westmoreland

oil on canvas

Benjamin Williams Leader

[Sunset] 1861

oil on canvas

[Peaceful Evening] 1889

oil on canvas

probably painted in Worcestershire (his native county). A smaller version of this is also known.

[Summertime, Ullswater] 1867

oil on canvas

peaceful evening, hesperus
signed and dated l.l.: B W LEADER 1889; signed and inscribed with title on the stretcher
oil on canvas
112 by 183 cm., 44 by 72 in.

This fine view of a parish church and inn, with a sky lit by the setting sun, almost certainly shows the landscape of Worcestershire, Benjamin Williams Leader's native county and his most favoured painting locality. He had been born, brought up, and educated in Worcester. In 1862, he had settled at Whittington, a village on the south-eastern fringe of the town. The breadth and balance of composition of Leader's later paintings place him within a long landscape tradition and his works are often praised for their distinct and recognisably English character. Lewis Lusk, for example, wrote of Leader's 'careful retention of the picturesque, his style of arranging his masses, his selection of cloud effects, his peculiarly poetic strain of the Lyric order, which so often makes his canvas an illustration of some choice verse of an English poet - there is sufficient likelihood that these qualities of his work will always ensure respect and study from many a maturing mind. These are all inherent in the national character.'

Leader became famous on the strength of one particular painting - February Fill-Dyke (Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery), which he showed to acclaim at the Royal Academy in 1881. This was followed by a series of works treated with attention to poignant and fugitive effects of light and atmosphere. In the Evening there shall be Light, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1882, led to Leader's being elected as an associate academician. The same painting won a gold medal for the artist when shown at the Paris Salon in 1889. Our own painting, Peaceful Evening, which dates from 1889, may be compared specifically to a work entitled Parting Day, which was shown at the Royal Academy in 1883 and which contains within its composition a view of the same church seen in Peaceful Evening although viewed across the breadth of a river instead of the lane and flooded field seen in the present work.

In his diaries Leader records working on the present picture during January and February 1889. At the time he referred to the picture as Evening Roadside Inn or Evening Roadside Public House. In that same year he sold the picture to Agnews and at that time referred to it as A Roadside Inn. At the time of the sale he may have inscribed the more poetic title of Peaceful Evening, Hesperus onto the stretcher.
A smaller version of the picture is in the collection of Ballarat Art Gallery, Ballarat, Melbourne, Australia.

Purchased from the artist in 1889 by Thomas Agnew & Sons (£600);
purchased later that year by J. Reinbach, Esq. (£800);

Ruth Wood, Benjamin Williams Leader, Antique Collector's Club, 1998.

We are gratful to Ruth Wood for her kind assistance in cataloging this lot which is to be included in her forthcoming catalogue raisonne of the artist.

George Goodwin Kilburne - Caught

Watercolour over pencil

Charles Napier Hemy - On the Llugwy, June

summer 1862

oil on canvas

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Napier_Hemy

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/paint/hemy.htm

George Cole - Cattle Watering

1879

oil on canvas

James Prinsep Barnes Beadle

[Life Guards and the Kings Troop in Hyde Park]

oil on canvas

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1863 - 1947.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/565173/james-prinsep-barnes-beadle.html

Richard Caton Woodville

[Ratisbon - Incident of the French Camp] 1907

oil on canvas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ratisbon

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1856 - 1927.

http://www.military-prints.com/caton_woodville.htm

Charles Sillem Lidderdale - The Pet Kitten

1885

oil on canvas

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http://www.lidderdale.com/gen058.html

Albert Thomas Jarvis Gilbert - Leisure Hours

oil on canvas

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d. 1927

http://www.artnet.com/artist/722505/albert-thomas-jarvis-gilbert-gilbert.html

George Washington Brownlow - Training up a Child

[Training up a Child]

signed l.r.: GWBrownlow; signed and inscribed with title and the artist's address on a label on the stretcher
oil on canvas
63.5 by 89 cm., 25 by 35 in.
Exhibited:London, Royal Society of British Artists, 1869

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1835 - 1876.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/558367/george-washington-brownlow.html

http://www.tara.tcd.ie/items-by-author?author=Brownlow%2C+George+Washington+(British+painter%2C+1835-1876)

http://en.scientificcommons.org/george_washington_brownlow

George Elgar Hicks - two paintings

oil on canvas

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 29,900 GBP
signed and dated l.r.: GE Hicks04
oil on canvas
76 by 51 cm., 30 by 20 in.



[Little Dreamer] 1883
signed and dated l.l.: G E Hicks/1883
oil on canvas
47 by 39.5 cm., 18 1/2 by 15 1/2 in.

George Smith - Paying the Legacies

signed and dated l.r.: George Smith 1872
oil on canvas
51 by 79 cm., 20 by 31 in.

Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1872, no.405.

George Bernard O'Neill - The First Lesson

1877

oil on canvas

Edward John Poynter photograph

Benjamin Williams Leader - A Welsh Valley

1882

oil on canvas

Henry William Banks Davis - Gathering the Flock

Loch Maree

1883

oil on canvas

Alfred Augustus Glendening - The Surrey Downs

oil on canvas

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http://store.encore-editions.com/VART/ABA03.html

George Smith - The Visitor

http://goldenagepaintings.blogspot.com/2008/08/george-smith-visitor.html

Sotherbys 1998

http://www.laws.sandwell.gov.uk/ccm/content/education-and-childrens-services/museums-folder/oil-paintings/artists/smith-george.en;jsessionid=bCpFlP_l-1R-

Edwin Long - The Chestnut Seller

1871
oil on canvas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Long

Frank Turner

[Winter]

one of a pair - the other is Autumn

1876

oil on board

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fl. 1866 - 1874.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/686373/frank-turner.html

George Smith - Fishing by a Weir

1857

oil on panel

Marianne North at her easel

in South Africa, 1882

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_North

http://www.kew.org/ksheets/mnorth.html

Victoria and Albert

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

carte-de-visite

albumen print taken at Buckingham Palace 1860 by J P Mayall

Important British Pictures and Watercolors London,December, 2008 Sotherby's review

http://www.sothebys.com/liveauctions/amr/la_prevmarket_bp_1208.html

William Powell Frith - The Village Pastor

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 11,500 GBP (1998)
signed and inscribed l.l.: W P Frith ft
oil on canvas
58 by 82 cm., 22 3/4 by 32 1/4 in.

The Village Pastor was sent to the 1844 Royal Academy where, according to Frith, 'it was amongst the fortunate ''liners'''. Shortly afterwards, in the summer of 1844 and on the strength of the present painting, Frith was elected an associate of the Royal Academy.

London, Royal Academy, 1845, no.498

Literature:
W.P. Frith, My Autobiography and Remiscences, two volumes, London, 1888, I, pp.113-5;
Aubrey Noakes, William Frith - Extraordinary Victorian Painter, London, 1978, illd. p.12

Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch at her easel

Postcard c. 1900

1869 - 1958.

Horse and animal painter and a popular teacher of painting.

[Watering the horses]
oil on canvas
http://www.artnet.com/artist/553100/lucy-elizabeth-kemp-welch.html

Briton Riviere at his easel

http://goldenagepaintings.blogspot.com/2008/09/briton-riviere-endymion.html

http://goldenagepaintings.blogspot.com/2008/03/briton-riviere.html

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1884 photogravure reproduced in Artists at Home.

He lived near London Zoo and often hd live animals in his studio to paint.

Arthur Stocks

[How the Lines were placed at Waterloo] 1872

oil on canvas

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1846 - 1889.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/666410/arthur-stocks.html

Genre and portrait painter. Son of S. Lumb a famous engraver. Studied with his Father and at the RA Schools. Exhibited at the RA 1867 - 89 and elsewhere and elected RI in 1882. Both his brothers were also painters.

Henry Andrews - Hunting Party

oil on canvas

Richard Ansdell - Sheep Dipping in the Highlands

1872

oil on canvas

Sidney Richard Percy - View of Snowden

[View of Snowden from Llanberis Pass]

oil on canvas

Thomas Sidney Cooper - Canterbury Meadows

1868

oil on canvas