Frederic Lord Leighton - Mrs James Guthrie

c. 1864 - 66

oil on canvas

83 x 54.5"

Yale Centre

Exhited at the RA in 1866.

Showing perfectly Leighton's amazing ability to paint fabrics. She looks very pale and reportedly many sittings were cancelled due to her ill health. It seems very Venetian in style, and he was studying Venetian portraits of the 16th century at the time, after his visit to Venice in 1865.
Several critics have pointed out that his portraits are beautiful for their own sake and he makes no attempt to convey the personality of the sitter.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Silver Favourites

Opus CCCLXXIII

1903

oil on panel

27 1/4 x 16 5/8"

Manchester City Art

The silver refers to the Carp in the pond that the girl is feeding using her typanum. The use of banding for the sea creates a clever use of breadth in a very vertical painting. He struggled with some of the technical details and was rather late in delivering it to its buyer.

Harold Knight - The Girl and the Picture

signed Harold Knight l.r.

inscribed Oak Hill / St Buryan / Cornwall

oil on canvas

60 1/4 x 50.5"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=153&sale_number=L08132

Harold Harvey - Holidays

signed Harold Harvey 12 l.r.

oil on canvas

15 x 19"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=152&sale_number=L08132

Elizabeth Adela Forbes - Fetching Water

signed EFORBES l.l.

watercolour with gouache and black chalk

17 x 13"

How much is this painting worth? (article)

[The Finding of Moses: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/stephenhough/100002796/how-much-is-this-painting-worth/

Nico Jungman - An Elegant Lady

Pen, black ink, watercolour and bodycolour on paper laid down on canvas

49 x 18 1/4"

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1872 - 1935.

Born in Amsterdam, and studied there but settled in England and exhibited at the RA and elsewhere. He travelled in Italy, France and Belgium but was interned in Germany in 1916. Illustrated books but was primarily a figure and landscape painter though he also worked as an etcher and restorer. This beautiful picture was originally framed in a striking art noveau frame.

Frank Bramley - Sketch for 'Saved'

signed Frank Bramley 1889 l.l.

oil on canvas

16 x 22"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=150&sale_number=L08132

Edward Seago - A Hunter outside a Stable

signed Seago/33 l.r.

oil on canvas

20 x 24"

(Sir) Alfred James Munning - A Mare with her Foal

1903

Watercolour

4 1/2 x 6 3/4"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=147&sale_number=L08132

Edgar Hunt - Catch Me if you Can

1945

oil on canvas

11 x 15"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=144&sale_number=L08132

Edgar Hunt

[The New Brood]

[An Intruder]

pair

1953

both oil on board

each 16 x 12"

[Cockeral and Hen]

[Chickens and Pigeons]

pair

1946

both oil on board

each 11 x 15"

[Youth and Experience]

1934

oil on canvas

12 x 16"

[On the Threshold - detail]

1931

oil on canvas

16 x 24"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=146&sale_number=L08132

Thomas Benjamin Kennington - Reading the Letter

oil on canvas

41 3/4 x 31.5"

Thomas Kennington (1856 - 1916) was the father of Eric Kennington a well known portrait and genre painter who worked in London. Thoma's exhibited widely, including at the RA (1880 - 1916) and at first painted pictures of the poor but later specialised in painrings with psychological titles.

Frederic Lord Leighton - Winding the Skein

c. 1878

oil on canvas

19.5 x 63.5"

Art Gallery of New South Wales

A very popular picture and the print in 1884 by the Fine Art Society was widely sold. The same models from The Music Lesson have been used. If you look at the composition it is cleverly done, if perhaps formulaic. Its highly finished surface was criticised for giving the girls a rather 'waxy' look. The last of Leighton's paintings featuring model Connie Gilchrist.

Joseph Farquharson - The Shortening Winter's Day is near a close

oil on canvas

32 1/4 x 47 1/4"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=141&sale_number=L08132

John Frederick Herring Jnr, - The Hunt outside the Blacksmith's Forge (detail)

1858

oil on canvas

30 x 50"

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http://www.rehs.com/john_frederick_herring_jr_virtex.htm

John Sargent Noble - Their Christmas Eve

signed J. S. Noble l.l.

oil on canvas

28 x 36"

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http://store.encore-editions.com/Artists/John_Sargent_Noble.html

Rowland Wheelwright - The Ploughman

signed R WHEELWRIGHT l.r.

oil on canvas

24 x 36"

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http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=rowland-wheelwright

John Dawson Watson - By the Studio Fire

1860

oil on canvas

22 1/4 x 17"

Watson studied at the Manchester School of Design and the RA Schools and went on to exhibit at the RA 1853 - 1890 amongst other places. He was also a prolific illustrator for periodicals like Good Words and did many book illustrations as well. It is not knowm, but presumed this was his own studio.

Frank Dicksee - Portrait of Mrs George Pinckard

1911

oil on canvas

50 x 40"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=137&sale_number=L08132

Alice Mary Havers

[The First Arrivals]

1881

signed A Havers l.r.

oil on canvas

24 x 51"

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1850 - 1890.

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=136&sale_number=L08132

Arthur John Elsley - Mother's Darling

oil on canvas

39 3/4 x 29.5"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=135&sale_number=L08132

Henrietta Rae - Sketch for Pysche before the Throne of Venus

oil on canvas

18.5 x 30 3/4"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=133&sale_number=L08132

Thomas Maybank - Come Unto these Yellow Sands

1906

oil on canvas

20 x 29"

exhibited at the RA in the same year

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fl. 1898 - 1925.

A fairy and genre painter who is known to have worked in Beckenham, Croydon and Esther. He worked for Punch - 1902-4 and seems to have been inspired by the work of Richard Doyle. His subjects were often inspired by Shakespeare and this painting comes from lines in the Tempest, sung by Ariel.

http://www.fairiesworld.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=139&pos=0

Marcus Stone - An Offer of Marriage

oil on canvas

1883

16 x 12 1/4"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=132&sale_number=L08132

John William Godward - The Engagement Ring

oil on canvas

20 x 11"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=131&sale_number=L08132

John Simmons - The Morning Star

Watercolour with bodycolour

9 1/4 x 12 1/4"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=130&sale_number=L08132

John L. Wimbush - An Opium Den at Lime Street

oil on canvas

40 x 60"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=127&sale_number=L08132

John Vine - Three Prize Berkshire Pigs

oil on canvas

c. 1865

20 x 24"

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1808 - 1867.

An Essex artist who though physically handicapped specialised in animal portraits.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/672658/john-vine.html

James Jacques Joseph Tissot - A La Gare De L'Est

oil on panel

18 x 9"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=126&sale_number=L08132

John Atkinson Grimshaw

[Old Chelsea]

oil on board

7 x 6"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=123&sale_number=L08132

[Glasgow - Saturday night]

oil on canvas

24 x 36"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=124&sale_number=L08132

[Sathouse Docks, Liverpool - detail]

oil on canvas

12 x 18"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=125&sale_number=L08132

Edward Ladell - Still Life with Peaches, Grapes and Whitecurrants

oil on canvas

12 1/4 x 10 1/4"

John Atkinson Grimshaw - Ghyll Beck, Yorkshire - early Spring

1867

oil on board

30 x 25"

Henry O'Neil - The Last Farewell

oil on canvas

28 x 36"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=121&sale_number=L08132

In 1861 Henry Nelson O'Neil endeavoured to repeat the success that he had achieved with Eastward Ho! August 1857 (private collection), by exhibiting The Parting Cheer (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich), which relates closely to the present painting. It is not clear whether The Last Farewell is a study for, or an earlier version of The Parting Cheer, but it differs significantly from the larger picture and is a complete composition.

Benjamin Williams Leader

[Streamlet at Bettws-y-Coed]

oil on canvas

22.5 x 18.5"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=112&sale_number=L08132

[On the Banks of the Tillingbourne, Surrey]

1901

oil on canvas

20 x 30"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=113&sale_number=L08132

[On the Banks of the Ivy O!]

1883

oil on canvas

16 x 24"

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=116&sale_number=L08132&go.x=10&go.y=6

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cf also

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=114&sale_number=L08132

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=115&sale_number=L08132

Thomas Sidney Cooper - pair

[A Bull with a pair of sheep and a Goat]

[A Jenny with her foal and a flock of sheep]

pair

1844/5

each 11 x 15"

oil on panel

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=117&sale_number=L08132

Walter Frederick Roofe Tyndale - Standing Guard

19 ¾ by 15 ¾ in.

signed l.l.: Walter Tyndale
oil on canvas

James Thomas Linnell - Firs and Furze

22 ½ by 31 ¼ in.

signed, titled, dated and inscribed on an artist's label attached to the stretcher: Firs and Furze/ James Thomas Linnell/ Red Hill/ Reigate/ Surrey/ 1854
oil on canvas

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 34,850 GBP

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=111&sale_number=L08132

Myles Birket Foster - Teaching Dolly to Walk

13 ½ by 27 ½ in.

signed with monogram l.l.
watercolour heightened with bodycolour

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=109&sale_number=L08132

William James Blacklock - Lakeland Mountains

18 by 24 in.

signed and dated l.c.: W J Blacklock 1853
oil on canvas

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 51,650 GBP

Blacklock is a most intriguing figure. Born in London, the son of a bookseller and publisher, in 1818 the family returned to Cumberland – in which county they had been established since the 1730s – living at Cumwhitton. Blacklock returned to London in 1836 and lived there until 1850. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution – generally showing north country landscapes – and gained a respected position in metropolitan artistic life, his landscape paintings being admired by Turner and Ruskin among others. He appears to have been no direct contacts with members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who were in any case much younger than him, but Blacklock would certainly have seen early works exhibited by members of the group and their associates. It is a matter of speculation as what European artists' works he may also have studied, with French painters such as Corot and Courbet sometimes mentioned as the inspiration of his work as a landscape painter.

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=107&sale_number=L08132

Daniel Maclise - Henry VIII's First Interview with Anne Boleyn

52 by 61 ¼ in.

signed and dated l.l.: D. MACLISE 1835
oil on canvas

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?live_lot_id=106&sale_number=L08132

Louise Rayner - Temple Bar London

http://www.rowlesfineart.co.uk/Louise-Rayner.html