We have over 30 years’ expertise in nineteenth-century paintings, with an emphasis on maritime and quality landscapes.
Arthur Spooner
Fisherman on the Riverbank
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Edition
Signed and Framed Original
Size
18 x 24 inches
We have over 30 years’ expertise in nineteenth-century paintings, with an emphasis on maritime and quality landscapes
Featured Artist
Artist
Norman Wilkinson
CBE RI
24 November 1878 – 30 May 1971
Wilkinson was a British artist who usually worked in oils, watercolors and drypoint. He was primarily a marine painter, but also an illustrator, poster artist, and wartime camoufleur.
Artist
Frank Hider
1861 – 1933
He belonged to a group of artists known as the “Burnham Group”, a colony who settled at Burnham Beeches in Buckinghamshire. Although prolific in his output, Hider rarely exhibited. He died in 1933 at the age of 72.
Artist
Walter Heath Williams
1836 – 1906
Williams subject matter included country, river and coastal scenes in the West Country, especially Devon and Cornwall.
Artist
Ernest Walbourne
1871 – 1927
Walbourn’s talent for capturing charming scenes of English country life, with an assured yet light touch, won him universal appeal. His work can be found in collections worldwide.
Artist
Adolphus Knell
Flourished 1860 – 1890
Adolphus Knell is a member of the famous Knell family who specialised in maritime subjects, a brother to William Callcott Knell and most probably the son of William Adolphus Knell.
Artist
William Hoggatt
1880 – 1961
Walbourn’s talent for capturing charming scenes of English country life, with an assured yet light touch, won him universal appeal. His work can be found in collections worldwide.
Artist
Thomas Hale Sanders
1874 – 1898
Hale Sanders was a London based Painter who specialised in Landscapes and River Scenes, often painting the Thames.
Artist
James Webb
1825 – 1895
He was a landscape painter specialising in coastal and port scenes.
Webb is renowned for his paintings of rocky shores and famous old castles and in his lifetime he exhibited 29 paintings at the Royal Academy and 37 at the British Institute between 1850 and 1888.
Artist
William Anslow Thornley RBA
1858 – 1898
He was undoubtedly a prolific artist as the number of his London exhibits shows (205), though his work is extremely popular especially in recent years.
Artist
Thomas Sidney Cooper
1803 – 1902
Cooper began his working life as a coach painter, a little later he obtained employment as a scene painter and he alternated between these two professions for about eight years.
Artist
Charles Napier Hemy
1841 –1917
Hemy also did some illustrative work, notably in the 1880s, when he drew excellent pictures to accompany travel articles around Britain. He also produced historical paintings and landscapes, but more or less confined himself to sea, coast and fishing scenes after his move to Falmouth.
Artist
J Murday
British 19th Century
J Murday was a British 19th Century painter, very little is known about the life of this artist, though he has work in public collections including the National Maritime Museum.
Artist
William Callcott Knell
1848 – 1879
Between 1848 and 1865 he exhibited 17 pictures at leading London venues, including three at the Royal Academy, three at the British Institute and nine at the Royal Society of British Artists.
Artist
Alfred Fontville de Breanski
1877 – 1945
Landscape painter and son of Alfred De Breanski Senior, the well-known Victorian artist known for his marvelous sensitive handling and broad brushwork.
Artist
Arthur George Bell
1849 – 1916
Bell was a painter and illustrator and in 1888 a member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club in which year he exhibited three paintings ‘The River Blyth’, ‘Return of the Haymakers’ and ‘The Landing Place’ and was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1879; the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil Colours and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colour.
Artist
Georges Philibert Charles Maroniez
1865 – 1933
While attending law school, he also took courses at the École des Beaux-Arts of Douai and became a student of Pierre Billet. It was there that he met the painter Adrien Demont, the son-in-law of Jules Breton and at the age of 22 he started exhibiting peasant genre and landscape scenes in Douai and Paris.
Artist
James Stark
1794 – 1859
His style owes much to the Master, Crome. Like him, he painted English Landscapes with animals and rustic figures.
Artist
Louise Rayner
1832 – 1924
Louise Rayner was born in Matlock Bath in Derbyshire on 21 June 1832 to Samuel Rayner (1806-1879) and his wife Ann (1802-1890).
Artist
George Sheridan Knowles
1863 – 1931
Sheridan Knowles was a London genre painter in both oils and watercolour. He was educated at the Manchester College of Art and then the Royal Academy. He exhibited widely, in particular at the Royal Academy and the British Institute.
Artist
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon
1821 – 1906
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon was famous for his impressionist style watercolours of landscapes and seascapes. Born in Paris to English parents, he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read Mathematics.
The Tate Gallery has a collection of his works and he is also represented in various provincial art galleries.
Artist
John Robertson Reid
1851 – 1926
John Robertson Reid was born in Edinburgh and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy schools before moving to Cornwall and later London. Reid’s subjects – field workers, humble people – were similar to those of Bastien-Lepage, but his handling of the paint was more dynamic and reflected his training in Scotland.
Artist
Henry Harris
1852 – 1926
Henry Harris was an oil painter, and occasionally watercolour, of landscapes and rural scenes. He was born at Cullompton, Devon, in 185, the son of a miller, and one of 15 boys.