A Midsummer Night's Dream
This is an oil painting on canvas dating from about 1860 depicting a scene from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The artist was W. Balls, and his signature is in the bottom left hand ...
A Morning's Tally
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a dog which has caught three rats. There is a painted inscription which reads BOXER 1836. On the right of the painting is a house, and it is likely that this ...
A Pair of Pigs
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting two prize pigs. During the 19th century paintings of farm animals became a recognised genre, as, in an attempt to produce bigger and better livestock, itinerant ...
A Surprising Incident
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a surprising incident which occurred during an attempt to slaughter a horse in July 1811. The caption at the bottom of the picture describes this as 'An Instance ...
A Terrible Shipwreck
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting the shipwreck of several ships in a fierce storm and was painted by T.L Morilyan R.N. in 1870. Local people can be seen on the beach watching the activity and ...
A Venetian Canal
W. Knox
A Venetian Canal, 1919
Watercolour on paper
255mm x 360mm
This painting depicts a scene along a canal in Venice, Italy. In the centre a figure is steering a gondola down the canal.
A Visit from the Doctor
Caspar Netscher (After) (1639-1684
A Visit from the Doctor, 1775-1800
Oil on panel
255mm x 330mm
The German artist Caspar Netscher began his training at an early age in Arnhem, under the direction ...
A Warwickshire Beacon, Burton Dassett
Frederick William Newton Whitehead (1853-1938)
A Warwickshire Beacon, Burton Dassett
Oil on canvas
500mm x 750mm A landscape scene looking up a slight hill towards a windmill. There is a cart and two ...
A Warwickshire Scene
Charles Thomas Burt (1823-1902) A Warwickshire Scene Oil on canvas 495mm x 750mm A harvest scene, two men are cutting corn and piling it into bundles.
A Worcestershire Scene
Thomas Baker (1808-1864)
A Worcestershire Scene, 1836
Watercolour on paper
185mm x 260mm
A view of thatched cottages in Worcestershire.
A. Marshall, Dyer and Scourer
This is an oil painting depicting the premises of A. Marshall, Dyer and Scourer in St Ann's Street in Nottingham and which was painted by Arthur Goodwin in 1898. In the lower right corner is inscribed ...
Abraham Offering Up His Son Issac
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a story from the Old Testament in which Abraham offers up his son Isaac to be sacrificed when an angel, seen in the top left corner of the painting, appears ...
Accident on the Road to Inverness
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a carriage accident on the road to Inverness in Scotland. In the background is Castle Stuart near Inverness. From this landmark it is possible to work out that ...
Adelaide Bridge, Leamington Spa
A watercolour painting of Adelaide Bridge in Leamington Spa by William W. Quatremain.
Admiral Lord Exmouth
This is an ink, watercolour and gouache on paper portrait of Admiral Lord Exmouth, and a painted inscription along the bottom reads 'The Appearanc [sic] of Admirll [sic] Lord Exmouth from his Hedgecumb ...
Alfriston
Edith C. Reynolds (fl. 1909-1937)
Alfriston
Watercolour and pencil on paper
250mm x 365mm
This painting depicts a view of the village of Alfriston in East Sussex.
Alma Ramsey
Alma Ramsey (1907-1993)
Alma Ramsey, May 1937
Charcoal and watercolour on paper
220mm x 380mm
This is a portrait of Alma Ramsey's first child, Simon Hosking. Simon was born in December 1936 and according ...
Amsterdam
Elizabeth Whitehead (1854-1934)
Amsterdam
Watercolour on paper
400mm x 295mm
A view of the waterfront at Amsterdam, Holland. Elizabeth and her brother Frederick studied art under the direction of ...