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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 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. 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 ...

Antique China And Chinese Vase

William Bruce Ellis Ranken (1881-1941) Antique China And Chinese Vase Oil on canvas 660mm x 480mm A painting depicting a large central vase, with smaller vases to each side. There is a plate containing ...

Apples

Mabel J. Hillson (1887-1986) Apples, 1918 Oil on canvas 340mm x 505mm A still life painting of a bowl of apples, with two more to the left.

Approach to Rome

Sir Charles John K.C. Holmes (1868-1936) Approach to Rome, 1935 Oil on canvas 500mm x 600mm View of the Porta Furba on the Via Tuscolana, Rome. Part of the old Aqua Claudia is also visible.

At Offchurch, Warwickshire

Thomas Baker (1808-1864) At Offchurch, Warwickshire, 1856 Oil on board 320mm x 470mm A landscape scene at Offchurch, Warwickshire. A woman and girl gather sticks in the foreground.

At Snitterfield, Warwickshire

Thomas Baker (1808-1864) At Snitterfield, Warwickshire, 1838 Oil on canvas 750mm x 620mm View of a tree-lined trackway with two ladies and a gentleman travelling along it.

At Work on the Warwick Bypass

Anthony Hobson (born 1920) At Work on the Warwick Bypass, 1966 Oil on canvas 285mm x 395mm A scene during construction of the Warwick bypass (A46), there is a tarmac truck in the centre. In a letter ...

Autumn In The South of France, Hautes Alpes

Adrian Scott Stokes (1854-1935) Autumn In The South of France, Hautes Alpes, 1928 Oil on canvas 753mm x 998mm From the late 1880s Stokes, a painter, poet and critic, traveled extensively in France, Italy ...