
English landscape and portrait painter Joseph Wright (1734—1797) was fascinated by light, both natural and artificial, and made it the subject of many of his paintings....

English landscape and portrait painter Joseph Wright (1734—1797) was fascinated by light, both natural and artificial, and made it the subject of many of his paintings....

Queen of Spain, Isabella II was born in the Royal Palace of Madrid in 1830, the eldest daughter of King Ferdinand VII of Spain, and of his fourth wife and niece, Maria...

Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period Giuseppe Bonito (1707—1789), a favourite at the court of King Carlos and who, in 1748, had executed a series of nine paintings of...

Emily Treslove was John Constable’s (1776—1837) neighbour in Charlotte Street, the central London address of his spacious studio. In various diary entries, Emily...

George Lawrence Bulleid (1858—1933) is best known as a painter of highly finished oil paintings and watercolours of subjects from classical antiquity, in the manner of...

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour." — William Blake. Henry Ryland, Spring...

William Anstey Dolland (1858—1929), a Victorian artist of the same generation as John William Godward, Henry Ryland and George Lawrence Bulleid, also specialised in...

Henry Ryland (1856—1924) was a British painter, book illustrator, decorator and designer. Ryland's style combined the poeticism of the Pre-Raphaelites art movement with...

George Lawrence Bulleid (1858—1933) was an English Victorian watercolourist, born in Glastonbury, Somerset. In 1889, he became an Associate of the Royal Water Colour...

Henry Ryland (1856—1924) was a British painter, book illustrator, decorator and designer. This beautiful watercolour is a particularly enchanting example of Ryland's...

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." — Lao Tzu. Ilya Zankovsky, Sunset over Mount Ararat, 19th century, Private collection @bonhams1793 Source:...

Lionel Constable (1828—1887) was the seventh and last child of John Constable RA and his wife Maria. He was born in Hampstead in 1828, and ended his days not far from...

Richard Parkes Bonington (1802—1828) was an English artist, he spent much of his short life in France. In 1818 he first met Eugène Delacroix and enrolled in the atelier...

A catch of fish is sorted and prepared in the foreground on the harbour quay. This bustle of human activity, captured with a few brushstrokes and echoed in a fishing...

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775—1851) was one of the leading British artists of his time, who over the six decades of his career changed the public regard for...