David Gourlay Steell

Portrait of Tennis Dogs Scottish Victorian animal art oil painting tennis match

1889

This Beautiful Victorian oil painting is attributed to Scottish master Sir George Reid. Painted circa 1870, the detail in the young girl's facial features and hair are just stunning,...

This lovely British Victorian landscape oil painting is attributed to noted artist Sam Bough. It was painted circa 1855 after Bough had moved to Hamilton Lanarkshire in Scotland to focus on painting landscapes along side fellow artist Alexander Frazer. The composition is several cattle watering in a stream under the boughs of an ancient tree. There is superb impasto, for example on the clouds and this is a charming 19th century oil painting. Provenance. London estate. Condition. Oil on canvas, 29 inches by 16 inches unframed and in good condition. Frame. Housed in an ornate gilt Victorian frame, 36 inches by 23 inches framed and in good condition. Samuel Bough RSA (1822–1878) was an English-born landscape painter who spent much of his career working in Scotland. He was born the third of five children in Abbey Street, Carlisle in northern England, the son of James Bough (1794-1845), a shoemaker, and Lucy Walker, a cook. He was raised in relative poverty, but with a keen encouragement in the arts. He was self-taught but mixed with local artists such as Richard Harrington and George Sheffield, and was strongly influenced by the work of Turner. After an unsuccessful attempt to live as an artist in Carlisle he obtained a job and as a theatre scenery painter in Manchester in 1845, later also working in Glasgow in the same role. Encouraged by Daniel Macnee to take up landscape painting he moved to Hamilton from 1851-4 and worked there with Alexander Fraser. In 1854 he moved to Port Glasgow to work on his technique of painting ships and harbours. His paintings were noted for their sensitivity to atmosphere and light, were often of cloudy shorelines and busy harbours. He also began supplementing his income by illustrating books, before moving to Edinburgh in 1855. On coming to Edinburgh he lived in a terraced house at 5 Malta Terrace in the Stockbridge area of the city. Following Turner's example, he became a skilful painter of seaports. He was buried in Dean Cemetery Edinburgh on 23 November 1878. The grave bears a bronze medallion of his head by William Brodie...

This lovely British Victorian oil painting is by noted 19th century landscape artist Thomas Baker of Leamington. It was painted on 18th September 1854 as a special commission. The co...

This lovely colourful British 19th century genre oil painting is by Victorian artist William Henry Midwood. Painted circa 1870 it is a charming Victorian interior genre scene of a farmer and his daughter and their collie dog. The artist has perfectly captured the interaction between the three characters and the colouring and brushwork is superb. A lovely example of British Victorian genre painting...

This charming British Victorian genre oil painting is by attributed to noted exhibited artist Henry Turner Munns. Painted circa 1870 the composition is of a baby by a hearth, asleep ...

This lovely British Victorian oil painting is attributed noted landscape and animal artist George Cole ans ascribed verso. Painted in 1840 it is a superb portrait of two horses, one ...

Charles Augustus Henry LUTYENS (1829 – 1915, British) On the Scent c.1880 Unframed 50 x 84 inches Framed 64 x 98 inches Oil on Canvas Signed Provenance: Possibly commissioned by George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry (1838-1930); thence by family descent; Croome Court House Sale, Worcestershire 1948 Lord Coventry was a keen huntsman having founded the North Cotswold Hunt in 1867 and in 1882 The Croome. Besides founding two Hunts, he also held the unique distinction of owning racehorses that won two Grand Nationals in consecutive years. Daphne Moore, the hunting correspondent writing about the Croome Hounds c.1950, emphasised the influence of Rambler as a perfect type of hound. ‘Who could have dreamed that in 1949 well-bred hounds in almost every kennel in England would have at least a trace of Rambler’s blood in their veins?’ … to the hound man The Croome and the name Coventry immediately recalls Rambler. Anyone who has seen his portrait by Lutyens, will remember him as being the perfect type of hound for any country…’ Charles Lutyens the artist spent his early adult life in the Army, joining the 20th foot and siled with them in 1850 to serve in Canada. In 1857 he left the army to take up life as a professional artist. He based himself at Onslow Square...

Late 19th century Scottish Highland Lock landscape, with Cattle watering E.Mulready was almost certainly a pseudo name for William Langley a well known English painter of landscapes...

Attributed to George Earl Exceptional English 19th century oil on board of a terrier head study in profile. The quality of the painting is totally outstanding with great skill in how the eyes and fur are painted throughout the painting. The Earl family were all very skilled painters of animal portraits . This piece has all the quality of either George or Thomas Earl...

Artist/ School: American School, 20th century, indistinctly signed Title: Soldiers on Horseback Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed. framed: 31.75 x 43.75 inches canva...

French 19th century Chickens in a barn or Chicken coop interior Charles-Emile Jacque (23 May 1813 – 7 May 1894) was a French painter of animals ...

Investing in a late 20th-century Victorian-style portrait of two terrier dogs in a landscape is an opportunity to bring a touch of nostalgic charm and timeless elegance into your liv...