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Mid 19th Century Watercolour - A Quiet Moment Of Remembrance

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A delightful 19th century watercolour scene depicting a man and his horse being greeted by a woman outside of an in. The quaint half-timbered building st...

A truly beautiful portrait of an older woman taking a quiet moment to read a book at her bureau. She is clearly a woman of high standing shown in her richly textured clothes: satin ribbons, lace shawl and a velvet bodice and skirts. Her tight ringletted hair was a style popular in the 1880s but as she is an older woman this is probably a style she carried through her life, dating the painting around 1880 instead. This painting captures the serene and intensely personal act of solitary reading with gentle aplomb using a watercolour brush...

English School Mid 19th Century Watercolour The Shooting Party unsigned but usefully inscribed verso, by the artist watercolour painting on stiff paper, unframed sheet: 7.2 x 10 i...

Attributed to BENJAMIN SHIPHAM (1806-1872) Mamhead House, Devon Signed with initials l.r.: BS Watercolour Framed 17 by 27 cm., 6 ¾ by 10 ½ in. (frame size 33 by 42.5 cm., 13 by 16 ¾ in.) Provenance: Ex collection of H. A. E. Day (publisher of G Waters, Dictionary of British Artists working 1900-1950) Shipham was born in Nottingham and seems to have lived there for most of his life. He painted landscapes and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1852 until his death as well as at the British Institute and Royal Society of British Artists. Works by him are in the collections of Nottingham City Museum Art Gallery, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Derby Art Gallery and Glasgow. The present Mamhead House dates to 1827 and was designed for the Exeter shipping fleet owner Robert Newman...