Benjamin Williams Leader

Benjamin Williams Leader RA, Coastal View With Sand Dunes, Antique Oil Painting

c. 1900

Vibrant coastal village scene by Ramoz (Ramos) (20th Century). The setting sun casts an orange glow across a coastal village. Two people carry baskets on their heads as they unload a...

Softly rendered European street scene by an unknown artist (20th Century). A group of well-dressed women are standing at the side of the road, near some trees. To the right and in the background, a horse an carriage is passing by. The scene is executed with small, circular strokes, giving the piece a soft yet dynamic feel. Signed in the lower right corner. Presented in an ornate gilded frame...

Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 - 23 February 1792) was a leading 18th-century English portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy from 1769 to 1792. He was born on 16 July...

Interesting view of the Pool of London, an area known on the Thames near Tower Bridge where freight was loaded and unloaded from the earliest times of the City of London through the ...

Sea Battle - John Stevens Italia 2007 - Oil on canvas cm.50x130. In this precious oil painting Stevens is inspired by the naval battles of the English painter Derek George Montague Gardner who, after a career as a civil engineer...

Sailing - John Stevens Italia 2006 - Oil on canvas cm. 60x120. John Stevens, using subtle washes of oil paint, slowly builds his highly detailed paintings of sea battle...

Battleship - John Stevens Italia 2007 - Oil on canvas cm.40x80. In this precious oil painting Stevens is inspired by the naval battles of the English painter...

A very nice, detailed 19th Century landscape of travellers on the crossroads of the Penzance Road in Cornwall by British artist Peter Deakin. The details of the work are as follows:...

A painting of a chestnut hunter in a landscape with a horse and rider accompanied by two hounds by a woodland river in the distance. Signed and inscribed 'Melton Mowbray', lower left. Oil on canvas in a giltwood frame. John Ferneley Sr (1782-1860) was born the son of a Leicestershire wheelwright, the youngest of six children. He is known as one of the great British equine artists, perhaps only second to Stubbs in terms of raw ability. Ferneley originally worked with his father, until by chance the Duke of Rutland saw some of his work on the side of a cart on which Ferneley and his father had been working. The Duke was so impressed with Ferneley that he persuaded John's father to allow him to become the pupil of Benjamin Marshall. Ferneley was so talented that apparently he produced almost perfect copies of his tutor's paintings and they were said to have been indistinguishable from the master’s. Marshall also enrolled him as a student of the Royal Academy Schools. In 1804 Ferneley paid a man named Thomas Harrison...

Portrait of James Stanley (1750 - 1810), circa 1775-1778, full-length, wearing a red coat and breeches and a gold embroidered waistcoat, hold...