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Warwick Castle - British art early 20th century painting river landscape autumn
By Henry Charles Brewer
Located in Hagley, England
British art institutions including The Royal Academy. A lovely colourful view. Signed right and dated
Category

1910s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Casual Nude Portrait, British Impressionist Oil Painting
By J.B. Holmes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Casual Nude Portrait, Oil Painting By J.B.Holmes, British artist, 20th Century Oil painting on
Category

20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

Cubist Sea Blue Oil Painting, British Artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Sea Blue Oil Painting, British Artist By British artist 'KD', 20th Century Signed by the
Category

20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Country House Garden and Terrace Far Reaching Panoramic Landscape Views, oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: British School, signed, 20th century Title: The Country House Garden Medium
Category

20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Modern British 20th century River landscape, On the Thames at Sonning
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted and very decorative Modern British view on the Thames at Sonning Bridge. The artist
Category

1990s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

White Stone Cottages In Blue Sky Village British Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
White Cottages signed initials by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on thin card
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

An original British 20th Century drawing by British illustrator Heath Robinson
By William Heath Robinson
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
William Heath Robinson (British, 1872-1944) 'The Friendly Dog' Signed 'W. Heath Robinson.' (lower
Category

Early 20th Century Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pen

Tranquil River Scene in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Tranquil River Scene in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, entitled Calm
Category

1990s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Board

Mother Guiding Her Child Into The Gardening British Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mother & Child by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on board unframed size: 7 x 5 inches
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mother Maid and Child Walking in Meadows British Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mother & Child by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on board unframed size: 8.25 x 7
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mother Maid and Child Talking First Steps British Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mother & Child by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on artist paper, unframed size: 7.5 x
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mother Maid and Child Talking First Steps British Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mother & Child by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on board, unframed size: 6.75 x 5.5
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mother Maid and Child Talking First Steps British Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mother Child by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on board, unframed size: 9 x 6.25
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Summer s Outdoor Lunch Garden Table and Chairs British Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Summers Garden Lunch by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on un stretched canvas
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

A Cotswold Stonebreaker - Charles March Gere - Early 20th Century British Oil
By Charles March Gere, RA, RWS
Located in London, GB
20 in. (frame size 55.5 by 65.5 cm., 22 by 26 in.) Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, 1938, no.671
Category

1930s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Village Bridge Scene, original British watercolour painting
By Ronald Birch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
KINGDOM Lovely original watercolour painting by the popular and much admired British painter, Ronald
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Densham Hill Pool, original British watercolour painting
By Ronald Birch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
& UNITED KINGDOM Lovely original watercolour painting by the popular and much admired British painter
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Saxshead Mill Waterford, original British watercolour painting
By Ronald Birch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
watercolour, the traditional form of British landscape painting, captures the British landscape, villages and
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

River Yar Boatyard, original British watercolour painting
By Ronald Birch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
, EUROPE & UNITED KINGDOM Lovely original watercolour painting by the popular and much admired British
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Shipley Mill, signed original British watercolour painting
By Ronald Birch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
masterly handling of watercolour, the traditional form of British landscape painting, captures the British
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Early 20th century Modern British Impressionist portrait of a mother and child
By Dorothea Sharp
Located in Woodbury, CT
and domestic tranquility places her at the forefront of early 20th-century British art. This piece
Category

Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Mother In a Pink Dress Guiding Her Child British Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mother Child by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on thick artist paper, unframed
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Scottish Highlands Loch Scene at Sunset Cattle Watering Signed Antique Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Close of Day Scottish Highland Loch at sunset with cattle watering British School, early 20th
Category

Early 20th Century English School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

British Mid 20th Century watercolour on board still life painting of flowers
By Derrick Latimer Sayer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Derrick Latimer Sayer (British, 1917 – 1992) A vase of summer blooms Watercolour on board 24.3/4 x
Category

20th Century Expressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Board

British, mid century oil painting by Gerald Rose of London tube station
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Gerald Hembdon Seymour Rose (British, 1935-2023) Rush hour at the station, London Oil on canvas
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modern British mid century oil painting of aubergines on purple and white
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Rodney Gladwell (British, 1928 – 1979) Aubergines, 1959 Signed and dated ‘Gladwell 59’ (lower left
Category

20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Great Gable Buttermere in English Lake District by 20th Century British Artist
By Arthur Terry Blamires
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of Great Gable & the Buttermere Fells in English Lake District by 20th Century Modern
Category

1980s Land Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Large Old Tudor Coaching Inn by River Landscape Swans Very Large English Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Old Tudor Coaching Inn English School, 20th century oil painting on canvas, framed in ornate
Category

Mid-20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Modern British mid century gouache painting by Neo Romantic artist Latimer Sayer
By Derrick Latimer Sayer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
century British landscape tradition with the unnatural colouring and abstraction of postwar modernism.
Category

20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

MID 20th CENTURY BRITISH OIL - PORTRAIT OF A LADY IN PEARL NECKLACE - TEAL GREEN
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Portrait of a Lady" by Douglas Swainson (British, mid 20th century) signed oil painting on canvas
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

St Lunaire, Brittany - Early 20th Century British landscape by Ernest Normand
By Ernest Normand
Located in London, GB
known as a painter of history and orientalist paintings and portrait commission. In 1884 he married
Category

Early 1900s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Canal Scene with Houses, Original British Watercolour Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Lovely original watercolour painting by the popular and much admired British painter, Ronald Birch, who
Category

Late 20th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Winter Mist at a Farm in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist
By Wendy Reeves
Located in Preston, GB
Winter Mist at a Farm in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, Wendy Reeves Art
Category

Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Contemporary British Oil Painting Foggy Purple Sky Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Landscape by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British 20th century) gouache painting on board, unframed size
Category

20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Pink and Orange Abstract Contemporary British Modernist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Landscape by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British 20th century) gouache painting on canvas , unframed
Category

20th Century Impressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Vibrant Garden Plant Pots Contemporary British Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Landscape signed by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British 20th century) gouache painting on board
Category

20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Superb Original British Expressionist Abstract Oil Painting
By Isaiah Gerard Calleja
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Superb original British abstract oil painting, from the 1980's period. The painting is by the
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

The London Skyline viewed from River Thames above its Bridges, original oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: British School, indistinctly signed Title: A River Thames View showing the skyline
Category

Mid-20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Iffley Church Oxfordshire Romanesque Architecture British Church Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Iffley Church Oxfordshire Romanesque Architecture British Church Painting by John Steane (b
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Contemporary British Oil Painting Purple Blue Sky Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Landscape by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British 20th century) oil painting on board, unframed size: 8 x
Category

20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Purple Storm Abstract Contemporary British Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Landscape by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British 20th century) oil painting on board , unframed board
Category

20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rainbow Abstract Pastel Colours Contemporary British Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Landscape signed by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British 20th century) oil painting on board, unframed
Category

20th Century Impressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Huge British Abstract Oil Painting - Amazing Colors
By Isaiah Gerard Calleja
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Superb original British abstract oil painting, from the 1980's period. The painting is by the
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Contemporary British Oil Painting Purple Sky Yellow Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Landscape signed by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British 20th century) gouache painting on board, unframed
Category

20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Cloudy Sky Lake Reflection Contemporary British Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Landscape signed by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British 20th century) oil painting on board, unframed
Category

20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Wonky Olive Tree Landscape Contemporary British Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Landscape signed by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British 20th century) dated 97' oil painting on board
Category

20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Autumnal Brown Trees Landscape Contemporary British Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Landscape signed by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British 20th century) oil painting on board, unframed
Category

20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Flower Garden Window Modern British Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Garden View by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British 20th century) oil painting on board, unframed size: 7
Category

20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Red Roof Houses In a Green Atmospheric Town British Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Red Roof Houses signed initials by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on thin card
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Tall Pillar Building in Small a Town Street British Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Small Town Landscape signed initials by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on thin card
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Purple Midnight Sky Path Leading To The Church British Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Midnight Church signed initials by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on card stuck on
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mother Maid Guiding Her Child Through The Track British Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mother & Child by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on board unframed size: 8 x 7 inches
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Houses Beyond the Garden Wall In Evening Light British Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Houses Beyond the Garden by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on board, unframed size
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Early 20th Century British nude girl with a guitar, 1929 by Blair Hughes Stanton
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Blair Hughes Stanton (British, 1902-1981) Girl with a Guitar, 1929 oil on canvas 16.3/8 x 25.3/4 in
Category

20th Century Modern Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Visiting the British Historical Building, Impressionist Oil Painting
By J.B. Holmes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
People Visiting British Historical Building By J.B.Holmes, British artist, 20th Century Oil
Category

20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

View Outside of Warlingham, 20th Century British Watercolour
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Travelling Scholarship by the R.C.A. for painting. A reserved and highly principled man, during WWII he was a
Category

20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Graphite

Rural Tree Study in English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Rural Tree Study in English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright
Category

1990s Romantic Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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