United Kingdom - Figurative Paintings

Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Lighthouse Perched on a Rocky Outcrop By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 8.75 x 10.75 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, un...

From the Fire Bird series of 2015. Reflections of a Fire Bird emanates the reflection of orange light from his mirror. Orange is a power colour, signifying creativity but also healin...

A fluidly painted impression of this well known sailors' haven at Pin Mill on the River Orwell, Suffolk. Hugh Boycott Brown (1909-1990) Thames Bar...

Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of View of the Vauban Tower, Camaret-sur-Mer By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 9 x 11.5 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unfr...

Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Provencal Service in the Garden By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 10.5 x 8.75 inches (height x width) Signed: Verso Oil painting on boar...

William Arthur Breakspeare. English ( b.1855 - d.1914 ). A Rendezvous In The Park In The Autumn Fall. Oil On Panel. Signed Lower Right. Image size 12.6 inches x 7.3 inches ( 32cm x 1...

Enigmatic Portrait of a Veiled Figure French/ Japanese? Inscribed verso circa 1970's oil on canvas over mixed media surface, framed Framed: 52 x 26 inches Canvas: 51 x 35 inches Prov...

Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Moret-sur-Loing, France By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 8.75 x 6.75 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Condition:...

Outside French Bar by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) signed pencil on artist paper, unframed painting : 6.25 x 9.5 inches stamped verso provenance: artists estate, France condition: ...

An exquisite oil study depicting a young couple by the open window of a villa. The woman plays a guitar while lovingly looking at the man behind her. The pair wear beautiful traditio...

A charming scene depicting figures combing the shoreline for mussels in Whitby on an overcast day. The artist beautifully captures the quiet atmosphere of the scene through soft refl...

This atmospheric seascape depicts sailing vessels silhouetted against a turbulent, cloud-filled sky rendered in muted earth tones of ochre, brown, and grey. The composition captures ...

French Expressionist by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 19 x 15.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and s...

Jean & Janet French School, circa 1930 oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 26 x 20 inches Provenance: Private collection, France Condition: overall good condition, some minor old creases...

Francesca Owen is an award winning contemporary fine art painter and a former Slade graduate where she studied under some influential artists such as Dame Phyllida Barlow RA CBE, And...

French Impressionistic Street Scene with Figures in Summer Light By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 6 x 7.75 inches (height x width) Inscribed verso Oil painting on board, unframed ...

Winter landscape with snow covered fields & farmhouse in the English Countryside by British Artist Art measures 30 x 20 inches Frame measures 35 x 25 inches Richard Wood was born i...

This interesting Italian 18th century Old Master oil painting is by noted artist Marco Marcola, also known as Marco Marcuola. It was painted circa 1770 and has excellent provenance. ...

This refined devotional painting, executed in oil on copper, is a distinguished example of the 19th-century Spanish School, known for its emotive sacred imagery and profound spiritua...

Signed figures in landscape oil on canvas circa 1920 by British post impressionist painter William Lee Hankey. The piece depicts sail boats in La Rochelle, a seaport in the Bay of Bi...

Spanish Vision by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 28.5 x 36 inches Colors: Red colors, yellow, orange, white and blue Very good co...

This interesting British Post Impressionist figurative interior oil painting is by noted artist Charles Cundall and entitled A Conversation Piece. Painted circa 1955 the composition is the interior of a living room with a couple and their two young children, cat and dog. It is full of fascinating details such as the display of porcelain figures in the wall unit, The wonky lampshade on the piano with lovely reflections in its metal base, the slightly shabby walls, the two inviting open doors to other rooms, the way the whole family are looking at the dog (of course!) as it eyes up the tray of tea. Perhaps the dog is in fact the conversation piece of the family and life revolves around him the way the painting does. Is it the artist's family? An excellent example of Cundall's work and life with a dog. Signed lower right. Provenance. Gallery label verso. Condition. Oil on canvas, image size is 30 inches by 25 inches and in good condition. Frame. Housed in a gallery frame, 39 inches by 34 inches framed and in good condition. Charles Cundall (1890-1971) - painter, potter and stained glass artist, born in Stratford, Lancashire. After working as a designer for Pilkington's Pottery Company under Gordon Forsyth...

This exquisite oil painting captures a simple market scene, featuring a man and woman in conversation. In the background, a market stall stands before a walled town, creating a sense...

Antique French Orientalist oil painting by Pavy French, 1884 Panel: Height 53cm, width 65cm Frame: Height 74cm, width 84cm, depth 8cm This striking 19th-century Orientalist paintin...

Cityscape with St. Paul's Cathedral signed by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) size: 9 x 10.75 inches oil painting on board, unframed condition: the painting is in very good condition. It ...

Muted Seascape with Boats at Dawn signed by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) inscribed verso size: 9 x 10.5 inches oil painting on board, unframed condition: ...

The port of Étaples, France Simone Forge 1930's French Impressionist oil on board unframed board: 13 x 16.5 inches inscribed verso Provenance: private collection Condition: great co...

Song’s of Summer’s Eve [2022] original Oil on stretched canvas Image size: H:71 cm x W:91 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:71 cm x W:91 cm x D:2cm Sold Unframed Please note that...

Large Landscape Painting of the Hudson River, New York State, USA by British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. Art measures 48 x 36 inches Wakefield's work is a unique blend ...

signed oil on board, unframed board: 8.75 x 10.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condition

This charming large British Old Master pastoral oil painting is by noted artist Francis Wheatley. It was painted in 1797 and depicts five figures, a family and a dog in a woodland s...

Artist/ School: French expressionist/ abstract contemporary artist, 21st century Title: Abstract composition Medium: oil/mixed media painting on canvas, unframed. canvas: 25.75...

Artist/ School: Norman A.Olley and inscribed verso Title - Mannor Farm in Thames Ditton, Surrey Medium: gouache/watercolour/ ink/ pencil on thin board, unframed Painting : 8.25 x...

French Countryside signed by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018) gouache painting on artist paper, unframed panting: 13 x 20 inches inscribed verso condition: This paintin...

With golfing as one of the favourite pastime of urban city life, golfers became the latest subject of my Lowry style paintings. Golfers appear to be randomly scattered on the crisp w...

Framed size: 25.5" x 29" The Piazza During Carnival by Alan Halliday, bursts with festive energy and theatrical charm. Set in the most famous Italian Piazza of Venice the scene is al...

Circle of Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721) Freeing a dove Oil on canvas 27.3/4 x 38.1/8 in. (70 x 96.8 cm.) Possible repair to upper right. In overall good order for the age...

This charming pastoral scene depicts a mother and child in a garden setting, with one reaching up towards the branches pruning a tree. The artist captures the scene in a folk style, ...

A beautiful 20th century oil on board depicting figures in an industrial Northern landscape by Vincent Dott. Excellent quality work in the manner of L.S. ...

Beached Boats Simone Forge 1950's French Impressionist oil on board unframed board: 13 x 16 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: great condition For more any m...

Signed oil on canvas portrait circa 1890 by French academic painter Tony Robert-Fleury. The work depicts a young red-headed woman wearing in a white dress with blue trim. She is stti...

Black & White Painting of Figures at Hammersmith Bridge in London - a unique original from leading British Urban Landscape & Cityscape Artist, Angel...

Portrait of Lord Jeffreys of Wem British School, 20th century (presumably after an earlier work) oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 30.5 x 24.5 inches canvas: 26 x 20 inches prov...

Artist/ School: French School, indistinctly signed, circa 1970's Title: Walking by the River Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed. framed: 23 x 29 inches canvas: 19...

Signed watercolour on paper landscape by American post impressionist painter Maurice Brazil Prendergast. The work depicts children playing on the beach in Saint Malo, France as boats sail in the blue sea and white clouds role through the sky overhead. This work has remained in the Prendergast family for 3 generations and depicts a rare view of Saint-Malo executed during Prendergast's visit to the french coastal town in 1907 Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 21"x22" Unframed: 13'x14" Proveance: The collection of Charles Prendergast (1863-1948) The collection of Eugénie Prendergast-Van Kemmel (1895-1994) -wife and inheritor of the estate of Charles Prendergast The collection of Henri Van Kemmel (Lille, 1903-1963) - cousin of Eugenie Prendergast
- Madame Henri Van Kemmel Maurice Prendergast came with his family to Boston in 1861. Working in a textile store, Maurice Prendergast was at first self-taught in painting, making souvenir cards and shop signs. He went to Britain in 1886, then to Paris in 1891 and registered at the Académie Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens, Benjamin-Constant, and Charles Blanc as teachers, working also with Gustave Courtois at the Académie Colarossi. More importantly he saw the Impressionists’ paintings and the Nabis at the Galerie Durand-Ruel. He returned to the United States in 1895, settling in Winchester (Massachusetts) and went frequently to New York. In 1898 he again went to Europe where he stayed until 1900, visiting Paris, Florence, Siena, Rome, Capri, and Venice, where he spent six months. Between 1907 and the beginning of World War I he went again four times to Europe but never returned there after the war. In New York where he finally settled, with William Glackens, Robert Henri, and John Sloan among others, Prendergast was one of the members ofThe Eight, gathered by Robert Henri to counter the pervading academicism. The group exhibited in 1908 at the Macbeth Galleries and took part in the Armory Show of 1913. After that Prendergast did not exhibit again with the group. In 1914 he left Boston definitively for New York. Prendergast was in his thirties before he began to devote himself to painting. In his late beginnings he painted in the open air as the Impressionists did, mainly in watercolours with clear brushstrokes and an elegant virtuosity recalling his then admiration for James Whistler and Claude Monet. Between 1892 and 1905 he carried out two hundred monotypes, a technique of which he was the undisputed master in America at that time and which expressed the influence of Japanisme. During his stays in France he painted views of Paris, but also Brittany and Normandy. In this period, in 1896, he was chosen to illustrate My Lady Nicotine by Matthew Barrie. During his third stay in Europe, from 1898 to 1900, he painted in Paris, at Saint-Malo, and mainly in Venice, where, influenced by Vittore Carpaccio he introduced brightly coloured banners into his animated compositions. In oils he painted slowly, touching up his paintings by superimposed brushstrokes, sometimes over several years. He chose to use the divided stroke in an early period, a technique which had similarities with Post-Impressionism. After his travels in Europe and his discovery of Paul Cézanne, he evolved in the direction of the neo-Impressionism of Georges Seurat, placing little dots of colours with a knife, then of the Nabis and even later Fauvism, painting large brushed surfaces in bright colours. After 1899, his Ponte della Paglia in Venice freed itself from strict divisionism, adopting the dense composition in vertically superimposed planes of the Nabis. Like the members of the group of eight, he took his subjects from the daily life of ordinary people, in scenes in the parks or on the beaches of New England, picnics or sometimes circuses. Nevertheless the happy vision that he had of the world separated him strongly from the evolution that led his companions to paint the most miserable and populous milieus, which gave them the name of The Ashcan School. His compositions are arranged in surfaces superimposed vertically, without depth; while the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists were influenced by the layout of Japanese prints, Prendergast was inspired more by Persian miniatures. The decorative elements and the build-up of characters in crowds are placed frontally, like garlands on a tapestry, particularly as he seeks a texture effect, covered entirely by the subject without any empty spaces. His attraction to colours caused him to research all the motifs that he introduced into these compositions: umbrellas, parasols, balloons, draperies. In 1911–1912, he experimented with pastel and treated new subjects, nudes and still-lifes. After 1913, in sympathy with the Symbolists, he put nude figures and everyday characters side by side in the same composition. In his last years, and above all in the watercolours, he discarded the divided stroke and applied larger brushstrokes, similar to the technique of Henri Matisse. Fidelity to the leisurely settings and elegant grooming of the period gave his works, apart from their artistic value, a charming sociological aspect. Singular, almost marginal in his time, his paintings stand out by the density of their composition, in form and colouring, characterised by the accumulation of detail, minutiae of scenery, the serried ranks of people that animate them, the chromatic polyphony of elegance, umbrellas, parasols, and flags. He is a complete painter, particularly generous, who would never be happy to provide only samples of his art. Following Whistler and Mary Cassatt, Maurice Prendergast is one of the most interesting and original Post-Impressionist American painters, and perhaps marks exactly the boundary between the 19th and the 20th centuries. He was considered to be an ‘old master’ from 1920 on, and his works appeared in very many exhibitions of modern American painting. He had his first solo exhibition in 1897 at the Chase Gallery of Boston, where his works were noticed by Madame Montgomery Sears, who made a collection, taking the advice of Mary Cassatt. In 1915 six paintings and watercolours exhibited at the Carroll Gallery of New York established his success and drew the great collectors to him, among whom were Albert Barnes and John Quinn. Group Exhibitions 1974, Ten Americans, Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York 1976, Art of Impulse and Color, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park (Maryland) 1982, American Impressionists, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (also presented at the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris) 1999, Town and Country: American Artists, 1870–1920 (Ville et campagne: les artistes américains, 1870–1920), Musée d’Art Américain, Giverny 2002, Japonisme in America: Works on Paper, 1880–1930 (Le Japonisme en Amérique: œuvres sur papier, 1880–1930), Musée d’Art Américain/Terra Foundation for the Arts, Giverny 2007, American Impressionists: Painters of Light and the Modern Landscape, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC 2008, Coming of Age: American Art 1850–1950, Paintings from the Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 2008, Portrait of a Lady: Paintings and Photographs of American Women in France 1870–1915, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux Solo Exhibitions 1934, Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1938, Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Maurice and Charles Prendergast, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA 1960, Maurice Prendergast, 1859–1924, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1990, Art Institute of Chicago 2009, Prendergast in Italy, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Museum and Gallery Holdings Andover, MA (Addison Gal. of American Art): At the Shore, St. Malo No. 1 and 2 (c. 1907, watercolour and graphite on wove paper, 2 works); Along the Cove (1910–1913, oil on canvas); seven sketches of Paris (1893, oil on wood) Chicago (AI): In the Park (1918–1919) Chicago (Terra Foundation for American Art Collection): Festa del redentore (c. 1899, monotype); The Opera Cloak...

A romantic oil study depicting a couple resting on a woodland floor feeding each other fruit. The scene appears to be a play on the Four Seasons series by François Boucher where the...

'The Rose' Canvas Size: 38.5 x 28" (98 x 71cm) Outside Frame Size: 48.5 x 38 (123 x 97cm) Oil on canvas Emile CHARLET 1851 - 1890 Born 1851 in Belg...

D.Lucas Classical Italianate Landscape oil painting on board, framed framed: 21 x 27 inches board: 18 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, Yorkshire condition: overall very go...

Still Life with Autumn Leaves Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) gouache on artist paper, unframed painting : 25.5 x 18 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and...

Original Painting of the Chrysler Building on 42nd Street, New York City, by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield Art measures 20 x 30 inches Frame measures 25 x 35 inches ...

The School Boys by Maria Tort Xirau (Catalan, 1924-2018) signed lower corner oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 29 x 40 inches Very good condi...

Nude Lady by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/...

Portrait of a Lady by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 9.75 high by 6 inches wide condition: o...

Maids at a Gathering signed by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) size: 16 x 13 inches oil painting on board, unframed condition: the painting is in very good condition. It has previously be...

Signed to the lower right. Presented in a green-painted wooden frame. On board.

The House Chef, Large Impressionist Portrait, Signed Oil Painting By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016) Signed by the artist on th...

From an exhibition created by the artist to celebrate the UK Miners strike from the 1980's These hard times for whole communities in the Welsh Valleys created a sense of togetherness...

Artist/ School: French School, signed lower corner, circa 1940's Title: Fishing and Sailing Boats in Marseilles Harbour Medium: signed oil painting on board, framed . Size: ...

Artist/ School: French School, 18th century Title: Classical figures within an interior. Medium: chalk on paper, mounted. Size: drawing: 11.5 x 13.5 inches Provenance:...

Raimond Louis Lecourt French ( b.1882 - d.1946 ). Chevaux À L'Abreuvoir, 1908. (Horses At The Trough). Oil On Canvas. Signed & Dated 1908 Lower Left. Image size 14.2 inches x 17.3 in...