Fine Art

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales under £1300, including an Albert Goodwin view of Whitby.

Mayfair exhibition reveals the sculptor and painter’s huge impact on artists.

David Fulton (1848-1930) was a Glasgow painter who, like his contemporaries Gemmell Hutchison and William Marshall Brown, specialised in painting children in sentimental settings.

Burne-Jones’ studio assistant shows his own artistic skills in the Pre-Raphaelite genre.

Consigned from a deceased estate in Oxfordshire, a loosely bound album containing nearly 100 watercolours of marine and topographical views drew multiple bids at an Oxford saleroom.

A pair of early George III carved walnut Gainsborough chairs, c.1765, were among the early highlight sales at BADA 2019. Offered from the stand of Richard Courtney in excellent original condition, they sold for a price in the region of £70,000.

A surrealist work by John Tunnard (1900-71) led a sale of 20th century British pictures from Hertfordshire County Council’s collection at Cheffins on March 21.

London Judaica dealer Joseph Landau travelled to Sworders in Stansted Moutfitchet on March 13 with the sole purpose of buying a pencil, charcoal and white chalk drawing Carrying the Torah by Simeon Solomon (1840-1905).

In 1835, artist George Baxter (1804-67) patented his method for affordable, mass produced colour printing. The combination intaglio and relief process became known as the ‘Baxter method,’ and the resulting images are a window into how Victorians viewed the major events of the mid-19th century.

Early 20th century Italian sculpture attracts six-figure result in German auction house.

It was during a period of intense industrialisation that the 19th century pastoral tradition in British print making flourished.

The Old Master section of Dominic Winter’s sale on March 7 yielded multi-estimate sums for two works that were linked to major names in Renaissance and marine art.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales under £2000, including a work by Scottish painter John Maxwell.