Collector's Journal — Provenance Research
The Signature in Blue: A Chinese Highland Portrait and the Search for Lin Shusen (林树森)
Art Research Asian Art Chinese Art Chinese Oil Painting Contemporary Chinese Art Dafen Dafen Art Fine Art Highland Child Lin Shusen Portrait Painting Provenance Research Shanghai Art Yi Ren Gallery 林树森
A mysterious blue Chinese signature and surviving Yi Ren Gallery, Shanghai label have opened a fascinating investigation into this expressive highland child portrait and its possible connection with Shenzhen/Dafen realist painter Lin Shusen (林树森, b. 1974).
Captain Gamaliel Nightingale: A Georgian Naval Portrait by John Simmons
18th Century Painting Art Research & Provenance Bonhams British Art British Portraiture Famous Lord Hill Museum Gamaliel Nightingale Georgian Art John Simmons Maritime Art Naval Portrait Provenance Research Royal Navy
With Labor Day approaching in the United States, discover the remarkable history behind John Simmons's circa 1760 portrait of Royal Navy Captain Gamaliel Nightingale, from his Georgian naval career to Bonhams provenance, surviving historic labels and later private exhibition history.
The Sinking of Yamato: Eric Tufnell and the Final Sortie of Japan’s Great Battleship
7 April 1945 Art Research Battle of the East China Sea Battleship Yamato Captain Kosaku Aruga Collectors Journal Commander Eric Tufnell Eric Tufnell Historical Art Imperial Japanese Navy Japanese Battleships Maritime Art Naval History Naval Painting Naval Watercolour Okinawa Operation Ten-Go Pacific War Parker Gallery Provenance Research Royal Navy Second World War Vice Admiral Seiichi Ito WW2 Naval Art Yahagi Yamato
In 1963, Royal Navy Commander and marine artist Eric Tufnell painted the destruction of Yamato during Operation Ten-Go, only eighteen years after the battle. The original Parker Gallery correspondence and invoice survive, documenting the commission for a private collector.
Mrs George Wood Portrait | John Wood Victorian Art 1857
1857 19th Century Art Art Research British Art British Portraiture Collectors Journal Family Portrait Family Provenance Hansons Auctioneers Historical Portrait John Wood John Wood Artist Mrs George Wood Provenance Research Sarah Sophia Clark Sarah Sophia Wood Victorian Art Victorian Portrait Victorian Portraiture Victorian Women
Painted in 1857 and preserved through family descent, this intimate Victorian portrait traditionally depicts Sarah Sophia Wood, née Clark, revealing how inscriptions, inherited identity and family provenance can preserve a sitter’s story across generations.
Edward Carter Preston: Rediscovering a Modernist Painter
Art Research British Interwar Art British Modernism British Modernist Art British Still Life Collectors Journal Cubism Cubist Still Life Dead Mans Penny Edward Carter Preston Edward Carter Preston Watercolour Gerard Chowne Liverpool Art Liverpool Cathedral Liverpool Modernism Modern British Art Modernist Painting Next of Kin Memorial Plaque Paul Cezanne Post Impressionism Provenance Research Sandon Studios Society Watercolour
An intimate Cubist-influenced watercolour of everyday kitchen vessels reveals a lesser-known side of Edward Carter Preston, the Liverpool artist better remembered for sculpture, medals and his monumental work for Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.
