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Discover Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD®, specialist dealers in British and European fine art for private collectors, interior designers, museums, the trade, hospitality and film and television.
Collecting the Scottish Highlands: William Beattie-Brown’s Sgùrr nan Gillean
19th Century Art Anthony Woodd Gallery Art Collectors Art Provenance British Art Cuillin Mountains Design Trade Film and Television Fine Art Collecting Highland Art Highland Landscape Historic Paintings Interior Design Interior Designers Isle of Skye Private Collectors Production Design Royal Scottish Academy Scottish Art Scottish Landscape Painting Sgùrr nan Gillean Victorian Art Victorian Painting William Beattie-Brown
Explore William Beattie-Brown’s Sgùrr nan Gillean, Skye, a Victorian Highland landscape with a probable 1871–1884 date, Anthony Woodd Gallery provenance and documented Lyon & Turnbull auction history.
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).
The Wiscombe Park: A Historic Ship Portrait Attributed to Reginald Arthur Borstel
Art Research Australian Maritime History British Maritime History Marine Painting Maritime Art Provenance Reginald Arthur Borstel Ship Portrait Sunderland Shipbuilding Wiscombe Park
Researching the historic three-masted sailing ship Wiscombe Park, its Liverpool and Australian history, maritime flags and possible attribution to Reginald Arthur Borstel.
Alfred de Breanski Jr at Lake Windermere: Light, Landscape and the A. Fontville Signature
Alfred de Breanski Jr Alfred Fontville Art Provenance Art Research British Art British Landscape Painting Collecting Fine Art Fine Art Lake District Lake Windermere
Signed “A. FONTVILLE” and titled Lake Windermere verso, this atmospheric early twentieth-century landscape leads into the story of Alfred Fontville de Breanski Jr., his exhibition career, alternative signature and fascination with changing natural light.