Collector's Journal — Art Research
Frank Watson Wood and HMS London: A Royal Navy Portrait from the First World War
Art Research British Art British Expeditionary Force British Naval Art Collectors Journal Dardanelles Edmund Walter Anstice First World War Frank Watson Wood Gallipoli HMS London Marine Painting Maritime Art Maritime History Naval Watercolour Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Provenance Research Royal Navy Royal Navy History WW1 Naval Art
A signed First World War watercolour by celebrated marine artist Frank Watson Wood captures HMS London during a pivotal period in Royal Navy history, accompanied by remarkable surviving material connected with future Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Walter Anstice.
King William III: Portraiture, Power and the Glorious Revolution
18th Century Art After Sir Godfrey Kneller Art Conservation Art Research British Art British Royal Portraits Collectors Journal Glorious Revolution Great George Historical Portraits King William III Late Stuart Art Mary II Order of the Garter Royal Portraiture Scottish Provenance Sir Godfrey Kneller Stuart Monarchy William of Orange
An imposing early eighteenth-century portrait of King William III reveals how royal imagery projected authority after the Glorious Revolution, from Sir Godfrey Kneller’s influential portrait types to the ancient symbolism of the Order of the Garter.
Walter Linsley Meegan: Moonlight Over Victorian Liverpool
19th Century Art Architectural Painting Art Research British Art British Cityscape Collectors Journal John Atkinson Grimshaw Liverpool Art Liverpool Paintings Moonlight Painting Nocturne Painting Trinity Church Liverpool Victorian Art Victorian Liverpool Victorian Nocturne Walter Linsley Meegan
An atmospheric late Victorian nocturne of Trinity Church reveals Walter Linsley Meegan’s fascination with Liverpool after dark, where architecture, figures and street lighting emerge dramatically through shadow and silvery moonlight.
James Gordon (1824–1901): Rediscovering a Portrait by Alice Gates
Alice Gates Art Attribution Art Research British Art British Sculpture Bronze Portrait Collectors Journal Edwardian Art Edwardian Sculpture James Gordon Liverpool Art Memorial Sculpture Portrait Relief Provenance Research Walker Art Gallery Women Sculptors
An indistinct signature on an early Edwardian bronze portrait of James Gordon (1824–1901) led to an intriguing discovery: sculptor Alice Gates exhibited The late James Gordon, Esq. at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery in 1902, providing compelling evidence for the portrait’s newly researched attribution.
Arthur Roland Knight: Pike Fishing and the Art of Victorian Angling
Angling Art Art Research Arthur Roland Knight British Art British Sporting Art Collectors Journal Duke's Auctioneers Fishing Art Fishing History Natural History Art Northern Pike Pike Fishing Provenance Research Sporting Paintings Victorian Angling Victorian Paintings
A signed Victorian oil by specialist sporting artist Arthur Roland Knight captures the dramatic moment a northern pike is landed with a gaff, combining the excitement of nineteenth-century angling with natural-history observation and the atmosphere of the British river.
