Collector's Journal — Art Provenance
Richard Harry Carter: Cornish Fisherman Painting and Its Historic Provenance
19th Century Art Antique Oil Paintings Art Provenance British Fine Art British Marine Art Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD Cornish Art Cornish Fishermen Cornwall Artists Exhibition History Fine Art Collecting Fishing Heritage Maritime Paintings Newlyn School Richard Harry Carter Richard Henry Carter Sennen Cove Victorian Oil Paintings
Discover Richard Harry Carter's (1839–1911) atmospheric Cornish marine oil painting, Fisherman Releasing the Catch. Explore the artist's connections with the Newlyn artistic community, his life at Sennen Cove, the painting's documented 2021 and 2023 auction provenance, and the mystery surrounding its surviving historic exhibition label.
The Horse: British Equestrian Tradition Through a Modernist Eye
20th Century British Art Animal Art Animal Painting Art Provenance Art Research British Art British Artists British Equestrian Art British Oil Painting Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD Collectors Journal Equestrian Art Equestrian Painting Fine Art Horse Art Horse Painting Lionel Ellis Mid Century Art Mid Century Painting Modern British Art Provenance Sporting Art Sporting Paintings Vintage Art
Discover the remarkable story of The Horse, a circa 1950–1960 Modern British equestrian oil painting attributed to Lionel Ellis (1903–1988), with historic inscriptions recording its reported direct acquisition from the artist in 1974 and an unusually detailed chain of ownership.
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.
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.
Oliver Clare: Blossom, Blue Eggs and the Victorian Bird’s Nest
19th Century Art Art Provenance Art Research Bird's Nest Painting British Art British Artists Collecting Fine Art Floral Still Life George Clare Haynes Fine Art Oliver Clare Still Life Painting Victorian Art Victorian Painting Vincent Clare
Explore the remarkable natural world of Victorian painter Oliver Clare through Still Life of Blossom and a Bird’s Nest, c.1880–1890 — a signed oil with four mysterious blue eggs, characteristic mossy-bank detail and historic Haynes Fine Art provenance.
