Collector's Journal — Collecting Fine Art
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.
