Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753) was a celebrated virtuoso and amateur architect, knighted by Willliam III in 1699. Roubiliac derived his portraits of Fountaine from the medallic portrait by Jacques ...

Kidney form mirror, engraved on the back with scroll-pattern and basket-pattern. The excellent condition suggests it was buried with the owner and not thrown away.

This is a portrait of Fergusson's wife Margaret Morris who the artist met in Paris in 1913. Margaret was an important dancer and artist and the two worked on many dance projects together. They moved ...

Family group portrait with a total of 16 likenessess depicted and 2 cherubs in the top left hand corner. Two of the figures in the front are three quarter length. Commissioned by John, 1st Marquess of ...

This group of beautiful designs for silk are almost all by James Leman and the earliest silk designs to have survived anywhere. Bound into a fragile nineteenth century volume, they are executed in ...

The Casino was built by Sir William Chambers in 1769 in the grounds of the first Earl of Charlemont's villa of Marino at Clontarf on the outskirts of Dublin. Chambers had built the Earl's town house ...

The Galloway (standing) Mazer or drinking vessel. The maplewood bowl rests on a collar over a baluster stem chased with acanthus fronds on tooled ground and a compressed knop. The circular foot is ...

An example of Lucie Rie's earliest work, c. 1936, before she had arrived in Britain during the war. The design is very modest, and influenced by the work of Joseph Hoffmann.

Geraniums and Carnations is a classic watercolour scene by the English painter and printmaker Eric Ravilious. Pink geraniums are shown lined up in terracotta pots in a wooden-framed greenhouse, with ...