Baraset House

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FINE ART

Baraset House Fine Art offers a collection of Paintings spanning centuries, styles and countries. We are specialists in Old Masters paintings from the 16th to 18th century, with a focus on Important Historical Portraiture, Provenance & the History of our Sitters.

We offer a fine selection of 19th century works of art, Early Scottish Impressionists, Female Masterworks & Twentieth Century works, with particular focus on Exhibition History & Important Provenance.

Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann

(Danish, 1819-1881)

The Stocking-Mender, circa 1868

Of Royal Interest - from the Collection of Queen Victoria

Exhibited at The Berlin Academy of Arts (1868) as Stumpfstopferin where purchased by Victoria, Crown Princess of Prussia who gifted the painting to her mother, Queen Victoria, for Christmas 1868, Osborne House, Isle of Wight.

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John da Costa

(British, 1867-1931)

Portrait of Emilia Francis Strong,

Lady Dilke (1840-1904), 1895

Celebrated Author, Art Historian, Women's Rights Activist & Founder of the Women's Trade Union League

Exhibited at John da Costa: A Memorial Exhibition (1974), Leighton House , no.1.

Formerly in the collection of Womens Rights Activist Miss Gertrude Tuckwell, first female JP of London

Formerly in the Collection of the Chelsea Public Library.

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John Thomas Seton

(Scottish, 1738-1806)

Self portrait

in Van Dyck dress holding a porte-crayon, circa 1775

In 1776, Seton travelled to Calcutta, where he established a flourishing practice. He received commissions to paint portraits from the upper echelons of the British East India Company in Bengal, including Warren Hastings, Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote, Chief Justice Sir Roberts Chambers, surgeon Ninian Lowis, and Maratha Empire statesman Nana Fadnavis.

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