FINE & DECORATIVE ARTS
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.
James Inskipp
(British, 1790-1868)
Portrait of a Maja
half-length wearing a black taffeta mantilla
trimmed with scarlet fringes
circa 1835
William Shayer Sr, RBA
(British, 1787-1879)
Fisherman's Children
Southampton
circa 1842
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.
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.
James Eckford Lauder, RSA
(Scottish, 1811-1869)
The Jewel Casket
scene from La Duenna, circa 1850
Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy (1850) no.114.
Gilbert Stuart Newton, RA
(Canadian, 1794-1835)
Portrait of Catarina Schindlerin
a German opera singer who made her London debut in 'Armida' at the King's Theatre 1775
Formerly in the Collection of John Heugh (1878)
Formerly in the Collection of Sir John Pender (1897)
Victor Joseph Chavet
(French, 1822-1906)
The Artist in his Studio
l'artiste dans l'atelier
full-length seated at an easel
with palette and brush in hand
circa 1860
Exhibited at The French Exhibition (London, 1861) no.21.
William Stewart MacGeorge, RSA
(Scottish, 1861-1931)
Bark Peeling, 1889
Kirkcudbright School
Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy (1889) no.72
William Mouncey
(Scottish, 1852-1901)
The Dark Rolling Dee, 1899
Kirkcudbright School
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of Art (1899) no.451
Exhibited at The Carnegie Institute of Art (1899) no.162
Exhibited at The Whitechapel Gallery Exhbition (1912) no.16
Sir Frank Brangwyn, ARA
(Welsh, 1867-1956)
After Trafalgar, 1911
Illustration for Robert Southey's Life of Nelson published by Gibbings & Co. (1911)
Frontispiece illustration for William Whall's Romance of Navigation published by S Low Marston & Co. (1925)