Neapolitan School, c. 1835 Gouache on card. A very rare and original grand tour painting depicting the early 19th century eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. The painting is comprized of 9 independent views of the eruption, including tourists surveying the blue grotto. Each view is separated by a faux painted boarder. Beautiful ebonized fruitwood Biedermeier frame. Marbled backing paper. Rectangular, size 55 cms. X 69 cms. (21 3/4 inches X 27 1/4 inches). Mt...

Scottish School, watercolour on ivory, portrait miniature of a child with a dog, attributed to William Douglas (1780-1832). The rectangular, half-length, portrait depicts a child wearing a violet-coloured dress with gold shoulder straps, playing with a dog. Stone background with sunset landscape in the distance. Gilt-metal frame with velvet reverse. 10 cms. X 8 cms. (4 inches X 3 1/4 inches). Excellent condition and a lovely subject. William Douglas was born in Fife on the 14 April 1780...

Hans Hansen (1859 - 1941). Watercolour on card. "Snake Charmer, Morocco". Fantastical Orientalist interior scene depicting Moroccians seated and flanking a kneeling snake charmer and snake. Beyond, the inside roof of the building descends in arabesques with brilliant blue sky beyond. Signed to obverse. Rectangular, 29 cms. X 50 cms. (11 1/2 inches X 20 inches). Beautiful, original, restored frame incorporates Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and the Glasgow school motifs...

Watercolour on card. Portrait of General Keir Grant, in 3/4 pose. The General, with fair hair and dark eyes, is dressed in a scarlett coatee, wearing his Knight of Bath medal. Signed and dated, “Adam Buck/1822” to obverse. Original gilt frame embossed "General William Keir Grant, KCB by Adam Buck, c. 1822" to centre obverse. Original framer label to reverse. Rectangular, 5 inches X 4 inches. With frame, 9 3/4 inches X 8 1/2 inches. General Sir William Keir Grant was born in 1772...

Continental School. Early 19th Century watercolor on ivory portrait of an officer. The officer, depicted in 1/2 pose, is depicted wear a blue coatee with red facings, silver epaulettes and aiguillete, white shoulder belt with silver belt plate, chemise and black stock. Beneath his right arm he carries a silver helmet decorated with a black feather. Gilt brass frame. Oval, 8 cms. X 6 1/2 cms. (3 1/4 inches X 2 1/2 inches). Excellent condition.

J. Lecourt (French, active 1804 - 1890). Watercolour on ivory. Portrait of Victor Harrington as a young boy, wearing a dark blue coate with bouffant sleeves and gold buttons, wide white circular collar. Beyond an intense forest landscape. Gilt-metal frame with foliate border...

Mabel Spurrier (British, c. 1930) Oil on canvas. This quintessential depression-era painting depicts three young children sitting on the stoop in front of their house, painting in an art book. Behind, the wash hangs on the line. Signed to obverse, "M G Spurrier". Rectangular, 58 cms. X 48 cms. (22 3/4 inches X 18 3/4 Inches). Extremely charming subject and in very good condition. Mabel Spurrier flourished in the United Kingdom between 1920 - 1930, when she exhibited at the Royal Academy...

French School, c. 1785 Pastel on card. A pair of portraits depicting a husband and wife. The woman, with powdered hair, is wearing a peach and white gown, matching bow in her hair, and a multi-strand pearl choker around her neck. the man, with powdered hair, tied en queue, wears a red coat over a white shirt with frilled cravat and a peach coloured waist coat, which matches madams gown. Gilt frames. Rectangular, each, 41.5 cms. X 32 cms. (16 1/2 inches X 12 1/2 inches).

Portrait of Jan Casper Hardwick, c. 1800. Watercolour on ivory. Mr. Hardwick is depicting as wearing a black coat, matching waistcoat, frilled cravat, and powdered wig. Inscribed to the reverse, “Jan Casper Hardwick**died/Oct 23 1835/Age 80”. (The dating of the miniature is derived as follows: Mr. Hardwick is about 45 years of age in the miniature. Subtracting 35 years from his death in 1835 produces a date of 1800 for the miniature.) Gilt metal surround in ebonized papier mache frame....

George Paice (1854 - 1925) Oil on canvas. Portrait of the horse named, “American”. Period walnut frame. Rectangular, (34 cms. X 44 cms. 13 1/2 inches X 17 1/4 inches). The Horse, “American”, was born in 1915. His blood line is half British/half American. George Paice was born in 1854. He possessed a keen and sensitive eye for painting horses and had a personal interest in racing. Paice married in 1879 and had eight children. One of his children, Philip Stuart also became an ...

Samuel Shelley (British, 1750-1808). Watercolour on ivory. Portrait miniature of a lady named Sarah Fairfax, wearing a dark red drss, white fiche, black ribbon chocker, and white bonnet with lace trim and ribbon bow. Gold frame hanging from gold plated chain. Oval, 3 cms. diameter 1 1/2 inches).

Solomon Polack, c. 1795. Portrait of a young gentleman wearing a blue coat with black collar, white waistcoat, frilled chemise and cravat. Gilt mounted rectangular papier mache frame. Oval miniature, 6 cms. diameter (2 1/3 inches). Rectangular frame, 12 1/2 cms. X 10 cms. (5 inches X 4 inches). Solomon Polack was born in the Hague, in 1757. He worked in England and Dublin, probably before 1790. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1790-1835. Polack died the 30 August, 1839. Min...