Modern British

Gordon Scott
1914 - 2016
Portrait of an NCC
Oil on canvas
Image size: 24 x 20 inches
Contemporary style frame

Gordon Scott was part of the Non Combatant Corp and painted many of his fellow Corp.

Charles Paine
1895 - 1967
The Fox
Gouache, signed lower left and right with monogram
Image size:
Acid free mount and black frame

Charles Paine
1895 - 1967
The Delivery
Pencil and pastel, signed lower right
Image size: 5 ½× 10 inches
Acid free mount and gilt frame
£900

Charles Paine
1895 - 1967
The Little Darling
Gouache, signed lower left
Image size: 3 ¾ inches
Acid free mount and black frame
£350

Charles Paine
1895 - 1967
The Tumbling Trumpeter
Gouache, signed lower left with monogram
Image size: 2 ¾ × 2 ¾ inches
Acid free mount and black frame
£350

Charles Paine
1895 - 1967
The Puppy
Gouache, signed lower right with monogram
Image size: 2 ¾ × 2 ¾ inches
Acid free mount and black frame
£350

British School

20th Century

Portrait of a Girl

Oil

Image size:12 x 8 inches

Framed

Percy Thornton

20th Century

Beech Trees

Oil on board

Image size: 15 ½ x 19 inches

Framed

Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS

1877 - 1970

Up the Rope Ladder

Watercolour and pastel, signed bottom right

Image size: 22 x 15 inches

Dutch ripple frame

Provenance

Royal Watercolour Society Summer show in 1934, Number 141.

Illustrated in the Old Watercolour Society Club Vol.12. Plate. 30

Dame Laura Knight was one of the most popular and pioneering British artists of the twentieth century. Her artistic career took her from Cornwall to Baltimore, and from the circus to the Nuremberg Trials. She painted dancers at the Ballets Russes and Gypsies at Epsom races, and was acclaimed for her work as an official war artist.

Knight used portraiture to capture contemporary life and culture, and her paintings are remarkable for their diverse range of subjects and settings.

James Arden Grant
1885 - 1973

Ann Grant and her butler at 270 Fulham Road, Chelsea

Oil on canvas

Image size: 29 x 24 inches

Contemporary frame

James Arden Grant RP was born in Liverpool in 1887 and studied at the School of Art there, where he also later taught. He continued his training at the Academie Julian in Paris and in London at Central Technical School, and eventually became vice-principal of Central School of Arts and Crafts. In the years before World War I, Grant was a member of the Sandon Studios Society, the social hub for Liverpool's artistic community.

Grant married Ann Stringer Dawson in 1912, and a son, Ian, was born in 1925. In 1932 Grant became a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. He was also President of the Pastel Society from 1945. A portrait by Grant was singled out for praise in the Glasgow Herald's review of the Society's Annual Exhibition in 1959.In 2001, Sothebys sold the contents of 41 Ladbroke Square, the home of Ian Grant, including many of his father's pictures. Ian had trained as an architect, was a founder and first secretary of the Victorian Society, and led the restoration of many important interiors, including the Palace of Westminster and the Royal Albert Hall. He died in 1998.

British School
2oth Century

View from a Bedroom Window

Oil on board

Image size: 12 x 15 inches

Contemporary style frame