Bruce Allison
Norwegian dawn, 1944 after Nicolas Trudgian
A bronze figure by Antonio Susini c.1580-90 in Florence. Modelled after Giambologna’s original of 1565 titled “Allegory of Architecture”
The Manor House, Cross Lane, Preston, Rutland. Built 1632 of the local ironstone, having as many as seven bays and five gables to the south. Preston village has about 65 houses, of which 31 are listed.
The Customs House of 1680, Venice - Bay of San Marco and the distant island of Guidecca with Il Redentore, church of The Redeemer.
Reflections on The Thames, Westminster, after John Atkinson Grimshaw 1879. The whiter electric lighting was installed in 1877.
Round the IOW race competitors in a fresh breeze off The Needles, after Rod Pearce
Exton Hall, Rutland, seen from under the branches of one of its Scots Pines. Built in the 1800’s replacing an Elizabethan mansion that burnt down in 1810. Seat of Viscount Campden, son of the 6th Earl of Gainsborough
Keukenhof Gardens in The Netherlands, April 2024. A sweeping vista of grape hyacinths, tulips and daffodils....part of the 80 acres of woodland-spread spring bulbs.
Sir Sean Connery, actor - 1930-2020
Watercolour of a sculpture in limewood 18" high of Julius Caesar, on a walnut base, by Giambologna (Giovanni of Boulogne in Flanders) circa 1551, a Medici court sculptor in Rome
A snowy evening in the village of Wishanger near Farnham in Surrey
The Exeter Arms and duck house, Barrowden, Rutland
A Northern lapwing (a.k.a. peewit)
Bronze 16 inches high of the Roman god Mars by Giambologna of Florence (1529-1608) which is one of the few sculpted by the master himself and not a later casting by one of his assistants
Red Kites over Burley on the Hill, Rutland, built in the 1690's by the 2nd Earl of Nottingham
The Milkmaid, after Johannes Vermeer 1658
A pair of pheasants in snow, after Archibald Thorburn 1903
A summer scene in Oakham with the 17th century Buttercross, listed Grade 1. SOLD 2022
Off Norway, around 7pm, 26th December 1943, the German battleship Scharnhorst's bow explodes under the Allied fleet’s eight star shells. After the renowned war artist Charles Pears’ oil painting of 1944
Mr.Cool, after Jack Vettriano (his oil was first exhibited in 1997).
Jennifer Fichet, French concert pianist on a Steinway grand
A bronze sculpture 9” high by Ferdinando Tacca (1619-86) called “Horse With Flowing Mane” after Giambologna's model of over fifty years before
Dance Me to the End of Love, after Jack Vettriano 1998
Lambeth Palace on the Thames 1852, after Henry Pether
Waiting for the train, India 1897, after Rudolf Swoboda. One of the paintings commissioned of the artist by Queen Victoria for Osborne House as she wanted a variety of paintings of her Indian subjects.
Mad Dogs, after Jack Vettriano. SOLD 2019. (his oil painted in 1991)
A Cambridge eight on the Great Ouse at Ely, whose cathedral founded in 1109 has the third longest nave in Britain and whose building was funded in the 12th century at 8,000 eels a year via local catchers and Peterborough Abbey which owned the Barnack stone quarry. SOLD 2019
The Milkmaid (detail), after Johannes Vermeer
Italian bronze "Venus Urania" by Giambologna, cast 1573. Also titled “An Allegory of Astronomy”.
Seated Nymph, bronze c. 1484 by Giovanni Fonduli da Crema of Padua, now in The Wallace Collection, London W1
Horsey Staithe and windpump, Norfolk Broads
A snipe in the rushes, after Archibald Thorburn 1901. His original was on sale Jan 2018 at £35,000
The 58' Norfolk wherry Albion (after Neil Smalley artist at Ludham Bridge), built in 1898 and one of only two remaining wherries on The Broads still fitted out for trading, which worked with two crew and a single huge gaff sail on a high peak, capable in the early 1900's of carrying up to 42 tons of cargo e.g. cattle cake, wheat grain, ice, sugar beet, timber, coal, thatch reeds etc.
The Waltzers, after Jack Vettriano (his oil painted in 1992)
Cutty Sark leaving Shanghai under tow on the early tide 1870, after J.S. Dews . The clipper carried 1,450 tons of tea to London in eight round trips a year.
A snowy night on the Grand Union in the 1940’s, after Alan Firth
17th C Italian bronze on a marble plinth of Hercules & the Centaur at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire
Florida 2001, dawn - crowds watch a space shuttle take off in a cloud of steam on a visit to construct the ISS (International Space Station)
Dawn over Hadrian's Wall, a view towards Sycamore Gap. As seen before the tree was felled by a vandal.
Evening fog forming near Staithes harbour, North Yorkshire
Bluebird at Bonneville in 1935, after Jack Vettriano's oil on canvas of 1996 (SOLD 2016).
May 1943 Guy Gibson VC diverts the flak, after Robert Taylor (SOLD 2016)
Staithes harbour North Yorkshire
Pink footed geese landing by Loch Leven, some of the 25,000 that arrive from the Arctic each year in great skeins to overwinter
Suffolk Snowscape, after William Newton
Glasgow Lights 1892, after John Atkinson Grimshaw
1881 the Ramsgate lifeboat floats a line to The Indian Chief aground on Long Sand, after Mark Myers RSMA. Mark Myers is a Past-President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists.
Barbados harbour 2006, "Sun Princess" about to be tugged out past "Sea Cloud" - currently the world's oldest ocean going passenger ship.
The Lacemaker, about 1670, after Johannes Vermeer
February crocus bank opposite Market Overton church, Rutland
The Bridlington Lifeboat 1885-1898
About to bathe, the goddess Diana with her bow and quiver of arrows. White marble sculpture 73 inches high by the British sculptor Holme Cardwell in Rome in 1862. Sold at Sotheby’s in 2019 at 357,000 GBP
Restored in 2015, RAF rescue boats from the mid 1930's (SOLD 2016)
A Morris "side" with badger mascot make merry in Bampton, Oxfordshire. SOLD 2017 - Its new owners had just moved back to the UK from the USA and found a house in Bampton
Juvenile barn owl at dusk
Hoar frost on the Grand Union, after Alan Firth
Children dancing in the streets in Uttarkahand state, northern India close to the Himalayas
Roman glass jug with plums, after Roy Barley
