Artwork

Illustrators & Cartoonists
We hold the largest and most significant stock of British illustrations and cartoons in the country. Click here to see images by a wide range of artists from Arthur Rackham and Heath Robinson through Mabel Lucie Attwell and Donald McGill to Quentin Blake and Ronald Searle. The range is always represented in The Illustrators, our well-established, world-famous annual exhibition, which opens each November.

Cat artists
We always stock a strong selection of work by Louis Wain, the most inimitable of cat artists. Click here to see images by both Wain and his successors, including Lesley Fotherby, Susan Herbert and Lesley Anne Ivory. All are on top form and in winning condition in Louis Wain and the Summer Cat Show, held annually in August.

Early English Watercolourists
Our holdings perfectly represent the breadth of schools working during this innovative phase of the history of English watercolours. Click here to see:  landscapes and townscapes viewed by early topographers and foreign travellers; caricatures and social commentaries from Rowlandson and his circle; Romantic impressions from the followers of Bonington; and elegant portraits and literary scenes.

Victorian Artists
We deal in the best Victorian watercolours, from the cottages and gardens of Helen Allingham and Beatrice Parsons to the exotic views of Edward Lear and Walter Tyndale. A special focus is made of Albert Goodwin and Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, artists following the Turnerian tradition and championed by Ruskin. Click here to view watercolours and a choice of complementary oils.

Modern British Artists
We hold an impressive collection of British art of the twentieth century. Click here to see traditional landscape artists (such as Brangwyn, Seago, Walcot), neo-romantics (Ayrton, Peake, Piper) and modernists (Ceri Richards, Alan Reynolds, Donald Hamilton Fraser).

Gallery Artists
We represent a number of leading contemporary artists, exemplifying the best in the traditional art of watercolour. Click here to choose between the astonishingly versatile images of Lesley Fotherby, the atmospheric landscapes of Roy Hammond, the delicately crafted still life of Val Archer, and the boldly painted flowers of Geraldine Girvan.

Photographers
Exciting images by leading post-war photographers complete our wealth of British works of paper. Click here to see Terry O’Neil, Lord Snowdon and now Terence Donovan exploit the rich tones of monochrome to explore fame and fashion, reportage and social reality.

Sculptors
Classic, modern and contemporary sculpture complements our stock of paintings, drawings and photographs. Click here to see works in bronze and terracotta that display the many ways in which the art of modelling replicates the multiplicity of human movement: Paul Day dramatises responses to war, Sydney Harpley captures the spirit of the dance, Karin Jonzen embodies tender affection …