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March 2025At first sight there seems to be little connection between the two pictures offered in this edition of Gallery Notes, one a pen and wash drawing of an English warship... -
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June 2024To readers of Gallery Notes half a century ago and more, the cover illustration of a shipping scene (see illus) would have been familiar, but few may have known the... -
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January 2023Preview: In 2005 my colleague James Mitchell discovered an unusual trompe l’oeil card rack picture. There was no attribution but judging from the text of the papers depicted and the... -
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July 2022In our firm’s long association with European flower painting, two artists have always been especially revered, Antoine Berjon (1754-1843) and Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759- 1840). Surprisingly, and in spite of compelling... -
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April 2022Preview: Sometimes a painting catches the imagination as much for its provenance as for its artistic merits, and this oil sketch by Joseph Highmore is very much a case in... -
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June 2021It is ninety years since our grandfather, John Mitchell, began the art dealing business which we run today. Over the many years there have been numerous premises (even for a... -
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July 2020Positioned next to a bunch of grapes and vine leaves, two boiled lobsters with a cut and peeled lemon and a peach on a pewter plate produce complex reflections in... -
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April 2020PREVIEW: Forty years ago George Barret could still be described as ‘[b]y far the best-known Irish landscape painter’ – no casual hyperbole in some dealer’s catalogue, this, but the verdict... -
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October 2019PREVIEW: The recent opening of a small exhibition at the Royal Academy (Laura Knight: A Working Life – until 2nd Feb. 2020) has brought to mind once again the achievement... -
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June 2019PREVIEW: Our Gallery Notes of November 2017 commemorated the bicentenary of Ibbetson’s death and in it I wrote how, since our exhibition of 1999 and my accompanying monograph on the... -
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March 2019PREVIEW: Turner was sent to London at the age of fifteen to take up an apprenticeship under John Varley, and was elected a full member of the Old Watercolour Society... -
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February 2019PREVIEW: Bronkhorst is one of those Dutch Old Masters about whom virtually nothing is known, save for a single, rather charming fact about some other, unrelated activity. Just as it... -
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November 2019PREVIEW: For nearly fifty years, John Mitchell Fine Paintings has dealt in paintings by the French landscape painter, Antoine Guillemet. This is the firm’s third exhibition devoted to his work:... -
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September 2018PREVIEW: These are the words used by David Attenborough in his ‘Foreword’ to the National Maritime Museum’s exhibition on Hodges in thesummer of 2004, thefirstever of its kind. Three years... -
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June 2018PREVIEW: Regular readers of Gallery Notes will know that we have long specialised in flower painting. It was a surprise therefore when this remarkable oil painting arrived in the gallery... -
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March 2018PREVIEW: On a recent visit to the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio I saw a celebrated portrait by the American artist William Merritt Chase, entitled Dora Wheeler (1883). From... -
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May 2018PREVIEW: When it was exhibited at the Paris Salon, this beautifully preserved picture was entitled Une vue de Cora, ville de Latium, which should be interpreted as the town of... -
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June 2012PREVIEW: In March we exhibited at The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht for the twenty-first consecutive year, and as this remarkable event celebrated its own twenty-fifth birthday, we were... -
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September 2011PREVIEW: In February we held our sixth James Hart Dyke exhibition, which proved to be nothing less than a sensation, even by the standards of the modern art world. In... -
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November 2010PREVIEW: All through his working life Lagrenée kept a livre deraison recording his works. Published in 1877 in Paris by E. de Goncourt, it forms a valuable resource forthe study...
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