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Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Founder: Everyone's Art. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc
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'Study of a Bather.' (1926) Herbert James Gunn was born in Glasgow in 1893, he is perhaps best known for his beach scenes painted largely on the Continent.

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'The Shoe Shop.' (1956) William Roberts was a meticulous artist and obsessed with the grid as a chess master. Every part of his paintings lines up along a significant axis; his figures habitually list towards the diagonal, giving the impression that they are all knees and elbows

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In 'Weeping Willows by a Pond,' strange geometries are revealed by the simplification of John Nash's trees, whiskery or stout-trunked, form lattices against the light.

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'Shelling Peas.' (c1940) Geoffrey Tibble held a number of successful one-man shows in London galleries in the 1930s and 1940s featuring figures in interiors in the manner of Degas and Vuillard. The critic Raymond Mortimer placed him 'in the front rank of living English painters.'

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This drawing is one of Stanley Spencer's first self-portraits, drawn around 1913. His features are densely defined with Old Master qualities with a network of close, cross-hatched strokes and the face is strongly lit from the left.

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A feeling of well-being and tranquillity is so typical of the paintings by Dorothea Sharp. Her aim was to accentuate the positive and innocent side of life which is perfectly represented by this painting of Porthmeor Beach in St Ives.

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'Three Women at a Well.' (1972) Alberto Morrocco is best known for his vibrant still-lifes brightly coloured Mediterranean beach scenes and scenes of Italian life. Of the latter he commented: 'I've chosen to paint the subjects which are near to my heart'

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Here (1908) James Pryde has taken a familiar Edinburgh landmark, The British Linen Bank in St Andrew's Square, and transformed it into something nearing an ancient relic. Sightseers and workmen fill the foreground adding to the scene's theatricality.

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Frances Hodgkins was a New Zealander who came to Europe in 1901. In the 1920s, she developed a strong fascination with the English landscape and revisited many familiar places including Flatford Mill in East Bergholt, Suffolk which John Constable painted in 1816.

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In 1964 Sir Sydney Nolan visited Antarctica for eight days and recorded his impressions in watercolour on 200 blank postcards he had taken along for this purpose. This work is one of about fifty paintings Nolan executed in the following eighteen months.

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