# london socantiquaries brexit ordemparanormal ordemsona painting paintings art artistic painter abstract abstractpainting abstractexpressionism abstractartworks fineart artworks contemporaryart

Black and mixed ethnic people were not unusual sights for Londoners during the Regency period because by that time London was already a diverse and cosmopolitan city.
Scharf's study features two men walking in Leadenhall Street (1825)

16 38
2020-12-04

Have Paint Will Travel
Scharf's portrait of the entrance lodge to Earl Fitzwilliam's pile at Milton Hall in Northamptonshire (1824)

0 5
2020-12-04

RT : captures the rather boozy chairing ritual of Sir Francis Burdett as it headed down the Strand in following his election to Parliament for Westminster in the summer of 1818

1 1
2020-12-03

In homage to the Royal Society of Antiquaries, who are now threatened with eviction from Burlington House following a disgraceful 3100% increase in rent - here is a portrait of its President Lord Stanhope (1873) by Sir George Scharf Junior

2 10
2020-12-01

Scharf captures the rather boozy chairing ritual of Sir Francis Burdett as it headed down the Strand in following his election to Parliament for Westminster in the summer of 1818

3 15
2020-12-01

Scharf's study of three yeomen at the Kings Mews Charing Cross is unusual as the figure on the right looks like a woman, not to mention the bloke on the left who seems to be doing some street advertising in his spare time, (1830)

0 5
2020-11-19

Forget the hard hats, bring your top hats instead!

A site meeting between the architect and builders designing and constructing the Royal College of Surgeons building in Lincolns Inn Fields by George Scharf 1834

(The one on the right has obvs been asked to make the tea)

5 22
2020-11-19

The One Man Band, as seen in the Strand by Scharf c.1820

OR

Britain's Post Reality

1 6
2020-11-13

Vou aproveitar a onda e largar a minha Oc da ordem, Leona Scharf

24 283
2020-11-05

Danger! Men At Work!
Four labourers laying granite block paving in a street (Scharf, 1834)

1 5
2020-11-05

In the Court Yard at St James' Palace - by Scharf, July 1831

0 5
2020-10-30

Scharf informs us that Regency period military bands often incorporated bandsmen from the Indian sub-continent, in this portrait from (1828)

0 8
2020-10-30

3/3
A trio of sketches of military uniforms as observed at Woolwich Barracks by George Scharf (1825)

1 7
2020-10-30

1/3
A trio of sketches of military uniforms as observed at Woolwich Barracks by George Scharf (1825)

6 14
2020-10-30

Good Day!
'On the River Thames" Bermondsey May 1827 by George Scharf
Watercolour
(British Library)

13 90
2020-10-21

The Laying of the water main in Tottenham Court Road (1834) by George Scharf (1788–1860). Civil engineering in Victorian London.

3 19
2020-10-20