Works for Sale / About the Collection

The guiding principle of the COLLECTION is to bring back into the spotlight some of the talented and highly-trained artists who so often have been overshadowed by their more fashionable contemporaries. Consequently many of these painters are relatively rarely seen for sale in the art market, although careful research reveals how esteemed they once were.

The artists in the collection range from the 17^th century painter of ‘gamepieces’, William Gowe Ferguson, to Stephen Rose (b. 1960), who produces still life paintings, landscapes, nudes and portrait paintings. Nearly all of them were trained in the major art schools (the Slade, the Byam Shaw School of Art, the Royal Academy Schools, the Munich Academy, the Dublin School of Art, the British School in Rome, the Danish Royal Academy), have exhibited in the main institutions and have work in public collections worldwide.

For example, amongst the still life artists, William Gowe Ferguson has pictures in the Louvre, the Tate, the Musée des Arts décoratifs de Bordeaux and the Manchester City Art Gallery, and Charles Thomas Bale, Stephen Rose and Duncan Oppenheim all exhibited in the Royal Academy.

Of the landscapists, Joseph Henderson exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy from the age of 25, in the Royal Academy from 1871-86, and in the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour, becoming a member in 1906; Frederick R. Lee exhibited in the Royal Academy for 46 years. Edward Wesson, who is noted for both seascapes and landscape paintings, exhibited in the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil, the Royal Society of Marine Painters, and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour (of which he was a member).

Albert Ludovici junr. served on the committee of the Society of British Artists when Whistler was President (ditto the International Society), as well as exhibiting in the New English Art Club, the New Watercolour Society, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Grosvenor Gallery.These are all extremely skilful and versatile artists, who have failed to gain a lasting grip on public attention – perhaps through the competitiveness of the art market, through a lack of vision in their past dealers, or through too little public exposure. So you can find them here – talented painters from the last four-&-a-half centuries, creating beautiful and decorative works of art for any interior, and mostly quite rare as they are not often for sale.