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Photo credit: : National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Subject or sitter Portraits: British 16th and 17th C, Maritime Subjects, Dress and Textiles 27

Who is this Royalist naval commander painted by William Dobson (1611–1646)?

Photo credit: : Museums Sheffield

Artist Continental European before 1800, Yorkshire and the Humber: Artists and Subjects 10

Is this painting after Teniers II? Who is the artist?

Unknown Portrait of Bearded Man with Red Cloak

Photo credit: : Royal Cambrian Academy of Art

Subject or sitter Portraits: British 19th C, British 19th C, except portraits, Dress and Textiles 70

Can anyone identify the sitter or the artist in this portrait of a bearded man wearing a red cloak?

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Discoveries

6 March 2019 — News

Justo Ruiz Luna confirmed as artist of ancient harbour view

Reconstruction of the Ancient Port of Rome, late 19th C, oil on canvas by Justo Ruiz Luna (1865–1926)
Photo credit: : Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council

21 February 2019 — News

On the trail of Harry Clifford Pilsbury’s portraits

Daniel Henry Redhead (b.1837), JP, Mayor of Peterborough (1895 & 1905), oil on canvas, attributed to Harry Clifford Pilsbury (1870–1925)
Photo credit: : Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery

15 October 2018 — News

Maritime location identified as Portosalvo, Naples, with the Church of Santa Maria

Portosalvo, Naples, with the Church of Santa Maria, oil on paper by Thomas Stuart Smith (1813–1869)
Photo credit: : The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum

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