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Photo credit: : Newport Museum and Art Gallery

Artist London: Artists and Subjects, Portraits: British 19th C, Portraits: British 20th C 47

Forward Could you help us to learn more about the artist Laura Margaret Fisher?

Photo credit: : National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Subject or sitter Dress and Textiles, Maritime Subjects, Portraits: British 18th C, Portraits: British 19th C 28

Forward Can you help to identify this naval lieutenant?

Photo credit: : The Box (Plymouth Museums Galleries Archives)

Artist Maritime Subjects, Yorkshire and the Humber: Artists and Subjects, British 19th C, except portraits 33

Might this work be by George Chambers senior?

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28 March 2019 — News

A ‘Carelli’ painting of a Middle Eastern Scene, but which Carelli?

Middle-Eastern Scene, drawing and watercolour on paper by Gabriel Carelli (1820–1900)
Photo credit: : Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

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

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