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photo credit: Museums Sheffield

Artist Continental European after 1800 7

Who painted 'A Spanish Music Girl'?

photo credit: The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum

Subject or sitter British 19th C, except portraits, Continental European after 1800, Scotland: Artists and Subjects 19

Forward Can you identify this piazza, painted by Thomas Stuart Smith?

photo credit: Southampton City Art Gallery

Subject or sitter Continental European after 1800 10

Is this painting by one of the Meyerheim family?

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Discoveries

26 April 2018 — News

David Waterson’s portrait of an unknown sitter discovered to be sculptor and sundial-maker James Tosh

26 April 2018 — News

George Chambers I is confirmed as the artist of a brig leaving a port, identified as Dover

A Brig Leaving Dover, oil on canvas by George Chambers I (1803–1840)
photo credit: National Maritime Museum

26 April 2018 — News

Portrait of Samuel Holland MP attributed to Hugh Carter

Samuel Holland, Esq., of Caerdeon (1803–1892), oil on canvas by Hugh Carter (1837–1903)
photo credit: Gwynedd Archives Service

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