Discoveries

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

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

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

Perseus and Andromeda, oil on copper, attributed to Henry Howard (1769–1847)
Photo credit: : Luton Culture

Perilous Position of HMS 'Terror', Captain Back, in the Arctic Regions in the Summer of 1837, oil on canvas by William Smyth (1799–1877)
Photo credit: : National Maritime Museum

X Gun Mountings Officer, Devonport Dockyard, 1941, Commander (E) H. J. B. Moore, RN, 1941, graphite on paper by William Russell Flint (1880–1969)
© the artist's estate
Photo credit: : Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

Admiral Sir Robert Waller Otway (1770–1846), 19th C, oil on canvas, attributed to John Lucas (1807–1874)
Photo credit: : National Maritime Museum

Joseph Proctor (d.1845), Master (1799–1845), early 1840s, oil on canvas, attributed to John Brooks
Photo credit: : St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge

Lieutenant Henry Butterworth (1783–1860), oil on board, attributed to Edwin Greenwood (1808–1874)
Photo credit: : Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service

Emma Hart (c.1765–1815), later Lady Hamilton, as a Bacchante (after Joshua Reynolds), late 18th C, oil on canvas, British (English) School
Photo credit: : Manchester Art Gallery

Warrington from Atherton's Quay, Cheshire, c.1772, oil on canvas by Daniel Donbavand (1751–c.1797)
Photo credit: : Warrington Museum & Art Gallery

Augusta Cargill, née Bicknell (1819–1871), c.1841, oil on canvas by William Gush (1813–1888)
Photo credit: : University of Aberdeen

Girl Reading, 1878, oil on canvas by Charles Edward Perugini (1839–1918)
Photo credit: : Manchester Art Gallery

Brenda, Countess of Wilton, c.1919–1920, oil on canvas by Edoardo Gioja (1862–1936)
Photo credit: : Manchester Art Gallery

Stiffkey Old Hall, oil on canvas by Henry Bright (1810–1873)
Photo credit: : Museums Sheffield

The Knife-Grinder, oil on board, after Charles Émile Jacque (1813–1894)
Photo credit: : Wisbech & Fenland Museum

Jessie MacGregor (1879–1951), 1913, oil on canvas by John Munnoch (1879–1915)
Photo credit: : The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum

Landscape with a Country House, 1838, oil on canvas by John Wilson Carmichael (1799–1868)
Photo credit: : Laing Art Gallery

Sanctuary of Saint Michael the Archangel, oil on canvas by Thomas Stuart Smith (1813–1869)
Photo credit: : The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum

Signs of Herring, 1899, oil on canvas by Colin Hunter (1841–1904)
Photo credit: : Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library

Bradda Head, c.1885, oil on canvas by John James Story (c.1828–1899)
Photo credit: : Manx National Heritage

Portrait of an Italian Noblewoman (once thought to be Eva Maria Garrick), c.1710–1720, oil on canvas, attributed to Giovanni Maria delle Piane (1660–1745)
Photo credit: : Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Venetian Working Boats, oil & pencil on paper by Thomas Stuart Smith (1813–1869)
Photo credit: : The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum

Cheyne Walk at Its Junction with Luna Street, oil on board, circle of Paul Fordyce Maitland (1863–1909)
Photo credit: : Newport Museum and Art Gallery

Colonna dell’Immacolata from the Via Macherroni, Palermo, after 1855, oil on paper by Thomas Stuart Smith (1813–1869)
Photo credit: : The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum

Brigadier John Mellsop (1907–1980), 1946, oil on canvas by Henk Ngantung (1921–1991)
© the copyright holder
Photo credit: : National Army Museum

James Tosh, oil on canvas by David Waterson (1870–1954)
© the copyright holder
Photo credit: : ANGUSalive

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

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

Thomas William Evans (1853–1939), General Manager, Manchester Evening News (1901–1929), 1929, oil on canvas by Edward Hartley Mooney (1877–1938)
Photo credit: : Guardian News & Media Archive

A Taunton Onion Seller, 1909, oil on canvas by Mabel Grace Trood (1872–1951)
© the copyright holder
Photo credit: : Somerset Museums Service

Thomas Bell, Governor of the York Merchant Adventurers (1854–1856), 1874, oil on canvas, attributed to John Scott (1850–1919)
Photo credit: : Merchant Adventurers' Hall

Othello Relating His Adventures (copy after Douglas Cowper), 1879, oil on canvas by John Emery (1802–1893)
Photo credit: : The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

The Library, Christ Church, Oxford, 20th C, oil on panel by Frederick Hawkesworth Sinclair Shepherd (1877–1948)
© the copyright holder
Photo credit: : Kirklees Museums and Galleries

Lady in Blue (Lillian Emily Nutt, Mrs Lingeman), 1922–1923, oil on canvas by Sara Johanna Strumphler (1877–1938)
Photo credit: : Windsor & Royal Borough Museum

Allen William Seaby (1867–1953), Professor of Fine Art, 1928, oil on canvas by Harold James Yates (1878–1959)
© the copyright holder
Photo credit: : University of Reading Art Collection

The Golden Bough, c.1860–1910, oil on canvas after Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
Photo credit: : Doncaster Museum Service

A French Soldier, oil on canvas after George Housman Thomas (1824–1868)
Photo credit: : Museums Sheffield

Venice: A View from the Molo Looking towards Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana, 19th C, oil on canvas attributed to Edward Pritchett (active c.1828–1879)
Photo credit: : Southampton City Art Gallery

Margate in the Time of Turner, 1930, oil on canvas by Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942)
Photo credit: : Kirklees Museums and Galleries

Hornby Castle, Lancashire, oil on canvas by James Peel (1811–1906)
Photo credit: : Warrington Museum & Art Gallery

The 'Oliver Blanchard' of Jersey off a Volcanic Island at Night, 1862, oil on canvas by Philip John Ouless (1817–1885)
Photo credit: : Jersey Heritage

Sir Charles Bine Renshaw of Barochan and Garvocks Bart, Convenor of the County of Renfrew (1915–1918, 1913, oil on canvas by George Fiddes Watt (1873–1960)
© the artist's estate
Photo credit: : Paisley Museum and Art Galleries, Renfrewshire Council Collections

View of a Spanish Mediterranean Coast and Fort, 1873, oil on canvas by James Webb (1835–1895)
Photo credit: : Museums Sheffield

The Lighthouse at Gatteville, near Barfleur, after a Storm, oil on canvas, attributed to Jean-Louis Petit (1795–1876)
Photo credit: : Museums Sheffield

Rear-Admiral Sydney Stewart Hall (1872–1955), 1955, oil on canvas by John Munday (1924–2012)
© the copyright holder
Photo credit: : Royal Navy Submarine Museum

Flora (copy after Titian), 1862, oil on canvas by Michele Cortazzi (before 1808–1865)
Photo credit: : Preston Park Museum & Grounds

Naval Chaplain Arthur Price Hill, 1913, oil on canvas by Tom von Dreger (1868–1948)
© the copyright holder
Photo credit: : National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth

The 'Alarm' Winning the Ladies Challenge Cup at Cowes, 14 August 1830, c.1830, oil on canvas by Joseph Miles Gilbert (1799–1876)
Photo credit: : National Maritime Museum

The Virgin, (formerly attributed to Innocenzo Francucci da Imola), oil on panel by Raphael (1483–1520) (probably)
Photo credit: : The National Trust for Scotland, Haddo House

Francis Const, exhibited 1934, oil on canvas by Henry William Pickersgill (1782–1875)
Photo credit: : Middlesex Guildhall Art Collection

Study of Drummer James Roddick (1848–1928), 92nd Gordon Highlanders, in Old Age, early 20th C, oil on canvas by Walter Graham Grieve (1872–1937)
Photo credit: : The Gordon Highlanders Museum

Head of a Girl, oil on canvas by Albert Lynch (1860–1950)
© Manchester Art Gallery
Photo credit: : the copyright holder

The Pink Boat, 1938, oil on canvas by Richard Wyndham (1896–1948)
© Salford Museum & Art Gallery
Photo credit: : the artist's estate

A Royal Yacht off Greenwich, oil on canvas, c.1697 by Isaac Sailmaker (c.1633–1721) (circle of)
© Government Art Collection

Campbeltown, 1828, oil on panel by John B. Fleming (1792–1845)
Photo credit: : Bury Art Museum

Lake Scene with Castle, oil on canvas attributed to James Baker Pyne (1800–1870)
Photo credit: : Shipley Art Gallery

James Iverach (1839–1922), oil on canvas, 1912, by Allan Newton Sutherland (c.1885–1918)
Photo credit: : University of Aberdeen

Wreck on the Kentish Coast, oil on canvas by Theodor Alexander Weber (1838–1907)
Photo credit: : Warrington Museum & Art Gallery

Prince Adolphus (1774–1850), 1st Duke of Cambridge, c.1842, oil on canvas by Eduard von Heuss (1808–1881)
Photo credit: : St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum and Archive

Saint John the Evangelist, late 18th C, oil on canvas by Carlo Dolci (1616–1686) (after)
Photo credit: : Harris Museum & Art Gallery

A Connoisseur's Studio, 1679, oil on canvas by Jacques Smeyers (1657–1732)
Photo credit: : St Edmundsbury Museums

After Mass, oil on canvas after Carl Probst (1854–1924)
Photo credit: : Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens

Alpline Landscape, c.1835–c.1875, oil on canvas by British School or attributed to Johannes Bertholomus Duntze (1823–1895)
Photo credit: : Walker Art Gallery

The Last Sleep of the Brave, late 19th C, oil on canvas after Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1835–1885)
Photo credit: : Nairn Museum

Ida Cartwright Slarke (1897–1990), Mayor of Scarborough (1972–1973), c.1972, oil on canvas by Stella Marie Clair Lane (Langrick) (1915–2001)
© the artist's estate
Photo credit: : Scarborough Collections

Landscape with Cornfield, 1853, oil on canvas by Thomas Francis Wainewright (c.1815–1887)
Photo credit: : Manchester Art Gallery

View of Florence, Italy, oil on canvas by Arthur de Tivoli (1891–1961)
Photo credit: : Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

The Discussion, 1948, oil on canvas by Geoffrey Arthur Tibble (1909–1952)
© the artist's estate
Photo credit: : Government Art Collection

Girl with a Flute, oil on canvas after Bernardo Strozzi (1581–1644)
Photo credit: : Kirklees Museums and Galleries

Windsor Great Park: View of the Long Walk, c.1835, oil on canvas by Richard Langley (1808–1878)
Photo credit: : Government Art Collection

Gentleman in a Rickshaw, c.1880–c.1913, oil on canvas by V. G. Maresca
Photo credit: : Southend Museums Service

Hulks at Sheerness, oil on panel by Samuel Scott (c.1702–1772) (circle of or style of)
Photo credit: : Government Art Collection

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well, (based on a prototype by Maarten de Vos), 16th C, oil on panel by Flemish School
Photo credit: : Government Art Collection

General Sir Thomas Picton (1758–1815), (copy after an earlier painting) c.1815–1820, oil on canvas by Martin Archer Shee (1769–1850) (studio of)
Photo credit: : Scolton Manor Museum

Balloon Leaving Dover, c.1840 oil on canvas by Edward William Cocks (b.c.1803)
Photo credit: : Science Museum/Science & Society Picture Library

Whaler 'Harpooner', c.1831, oil on canvas by British School
Photo credit: : Science Museum/ Science & Society Picture Library

The Forge of Vulcan, oil on canvas, attributed to Ary de Vois (1632/1635–1680)
Photo credit: : Abingdon Town Council

Queen Charlotte (1744–1818), print laid on canvas after William Beechey (1753–1839)
Photo credit: : University of Aberdeen

Old Chelsea Bridge, oil on panel by James M. Burnet (1788–1816)
Photo credit: : Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

Bank at Punchestown, 1981, oil on canvas by John Andrew Lawson (b.1951)
© the artist
Photo credit: : Newtownabbey Borough Council

The Constable of the Tower, (General the Right Honourable Robert Cornellis, 1810–1890, Baron the Lord Napier of Magdala, GCB, GCSI, Governor of Gibraltar, 1876–1883), 1890, oil on canvas by Lowes Cato Dickinson (1819–1908)
Photo credit: : University of Aberdeen

Mrs Mary Linsdell (b.1805), with Her Son, Thomas (b.1835), c.1837, oil on canvas by John Robert Wildman (1788–1843)
Photo credit: : Valence House Museum

George Augustus Chichester (1769–1844), 2nd Marquess of Donegall, oil on canvas by John James Masquerier (1778–1855)
Photo credit: : Belfast Castle

Heraclitus, Ancient Greek Scientist, oil on canvas by Johannes Moreelse (after 1602–1634) (attributed to)
Photo credit: : Museums Sheffield

Male Nude, from Behind, c.1850–1899, oil on canvas by unknown artist
Photo credit: : Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery

Charles Hanson, Governor (1832–1834), c.1833, oil on canvas by William Moore I (1790–1851)
Photo credit: : Merchant Adventurers’ Hall

Chalk Cliffs, (probably in Normandy), c.1860–1874, oil on board, attributed to Joséphine Bowes (1825–1874)
Photo credit: : The Bowes Museum

After a Gale – Seaford Bay, 1877, oil on canvas by William Henry Mason (1838–1929)
Photo credit: : Museums Sheffield

Afternoon Tea in Holland, c.1720, oil on canvas by Matthijs Naiveu (1647–1726)
Photo credit: : Atkinson Art Gallery Collection

Brig 'Shannon' of Shoreham, c.1871, oil on canvas by Alexander K. Brander (active c.1862–1888)
Photo credit: : Marlipins Museum

'A Burgomeister', (after Titian's 'Portrait of a Young Englishman') (formerly attributed to Cornelius Johnson), oil on canvas, after Titian (c.1488–1576)
Photo credit: : Salford Museum & Art Gallery

Vessel of the Yeoward Line, Liverpool, 1923, oil on canvas, attributed to John Francis Josse (1874–1956)
© the copyright holder
Photo credit: : Williamson Art Gallery & Museum

Angel Offering Eyes to Saint Lucy, early 18th C (?), oil on copper by Italian (Roman) School (probably)
Photo credit: : Luton Culture

A Mobile First Aid Unit at Work, 1941, oil on canvas by Bernard Gordon Smith (1908–1983)
© expired crown copyright
Photo credit: : IWM (Imperial War Museums)

Waxted Landscape Mill Wheel, oil on canvas by Josef Kugler Senior (1913–2011)
Photo credit: : Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

Industrial Scene (South Hetton Colliery, near Sunderland), 1833, oil on canvas by John Wilson Carmichael (1799–1868)
Photo credit: : Nottingham City Museums and Galleries

Train in a Spanish Landscape, oil on canvas by Eduardo de Alba y Masas (1852–1900) (attributed to)
Photo credit: : National Railway Museum

Shepherd and Sheep in Snow, oil on canvas by Charles Jones (1836–1902) (attributed to)
Photo credit: : Atkinson Art Gallery Collection

Winston L. S. Churchill (1874–1965), MP for Oldham (1900–1905), c.1900, oil on canvas by George William Fish (1876–1930?)
Photo credit: : Gallery Oldham

The Violin Player, 19th C, oil on copper after Gerrit Dou (1613–1675)
Photo credit: : Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Alderman Horace Robert Walker (1862–1970), JP, 1957, oil on canvas by William Charles Evans (1911–1978) (attributed to)
© the copyright holder
Photo credit: : Bradford Museums and Galleries

Dorothy and Marjory Lees, c.1891–1892, oil on canvas by Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848–1925)
Photo credit: : Gallery Oldham

The Canal of the Giudecca, and the Church of the Gesuati, Venice, oil on canvas after Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793–1867)
Photo credit: : Museums Sheffield

Self Portrait (?), c.1850, oil on canvas, attributed to John Morrison (1782–1853)
Photo credit: : Dumfries and Galloway Council (Kirkcudbright)

Conservatory, Highgate (Athlone House), 1944, oil on canvas by Kyffin Williams (1918–2006)
© Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales
Photo credit: : Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales

Gathering Kelp, 1914, oil on canvas by Edgar Downs (1876–1963)
© the copyright holder
Photo credit: : Fordingbridge Town Council

Snowdonia, oil on canvas by Joseph P. Knight
Photo credit: : Gallery Oldham

Alderman John Andrew Anderson, JP, 1899 or before, oil on canvas by Edward Bent Walker (1860–1917)
Photo credit: : Faversham Town Council, Mayor's Parlour and Guildhall

Moorish Courtyard, oil on canvas by Paul-Albert Girard (1839–1920)
Photo credit: : Bridgeman Images

Admiral Sir Edward Codrington (1770–1851), oil on canvas by Hugh Patterson (1805/1806–1871)
Photo credit: : Plymouth City Council: Museum and Art Gallery

Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, VC, on 'Vonolel', c.1895, oil on canvas after Charles Wellington Furse (1868–1904)
Photo credit: : Belfast City Hall

Portrait of a Young Man in Armour, (possibly Lord John Stuart, 1621–1644), 1630s–1640s, oil on canvas by a follower of Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641)
Photo credit: : The Captain Christie Crawfurd English Civil War Collection

Mercury Delivering the Infant Bacchus into the Care of the Nymphs of Nyssa, oil on canvas by Bon Boullogne (1649–1717)
Photo credit: : The Bowes Museum

Edward Smith-Stanley (1799–1869), 14th Earl of Derby, 1839 or before, oil on canvas by Henry Perronet Briggs (1791/1793–1844)
Photo credit: : Bury Art Museum

Venus and Adonis, oil on panel by Frans Wouters (1612–1659)
Photo credit: : Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

Florence Emily Graham, Mayor, 1960, oil on canvas by Frederick Christopher Woodington (1904–1982)
© the copyright holder
Photo credit: : Faversham Town Council, Mayor's Parlour and Guildhall

Alfred Langton (b.1842), 1924, oil on canvas by Walter Chamberlain Urwick (1864–1943)
Photo credit: : Royal Free Hospital

Lieutenant Colonel John Graham of Duchray and Rednock (d.1790), 42nd Highlanders, oil on canvas by David Martin (1737–1797) or Archibald Skirving (1749–1819)
Photo credit: : The Black Watch Castle & Museum

Yasmeenah, c.1880, oil on canvas by Frederic Leighton (1830–1896)
Photo credit: : McLean Museum and Art Gallery – Inverclyde Council

Sir George Anderson Critchett, oil on canvas by Adrian Cornwell-Clyne (1892–1969)
© the copyright holder
Photo credit: : Wellcome Library

Admiral Charles Napier's action off Cape St Vincent, 5th July 1833, oil on canvas by unknown artist
Photo credit: : Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

Military Canal, 1951–1952, oil on canvas by Sylvia Melland (1906–1993)
© the copyright holder
Photo credit: : Manchester City Galleries

William Cuthbert Blackett (b.1859), 1908–1912, oil on canvas by Ralph Hedley (1848–1913)
Photo credit: : The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers

HMS 'Looe' Approaching Looe Island, c.1740, c.1955–1980, oil on canvas by Roy Stringfellow (1921–2008)
© the copyright holder
Photo credit: : The Looe Guildhall Collection

À Mlle Floranet, 1895, oil on board by Juan Luna (1857–1899)
Photo credit: : Stockport Heritage Services

Henry Thomson (d.1700), Lord Mayor of York (1699), oil on canvas by unknown artist
Photo credit: : Merchant Adventurers’ Hall

Isabella Arlosh (1835–1905), (wife of James Arlosh and mother of Godfrey Arlosh), oil on canvas by William Salter Herrick (c.1807–1891)
Photo credit: : Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford

Portrait of an Unknown Man, (formerly identified as Henry Ireton, c.1611–1651, Parliamentarian General and formerly attributed to Samuel Cooper, 1609–1672), c.1645, oil on canvas by unknown artist
Photo credit: : Trinity College, University of Oxford

Glencoe, c.1904, oil on canvas by William Lakin Turner (1867–1936)
Photo credit: : The Ruskin Museum

George Whitefield (1714–1770), after 1743, oil on canvas, after Francis Kyte (active 1710–c.1750)
Photo credit: : Westminster College, Cambridge