This month, our focus turns to fine paintings, from the working harbours of the Staithes Group to the wide skies of Yorkshire landscape painting and beyond.
There is something quietly absorbing about a good painting. It holds a moment, a place, a way of seeing that the artist alone was able to capture, and it carries that moment forward, often for centuries, into rooms and lives the artist never imagined. A picture painted on a Whitby quayside or beside a Yorkshire river can outlast everyone who knew the artist, and still arrive somewhere new with all of its original feeling intact, and there is real excitement to be found in the provenance that travels quietly alongside each one.
With that in mind, we are now inviting entries for our next Fine Painting sale, welcoming artworks ranging from the 17th century to the present day, including pieces from the Staithes Group, marine subjects and Yorkshire artists. Watercolours, oils, prints, sketches, British and European art and three-dimensional works are all welcome.
To give a sense of the kind of quality and subject matter we are looking for, we have shared some of our most recent results below.