19th Century Paintings

Original 19th Century Artwork in Oil, Watercolour, Pen and Ink and other Mixed Media.

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The centre of the 19th Century Western artistic movement was the French Academy and Salon in Paris, where artists such as Sir Alfred East became influenced by the Barbizon school of painters. The Barbizon school drew inspiration directly from nature where rural scenes became the topic of the paintings rather than the backdrop. In the latter part of the century as Japan became open to international trade the influence of Japanese culture on European art came more to the fore.

The changes in artistic style over the century were significant, progressing from the aged old Masters to the first shoots of Modernism. It was also during this period that artists started to produce works that reflected their own ideas and interests, whereas previously an artist worked primarily on commissioned pieces on behalf of an individual or institution.

Oakham Fine Art has a collection of outstanding and unique 19th Century paintings. Please click on the thumbnail images below to see the details and expanded image of each of the artworks.

If you would like further information on any of our artworks, or you are interested in purchasing any of the pictures and you require additional images then please do not hesitate to contact us and we will be happy to provide these on request.

Pricing is available on request by selecting one of the artwork thumbnails and clicking ENQUIRE

19th Century Paintings for Sale

Scarborough - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5020
Medium – Watercolour on paper
Size - 19½" x 26” (50cm x 66cm)

Verso – Old label that reads “This work painted by Sir Alfred East R.A. was in my possession at the time of his death. It was included in the Memorial Exhibition held at The Fine Art Society, 148, New Bond Street, London, in July 1918 under the title ’Scarborough’ Signed Annie East”

PROVENANCE
Painted in the style of JMW Turner and using a similar composition to JMW Turner's Scarborough painting, this stunning artwork remained in the private collection of Sir Alfred East and Mrs Annie East.

Sir Alfred East Memorial Exhibition at The Fine Art Society, London. July 1918
E H Hare, Esq., Birmingham.
Christie's, Sale, 28 May 1923.

Condition - Excellent

A Shady Pool - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5014 - SOLD
Medium - Oil on canvas
Size - 16" x 21½" (41cm x 55cm)
Recto - Signed

PROVENANCE
Gillespie Fine Art Gallery, Pittsburgh
Christie’s
Shannon’s Auction Rooms

Condition - Excellent

The Fisherman - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5007
Medium - Oil on Wooden Panel
Size - 6" x 9" (15cm x 23cm)
Recto - Signed

Verso – Bold but illegibly Inscribed in ink by Alfred East. Signed with his AE monogram

PROVENANCE
Gardiner Houlgate

Condition - Excellent

The Mill - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5037
Medium - Watercolour on paper
Size - 9½" x 13" (24cm x 33cm)

PROVENANCE
From a private collection in Chobham, Surrey. A number of quality paintings were in the collection including paintings by Alfred de Breanski Snr and other paintings by Sir Alfred East. Some of which included dedications from East to relatives of the previous owners.

Condition - Excellent

Two Preparatory Studies for "Barges" - Sir Frank Brangwyn (1867 – 1956)

REF: 5047A
5047A and 5047B are one item as the artworks are recto and verso.
Medium - Gouache, pencil and ink on paper
Size - 8½" x 11" (21cm x 27cm)
Verso - Artwork B

PROVENANCE
Lots Road Auctions Rooms
Two preparatory studies for the Oil Painting “Unloading the Barges”

Condition – Excellent. An old minor tear to the right edge of the artwork

Two Preparatory Studies for "Barges" - Sir Frank Brangwyn (1867 – 1956)

REF: 5047B
5047B and 5047A are one item as the artworks are recto and verso.
Medium - Gouache, pencil and ink on paper
Size - 8½" x 11" (21cm x 27cm)
Recto - Inscribed “Barges”
Verso - Artwork A

PROVENANCE
Lots Road Auctions Rooms
Two preparatory studies for the Oil Painting of “Unloading the Barges”

Condition – Excellent. An old minor tear to the left edge of the artwork

A Boat on a Pond - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5009 - SOLD
Medium - Oil on canvas
Size - 15½" x 21½" (39cm x 55cm)
Recto - Signed

Verso – Swains Auction label

PROVENANCE
Marilyn Swain

Condition - Excellent

Loading Barges - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5015
Medium - Watercolour on paper
Size - 9½" x 13" (24cm x 33cm)
Recto – Signed and inscribed “Loading Barges”

PROVENANCE
From a private collection in Chobham, Surrey. A number of quality paintings were in the collection including paintings by Alfred de Breanski Snr and other paintings by Sir Alfred East. Some of which included dedications from East to relatives of the previous owners.

Condition – Excellent

Trees - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5012
Medium - Oil on canvas
Size - 5½" x 7½" (14cm x 19cm)
Recto - Signed with the AE Monogram

Verso – Winsor and Newton stamp on the canvas. Inscribed in pencil “Trees by Alfred East, C. 1888”

PROVENANCE
Gardiner Houlgate

Condition - Excellent

A Shady Glade - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5010
Medium - Oil on canvas board
Size - 28" x 36" (71cm x 91cm)
Recto - Signed

Verso – A label that reads “A shady Glade” Oil Painting by Sir Alfred East R.A. P.R.B.A. Previously inherited by the artist’s grandson J.A. Churchill
A label that reads “Cooling Galleries, 38 Albemarle Street, London. W1X 4QJ

PROVENANCE
Christie’s

Condition – Excellent

The Crucifix - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5008
Medium - Oil on canvas
Size - 16½" x 22½" (42cm x 57cm)
Verso - Signed and inscribed as “The Crucifix” on an artist's label.

PROVENANCE
Gorringes Auction Rooms. A watercolour of the same name has been exhibited at The Alfred East Gallery in Kettering, Northants, England
Condition - Excellent

A Japanese Figure at Dusk- Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5005 - SOLD
Medium - Oil on wooden panel
Size - 6" x 9" (15cm x 23cm)
Recto – Signed and with a red stamped Japanese Hanko. Sir Alfred East only added the Hanko stamp to what he considered were his most successful Japanese artworks.

Verso – Signed in pencil Alfred East R.A on the panel. Old Gallery Label: J.A. Cooling & Sons, 92 Bond Street, London

PROVENANCE
Bonhams
Given the quality of the picture and it having a Hanko stamp then it is possible that this is one of the 104 Japanese pictures by Sir Alfred East that was included in The Fine Art Society exhibition of 1890.

Condition - Excellent

Yardley Sky - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5006
Medium - Oil on wooden panel
Size - 6" x 9" (15cm x 23cm)

Recto – AE Monogram over a very faint signature of Alfred East. It would appear that Alfred East signed the painting but then decided to paint over the signature and replace with the monogram.

Verso - Bonhams label. Signed with an address on an original artists label. The label has additional non legible writing including a possible dedication “To the Williams at Yardley” or a possible title of “The Meadows at Yardley”?
A further AE monogram in red on the artists label

PROVENANCE
Bonhams

Condition - Excellent

The Shepherd (A Pastoral Scene) - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5011
Medium - Oil on Canvas
Size - 16" x 22" (41cm x 56cm)
Recto - Signed

Verso – Two old labels from different periods with different reference numbers that mention The Fine Art Society. The older label is not particularly legible but shows Ref No: 29051. The second label states “The Fine Art Society, no: 3269, date January 1969. Pastoral. Sir Alfred East RA”

The labels appear to indicate that the artwork was exhibited at The Fine Art Society in London on two separate occasions with the earlier one quite possibly being the Sir Alfred East Memorial Exhibition in 1918.

PROVENANCE
Keys Auction Rooms

Condition - Excellent

Leaves - Thomas Cooper Gotch (1854 – 1931)

REF: 5043 - SOLD
Medium - Oil on wooden panel
Size - 7½" x 10" (19cm x 25cm)
Verso - Inscribed “T.C. Gotch. Bought from Deirdre Maclellan by Miller & Truscott”

PROVENANCE
Gotch would experiment with minimalist subjects like Clouds and bleak shorelines with Leaves being a wonderful example of this genre.

Leaves was previously owned by Deirdre Maclellan, the granddaughter of Thomas Cooper Gotch and former wife of occultist Aleister Crowley. Deirdre Maclellan inherited Thomas Cooper Gotch’s house and paintings including this artwork via her mother, Phyllis Marion Gotch, the child subject of many of Gotch’s paintings.

The painting was subsequently purchased by the esteemed Cornish landscape artist, John Miller and his lifelong partner, the potter Michael Truscott.

Condition - Excellent

The Brook - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5001
Medium - Oil on canvas
Size - 20½" x 28" (52cm x 71cm)
Recto - Signed
Verso – The Institute of Painters in Oil Exhibition label signed by Alfred East with a Ref No: 3. The title on the label is obscured by a further label that states J & R. E. No 3

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s

Condition - Excellent

Salmon Fishing Station on the Scottish Coast - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5021
Medium – Watercolour on paper
Size - 13½" x 20½" (34cm x 52cm)
Recto – Signed and dated 1883. Indistinctly inscribed “To my friend Thomas ----- with kind regards”

Verso - Inscribed “Salmon Fishing Station on the Scottish Coast”

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s

Condition – Excellent

A Scottish Loch Scene in Winter - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5016 - SOLD
Medium - Oil on canvas
Size - 11" x 17" (28cm x 43cm)
Recto - Signed

PROVENANCE
Shapes Auction Rooms

Condition - Excellent

Sheep in a Water Meadow - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5017 - SOLD
Medium - Oil on canvas
Size - 33" x 44" (84cm x 112cm)
Recto - Signed and dated 1906

Verso – Further Signed “Alfred East ARA”

PROVENANCE
Bonhams
Christie’s

Condition - Excellent

Loch Long - Alfred de Breanski Snr (1852 - 1928)

REF: 5060 - SOLD
Medium - Oil on canvas
Size - 19" x 29" (48cm x 74cm)
Recto - Signed

Verso - Signed and inscribed “Loch Long”

PROVENANCE
Grant Ford, Sotheby’s
Tennants

Condition - Excellent

An Idyll at Como - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5002 - SOLD
Medium - Oil on canvas
Size - 40" x 60" (102cm x 153cm)
Recto - Signed

Verso - Signed, inscribed and dated '#64/Alfred East/A Gay Party at Como/1902/40 x 60' on an attached label

PROVENANCE
E.B. Marriage, Esq
Mr Ira Nelson Morris
Christie's
Exhibited at The Royal Academy of Arts

Condition – Excellent

The Pond by the Road - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5018
Medium – Watercolour on paper
Size - 21" x 26" (54cm x 66cm)
Recto - Signed

PROVENANCE
Bonhams

Condition - Excellent

Ben Lomond from above Aberfoyle - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5023 - SOLD
Medium – Watercolour on paper
Size - 9½" x 13” (24cm x 33cm)
Recto - Signed and inscribed “To Miss H Keir with Alfred East’s compliments Oct 1885” “Ben Lomond from above Aberfoyle”

PROVENANCE
From a private collection in Chobham, Surrey. A number of quality paintings were in the collection including paintings by Alfred de Breanski Snr and other paintings by Sir Alfred East. The dedication Recto is from East to a relative of the previous owner.

Condition - Excellent

Pondside View in the Evening (Upton Grey) - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5022
Medium – Watercolour on paper
Size - 8½" x 12” (21cm x 30cm)

Verso – Old label from Lady East that reads “Pondside View in the Evening by Sir Alfred East. R.A. Purchased from Lady East”. The label is signed by Lady East.
A letter of authenticity dated 1918 from the William Dennis Gallery, Canada, stating that the painting was purchased from Lady East.

PROVENANCE
Recently identified as the pond and white house located in the Village of Upton Grey, Hampshire, England. Both the pond and white house have changed very little to this day. Upton Grey was the home of the journalist and art critic Charles Home, a good friend of Sir Alfred East and where East would often stay. Charles Holme also accompanied East on his trip to Japan in 1889.

Cheffins
COA and old label verso

Condition – Excellent

The Carnival - Sir Alfred East (1844 - 1913)

REF: 5067
Medium – Watercolour on paper
Size - 21" x 27" (53cm x 68cm)
Recto - Signed

PROVENANCE
From a private collection. The previous owner’s Grandmother was a personal friend of Lady East and she had gifted the painting and one other (The Memorial) to her.

Condition – Excellent

19th Century Paintings for Sale

19th Century Paintings

19th Century Paintings Online Art Gallery

Oakham Fine Art has a collection of outstanding and unique 19th Century paintings. Please click on the thumbnail images below to see the details and expanded image of each of the artworks.

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If you would like further information on any of our artworks, or you are interested in purchasing any of the pictures and you require additional images then please do not hesitate to contact us and we will be happy to provide these on request.

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Pricing is available on request by selecting one of the artwork thumbnails and clicking ENQUIRE

19th Century Paintings for Sale