Bruce Allison
Norwegian dawn, 1944
A bronze figure by Antonio Susini c.1580-90 in Florence. Modelled after Giambologna’s original of 1565 titled “Allegory of Architecture”
Sir Sean Connery, actor - 1930-2020
Watercolour of a sculpture in limewood 18" high of Julius Caesar, on a walnut base, by Giambologna (Giovanni of Boulogne in Flanders) circa 1551, a Medici court sculptor in Rome
A snowy evening in the village of Wishanger near Farnham in Surrey
The Exeter Arms and duck house, Barrowden, Rutland
A Northern lapwing (a.k.a. peewit)
Bronze 16 inches high of the Roman god Mars by Giambologna of Florence (1529-1608) which is one of the few sculpted by the master himself and not a later casting by one of his assistants
Red Kites over Burley on the Hill, Rutland, built in the 1690's by the 2nd Earl of Nottingham
The Milkmaid, after Johannes Vermeer 1658
A pair of pheasants in snow, after Archibald Thorburn 1903
A summer scene in Oakham with the 17th century Buttercross, listed Grade 1. SOLD 2022
Off Norway, around 7pm, 26th December 1943, the German battleship Scharnhorst's bow explodes under the Allied fleet’s eight star shells. After the renowned war artist Charles Pears’ oil painting of 1944
Mr.Cool, after Jack Vettriano (his oil was first exhibited in 1997).
Jennifer Fichet, French concert pianist on a Steinway grand
A bronze sculpture 9” high by Ferdinando Tacca (1619-86) called “Horse With Flowing Mane” after Giambologna's model of over fifty years before
Dance Me to the End of Love, after Jack Vettriano
Lambeth Palace on the Thames 1852, after Henry Pether
Waiting for the train, India 1897, after Rudolf Swoboda
Mad Dogs, after Jack Vettriano. SOLD 2019
A Cambridge eight on the Great Ouse at Ely, whose cathedral founded in 1109 has the third longest nave in Britain and whose building was funded in the 12th century at 8,000 eels a year via local catchers and Peterborough Abbey which owned the Barnack stone quarry. SOLD 2019
The Milkmaid 1658 (detail), after Johannes Vermeer
Italian bronze "Venus Urania" by Giambologna, cast 1573. Also titled “An Allegory of Astronomy”.
Seated Nymph, bronze c. 1484 by Giovanni Fonduli da Crema of Padua, now in The Wallace Collection, London W1
Horsey Staithe and windpump, Norfolk Broads
A snipe in the rushes, after A.Thorburn 1901. His original was on sale Jan 2018 at £35,000
The 58' Norfolk wherry Albion (after Neil Smalley artist at Ludham Bridge), built in 1898 and one of only two remaining wherries on The Broads still fitted out for trading, which worked with two crew and a single huge gaff sail on a high peak, capable in the early 1900's of carrying up to 42 tons of cargo e.g. cattle cake, wheat grain, ice, sugar beet, timber, coal, thatch reeds etc.
The Waltzers, after Jack Vettriano
Cutty Sark leaving Shanghai under tow on the early tide 1870, after J.S. Dews . The clipper carried 1,450 tons of tea to London in eight round trips a year.
A snowy night on the Grand Union in the 1940’s, after Alan Firth
17th C Italian bronze of Hercules & the Centaur at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire
Florida 2001, dawn - crowds watch a space shuttle take off in a cloud of steam on a visit to construct the ISS (International Space Station)
Dawn on Hadrian's Wall, a view towards Sycamore Gap
Evening fog forming near Staithes harbour, North Yorkshire
Bluebird at Bonneville, after Jack Vettriano (SOLD 2016)
May 1943 Guy Gibson VC diverts the flak, after Robert Taylor (SOLD 2016)
Staithes harbour North Yorkshire
Pink footed geese landing by Loch Leven, some of the 25,000 that arrive from the Arctic each year in great skeins to overwinter
Suffolk Snowscape, after William Newton
Glasgow Lights 1892, after John Atkinson Grimshaw
1881 the Ramsgate lifeboat floats a line to The Indian Chief aground on Long Sand, after Mark Myers
Barbados harbour 2006, "Sun Princess" about to be tugged out past "Sea Cloud" - currently the world's oldest ocean going passenger ship.
The Lacemaker, about 1670, after Johannes Vermeer
February crocus bank opposite Market Overton church, Rutland
The Bridlington Lifeboat 1885-1898
About to bathe, the goddess Diana with her bow and quiver of arrows. White marble sculpture 73 inches high by the British sculptor Holme Cardwell in Rome in 1862. Sold at Sotheby’s in 2019 at 357,000 GBP
Restored in 2015, RAF rescue boats from the 1940's (SOLD 2016)
A Morris "side" with badger mascot make merry in Bampton, Oxfordshire. SOLD 2017 - Its new owners had just moved back to the UK from the USA and found a house in Bampton
Juvenile barn owl at dusk
Hoar frost on the Grand Union, after Alan Firth
Children dancing in the streets in Uttarkahand state, northern India close to the Himalayas
