Fine Art

Robert Howe - 'Bellbine', oil on gothic shaped panel, signed, titled, dated 1987 and Portal Gallery label verso, 48cm x 25cm.

John Knapp-Fisher - 'Tree Studies', watercolour with ink, signed and dated 1981 recto, titled verso, 16.5cm x 10.5cm, within a metal frame, together with another watercolour by the same hand.

Emily Stackhouse - Botanical Studies, a large collection of approximately 300 watercolour over pencil studies on paper, most examples are inscribed with English and Latin names to the front, some with location and month detailed, with Linnean taxonomy details and stamped with mimeograph signature verso, the majority of sheet sizes 26.5cm x 21cm, within six modern folders, the first folder with three index sheets. Note: Emily Stackhouse (1811-1870) was a 19th century British botanical artist and plant collector. She collected and painted flowers and mosses throughout the British Isles, and her work was widely reproduced in a series of popular books issued by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Many of her watercolours indicate that she had collected and depicted specific plants years earlier than their accredited discovery in Cornwall, and it is now acknowledged that she collected and classified nearly all the British mosses.

Walter Stuart Lloyd - Conwy Castle, early 20th century oil on canvas, signed, 50cm x 88.5cm, within a swept gilt composition frame.