Julian Lovegrove Fine Art

19th Century Watercolours, Victorian and 20th Century Watercolours

Welcome, We're so glad you have reached our site which is filled with 19th Century, Victorian and 20th Century watercolours, oil paintings and decorative furniture.

Who are we?

We are a family business, established by Julian & Candy Lovegrove in 1995, to offer decorative antique furniture, paintings and objets d'art at affordable prices. We value high quality service and make each buying experience enjoyable.

All sales have an unconditional 100% customer satisfaction or your money back guarantee

Prints and watercolours for every interior!

Framed pictures make the perfect gift! And they add value with each year that passes.

So call in today or telephone /e-mail today with your wishes

Delivery

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UK Courier delivery costs from £15 for framed pictures and from £50 for furniture. Please e-mail for a furniture delivery quote.

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Where are we?

We are in the Heart of KENT at Bagham Barn Antiques, judged the finest Art and Antique Centre in the South East.
On the A28 Canterbury Road at Chilham, next to the railway station.
The postcode for SatNav is CT4 8DU

WE OPEN from 10 to 5 Tuesday to Sunday inclusive. We have a delightful tea room.

A corner of our showroom at Bagham Barn

Dawn Cookson RBSA - Watercolour

The Sewing Circle - Is a large exciting well handled watercolour by a student of Pietro Annigoni of Perugia Italy.
The quality of the work is best seen in the facial characteristics of the subjects and their juxtaposition with each other.
Dawn Cookson (1925 - 2005) studied at Birmingham College of Art and later at the Perugia Academy of Fine Arts and as assistant to Annigoni, the foremost portrait painter of his day. In 1991 Dawn was invited to paint a portrait of the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace.
It is signed, mounted and framed behind glass.
Size: 30" x 23" Including the frame.
Ref: JL 406 Price GBP £495

George Phoenix (1863 - 1935) The Cavalier

This is a superb watercolour by a well documented British artist, who made his name from his portraits. This characterful depiction of a Cavalier in full regalia is probably one of the finest. George Phoenix studied at the Birmingham School of Art and lived in Wolverhampton and Bournemouth. He exhibited from 1889 at the RSA Birmingham, Walker Gallery Liverpool, the New Gallery and 13 works at the Royal Academy London. His work is represented in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery, London.
It comes in its original period gilded frame. Signed: Geo Phoenix
Date: c1900 Size: 21 1/4" high x 17 1/2" wide, including the frame. Ref:JL399
Price: GBP £395

John Henry Mole (1814 - 1886) RI, ROI, VPRI

Young Country Girl Gathering Kindling
This is a superb Victorian watercolour from an acknowledged master of this genre.
John Henry Mole was a landscape and miniature painter in watercolours who was born at Alnwick in Northumberland, and lived in London. He was elected RI in 1848, ROI in 1883 and Vice President of the RI in 1884. He exhibited extensively at the Walker Gallery Liverpool, Glasgow Institute and in London at the RBA, RI, ROI, Arthur Tooth & Son, BI, Grosvenor Gallery and the RA. This work is signed with initials lower left.
Date: c1860-1885 Size: 19 1/2" x 15 1/2" including the gilt frame.
Ref: JL 400 Price: GBP £765

After Hercules Brabazon Brabazon - Botzen Austrian Tyrol

This is a superbly executed early 20th Century watercolour landscape in the style of Hercules Brabazon Brabazon. It shows the grandeur of the mountains with the lakeside village nestling in the valley. The artist has shown excellent techniques and choice of palette. It is unsigned, but is annotated beneath the mount: Botzen, Tyrol, HBB. It is newly framed and mounted behind glass.
Date Early 20th Century
Size: 17 1/4" x 14 1/2" including the frame, (Image size 9 1/2" x 6")
Ref: JL439 Price: GBP £225

French Impressionist School

‘Barges on the Seine, Paris’
This is a skillful and lightly handled watercolour showing people enjoying their riverside stroll beneath the trees, alongside the River Seine in Paris.
It is signed, illegibly, and mounted and framed behind glass.
Size: 23 1/2" x 19 1/2" including the frame (w/c size 14 3/4" x 10 3/4") Date: early to mid 20th Century.
Ref: JL 437a Price: GBP £165

French Impressionist School - Booksellers Paris

'Booksellers along the Seine, Paris’
This is a skillful and lightly handled watercolour, showing booksellers and browsers alongside the Seine in Paris
with the cathedral of Notre Dame behind.
It is signed, illegibly, and mounted and framed behind glass.
Size: 23 1/2" x 19 1/2" including the frame (w/c size 14 3/4" x 10 3/4") Date: Early to mid 20th Century
Ref: JL 437b Price: GBP £145

British School - On Potter Fell - Lakeland

This is a traditional English watercolour, competently executed, depicting a classic country scene with a stream making its way through the green valley of Potter Fell in the Cumbrian Lake District.
It is signed and dated in the lower right corner, B.B.Land '06 and the original back board carried the inscription 'On Potter Fell Spring 1906'.
The lower left corner bears an embossed quality stamp dated 1904 Guaranteed pure paper R.W.S. (Royal Watercolour Society) Pall Mall.
A pleasing subject, well handled. It is mounted and framed behind glass.
Date: 1906
Size: image size: 11" x 7 1/2"
Ref: 387
Price: GBP £95

British School - A Day by the Seaside

Edwardian Watercolour
This is a large and pleasing work in the
best Edwardian tradition, depicting
seaside visitors dressed in the appropriate
manner, with lodging houses beyond and
no signs of commercial activity.
The subject matter is well composed and
accomplished, but unsigned.
It is framed and mounted behind glass, in
a later gilt frame.
Size: 13" x 10 1/2" (22 3/4" x 18 3/4" including the frame).

Ref: JL 443 £115

Eulalia Hillyard Swinstead - A Village Scene c1920

This is a charming English watercolour depicting a village street with its 'traffic', a horse drawn delivery cart, dating to the 1920's.
Eulalia Swinstead was born in 1893, the daughter of George Hillyard Swinstead, a professional artist. She lived at Hampstead Heath, London and exhibited at the Royal Academy, and the Royal Cambrian Academy from 1918 to 1932.
It is fully signed, and framed behind glass.
Size: 20" x 16" incl giltwood frame. (image: 12" x 8")
Ref: JL 444 Price £125

British School - Coastal View with distant shore

This is a pleasing coastal watercolour from the early 20th Century.
It shows calm waters and trqanquil skies above a nearby shore line with buildings and dockside cranes in the distance. Bears monogramme to lower right corner.
Very Atmospheric. Mounted and framed behind glass.
Date: early 20th Century
Size: image size 14" x 7"
ref: 391
Price: GBP £105

Artists we have sold recently

Ernest George Beach
Agnes Rose Bouvier
David William Burley
Garstin Cox
Frederick Dixon
Walter Duncan
Martin W Gatward
Peter Hall
Eugene Isabey
Lucretia Johnson
Alfred Crocker Leighton
John Mogford
William Monk
Sidney Dennant Moss
Charles Sim Mottram
Francesco Paolo Priolo
John Robertson Reid
Thomas Miles Richardson jnr
Leopold Rivers
Margaret Seaton
Douglas Ion Smart
Peter MacGregor Wilson
William Lionel Wyllie

LINKS: Are at the bottom of the 'Prints & Links' page.

19th Century, (Victorian), and 20th Century Watercolours