Maclean Alexander RBA

At Twilight, Late 19th Century oil Landscape

Oil on board, signed lower left Inscribed and dated 1905 on reverse Image size: 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (21 x 27 cm) Contemporary style hand made frame This is a scene of the outskirts of the village of East Ruston, found near the coast in Norfolk. The setting is a sand and gravel pit with the houses of the village just identifiable through the trees in the background. This small sand pit...

Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1908 bottom left Image size: 15 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches (39.5 x 50.5 cm) Contemporary style handmade frame Exhibitions The Royal Academy, London, 1908 ...

Oil on board Image size: 12 x 15 inches (30.5 x 38 cm) Contemporary style frame

Oil on canvas on board, signed lower left Image size: 10 1/2 x 14 inches In the course of a long and varied career, Sep Scott exhibited in the Royal Academy and was a member of the Royal Watercolour Society. Scott produced some famous works for the railway poster campaigns in his early years. He became a book illustrator and one of the highest paid and respected of all British poster artists. Towards the end of his life, during a period when his style had gone somewhat out of vogue, he began working for Leonard Matthews and his trio of comics, Knockout, Sun and Thriller Comics Library. At first, Scott was used for picture strips, drawing all the adventures of the pirate hunter, Captain Flame, and proving to be a natural born strip artist. Then, when Matthews took over Thriller Comics Library, Scott began to paint the covers. He drew scores of full colour cover paintings, which would, as Leonard Matthews commented, “grace the walls of any stately home”, and were, in all probability, largely responsible for the success of the Library and the fact that these comics are so valued today amongst collectors. Scott also drew a number of short Robin Hood strips for the Library and some fine full-length adventure picture stories including Jane Eyre, Pride of the Ring, Secret Operator and the splendidly atmospheric, The Dark Shadows of London. For a short period, he also painted the occasional cover - and back page - for Comet and Sun and also contributed some paintings for the first Buck Jones Annual and the covers for both issues of the Billy the Kid Book...

This charming British oil painting on canvas captures a serene countryside landscape bathed in the gentle glow of sunset. The composition leads the eye along a meandering stream bord...

F. Walters (British, 19th Century) Cottage Landscape with Figures and Pond Oil on canvas, signed lower left English School, circa 1880 Presented in an ornate 19th-century carved and gilded frame This serene and expansive rural landscape by 19th-century British artist F. Walters captures the gentle charm of the English country...

Countryside, 1876 Oil on canvas 13 1/2 x 11 in. Framed: 17 1/2 x 15 x 1 1/2 in. Signed lower left and dated 1876

Work on canvas