Gallery highlights
Museum Acquisitions & Recognition
Works handled by the gallery have entered important museum collections, including the National Gallery, the V&A Museum of Childhood and National museum Stockholm. Notable examples include Francis Hayman's portrait of Charles Bedford, acquired by the Museum of Childhood, and John Russell's portrait of Lady Henrietta Cavendish, reunited with that of her sister after more than one hundred years.
The gallery's work has been featured in Country Life, The Daily Telegraph, Antiques Trade Gazette and the British Art Journal, and presented at Masterpiece London, BADA and The Palm Beach Show.
Museum Acquisitions & Institutional Relationships
National Gallery, London
Works handled by the gallery have featured in major National Gallery exhibitions, including displays devoted to Antoine Berjon and Dutch flower painting. The gallery has long championed artists whose reputations have subsequently received major institutional recognition.
Victoria and Albert Museum
The V&A Museum of Childhood acquired the gallery's Francis Hayman painting of Charles Bedford as an infant, supported by the Art Fund.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
A pastel portrait of Lady Henrietta Cavendish by John Russell was acquired for the Nationalmuseum, where it was reunited with the portrait of her sister for the first time in over a century.
EXHIBITION
James Hart Dyke: From the Studio
Exhibiting an eclectic collection of work by contemporary artist James Hart Dyke, mainly landscapes of Britain which he considers central to his practice. Paintings of the South Downs, North Norfolk and the Lake District sit alongside works from overseas adventures, including Lhotse and Mount Everest, symbolic of his first mountain painting expedition. Tucked amongst the landscapes were works linked to his time with the British Secret Intelligence Service. In 2025, Hart Dyke's work was also on display at Buckingham Palace as part of The King's Tour Artists exhibition.
EXHIBITION
James Hart Dyke: Yosemite
A collection of paintings inspired by Yosemite National Park, continuing the artist's long-standing interest in landscape, travel and painting on location.
EXHIBITION
Mont Blanc: The Summit Paintings
Paintings produced during an expedition to Mont Blanc, accompanied by a 130-page exhibition book documenting the adventure.
EXHIBITION
James Hart Dyke:South Downs
The result of Hart Dyke's exploration of the South Downs over eighteen months. As is typical of his practice, many plein air sketches were later worked up into larger canvases in the studio.
Alfred Stevens: Sea, Sky and Shore
An exhibition focusing on Alfred Stevens' paintings of the sea made during his summer stays on the Normandy Coast in the 1880s. The bicentenary of Alfred Stevens' birth coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of Peter Mitchell's pioneering Stevens exhibition and biography, which helped begin the gradual revival of interest in the artist's life and work. Once a prominent figure in the glittering artistic milieu of Paris in the 1870s and 1880s, Stevens was also an important influence on American painters, most notably William Merritt Chase.
EXHIBITION
Alfred Stevens: Second Empire Elegance
An exhibition devoted to one of the most commercially successful artists in nineteenth century Paris. Highlights included newly rediscovered works and examples of Stevens' celebrated female studies, genre scenes and seascapes.
Gabriel Loppé, artist au sommet
Curated by William Mitchell at Forte di Bard in the Val d'Aosta, this major exhibition brought together over 100 paintings, drawings, photographs and, for the first time, Gabriel Loppé's climbing equipment. The accompanying catalogue was published in Italian, French and English.
A Life on Mont Blanc
An innovative exhibition at Skyway Monte Bianco, Courmayeur, displaying large-scale reproductions of Loppé's paintings at an altitude of 2,200 metres.
Lost and Rediscovered
Two monumental paintings by Gabriel Loppé, The Matterhorn and The Mer de Glace, were rediscovered in the French Alps after being considered lost for more than a century. They remained rolled in their original wooden shipping boxes from the nineteenth century and had not been disturbed since their exhibition in London in 1874.
Peaks & Glaciers
Our annual exhibition of Alpine paintings, drawings and photographs, featuring views of Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, Chamonix and the wider Alps.
COLLECTION
Marine Paintings
Trafalgar Day
A majestic six-foot canvas by Dominic Serres depicting the captured French warship Pégase entering Portsmouth Harbour in 1782. Rich in historical detail, the painting celebrates a significant British naval victory and the great age of fighting sail.
Call of the Sea
An exhibition spanning four centuries of marine painting, from British eighteenth century watercolours to French Impressionist seascapes. Artists included Willem van de Velde, Dominic Serres, Samuel Atkins, Robert and John Cleveley, Julius Caesar Ibbetson and Martinus Schouman.
In the Wake of the Van de Veldes
An exploration of three generations of the Van de Velde dynasty and their influence on British marine painting in the eighteenth century.
18th and 19th Centry Flower Paintings
Featuring works by Antoine Berjon, Joseph Pierre Redouté, Mary Moser and Eulalie de Bridieu. The highlight was Berjon's Basket of Roses and a Hydrangea, one of only around twenty known oil paintings by this elusive Lyonnais master.
Georg Frederik Ziesel
A rare pair of eighteenth century Flemish flower paintings demonstrating the artist's highly finished technique, rich colours and delicately balanced compositions.
Fanny Burat
A remarkable example of flower painting on vellum, illustrating the technical mastery of this little-known nineteenth century French artist.
Research & Discoveries
A Family Group in Van Dyck Costume
A fascinating oil sketch by Joseph Highmore, formerly attributed to William Hogarth. Research into its provenance connected the picture with Samuel Ireland, the Shakespeare forgeries, the British Museum and the Monuments Men.
Loppé in Paris, 1889
Painted only a month after the Eiffel Tower opened to the public, this atmospheric Paris cityscape demonstrates Loppé's abilities beyond the mountains and captures the city during the Exposition Universelle.
Tour Eiffel foudroyée
In June 1902, Gabriel Loppé photographed lightning striking the Eiffel Tower during a summer storm. The photograph remains one of the most vivid reminders of his curiosity as both artist and photographer.
Orchard Bay, Isle of Wight
An important Julius Caesar Ibbetson painting depicting a sailor's homecoming on the Isle of Wight, a subject associated with the Picturesque movement and the romantic appeal of Britain's coastline.
Fanny Burat
French 19th century painter Fanny Burat (1838-1890), with a stunning example of her technical mastery of painting flowers on vellum.
French 19th century painter Fanny Burat (1838-1890), with a stunning example of her technical mastery of painting flowers on vellum.