Antique Oil Paintings & Watercolours

Antique Oil Painting & Watercolour Auctions

One of the oldest categories in the auction world, the paintings section is one which is constantly changing with fashion. Increased interest in more modern styles of artwork is inescapable, but there are still buyers for the more traditional style of paintings, in particular attractive named scenes and portraits of appealing individuals or groups.

Harper Field feature paintings and pictures in a specialist auction every quarter, and we are happy to advise on the sale of your artwork.

Antique Oil Paintings & Watercolours Recently Sold at Auction

After Otto Dix A pencil, ink and watercolour scene of a German brothel featuring a drunken sailor and naked prostitutes

Sold for £3,000

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Alfred de Breanski (British, 1852 - 1928)

Sold for £5,000

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Andrew Nicholl RHA (Irish, 1804-1886) watercolour estuary landscape with castle viewed through flowers to the foreground

Sold for £2,200

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Charles Thomas Bale (1849-1925) oil on canvas, still life of fruit, signed lower left, in ornate gilt frame

Sold for £800

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Giuseppe Giardiello (Italian 1877 - 1920)

Sold for £700

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Henry James Johnstone (1881-1900) Watercolour The Shepherdess with her Dog

Sold for £700

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John Robert Dicksee (1817-1905) oil on canvas 'The Willing Captive' lady in period dress with a pet bird

Sold for £2,000

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March Auction

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