Oil, Acrylic paintings & Mixed Media

French artist Louis Tesson (1820-70) is best known for his genre paintings in the Middle East and north Africa.

This typical genre scene by Italian painter Alessandro Milesi (1856-1945) was taken to a multi-estimate $37,500 (£31,000) at a US auction

This design for a fan leaf painted with two reclining figures of elegant women appeared in an Impressionist and Modern art sale held in Paris

This work is billed as the largest ever nude by Gustave Courbet (1819-77) to be offered at auction

Local supporters help to boost pictures produced in art colony based in a North Yorkshire fishing village

When RMS Queen Mary was launched in 1934 it was not only at the cutting edge of technology but also featured some of the grandest interior designs ever seen aboard an ocean liner.

Middle market Old Masters, longstanding family ownership, market freshness... what’s not to like?

A flurry of bids emerged at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) in Oxford for a particularly fine 17th century portrait of a young woman.

The Franco-Turkish painter Osman Hamdi Bey bridged the gap between Orient and Occident and is regarded as the first exponent of modern Turkish painting

Cricket scene could not be clearly identified but approximate date provided strong historical appeal

Thomson Roddick auction shows sign that room attendances for sales are on the rise.

Regarding Christopher Selkirk’s letter in ATG No 2580 enquiring about a painting by GH Warr, I have no idea who the sitter is but readers might be interested in new information on the artist.

I wonder if any of your readers might be able to identify the sitter in this painting.

Once thought lost, an oil painting of the Hunkpapa Lakota chief Sitting Bull (1831-90) has emerged at a Florida auction house.

If this painting of a farmhouse in Brittany seems reminiscent of a piece of French Impressionism, that’s probably no coincidence.

Clock formed as memorial to Napoleonic general stars among contents of d’Estaing family home

Another slice of the collection which brought a Christopher Wood record comes up in Gloucestershire saleroom