Landscape Paintings For Sale

The Mark Mitchell collection is rich in landscape paintings for sale, from 19th century oil paintings and 20th century watercolours to recent works in acrylic by Terry Watts. Apart from very early classical Greek wall paintings, few of which survive, and mediaeval Chinese scroll paintings, landscapes in Western art do not begin to come into their own (except as background details) until the Renaissance.

One of the earliest pure landscape paintings is a Northern work by Albrecht Altdorfer, dating from c.1518-20, which for the first time depicts a fully-realized receding space, in which distance and foreground are seamlessly integrated with a middle ground. Northern artists continued to produce realistic landscapes, unaffected by the idealized Italianate paintings of, for instance, Claude and Poussin, and the 17th century saw a Golden Age in Dutch landscape painting.

Mark Mitchell’s collection reflects both a later incarnation of this, and of the subsequent 18th-19th century British school of landscape painting. It comprises work by Scandinavian, Belgian and French landscape artists, with a large percentage by British painters. We deal in various media – oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, and acrylics – and in many moods of landscape, from romantic and pastoral to Expressionist, Post-Impressionist, and contemporary.

Highlights are works by the 20th century poetic landscapist, Bertram Nicholls; George Weissbort’s Cézannesque urban and rural views; empty light-filled scenes by the Danish Sigvard Hansen; and Edward Wesson’s archetypically British oils and watercolours. Apart from these, Mark’s collection holds sparkling landscape paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries: for example, by the successful, wealthy and popular Frederick Lee, RA (1798-1879), whose work can be found in museums including the V & A, Tate, and the Metropolitan Museum, New York.