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Building a Collection and Art as an Investment

Artifactual History Appraisal

Another issue to keep in mind is what medium you'd like to purchase: a wide range is available including original works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastels, graphite as well as printed works including etchings, lithographs, silkscreens, and digital prints. Artists typically work in a few of their favorite mediums, such as mainly in oil.

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So You Found A John George Brown Painting?

Harrison Appraisals

While many of these works are oils on canvas, Brown also returned to watercolor, a medium he used in the mid-19 th century. The smiling faces of Brown’s street urchin paintings have been replaced with the serious countenances of infirm and dependent elders painted in dark cottages.

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“Light is therefore color” – Celebrating 250 Years of J.M.W. Turner

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A year later he exhibited his first work in the Royal Academys annual exhibition with a delicate and precise watercolor View of the Archbishops Place, Lambeth. In works like Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845), vessels become little more than silhouettes or colour masses, overwhelmed by boiling clouds and liquid light.