Miguel Barroso (Circle), Virgin & Child With Kneeling Donor

Miguel Barroso (Circle), Virgin & Child With Kneeling DonorThis extraordinary late 16th century panel by an artist working in the circle of Spanish painter Miguel Barroso (1538 1590) depicts the Virgin Mary seated upon a raised throne. She gently supports the Christ Child as he raises his hand in blessing. Painted around 1580, during the reign of Philip II, it transports us directly into the spiritual world of late Renaissance Spain. Beside the Virgin, kneels a donor probably the individual who commissioned

Overall size: 24” x 28½” / 61cm x 72cm

This late-19th-century etching by German draughtsman Albert Kruger (b

Villain was a Dutch portrait painter active in Rotterdam and the southern provinces of the Dutch Republic during the late 17th and early 18th centuries

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 23” x 17” / 58cm x 43cmYear of creation: 1908 Labels & Inscriptions: Inscribed with title on reverse and also in the lower left

Gosling had ample access to the leafy delights of the home counties

Gustaf Wolmar

A wonderful decorative item and it’s hard to find anything quite comparable

most of these are lost to time as very few records exist

he drew upon the grandeur of the Danish Golden Age painters to portray a beautified version of rural Denmark

A crystal decanter

however records show that he began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in London in 1857 and was

The globe is surmounted by a cross and known as the ‘globus cruciger’