This still life painting was made in the Horniman Library in London. The Museum's founder, Frederick John Horniman (1835-1906) was chairman and managing director of the Horniman Tea Company. Frederick Horniman was the son of John Horniman (1803-1892) who first established the Horniman Tea Company in the Isle of Wight. They were the first tea manufacurers to sell tea in machine-sealed packets. Frederick Horniman collected a huge range of objects from around the world, mostly bought from other travellers. Travel books make up a large part of his book collection and reflect his international trading routes. He has many different types of ornate books from bibles to world travel and anthropology books.
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This meticulous oil painting of old books found in the British Library is executed in oil on linen and stretched over a wooden frame. Engelbert Kaempfer (German Engelbert Kämpfer; September 16, 1651 – November 2, 1716) was a German naturalist, physician, and explorer writer known for his tour of Russia, Persia, India, Southeast Asia, and Japan between 1683 and 1693. His History of Japan, published posthumously in 1727, was the chief source of Western knowledge about the country throughout the 18th and mid-19th centuries when it was closed to foreigners. -
This technically astounding, photorealistic oil painting is a study of some paper folios from the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588–1657), now housed at The British Library in London. Cassiano was one of the most important patrons of artists in Rome during the first half of the 17th century and he was dedicated to forming what he described as his ‘Paper Museum’. The ‘Museum’ that was housed in his library in the small palazzo in Rome comprised a vast collection of drawings and prints bound in folios, that recorded the natural world, antiquity, the built environment, human appearance and behaviour. The painting is in oil on a polished wooden panel and set in a white-washed wooden tray frame.
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This technically astounding, photorealistic oil painting is a study of the author, Roald Dahl's, original manuscripts, which he famously wrote by hand on yellow notepaper. The painting is in oil on fine linen, stretched over a wood stretcher and set in a white-washed wooden tray frame.
"A research visit to the Roald Dahl museum gave me insight into his method of writing on yellow notepads with wide margins for notes and comments. His Manuscripts were made from tear off sheets and kept in bundles." Ian Robinson
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This technically astounding, photorealistic oil painting of books is executed in oil on fine linen and stretched over a wood stretcher. -
A Still-life painting made in Shandy Hall in the Laurence Sterne book collection. Shandy Hall is a writer's house museum in the former home of the Rev Laurence Sterne in Coxwold, North Yorkshire, England. Sterne lived there from 1760 to 1768 as perpetual curate of Coxwold. He is remembered for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. The painting has been made on plywood, with the grain of the wood visible in unpainted areas. -
This still life painting was made in the Horniman Library in London. The Museum's founder, Frederick John Horniman (1835-1906) was chairman and managing director of the Horniman Tea Company. Frederick Horniman was the son of John Horniman (1803-1892) who first established the Horniman Tea Company in the Isle of Wight. They were the first tea manufacurers to sell tea in machine-sealed packets. Frederick Horniman collected a huge range of objects from around the world, mostly bought from other travellers. Travel books make up a large part of his book collection and reflect his international trading routes. He has many different types of ornate books from bibles to world travel and anthropology books. The painting is in oil on paper and framed.