OIL PAINTING COLLECTION

The oil paintings range from the fourteenth century to the present day, with subjects including religious, history, portraiture, landscape, and still life. The collection is especially strong in works from the early and high Renaissance in Italy, the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Camille Pissarro and the Impressionists. Among the highlights are Paolo Uccello’s Hunt in the Forest c. 1470; Piero di Cosimo’s Forest Fire of c. 1505; J.M.W. Turner’s View of the High Street, Oxford (1809-10); and Pissarro’s View from my Window, Eragny-sur-Epte (1886-8). The Daisy Linda Ward Collection comprises nearly one hundred Dutch and Flemish still life paintings of the seventeenth century, and is one of the most comprehensive in the world.

You can see many of our Western Art Paintings online on the Art UK site

Fred G. Meijer, The Collection of Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Paintings Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward, Zwolle, 2003

The Ashmolean Museum: Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings, ed. Catherine Casley, Colin Harrison, Jon Whiteley, Oxford, 2004

LANDSCAPE OIL SKETCHES

The practice of painting landscapes in the open air became widespread in the 1750s, when French students in Rome...

The practice of painting landscapes in the open air became widespread in the 1750s, when French students in Rome were encouraged to paint small studies in oil on paper as part of their...

The practice of painting landscapes in the open air became widespread in the 1750s, when French students in Rome were encouraged to paint small studies in oil on paper as part of their training.

STILL-LIFE PAINTINGS

An extensive collection of over ninety still-life paintings by 17th century Dutch and Flemish artists and presents...

An extensive collection of over ninety still-life paintings by 17th century Dutch and Flemish artists and presents an outstanding representation of this genre.