A Beach in Ceylon - William Wright Beling

William Wright Beling, (1867-1928) was one of the first modern painters of Ceylon. He was the father of 43 Group artist George Beling.
A Beach in Ceylon
Circa 1894
Watercolour Heightened with White
34.7 x 52 cm

Deux Petits Singes Espiègles, Ceylan - Dorothy Naros

Dorothy Naros was a French Artist who was in Ceylon around 1928.

Deux Petits Singes Espiègles - Ceylan 

Signed and dated 1928

Watercolor and Crayon 

28 x 20.8 cm

Butcher's Shop, Colombo - Robert Richmond Campbell

Robert Richmond Campbell, O.B.E., C.M.G., (1902 - 1972) was a Scottish born artist and museum director who settled in Australia.  He was widely regarded as a leading Australian watercolorist. Campbell had a stellar thirty-year career as a museum director and gallery administrator. He was an adviser to the Federal Government's Historic Memorials Committee and a member of the Royal South Australian Society of Arts and of the Australian Watercolor Institute. Campbell traveled widely to promote Australian art and visited Ceylon in 1962.
Butcher's Shop, Colombo
Signed and dated 1962
Pen and Watercolor
24.1 x 17.8 cm

Figures in a Park - Henry George Gandy

Henry George Gandy (1879 - 1950) was a highly skilled artist who served as a Lieutenant Colonel with the Royal Engineers in Ceylon from 1924-1928. The popularity and quality of his artwork was demonstrated by the fact that his scenes of Asia were reproduced in books and on postcards by the famous publishers Raphael Tuck.
Figures in a Ceylonese Park
Signed and dated 1926
Watercolor
23.5 x 34 cm

Ceylon - George Turland Goosey

George Turland Goosey, (1877 - 1947) was a British artist. He made a name for himself initially as an architect in America. He then decided to try his hand at painting and developed an impressionistic style in oils which won him many admirers. Goosey traveled to North Africa and India and visited Ceylon in 1935.
Ceylon
Signed, 1935
Oil on Board
30.5 x 40.5 cm

Portrait of a Tamil Lady - Nancy Liddiard

Nancy Audrey Liddiard, was a British painter who studied at the Royal Academy School in London during the 1930's. At the outbreak of WWII, she made her way to Southern Rhodesia where she painted until 1942. She also painted in Egypt and visited Ceylon in 1945.
Portrait of a Tamil Lady
Unsigned, dated verso Ceylon 1945
Pencil on paper
30.5 x 24.5 cm

Louisa - Andrew Macara

Andrew Macara (born 1944), has one of the most distinctive styles of present day contemporary British Artists. A member of the Royal Society of British Artists and the New English Art Club, he is now established as a very collectible contemporary figurative artist and over the years, his paintings have been greatly sought after.
Louisa
Signed on the back
Oil on Canvas
46 x 36 cm