Adriaan de Lelie - The Drawing Gallery of the Felix Meritis Society [1801] Founded in 1777, the Amsterdam society called Felix Meritis (Happy Through Merit) grew into the cultural centre for the upper middle class. It had five departments: commerce, natural science, music, literature and drawing. The drawing gallery could accommodate about sixty artists for life drawing classes in both daylight and lamplight. De Lelie, seated on the podium, looks out at us. #92Gallery

Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746) - Marquise du Châtelet Largillierre’s sitter is opulently but informally dressed and assumes a rhetorical pose, the handling of paint is textured and velvety, the Rubensian palette is autumnal, russet and shimmering with light. Remarkable is the subject of the portrait: a beautiful young woman who gazes skyward – perhaps contemplating of the stars – and holds a pair of gold compasses in her right hand while resting her left hand on a celestial globe. Few portraits of women in the 18th century depict them in intellectual pursuits such as astronomy, mathematics, or any of the sciences that were ordinarily the province of highly educated men only. These striking attributes support the traditional identification of the sitter as Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise de Châtelet, one of the great intellectual figures of the first half of the 18th century. #92Gallery

Edgar Bundy - The Prodigal Son Edgar Bundy (Brighton, March 29, 1862 - London, January 1922) was an English painter. #92Gallery

Anders Zorn - Omnibus [1892] Omnibus is an oil on canvas painting by the Swedish artist Anders Zorn from 1891 to 1892. There are two versions of the painting, the first one is exhibited at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm and the second in Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Omnibus is an Impressionism painting representing contemporary urban life in Paris. It depicts 4-5 people sitting in public trolley. In the foreground there is a young woman with a square box. Behind her, a prostitute can be seen. Both women represent the modern life with its commercial attractions and dangers. #92Gallery

Jean Barbault (1718-1762) - A Lady playing a Mandolin #92Gallery

Leonor Fini - Self-portrait with a Scorpion [1938] All self-portraits are, to varying extents, spectacles of autobiography and for Leonor Fini this was no exception; this work is an iconic personal statement by the artist and an exploration of her own artistic power. In this captivating self-portrait, painted a few years after her first major exhibition in New York and as she rose to become a figure of increasing profile within Paris café society, Fini takes up her position as an established artist both as an individual and in complex relationship to the Surrealist artists with whom she was involved and alongside whom she often exhibited. #92Gallery

John Atkinson Grimshaw - Liverpool Lights Grimshaw was famous for his night scenes, in particular for his views of the docks at Liverpool, Glasgow and Hull. Here he concentrates on the golden glow cast from shop fronts through fog, and reflected on wet cobbles. The omnibus receding from the viewer down a perfectly straight street is a characteristic and effective device, which the artist repeated many times. He was entirely self-taught, and had begun life as a railway clerk. He was much influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, but gradually moved towards a more ethereal evocation of light and atmosphere reminiscent of Whistler. #92Gallery

Charles Paul Landon - Allegory of Summer This hitherto unknown work by Landon was originally part of a decorative cycle depicting the seasons. The Autumn of the same series was sold in these Rooms, 10 July 2003, lot 205, for £13,000. The whereabouts of Spring and Winter are unknown. #92Gallery

Henri Rousseau - Sawmill around Paris [after 1889] “Rousseau takes his place alongside the masters who are the harbingers of modern art and sometimes overshadows them,” wrote Robert Delaunay, an early advocate of Rousseau, his elder and as yet unheralded friend, in the opening years of the 20th century. “For him the picture was a primal surface with which he had to deal physically to project his thought.” #92Gallery

Louis Anquetin - Moulin Rouge [c.1893] This work is a large scale depiction of the world famous cabaret that captures the bohemian and risqué ambiance of the café-concert in a vibrant, modernist style. Anquetin had begun to frequent the Moulin Rouge shortly after it opened in 1889, and together with his fellow artists Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Emile Bernard, became a regular at the cabaret throughout the 1890s. #92Gallery