Spender Fine Art

This painting by William Powell Frith, made in 1853, shows John Milton and Mary Powell, who finds her husband an "unconventional bookworm". Details on SpenderFineArt website. @BillsDirector

Long overdue visit to Hepworth Wakefield yesterday, seeing among other gems the recently acquired 'Sculpture with Colour...', the beautifully curated Alex Salto exhibition and the extraordinary installation of Kira Freija's sculptures, cast from her own limbs and friends' faces.

We are pleased to announce that Muriel Minter’s 1929 etching, ‘Reclining Nymph’, has been acquired from Spender Fine Art by the @FitzMuseum_UK . Minter was in the Royal College's brilliant 1921 intake with Moore and Hepworth. Further info & works on Spender Fine Art website.

The importance of good drawing in 19th and 20th century works on paper.

Why now is a great time to buy English drawings and watercolours.

Will there be snow on Epsom Common this Christmas-time, as in 1979 when Leslie Worth painted this beautiful work? Worth was a watercolour master, painting snow with a few washes. Sold to a major US collection this autumn. Seasons Greetings to one and all from Spender Fine Art!

We have been waiting 20 hours (yes you did read that right - twenty hours) for @TheRAC_UK Rescue, with no confirmed ETA. Appreciate they're busy, but why are we paying for a broken business model? #RAC #Fail

Muriel Minter (1897-1983) was a contemporary of Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Edna Ginesi, Roland Vivian Pitchforth and Raymond Coxon at the Royal College of Art. Moore and Minter both seem to have made life-room studies of this model with a bob, both seated and reclining.

Muriel Minter (1897-1983) was an intriguing and comparatively unheralded contemporary of Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore at the Royal College of Art. Though more in the manner of Giorgione than Moore, Minter took an interest in the reclining figure in this rare etching from 1929

This week our spenderfineart.co.uk/stock/featured featured artist is John Varley OWS.

I am very pleased to announce the launch of Spender Fine Art | British Watercolours Drawings Prints Paintings. spenderfineart.co.uk features a range of British art from the 18th to 20th centuries, with an emphasis on the art of drawing and with transparent, no extras pricing.

We will soon be launching SpenderFineArt.co.uk, dealers in British Watercolours Drawings Prints Paintings. As they say, please watch this space!

In early Twitter days we did a social media for museums session @MuseumsAssoc conference. I was tasked with the slides, going wild with a first try of Prezi, but Mar's sheer enthusiasm saved the day! #RememberingMar

With Mar's inspiration a group from @BM_AG @GlasgowMuseums @NHM_London @PooleMuseum set up @CultureThemes with regular theme days such as #WhyILoveMuseums, shared by museums globally. #RememberingMar

I'm sorry I can't be at the Celebration of the Life of the amazing Mar Dixon @enginuityorg this afternoon. We had huge fun setting up social media themes for museums, particularly on this channel, Twitter! #RememberingMar

Fab news for @SoundStorm_ and young people in our region. Thanks @NeilPhillips77 and all at @AwardsAYM

I’ve just finished reading @TanyaHarrod’s wonderful book about Leonard Rosoman. I thought Tanya might like to see a gouache and ink I found of a “Dying Crane” he made as a Fireman Artist in the Docks in 1942, dedicated to John Lehmann (and related to an illustration on p.31).

Absolutely brilliant to catch up with @stuartsemple this morning to talk about some hugely exciting projects ahead for Bournemouth. This man is always full of great ideas and plans. Working together. @BCPCouncil @VikkiSlade72 @philgibby @AdamGent1 @ace_national @makeitbmth

Check out Auction Catalogues - approx 50 - Sotheby’s, Christie’s etc., 1970s onwards ebay.co.uk/itm/1755535347… #eBay via @eBay_UK

Check out Outstanding Collection of National Trust, EH and various guidebooks & catalogues ebay.co.uk/itm/1755535239… #eBay via @eBay_UK