'Spring.' (c1940) Jean Brusselmans
began his artistic career at the height of Flemish Expressionism and for the whole of his career was guided by Cézanne’s structural use of colour - he stands out as one of the most original artists of Belgian modernism.

This remarkable work painted in 1901 on Rügen, an island in the Baltic sea, shows the growing influence of Monet's sense of light and Paul Signac's stylistic technique on Wassily Kandinsky - it also shows him anticipating the tensions and relationships between pure colours in a

In Gabriele Münter’s work from the 1930s, her women begin to look like Edward Hopper’s but crucially, they're in solitude, not loneliness, and unlike Hopper, Münter’s women appear at ease, having contented themselves to their surroundings and, seemingly, to themselves.

In this 1956 portrait by Graham Sutherland, the greater portion of the canvas is filled with the novelist and music critic Edward Sackville-West's head and shoulders; the closeness magnifies the sense of familiarity between the viewer and the viewed.

'Low Tide, Kirkcudbright. ' (1930) Few Scottish artists are so closely associated with a town or location as Charles Oppenheimer is with Kirkcudbright. He excelled in capturing light on water, shadow on buildings in the town and around the harbour. #greatunknownpainters

Like his friend Paul Nash who he met at the Slade, Claughton Pellew had been drawn to trees; they held a spiritual quality for him. The tranquillity in this work from 1925, most likely of Southrepps in North Norfolk, is heightened by the inclusion of birds, which, like Nash, he

'Plants and Garden Produce in an Old Kitchen.' As a renowned horticulturist in his own right, it is impossible to separate Cedric Morris’ preoccupation with nature from still lifes.

Painted in 1958, the old kitchen in the title is at Benton End in Hadleigh, Suffolk the 16thC

John Nash wrote about the constancy in the natural and historic landscape, with its cycles of life and death, and rhythmic change. This is his 'Lane in Wormingford,' the Essex village he moved to 1945; his house he left to the writer the late Ronnie Blyth. An instance of rhythmic

'The Peaceful Rhythms of the Downs.' In the 1930s, Christopher Nevinson turned towards a realistic, traditionalist style of painting, departing from the abstract modernist paintings that marked his early career during WW1. Leaving behind the more violent, angular abstract

'Young Cat Sleeping.' (1937) In the grip of the Great Depression, America bankrolled 10,000 artists with the Federal Art Project giving them paid work at a time of few private commissions. The artists included Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning and many

Painted in 1914, the year Harold Gilman encouraged John Nash to experiment with oils 'Moonlight Landscape,' was made twelve months after his successful joint exhibition with his older brother Paul. Later in the same year, John was invited to become a founder member of the London

Victor Hume Moody was trained at The Royal College of Art under William Rothenstein who encouraged him in the direction of the early Italian Renaissance painters - these together with other influences (notably the Pre-Raphaelites) shaped Moody's work which can be stylish and

William Crozier lived in Paris in 1923 and studied under the cubist painter André Lhote. He also travelled to Italy, where he was captivated by the bright sunlight. In this picture of Edinburgh Castle from Castle Street (1930) we can see how he has adopted the lessons of Cubism

'The Artist's Mother.' (1924) Mark Gertler's painting of his mother Golda dominates the portrait just as she did family life. Her close relationship to her youngest son is illustrated by her strong and recurring presence in his portraiture; here his skill, technique, and ability

'Still life with a Frying Pan,' (1947) contains the essential elements of abstraction for which William Scott became renowned. Skirting warily the domains of abstraction and representational art, as his style developed, Scott remained, in his own words, an individualist. His

'Fifth Avenue, Evening,' (c1893) depicts an elegant woman navigating a Manhattan sidewalk on a blustery and grey wintry evening. The work references both the restrained colour palette of similar tones found in Hassam's earlier Boston scenes as well as the diagonal, expansive

'The Young Orphan' (1884) William Merritt Chase has been described as a painter’s painter, typified in his artistic style by exact detail and an interest in the formal qualities of painting. More so than any other genre, his portraiture exemplifies his status as such an artist

John White Alexander achieved international success with his studies of female figures gracefully posed in elegant interiors. 'Study in Black and Green,' painted around 1905, justifies the description of Alexander as 'the painter of the flowing line.'

'The New Necklace,' (1910) the women in William Paxton’s finely detailed interiors helped define idealised female roles for upper-class American women at the turn of the 20thC - his career was greatly celebrated for the realistic intimacy portrayed in his work, a style that

Painted in 1897, 'Portrait of a Child Sewing,' possesses all the traits of Frank Weston Benson's personal and celebrated style with its bold brushwork and mastery of light and atmosphere.

Around 1905, the majority of the Boston painters (particularly Benson) began to look to