Paintings of the Redhill and Reigate area

Etching and acquatint:
An Excursion to Brighthelmstone

Oil on canvas: Col Joliffe of Merstham House with Merstham Church and Mill beyond

Watercolour
Hassell painted a huge sequence of watercolours of Surrey churches and buildings

Watercolour
The view is painted form the north

Watercolour
Shows the bridge as it was long before the recent flood damage and the modern structure of today

Watercolour over graphite
Reigate Heath in the year Queen Victoria came to the throne, before the railways, the golf course and suburban expansion

Oil on canvas
Linnell is probably Redhill's most famous painter. This view shows the expansive, sunlit heathland of Surrey. Painted when he was 82 years old, it illustrates Linnell's love of the Surrey countryside

Oil on canvas
Linnell moved to Redhill in 1851 and became the centre of a group of Victorian artists with a love of landscape painting. This picture is in his garden at Redstone Wood House

Oil on canvas
Painted in his Redhill grounds

Oil on panel
After moving to Redhill in 1851, Linnell's focus was on painting the surrounding countryside. It was a very successful period for him as his idealized versions of rural England became immensely popular

Oil on panel
Another painting in the series showing Linnell's move away from society portraiture to concentrate on landscape painting. Linnell was a close friend of William Blake - the author of the hymn 'Jerusalem'

Oil on canvas
Typical of Linnell's later work, capturing the heat of the mid-day sun during harvest. His work was part of a wider trend, along with others such as Constable and Turner, to raise the prestige of landscape painting

Also known as Reapers.
One of Linnell's best known pictures. Painted from the Nutfield Ridge, near his home, looking south over the Weald

Oil on canvas
The picture depicts the vast sandbanks on Redhill Common, near Mill Street

Oil on canvas
Depicting a favourite theme of Linnell's, workers gathering the harvest in the Surrey countryside

Oil on canvas
Capturing a late summer afternoon where the sun and moon share the sky. Painted on his Redhill estate

Oil on panel.
The picture is characteristic of Linnell showing the rich texture of a sunny clearing in a Surrey forest during autumn

Hand coloured acquatint
One of four fox-hunting scenes of Colonel Joliffe of Merstham's foxhounds

Watercolour
Bough is mainly known as a painter of Scottish landscapes, but he was a influenced by Turner, and attracted to work in Redhill because of the presence of Linnell

Watercolour
One of a number of paintings of the Gatton estate by Davidson. In contrast to Linnell's style, this is a soft and more naturalistic watercolour

Earlswood Common, n.d. Watercolour over pencil
23.2 x 38.7 cm
Painted on Earlswood common looking towards St John's church in Redhill. The pond no longer exists

Oil on canvas: 23 x 37cm
Williams came from a large and succesful family of artists. He lived in Redhill and rural landscapes of which this example is typical of his work

Oil on canvas:
A landscape of a large cornfield beneath a brooding sky. Sheaves of corn being stacked with a windmill in the distance

One of many Surrey Views painted by James Thomas Linnell, the second son of John Linnell

Oil on canvas
An example of his technique of painting over a white background, influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, giving his pictures a characteristic glow

Oil on canvas
A typical scene painted on the Linnell estate. The painting over a pure white ground gives the spring foliage an intensity that contemporary critics praised highly

Oil on board
This was an artifically dammed pond constructed about 1811 that survives as a private lake in the Rockshaw Road Conservation area

Hand coloured print of a watercolour on paper

Oil on canvas
A panoramic landscape by the British Romantic landscape artist Edward Henry Holder

Oil on wood
A loose, atmospheric view of the post mill at Outwood. Little was an early British follower of the impressionists

Oil on canvas
A typical example of Little’s impressionistic style capturing his favourite rural themes in an open environment

Oil on canvas
A companion piece to 'Cow's in a Landscape'

Oil on board
Born in Redhill, Christie painted the local architecture and the vanishing rural history of East Surrey

Oil on board
He was a part-time painter but was well-connected to the art-world and exhibited at the Royal Academy

Oil on board
Brewer Street farm originated in 1491 as a timber-framed hall house. Today it is a beautiful grade 1 listed building. It is next door to the palace that Henry 8 gave to Anne of Cleeves, his fourth wife, when he divorced her

Bottomley came from Leeds and settled in Reigate. The picture is of a narrow residential road capturing Reigate's mid 20th century development

Oil on board
It is an impressionistic painting showing a quiet, rustic view of local British farming life in the 1930s on the edge of Reigate

Colour aquatint engraving
A traditional Victorian butcher's shop in the centre of Reigate that remains highly recognisable in Reigate today

Pen, ink and wash drawing
A view looking down the high street of Bletchingley. It shows the ancient buildings and modern telegraph poles, and, compared to today, just a few cars

Pen, ink, and wash drawing
A swift, sketchy view of a residential road in Reigate

Pen, ink, and wash drawing
Showing Reigate's 18th century 'Town Hall' and a view down the High Street