Charles Beddington Ltd. will show a wide array of art from the Venetian Old Masters he is so well-known for to an enamel by Laura Knight from 1914 of the famous ballet dancers Anna Pavlova and Mikhail Mordkin, who caused a sensation when Diaghilev's Ballet Russes debuted in the US.

Hignell Gallery is focusing on the work of US sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld. Her monumental work will be on view in St James's Square.

Couples
Colnaghi celebrates artistic synergy and collaboration in this summer's exhibition - 'Couples'. The exhibition explores both direct partnerships and indirect influences between artists. In Couples, the artistic collaboration can be quite literal, as is the case with the Gonzalez brothers, or stylistic, as seen in the works of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Colnaghi will showcase collaborations within a single work, within a romantic partnership, and work that is heavily influenced by an artist from another generation.

This exhibition brings together sculpture, painting and drawings ranging from the 17th to the 20th Century. It will include works on paper by Picasso, his partner Françoise Gilot and their friend Matisse; a portrait painted together by husband and wife John Bauer and Esther Ellqvist; and an artistic collaboration between two leading Mexican artists of the 17th Century, Miguel Gonzalez and his brother Juan. Nordic Ben Elwes Fine Art's exhibition explores the work of one woman, Anna Boberg (1864-1935), acclaimed as 'Sweden's greatest artist' in 1906. She also briefly enrolled in the Académie Julian, but her career is defined by the paintings of the arctic landscapes of the Lofoten Islands, in Northern Norway, which she visited for the first time in 1901. This exhibition will give an overview of her work, mainly paintings, but also some drawings, some on loan from institutions and others for sale. There will also be talks relating to Nordic art and the environment during LAW.

Clase Fine Art will also show the works of a Swedish artist, the Symbolist Ivar Arosenius, with a monograph exhibition of 30 works, the first dedicated to the artist in England. His works are in all major Museums in Sweden. Several of the works on show have never been publicly offered for sale, “Kvarnen” is one of them.

Old Masters
Trinity Fine Art is showing Jupiter & Juno by Hendrick Goltzius, the pre-eminent Dutch graphic artist and painter. This engaging, well-painted and finely preserved work admirably exemplifies the artist’s late manner.

Stuart Lochhead's exhibition 'Beyond Face Value: Likenesses as Metaphors in European Sculpture', will show how artists have conveyed philosophical concepts, personal qualities, and the core values of a political movement through the depiction of facial features: from idealised representations of womanhood to personifications of a city or nation.

Impressionists
David Messum Fine Art presents the 50th edition of their annual British Impressionist exhibitions at the gallery in St. James’s this summer. Today, David Messum's name is synonymous with the period and with artists whose historical and market values have escalated dramatically in recent years. British Impressions 2024 presents over 60 paintings that demonstrate the diversity and influence of the Post-Impressionist movement in Britain from the 1860s onwards.

Haynes Fine Art will show French Impressionists and those they influenced, in Europe and Britain, and in particular celebrating the spontaneity of en plein air painting.

Animals in Art
Sladmore are well-known for their love and support of equine sculptures and sculptors. 'Equine - From Wild, to Tame, to Icon' is this summer's exhibition with works ranging from the ‘father of animalier sculpture’ – Antoine Louis Barye’s ‘Turkish Horse’ from 1857, through Rembrandt Bugatti’s impressionistic ‘Percheron Stallion’ from 1907, to Nicola Theakston’s modern yet ancient aptly named ‘Resting with the Ancients’ 2023. Of course no equine exhibition at the Sladmore would be complete without Nic Fiddian Green’s iconic work. The enduring image of the Horse is in no small part to their role in our development from tilling our ground, to the building of empires and have appeared in sculpture since man started riding them around 3500 BC. They dot our cities and our homes, these sculptures of speed, restrained and delineated in metal, speaking to our ideas of heroism and freedom.

Working People in Art
Toby Campbell Fine Art’s inaugural exhibition, at LAW, is entitled 'A Hard Day’s Life', depicting working people and people at work. It spans the late 16th Century to the mid-20th Century with paintings of the everyday and mundane, to the heroic and statuesque. Highlights include an important depiction of female Ambulance Drivers during WWII by Elsie Gledstanes, and an 1860 portrait of a street sweeper by the American artist Edwin White, known for his important painting championing Emancipation and may even depict the same sitter.

Landscapes
Guy Peppiatt Fine Art’s summer offering of watercolours and drawings will include a chalk study of trees by Thomas Gainsborough, and a fine work by Thomas Hartley Cromek (1809-1873) showing the Facade of the Theatre of Marcellus, Rome dating from 1849.

Nonesuch Gallery will present an exhibition of works relating to Italy and artists’ experience of that region. Works will span four centuries and include studies after the Antique to views of Rome, imagined classical landscapes from the 17th Century to capricci of the 18th Century.

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