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In Herbert Badham's 'The Night Bus,' (1943) the interior lights highlight the different figures and their gestures, all still, fixed in the moment. A woman reads a magazine, a man smokes, the conductor chats to a passenger.

'Rusty Stream and White Pebbles,' was painted in the late autumn of 1921, a year after Félix Vallotton chose to spend his winter months in Cagnes. Used to the low, grey skies of Normandy, he was struck by the brilliance of the light in this part of France.

Raw and brutal as Michael Ancher's depictions of fishermen battling against the elements in Jutland or Skagen can be, he painted their harsh, gritty outdoor life with a rugged dignity. This work from 1888 shows a group on a summer's evening discussing a day's catch.

Augusto Giacometti was a member of the Giacometti dynasty of artists and was among the very first painters of the 20thC to venture into non-representational painting. He moved back to figurative painting later in his career. 'Books and Cup,' is from 1940.

One critic, writing in 1911 (the date of this work) commented, George Clausen 'gives us out of very simple elements the most perfect nocturnes, these mark a new and definite advance in his power in taking complete hold of a subject and making it his own.'

Matisse painted 'Pansies' (1903) during his ‘dark period,' as he went through near financial ruin and family scandal. He wrote of being moved by the pansy's melancholic grace; like Dutch flower painters of the 17thC, he saw the cut flower as a symbol of the vanity of human life.

'Embroidery.' (1817) The paintings of Georg Friedrich Kersting have proved perennial objects of admiration, not only for their atmospheric use of colour, their meditative serenity and (what we all need from time to time) a sense of seclusion from the outside world.

'London, a view of Somerset House seen through an arch of Waterloo Bridge' (c.1865) by Henry Pether (Private collection)

Corot produced this work of Notre-Dame church at Mantes (c1860) when he was particularly interested in the study of architecture. He made many paintings and drawings of churches during this period, although most are of much grander buildings such as Chartres Cathedral.

'Berlin at Night.' (c1860) Described by Degas as the ‘greatest living master’ during his lifetime, Adolph von Menzel is less remembered today outside of Germany than the French painter who admired him; his career deserves far greater appreciation and study than it receives.

Stanley Spencer painted a number of landscapes in and around Maidenhead in Berkshire, of which this work from 1939 is a notable example. It was a rural area of rolling countryside not far from his home in Cookham and where he first went to art college before going to the Slade.

'The Light' Taken at the base of the Tor with the sunrise casting beams of light through the mist.

In the 1870s, Armand Guillaumin developed an interest in viaducts and bridges as an employee of the Paris-Orléans railway. This landscape was painted in the upper valley of the Marne in northeastern France, only a few miles from central Paris.

This beauty is quite possibly my favourite tree in the Peak District - although I do have a sneaking suspicion that I might have said that once or twice before...?! A mighty oak with his leaves now burnished gold, he stands resolute through all weathers and seasons, often with

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'Tea Table.' (c1940) Ruskin Spear's domestic life was a major focus for his work as were the settings in pubs and everyday scenes in Hammersmith in London, they allowed him to record the atmosphere, incidents and relationships that caught his eye.

There is a long tradition in European art in portraying happiness; with Albert Marquet's depiction of the Dune de Pyla near Arcachon, on France's Atlantic coast (1935) he has created a picture the mind can play in.

A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt

Where an online search for a particular painting leaps into a league of its own is by making you look at, and appreciate, the 'lesser,' lights of British art, such as Stanley Reed. This is 'The Seamstress,' from 1941.