
Events and Exhibitions
Classic Art London, Summer 2025
Re-Imagining Cubism
Multi-perspective representation re-imagined in our summer exhibition of Cubist works featuring painters working outside the traditional artistic centres of Cubism. The movement existed not just in Paris, but as parallel to manifestations of Modernism around the world, including in Russia, Germany, Scandinavia, Italy, and South America. Our exhibition focuses on this Internationalism.
London Art Week, Summer 2023
Alejandro Mario Yllanes (1913-c.1960)
Artist. Revolutionary
A group of extraordinary monumental paintings not seen for the last 30 years by the Aymara Bolivian artist Alejandro Mario Yllanes (1913-c.1960). Yllanes was a precocious, self-taught artist whose indigenous narrative and astonishing portrayals of the Aymara people are profound and compelling.
London Art Week, Winter 2021
Old and Modern Masters
Contrasting old with modern masters, Ben Elwes Fine Art presents a 12th century altarpiece and a strung Naum Gabo sculpture.
London Art Week, Digital, Winter 2020
Selected Highlights from the 15th to the 20th Centuries
London Art Week, Winter 2019
Artistic Relationships
Anglo-American Paintings
Ben Elwes Fine Art for London Art Week Winter 2019 has assembled a group of works with an Anglo-American theme.
Master Paintings Week, 2015
Noon - Return from Fishing
After almost a year of careful restoration, Ben Elwes Fine Art will be revealing Claude Joseph Vernet's Noon - Return from Fishing, a stunning, lost masterpiece in pristine condition. It is the earliest of three versions of this composition, one of which, dated 1760, is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Master Paintings Week, 2012
First Impressions
Landscape oil sketches 1780-1860
Ben Elwes Fine Art is delighted to announce their summer exhibition, First Impressions - Landscape Oil Sketches 1780-1860, from the John Lishawa Collection, a selection of 51 en-plein air paintings.
London Art Week, Summer 2024
Anna Boberg (1864-1935)
Painting the Arctic Summer
Bringing together paintings and works on paper in this exhibition entitled, Anna Boberg (1864-1935), Painting the Arctic Summer. Described in recent years as “Sweden’s greatest artist”, this exhibition chronicles Boberg’s career as a landscape painter, from her early watercolour sketches of Stockholm to her oil paintings of the Arctic environment.
London Art Week, Summer 2022
Mozart and Beethoven
Portraits and Personality
Two musical giants will be featured at Ben Elwes Fine Art during London Art Week Digital and Live, Summer 2022, but the portrayals of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) could not be more different.
London Art Week, Digital & Live, Summer 2021
Literary Women: Writers and Revolutionaries
Celebrating two remarkable British women and their ground-breaking careers. Newly-discovered works shine a light on the revolutionary journalist, social activist and nurse, Jessie White Mario (1832-1906), and the celebrated novelist and artist Dame Beryl Bainbridge (1932-2010).
London Art Week, Digital, 2020
Anglo Americans, Abolitionists and Women
Presenting a selection of paintings across six centuries that reflect the Anglo-American nature of the gallery.
Master Paintings Week, 2016
Elégance
Elégance, a monumental plaster relief by the sculptor Alfred Janniot (1889-1969), is without doubt the highlight of the summer exhibition at Ben Elwes Fine Art. A natural heir to the legacy of Auguste Rodin, Janniot created this bas-relief in preparation for his commission at the Rockefeller Center in New York City, in 1930.
Master Paintings Week, 2014
Feature: Thomas Uwins
Among the works selected for the 2014 Master Paintings Week, Ben Elwes Fine Art will unveil an abolitionist painting by British artist Thomas Uwins.
Master Paintings Week, 2010
Diversity
Ben Elwes Fine Art will be exhibiting two paintings concerned with race at Master Paintings Week 2010.