The Gallery

42 pieces, every one cleared for reproduction and every maker named — filter by collection, era, medium, and publicity status.

42 of 42 pieces

Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters (Colf on the Ice)The Dutch on the ice, colf clubs in hand, four centuries before the word “golf” settled down.Hendrick Avercamp, c. 1608Frozen Waterway with Villagers Playing KolfThe kolf swing on the frozen river, the old game at the golden hour.Aert van der Neer, mid-17th c.The Blackheath Golfer (William Innes)Captain Innes in scarlet, caddie behind with the bottle — the most reproduced golf image of its century.Valentine Green, mezzotint after L. F. Abbott, 1790William Inglis, Captain of the Honourable CompanyThe surgeon-captain on the links at Leith — Edinburgh golf’s founding portrait.David Allan, c. 1787Old Tom Morris at the Home of GolfThe old champion on his own ground — the photograph every clubhouse knows.period photograph, c. 1901Young Tom Morris with the Championship BeltThe prodigy in the Morocco belt he won outright — golf’s first superstar, gone at twenty-four.period photograph, c. 1873The Great Triumvirate — Braid, Taylor, and VardonThe three who won sixteen Opens between them — the professional game come of age.Golf Illustrated, 1915Old Tom Morris on St Andrews LinksThe keeper of the green painted on the ground he kept.Scottish School, c. 1900Harry VardonThe grip that every golfer alive still uses, and the man who owned the decade.Golf Illustrated, 1899The Golfers: A Grand Match Played over St Andrews LinksThe great match at the moment the putt hangs — half of St Andrews leaning in.Charles Lees, 1847“Golf” — Horace HutchinsonThe first golfer ever admitted to Vanity Fair’s gallery of the notable.“Spy” (Leslie Ward), Vanity Fair, 1890“Mr John Ball jun.”The great amateur of Hoylake, mid-address — the classic wall print of the classic era.“Lib” (Liborio Prosperi), Vanity Fair, 1892J. H. TaylorThe third of the Triumvirate, drawn by Spy at the peak of his run.“Spy” (Leslie Ward), Vanity Fair, 1906Golf Calendar: FebruaryPenfield’s golfer in poster-flat color — American art nouveau takes up the game.Edward Penfield, 1899Plan of the Old Course — Alister MacKenzie, 1924Design scripture: every bunker named, every contour argued.Alister MacKenzie, 1924The Golf-PlayerRembrandt etched a kolf player in 1654 — the greatest hand in Dutch art, on the old game.Rembrandt van Rijn, etching, 1654Sports on a Frozen RiverVan der Neer’s winter river, kolf among the skaters — the game inside the weather.Aert van der Neer, oil on canvas, c. 1660Ice Skaters on the Amstel at AmsterdamThe oldest sheet in the house — 1589, the ice already full of the game.Hans Bol, 1589Kolfspeler (The Kolf Player)A single player, club grounded, from the Rijksmuseum’s print room.Netherlandish engraver, 1758–1762Het Kolfspel (The Game of Kolf)The game named on its own plate, 1654 — the ancestor with a title.Netherlandish engraver, 1654Skaters and Kolfers on the IceAvercamp’s own drawing, titled for the kolfers — the game named by the painter.Hendrick Avercamp, drawing, c. 1615–1625A Scene on the Ice near a TownThe National Gallery’s Avercamp — the winter panorama at full wall scale.Hendrick Avercamp, oil on panel, 1615IJsvermaak (Winter Amusement)The nephew carrying on the family trade — the second Avercamp in the house.Barent Avercamp, oil on panel, 1630–1679Winter on the Vijverberg, The HagueA prince on the ice in 1618 — the winter game with the court in attendance.Adam van Breen, oil on panel, 1618A Girl with a Kolf Club and Her MotherThe game indoors, in a child’s hands, before it belonged to clubs.Netherlandish engraver, c. 1792–1800John Gray of NewholmRaeburn paints a golfing gentleman — Scotland’s great portraitist on the Scottish game.Sir Henry Raeburn, oil on canvasSir James and Sir Alexander MacdonaldTwo boys with golf clubs in the 1740s — the earliest golfing portrait in the house.attributed to William Mosman, oil on canvas, 1740sOuting, September NumberThe American art-nouveau poster that sold golf to a magazine audience.American poster artist, 1896The Golfer’s AlphabetA. B. Frost sets the whole game to twenty-six letters, 1898.Arthur Burdett Frost, 1898Collier’s — “Fore!”Penfield’s 1908 cover: flat colour, one word, the whole game.Edward Penfield, 1908On the Presidential Golf LinksPuck, 1895: American politics played as a foursome, badly.Louis Dalrymple, chromolithograph for Puck, 1895Golf — Houlgate, CabourgRené Vincent, 1930 — the largest and last sheet the house can legally hang.René Vincent, lithographic poster, 1930Le Golf de Font-RomeuCappiello, 1929 — the poster master takes a swing in the Pyrenees.Leonetto Cappiello, lithographic poster, 1929Vichy — Sport, Tourisme, ThéâtreRoger Broders, 1928: the golf holiday as a complete proposition.Roger Broders, lithographic poster, 1928South Cliff LinksA 1921 seaside links poster at twelve thousand pixels.Graham Simmons, lithographic poster, 1921The Golfers — A Grand Match Played over St Andrews LinksThe Grand Match as the Victorians actually owned it: Wagstaff’s huge 1850 aquatint after Lees.Charles E. Wagstaff, aquatint after Charles Lees, 1850Boy Playing GolfTer Borch drew a boy at the game around 1615 — a named master, on a child.Gerard ter Borch the Elder, drawing, c. 1610–1620Portrait of a Boy with a Kolf Club1631: a child painted in oils holding the game like an inheritance.Wybrand de Geest the Elder, oil on panel, 1631Kolven op het IJs (Kolf on the Ice)The game named as itself, on the ice, at wall scale.Netherlandish printmaker, 1763–1826Regelementen van Kolf (The Rules of Kolf)The eighteenth-century rulebook — the ancestor of every argument since.anonymous Dutch printer, 18th centuryWinter Landscape near a Town with Kolf PlayersVan der Neer at full size at last — the winter light the house was named for.Aert van der Neer, oil on panel, c. 1650–1655Golfers at the Miami Biltmore, 1927The American resort boom photographed at ten thousand pixels.unattributed press photograph, 1927