John Mellows Youngman

Saffron Walden and Audley End, A Pair

1862

A pair of stunning water colours by Birket Foster. One of a family resting while working the fields and the other of children playing in the courtyard. Watercolour 16.75 x 22 inches ...

Helen Allingham 1848-1926 Thatched Cottage with Lady and Child at the Garden Gate Signed Watercolour 11cms x 14.5cms Framed

Miniature portrait of a Gentleman  Early 19th Century, watercolour on paper c. 1840

A gorgeous landscape watercolour. Signed Gee Hemel Watercolour Unframed 14 x 9 inches Framed 25.25 x 19 inches Frame included

Ernest Albert Chadwick 1876-1955 Trees in Blossom beside a Pond Signed Watercolour 18cms x 26cms Framed

Arthur A Davis, (British fl 1877-1905), 'A Clinking Double'' Framed watercolour, signed, 59 x 47cm / 36 x 26cm £2,950 (Price for a Set of Four) Arthur A Davis was well known for...

This very modern drawing presents a view of Ariccia, a small town 25 kilometres south-east of Rome. The Palazzo Chigi (in which the film-maker Luchino Visconti would film a large part of The Leopard a century later) and the adjoining church are seen from the bottom of the ravine that surrounds the town. This drawing is a moving testimony to the attraction of the city for artists of the Romantic period, who established in Ariccia a vivid artists' colony. 1. Achille Bénouville...

Neapolitan gouaches appeared in the eighteenth century when tourism in the Naples area was developing: the discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii made this city a mandatory stop on the Grand Tour, the journey made by wealthy Europeans to complete their education. Generally small in size for ease of transport and affordable in price, these gouaches were the ideal travel souvenir that these tourists of the early days were bringing back to capture the idyllic landscapes they had discovered during their journey and to share them with family and friends upon their return at home. The Bay of Naples and the eruptions of Vesuvius are the favourite themes of these views. Here we have a view of the Ovo Castle, which was rebuilt on the island of Partenope, in the middle of the Bay of Naples and about a hundred metres from the shore by the Normans in the 12th century on antique ruins...

This beautifully excecuted landscape with cattle in watercolor was made by Abraham Hendrik Winter (1800-1861). Winter was born in Utrecht (the Netherlands) in 1800 and was a teacher ...

Auguste Mayer (1803-1890 A seascape with a boat signed with the initials on the lower left Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on paper 17.5 x 26 cm In fairly good condition, ma...

French School, first half of the 19th century Le Lavoir (The washing place) Watercolor and pencil heightened with white gouache Bears a monogramm R P B on the lower left 21.5 x 33.5 ...

French Romantic school, 19th century View of a citadel Pen and ink, watercolor and heightenings of white gouache on brown paper 18 x 29.5 cm In good condition, some stains and traces...