John Sergeant

Cat Studies, 20th Century British Animal Drawings

Charles Inder Flourished: 1920 - 1940 Girl Feeding Horse Ink on paper Image size: 6 x 8 cm Acid free incised mount and black frame

Charles Paine 1895 - 1967 Flying South Gouache, signed lower right with monogram Image size: 2 ¾ × 2 ¾ inches Acid free mount and black frame £350

Pastel on paper Image size: 13 x 17 1/2 inches (33 x 44.5 cm) Mounted and framed This original pastel drawing by Thomas Frye is a half-length portrait of a man dressed in a turban. This drawing is the original sketch for one of the heads depicted in Frye's collection 'Twelve Mezzotint Prints' of 1760 and it can be assumed that this pastel work was created earlier of this same year. Two versions of the print, created from this original work, are currently held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Frye's evocative figures, although presumably based on living models, exceed the conventions of portraiture, and also function as character studies. The man shown here - dressed in the fashionable 'Turkish' manner - turns with parted lips as if poised to speak, while raising the elegant fingers in one hand in a rhetorical gesture. His long eyelashes and smoothly rendered wrinkles and dimples are hallmarks of Frye's refined style. The Artist Thomas Frye (c. 1710 – 3 April 1762) was an Anglo-Irish artist, best known for his portraits in oil and pastel, including some miniatures and his early mezzotint engravings. He was also the patentee of the Bow porcelain factory, London, and claimed in his epitaph to be "the inventor and first manufacturer of porcelain in England," though his rivals at the Chelsea porcelain factory seem to have preceded him in bringing wares to market. The Bow porcelain works did not long survive Frye's death; their final auctions took place in May 1764. Frye was born at Edenderry, County Offaly, Ireland, in 1710; in his youth he went to London to practice as an artist. His earliest works are a pair of pastel portraits of boys...

French School 18th Century Portrait of a Young Man Charcoal and pastel on paper Image size: 11 x 7 inches Contemporary gilt frame

Oil on canvas Image size: 16 x 20 inches (40.5 x 51 cm) This portrait is painted in an impressionist palette and is likely to have been created by Caroline Hutchinson circa 1955. It...

Watercolour and gouache on paper, dated '1927' and signed lower left Image size: 12 1/2 x 19 3/8 inches (31.75 x 49.25 cm) Mounted and framed Provenance The Collection of Jill and J...

Elsie Marian Henderson (British, 1880-1967) Crouching Leopard Charcoal and pastel on paper 8 x 12.1/8 in. (20.3 x 30.8 cm.) Provenance: The estate of the artist Sally Hunter Fine Art, London Elsie Marian Henderson was born in Eastbourne in Sussex and with the encouragement of her mother, a keen amateur painter, she attended the South Kensington Schools before studying at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1903 and 1905. She continued her art education in Paris and in 1916, after returning to London she enrolled at the Chelsea Polytechnic, where she was taught lithography by the artist Francis Ernest Jackson...

Moose Painting 19th Century 1878 English Signed by Artist Signed R Cockle 1878 Charcoal work Removed from its original frame Good with one fold and a f...

Nelson Mandela, Madiba’s Nguni Bull I, Signed Original Artwork Many people are unaware that Nelson Mandela turned his hand to art in his 80's a...

Art Sz: 8 3/8"H x 13"W Frame Sz: 16 1/4"H x 20 1/4"W

Charcoal and pastel on paper 49.5 x 63.5 cm (19 ⅜ x 25 inches) Signed lower left, Manzana Executed circa 1920 This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by L...

Alexander was born in Beaumont, Texas, in 1945. He received his B.F.A. from Lamar University in Beaumont in 1968 and his M.F.A. from the Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 19...