Thomas Broadbent

The Last Dodo

2019

22"x30" watercolor on paper, signed on reverse. In this contemporary surrealist painting, a red panda is depicted holding a sketchbook in its mouth with lea...

30"x22' signed on reverse. In this highly detailed contemporary surrealist style watercolor painting by New York artist, Thomas Broadbent a black raven holds a stack of hardbound bo...

large scale contemporary surrealist watercolor painting depicting a graceful white swan on a green leather armchair, 40"x60" (signed on reverse) Painted with meticulous detail, from...

56"x96" watercolor on paper, signed on reverse. New York artist, Thomas Broadbent, well know for his contemporary naturalist depictions of the intersection of nature and man, presen...

40"x60" watercolor on paper, signed on reverse by the artist. In this contemporary surrealist painting, an anteater is foraging through cast off items from domestic life. The anima...

A red ibis perches on a red armchair in this contemporary surrealist painting by New York artist, Thomas Broadbent. The long legs of this water bird complement the design of the cha...

Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1775–1850) ‘Camelopard – a present from the Pacha of Egypt to the King – at Malta on its way to England’ Signed and dated C.F. de Brocktorff. / 1827. lower right, inscribed as titled in the painted margins lower centre. Pencil and watercolour heightened with gold paint and gum arabic on paper, 36.8 x 27.9 cm A gift so majestic, it made kings blush, and a gift so grand, it would startle Europe into a craze. Pasha Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1805-1848) did it in 1827: he sent to Europe three magical spotted, horned creatures, each with a neck reaching the skies and legs as long as a house is high. One giraffe to King Charles X of France, one to Francis I of Austria and the most fabled one to King George IV of England. A curious sight for Europeans, who had not seen such a beast since the Medici giraffe in 1487. Few animals created more of a stir in Europe than these royal...

Follower of Zacharias Wagener (1614-1688) Tamanuâguasû (Giant Anteater) On Italian 17th or 18th-century paper, H. 28 x W. 43.5 cm ​The present painting is a copy after Wagener’s painting of the anteater, Tamanduá-bandeira, which is illustrated in his “Thier Buch”, with 109 drawings of Brazilian fish, birds and mammals, published in Amsterdam c. 1641, in German. ​ Zacharias Wagener, or Wagenaer in Dutch, (Dresden 1614 – Amsterdam 1668) was a real adventurer who became Opperhoofd on Deshima and Governor of the Cape of Good Hope in the service of the VOC. During the Thirty-Year War in Germany Wagener tried his luck in Amsterdam where he worked for the map-maker Willem Blaeu. In 1634 he joined the WIC and left for Dutch Brazil where he worked as writer and painter, together with Frans Post...

John Aldrich Ruthven American Painter Bison in a Snow Blizzard Watercolor and Gouache on Paper signed lower left

I've been drawing Snoopy as a subject in my painting for decades now. It is a satisfying shape to draw. Many people from my generation drew Snoopy when they were kids, thus there's a...

This is a 6 x 9 ink work on paper from the "Snoopies" series. Drawing Snoopy as a kid was common in my generation. Cloning this dog into a team who operate on instinct, gives levity,...

This is a celebration of Spring with pink flowers and blue birds painted on a thick round watercolor paper sheet measuring 16 inches (41cm) in diameter. the tondo shaped surface heig...