Don Farrell RI RBA

Don Farrell RI RBA (b.1942) - 1989 Watercolour, Doorway

1989

A Shakespearean scene featuring Mistress Quickly, Sir John Falstaff, and Bardolph. The characters appear together in 'Henry IV Part I', 'Henry IV Part II', and 'The Merry Wives of Wi...

A wonderful late 19th century watercolour depicting a cottage scene with figures by the English artist Edward Angelo Goodall (1819-1908). This composition is reminiscent of Dutch int...

A fine watercolour scene in a traditional Swedish interior featuring a woman and child. Presented glazed in a clean white mount and wooden frame. Signed to the lower-left edge. On wo...

A captivating watercolour painting by the artist Winifred M. Clement Smith. The scene depicts a blacksmith in a forge. Title is inscribed on the reverse. There is an artist's label t...

A very fine watercolour Jacobean interior scene showing an altar at which a crowd of people are partaking in a Eucharist. A priest blesses the wine and hands it to an elderly man who...

A charming scene depicting a crowded British pub. Signed to the lower right. presented in a dark wooden frame. On paper.

Medium: Watercolor on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 31, 1962 The Post described, “At this point, the brave fel...

Medium: Watercolor and Gouache over Graphite Signature: Signed "E.M. Ashe" Lower Left "The Bachelor Girls' Christmas." Illustration for unknown publication. Not dated.

Delicate floral still life in the style of a botanical drawing of magnolia flowers in a glass vase with a figurine of a duck by Alexina Chamberlain (American, 20th Century). Presente...

Watercolor by Elisabeth Spalding (1868-1954) titled "Little Garden Flowers (Still Life)" in colors of green, orange, and pink. Presented in a custom gold frame with archival materials, outer dimensions measure 28 ¼ x 25 ⅜ x 1 ⅛ inches. Image size is 16 ⅛ x 13 ¼ inches. Painting is clean and in very good vintage condition - please contact us for a complete condition report. Provenance: Private collection, Denver Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: In 1874, at the age of six, Elizabeth Spalding and her family settled in Denver where her father, the Reverend John F. Spalding, became an early-day bishop in the Colorado Diocese of the Episcopal Church. After graduating from Wolfe Hall, a female academy in Denver where she later taught, she went to New York in 1890 to study drawing at a private school and painting at Cooper Union with J. Alden Weir. Later in the decade, she returned to New York to study at the Art Students League with Childe Hassam, Kenyon Cox and John Twachtman, and did outdoor sketching with Leonard Ochtman. She also spent summers working with a number of eminent American artists: Arthur Wesley Dow at Ipswich, Massachusetts; John F. Carlson at Woodstock, New York (later the first landscape painting instructor at the newly-founded Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs,1920-22); Charles H. Woodbury at Ogunquit, Maine; and Henry McCarter at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts classes in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. She also studied in France and England and lived briefly in Washington, DC. Spending the major portion of her career In Denver, she became a founding member of several local important art organizations. The first was the Le Brun Art Club, the city’s initial all-female artist group formed in 1890 and named after the renowned eighteenth-century French artist, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. In 1893, Spalding and several other Le Brun Club members (Henrietta Bromwell, Emma Richardson Cherry...