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Period: 19th Century
'Historic English Chapel Interior, ' by Unknown, Watercolor Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed and matted 16" x 19" watercolor painting by an Unknown artist depicts an historic English chapel interior. The interior of the church features the large stained glass window pane...
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Realist 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Paris modernist scene mixed media drawimg
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Cardona Lladós (1877-1957) - Modernist Paris scene - Mixed media (charcoal and white wax).
Drawing measurements 40x29 cm.
Frame measurements 66x54 cm.
He was born in Barcelona on June 30, 1877, he was registered with the name of Juan Bautista José Pedro. His parents Josep Cardona i Farré (Sant Salvador, 1852-Barcelona, ?) and Maria Lladós i Vidal (Isona, 1855-Barcelona, 1935) came from Sant Salvador de Toló and Isona, respectively, two towns very close to Tremp, in the Pallars Jussà region, close to the Lleida Pyrenees. The Cardona Lladós family was of humble origins, linked to the rural and peasant world. José Cardona and María Lladós married around 1876, when they were twenty-five and twenty-one years old respectively. The couple decided to improve their precarious situation by moving to live in Barcelona.
In 1877 Joan Cardona was born in the family home, at 62 Mediana de San Pedro Street, in the Ribera neighborhood of Barcelona and very close to the Rec Comtal. Joan Cardona was the firstborn of three brothers. When he was six years old, his sister Consuelo was born (1883) and later his younger sister, María (1888), was born. Josep Cardona i Farré was a day laborer and lived at least until the birth of his third daughter, María, in 1888. Her death, for reasons unknown to us, would occur shortly after.
After the death of Josep Cardona, León Farré i Duró (Isona, 1867-Barcelona, 1932) became part of the family nucleus with his mother María Lladós, who took care of the child Cardona and his sisters Consuelo and María.
Farré learned to play the guitar and was the most extraordinary disciple of the composer and guitarist Francesc Tàrrega i Eixea (Vila-real, 1852-Barcelona, 1909). Joan Cardona had in her stepfather the man who instilled in her a special musical and artistic sensitivity. The young Cardona took classes at the Academia Baixas, inaugurated in 1892 by the painter Joan Baixas i Carreter and installed on Carrer del Pi, a private center where a good batch of leading Catalan Modernisme artists were trained.
Cardona married Clemencia Parade Cazabat at the beginning of the century. Daughter of Carles Parade and Amara Cazabat, she was born in 1870 in Bagnères de Bigorre...
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Modern 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
End of lunch or Portrait of a young woman seated at a table
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN LOUIS FORAIN
(Reims 1852 - 1931 Paris)
End of lunch or Portrait of a young woman seated at a table, in front of a cup of coffee, probably Portrait of Marguerite Ch...
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Impressionist 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Italian Art nouveau Nude Boudoir painting woman warming herself by a stove Paris
By Tito Lessi
Located in Norwich, GB
A very pure and tender rendition of a female nude. Elegant in its simplicity, the artist's model, is warming herself by a large stove!
It is a work by Tito Lessi dating from circa 1890. Lessi was born in Florence, Italy and studied at the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts, under Enrico Pollastrini and Antonio Ciseri...
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Academic 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Antique Floral Still Life with Tulips and Irises in Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Antique Floral Still Life with Tulips and Irises in Gouache on Paper
Finely detailed still life by Charlotte Siemers (19th Century). Several flowers are shown in a lush bouquet. Flo...
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Rococo 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Episode of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, a cantonment of soldiers, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century
Episode of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, a cantonment of soldiers during the siege of Paris
Pen and brown ink on paper
15 x 23 cm
Annotated on the lower...
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Realist 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Joseph Henry Hirst (1863–1945) - Graphite Drawing, St. John's Crypt Bristol
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed on the back J. H. Hirst Archt del. Joseph Henry Hirst (1863–1945). He was was a leading architect of the post-Victorian era and was based in Kingston upon Hull. The name on th...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Symbolist Portrait of a Woman in an Interior, 'Before the Mirror'
Located in Cotignac, FR
Art Nouveau coloured drawing of a young lady beauty before a mirror by Edmon Aman-Jean. The work is signed in pencil bottom left and presented in a plain wood frame with mount, under glass.
A very charming early 20th century drawing capturing a young beauty admiring herself in front of a dressing mirror. n the background a fine interior with a louis XVI commode...
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Symbolist 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Pencil, Color Pencil
France 19th century, The Bohème artist in his workshop, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
France circa 1850
The Bohème artist in his workshop
Watercolor on paper
15.5 x 21.5 cm
In good condition except a small tear (visible on the photographs) on the upper right border.
I...
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Romantic 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
St. Michaels Church , Workington
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Saint Michaels Church, Workington, Cumbria , England. This picture is the design for a window which was dedicated to a long serving and much loved choirmaster by the name of George S...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Summer landscape by Whistler's French artist friend Delâtre, Barbizon connection
Located in Norwich, GB
An atmospheric landscape in the last glow of the evening sun by a rare 19th Century master , Auguste Delâtre.
Delâtre (1822-1902) was a pioneering pri...
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Barbizon School 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Mid 19th Century Figurative Scene from "Great Exhibition of 1851", London
By Lowes Cato Dickinson
Located in Soquel, CA
Hand-colored steel engraving of a the Turkish section of the Great Exhibition of 1851 by Lowes Cato Dickinson (British, 1819-1908). On verso i...
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Aesthetic Movement 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
The Catch - Original Drawing by Celestin Deshayes - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Catch is an original artwork, gouache, tempera and watercolor realized by Celestin Deshayes (1817 -1896) . Hand signed on the lower right. Is not dated but we can attribute the p...
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Modern 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor, Gouache
Francis P. Stephanoff (1790-1860) - Miniature Watercolour, The Bridal Morning
By Francis Philip Stephanoff
Located in Corsham, GB
Attributed to Francis Philip Stephanoff (1790-1860), miniature watercolour on card. The Bridal Morning. An intimate interior scene depicting ladies-in-waiting gathered around a young...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
John Anderson Bell King’s College Cambridge Chapel Interior c. 1840 watercolour
By John Anderson Bell
Located in London, GB
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John Anderson Bell (1809-1865)
King’s College Cambridge Chapel Interior
Signed and indistinctly dated
Watercolour c. 1840
53x39cm
Bell was born in Glasgow; his father was James Bell, advocate and his sister Jane...
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Realist 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Circle of David Roberts, 19th Century English watercolor, Cathedral interior
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very atmospheric scene of a religious ceremony in a Cathedral or church interior
Harry Willson (1813-1852)
A candlelit cermony in a cathedral
Signed
Watercolour with gouache and g...
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English School 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Attrib. Samuel A. Rayner (fl.1820-1874)- Watercolour, The Chapel at Haddon Hall
Located in Corsham, GB
The Chapel at Haddon Hall. Watercolour with gum arabic. Well presented in a maroon card mount and gilt effect frame with later photographs and an article on the chapel verso. Unsigne...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Romantic School, View of a roman atrium, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic school circa 1850
An antique Roman Atrium
signed lower right (illegible)
Ink, Ink wash and white gouache heightenings
20 x 13 cm
Framed : 35.5 x 27 cm
The signatu...
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Romantic 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Christ's College Chapel, Cambridge, 1842, watercolour by R.A.E Little
Located in London, GB
R.A.E Little
Christ's College Chapel, Cambridge, 1842
Watercolour
20 x 26 cm
Charming watercolour depicting a view of Christ's College Chapel in the mid nineteenth century. In thi...
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Realist 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
By the Fireside
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Edouard Bernard DEBAT-PONSAN
(Toulouse 1847 – 1913 Paris)
By the Fireside
Ink, wash, and gouache on paper
15 3/8 x 15 3/4 in
39 x 40 cm
Monogrammed lower right “DP”
Provenance
Private collection, France
This work is a preparatory study related to the artist’s painting Before the Ball...
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Old Masters 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache
After Adriaen van Ostade - 19th Century Watercolour, The Painter in His Studio
Located in Corsham, GB
After Adriaen Jansz van Ostade (1610-1685). An intimate and highly detailed 19th-century watercolour depicting a Dutch painter busy working in his studio. Daylight can be seen floodi...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Interior Scene with Potted Plant
Located in Astoria, NY
Jozsef Rippl-Ronai (Hungarian, 1861-1927), Interior Scene with Potted Plant, Pastel on Paper, signed lower center, Herbert Feist carved giltwood frame. Image: 9.25" H x 13" W; frame:...
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Impressionist 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Mon dieu, gardez-moi mon enfant - Watercolor by Paul Delhommeau - 1868
Located in Roma, IT
Mon dieu, gardez-moi mon enfant is an original artwork realized by Paul Delhommeau, in 1868.
Watercolor drawing on brown cardboard glued on on a white paper ...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Fine Antique 19th Century Italian Watercolor Roman Interior Scene Painting 1880
Located in Portland, OR
A very beautiful watercolor painting by the celebrated Italian artist Daniele Bucciarelli (1839–1911), of a interior scene circa 1880.
The painting depicts the interior of a grand ro...
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Italian School 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
5 Stained Glass Window Design Panels TW Camm Florence Camm Watercolour
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of designs for stained glass windows from the TW Camm studios that had not been seen for decades. To see more of them scroll down to "More from this Seller" and ...
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Modern 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Une Chambre - Original Pencil Drawing by Unknown French Artist Late 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Une chambre is a very interesting charcoal drawing realized by an unknown French artist in the second half of 1800. The state of preservation is very good, except for some stains on ...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Maternity - Original China Ink Drawing by E. Morin - 1874
Located in Roma, IT
Maternity is a beautiful original drawing, composed by 4 original China ink scenes, of which the last is watercolored, realized by the French artist Eugéne Morin (1833-1875).
Each s...
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Modern 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The Decoration of Monte Carlo
Located in Dallas, TX
This late 19th century French pen and ink drawing depicts the decoration of Monte Carlo by Lucas and George Clairin (French, 1843-1919). The price inc...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Francesco I and Titian in the Painter's Studio - Drawing 1824
Located in Roma, IT
Francesco I and Titian in the painter's studio is a wonderful original painting (graphite pencil, pen, China ink and watercolor) on squared paper, realized by Francesco Camuccini (Ro...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Study of Figures- Drawing on Paper by Marcel Mangin - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Study of Figures is original drawing in pencil on ivory paper, realized by Marcel Mangin (French, 1852 - 1915), with the stamp of artist"Marcel Mangin" on the lower right. with the d...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
People - Drawing by F.-A. Houbron - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
People is an ink on paper, realized in the late 19th Century by Frédéric-Anatole Houbron.
Monogram of the artist on the lower-left corner. Passpartout included cm 25.5x38
The artwork represents a sketch of a group of people in an indoor set.
Frédéric-Anatole Houbron was (1851- 1908).
Painter (gouache), watercolorist, draughtsman, he realized history painting...
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Modern 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Self-portrait - Homo nudus -
Located in Berlin, DE
Bruno Paul (1874 Seifhennersdorf - 1968 Berlin). Self-portrait, c. 1895. Pencil on paper, mounted on cardboard, 53.5 x 35 cm, signed 'Paul' at upper left.
- Homo nudus -
About the artwork
In a mirrored situation, Bruno Paul looks at himself in the picture. While his body, which is the size of the format, is shown in profile parallel to the picture, he turns his head into the picture in order to become aware of himself there, whereby the lighter use...
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Realist 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Pastel Orientalist Islam Muslim tomb Sultan Mausoleum Prayer French late 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
French school from the end of the 19th century
Pastel 72 x 61 cm (85 x 72 cm with the frame)
Signed lower right
Merchand stamp at the back Rey & Perrrod , active in Paris between 18...
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French School 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Naked Couple -Drawing by Tony Johannot - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Naked Couple is a pencil drawing on paper realized in the 19th Century by Tony Johannot (1803 – 1852).
The artwork represents a lying naked couple.
Good condition, except for a stain in the center.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower-left corner. Passpartout included cm 38x55
Tony Johannot (1803 – 1852) was a famous French painter, illustrator and engraver. Among his most famous illustrations: those of the Histoire du roi de Bohême et de ses sept châteaux by Ch. Nodier (1830), by Don Quichote...
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Modern 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Louis Tinayre (1861-1942) An encampment of journalists, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Tinayre (1861-1942)
An encampment of journalists in Chambéry,
signed and titled lower left "Campement de journalistes à Chambéry"
Ink on paper
In quite good condition, a a visible vertical fold in the centre, some stains and foxings
21 x 29 cm
Framed : 33.7 x 45.5 cm
Louis Tinayre's background and adventurous life obviously inform this humorous and detailed scene. He demonstrates a remarkable sense of observation, capturing this scene of extraordinary life like a journalistic illustrator.
A contributor, to whom I'd like to express my sincere thanks, sheds important light on the nature of this scene.
It appears that this drawing is the draft for an illustration published in “Le Monde illustré” of August 4, 1888 (page 77), to accompany the article “Épilogue du voyage présidentiel” (Epilogue to the presidential trip) - president Sadi Carnot- en Savoie et en Dauphiné (p. 74), which ends with: “As a picturesque note, we enclose an improvised journalists' dormitory in Chambéry, where our colleagues deeply regretted the comfort of the special train”.
As a quasi-ethnographic observer, Tinayre's interest lies in the journalists' camp, which he turns into a tender, comical scene. We understand him better when we know that he may have been similarly fascinated by the territories of Madagascar, the North Pole or the Far West that he painted and drew.
Louis Tinayre was born on 14 March 1861 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. His mother, Victoire Tinayre, was a teacher and a member of the International Workers' Association.
Louis was the son of a Communard couple. His father, Jean Joseph, known as Jules Tinayre (Issoire 1821 - Paris 1871) was shot during the Bloody Week. His mother, Victoire Tinayre, fled with her children. Louis was the first to be sent to Hungary, and the rest of the family (including his brother Julien) joined him there later. He studied Fine Arts at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest.
Returning to Paris in 1880 (after the amnesty), Louis Tinayre assiduously frequented Le Chat noir, where he met the positivists and Adèle Jacomet (Buenos Aires 1867-1946), whom he married in 1888.
He became an animal painter and press illustrator and was sent by Le Monde Illustré to cover the second expedition to Madagascar (then under French protectorate) in 1895.
He stayed there, fascinated, for six months and produced numerous drawings and photographs. Back in France, he created eight 5 x 4 meters dioramas presented at the National and Colonial Exhibition in Rouen in 1896.
He returned to Madagascar in 1898 to prepare the creation of a giant panorama representing the surrender of Antananarivo in 1895. The Malagasy pavilion at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris allowed him to admire the dioramas (on the ground floor) and the panorama (on the first floor).
On his second trip, Tinayre took a Lumière cinematograph with him to document the daily life of the Malagasy people, no doubt to facilitate the design of the vast panorama. These short films were donated to the Cinémathèque française in 2009 by his grandson, Alain Tinayre.
One of the admirers of Tinayre's drawings, watercolours, paintings and photographs at the Universal Exhibition was Prince Albert I of Monaco: from 1901 onwards, Tinayre accompanied him on his hunts, painting scenes in North Africa, Russia, the Far West (Wyoming) and the North Pole. Tinayre, the official painter of the Prince's scientific expeditions, left his name to a glacier.
Together with the painter Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Brun, he painted the four murals in the large amphitheatre of the Oceanographic Institute in Paris. Louis Tinayre painted the figures while Alexandre Brun...
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Realist 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Draught Players Large Interior Genre Scene 19 century Irish Watercolor Painting
By Erskine Nicol RSA ARA
Located in Stockholm, SE
Painting is titled “Paddy’s Dilemma" by Erskine Nicol (Erskine Nicol RSA ARA, 1825 – 1904), Irishman. Detailed and richly decorated in objects picture of a cozy interior takes us str...
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Realist 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Watercolor
Fashionable Woman - Original Pencil Drawing by E. Morin - Mid 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Fashionable Woman is a beautiful original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, composed by eight preparatory studies realized by the French artist Eugéne Morin (1833-1875).
Hand-s...
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Modern 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Peasants' House - Watercolor on Paper by E. Gioja -
Located in Roma, IT
Peasants' House is an original moder artwork realized by Edoardo Gioja in 1874.
Original watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed and dated "Monte Porzio, 28 agosto 1874" on the lower rig...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour - The Mayor's Parlour, Leicester Guildhall
Located in Corsham, GB
A particularly fine watercolour study of the Mayor's Parlour at Leicester Guildhall. The craftsmanship and carpentry of the interior instantly grabs your attention, testament to the ...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Theatrical sets - Pencil and Watercolor by Tony Johannot - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Theatrical sets is an original watercolor drawing on paper realized in the 19th Century by Tony Johannot (1803 – 1852).
Good condition, minor cosmetic wear..
Not signed, but with annotations on the margins of the sheet.
This artwork represents two designs for theatrical sets. Same size for both designs.
Tony Johannot (1803 – 1852) was a famous French painter, illustrator and engraver. Among his most famous illustrations: those of the Histoire du roi de Bohême et de ses sept châteaux by Ch. Nodier (1830), by Don Quichote...
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Modern 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Interior of a House - Original China Ink Drawing - Early 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Interior of a house is a fine original drawing (China ink and watercolor on paper). Unsigned. This artwork could be attributed to Thomas Stothard.
In ...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Interior of Kitchen - Pencil Brown-colored Paper - 1880
Located in Roma, IT
Interior of kitchen is a beautiful drawing on brown-colored paper, realized during the XIX century by an architect.
Pencil drawing. This drawing rapresents an interior of a kitchen ...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Late 19th Century Watercolour - Needlework With Grandma
Located in Corsham, GB
A heartwarming interior scene in watercolour, showing a young girl sitting on a stool in front of the kitchen stove, working with great concentration on ...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Open Window - 19th Century British Children's Book illustration by Sowerby
Located in London, GB
JOHN GEORGE SOWERBY
(1849-1914)
Phoebe - The Open Window
Watercolour heightened with white
Unframed, in mount only
8 by 7 cm., 3 by 2 ¼ in.
(mount size 25.5 by 20 cm., 10 by 8 in.)
Reproduced:
J G Sowerby & Thomas Crane, At Home, Marcus Ward & Co, 1881, p.42.
The current work was reproduced in Sowerby and Crane’s 1881 children’s book, At Home, where is accompanied by the following verse:
All the morning, all the morning,
Sat she till her tasks were done;
While without were birds and blossoms,
And the pleasant sun.
And the leaves in ev’ry rustle,
And the birds in ev’ry song:-
“Phoebe, Phoebe, are you coming?
Phoebe, don’t be long!”
Whispered thro’ the open window
Gentle breezes, passing by:-
“Phoebe, are you coming, Phoebe?
Come before we die!”
Till the clock, with joyful measure,
Struck the hour when work is o’er;
Crying “Ponto’” Phoebe vanished
Through the open door.
Whither sped out nimble Phoebe?
She is in the study now;
Ponto heard her with she called him, -
Answered back “Bow-wow!’
“Ponto, tho’ the birds and garden,
Called me all the morning thro’
I had first to do my lessons –
So I think should you.”
Poor old Ponto! He is longing,
Longing for his game of play,
And the garden – ah: but Phoebe
Has a word to say.
“Beg then – beg, sir – do you hear me?
No, no, Ponto, that is wrong;
Paws up! Steady! Ah, that’s better!
Good dog, come along!”
John George Sowerby was born into a prosperous Gateshead family of glass manufactures and artists. He inherited the family business, the Ellison Glass Works, one of the world’s largest producers of pressed glass, where he introduced designs inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement. Initially he combined his energies at the glass works with his work as an illustrator and painter of landscapes and floral subjects with a Pre-Raphaelite intensity, strong colours and rich detail. He exhibited many of these paintings at the Royal Academy. In the 1880s he collaborated with Newcastle artist, Henry Hetherington Emmerson, on illustrations for the children’s books Afternoon Tea (1880) and The May Blossom (1881). Although were critically very well received but the publications were attacked by Kate Greenaway who considered them too close to her own work. Sowerby then went on to produce highly aesthetic illustrated books At Home (1881) and At Home Again (1883), with decorations by Thomas Crane. Gleeson White, editor of The Studio magazine stated that in Afternoon Tea Sowerby “set a new fashion for ‘aesthetic’ little quartos’ (The Studio, 1897). Roger Dixon in Belfast Publishing (Oxford University Press, 2011, p.79) considered these At Home and At Home Again to be “among the loveliest books ever produced.” Never very wise as a business man, in the early 1880s he left Ellison Glass Works being declared bankrupt in 1884. He returned to the works again as a paid employee.
Sowerby’s daughter, Millicent Sowerby...
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Realist 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Henry Liverseege (1802-1832) - 1831 Watercolour, Sir John Falstaff
Located in Corsham, GB
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...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
British turn of the 20th Century 'Narcissi' by Pre-Raphaelite Evelyn de Morgan
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Evelyn De Morgan (British, 1855 – 1919)
Narcissi
Pencil on paper
5.1/2 x 15 in. (14 x 38 cm.)
Provenance: The Clayton-Stamm Collection.
Dominic Wint...
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Pre-Raphaelite 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
'Young Lady with a King Charles Spaniel', French School, Rococo Revival Pastel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, late 19th century, French School portrait of an elegantly dressed young woman of the court, shown holding her English spaniel in her arms and gazing towards the viewer...
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Rococo 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Follower of George Cattermole RWS (1800–1868) - 1883 Watercolour, Eucharist
Located in Corsham, GB
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...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Alfred Parkman (1852-1930) - 1889 Watercolour, Come Along Grandma
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour interior scene from the late 19th Century, showing a Jacobean stairwell, with a young girl leading her grandmother, carefully, down the stairs. The artist has ...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
M. M. Masterman - Framed 1858 Watercolour, Jacobean Interior
Located in Corsham, GB
A particularly fine watercolour study of a Jacobean entranceway by Victorian artist M. M. Masterman. The craftsmanship in the cornice and carpentry in the room instantly grabs your a...
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19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Convent interior
Located in Paris, IDF
Hippolyte Victor Valentin SEBRON
(Caudebec-en-Caux, 1801 – Paris, 1879)
Convent interior
Ink, pen and wash
Signed and dated lower left
27,5 x 20 cm
1839
Pupil of Daguerre from the age of 29, Sebron entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under the teaching of Cogniet. He exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon between 1831 and 1878.
First employed in the painting of dioramas, he then produced numerous paintings, particularly interiors of churches...
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French School 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
George H Hay, Spinning Wool, Watercolour
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century watercolour by Scottish artist George H Hay RSA (1831-1912) depicts four young ladies, wearing outfits synonymous with the 1820s, spinning wool within a simple...
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Romantic 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Virginia Larsson (1844-1893) - Swedish Watercolour, Woman and Child
Located in Corsham, GB
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...
Category
19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Edward Angelo Goodall RWS (1819-1908) - Signed Watercolour, Cottage Interior
Located in Corsham, GB
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...
Category
19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Man sitting in the studio - Thinking about art -
Located in Berlin, DE
Adolph Eduard Otto von Faber du Faur (1828 Ludwigsburg - 1901 Munich). Man sitting in the studio. Watercolour painting, 43 x 27 cm (visible size), 73 x 53 cm (frame), monogrammed at lower right, estate stamp.
Upper right corner neatly repaired, small tear in the wall to the left of the sitter.
- Thinking about art -
About the artwork
The sitter, an elderly man, is seated in a studio on a pedestal reminiscent of an academy hall. The earthy, dark tones give the scene a weighty quality. The lightest tones are found in the incarnate parts of the figure, which do not stand out from the other colours of the picture, but are linked to them. As a result, the sitter's face is both part of and the highlight of the colour references in the picture. The colour of the sitter's skin is reflected in his pink coat, while his white-grey hair matches the colour of the wall next to him. This almost monochrome wall surface, in turn, is connected across the portrait to the framed picture standing on the floor, which seems to have been erased by this correspondence with the empty wall surface. Through the palette, which is positioned directly behind the sitter's head, the reference to painting, which is already given by the studio space, is explicitly linked to the sitter, who thus seems to be contemplating the question of the meaning of art.
This raises the question of whether Faber Du Faur, who had become lonely in his old age, might have painted a self-portrait here in his later years. In addition to the studio setting, the sitter's explicit reference to the palette and the fact that the picture was part of his estate, the only summary elaboration of the body suggests a self-portrait, while the representation of the face is concretised with the wide-open eyes typical of a self-portrait. This concentration on the face gives the impression of the artist's melancholy introspection, captured by the palette and related to the meaning of painting, whose dark character is reinforced by the concealment of the palette hanging on the right of the picture in the light tones so characteristic of Faber Du Faur. In the course of this resignation, Faber du Faur advises his son Hans, who has also become a painter: "Promise me one thing: never move to Munich, they'll kill you here!"
Whoever the sitter may be, the references to painting make the portrait a resigned self-contemplation by Faber Du Faur, focused on art.
About the artist
After leaving school, Otto Faber du Faur entered the service of the Württemberg army, at the same time cultivating his artistic talent. In 1851, on the recommendation of his father Christian Wilhelm, who was himself a battle painter, he spent six months in Munich as an apprentice to Alexander von Kotzebue. In 1852 he was granted a year's leave of absence from military service to study battle painting in the studio of Adolphe Yvon...
Category
Realist 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Fashion: Two Ladies, a drawing by Horace Vernet, 1814
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Horace Vernet
(French, 1789-1863)
Two Ladies Standing, 1814
Watercolor on paper, 8 x 6 1/4 inches
Framed: 15 x 13 inches (approx.)
Signed and dated at lower right: "H.Vernet--1814."...
Category
Realist 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
"Interior Scene" Dutch 19th century signed watercolor
By Herman ten Kate
Located in New York, NY
Herman Frederick Ten Kate
1822 - The Hague - 1891
Interior Scene
Watercolor on paper
9 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (23.4 x 33.6 cm)
Framed: 17 x 21 ½ inches (43 x 54.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance: Private Collection, USA
Herman Ten Kate spent most of his life in The Hague although he did occasionally travel to Amsterdam and Haarlem. He was a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam in 1847. He was a student of Cornelis Krusemans from 1837 to 1841. Ten Kate generally depicted friendly genre scenes as well as scenes with soldiers inspired by the 80 years war. His work is generally of watercolor and lithographs.
Our sheet offers a quiet scene in which two gentlemen are featured, each sporting the extravagant hats, vests and tall boots typical of the 19th century, inspired by the 17th century Guardroom scenes. One man rests against the back of a chair, his face marked with a serious expression, his left hand gesturing toward the other man seated at the table. The seated figure wears a rather bemused expression as he composes a letter, apparently taking delight in his endeavor. The two figures are surrounded by various objects cluttering the room, which Ten Kate employs for the specific means of compositional balance.
The various interior elements -- a long wooden table...
Category
Romantic 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Lady with Hat and Fan
By William Lee
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed lower left
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
