David Roberts

Circular Temple at Baalbek, Rare Original Signed Watercolour by David Roberts

1839

Henry Charles Fox. English ( b.1855 - d.1929 ). Driving Sheep. Plaisters Lane, Sutton Poyntz, Weymouth, Dorset 1918. Watercolor On Paper. Signed & Dated 1918. Image size 18.9 inche...

John Bedloe Goddard. English ( b.1838 – d.1896 ). Kimmeridge Bay & The Clavell Tower, The Purbecks, Dorset, 1876. Watercolor On Paper. Signed & Dated Lower Right. Image size 12.4 inc...

John Bedloe Goddard. English ( b.1838 – d.1896 ). Man O’ War Cove, The Purbecks, Dorset, 1875. Watercolor On Paper. Signed & Dated Lower Right. Image size 15.2 inches x 27.4 inches (...

J. Wilson. English ( fl.1837 - 1870 ). Looe Town & Harbor, Cornwall. Watercolor. Monogramed Lower Left. Image size 6.5 inches x 10.4 inches ( 16.5cm x 26.5cm ). Frame size 12.6 inc...

A vibrant Victorian watercolour which is signed and dated 1869 by Henry George Hine RI. A lovely scene around the camp fire with gypsies such as the man smoking and the laundry hung ...

William Mellor. English ( b.1851 - d.1931 ). Waterfall On The River Llugwy Near Betws-y-Coed, Wales. Watercolor. Signed Lower Right. Image size 18.5 inches x 16 inches ( 47cm x 40....

William Mellor. English ( b.1851 - d.1931 ). Waterfall And Stone Bridge On The River Llugwy, Near Capel Curig, Wales. Watercolor. Signed Lower Right. Image size 18.3 inches x 16 in...

just purchased more information to follow Cypher lower right Within a grey mount, 14cm high, 28cm long The gilded cavetto moulded frame 28 cm high, 41 cm long, 3.5cm deep

John Faulkner (Irish, c. 1830-1888, active United States c. 1870-80) Farm Scene with Figures, c. 1870 Watercolor on paper, 20 x 28 inches (sight) FRAMED: 31 1/4 x 39 1/4 inches Sign...

Artist: Harry George Theaker (English, 1873-1954) Title: "Moors, Yorkshire, UK" *No signature found Circa: 1935 Medium: Original Watercolor on watercolor paper Sheet size: 9.75" x 13.75" Condition: In excellent condition Notes: Provenance: private collection - Corsham, UK. "GAC" and "H.G. Theaker" pencil inscribed upper left and center on verso. Biography: Born January-March 1873 in Wolstanton, Staffordshire. He was the son of George Theaker (1835-1902, born in Sheffield, Yorkshire), headmaster (principal) of the School of Art in Burslem from 1869-94 and designer for pottery. His younger brother, Charles Edmund (1875-1903) was an apprentice designer modeller and then a teacher at the Wedgwood Institute in Burslem around 1900. Harry George was an apprentice pottery decorator and then a teacher. He settled in London c.1900-05 and was in charge of design at the Polytechnic in Regent Street from about 1906 onwards, where he also taught courses in 'modelling from design'. Theaker remained at the Polytechnic and is listed in prospectuses as headmaster (principal) between 1931-2 and 1937-38. Theaker was also a successful illustrator, particularly of children's books. His first known published works date from about 1911, and most of his illustrations date from the 1920s and 1930s. Amongst the books he illustrated are 'The Ingoldsby Legends' by Sir Thomas Ingoldsby, London, 1911; 'Children's Stories from 'The Arabian Nights', by Rose Yeatman Woolf, 1914 (and later editions); 'The Adventures of Don Quixote', c.1920 and 1929; 'Gulliver's Travels', 1928; 'The Water Babies', 1930; 'Grimm's Fairy Tales', 1930; 'Stories of King Arthur', 1925 and 'Long, long ago: stories from the classics' both retold by Blanche Winder, the latter probably in the 1930s (see National Art Library catalogue...