Herbert William Hicks

Herbert William Hicks (1880-1944) - Gouache, Cawsand Beacon, Dartmoor

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Bright gouache highlights bring this delicate watercolour study of a spring woodland to life. The artwork is signed and dated in the lower right-hand corner and is well presented in ...

Unsigned. On wove.

A fine gouache and watercolour painting by the British artist Sonia Robinson, depicting a street scene in the French town of Pont-Croix. Signed to the lower right-hand corner. There ...

Presented in a wash line mount. Unsigned. Provenance: From the Matania Family collection. On wove laid to card.

A fine charcoal and gouache, mid Century street scene showing a shady Italiante arcade with sunlight falling brightly on the shop fronts oppos...

A vibrant modernist scene in gouache showing an old humpback bridge in the village of Redford. The painting is unsigned and the artist has inscribed the location to the lower right. ...

"Rejuvenation" by Don Athay, gouache, 10 1/2 X 14 1/2 inches "At this point in my life as an aspiring artist, I find myself composing paintings that reflect my feelings, when standi...

This very modern drawing presents a view of Ariccia, a small town 25 kilometres south-east of Rome. The Palazzo Chigi (in which the film-maker Luchino Visconti would film a large part of The Leopard a century later) and the adjoining church are seen from the bottom of the ravine that surrounds the town. This drawing is a moving testimony to the attraction of the city for artists of the Romantic period, who established in Ariccia a vivid artists' colony. 1. Achille Bénouville...

Neapolitan gouaches appeared in the eighteenth century when tourism in the Naples area was developing: the discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii made this city a mandatory stop on the Grand Tour, the journey made by wealthy Europeans to complete their education. Generally small in size for ease of transport and affordable in price, these gouaches were the ideal travel souvenir that these tourists of the early days were bringing back to capture the idyllic landscapes they had discovered during their journey and to share them with family and friends upon their return at home. The Bay of Naples and the eruptions of Vesuvius are the favourite themes of these views. Here we have a view of the Ovo Castle, which was rebuilt on the island of Partenope, in the middle of the Bay of Naples and about a hundred metres from the shore by the Normans in the 12th century on antique ruins...

Marine Dutch School, 18th Century Coastal Scene with ships in a storm Gouache on prepared paper

Southern Landscape with View of a Castle and Ships passing by Pen and brush in brown and black over pencil, brown and grey wash, 17,5 x 22,7cm Plain black moulding with golden pearl ...

Dutch School, 17th Century. In the manner of Herman van Swanevelt (1603-1655). Title: An Italianate Landscape. This work closely relates to a group called the Italianate painters. Th...