John Falconar Slater

John Falconar Slater, Misty Uplands, Northumberland, Gouache on Paper

c. 1910

This peaceful 19th-century landscape by English artist Charles Branwhite (1817-1880) evokes the elemental romance of a picturesque river at sunset. A moment of calm at the end of a long day. Signed/dated in the lower right and framed. Established in 2017, Brave Fine Art...

This late 19th-century watercolour by British artist Martha Fowler (b.1843) depicts a view on the Cornish coast. Fisherfolk carry nets amid a haze of dense fog. Meandering between pools of water left by the retreating...

This fine late 20th-century watercolour by British artist Edward A Swan (b.1935) depicts two sailboats buffeted by turbulent conditions. Beyond, the hazy form of a frigate under full...

This 19th-century watercolour by British artist James George Philp (1816-1885) depicts a tranquil view on the River Derwent in Derbyshire. Meandering between craggy tree-lined banks...

This fine late 19th-century watercolour by British artist Harold Sutton Palmer RI RBA (1854-1933) depicts a river view near Dunsford in Surrey. Shimmering between verdant banks, a p...

This early 20th-century watercolour by English artist Henry Robertson (1848-1930) depicts the beach at Hastings. Nets sprawl from a dormant fishing boat before dapples of beachfront...

Sir William Rothenstein (British, 1872-1945) Mountain landscape Signed and dated `W. Rothenstein 22’ (lower right) Gouache 20.3/8 x 15 in. (51.8 x 38 cm.) Provenance: Christie’s London, Modern British Paintings, 31 October 1996, lot 2 The English portrait artist Sir William Rothenstein was born January 29, 1872, near Bradford, Yorkshire. William Rothenstein was the son of Moritz Rothenstein, who came to England from Hanover in 1859, and the brother of Charles Lambert Rutherston, the collector, and Albert Daniel Rutherston, the artist. William Rothenstein studied for one year at the Slade School in London under Alphonse Legros, after which he spent four years in Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian. While in Paris, Rothenstein met many of the important artists of the time; he was particularly influenced by James Whistler, Edgar Degas, and Henri Fantin-Latour. After his return to England in 1893, Rothenstein was commissioned by John Lane...

Watercolour and gouache on paper, dated '1927' and signed lower left Image size: 12 1/2 x 19 3/8 inches (31.75 x 49.25 cm) Mounted and framed Provenance The Collection of Jill and J...

A fine watercolor by an unknown English artist with a view overlooking the Buckingham Palace garden and its lake, towards the West facade of the Buckingham Palace. In the distance on...

A charming rural scene painted in the style of Thomas Girtin with good strong colours. Circle of Thomas Girtin Sheep in a hilly pasture with a farmhouse Signed with initials and dated "AP (18)05' Watercolour, with attractive washline mount 6¾ x 9¾ inches with frame 14 x 17 inches including frame Thomas Girtin was born in London in 1775, the same year as J.M.W. Turner, and died in 1802, at the age of twenty-seven. The art of watercolour was transformed during Girtin's brief life. This was especially marked in landscape watercolours, which grew in scale and ambition. Led by Girtin and Turner, watercolourists abandoned careful stained drawings for a more dramatic style of painting that captured moods and a range of light and weather effects. Not everyone welcomed the rapid technical changes, especially as revolution and war threatened the established political order. For a brief period, however, watercolour painting was the epitome of modern art, and the landscapes of Girtin and Turner were welcomed as a national triumph. Girtin was apprenticed at the age of 14, in the year of the French Revolution, and by the age of 19 he was exhibiting at London's Royal Academy, and producing watercolour landscapes for private patrons. However, unlike Turner, Girtin remained something of an outsider to the art establishment: he did not study at the Academy's schools, and was rumoured to have radical, or even revolutionary sympathies. He also tried to break away from the traditional reliance on the patronage of the wealthy, partly by trying to sell his work on the open market, and partly through two larger projects aimed at a mass audience: a group of twenty printed Views of Paris and an enormous 360 degree panorama of London...

A delightful composition by this master watercolourist. William Payne (1760-1830) Figures and cattle by a river Watercolour 7¾ inches, circular, unframed 15 x 14½ inches with the fr...

A charming scene of a figure by a loch with a ruined castle and homestead in the background by one of Queen Victoria's favourite artists. William Leighton Leitch (1804-1883) Figure ...