Lillian Stannard

The Lily Pond, English School 19th Century Watercolour Signed

Watercolour and scratching out on paper, signed lower left Image size: 11 x 17 1/2 inches (28 x 44.5 cm) Original giltwood frame Provenance Christopher Wood Gallery R Mellon, USA ...

British School 19th Century View across a lake Watercolour, monogrammed & dated ’02’ lower right Image size: 11 3⁄4 x 17 3⁄4 inches Framed This ethereal landscape certainly draws upon the nineteenth century European Romantic tradition. The cool palette of blues, silvers and whites creates a sense of wonderment, together with an atmosphere of solitude and journey’s end. At first glance the scene is rather surreal, but the presence of a dry-stone wall and iron railings in the foreground familiarises the landscape. THIS WORK IS PART OF OUR CURRENT EXHIBITION 'MOONLIGHT IN PAINTINGS AND WATERCOLOURS' CURRENTLY SHOWING AT DARNLEY FINE ART...

Brockenhurst Gardens Ernest Arthur Rowe Watercolour, signed lower left and dated 1900 bottom left Image Size: 12 x 18 3/4 inches (46 x 30.5 cm) Original Victorian frame Provenance Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell The collection of C. Buttersworth Sale, Bonhams, London, 10th June 1998, lot 63 Exhibited Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, as 'Relics of the Civil Wars, Compton Wynyates', no.1 This watercolour is one of Rowe's few pictures of Brockenhurst park garden in the New Forest, Hampshire. Here Rowe exemplifies the garden's splendour through his deliberate low positioning within the composition. As well as the scenes mirrored...

Watercolour, signed and dated '1912' bottom right Image size: 21 x 14 inches (53.25 x 35.5 cm) Original frame Exhibitions The Fine Arts Society Ernest Arthur Rowe Rowe was a watercolourist specialising in garden scenes. He spent his career responding to the Victorian love of formal gardens with his meticulous paintings of the grounds of the country’s finest historic houses. Ernest Arthur Rowe was born in West Ham, which was then in Essex. He trained first as a lithographer and, in 1884, began studying at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours where he won a President’s Medal in 1885. Initially, Rowe painted landscapes in general, but by the 1890s he was specialising in gardens. During that decade, he joined the London Sketch...

This charming watercolour depicts a quaint village scene, with rustic houses nestled among trees along a tranquil waterfront. The composition balances the warm hues of the buildings ...

A fine and carefully detailed landscape view of a forest, with a small pond and a wooden bridge leading down a wooded path, by the artist W. Hinchliff. The artist has added texture t...

Rural scene in watercolors. Presented in a gilt-effect frame with card mount. Unsigned. On watercolour paper.

Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) L'étang à Mortefontaine, an autumn landscape signed lower left Watercolor on paper, 29,3 x 22.5 cm In its original vintage frame : 46 x 39,5 cm titled on t...