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Period: 1880s
"Beach Scene at Dieppe" James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Tonalist Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Beach Scene at Dieppe, 1885-86
Watercolor on paper, mounted on board
8 1/2 x 5 inches
Signed on the reverse
Provenance:
Miss Annie Burr Jennings
Mrs. ...
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Impressionist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), The Young Paperboy, signed watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
The Young Paperboy
16.5 x 20.5 cm
Watercolor and brown ink on paper
Signed lower right
In good condition, the paper is slightly yellowed by time, some o...
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Academic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Henri-Louis Dupray (1841-1909) Studies of military horsemen, two signed drawings
By Henry Louis Dupray
Located in Paris, FR
Henri-Louis Dupray (1841-1909)
Studies of military horsemen, two signed drawings
Pencil on paper
The first one figuring a partial study of two horsemen :
10.8 x 16.5 cm, bears a mo...
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Romantic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) A Flowerbed, signed watercolor
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920)
A Flowerbed
signed lower left
Watercolor on paper,
15.5 x 23.5 cm
Framed : 25.5 x 33 cm
This is a particularly original work by Paul Lecomte. It shows his ...
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Impressionist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Persephone, 19th Century Classical French Academy Drawing, Chalk and Pencil.
Located in Cotignac, FR
19th Century French Academy drawing of a classical maiden, signed Xavier Rendeley bottom right, numbered and dated 2nd April 1883. Presented in ...
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1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912) An officer of the Gendarmerie Impériale, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
An officer of the Gendarmerie Impériale, viewed of the back
bears the monogram ED but it is not visible because it is hidden by the mounting of the frame...
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Academic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Henri-Louis Dupray (1841-1909) Studies of military horsemen, two signed drawings
By Henry Louis Dupray
Located in Paris, FR
Henri-Louis Dupray (1841-1909)
Studies of military horsemen, two signed drawings
Pencil on paper
The first one figuring a partial study of two horsemen :
10.8 x 16.5 cm, bears a mo...
Category
Romantic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
"Beach Scene at Dieppe" James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Tonalist Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Beach Scene at Dieppe, 1885-86
Watercolor on paper, mounted on board
8 1/2 x 5 inches
Signed on the reverse
Provenance:
Miss Annie Burr Jennings
Mrs. ...
Category
Impressionist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Watercolor The Garden at Sickelsjö, 1883
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are delighted to present a stunning watercolor by the Swedish artist Albert Theodor Gellerstedt. This artwork, titled "Sickelsjö Trädgård" was created on June 8, 1883. The paintin...
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Romantic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Woodland Stream', Paris, New York, Hudson River School, Luminism, AIC, PAFA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Arthur Parton' (American, 1842-1914) and painted circa 1885.
This notable Hudson River School painter first studied under William Trost Richards, from whom he gained a grounding in the technical aspects of his craft, and, subsequently, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. While in Philadelphia, he began to exhibit with success and, in 1864, moved to New York where he continued to exhibit before leaving for Europe in 1869. In France, he was influenced by the works of the Barbizon painters and then furthered his studies in Paris and London (1870) before continuing to Scotland (1871). Upon his return to America, he would go on to establish himself as a major figure in the art world, maintaining a studio at 51 West 10th Street from 1874 to 1893.
Best known for his landscapes of the Adirondacks and Catskill Mountains, Parton also painted in England and Scotland. During his career, he explored several styles including Tonalism and Impressionism, but remained closely influenced by the Hudson River style including Luminism. Parton was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Artists Fund Society and, from 1871, the National Academy of Design, becoming a National Academician in 1884. Parton exhibited widely and with success including at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (1907-1908, 1910), Brooklyn Artists Association (1866-85), Philadelphia Centennial Exposition (1876), Boston Art Club (1882-1909), New York City (1886 gold medal), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1889 Temple gold medal, 1891, 1896-97, 1905), Paris Exposition Universelle (1889 honorable mention), St Louis Exposition (1904 medal), the Art Institute of Chicago and, for more than 50 years, at the National Academy of Design (1862-1914, 1896 prize).
Parton gained widespread recognition after his painting of the Shenandoah River (1872) was published in William Cullen Bryant...
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Hudson River School 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Postcard
Félix Ziem (1821-1911) Studies of Landscapes and Seascapes, original Drawing
By Félix Ziem
Located in Paris, FR
Félix Ziem (1821-1911)
Studies of landscapes and seascapes
graphite on paper,
14 x 22 cm
Stamp of the Ziem Estate bottom left
Framed : 25 x 33 cm
A rare exemple of mutiple studies ...
Category
Romantic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
A View at Brest - Fine 19th Century France Coastal Landscape Antique Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A fine 19th century coastal lanscape at Brest in Brittany, France by the imprtant British artist Richard Principal Leitch.
The work is signed lower left and further signed, inscribed and dated 1880 on a label verso. Presented in a swept gilt frame and glazed.
Artist: Richard Principal Leitch (British, 1827-1888)
Title: View at Brest
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Size: 19 x 22 inches (48 x 56 cm) including the frame
Richard Principal Leitch was the son of the royal watercolour tutor William Leighton Leitch, who taught Queen Victoria, her daughters and her daughter-in-law Princess (later Queen) Alexandra for almost twenty years.
In September 1857 he was in Normandy painting...
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1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of an Old Lady, 1886
Located in Stockholm, SE
This small and delicate watercolor is believed to depict Madame Papillon, a subject also portrayed by Hanna Pauli in an oil painting dated 1886. The portrait was created during the s...
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1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) L'étang à Mortefontaine, signed watercolor
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
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...
Category
Impressionist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912) Soldiers, a study, ink on wood
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
Soldiers, a study
Black ink on a wood panel
12.5 x 13 cm
Framed : 20 x 20.5 cm
On the back of the panel a label inscribed "Dessin à la plume par Detaill...
Category
Academic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) L'étang à Mortefontaine, signed watercolor
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
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...
Category
Impressionist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) A Flowerbed, signed watercolor
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920)
A Flowerbed
signed lower left
Watercolor on paper,
15.5 x 23.5 cm
Framed : 25.5 x 33 cm
This is a particularly original work by Paul Lecomte. It shows his ...
Category
Impressionist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Angler on Riverscape
By William Bradley Lamond
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Lovely 19th century watercolor painting with an angler in a mountain stream landscape painting, this is signed William Bradley with a place and date on the lower left hand corner. Mists fall over the central mountain rising above the stream with rocks and boulders. A mountain ridge is on the left, and trees above boulders on the right.
William radley Lamond was a self taught artist flourishing from mid to late 19th century. This would be a later work by this artist. The attribution is based on the period, the style the landscape subject and signature.
The painting is presented in an attractive new wooden frame with fresh glass...
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Naturalistic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), A Carnival character, original signed Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
A Carnival character and a Zouave
19.5 x 12.5 cm
Pen and ink on paper
Signed lower left with the initials (faded)
In a modern framing : 35 x 28 cm
T...
Category
Academic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), A Carnival scene, watercolor signed
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
A carnival scene
21 x 16.5 cm
Watercolor and brown ink on paper
Signed lower right
Period frame : 35 x 30 cm (lacks in...
Category
Academic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
1880s Southwestern Desert Landscape Drawing - Morning Near Arizona, Summer
Located in Denver, CO
This original color pencil drawing, Morning Near Arizona (1888), is a captivating depiction of a Southwestern desert landscape by renowned artist George Elbert Burr (1859-1939). Crea...
Category
American Impressionist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Ferdinand Heilbuth, Woman lying on the shore, watercolor and gouache on paper
Located in BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FR
Ferdinand HEILBUTH (Hambourg, 1826 - Paris, 1889)
"Femme allongée sur un rivage"
Aquarelle gouachée sur papier
32,5x46,5 cm (à vue) / 48,5 x 63,5 cm (encadrée)
Signée en bas à droite...
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1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Late 19th Century California Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful late 19th-century watercolor landscape in the style of Elmer Wachtel (American, 1864-1929), by an unknown 19th-century artist. This small watercolor...
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American Impressionist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French School 19th Century, Portrait of a dandy, watercolor on paper
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century,
Portrait of a dandy,
watercolor on paper
19 x 13 cm
Signed (?) with pencil lower right "L ... " illegible
Framed : 29 x 23 cm
Category
Romantic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Temple Official
Located in London, GB
'Temple Official', pencil and watercolour on paper by Robert Taylor Pritchett (1882). This is the artist's portrait of a financial official in a Cantonese temple in Guangzhou, China in the latter half of the 19th century. His garment is typical of that of a senior civil servant of the Chinese government. Clothes were designed to indicate rank and status, becoming so distinct that the wearer’s position could be ascertained at a glance. During his second career as an artist, Pritchett traveled widely in the Pacific region in the 1880s. This artwork has been professionally restored and cleaned to preserve it for decades to come and therefore in good overall condition. It has also been newly framed and glazed. The artist has written 'The Treasurer & Temple' and '5 Geni Temple, Canton Jan. 22 1882' on the lower left and right hands of the artwork. Upon request a video of the work may be provided.
About the Artist: Robert Taylor Pritchett (1823 - 1907), a gun maker and artist, was the son of Richard Ellis...
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1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
"Arquebusiers En Manoeuvre", After Marchetti
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative landscape of four infantrymen in formation with their long arquebus guns by Adolphe Ancker (Dutch, 19th Century), after Marchetti. Signed and dated "Adolph Ancker 1888" lo...
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American Impressionist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
French School circa 1880, Portrait of a boy holding a book, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French school circa 1880
Portrait of a boy holding a book
graphite and white gouache on paper
39.5 x 32 cm oval view
in good condition, slightly yellowed with age
In its original ova...
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Academic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
The "En Plein Air" Painter - Pencil by Charles Des Bordes - 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
"The Painter", 1880s, is an original pencil drawing glued on ivory paper realized by Charles Des Bordes (1863-1909) .
In very good condition.
Hand-signed on the lower left corner.
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Impressionist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Windsor Castle - By Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Artist Alfred William Hunt
By Alfred William Hunt RWS
Located in London, GB
ALFRED WILLIAM HUNT, RWS
(1830-1896)
Windsor Castle - Morning
Watercolour heightened with scratching out (not signed)
26 by 36.5 cm., 10 ¼ by 14 ¼ in.
(frame size 45 by 55.5 cm., ...
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Pre-Raphaelite 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
French School circa 1880, Portrait of a boy holding a book, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French school circa 1880
Portrait of a boy holding a book
graphite and white gouache on paper
39.5 x 32 cm oval view
in good condition, slightly yellowed with age
In its original ova...
Category
Academic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), A Carnival character, original signed Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
A Carnival character and a Zouave
19.5 x 12.5 cm
Pen and ink on paper
Signed lower left with the initials (faded)
In a modern framing : 35 x 28 cm
T...
Category
Academic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
France 19th Century, Peasants and donkeys at the fountain in Italy, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century,
Peasants and donkeys at the fountain, in Italy
watercolor with heightenings of gouache on paper
27.5 x 34.5 cm
No frame, no mat
A charming, well-execut...
Category
Romantic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Late 19th Century Boats at San Francisco Port Seascape Drawing
By Raymond Dabb Yelland
Located in Soquel, CA
San Francisco moorings, a late 19th century double-sided pencil sketch by Raymond Dabb Yelland (American, 1848 - 1900), 1987. Signed "R.D. Yelland" lower right. Dated "87" lower left. Drawing on both sides of paper. Wood frame. Image size, 8.5"H x 12"L.
A master marine painter, Yelland painted in Gloucester Harbor. He sailed to San Francisco in 1874 to take a teaching position in art at Mills College in Oakland. From 1877 to 1894, he taught at the California School of Design. He was a decisive influence on a younger generation of California artists.
Full Bio:
Raymond Dabb Yelland was born in London, England on February 2, 1848. At the age of three, he immigrated with his family to New York City where he was raised and attended public schools. By the age of twelve, he had settled on art as a career.
He was born as Raymond Dabb, but due to the negative connotation of his name, his mother's maiden name, Yelland, was added. After serving under Sheridan in the Federal Army during the Civil War, Yelland attended Pennington Seminary in New Jersey. He studied art at the National Academy of Design from 1869 to 1871 with Page and Brevoort, and then taught at the Academy for one year.
With his new bride, he sailed around the Horn in 1874 to San Francisco where he would assume the position of an art instructor at Mills College in Oakland. In 1877, he traveled to England, and later continued his studies in Paris with Luc Oliver Merson. Upon his return to California, Yelland became assistant director of the San Francisco School of Design, and in 1888, assumed its directorship. While at that school, he also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for many years. His many pupils included Homer Davenport, Alexander Harrison...
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American Impressionist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
The Nailsmith Houses, Late 19th Century Rattenberg Austria Historical Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
The Nailsmith Houses, Late 19th Century Rattenberg Austria Historical Landscape
Exquisitely detailed 1888 watercolor of The Nailsmith Houses, a historical building in Rattenberg, A...
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Realist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Illustration Board
Beauty
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MAXIMILIENNE GUYON
"BEAUTY"
PASTEL AND WATERCOLOR, SIGNED
FRANCE, C.1895
18 X 10.5 INCHES
FRAMED 27 X 19 INCHES
Maximilienne Guyon was born in Paris...
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1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), The Young Paperboy, signed watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
The Young Paperboy
16.5 x 20.5 cm
Watercolor and brown ink on paper
Signed lower right
In good condition, the paper is slightly yellowed by time, some o...
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Academic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Winter Ploughing - Pre-Raphaelite watercolour by William Bell Scott
By William Bell Scott
Located in London, GB
WILLIAM BELL SCOTT
(British 1811-1890)
Winter Ploughing
Signed with initials and dated l.r.: WBS 1885
Watercolour with scratching out
12 by 17 cm., 4 ¾ by 6 ¾ in.
(frame size 31 by 35.5 cm., 12 ¼ by 14 in.)
Provenance:
Agnews, London
William Bell Scott was the son of Robert Scott, an Edinburgh engraver and brother of the artist David Scott. He was born at St Leonard’s, Edinburgh and studied under his father, and at the Trustees’ Academy before leaving for London in 1837. After entering for the Westminster Hall Competition he was appointed as master of the Government School of Design in Newcastle in 1843. Rossetti wrote to him in 1847 praising one of his poems, the two became close friends and Scott contributed several poems to The Germ...
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Pre-Raphaelite 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sketchbook Page with Figures and Anatomical Details in Pencil on Paper - Germany
Located in Soquel, CA
Sketchbook Page with Figures and Anatomical Details in Pencil on Paper
Drawings of a man at a desk and other figurative sections by an unknown artist (19th Century). On the left sid...
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Realist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
“Villagers”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings by the well known German artist, Peter Von Halm. Signed in pencil lower right. Condition is good. Several tiny foxing spots with small areas of mild wrinkles on the outer corners. Matted but not framed.
He was the son of an innkeeper and brewer. Initially, he wanted to become an architect and, in pursuit of that goal, attended the Technische Universität Darmstadt. After 1875, he studied copper engraving with Johann Leonhard Raab and general art subjects with Ludwig von Löfftz, at the Munich Academy.
From 1883 to 1885, he lived in Berlin at the invitation of his friend, Karl Stauffer-Bern, where he created graphic versions of the Old Masters for Wilhelm von Bode...
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Academic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
Alexandre Bida (1813-1895) A Young Woman in profile, Signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Alexandre Bida (1813-1895)
A Young Woman in Profile
Signed with the monogram lower right
Pencil on grey-blue paper
17.7 x 11.5 cm
Framed : 36.5 x 27 cm
This drawing shows Bida's tec...
Category
Romantic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Cotherstone racehorse with stud groom Wilson watercolour by H Fluiss
Located in London, GB
H. Fluiss
Cotherstone with stud groom "Wilson" (1862)
Watercolour
30 x 39 cm
A late-nineteenth century watercolour depicting Cotherstone, the British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire...
Category
Modern 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Angler on Riverscape
By William Bradley Lamond
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Lovely 19th century watercolor painting with an angler in a mountain stream landscape painting, this is signed William Bradley with a place and date on the lower left hand corner. Mists fall over the central mountain rising above the stream with rocks and boulders. A mountain ridge is on the left, and trees above boulders on the right.
William radley Lamond was a self taught artist flourishing from mid to late 19th century. This would be a later work by this artist. The attribution is based on the period, the style the landscape subject and signature.
The painting is presented in an attractive new wooden frame with fresh glass...
Category
Naturalistic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Old Bobbin Mill on the Spey
Located in Hillsborough, NC
William Beattie-Brown is a 19th century Scottish artist, and a master landscape painter using tonal color in a naturalistic style. 'Old Bobbin Mill on ...
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Naturalistic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848-1925) Portrait of Ernest Albert Waterlow, drawing
By Theodore Blake Wirgman
Located in Paris, FR
Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848-1925)
Portrait of Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow RA, (1850-1919)
pen and black ink on paper,
inscribed with thename of the sitter on the verso of the sheet, now not visible under the framing
15 x 12 cm
In a modern frame 34.5 x 30 cm
Theodore Blake Wirgman (29 April 1848 – 16 January 1925) was an English painter and etcher who moved to London, studied at the Royal Academy schools, became a painter of history and genre subjects, and worked as a portrait artist for The Graphic. A number of these portraits are held at the National Portrait Gallery. Theodore Blake Wirgman was born in Belgium and died in London.
He worked from a studio at 24 Dawson Place, Notting Hill, London, and joined The Arts Club in 1892.
Wirgman was part of a group of avant-garde young artists who emulated Edward Burne-Jones and Simeon Solomon...
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Academic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), A trophy of arms, original signed Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
A trophy of arms
11.5 x 20 cm
Pen and ink with heightenings of white gouache on paper
Signed and dated 1885 lower right and annotated "Armée française...
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Academic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Sketch of a head - Carved in stone -
Located in Berlin, DE
Emil Faesch (1865 Basel - 1915 Basel). Sketch of a head. Charcoal on painting cardboard, 60 x 47.5 cm (folio size), signed and dated at lower right "E. Faesch. 1888.".
Minor browning.
- Carved in stone -
About the artwork
The life-size head has an immensely present presence. This effect is due to the fact that Faesch took his cue from academic classical...
Category
Realist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Old Bobbin Mill on the Spey
Located in Hillsborough, NC
William Beattie-Brown is a 19th century Scottish artist, and a master landscape painter using tonal color in a naturalistic style. 'Old Bobbin Mill on ...
Category
Naturalistic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Modele au Chapeau or Child with a Large Hat
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the estate stamp initials lower right, Lugt 388a (see photo)
Provenance:
Richard Norton Gallery, Chicago (label verso)
Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago (label verso)
...
Category
Impressionist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Félix Ziem (1821-1911) Studies of Landscapes and Seascapes, original Drawing
By Félix Ziem
Located in Paris, FR
Félix Ziem (1821-1911)
Studies of landscapes and seascapes
graphite on paper,
14 x 22 cm
Stamp of the Ziem Estate bottom left
Framed : 25 x 33 cm
A rare exemple of mutiple studies ...
Category
Romantic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Porcelain Lamp - Original Watercolor and Ink drawing - 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
"Porcelain Lamp" is an original watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper realized in 1880ca. by Anonymous french Artist of 19th Century.
In very good conditions.
The artw...
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Modern 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Academic Study (Male Nude)
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, signed by the artist (upper right), and RA visitor L. Alma Tadema, RA., and dated (lower left), 76cm x 57cm, (64cm x 88cm framed).
Olivier studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1881, where this extraordinary display of drafting took place. Olivier exhibited extensively, including the Royal Academy starting in 1883, and the Paris Salon. He exhibited at the Fine Art Society in the 1880s and at the Grafton Galleries in 1908. An official war artist in the Great War, his work is included in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. It is also contained in many regional art galleries. Drawings of the nude, called academic studies...
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Victorian 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Modele au Chapeau or Child with a Large Hat
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the estate stamp initials lower right, Lugt 388a (see photo)
Provenance:
Richard Norton Gallery, Chicago (label verso)
Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago (label verso)
...
Category
Impressionist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
One of the Howling Dawashes in Cairo Orientalist Watercolour Portrait
By Carl Haag
Located in London, GB
Carl Haag
1820 - 1915
One of the Howling Dawashes in Cairo
Watercolour on paper, signed lower right & dated 1880
Image Size: 10 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches (27 x 19.5 cm)
Original Frame
'One...
Category
1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Frank Richards, Newlyn School, English Watercolor of Pyramids at Giza, Egypt
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very striking image of the Pyramids of Giza at sunset with a felucca drifting by on the Nile. A most attractive palette and image with the ripples on the surface of the river and w...
Category
Victorian 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Edouard Dufeu (1836-1900) A Fantastic scene by a lake, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Dufeu (1836-1900)
A Fantastic scene by a lake
Charcoal on paper
Signed lower right
23 x 30,5 cm
Framed under glass : 42.5 x 51 cm
This fantastic scene, the subject of which remains a mystery, reveals an aspect of Edouard Dufeu's personality in which he is more influenced by Romanticism. We can recognise his nervous, painterly style, which lends itself particularly well to this fantastic scene.
Edouard Jacques Dufeu was born in Marseilles on 27 march 1836, and he died in Grasse on December 1 , 1900. He was a French painter and engraver .
Coming from a family originally from Egypt, Dufeu moved to Paris in 1860 and frequented the studio of Charles Gleyre...
Category
Impressionist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Exquisite Rose Drawing (unique) done in graphite, hand signed with provenance
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt
Untitled Rose, 1983
Graphite on Lanaquarelle Watercolor Paper
Signed and dated on the front
Framed
Unique, poignant, exquisitely rendered graphite drawing on watercolor paper with deckled edges. This work is framed and ready to hang; frame bears Alan Brown Gallery (Hartsdale) label verso. It was acquired from the Estate of Noel Frackman, renowned art historian, scholar, writer, and professor with a lifelong passion for 20th Century Art - and a close personal friend of Lowell Nesbitt. She earned a M.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in English Literature and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. She was an art critic for the Patent Trader Newspaper and the Scarsdale Inquirer, contributing editor for Arts Magazine, author of numerous catalogs including ''John Storrs'', for the Whitney Museum of American Art. For 19 years she was a faculty member at Purchase College, State University of New York.
Measurements:
Framed: 13 inches by 13 inches x .5
Artwork: approx. 10.5 inches by 10.5 inches
Lowell Nesbitt Biography:
Lowell Blair Nesbitt, painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and sculptor, was born in Baltimore, Maryland on 4 October 1933. He studied at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Nesbitt worked in abstraction until Robert Indiana suggested in the early 1960s that he explore realism in his paintings. As subjects for his work he favored studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes, his Rottweiler, the Neo-Classical facades of 19th century cast iron buildings, and Manhattan's bridges. He was also famous for his enormous paintings and prints of roses, lilies, irises, and other flowers. In 1980, the United States Post Office issued...
Category
Realist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Mixed Media
Eugène Carrière (1849-1906) Studies of a baby's head, drawing signed
Located in Paris, FR
Eugène Carrière (1849-1906)
Studies of a baby's head,
signed lower right
Pencil on paper
18.5 x 29.5 cm
In good condition, some stains in the lower right
Framed : 34 x 45 cm
This...
Category
Symbolist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
A Tale Under Candlelight
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1882
Medium: Watercolor on Card Stock
Dimensions: 12.75" x 9.75"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
A Tale Under Candlelight, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazi...
Category
1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Seraph (no. 2)
Located in Atlanta, GA
Framed dimensions 18.5 x 17.5 inches
One of two original drawings of seraphim created for the British firm of stained-glass designers Shrigley and Hunt. The drawings are by the cele...
Category
Victorian 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Watercolor
“Figures on Camelback along the Nile”
Located in Southampton, NY
Wonderful original orientalist gouache by the well known French artist, Paul B. Pascal. Signed lower right. Circa 1885. Condition is excellent. The scene depicts figures on camelback along the Nile with pyramids in the background. Newly professionally matted and framed in antique style frame. Under glass. Overall framed measurements are 11 by 13 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida estate.
Paul B. Pascal (1839–1905) was a French landscape painter. He did landscape paintings of the Middle East and the Mediterranean coast with gouache. After he emigrated to the United States in 1893, he did paintings of the American wilderness...
Category
Academic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
“Bedouin Encampment at Sunset”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful orientalist original gouache by the well known French artist, Paul B. Pascal. Circa 1885. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. The scene is of a Bedouin encampment at sunset. Newly professionally matted and framed in antique style frame. Under glass. Overall measurements are 11 by 13 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida estate.
Paul B. Pascal (1839–1905) was a French
landscape painter. He did landscape paintings of the Middle East and the Mediterranean coast with gouache. After he emigrated to the United States in 1893, he did paintings of the American wilderness...
Category
Academic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Horse - Pencil Drawing - 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
Draft Horse is an original modern artwork realized in the second half of the XIX Century by a French Artist.
Original pencil drawing watermarked paper.
Mint conditions.
Draft Horse is an interesting drawing realized in the XIX Century in France; it depicts a genre scene, a draft horse with a small carriage...
Category
Naturalistic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848-1925) Portrait of Ernest Albert Waterlow, drawing
By Theodore Blake Wirgman
Located in Paris, FR
Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848-1925)
Portrait of Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow RA, (1850-1919)
pen and black ink on paper,
inscribed with thename of the sitter on the verso of the sheet, now not visible under the framing
15 x 12 cm
In a modern frame 34.5 x 30 cm
Theodore Blake Wirgman (29 April 1848 – 16 January 1925) was an English painter and etcher who moved to London, studied at the Royal Academy schools, became a painter of history and genre subjects, and worked as a portrait artist for The Graphic. A number of these portraits are held at the National Portrait Gallery. Theodore Blake Wirgman was born in Belgium and died in London.
He worked from a studio at 24 Dawson Place, Notting Hill, London, and joined The Arts Club in 1892.
Wirgman was part of a group of avant-garde young artists who emulated Edward Burne-Jones and Simeon Solomon...
Category
Academic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
French School 19th Century, Portrait of a dandy, watercolor on paper
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century,
Portrait of a dandy,
watercolor on paper
19 x 13 cm
Signed (?) with pencil lower right "L ... " illegible
Framed : 29 x 23 cm
Category
Romantic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Reflections in a Pond 19th Century Pencil Drawing by Alfred Villiers Farnsworth
Located in Soquel, CA
Reflections in the Pond 19th Century Pencil Drawing by Alfred Villiers Farnsworth
19th century drawing in pencil of reflections in a pond ...
Category
American Impressionist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Arab Soldier - Pen Drawing by R. Legrand - 1880
Located in Roma, IT
Arab Soldier is an original pen drawing realized by R. Legrand in 1880.
Good conditions on a yellow thick cardboard.
Hand-signed by the artist with a d...
Category
Modern 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
French School 19th Century, Portrait of a young man, drawing signed
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19 th Century
Portrait of a young man
Signed (signature not deciphered) on the lower right
Pencil, black chalk and heightenings of white and red chalks on paper
Oval vi...
Category
Romantic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Acrylic Polymer, Pencil
Sketches for Theatrical Costumes - Original Pencil Drawing - 1880
Located in Roma, IT
Sketches for theatrical costumes is an original pencil drawing on ivory-colorated paper by realized an Anonymous Artist in 1880ca.
In very good conditions.
This artwork represents ...
Category
Modern 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait of Old Giuseppe Garibaldi - Chalk, Charcoal and Oil Pastels - 1880
Located in Roma, IT
Garibaldi is a wonderful colored original drawing (chalk, charcoal and oil pastels) by an anonymous artist in 1880.
A superb drawing representing the Italian hero of the unification...
Category
1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal, Oil Pastel
A Seraph (no. 1)
Located in Atlanta, GA
Framed dimensions 18.5 x 17.5 inches
One of two original drawings of seraphim created for the British firm of stained-glass designers Shrigley and Hunt. The drawings are by the cele...
Category
Victorian 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Watercolor
Half-length portrait of a Pharisee - In the shadow of betrayal -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hermann Prell (1854 Leipzig - 1922 Dresden-Loschwitz). Half-length portrait of a Pharisee, 1885. Sketch for the right-hand figure in the painting Judas Iscariot, 1886. Pencil drawing heightened with opaque white and black chalk on beige-grey wove paper (papier vélin), 34 x 27.8 cm (visible size), 52 x 45 cm (mount), signed, dated and inscribed "H. PRELL 1885 zu 'Judas'".
Minor browning, collection stamp on the reverse.
- In the shadow of betrayal -
About the artwork
This painting is the sketch for the head of the Pharisee offering the coins to Judas in one of Herrmann Prell's major works, the painting Betrayal of Judas, completed in 1886. The painting belongs to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and is illustrated in Adolf Rosenberg: Prell, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1901, p. 21 (Fig. 19). It is especially highlighted in Thieme-Becker (vol. 27, p. 376).
Hermann Prell, Betrayal of Judas, 1886
The monumental head, which fills the picture and is distinguished by its ornamented robe, is almost a lost profile, which in the executed painting is justified by the Pharisee's turning towards Judas. Despite the fact that the sitter withdraws from the viewer by turning away, it was necessary to artistically elaborate the motivation for the purchase of one of Christ's disciples, which is why the drawing focuses on the expression of the face, while the 'accessories' are treated in a more summary manner.
In characterising the face, Hermann Prell performs a balancing act: since the Pharisee, despite his destructive actions, is an actor in the history of salvation, the head must show a dignity appropriate to the event, but at the same time the physiognomy must also bear witness to the scheming attitude that led to the betrayal. To solve this dilemma, Prell draws on the traditional depictions of the heads of the apostles, shading the face to indicate the obdurate darkness of the spirit and moving the base of the nose slightly upwards while the mouth falls away, thus giving a physiognomic expression to the motivation of the action. The fatal drama of the betrayal is expressed in the monumentalisation of the head and in the thunderous white highlights that contrast with the darkness of the chalk.
As a study, considered by the artist to be a work in itself, this drawing reveals the pictorial problems and brainstorming of monumental painting.
About the artist
In 1872 Prell, who was one of the most important exponents of monumental painting of his time, began studying painting with Theodor Grosse at the Dresden Academy of Art and continued with Carl Gussow at the Berlin Academy in 1876. Hans von Marées taught him in Rome in 1878. More influential on his work, however, were Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger, with whom Prell had been friends since his student days and with whom he worked together on several occasions.
Prell's first major work, which established his reputation as a monumental painter, were the frescoes in the banqueting hall of the Architektenhaus in Berlin in 1881/82, commissioned by the state and depicting the different periods of architecture. Prell then went to Italy for two years to study fresco painting. Other major commissions followed. These included monumental frescoes in the town halls of Worms (1884), Hildesheim (1882-92), Gdansk (1895) and Dresden, the staircase of the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Breslau (1893/94), the throne room of the German Embassy in Rome (1896-99) and the staircase of the Albertinum in Dresden (1900-1904).
From 1886 Prell taught at the academy of arts in Berlin and in 1892 he was appointed professor at the academy of arts in Dresden. His students included Osmar Schindler and Hans Unger...
Category
Realist 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Boboli Gardens - Original Pencil Drawing by Anonymous Artist - 1889
Located in Roma, IT
Boboli Garden is an original black and white drawing realized by Anonymous artist in 1889.
In good conditions. Includes passepartout: 33.5 x 25 cm
The ...
Category
Modern 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
French School 19th Century, Studies of horses, two drawings
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century,
Studies of horses,
two drawings in the same frame
7 x 11 cm (oval) and 7 x 9.8 cm
pencil on paper
Condition : The oval one on the left with foxings (see...
Category
Academic 1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
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