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Period: 18th Century
Paull Sandby, R.A. Ink & Wash on Paper of a Chair
By Paul Sandby
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 4 1/4"H x 3 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 8"H x 7"W
Paul Sandby RA (1731 – 7 November 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours, who, along with his older b...
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18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Attributed to William Henry Pyne (1769-1843) Figure Studies
Located in Bristol, CT
Property from the Estate of Mary S.B. Braga
Art Sz: 8"H x 5 7/8"W
Frame Sz: 13"H x 10 3/4"W
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18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Paul Sandby, R.A. Study of a Fashionable Lady
By Paul Sandby
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 5"H x 3"W
Frame Sz: 9 3/4"H x 8"
Paul Sandby RA (1731 – 7 November 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours, who, along with his older brothe...
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18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Architectural Stucco Design, Pen and Ink Drawing, Signed, 18th Century Italian
Located in London, GB
Pen and brown ink and brown and grey washes on paper
Signed top middle
Image size: 10 x 3 3/4 inches (25.5 x 8 cm)
The sketch is a useful example of Bigari's work in the late-Baroqu...
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18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen, Paper
Costume drawings for ‘Ambassadeur de Siam’ and ‘La Sultana Reine’
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809)
‘Ambassadeur de Siam’ and ‘La Sultana Reine’
Both titled lower centre, the drawing of the ambassador inscribed with colours intended for the prints, e...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
The Captive, Study of a Naked Youth, Red Chalk Study, Carracci Gallery
By Annibale Carracci
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper
Image size: 5 x 8 1/2 inches (12.75 x 21.5 cm)
Mounted
This 18th century drawing is after the work of the 16th Century Italian artist Annibale Carraci. This figure, along with many more, were painted by Carraci in the Palazzo Farnese in a space now known as the Carracci gallery. The Carracci gallery is considered as one of the most important Renaissance commissions in Rome. This figure, along with five other companions, were known as 'The Captives'. They were designed by the artist to appear trapped in the architectural spaces in the walls and sat around the fresco that featured Perseus and Andromeda.
Similarly to the original drawings, this artist has taken considerable care to sculpt his form with light and shadow, gently blending strokes on the smooth-skinned cheek and distinctly denoting the direction of hair strands.
Annibale Carracci
Annibale Carracci (1560–1609) was the most admired painter of his time and the vital force in the creation of Baroque style. Together with his cousin Ludovico (1555–1619) and his older brother Agostino (1557–1602)—each an outstanding artist—Annibale set out to transform Italian painting. The Carracci rejected the artificiality of Mannerist painting, championing a return to nature coupled with the study of the great northern Italian painters of the Renaissance, especially Correggio, Titian, and Veronese.
During the 1580s, the Carracci were painting the most radical and innovative pictures in Europe. Annibale not only drew from nature, he created a new, broken brushwork to capture movement and the effects of light on form. His Two Children Teasing a Cat marks a new chapter in the history of genre painting. The revolutionary potential of this new kind of painting would be taken up over a decade later by Caravaggio, who must have seen the Carraccis’ work while traveling from Milan to Rome in 1592.
The Carracci saw themselves as heir to a great artistic tradition, and they consciously situated themselves within the history of northern Italian painting. Annibale and Agostino visited Parma and Venice to study the work of Correggio, Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese. Their altarpieces and secular fresco cycles in Bologna reasserted a northern Italian emphasis on color, light, and the study of nature, but with a new focus on emotive communication. Their success led to Annibale being invited to Rome to work for the powerful Farnese family (1595). Ludovico remained in Bologna to direct the academy they founded. Through the next generation of painters—Francesco Albani, Domenichino, Guido Reni, Giovanni Lanfranco, and Guercino—Bolognese painting became the dominant force in seventeenth-century art.
In Rome, Annibale’s painting was transformed through his first-hand encounter with classical antiquity and the art of Michelangelo and Raphael. Individual scenes of ancient mythology are surrounded by an elaborate illusionistic framework with feigned statues, in front of which sit muscular nude figures seemingly lit from the actual windows (Galleria Farnese ceiling). The corners are opened to painted views of the sky. When unveiled in 1600, the ceiling was instantly acclaimed as the equal of any work in the past. In combining northern Italian naturalism with the idealism of Roman painting, Annibale created the basis of Baroque art. His only challenger in Rome was Caravaggio, whose relation with the past was combative rather than assimilative. Moreover, Caravaggio’s art...
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Renaissance 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Paper
The Captive, Study of a Naked Man, Red Chalk Study, Carracci Gallery
By Annibale Carracci
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper
Image size: 11 x 5 1/2 inches (28 x 14 cm)
Mounted
This 18th century drawing is after the work of the 16th Century Italian artist Annibale Carraci. This figure, along with many more, were painted by Carraci in the Palazzo Farnese in a space now known as the Carracci gallery. The Carracci gallery is considered as one of the most important Renaissance commissions in Rome. This figure, along with five other companions, were known as 'The Captives'. They were designed by the artist to appear trapped in the architectural spaces in the walls and sat around the fresco that featured Perseus and Andromeda.
Annibale Carracci
Annibale Carracci (1560–1609) was the most admired painter of his time and the vital force in the creation of Baroque style. Together with his cousin Ludovico (1555–1619) and his older brother Agostino (1557–1602)—each an outstanding artist—Annibale set out to transform Italian painting. The Carracci rejected the artificiality of Mannerist painting, championing a return to nature coupled with the study of the great northern Italian painters of the Renaissance, especially Correggio, Titian, and Veronese.During the 1580s, the Carracci were painting the most radical and innovative pictures in Europe. Annibale not only drew from nature, he created a new, broken brushwork to capture movement and the effects of light on form. His Two Children Teasing a Cat marks a new chapter in the history of genre painting.
The revolutionary potential of this new kind of painting would be taken up over a decade later by Caravaggio, who must have seen the Carraccis’ work while traveling from Milan to Rome in 1592.The Carracci saw themselves as heir to a great artistic tradition, and they consciously situated themselves within the history of northern Italian painting. Annibale and Agostino visited Parma and Venice to study the work of Correggio, Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese. Their altarpieces and secular fresco cycles in Bologna reasserted a northern Italian emphasis on color, light, and the study of nature, but with a new focus on emotive communication. Their success led to Annibale being invited to Rome to work for the powerful Farnese family (1595). Ludovico remained in Bologna to direct the academy they founded. Through the next generation of painters—Francesco Albani, Domenichino, Guido Reni, Giovanni Lanfranco, and Guercino—Bolognese painting became the dominant force in seventeenth-century art.
In Rome, Annibale’s painting was transformed through his first-hand encounter with classical antiquity and the art of Michelangelo and Raphael. Individual scenes of ancient mythology are surrounded by an elaborate illusionistic framework with feigned statues, in front of which sit muscular nude figures seemingly lit from the actual windows (Galleria Farnese ceiling). The corners are opened to painted views of the sky. When unveiled in 1600, the ceiling was instantly acclaimed as the equal of any work in the past. In combining northern Italian naturalism with the idealism of Roman painting, Annibale created the basis of Baroque art. His only challenger in Rome was Caravaggio, whose relation with the past was combative rather than assimilative. Moreover, Caravaggio’s art...
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Renaissance 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Paper
Attrib. Prospero Fontana (1512-1597) - Bolognese School Ink Drawing, Two Cherubs
By Prospero Fontana
Located in Corsham, GB
This fine renaissance study, attributed to Bolognese painter Prospero Fontana (1512-1597), depicts two cherubs seated in clouds, playing with the arms of Mars. Elegantly mastered in ...
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18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Life study of a male nude in repose - European School, late 18th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
European School, late 18th century. Red chalk with primo pensiero in graphite on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (215 x 293 mm). Scattered light handling wear and multiple s...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Graphite, Chalk, Laid Paper
Early Naturalistic Wildlife Animal Rendering of a Possible Capuchin Monkey
Located in Houston, TX
Early naturalistic wildlife rendering by the English artist Peter Paillou. The work features a delicately rendered depiction of a possible capuchin monkey from an 18th century specim...
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Naturalistic 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
John Inigo Richards RA (Attributed), Landscape With Country Track & Figures
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 18th-century gouache by British artist John Inigo Richards RA (1731-1810) depicts a picturesque landscape with track, figures and distant cottages.
Immersed in the raucous drama of London’s 18th-century theatre scene, Inigo Richards sought solace in the British countryside. As the principal scene painter at Covent Garden Theatre, his bucolic backdrops brought colour and context to numerous plays featuring leading actors. For inspiration, he’d escape to the delights of rural England...
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Romantic 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Aubusson Floral Tapestry Gouache
Located in Bristol, CT
Original gouache of a Swiss Aubusson floral tapestry rug
18th century
Art Sz: 14 1/2"H x 9"W
Frame Sz: 23"H x 17"W
w/ silver gilt scallop frame
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18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of a Lady, Drawing Signed and Dated by Augustin de Saint-Aubin
Located in PARIS, FR
This drawing full of freshness presents us with the profile of an elegant lady, drawn by Augustin de Saint-Aubin on a beautiful summer day in 1776, during the early months of Louis X...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
18th Century Italian Old Master Drawing Nude Figure Sketches Male & Female
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figurative Sketches
Italian School, mid 18th century
circle of Pompeo Batoni (1707-1787)
charcoal and pencil, heightened with white chalk, unframed...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Charcoal, Chalk
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Figure Fame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Fame'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inches
cond...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Ink
The Death of Attis, 18th Century French Red Chalk Drawing, Greek Mythology
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper
Image size: 9 x 7 inches (23 x 17.75 cm)
Acid free mount
The Greek god Attis was the spouse of Cybele, the fertility goddess. He was from Phrygia, a kingdom in c...
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French School 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Soldier begging for Mercy a preparatory study by Jean-Marc Nattier (1685 - 1766)
Located in PARIS, FR
This rare drawing by Nattier is part of a set of preparatory studies executed in 1717 for one of the painter's first commissions, the painting commissioned by Tsar Peter I of Russia ...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Fine 18th Century Italian Old Master Drawing Mother & Children
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Giovanni Battista Cipriani, RA,
Italian 1727-1785
Sketch of a mother with three children;
black and red chalk on laid paper with watermark '© TAYLOR', 22.4 x 17.5 cm.
Provenanc...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Still life with ornamental urn, grapes and flora - French School 17 Cent.
Located in Middletown, NY
Pencil on cream laid paper, 10 x 8 3/4 inches (254 x 222 mm). Uniform age tone, scattered surface soiling, and handling wear. One pea-sized area of skinning in the top-center sheet ...
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French School 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Pencil
Design for a theatre fresco with fancy plasterwork - early 18th century French S
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and sepia ink on cream laid paper, 8 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches (222 x 136 mm). Scattered paper tape repairs on the verso in the area of the upper left corner, and along the right sheet...
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French School 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper
Still life with a Herald's trumpet, a Neoclassical urn, a Mason's square, .....
Located in Middletown, NY
A classic Grand Tour composition. English School, 18th Century
Still life with a Herald's trumpet, a Neoclassical urn, a Mason's square, and a protractor.
Ink and wash in gray ink ...
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18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Sicilia
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Sicilia'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inches
c...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Providenza
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Providenza'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inche...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777) A Mythological scene, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)
A Mythological scene
Pen and black ink on paper
Bears an old inscription with the name of the artist on the lower left bo...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
18th Century Old Master pencil study of cows by French artist Jean Baptiste Huet
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A rare and charming study of cows by 18th Century French painter, engraver and designer Jean-Baptiste Huet.
The details are:
Jean Baptiste Huet (French, 1745 – 1811)
Study of cows
P...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Africa
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Africa'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inches
co...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Female Statue of Beauty
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Belleza (The Art of Beauty)
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
The Introduction, French School, 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
In this charming scene a maid appears bashful as she is introduced by her mother to the shepherd’s son.
Ink and wash on hand made, cool-toned cream laid paper, 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches...
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French School 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical India
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'India'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inches
con...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Ink
"Spring at Window" 18th Century Antique realism Watercolor painting on Paper
Located in Jacksonville, FL
The painting is signed and dated 1858
Felix Schlesinger (1833-1910) was a German painter known for his charming and detailed portrayals of domestic ...
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Realist 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Magnaminita
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Mgnaminia'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inches...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper
18th Century School, Courtyard of a palazzo, Architectural Capriccio, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
18th Century french School,
Courtyard of a ruined palazzo, An Architectural Capriccio,
Pen and black ink and black ink wash on paper
17 x 12 cm
In good condition
Framed : 32 x 26 c...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Sacred Scene - Original Ink and Watercolor - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sacred Scene is an original watercolor, realized by an Anonymous artist of the XIX century. There is The state of preservation of the artwork is very good.
Sheet dimension :32x31.5 ...
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18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Ramnagar Fort, India, Company School Late 18th Century Pen and Ink
Located in London, GB
Company School
18th Century
Ramnagar Fort, India
Pen & ink on paper
Inscribed and dated 1793
Acid free mount
This incredible detailed work would probably have been drawn by an En...
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English School 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Study of a Sleeping Girl in a Cap
By Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite on greenish gray wove paper. 15 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches (390 x 295 mm). Initialed "G. B." in pencil on the lower right recto. In generally good condition with some minor scattered surface soiling. Condition is consistent with age.
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This drawing is closely related to two known mid 18th century oils...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Graphite
Figure from the Battle of Cascina, 18th Century Italian Red Chalk
By Michelangelo
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper
Stamped 'RC' lower left as part of Richard Cosway's art collection
Image size: 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (16 x 21.5 cm)
This study is taken from Michelangelo's Battle ...
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Italian School 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Paper
French School 18th Century, L'étonnement, form of expression, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century,
L'étonnement, Astonishment as a form of expression,
Titled on the lower right "L'étonnement N°9"
Black chalk on paper
43 x 29 cm
In good condition, a sta...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Marriage
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Concordia Maritale (harmonious marriage)
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
o...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Ink
Portrait of a Man Wearing a Turban, 18th Century Pastel Drawing
By Thomas Frye
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Image size: 13 x 17 1/2 inches (33 x 44.5 cm)
Mounted and framed
This original pastel drawing by Thomas Frye is a half-length portrait of a man dressed in a turban. This drawing is the original sketch for one of the heads depicted in Frye's collection 'Twelve Mezzotint Prints' of 1760 and it can be assumed that this pastel work was created earlier of this same year.
Two versions of the print, created from this original work, are currently held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Frye's evocative figures, although presumably based on living models, exceed the conventions of portraiture, and also function as character studies. The man shown here - dressed in the fashionable 'Turkish' manner - turns with parted lips as if poised to speak, while raising the elegant fingers in one hand in a rhetorical gesture. His long eyelashes and smoothly rendered wrinkles and dimples are hallmarks of Frye's refined style.
The Artist
Thomas Frye (c. 1710 – 3 April 1762) was an Anglo-Irish artist, best known for his portraits in oil and pastel, including some miniatures and his early mezzotint engravings. He was also the patentee of the Bow porcelain factory, London, and claimed in his epitaph to be "the inventor and first manufacturer of porcelain in England," though his rivals at the Chelsea porcelain factory seem to have preceded him in bringing wares to market. The Bow porcelain works did not long survive Frye's death; their final auctions took place in May 1764.
Frye was born at Edenderry, County Offaly, Ireland, in 1710; in his youth he went to London to practice as an artist. His earliest works are a pair of pastel portraits of boys...
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English School 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
The Allegory of Minerva, Sanguine Chalk Drawing, 18th Century Italian
Located in London, GB
Sanguine chalk on paper
Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (19 x 24 cm)
Acid free mount
This is a sanguine chalk sketch after a print made by the French artist Francois Perrier in 163...
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18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Antique French Miniature Portrait of Lady Biographical details with painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Miniature Portrait
French School, late 18th/ early 19th century
framed: 5.5 x 5.5 inches
board: 2 x 2 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound c...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Frederick I of Prussia
By Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder
Located in PARIS, FR
Georg Philipp I RUGENDAS (1666-1742)
Frederick I of Prussia
Red chalk, ink and brown wash on paper
45x42 cm
This drawing has been long considered representative of Charles VI. In r...
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18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
The Boxing Match
Located in London, GB
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on laid paper
Image size: 12 ¾ x 16 inches (33 x 40.5 cm)
Wash mount and period frame
Boxing was a subject that Rowlandson depicted on a number ...
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18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pencil, Laid Paper, Watercolor
The Tiber, near Rome / Italian School 18th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and sepia ink wash on cream laid paper, 4 1/8 x 6 3/16 inches (103 x 152 mm). In good condition with scattered areas of light brown discoloration, and un...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper, Pencil
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Napoli
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Napoli'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inches
co...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper
French Pastel Portrait of a Chevalier of the Order of St Louis.
By (Circle of) Jean Baptiste Greuze
Located in Cotignac, FR
A fine 18th century French pastel portrait on paper of an aristocrat wearing the order of St Louis, inferring that the sitter had been in the military serving the King. The pastel is unsigned but to the the back is a piece of the original backing paper with a notation to the Baronne de Minck. The paper has been backed with a type of vellum, It is presented in a plain gilt wood frame on a period stretcher under 18th century glass.
The artist has used the pastel to create a wonderful soft velvety texture so characteristic of this medium which became so popular for portraits in the 18th century.
A charming rendition of a typical 18th century nobleman...
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Romantic 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Florence Religious Figurative Portrait Painting signed and dated 18th century
Located in Florence, IT
This small portrait is signed and dated among the bottom edge "Io(hannes) Baptista Scarlattius Rondinelli Fecit Anno 1754".
Giovan Battista Scarlatti Rondinelli was an important memb...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera, Pencil
Veneto Figurative Landscape drawing end of the 18th watercolors on paper
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing (ink wash, white lead on paper 27.8 x 39.2 inch) has a signature in cursive on the bottom right corner but it hasn't been interpreted yet. However, by its artistic manner...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing St. Anne & The Virgin Mary with Cherubs
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pietro Fancelli (Italian 1764 - 1850)
bio details attached to the frame
'St. Anne & The Virgin'
ink with watercolor wash on paper, framed
framed: 22 x 16 inches
image: 11 x 6.5 inche...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Italian 18th Century red chalk study of a seated man by Zuccarelli
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Francesco Zuccarelli RA (Italian, 1702-1788)
Study of a seated man
Red chalk
11.1/8 x 7.5/8 in. (28.3 x 19.3 cm.)
Provenance; Colnaghi & Co, London
Francesco Zuccarelli was born in ...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
French School 18th Century, Le Mépris et la Haine, form of expression, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century,
Le Mépris et la Haine, Contempt and Hate as a form of expression,
Titled on the lower right "Le mépris et la haine N°7"
Black c...
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Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
A pair of oval drawings for Ovid, Metamophoses
By Charles Joseph Natoire
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A pair of oval drawings for Ovid, Metamophoses
Left: The Triumph of Amphitrite (Book I)
Right: Diana and Actaeon (Book III)
From: Ovid, Metamophoses
These mythological studies are a...
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Baroque 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Bacchanal scene with nymp and Satyrs, pencil on Paper signed and dated 1778
Located in Paris, FR
A Nymph and two Satyrs
Signed lower right "................fecit" and dated 1778
Grey wash over charcoal and brown ink, on laid paper
27 x 40.5 cm / 10.5 X 16 inches
Framed : 51 x...
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Academic 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Florence Drawing Love Marriage Figurative Scene Watercolors paper 18th
Located in Florence, IT
Watercolors and ink on paper by Giuseppe Piattoli (Florence 1748 – 1834).
It’s the preparatory drawing of one of the 40 plates printed by Carlo Lasinio (Treviso, 1759 – Pisa 1838) f...
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Rococo 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
George Edwards, Engravings of Birds, published by Seligmann, 1770.
Located in Richmond, GB
Price is per each framed print.
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with origin...
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18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
John Inigo Richards RA (Attributed) Landscape With Country Track & Figures
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 18th-century gouache by British artist John Inigo Richards RA (1731-1810) depicts a picturesque landscape with track, figures and distant cottages.
Immersed in the raucous drama of London’s 18th-century theatre scene, Inigo Richards sought solace in the British countryside. As the principal scene painter at Covent Garden Theatre, his bucolic backdrops brought colour and context to numerous plays featuring leading actors. For inspiration, he’d escape to the delights of rural England, often sketching in Kent and the home counties. Charming cottages and churches accompany dappled trees and far-reaching views. All brought back to the studio before working up a design.
Alongside his ‘day job’, Inigo Richards produced landscapes in watercolour and gouache. His beautifully rendered views capture a pastoral idyll in miniature, each composition rendered with dexterity and fine detail. Note the weight of the figures here, the cattle drover...
Category
Romantic 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
George Edwards, Engravings of Parrots, published by Seligmann.
Located in Richmond, GB
PRICE IS FOR EACH FRAMED PRINT
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with origina...
Category
18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
18th Century Roman School , A Palazzo with antiques, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
18th Century Roman School
A Palazzo with antiques
Brown ink and pen, brown ink wash on paper
12.5 x 20 cm
Framed : 28,5 x 35.5
This nice drawing represents a genre scene, with a nobleman, priests, a mother and her children...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
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