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Parrot - Original Pencil on Paper by G. Galantara - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Parrot is an original drawing in pencil on paper by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937).
In good conditions except for some diffused foxings.
Sheet dimension: 12.5 x 11.5 cm.
This is a...
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19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil
Pierre Le Boeuff (fl.1899-1920) - Late 19th Century Watercolour, Canal Scene
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour by the well listed artist Pierre Le Boeuff (fl.1899-1920) depicting a quaint continental canal scene, featuring a prominent church tower rising above charming ...
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19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
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 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Young Lady With Coiffure - Ellsworth Woodward Antique Graphite Drawing
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this drawing are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
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Romantic 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Nude Portrait "Waiting for Death"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Waiting for Death" is a haunting graphite drawing by American artist William Perkins Babcock, known for his symbolic and evocative works. In this powerful composition, Babcock explo...
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19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Graphite
Camp of Soldiers - Original Pencil on Paper - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Camp of soldiers" is an original pencil drawing on ivory paper by Anonymous Artist of the 19th Century.
Very good condition.
Not signed.
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Modern 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
"Portrait of an Italian Fencer, " John Frederick Kensett, Hudson River School
Located in New York, NY
John Frederick Kensett (1816 - 1872)
Portrait of an Italian Fencer, circa 1845-47
Watercolor on wove paper
13 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Signed with initials and inscribed lower right "J.F.K. Rome"
From October 1845 through the spring of 1847, Kensett lived in Rome. He attended classes where he sketched from live models, and he sketched in the countryside outside Rome and around Florence, Perugia, and Venice, places he visited with his artist friends. He fulfilled commissions for paintings from Americans in Italy, and by 1847 his career was well established.
Son of an English immigrant engraver, John Kensett lacked enthusiasm for that medium and became one of the most accomplished painters of the second generation of Hudson River School painters. His reputation is for Luminism, careful depiction of light, weather, and atmosphere as they affect color and texture of natural forms. He was particularly influenced by the painting of Asher Durand in that he focused on realism and detail rather than the highly dramatic views associated with Thomas Cole. Going to the western United States in the mid 1850s and the 1860s, he was the first of the Hudson River School painters to explore and paint the West.
Kensett was born and raised in Cheshire, Connecticut, and learned his engraving from his father, Thomas Kensett with whom he worked in New Haven, Connecticut until 1829. He continued working until 1840 as an engraver of labels, banknotes and maps and was employed part of that time by the American Bank Note Company in New York City. There he met Thomas Rossiter, John Casilear, and other artists who urged him to pursue painting. In 1840, he and Rossiter, Asher Durand, and Casilear went to Europe where Kensett stayed for seven years and supported himself by doing engraving but became accomplished in landscape painting.
Having sent canvases of Italian landscapes back to New York, he had a reputation for skillful painting that preceded him. When he returned to New York City in 1847, he was an "instant success" and very sought after by collectors. Two of his Italian landscapes had already been purchased by the American Art Union. By 1849, he was a full member of the National Academy of Design and was generally popular among his peers. His studio was a gathering place with travelers stopping by to see his canvases and to identify "precise locations in the Catskills or Newport or New England in the oil sketches and drawings that covered his walls." (Zellman 170). For the women, he was a popular bachelor, "romantic looking with high forehead and sensitive expression." (Samuels 262)
He was also sought after by many organizations. Among his activities were serving on the committee to oversee the decoration of the United States Capitol in Washington DC, and becoming one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
An inveterate traveler, Kensett spent summers on painting excursions away from New York City. One of these trips was a special painting excursion with fifteen other artists sponsored by the B & O Railroad from Baltimore, Maryland to Wheeling, West Virginia. Unlike many of the Hudson River painters...
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Hudson River School 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
The Violinist (Antique Ellsworth Woodward Figurative Graphite Sketch Drawing)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
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Romantic 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Seated Young Lady (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance") - Antique Drawing
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this pen-and-ink of a pretty Edwardian-era lady are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the...
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Romantic 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
A Compelling 1951 Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Compelling, 1951 Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Artwork size: 12 x 9 1/2 inches. Artwork is unframed, matted/...
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American Modern 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Pair of Italian Neoclassical Allegorical Engravings
By Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Italian Neoclassical allegorical engravings. Pair of Italian neoclassical allegorical engravings after Raphael from "The Hours of the Night" in antique Italian mahogany frame...
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19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
UNTITLED - ACTRESS ON STAGE
By Henry Somm
Located in Portland, ME
Somm, Henry (French 1844-1907). UNTITLED - ACTRESS ON STAGE.
Drawing, ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1890-1900.
Signed "Hy Somm."
9 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches ...
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19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink
Art Nouveau Painting of a Maiden and Mischievous Cupids 19th Century by Rontini
Located in Rochester, NY
Art nouveau painting of beautiful maiden and mischievous angels. An allegory of Spring. Watercolor painting by Alessandro Rontini (Italian born 1854). In beautiful custom floral deco...
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Art Nouveau 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Danseuse By Pierre Carrier-Belleuse
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pierre Carrier-Belleuse
1851-1932 French
Danseuse
Signed “Pierre Carrier-Belleuse” (lower right)
Pastel on canvas
Strikingly elegant, this extraordinary pastel by French impressi...
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Impressionist 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel
19th Century Italian Floral Wallpaper Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Architectural Floral Wallpaper Fragment
19th Century Italian hand painted floral design wallpaper lined with linen, in gold leaf framed.
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Italian School 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper, Linen
The Adoration Of The Christ Child Fine Renaissance Old Master Painting Large
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/School: After Filippo Lippi, Italian 1406-1469. The work is most likely by an English hand, late 19th century
Title: The Adoration of the Christ ...
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Renaissance 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Big sky, clouds over the Seine River French Impressionist landscape painting
By Gaston Prunier
Located in Norwich, GB
A stunning sky and cloud study by Gaston Prunier. Originally from Le Havre, the sea port where the Seine empties into the English Channel, Prunier was c...
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French School 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
Reclining female nudes with an umbrella
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
HENRI LEBASQUE
(Champigné 1865 - 1937 Le Cannet)
Reclining female nudes with an umbrella
Pencil, stumping and heightened with watercolor
27 x 24 cm
Stamp lower right « H. Lebasque ...
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Art Nouveau 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
George H Hay, Spinning Wool, Watercolour
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century watercolour by Scottish artist George H Hay RSA (1831-1912) depicts four young ladies, wearing outfits synonymous with the 1820s, spinning wool within a simple...
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Romantic 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
19th-Century Austrian School, Lady Riding A Grey Mare
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming mid-19th-century European watercolour depicts a young lady riding a grey mare before a view of Berg Perchtoldsdorf, Austria.
During the 19th century, aristocratic wome...
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Victorian 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Paper
Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix, Landscape With Watermill, Mother & Child
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming 19th-century drawing by British artist Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix (1840-1916) depicts a mother and child standing by a mill pond before a rustic watermill.
De Poix was a gentleman artist descended from French nobility...
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English School 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Country Landscape - Late 19th Century Countryside Painting by Lewis George Fry
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Lewis George Fry (1860 - 1933)
Lewis George Fry was a British painter who was born in 1860 in Clifton, Bristol UK.
This piece was created with mixed media and is in a gilt frame un...
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Post-Impressionist 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor
Costume di San Giovanni - Watercolor by M. De Vito - 1820 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolour on ivory colored paper stuck on ivory colored cardboard, 1820 c.a. Hand-signed and hand-titled "Costume di S.Giovanni", with autograph caption black ink "Vicino Napoli" ...
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Modern 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Edward Neale (1833-1904) - Framed 1884 Watercolour, Mallard at Kingsclear
Located in Corsham, GB
A rare late 19th century watercolour by the well listed Victorian artist Edward Neale (1833-1904). The scene depicts a skein of mallards landing on a body of water at dusk. Neale as ...
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19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
$579 Sale Price
20% Off
The Argument
Located in New York, NY
Signed and inscribed on a label on the verso:
No. 1/ The Argument/ W. Cave Thomas/ 203 Camden Rd/ NW
Provenance:
Christie’s, London, 6 November 1995, lot 88.
Private Collection, London.
This powerful watercolor is a mature work by the little-known Victorian painter William Cave Thomas...
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Pre-Raphaelite 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Attrib. Henry Brewer RI (1866-1950) - Watercolour, Windmill and Church Tower
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine early 20th century watercolour by Henry Charles Brewer RI (1866-1950), depicting a country landscape with spinning windmill and church tower. Elegantly mounted in a gilt-effec...
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19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$517 Sale Price
20% Off
Paire de dessins d'après Roméo et Juliette
Located in BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FR
"Juliette et sa servante" & "Juliette au balcon"
Paire de dessins à la mine de plomb, encre, aquarelle et gouache
23,5×10,5 cm et 25×14 cm respectivement / 33,6×41,6 cm encadrés
Sign...
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Academic 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Odalisque at the menagerie - Original Watercolor Lithograph - 1848 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Odalisque at the menagerie (Odalisco al serraglio) is an original water-colored lithograph on paper realized in 1848 ca. by Anonymous Artist of 19th Century.
In very good conditions...
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Modern 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
India 19th c British Landscape Listed Artist Alfred Crowdy Lovett Botanical Palm
Located in Norfolk, GB
Alfred Crowdy Lovett C.B.E (British, 1862-1919)
Palm Tree & Coconut of Palm (in pencil on verso), single palm signed top right
Watercolours on paper, mounted
Single palm: Mount si...
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Post-Impressionist 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cavalry Charge 1st Empire - Edouard Detaille - French art
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Very good original Conditions including a beautiful frame. Framed under glass, this rare composition for sale is an exceptionnel piece for Art collectors.
Artist Biog...
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Academic 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) The Children of the painter Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
The children of the painter
Portrait in an oval, study for a portrait
Black pencil on paper
23 x 19 cm
Stamp of the worksh...
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Romantic 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Victorian School head study of a golden haired boy
By George Elgar Hicks
Located in Harkstead, GB
A beautifully painted study of a cherubic young boy, his golden haired head turned to the sun, his eyes closed as he feels its warmth.
Pre-Raphaelite School, late 19th century
Head...
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Victorian 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
$523 Sale Price
56% Off
Flower Gardens at Generalife, Granada
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed bottom left
Image size: 13 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (35 x 24 cm)
Mounted and framed
The Generalife was a summer palace and country estate of the Nasrid rulers...
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Victorian 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Young Elegant Lady In A Hat, Nocturne
By Henry Somm
Located in PARIS, FR
François Clément SOMMIER, known as Henry SOMM
Rouen 1844 - Paris 1907
Young Elegant woman in hat, nocturnal
Watercolor
Signed lower right
32 x 21 cm
50 x 40 cm framed
Very good cond...
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Impressionist 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$2,289 Sale Price
20% Off
Victorian Landscape Detailed Large Watercolour of Ludlow Castle and Ludlow town
Located in ludlow, GB
Victorian Landscape a Detailed Watercolour of Ludlow Castle, Dinham and Ludlow town.
Looking towards Dinham and Ludlow Castle, Shropshire - a Landscape view
Watercolour on Paper, m...
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Realist 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
19th Century British School Still Life of Clover, Ivy and a Buttercup
Located in London, GB
BRITISH SCHOOL
(19th Century)
Clover, Ivy and Buttercup
Watercolour and bodycolour
Unframed, in mount only
5.5 by 10.5 cm., 2 ¼ by 4 ¼ in.
(mount size 18.5 by 25 cm., 7 ¼ by 9 3/4...
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Realist 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The American Barque A.J. Harvey Sailing Into Marseilles
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Watercolor featuring the American Barque A.J. Harvey. Inscribed in the lower center of the painting and with the original handwritten adn signed label on the reverse. "Barque A.J. Ha...
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Folk Art 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Gaston La Touche, La Barque, aquarelle et gouache sur papier
Located in BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FR
Cette aquarelle témoigne de l'intérêt de Gaston La Touche pour ce médium à partir de la fin des années 1890. En 1897, il expose ainsi ses premières aquarelles au Salon de la Société ...
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19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Gouache
Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a fisherman, signed drawing
By Jules Noel
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Noel (1810-1881)
Landscape with a fisherman,
Signed lower right
Pencil on paper
27.8 x 44 cm
Framed under glass : 43 x 59.5 cm
We find in this drawing everything that makes...
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Romantic 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Hunting Pack Of Welsh Hounds In Wales Framed Victorian Dog Watercolor Painting
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Arthur Wardle.
English ( b.1864 - d.1949 )
Welsh Hounds From The Packs Of Lieutenant Buckley & The Hon. H.C. Wynn.
Watercolor.
Signed Lower Left.
Image size 7.68 inches x 10.83 in...
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Victorian 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Sweet Indulgence - Chocolate Cream Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Original illustration for 'A Treasury of Stories, Jingles and Rhymes' published by Frederick A. Stokes Company in 1894, app...
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19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Disegno figurativo maschile accademia di nudo toscano del XIX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Questa ritratto di nudo maschile, matita su carta 35,5 x 25,5, è firmata e datata in basso a destra a matita rossa "Arturo Banti 21. Gennaio 1876." Rientra pienamente nella cultura a...
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Other Art Style 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
The Little Mermaid - Fairy Tales - English Female Illustrator Pen and Ink
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering English Female Illustrator Helen Stratton masterfully renders in pen and ink a scene from "The Little Mermaid" in George Newnes's 1899 editi...
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Pre-Raphaelite 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
A Grand Tour study of ruins in the Roman Forum - English School, early 19th C.
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and wash in black ink with pen in black ink on watermarked C & I Honig cream laid paper, 14 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (378 x 311 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with some m...
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French School 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink
Conrad Martens, Charles Darwin in the Beagle’s Tender, Patagonia, Argentina wc
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
PROVENANCE: Christie’s South Kensington, England, June 10, 1986; Maynards Auction, Vancouver, Canada, December 6, 1994.
This 19th cent wc depicts Charles Darwin in the Beagle’s Tender, Coastal Patagonia, Argentina.
The son of an English mother and the Austrian Consul General in London, Conrad Martens pursued a career in painting following his father’s death in 1816. From the age of sixteen he studied under landscape watercolourist Copley Fielding, absorbing the traditions of the English watercolour school and Joshua Reynolds’ theories on painting. In 1833 Martens joined the HMS Beagle on a scientific survey expedition at Montevideo, South America, as ship’s artist, replacing the ailing Augustus Earle. He befriended the ship’s naturalist, Charles Darwin, whose empirical observation of landscape forms and climatic conditions would influence Martens’ practice.
Martens left the Beagle in Valparaiso in 1834 and travelled to Australia via New Zealand and Tahiti, settling in Sydney in 1835 and setting up a studio in Pitt Street. Patronised by the colonial elite, he fulfilled many commissions for watercolours of the local landscape and Sydney Harbour, including Elizabeth Bay c1838, which features the grand neoclassical edifice of Elizabeth Bay House, built for the former colonial secretary...
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Romantic 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
"In the Artist's Studio, " Late 19th Century Scottish Realist Watercolor Interior
Located in Wiscasset, ME
"In the Artist's Studio" was painted in the realistic style in the late 19th century by the Scottish artist, George Clark Stanton. Stanton was a painter, watercolorist, goldsmith and...
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Realist 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
"Treasures of the Scholars' Studio, " Ink and Paint on Fabric
Located in Chicago, IL
With careful brushwork, this 19th-century painting honors the four treasures of the scholar's studio - paper, calligraphy brush, ink, and inkstone. Essential to his way of life, the ...
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Qing 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Silk, Ink, Pigment
FINE 1860'S BOTANNICAL WATERCOLOUR DRAWING - ISABELLA GRAPES ON THE VINE
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: English/ American School, 19th century, circa 1860's.
Title: Isabella Grapes on the vine. Interesting inscription telling the history of the drawing and how the orig...
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Victorian 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Ancient Oak Trees in Lullingstone Park, Samuel Palmer Watercolour and Ink
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and pen and ink on paper, inscribed verso
Image size: 5 x 4 inches (13 x 10 cm)
Framed
This drawing most likely depicts a view in Lullingstone Park, near the village of ...
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English School 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Richard Westall Neoclassical Mythology Drawing 1800s pencil on paper
Located in Florence, IT
Drawing Pencil on paper, 17.7 x 26.7 inch; with gilded frame 28.3 x 37 inch
The scene is set on the seashore, in the part were the stormy sea is licking the land, made of a rocky an...
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Other Art Style 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Woman in thought and Child: the page boy intriguing 19th Century Master drawing
Located in Norwich, GB
A virtuoso charcoal sketch by the Frech 19th Century master Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846-1904). It depicts a thoughtful woman (or woman in thought?) with her face resting on her hand...
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French School 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
Lady with Hat and Fan
By William Lee
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed lower left
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Impressionist 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The King's Camelopard
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1775–1850)
‘Camelopard – a present from the Pacha of Egypt to the King – at Malta on its way to England’
Signed and dated C.F. de Brocktorff. / 1827. lower right, inscribed as titled in the painted margins lower centre. Pencil and watercolour heightened with gold paint and gum arabic on paper, 36.8 x 27.9 cm
A gift so majestic, it made kings blush, and a gift so grand, it would startle Europe into a craze. Pasha Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1805-1848) did it in 1827: he sent to Europe three magical spotted, horned creatures, each with a neck reaching the skies and legs as long as a house is high. One giraffe to King Charles X of France, one to Francis I of Austria and the most fabled one to King George IV of England. A curious sight for Europeans, who had not seen such a beast since the Medici giraffe in 1487.
Few animals created more of a stir in Europe than these royal...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
Eleven drawings of various subjects mounted on a printed sheet
Located in Stockholm, SE
Drawn at Danviken Hospital between 1841 and 1842.
Swedish art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries would appear significantly diminished if the works of artists who struggled w...
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19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Portrait of Laurence Wedgwood (Pottery Company Director) as a Child.
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Portrait of Laurence Wedgwood by unknown artist.
Pencil on paper, sheet measures 8 x 10 inches; 11 x 13 inches in ca. 1910 frame.
Foxing to sheet, no staining or loss. No conserva...
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19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Antique Pith Painting of Birds
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Charming framed and matted antique Chinese painting of birds. Painted on pith paper with gouache in bold colors in a scholastic style...
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Other Art Style 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Lady Painting En Plein Aire, 1880's
By Eduardo Dalbono
Located in New York, NY
Eduardo DalBono, Portrait of a Lady Painting En Plein Aire, 1880's.
Watercolour on card paper of a lady dressed in white in an artist’s folding chair seated with sketchbook and brush viewing the landscape, possibly seaside with soft brown dunes in the background and blue and green brush foliage in the foreground. An elegant subject softly rendered in original gilt carved floral frui frame. Eduardo DalBono was a Neapolitan pupil of Nicola Palizzi...
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19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Achille De Dominicis (1851-1917) - 1875 Watercolour, Young Peasant Woman
Located in Corsham, GB
A very fine watercolour study by the Italian painter Achille De Dominicis (1851-1917). Here the artist has depicted a pretty young Italian woman, she is seated on a stone wall as she...
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19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Figurative Pencil Drawing - Male Portrait Studies
Located in Houston, TX
A fascinating 19th Century pencil drawing of varying male portraits, mostly in profile view, with differing facial expressions and facial ...
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19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Costume di Chieuti Albanesi - Watercolor by M. De Vito - 1820 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Costume di Chieuti-Albanesi, 1820 c.a.
Watercolour on ivory colored paper, 1820 c.a.. Hand-titled "Costume di Chieuti-Albanesi", with autograph caption black ink "Provincia di Basili...
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Modern 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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