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Period: Late 19th Century
Le Lever - Impressionist Figures in Interior Pastel by Jean Louis Forain
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist figurative pastel on board circa 1895 by sought after French impressionist painter Jean Louis Forain. The piece depicts a man asleep in a bed while a woman stands at the foot of the bed getting dressed. The room is dimly lit by the bedside lamp.
Signature:
Signed upper right
Dimensions:
Framed: 22"x26"
Unframed: 15"x19"
Provenance:
Galerie Jean-Claude Bellier
Jean Forain was the son of a painter and decorator and was apprenticed to a visiting card engraver. He studied briefly under Gérôme and Carpeaux at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and regularly visited the Louvre, where he copied works by the masters. It is said that for a time he made a precarious living by selling small drawings in the style of Grévin. He went on to collaborate on various publications as a draughtsman and columnist, starting in 1876 on La Cravache and then collaborating on the newspapers Le Journal Amusant, Le Figaro and L'Écho de Paris. This introduced him to the diverse worlds of Paris society - the world of the theatre, of shows, and of literature - where he wryly noted the habits and shortcomings particular to each. This led him to follow a route very characteristic of this period, already seen in the work of Steinlen, Caran d'Ache and Toulouse-Lautrec in the journals La Pléiade, La Vogue and La Revue Blanche.
His work draws a picture of the society of the period, not in a strictly imitative fashion but in the form of the 'dessin-charge' or mild caricature. In 1880 he illustrated Parisian Sketches...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel, Board
Charles Edmund Rowbotham (1856-1921) - Framed Watercolour, Castle on the Cliff
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour scene by British artist Charles Rowbotham (1856-1921). Signed to the lower right. Presented in a narrow black frame with a crisp white mount. On paper.
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
H.J Snell - Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour, Ready with the Axe
Located in Corsham, GB
A characterful watercolour portrait of an elderly man in work clothes, posed with a splitting maul in hand. The watercolour has been signed and dated to the lower right. Well present...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
J. Lepine - Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour, Ancient Quarter
Located in Corsham, GB
This 19th century watercolour depicts a busy middle eastern street with figures walking in the town's ancient quarter. The watercolour has been signed and dated to the lower left. We...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour - Flocked by Abbey Ruins
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine watercolour depiction of figures and sheep before abbey ruins. The flock look happy grazing beneath the ornate arches, undisturbed by the couple of women resting in the foregr...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Robert Winchester Fraser (1848-1906) - Framed Watercolour, Rabbits in the Wild
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour painting by the artist Robert Winchester Fraser (1848-1906), depicting wild rabbits grazing a sunny hillside. The watercolour has been signed and dated to th...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Cecil Jack Keats - Late 19th Century Watercolour, Cattle Watering in a River
By C.J. Keats
Located in Corsham, GB
This delightful watercolour by Cecil Jack Keats, depicts four horned cattle watering in a shallow river. Areas of the painting have been carefully heightened with body color by the a...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Edmund Morison Wimperis (1835-1900) - 1876 Watercolour, Windsor Castle
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate study of Windsor Castle in the afternoon sun. Ruskin Gallery label fixed to the reverse alongside Stanley W. Fisher label. Well presented in a gilt effect frame. Signed an...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
'Young Lady Seated', Royal Academy London, PAFA, Queen Victoria, King Edward VII
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper left, 'C. J. Turrell' for Charles James Turrell (British-American, 1845-1932) and dated 1876.
Framed dimensions: 12 x 1 x 10 inches
Charles James Turrell was one of the most talented miniaturists of his age. Born in London, he studied under a Mr. Sargeant, perhaps Frederick Sargeant who exhibited at the Royal Academy, before visiting the United States in 1867 where he painted miniatures at the studio of photographer Napoleon Sarony. During this time, Turrell had distinguished sitters including members of the Vanderbilt, Whitney, and Morgan families. While in America, Turrell married and would go on to maintain successful careers in both New York and London where, in 1869, he opened a studio on Bond Street.
Turrell exhibited widely and with success including annually at the Royal Academy (1873-1904), the Society of Miniaturists (1873 – 1932), the Brooklyn Art Association (1868), the Pennsylvania Academy of Art (1901) and at the Paris Salons. His sitters included Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, and Queen Alexandra, when she was Princess of Wales (1884). In 1890, he was appointed official miniature painter to Queen Victoria. Turrell's work is held in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace as well as in the permanent collections of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, London's Victoria & Albert Museum and the Mount Vernon Collection in Washington D.C., among others.
Reference:
E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 13, page 863; Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 3, page 3354; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith: New York 1948 Edition, R.R. Bowker Company 1935, page 444; The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940, J. Johnson and A. Greutzner, 1980 Edition, Antique Collectors’ Club 1976, page 511; Dictionary of British Miniature...
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Realist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
Late 19th Century Watercolour - The Watercress Seller
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate portrait of a young watercress seller holding a wicker basket of cress. These street sellers were common during the 18th and 19th centuries and would sell to workers early...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
George W. Blackham (1832-1912) - Late 19th Century Watercolour, Little Bow St.
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming late 19th century watercolour painting of Little Bow street near Horsefair, Birmingham. Signed and dated to the lower right. Presented in a narrow gilt frame with a new ca...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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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 ...
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American Impressionist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pencil
Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour - Peasant Women
Located in Corsham, GB
A subtle watercolour portrait of a peasant woman in profile. Presented in a reeded gilt frame with wash-line mount. Signed and dated, 1989. On paper.
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
L. Wilton - Late 19th Century Watercolour, Shepherd & Flock on a Country Lane
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour painting from the late 19th century, depicting a young shepherd in conversation on a country lane. The flock look displeased with the hold up to their journe...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
George Stanfield Walters (1838-1924) - Framed Watercolour, Beached at Sunset
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming seascape in watercolour, by the well listed artist George S. Walters (1838-1924). The painting shows a stranded ship at low tide. A figure can be scene busy in the foregro...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour - Wild Primrose
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine Victorian watercolour of wild primroses, flourishing in a rocky English woodland. The artist has captured each flower with its deep yellow eye and large velvety leaves, buried...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Frederick E Valter (1860-1930) - Framed Watercolour, Driving Cattle
Located in Corsham, GB
A particularly fine watercolour by the listed British artist Frederick E Valter. The scene depicts a drover moving cattle to summer pastures. A heifer can be seen trailing behind, wh...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Thomas William Morley (1859-1925) - Watercolour, Honfleur Street Scene
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine late 19th-century watercolour with gouache detail by the artist Thomas William Morley (1859-1925). Here he has captured a group of flower sellers in a market square. Executed ...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Henry George Hine R.I (1811-1895) - Framed Watercolour, Honey, I'm Home!
Located in Corsham, GB
This humorous watercolour by Henry George Hine R.I (1811-1895), depicts an elderly gentleman returning home to his displeased wife. The gentleman looks jolly in his step before noticing his other half resting in frustration on the cottage fence. Even the little black terrier...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Man sitting in the studio - Thinking about art -
Located in Berlin, DE
Adolph Eduard Otto von Faber du Faur (1828 Ludwigsburg - 1901 Munich). Man sitting in the studio. Watercolour painting, 43 x 27 cm (visible size), 73 x 53 cm (frame), monogrammed at lower right, estate stamp.
Upper right corner neatly repaired, small tear in the wall to the left of the sitter.
- Thinking about art -
About the artwork
The sitter, an elderly man, is seated in a studio on a pedestal reminiscent of an academy hall. The earthy, dark tones give the scene a weighty quality. The lightest tones are found in the incarnate parts of the figure, which do not stand out from the other colours of the picture, but are linked to them. As a result, the sitter's face is both part of and the highlight of the colour references in the picture. The colour of the sitter's skin is reflected in his pink coat, while his white-grey hair matches the colour of the wall next to him. This almost monochrome wall surface, in turn, is connected across the portrait to the framed picture standing on the floor, which seems to have been erased by this correspondence with the empty wall surface. Through the palette, which is positioned directly behind the sitter's head, the reference to painting, which is already given by the studio space, is explicitly linked to the sitter, who thus seems to be contemplating the question of the meaning of art.
This raises the question of whether Faber Du Faur, who had become lonely in his old age, might have painted a self-portrait here in his later years. In addition to the studio setting, the sitter's explicit reference to the palette and the fact that the picture was part of his estate, the only summary elaboration of the body suggests a self-portrait, while the representation of the face is concretised with the wide-open eyes typical of a self-portrait. This concentration on the face gives the impression of the artist's melancholy introspection, captured by the palette and related to the meaning of painting, whose dark character is reinforced by the concealment of the palette hanging on the right of the picture in the light tones so characteristic of Faber Du Faur. In the course of this resignation, Faber du Faur advises his son Hans, who has also become a painter: "Promise me one thing: never move to Munich, they'll kill you here!"
Whoever the sitter may be, the references to painting make the portrait a resigned self-contemplation by Faber Du Faur, focused on art.
About the artist
After leaving school, Otto Faber du Faur entered the service of the Württemberg army, at the same time cultivating his artistic talent. In 1851, on the recommendation of his father Christian Wilhelm, who was himself a battle painter, he spent six months in Munich as an apprentice to Alexander von Kotzebue. In 1852 he was granted a year's leave of absence from military service to study battle painting in the studio of Adolphe Yvon...
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Realist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Late 19th Century Watercolour - Cows by the Highland Stream
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour study depicting a Scottish farmer in a traditional kilt herding cows across a highland landscape. Unsigned. presented in a wooden frame. On paper.
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Thomas Robert Macquoid (1820-1912) - 1892 Watercolour, Kutscherhof, Nuremberg
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour scene depicting a street scene in Nuremberg, Germany. Figures and animals are shown before a beautiful staircase in the city centre. Signed and dated to the lo...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
"Summer Landscape" Charles Harry Eaton, Tonalist Barbizon Landscape
By Charles Harry Eaton
Located in New York, NY
Charles Harry Eaton
Summer Landscape
Signed lower right
Watercolor on paper
9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches
Inspired by the Barbizon style of painting and devoted to the Detroit landscape...
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Tonalist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour - The Towing Path
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming late 19th century watercolour by W. Forbes, depicting a steady canal horse towing his owner's barge along the canal. Chosen for their strength and stamina, horses played a...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
“Seaside Cliffs, California”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original pastel on archival card stock from Paris of the craggy seaside cliffs of California by the well known Hudson River artist, George Douglas Bremerton. Signed lower left. Circa 1880. Condition is excellent. Under glass. The artwork is housed in its original ornate scroll designed frame. Overall framed measurements are 33 by 19 inches. Provenance: A East Coast Florida estate.
George Douglas Brewerton received lessons in art from Prof. Robert W. Weir at West Point where his father was Superintendent. In 1874, he was detailed to San Francisco as an officer in the Stevenson Regiment. In 1848, he underwent many adventures in Western deserts and mountains with Kit Carson, who crossed the country with news of the California Gold Rush. After serving as an aide to Gen. Rufus Saxton during the Civil War, Brewerton called himself “Colonel,” although he never received an army commission...
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Hudson River School Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Watercolor of Atlantic City Beach with Lucy the Elephant By E.D. Lewis
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Edmund Darch Lewis (American, 1835–1910)
Atlantic City Beach Scene with Elephant, 1884
Watercolor on grey paper, 8 x 18 1/2 inches(sight); Framed: 16 x 26 inches
This view of the beach near Atlantic City features Lucy the Elephant...
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Realist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, 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 Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
“View of Mount Shasta, California”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original pastel on heavy card stock (made in Paris) by the well known Hudson River artist, George Douglas Brewerton. A view of Mount Shasta in Northern California. Signed lower left. Circa 1880. Condition is excellent. The artwork is housed in its original scroll decorated frame. Overall framed measurements are 33.25 by 19 inches. Provenance: A East Coast Florida estate.
George Douglas Brewerton received lessons in art from Prof. Robert W. Weir at West Point where his father was Superintendent. In 1874, he was detailed to San Francisco as an officer in the Stevenson Regiment. In 1848, he underwent many adventures in Western deserts and mountains with Kit Carson, who crossed the country with news of the California Gold Rush. After serving as an aide to Gen. Rufus Saxton during the Civil War, Brewerton called himself “Colonel,” although he never received an army commission...
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Hudson River School Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Archival Paper, Pastel
Late 19th-Century British School, Portrait Study Of A Woman, Watercolour
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century British portrait study depicts a lady wearing a black hat with a veil. It’s an intriguing little mystery.
With an enigmatic expression, she peers back across ...
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English School Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Sketch-book Page, Shoreham, Samuel Palmer, Late 19th Century
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, numerous pencil inscriptions
Image size: 5 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (14 x 55 cm)
Period style hand made gilt frame
Provenance
The collection of Ernest Pearce (1930-20...
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Victorian Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of a Girl in Profile, Watercolour Painting, 1884
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and dated 1884 top left
Image size: 11 x 8 3/4 inches (28 x 22.25 cm)
Original gilt frame
This is a late 19th century portrait of a girl in profile, wea...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
"A Shady Runlet" Stream in Fall New Jersey Watercolor 1878
Located in Soquel, CA
"A Shady Runlet" Stream in Fall New Jersey Watercolor 1878
A rare and exceptional watercolor of two ladies viewing a New Jersey stream in fall by William C. Bauer (American, 1856- 1...
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American Impressionist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Shady hollow way - Into the heart of the forest -
By Hans Dvoràk
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Dvořák (19th century). Shady hollow way in a sunny forest. Watercolour and pen-and-ink drawing, 58.5 x 43 cm (visible size), 70 x 55.5 cm (frame), signed and dated "Hans Dvořák ...
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Realist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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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 Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Harold Sutton Palmer RI RBA, A Pool Near Dunsford, Surrey, Antique Watercolour
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This fine late 19th-century watercolour by British artist Harold Sutton Palmer RI RBA (1854-1933) depicts a river view near Dunsford in Surrey.
Shimmering between verdant banks, a p...
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English School Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Watercolor by A. Chaudet - The village church
Located in Geneva, CH
Watercolor on paper sold with frame. The total size with frame is 53x45,5 cm
Signed A. Chaudet
Category
Academic Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Study with Torso, Hands, and Umbrella - The characteristic of the inconspicuous
Located in Berlin, DE
Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (1842 Berlin - 1915 ibid.). Sketch of a female torso with hands and an umbrella. Pencil on paper, 27.5 x 22.5 cm (visible size)...
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Realist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Jules Lessore - 19th Century watercolour of The Ducal Palace, Venice
Located in London, GB
JULES LESSORE
(1849-1892)
The Ducal Palace, Venice
Signed l.r.: Jules Lessore
Watercolour
Framed
24.5 by 17 cm., 9 ¾ by 6 ¾ in.
(frame size 44.5 by 36.5 cm., 17 ½ by 14 ½ in.)
Provenance:
With Duncan Miller Fine Art, London.
Jules Lessore was born in Paris and initially studied under his father, the painter, printmaker and ceramic artist, Emile Lessore...
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Realist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sail vs Steam, 19th Century French Marine Drawing
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 19th century drawing on paper of a French marine scene by noted French artist Georges Ricard-Cordingley. Carrying the atelier stamp to the bottom right, presented in modern black frame.
Provenance: This drawing came from the estate of the artist's daughter who had acquired it directly from her father. It is from his earliest period of drawing when his talents were first being recognised.
A charming drawing capturing the scene of a steam tug docked next to a larger sailing boat, the scene probably at Boulogne sur Mer. Cordingley has captured the majesty of the scene, the juxtaposition of old and new technologies. It probably dates from his earliest period when he was showing prodigious talent in his early teens.
Georges Ricard was born on January 30, 1873 in Lyon, son of Prosper Louis Ricard and Georgina Marie Cordingley. He spent part of his childhood in Lyon and Boulogne-sur-Mer. He displayed early gifts for drawing. He lost his father in 1885.
He began his training around 1887, becoming a pupil of Jean-Charles Cazin, a landscape painter from Pas-de-Calais and the Côte d'Opale. He then joined the School of Fine Arts in Lyon and remained there from 1888 to 1889. He moved to Paris in 1890, where he studied at the Académie Julian as a pupil of Benjamin Constant, Louis Martinet and Jules Lefebvre.
He lost his mother around 1892, went to England to his maternal family and added his mother's name to his name. He embarked for the North Sea with the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen and carried out his first studies. In 1894, he met with great success at the court of Queen Victoria. He embarked a second time, in 1895, still for the North Sea and produced numerous studies of waves of clouds, of the port and of portraits of fishermen...
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Romantic Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
Late 19th Century Watercolour - Angler at the Farm
Located in Corsham, GB
This scene sets place on the land of a small farm in late summer. In the foreground an angler casts his line into the river running between the small farm house and the wheat field. ...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Arthur Willett (1857-1918)- Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour, Rough Shooting
Located in Corsham, GB
A very fine late 19th century watercolour of two gentleman rough shooting in a landscape. To the right of the composition five black rabbits can be seen...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Plant Impression in Locarno - Floral Crescendo -
Located in Berlin, DE
Alexander Frenz (1861 Rheydt - 1941 Düsseldorf). Plant impression in Locarno. Gouache and watercolour. 35 x 23,5 cm (visible size), 49,5 x 38,5 cm (fra...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Irvine Harbour" James MacMaster, Scottish Seascape, Marine Ship Painting
Located in New York, NY
James MacMaster
Irvine Harbour
Signed lower right
Watercolor on paper
10 1/4 x 14 inches
Provenance:
Private Collection, New Jersey
Category
Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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...
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Realist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Little girl with turkeys
Located in Como, IT
Eugenio Spreafico (Monza, 1856 - Magreglio, 1919)
Little girl with turkeys
Tecnica mista su carta
Size: 53x35 cm (81x61 cm including frame)
Si forma artisticamente all'Accademia di Brera, dove è allievo di Francesco Hayez...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Watercolor British school 19thcentury Diamond jubilee Portrait Queen Victoria
Located in PARIS, FR
English school from the end of the 19th century Watercolor and gouache 38 x 28 cm (60x49 cm with the frame) Very beautiful late 19th century frame in pitch pine wood. Very good condition
This watercolor was made for the diamond "jubilee" in 1897 of Queen Victoria, crowned on the 20 June 1837 Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. She was also Queen of Canada from 1867 and Empress of India from 1876. This watercolor represents two portraits of the Queen, one in 1837 and the other in 1897, as well as a beautiful diamond which reminds of the famous Indian diamond the Koh-i-Nor which was presented in 1850 to Queen Victoria, for the 250th anniversary of the English East India Company, and cut and mounted on a tiara with two thousand other diamonds in 1852. We also recognize in this watercolor the insignia of the Order of the Star of India...
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English School Late 19th Century 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 Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Donne con bambini - 1889
Located in Como, IT
Eugenio Spreafico (Monza, 1856 – Magreglio, 1919)
Donne con bambini - 1889
Tecnica mista su carta
Misure: 58x40 cm (80x62 cm inclusa la cornice)
Si forma artisticamente all'Accademia di Brera, dove è allievo di Francesco Hayez...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
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 Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Feeding the Kittens - Little cat mother -
Located in Berlin, DE
Ernst Albert Fischer-Cörlin (1853 Körlin - 1932 Persante). Feeding the Kittens, 1893. Pencil on painting cardboard, 38 x 29 cm. Signed and dated by the artist at lower left "E[rnst] A[lbert] Fischer=Cörlin 1893".
- Lightly stained, somewhat dusty and minimally foxed.
- Little cat mother -
About the artwork
Daughter, mother and grandmother gather in the sunlight to feed a litter of kittens. The mother and grandmother hold the lively, playful animals in their arms, while the young girl feeds two of the four kittens with cookies. There is also a small bucket of milk and a bowl of milk. The women and the girl watch as the cute, still blind animals eat.
It is a scene taken from everyday life, but it also has an allegorical dimension, bringing maternal care into the representation. Three generations are represented, with the grandmother and the mother already mothers. They not only offer the kittens to the youngest, but also proudly observe the maternal care that the youngest gives to the kittens. Like the kittens, she will grow up and become a mother herself, so the image is also an allegory of life's ever-new beginnings. In keeping with this, the morning sun shines into the picture from the right. Fischer-Cörlin has masterfully worked out the quality of the light, with its light and dark areas, with the pencil used...
Category
Academic Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Carbon Pencil
Venetian Lagoon, 1899, Venice, Italy, Realist, Watercolor
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Lower Austria in 1844, Rudolf Bernt was a painter and architect. He studied at the Vienna Technical University as an architect, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna unde...
Category
Realist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Vaches au paturage sur les bords de la Seine
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Vaches au paturage sur les bords de la Seine (Cows Grazing on the Banks of the Seine)" is a pastel on paper by Alfred Sisley. The artwork is signed lower left, "Sisley". The framed ...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
SUR LA DORDOGNEJean-Franck BAUDOIN (1870-1961 POST IMPRESSIONIST
Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares
Jean-Franck Baudoin a wood engraver and painter of the society of French Artists died on the 20th January 1961 at Libourne ‘Gironde’ at the age of 91. He was born at Saint Martin De ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Ellen Gehil - Framed 1892 Watercolour, Still Life of Roses
Located in Corsham, GB
Delicate and full of detail- this stunning watercolour depicts an elegant display of rose heads and foliage, effortlessly laid across a table top. Signed and dated to the lower right...
Category
Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Standing Lincoln: The Man, Lincoln Park, Illinois
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Lincoln: The Man, Lincoln Park, Illinois
Watercolor and graphite on paper , c. 1895
Signed in script lower right (see photo)
The scene depicts the Augustus Saint-Gaudens bro...
Category
American Impressionist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Rough Weather at Blatchington Pulling in the Fishing Nets on the English Coast
Located in Soquel, CA
Drypoint etching rawing of a coastal scene with figures drawing a net or boat form the sea by Sir Francis (Frank) Job Short (British, 1857 - 1945)
Sir Frank Short, Royal Academy*, was a printmaker and teacher of printmaking. He revived the practices of mezzotint* and aquatint* engraving, and also wrote about printmaking to educate a wider public.
Signed "Frank Short" lower right with monogram in the print "S within a shield"
Titled lower left "Rough Weather at Blatchington"
Lower left "Trial Proof"
Image, 8.5"H x 10.88"W
Mat, 16"H x 20"W x 0.13
Professionally cleaned and ph nuetral washed by our paper conservator. (new images posting)
Francis Job Short was born on 19 June 1857 in Britain, at Stourbridge, Worcestershire. He was educated to be a civil engineer.
He was engaged on various works in the Midlands until 1881, when he came to London as assistant to Mr Baldwin Latham in connection with the Parliamentary Inquiry into the pollution of the river Thames. In 1883 he was elected an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Having worked at the Stourbridge School of Art in his early years he joined the South Kensington School of Art*, in 1883. He also worked at the life class under Professor Fred...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Gouache, Rag Paper
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940) The Musketeers, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940)
The Musketeers
bears the monogram "M" on the lower left
Ink and pencil on paper
26,7 x 23,7 cm
in good condition,
In a mod...
Category
Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
John Keeley RBSA (1849-1930) - Framed Watercolour, Woodlands Cottage
Located in Corsham, GB
A dynamic watercolour by British artist John Keeley, depicting two woodland cottages side by side in a landscape. The watercolour has been signed by the artist to the lower right. We...
Category
Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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