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Period: Mid-19th Century
Narni Landscape Drawing
Located in Stockholm, SE
“Hilly landscape with trees and bushes from Narni in Italy,” sketched by Gustav Wilhelm Palm (1810–1890). Dated and signed “Narni 16 Sept” with “G.W [palm tree] 45,” it portrays gent...
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Other Art Style Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pencil
A heron fishing – Edo School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and watercolor on fibrous Japon paper laid down to period cream laid paper, 6 x 7 1/2 inches (155 x 190 mm). Minor toning and some insect damage on the mount, painting itself rem...
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Edo Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Crinolones sur la Plage - Impressionist Figurative Watercolor by Eugene Boudin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated watercolour and pencil on paper by impressionist painter Eugene Boudin. The work depicts elegantly dressed people enjoying a day on the beach. Some women are resting...
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Impressionist Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Figures - Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a modern artwork realized by in the Mid-20th century
Charcoal.
Good conditions
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Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Les chevaux de cirque, original gouache, lithograph
By Yves Brayer
Located in Belgrade, MT
This piece is pencil signed by the artist, it is a very limited editions in very good condition. It is part of my private collection.( Guilde De La Gravure).
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Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Lithograph
$396 Sale Price
79% Off
Drölling Student Academic Life Study Of A Male Nude Framed 1840s French Drawing
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Henry Arthur Roberts.
French ( b.1819 - d.1900 ).
Academic Life Study Of A Male Nude Carrying A Staff.
Pencil & Charcoal On Paper.
Paper size 23.4 inches x 13.6 inches ( 59.5cm x 34.5cm ).
Frame size 28.3 inches x 18.7 inches ( 72cm x 47.5cm ).
Available for sale; this academic life drawing of a male nude is by the French artist Henry Arthur Roberts and dates from the early 1840s.
The drawing is presented and supplied in a modest hand painted glazed wooden frame dating from the mid-20th century (which is shown in these photographs).
This antique drawing is in good condition, commensurate with its age. It is in an untouched condition having never been restored. The paper has handling marks, some light surface dirt, the odd foxing mark and general age toning. The overall patina adds to the aesthetic and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The drawing is not signed but came from a portfolio of drawings by Henry Arthur Roberts.
Henry Arthur Roberts was a recognised French artist, notable for his portraits and paintings of religious subjects. Born in Paris in 1819, he was the son of British watercolour artist James Roberts, himself active in Paris from 1819 -1846. Henry became a student of his father.
Henry Roberts’s talent as a young man was such that he was accepted as a student of Michel Martin Drölling and worked extensively with him. Drölling, the highly acclaimed neoclassic artist (1786-1851) was noted for his theatrical paintings of history and grand portraits. He produced many notable works, including a ceiling work for the Louvre, and works in the Palace of Versailles. Roberts would have studied with Drölling at an early stage in his career, as Drölling died when Roberts was 32. Learning with such a master would have had a huge impact on Roberts in terms of his academic skills and his own emerging style.
Roberts exhibited at the Salon de Paris from 1839, when he was only 20 years old, right through to 1867. His work in the Universal Exhibition of 1855 won him a Third Class Medal. He became Vice-President of the Association of Artists in Paris and in July 1898 he was elevated to the rank of Knight of the Legion of Honour with a foreign title. This was the highest state honour available to him, in recognition of his status as an artist.
Henry Roberts died in 1900, but his legacy lives on, with works in many famous public collections, including the Musée Carnavalet, the Musée du Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orsay, and in Boston, USA.
© Big Sky Fine Art
This striking academic nude study...
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Academic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil, Paper
Parley at Bristol, 1643 - 19th Century English Civil War Seige Painting Cromwell
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Parley at Bristol, 1643’ by Charles Cattermole RI, RBA, ROI (1834-1900).
The painting – which depicts the surrender of Parliamentary forces under Nathaniel Fiennes to Prince Ruper...
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English School Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Pre-Second Republic Academic Study Of A Male Nude Framed 1840s French Drawing
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Henry Arthur Roberts.
French ( b.1819 - d.1900 ).
Academic Life Study Of A Standing Male Nude.
Pencil & Charcoal On Paper.
Paper size 23.8 inches x 13.6 inches ( 60.5cm x 34.5cm ).
Frame size 28.3 inches x 18.7 inches ( 72cm x 47.5cm ).
Available for sale; this academic life drawing of a male nude is by the French artist Henry Arthur Roberts and dates from the early 1840s.
The drawing is presented and supplied in a modest hand painted glazed wooden frame dating from the mid-20th century (which is shown in these photographs).
This antique drawing is in good condition, commensurate with its age. It is in an untouched condition having never been restored. The paper has handling marks, some light surface dirt, the odd foxing mark and general age toning. The overall patina adds to the aesthetic and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The drawing is not signed but came from a portfolio of drawings by Henry Arthur Roberts.
Henry Arthur Roberts was a recognised French artist, notable for his portraits and paintings of religious subjects. Born in Paris in 1819, he was the son of British watercolour artist James Roberts, himself active in Paris from 1819 -1846. Henry became a student of his father.
Henry Roberts’s talent as a young man was such that he was accepted as a student of Michel Martin Drölling and worked extensively with him. Drölling, the highly acclaimed neoclassic artist (1786-1851) was noted for his theatrical paintings of history and grand portraits. He produced many notable works, including a ceiling work for the Louvre, and works in the Palace of Versailles. Roberts would have studied with Drölling at an early stage in his career, as Drölling died when Roberts was 32. Learning with such a master would have had a huge impact on Roberts in terms of his academic skills and his own emerging style.
Roberts exhibited at the Salon de Paris from 1839, when he was only 20 years old, right through to 1867. His work in the Universal Exhibition of 1855 won him a Third Class Medal. He became Vice-President of the Association of Artists in Paris and in July 1898 he was elevated to the rank of Knight of the Legion of Honour with a foreign title. This was the highest state honour available to him, in recognition of his status as an artist.
Henry Roberts died in 1900, but his legacy lives on, with works in many famous public collections, including the Musée Carnavalet, the Musée du Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orsay, and in Boston, USA.
© Big Sky Fine Art
This exceptional academic nude...
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Academic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
Thomas Sidney Cooper RA, Cow & Sheep In A Landscape
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming mid-19th-century watercolour by British artist Thomas Sidney Cooper RA (1803-1902) depicts two sheep and a cow in a landscape. Cooper was a distinguished British painte...
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English School Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Bellagio, Lake Como. Pastel.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th century pastel drawing view of Bellagio on Lake Como by Hercules Brabazon Brabazon. The work is under its original mount and initial signed (HBB) b...
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Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pastel, Pencil
English School watercolour, A figure by a Scottish castle and loch
Located in Harkstead, GB
A charming scene of a figure by a loch with a ruined castle and homestead in the background by one of Queen Victoria's favourite artists.
William Leighton Leitch (1804-1883)
Figure ...
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English School Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Baldassarre Franceschini, Sleeping Cupid, Valentine's Day Gift
Located in Harkstead, GB
A beautiful 19th century copy by Giuseppe Rocchi of Baldassarre Franceschini's Sleeping Cupid, presented in a very attractive gilt frame with hand carved mouldings. A very peaceful i...
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Old Masters Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,324 Sale Price
20% Off
African American Woman artist Mailou Jones Cezannian Cote d'Azur cubist village
Located in Norwich, GB
If you are interested in African American Art and in Women in the Arts, I will certainly not need to introduce Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1988). Often associated with the Harlem Renaissance, her
work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection. I am proud to present an original watercolour painting by the artist which dates from the late 1940s or early 1950s.
Jones was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a father who became the first African-American to earn a law degree from Suffolk Law School. Jones's parents encouraged her to draw and paint using watercolors during her childhood. She held her first solo exhibition at the age of seventeen in Martha's Vineyard.
He career began in the 1930s and she continued to produce art work until her death in 1998 at the age of 92. Her style shifted and evolved multiple times in response to influences in her life, especially her extensive travels. She felt that her greatest contribution to the art world was "proof of the talent of black artists". Her work echoes her pride in her African roots and American ancestry.
In 1937, Jones received a fellowship to study in Paris at the Académie Julian, bringing her to France for the first time. The French were appreciative of her paintings and talent and Loïs Mailou Jones was thrilled at the country’s racial tolerance, so different from her reality in the United States.
She summered in France annually from 1945 to 1953, sharing studio with her lifelong friend Celine Marie Tabary in Cabris, France.
It was during one of these sojourns that the lovely work presented here was created.
Our painting depicts the village of Tourettes sur Loup, just north of Nice, in the Provence Cote d'Azur region, about 14 miles from Cabris.
Please note its similarities with her painting "Arreau, Hautes-Pyrénées" in the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Her portrayal of the picturesque village nestled in a valley evokes landscape paintings by Paul Cézanne, a stylistic influence she acknowledged.
Over the course of the following 10 years, Jones exhibited at the Phillips Collection, Seattle Art Museum, National Academy of Design, the Barnett-Aden Gallery, Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, Howard University, galleries in New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In 1952, the book Loïs Mailou Jones: Peintures 1937–1951 was published, reproducing more than one hundred of her art pieces completed in France.At the Barnett-Aden Gallery, Jones exhibited with a group of prominent black artists, such as Jacob Lawrence and Alma Thomas. These artists and others were known as the "Little Paris...
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American Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Egyptian Buffalo & Farmers 19th Century American Orientalist Framed Watercolor
By Edwin Lord Weeks
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Edwin Lord Weeks.
American ( b.1849 - d.1903 ).
Egyptian Buffalo And Farmers, Egypt.
Watercolor On Paper.
Monogram Lower Right.
Image size 5.1 inches x 8.3 inches ( 13cm x 21cm ).
F...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mariano Jose Maria Bernardo Fortuny Marsal
By Mariano Fortuny Y Marsal
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mariano Fortuny Marsal: 1838-1874. Very important and well listed Spanish artist. He has auction results for oil paintings over 1.1 million dollars a...
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Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Edward Hull (1810-1877) - Framed Watercolour, Exercising
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming watercolour shows a steady jockey exercising his owner's racehorse with a strong, galloping stride. The watercolour has been signed to the lower left. Immaculately pres...
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Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
$443 Sale Price
20% Off
John W. Carmichael (1800-1868) - Graphite Drawing, Mussel Pickers on the Shore
By John Wilson Carmichael
Located in Corsham, GB
Initialled and dated lower right. Artist's name and dates inscribed verso by a later hand. Presented in a narrow wooden frame. On primed paper.
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Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Jean-Achille Benouville (1815-1891) Rome, View of the Forum, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Achille Benouville (1815-1891)
Rome, View of the Forum,
pencil on paper
28.5 x 37.5 cm
framed 38.5 x 47.5 cm
This drawing is characteristic of Romantic artists who, like Coro...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Carbon Pencil
France 19th century, The Bohème artist in his workshop, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
France circa 1850
The Bohème artist in his workshop
Watercolor on paper
15.5 x 21.5 cm
In good condition except a small tear (visible on the photographs) on the upper right border.
I...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$689 Sale Price
20% Off
Sur la plage de Deauville - Impressionist Figurative Watercolor by Eugene Boudin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed watercolour on paper landscape circa 1865 by French impressionist painter Eugene Boudin. This work depicts an artist painting a portrait of an elegant couple on the beach at D...
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Impressionist Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Antique Italian Painted Hand Fan in a Glass Case
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive 19th century Italian hand fan, remarkably preserved with silvered metal sticks and guards depicting ancient gods, palm trees and classical emblemes. The paper leaves are h...
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Rococo Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Silver
Detailed European Landscape in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed European Landscape in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
This finely detailed watercolor painting captures a serene countryside setting with an old stone church, a rustic hous...
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French School Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
A Grand Tour view of St Peter's Rome, Roman Campagna, Italy
By Thomas Hartley Cromek
Located in Harkstead, GB
A wonderful view of St Peter's, Rome encompassing the elegant landscaped gardens with rolling campagna in the background.
Attributed to Thomas Hartley Cromek...
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English School Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
$458 Sale Price
30% Off
View Of Rome - Watercolor on Paper by C.R. Cockerell - Mid 19th Century
By Charles Robert Cockerell
Located in Roma, IT
View Of Rome is a beautiful artwork realized by Charles Robert Cockerell in the XIX century.
Watercolor on paper. Inscribed in pencil on lower left and verso.
This charming artwork...
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Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid 19th Century English silhouette portrait of a lady in a night cap
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very skillfully painted ink on paper silhouette, unusually with the sitter appearing to be dress in her nightcap. Very Dickensian!
English School, 19th Century
Portrait of a lady ...
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English School Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
$193 Sale Price
30% Off
Birds of Europe by John and Elisabeth Goult, 1832
By John Gould and Elizabeth Gould
Located in Paris, FR
Rare Set of 6 beautiful Naturalistic hand-colored lithograph prints by John Gould from his work Birds of Europe, embelished with gum arabic in vibrant colors. Published 1832 - 1837 by Hullmandel, Walter and Walton. Presented in gold leaf wood frames. Very charming .
The price includes the set of 6 framed ones.
John Gould (18041881) is the most prolific publisher of ornithological subjects of all time. In 19th-century Europe, his name was as well known as Audubons was in North America. Unlike Audubon, whose lifes work focused on one region, Gould traveled widely and employed other artists to help create his lavish, hand-colored lithographic folios. John Goulds love of natural history was fostered in the gardens of King George III where his father was chief gardener at Windsor Castle. Although trained as a gardener, Goulds interests quickly evolved, and at the age of 20, he was appointed taxidermist to the Zoological Society of London. After three years, he progressed to the position of curator of birds and chief taxidermist. In 1830, newly married, Gould and his artist wife, Elizabeth Gould...
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Naturalistic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Lithograph
Attrib. William Bennett (1811-1871) - Watercolour, Red Deer in Richmond Park
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolor landscape depicting red deer in Richmond Park. Presented in a gilt-effect frame with bead course. Inscribed 'Richmond Park in Windsor by Bennett' on the rever...
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Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Ruins of the Imperial Castle Outside Split in Croatia
Located in Stockholm, SE
Gustaf Wilhelm Palm (1810–1890) Sweden
Ruins of the Imperial Castle Outside Split in Croatia
pencil and watercolour
unframed: 23.6 x 29.2 cm (9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in)
framed: 40 x 45 cm...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Les lavandières au milieu des vaches
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Excellent overall Condition no retouching under UV light. Minor scratch lower center. Frame is original XIXth - medal plate Daubigny. Oil on wood panel.
In 1848, Charles-François received a second class medal for one of his paintings exhibited at the Salon. The first class medals go to Corot and Delacroix.
Then he received his first order from the State: an etching. A few years later, in 1852, when he was increasingly noticed at the Salon, the State bought two paintings from him. One of them, “La Moisson”, is now at the Musée d’Orsay.
Charles-François Daubigny then fortuitously met Corot, whom he only knew through his work, and the understanding was immediate although the latter was almost twenty years his senior.
In 1853 Charles-François and Marie-Sophie had their third child, Bernard.
Rewarded by numerous prizes and medals, Charles-François sees...
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Impressionist Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pablo Picasso Drawing, Nude Female Figure
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Marking(s); notes: signed, marking(s); 1963
Materials: colored wax crayons and pencil on paper
Dimensions (H, W, D):...
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Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Wax Crayon, Pencil
The Temple of Concordia, Agrigento - English School drawing, 19th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely grand tour image of the Doric architectural masterpiece dedicated to Castor and Pollux.
Dated 1863.
Watercolor and graphite on lightweight card stock, 10 x 13 3/4 inches (2...
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English School Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Cardboard, Graphite
ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES
Located in Portland, ME
Michallet (attributed). ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES. Four Charcoal drawings, each on heavy wove paper, 19th Century. 24 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches (s...
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Academic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Charcoal
Peter Skeolan mid 19th Century English silhouette portrait
Located in Harkstead, GB
A finely detailed silhouette a Victorian gentleman
Peter Skeolan (1815-1871)
Portrait of a gentleman, profile turned to the left, wearing coat and cravat
Watercolour with gold highlighting on paper/card
Stencilled with artist's details to the reverse
3¼ x 2¾ inches, oval, without the frame
5½ x 4¾ inches with the frame
Peter Skoelan the son of Stephen Skoelan was born in Ireland in 1815. During his early career he worked as an itinerant miniature portrait painter and profilist, possibly as early as the 1830s. The 1841 census shows us that he was working in Leeds, his stated occupation was painter, aged 25. He was lodging with Thomas Lacy, a Tailor. By this time he had married and had a son and daughter...
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English School Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Paper
$289 Sale Price
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Frederick Frith mid 19th Century English Victorian silhouette portrait
Located in Harkstead, GB
A finely detailed silhouette of a Victorian clergyman.
Frederick Frith (1819-1871)
The Reverend James Metze, bust length, turned to the right, wearing coat and cravat
Inscribed to t...
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English School Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Paper
Mid 19th Century English Victorian silhouette portrait
Located in Harkstead, GB
A finely detailed silhouette of a Victorian gentleman.
Attributed Frederick Frith (1819-1871)
The Reverend James Metze, bust length, turned to the left, wearing coat and cravat
wate...
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English School Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
$241 Sale Price
30% Off
David Cox Jr ARWS (1809-1885) - 1851 Watercolour, Bouloton Abbey
By David Cox
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming depiction of Boulton Abbey from a distant meadow. Signed and dated to the lower right below the mount. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
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Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Etude de Ciel - Impressionist Landscape Pastel Study by Eugene Boudin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed pastel on grey paper circa 1860 by Eugene Boudin. The piece is a study of clouds in a blue sky.
Signature:
Signed with the cachet of the artist's estate lower right
Dimensio...
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Impressionist Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Impressionist View of Villefranche, South of France, in the style of Turner.
Located in Cotignac, FR
19th century Impressionist view, in pastel, chalk and crayon, in the style of Turner, of Villefranche, South of France by British artist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon...
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Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
Antique Floral Still Life with Tulips and Irises in Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Antique Floral Still Life with Tulips and Irises in Gouache on Paper
Finely detailed still life by Charlotte Siemers (19th Century). Several flowers are shown in a lush bouquet. Flo...
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Rococo Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Glastonbury Abbey
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink wash with watercolor in sepia and black, and blue, on buff wove watercolor paper, 14 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (360 x 260 mm). 1/4" of the lower right corner is lost, minor crack (doe...
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English School Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Sketch of Richmond Castle, North Yorkshire
Located in Maidenhead, GB
David Cox Junior (1809-1885) (attr.)
A sketch of Richmond Castle, North Yorkshire
Graphite and wash on paper
17.6 x 25.8 cm.; (within frame) 35.6 x 43.4 cm.
Provenance:
Private Co...
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Victorian Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
The Hypochondriac: French 19th Century Theatre Comedy drawing
Located in Norwich, GB
A magnificent and sensitively treated line drawing in coloured ink, heightened with white. It depicts Argan, the hypochondriac from Molière's play of the same name. Dating from circa...
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French School Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Academic drawing: L'Écorché by Houdon. Italian school. 19th century. 59x44cm
Located in Firenze, IT
Academic drawing: L'Écorché by Houdon. Italian school. 19th century. 59x44cm
This represents the statue of the écorché by the French sculptor Houdon.
Sculpture - Anatomical model o...
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Academic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Academic Study for the Head of an Apostle or Saint
Located in Firenze, IT
Study for the Head of an Apostle or Saint
Artist: Enrico Reffo (1831-1917)
Medium: Charcoal and white chalk on colored paper
Dimensions: [To be specified]
Date: Late 19th - Early 20...
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Academic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
19th century pastel of a river scene, The Chapel Bridge, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th century pastel drawing view of the Chapel Bridge and river Reuss in Lucerne, Switzerland by Hercules Brabazon Brabazon. The work...
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Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
FINE 19thC BOTANNICAL WATERCOLOUR DRAWING - NE PLUS MEURIS - DATED 1863, KENT
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: English School, 19th century, dated 1863
Title: botannical study 'Ne Plus Meuris'
Medium: watercolour drawing on paper, with ink inscription below
Size: image: 9.5...
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Victorian Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Study for Assumption of the Virgin
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite on hand made, fibrous wove paper, finished with gray wash. Unevenly trimmed sheet edges, non-archival tape remnants at all four corners, recto, well outside of image area. Horseshoe-shaped area of light discoloration that extends significantly into the figure's face, beneath the lips, and up over the rear of the head, dog-eared right lower corner with associated light discoloration at crease. DeMin and Belluno inscribed in graphite, verso.
A detailed study showing 'primo pensiero' for Giovanni DeMin's large scale fresco, Assumption of the Virgin...
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Old Masters Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Graphite
French 19th Century Romantic Period 1830s Paris Society Beauty Portrait
Located in Norwich, GB
A astounding portrait of a society beauty by Adele Grasset (active ca 1830-1850). With an open face and and lightly smiling lips, she is wearing a gown typical of the romantic period. Drawn in graphite and heightened with white, the drawing is dated 1836
As often with woman artists of the 18th and 19th century, there is little biographical information available on Adèle Grasset. We do know however, that she had studied with the highly prominent artist François Gérard (1770-1837) , known also as the Baron Gérard...
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Academic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
Mountain landscape with an aqueduct and dam - FRENCH SCHOOL
Located in Middletown, NY
Pencil on smooth cream wove paper with a window pane drawn in gold ink, 8 3/8 x 11 3/4 inches (213 x 298 mm). Signed illegibly and dated in ink and again in pencil within the lower m...
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French School Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
Watercolor Paper mid 19th Victor ADAM Zouaves French Infantry soldiers Military
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean-Victor ADAM known as Victor ADAM
Paris, 1801 – Viroflay, 1866
Watercolor on paper
14 x 18.5 cm (30.5 x 34.5 cm with frame)
Signed lower left “V. Adam”
Framed
Very beautiful wat...
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Academic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
James Ward The Fisherman's Family
By James Ward
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Precious Watercolor attributed to James WARD (1769-1859) - England, 1830-1840. The Fisherman' S Family. Measurements : View : 20"x14.6" (51x37 cm), With frame : 26.6"x21.5" (67.5x54....
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Louis Charles Auguste Couder (1789-1873) Portrait of a young man, signed pastel
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Charles Auguste Couder (1789-1873)
Portrait of a young man
signed on the right border
Pastel on paper
28.5 x 21 cm
In good condition
In a modern frame : 48 x 40.5 cm
Augu...
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Academic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Paul Gavarni (1804-1866) The Puppeteer, "Janvier", original signed drawing
By Paul Gavarni
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Gavarni (1804-1866)
The Puppeteer, Study for "Janvier"
Signed lower left
Pen and black ink, black ink wash on paper
28 x 20 cm
In good condition except some stains particularly ...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Auguste Legras (1817-1887) Portrait of a young man in profile, drawing signed
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste Legras (1817-1887)
Portrait of a young man in profile,
signed lower right
Charcoal, red and white chalks on paper
45 x 31.5 cm
Framed : 52 x 39 cm
This particularly evocati...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
The History of Amelia - Rare Book Illustrated by George Cruikshank - 1832
Located in Roma, IT
The History of Amelia is an original modern rare book engraved by George Cruikshank (London, 1792 – London, 1878) and written by Henry Fielding in 1832.
Published by James Cochrane ...
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Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Etching
Two Metamorphosed Women with a Mythological Creature
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is limited in edition artist signed lower right and is in very good condition. Walter Becker was a German artist. Another impress...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
$580 Sale Price
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Attrib. James Chisholm Gooden (fl.1835-1875) - Watercolour, An Estuary Landscape
Located in Corsham, GB
Estuary scene with boathouse and cottage in the foreground, watercolour on paper. Unsigned. Attributed to James Chisholm Gooden (fl.1835-1875). Presented in a wash-line mount and gil...
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Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"West Point from the East Bank of the Hudson" Antique Drawing on Paper Watkinson
Located in Soquel, CA
"West Point from the East Bank of the Hudson" Antique Drawing on Paper
Delicate and detailed drawing by Hartford, Connecticut artist Edward Watkins Wells (1819-1898) The viewer looks out past a gate at the Hudson River, with its characteristic mountain banks. A shepherd is driving a flock of sheep towards the gate and viewer. The scene appears to have been copied from a drawing book published in 1827, based on the inscription at the bottom edge.
Presented in white archival mat
Mat size: 12"H x 12"W
Paper size: 7.5"H x 9.25"W
Notes of interest on Edward Watkinson Wells
Our most significant acquisition this year came from a dealer in Philadelphia. It is a 450-page diary written over 10 years (1841-1851) by Hartford artist and dilettante Edward Watkinson Wells (1819-1898), one of the many nephews of our founder, David Watkinson (1778-1857).
Edward was immersed in Hartford’s cultural life in the 1840s, exhibited his works at local fairs and gave lessons to the locals. He portrays an active involvement with with his large extended family, which often crossed and re-crossed the other prominent families of Hartford (i.e., Barnard, Channing, Dexter, Ely, Gallaudet, Gill, Goodrich, Hudson, Rockwell, Silsbee, Tappan, Terry, Tracy, Trumbull, Van Renselaer, and Wadsworth).
Edward describes dancing and costume parties, soirees, teas, dinners, and receptions in private homes and public venues. He meets Charles Dickens and his wife when they come through Hartford in 1842, and describes brushes with other luminaries, such as Col. Thomas L. McKenney (who lectures on American Indians), and the Unitarian clergyman Rev. Henry Giles, who gave a pro-Irish speech.
Other entertainments included a balloon ascension, exhibitions of mesmerism and hypnotism, parades, and performances by well-known groups. He also chronicles the progression of the construction of the Wadsworth Atheneum, and touches on his father’s far-reaching interests in the business world–canals, railroads, factories, and real estate.
The cost of this valuable document of mid-19thC Hartford was generously underwritten entirely by a member of the Watkinson Trustees.
Trinity College and the Watkinson Virtual Library has content on Edward Watkinson Wells.
Yale College also:
Edward Watkinson Wells also kept a diary, of which three volumes are preserved (folder 32). He describes a trip by steamboat to Florida, ca. 1855-1860, and the social life and customs he observed there. The other two volumes detail his daily life in Hartford during 1856-1860, and record the deaths of his father and David Watkinson in 1857.
Other items contained in the William Wells...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Pencil
Circular Temple at Baalbek, Rare Original Signed Watercolour by David Roberts
Located in London, GB
Watercolour with touches of bodycolour on buff paper, signed lower middle and inscribed and dated '1839' lower left
Image size: 8 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (22 x 31 cm)
Acid free mount and period style gilt frame
This original watercolour by Roberts depicts the temple at Baalbek with the ruined palace behind, seen from the opposite bank of a brook, where a group of figures are seated and kneeling around a table, with an arched bridge nearby.
David Roberts was the first professional British artist to travel independently to the Middle East in 1838. He was the first British artist to draw the ruins of Ancient Egypt and Roberts produced a series of finished watercolours, including the painting, which he had worked up from sketches made during his tour.
Like many British artists he used the familiar visual language of European landscapes to capture the unfamiliar scenery. By using architectural motifs to provide structure to compositions like this he is able to present a dramatic scene of classical grandeur, illuminated by sunlight complemented by a large area of shade in the foreground.
The dramatic scene is enhanced by the three groups of figures, which convey the sense of scale. The figures also give the picture richer, darker and redder tones that contrast with the sandy colours of the architecture. This painting uses a lot of the essential ingredients that make up a picturesque scene: distant mountains, classical ruins and figures for human interest and to convey motion.
Robert's Trip to Baalbek
David Roberts visited Baalbek near the end of his travels around Egypt and the Middle East. Roberts and his party rode to the site of Baalbek on 2nd May in a heavy-rain storm. He was miserable, totally drenched and feverish. But the sight of the ancient Roman settlement rallied him. Despite his physical debilitation, 'I was... so much struck with the magnificence of the temple, that I could not resist visiting and examining it'. The storm then continued through the night, pummelling the traveller's tents. In the morning, Roberts felt extremely ill and sought the help of a Greek priest, who found him dry shelter in a cowshed. For the first time on his gruelling journey, Roberts devoted the whole day to bed rest.
On May 4th, regaining some strength, Roberts explored the site. With obscure origins connected with the god Baal, the city of Baalbek had grown to importance in Hellenistic times, when it was known as Heliopolis ('The City of the Sun'). In the first century B.C. the Romans had established a cult of the Heliopolitan Jupiter there, and both Josephus Flavius...
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Victorian Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Pastel & Pencil on Paper.The Chapel Saint Pierre, Villefranche, South of France.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th century pastel drawing view of the Chapel Saint Pierre at Villefranche, with the harbour beyond, by British artist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon...
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Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
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