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Portrait Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 18th Century
18th Century Sanguine Drawing, La Naissance de Louis XIII, After Rubens.
Located in Cotignac, FR
18th Century French Sanguine drawing, possibly a preparatory sketch for the painting by Nattier after the painting by Rubens. Presented in shaped 'marie-louise' mount in plain gold wood frame with collection label.
The subject is the Queen Marie de' Medici seated on a grand throne, the baby is in the arms of Health while Justice looks over him. Fecundity brings a cornucopia of fruit with the heads of the other children the Queen will bear. The Sun rides his chariot across the sky to indicate that Louis XIII was born in the morning and the calm figure of France surveys the whole scene.
An engraving exists (see the Wellcome Collection) of this same image: 'The birth of King Louis XIII', after the engraving by B. Audran the younger after the painting by Jean-Marc Nattier after the oil painting of Peter Paul Rubens in the Louvre 'La Naissance du Dauphin (future Louis XIII) à Fontainebleau, le 27 septembre 1601'.
Jean-Marc Nattier (17 March 1685 – 7 November 1766) was a French painter. He was born in Paris, the second son of Marc Nattier (1642–1705), a portrait painter, and of Marie Courtois (1655–1703), a miniaturist. He is noted for his portraits of the ladies of King Louis XV's court in classical mythological attire.
He received his first instruction from his father, and from his uncle, the history painter Jean Jouvenet (1644–1717). He enrolled in the Royal Academy in 1703 and applied himself to copying pictures in the Luxembourg Palace, making a series of drawings of the Marie de Médici painting...
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18th Century Baroque Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Chalk, Paper, Clay
Revenge - Original Drawing by Abel de Pujol - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Revenge is an original Drawing in pencil realized Abel de Pujol in mid-19th Century.
In good condition.
The artwork is depicted skillfully through confident and short strokes with...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Swimmers on the Beach- Original Drawing by Alfred Grévin - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Swimmers on the Beach is an original drawing in pencil realized by Alfred Grévin in the Late-19 Century.
Hand signed in pencil on the lower right margin. All around an inscrip...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Baby - Drawing by Luigi Galli - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Baby is an original drawing in pencil, realized by Luigi Galli in the late 19th Century.
The status of preservation Good.
The artwork is depicted skillfully through confident a...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Gentleman and the Woman with the Sunshade - by Alfred Grévin-Late 19 Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Gentleman and the Woman with the Sunshade is an original drawing in pencil realized by Alfred Grévin in the Late-19 Century.
Monogramme on plate on the lower right margin. All a...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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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1890s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
You Girl - Original Drawing by Alfred Grévin - Late 19 Century
Located in Roma, IT
You Girl is an original drawing in Mixed media realized by Alfred Grévin in the Late-19 Century
In good conditions.
Alfred Grévin (1827- 1892),
was a 19th-century caricaturist, be...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
The Girl - Pencil on Paper by Michel Dumas - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
The Girl is an interesting preparatory sketch in pencil realized by the French artist Michel Dumas in the mid-19th century.
The state of preservation is good, except for some stains and foldings.
stamped by the name of Artist...
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1850s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
English Graphite Portrait Sketch of Female Nude, Standing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Graphite Sketch of a Female Nude, Standing
by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905)
on off-white artists paper, unframed
measurements: sheet 14.5 x 11 inches
provenance: fr...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Family Portrait - Original Pencil Drawing - 1853
Located in Roma, IT
Family Portrait is an original pencil drawing realized by an artist of 19th century in 1853.
Good condition, mounted on a white cardboard passpartout (34x49 cm).
Illegible signature.
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Mid-19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Profile of a Lady - Original Drawing - late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Profile of a Lady is an original drawing realized by Unknown Artist in the late 19th Century.
Beautiful pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper. Included passport (49 x 34 cm).
The a...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Cloak and Dagger (Ellsworth Woodward Antique Figurative 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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1890s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Late 19th Century Watercolour - Young Boy
Located in Corsham, GB
A turn-of-the-century portrait of a young boy. Presented in a beige mount and a gilt-effect wooden frame with ornate floral and foliate moulding at the edges. Unsigned. On wove.
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19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Study of a girl sitting and reading a book
By William Hoare
Located in Bath, Somerset
A study in red chalk of a girl sitting and reading a book. Red chalk on paper under glass in a giltwood and gesso frame. This small drawing has a sense of intimacy in the capturing of a moment where the sitter is seemingly unaware of being observed, unlike the feeling of formailty and self-awareness in a staged portrait sitting
Provenance:
Private collection, Somerset
With J. Davey & Sons Ltd, Liverpool
William Hoare...
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Late 18th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Glass
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934), Henri Rochefort for a duel, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934)
Portrait of Henri Rochefort ready for a duel,
Pencil on paper
Signed and titled lower left
28 x 21 cm
In good condition : the left and right bord...
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1870s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Gentleman with Mustache (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance") - Antique
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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1890s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Woman - Original Ink Drawing on Paper by H. Somm - Late 19th Century
By Henry Somm
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original artwork realized between the XIX century and the XX century by Henry Somm.
Original black and white pencil drawings on paper.
The artwork represents a portrait...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait of Lady, 18th Century English Pen and Ink
By Ozias Humphry
Located in London, GB
Ozias Humphry
1742-1810
Portrait of Frances Abington
Pen and brown ink
Image size: 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches
Giltwood frame
The actress Frances (Fanny) Barton, better known as Mrs. Abing...
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18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Ink
Wistful Thoughts
By Charles Edward Wilson
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Watercolour on paper
Paper size: 21 x 13.5 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French Art, Rococo, Portrait Queen Marie Antoinette France, Oval, Circle Vivien
Located in Greven, DE
French School, Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, Pastel /oil Pastel on Paper, Rococo, 18th Century. The Pastel is made in the style...
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18th Century Rococo Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil
Portraits - Pencil - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portraits is an original drawing in Pencil on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the late 19th Century.
Good conditions but aged.
The artwork represents two portraits on both...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Ink Drawing of a Man Courting A Woman Signed by B. Koller dated 1796
Located in Hallowell, ME
Ink Drawing of a Man Courting A Woman Signed by B. Koller dated 1796.
This 18th Century Ink Drawing of a Man Courting A Woman is Signed by the Swiss artist B. Koller and dated 1796.
This is an oval shaped drawing of a couple in a landscape.
This antique ink drawing...
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1790s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Mon dieu, gardez-moi mon enfant - Watercolor by Paul Delhommeau - 1868
Located in Roma, IT
Mon dieu, gardez-moi mon enfant is an original artwork realized by Paul Delhommeau, in 1868.
Watercolor drawing on brown cardboard glued on on a white paper ...
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1860s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait drawing of Harriot Mellon, Mrs Thomas Coutts
By Henry Fuseli
Located in London, GB
Inscribed by the artist in pen and brown ink, upper margin: 'σοφὴν δὲ μισῶ: μὴ γὰρ ἔν γ' ἐμοῖς δόμοις / εἴη φρονοῦσα πλείον' ἢ γυναῖκα χρή [Euripides, Hippolytus, 11, 640-41: “But a ...
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19th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of a Man - Drawing by Antoine Alphonse Montfort - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a man is an original drawing, ink pencil and white lead on ivory paper realized by Antoine Alphonse MONTFORT (1802-1884).
Original signed drawing by the artist.
The sta...
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19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Portrait of Woman - Original Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Woman is an original drawing in Pencil on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 19th Century.
Good Conditions.
The artwork is depicted through free strokes in a ...
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19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Sketch - Drawing by Luigi Galli - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Sketch is an original drawing realized by Luigi Galli in the Late 19th Century
stamped," Coll. Amadeo"
Fair conditions.
The artwork is depicted thro...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
French School 19th Century, Portrait of a dandy, watercolor on paper
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century,
Portrait of a dandy,
watercolor on paper
19 x 13 cm
Signed (?) with pencil lower right "L ... " illegible
Framed : 29 x 23 cm
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1880s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
19th C. Watercolor "Woman Reading Book"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Circa 19th Century
Watercolor portrait of a woman reading a book
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Gallant Scene - Pencil Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Gallant Scene" is an original pencil drawing on paper, glued on ivory-colorated cardboard by Anonymous Artist of XIX Century.
In excellent conditions.
Sheet dimension: 12.5 x 11 ...
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19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of a woman - crayon on paper attributed to Fernand Khnopff
Located in Nice, FR
Drawing on paper portraying a woman in a classical attire. This drawing is attributed to Fernand Khnopff, one of the most important symbolist belgian painters
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Early 19th Century Other Art Style Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Charcoal
Portrait of a Woman - Original Drawing - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a Woman is an original drawing realized by Unknown Artist in the late 19th Century.
Beautiful pencil drawing on ivory-colored cardboard. Includes passpartout (49 x 34 cm...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of Young Woman - Ink, Pencil and Pastel Drawing by French Artist 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Young Woman is a splendid pastel drawing realized by an anonymous artist who signed in an unreadable way on the lower left. The state of preservation is very good, except for a tiny lighter area in the upper part of the drawing.
The young woman is portrayed on top of a hill, with lush vegetation behind her and a gate with a big house in the background. She is wearing an elegant black mantle...
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19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Ink, Pastel
Portrait of a Lady in a White Dress - 18th Century Watercolour
By John Downman
Located in London, GB
John Downman
1750-1824
Portrait of a Lady in a White Dress
Pencil, stump and watercolour, heightened with white chalk, signed and dated 1784
Imag...
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18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pair of Neo Classic Drawings
Located in New York, NY
Each drawing showing traditional Roman robes. Executed in pencil and highlighted in white chalk.
Stamped on reverse.
Paper size: 13"h x 10"w
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pencil
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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1890s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Attributed to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) La famille heureuse, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Attribuetd to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
La Famille heureuse (The Happy Family)
Watercolor on paper
23 x 18 cm
In quite good condition : a small tear i...
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1840s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woman - Drawing on Paper - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original drawing, realized by Anonymous artists of the XVIII century.
The state of preservation of the artwork is good, but with extensive foxing.
The artwork represent...
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18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of Teacher - Original Pencil Drawing by A.C.C. Rodet - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Teacher is an interesting pencil drawing on paper divided into millimeters realized by Anne Charlotte Claudine Rodet.
The drawing, presenting the initials “A.R.” on the ...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Theatrical Costume - Pencil Drawing by Alfredo Edel - 1895
By Alfredo Edel
Located in Roma, IT
Theatrical Costume is an original pencil, pastel and watercolor drawing realized by Alfredo Edel in 1895.
Good condition, the artwork is with watercolor and biacca.
Hand signed with pencil by the artis.
Alfredo Leonardo Edel (1856–1912), sometimes credited as Alfredo Edel Colorno, was an Italian costume designer popular during the late 19th and early 20th century. He worked at the La Scala opera...
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1890s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor, Pencil
English Graphite Portrait Sketch of Female Nude, Leaning
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Graphite Sketch of a Female Nude, Leaning
by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905)
on off white artists paper, unframed
measurements: sheet 18.25 x 11.5 inches
provenance: ...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Portrait of Man - Original Pencil Drawing - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Man is an original pencil drawing attributed to Ernest Rouart and realized in the late 9th Century.
The artwork is in very good conditions and mounted on a white cardboa...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
18th century portrait drawing of the Rev. William Atkinson
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1882-1950);
Private collection, UK to 2019
Framed dimensions: 14.50 x 15.38 inches
This drawing is one of only two known portrait drawings by Romney (as opposed to preliminary studies for portraits) and is dated by Alex Kidson as being executed no later than 1769. It is likely that the present drawing was originally part of a sketchbook, now largely dismembered (Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal), which Kidson notes, contained some of Romney’s most beautiful early drawings. This drawing, and a second sheet formerly with Andrew Wyld, have been identifying as depicting the Rev. William Atkinson...
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of a Man - Original Drawing by Jules-Elie Delaunay - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a man is an original drawing in pencil on gray paper, realized by Jules-Elie Delaunay (1828-1891).
Illegible annotation.
The state of preservation of the artwork is goo...
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19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Theatrical Costume - Pencil by Alfredo Edel - 1895
By Alfredo Edel
Located in Roma, IT
Theatrical Costume is an original pencil drawing realized by Alfredo Edel in 1895.
Good condition, the artwork is with watercolor and biacca.
Hand signed with pencil by the artis.
Alfredo Leonardo Edel (1856–1912), sometimes credited as Alfredo Edel Colorno, was an Italian costume designer popular during the late 19th and early 20th century. He worked at the La Scala opera...
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1890s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
18th century portrait of the Royal Academy model George White
By John Russell
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Russell sale, Christie’s, 14 February, 1807: ‘John Russell, Esq., R.A. deceased, crayon painter to His Majesty, the Prince of Wales, and Duke of York; and brought from his late Dwelling in Newman Street’, lot 92, ‘St Peter’, bt. Thompson (£1.13s);
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 25th September 1980, lot 113;
Private collection, UK, 2016.
Literature:
Martin Postle, 'Patriarchs, prophets and paviours: Reynolds's images of old age', The Burlington Magazine, vol. cxxx, no. 1027, October 1988, pp. 739-40, fig. 9;
Martin Postle, Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Subject Pictures, Cambridge, 1995, p.136, repr.;
Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online edition, J.64.2928.
Signed and dated: J Russell/ fecit 1772 (lower right)
Framed dimensions: 25 x 31 inches
John Russell was admitted to the Royal Academy in March 1770, at the same time as Daniel Gardner. The nascent Academy Schools were still establishing their teaching structures, but central to the syllabus were the twin components of drawing after the antique and from life models. By 1772 Russell had already been awarded a silver medal and progressed to the life academy, where he produced this remarkable pastel study of George White. White was the most famous model employed by the Royal Academy and prominent artists in the second half of the eighteenth century. A paviour – or street mender –by profession White had been discovered by Joshua Reynolds, who in turn introduced him to the Academy. Russell’s striking head study demonstrates his abilities as a portraitist and pastellist, at the same time showing his interest in the Academy’s preoccupation with promoting history painting.
George White was one of the most celebrated models in eighteenth-century London. According to the painter Joseph Moser:
'Old George…owed the ease in which he passed his latter days, in a great measure to Sir Joshua Reynolds, who found him exerting himself in the laborious employment of thumping down stones in the street; and observing not only the grand and majestic traits of his countenance, but the dignity of his muscular figure, took him out of a situation to which his strength was by no means equal, clothed, fed, and had him, first as a model in his own painting room, then introduced him as a subject for the students of the Royal Academy.'
As Martin Postle has pointed out, whilst characterful studies of old men posed as biblical figures, prophets or saints by Continental old masters were readily available on the art market – Reynolds himself had copied a head of Joab by Federico Bencovich in the collection of his friend and patron, Lord Palmerston - finding a model in Britain from whom to execute a painting was more difficult.
White therefore offered a rare opportunity for artists to combine portraiture and history painting, by painting a model in the guise of an historical or literary character. In 1771 Reynolds showed at the Royal Academy a picture of White entitled Resignation. It was engraved in 1772 and accompanied by a stanza from Oliver Goldsmith’s Deserted Village, implying a literary context to what is essentially a portrait. In his annotated Royal Academy catalogue, Horace Walpole noted: ‘This was an old beggar, who had so fine a head that Sir Joshua chose him for the father in his picture from Dante, and painted him several times, as did others in imitation of Reynolds. There were even cameos and busts of him.’ White sat to, amongst others Johan Zoffany, John Sanders, Nathaniel Hone and the sculptor John Bacon...
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Theatrical Costume - Watercolor by Alfredo Edel - 1895
By Alfredo Edel
Located in Roma, IT
Theatrical Costume is an original pencil, pastel and watercolor realized by Alfredo Edel in 1895.
Good condition, the artwork is from Amleto and represents Ofelia, with a note writes from the artist on the lower margin.
Hand signed with pencil by the artist.
Alfredo Leonardo Edel (1856–1912), sometimes credited as Alfredo Edel Colorno, was an Italian costume designer popular during the late 19th and early 20th century. He worked at the La Scala opera...
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1890s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pastel, Pencil
Portrait of a Young Man Original Charcoal and Pastel French 18th Century
Located in London, GB
French School
18th Century
Portrait of a Young Man
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Image size: 11 x 7 inches
Contemporary gilt frame
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Late 19th Century Pastel - Gentleman
Located in Corsham, GB
An oval portrait of a late-Victorian or Edwardian man with a slight scowl. Presented glazed in a cream mount and an ornate gold-painted wooden frame with substantial floral and folia...
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19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) Studies of characters, drawing and watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860)
Studies of characters
Black pencil and watercolor on paper
18.5 x 25.5 cm
Stamp of the Raffet Estate Sale (1911) on the lower right
In good condition, foxings on the original mount
Framed 34 x 40 cm
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (2 March 1804 – 16 February 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire.
At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes. At the age of 18 he entered the workshop of Cabanel, where he applied his skill to the decoration of china, and where he met Rudor, from whom he received instruction in lithography, in the practice of which he was to rise to fame. He then entered the École des Beaux-Arts, but returned to lithography in 1830 when he produced on stone his famous designs of Lützen, Waterloo, Le bal, La revue, and Les adieux de la garrison, by which his reputation became immediately established.[
Raffet's chief works were his lithographs of the Napoleonic campaigns, from Egypt to Waterloo, vigorous designs inspired by ardent patriotic enthusiasm. In this endeavor he was a contemporary of other French artist-lithographers of Napoleon and the French army including Hippolyte Bellangé, Horace Vernet, and Nicolas Toussaint Charlet. As an illustrator his activity was prodigious, the list of works illustrated by his crayon amounting to about forty-five, among which are Béranger's poems, the History of the Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, the History of Napoleon by de Norvins, the great Walter Scott by Auguste Defauconpret, the French Plutarch and Frédéric Bérat's Songs.
He went to Rome in 1849, and was present at the siege of Rome, which he made the subject of some lithographs, and followed the Italian campaign of 1859, of which he left a record in his Episodes de la campagne d'Italie de 1859. His portraits in pencil...
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1850s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
19th c. Watercolor "Portrait of a Child in a White Dress" After Mary Cassatt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original Watercolor "Portrait of a Child in a White Dress" After Mary Cassatt C.1890
Gorgeous original painting by mystery artist. The painting is fain...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Man Pants with Side Line - Original Pencil by E. O. Wauquier - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Man pants with side line is an original drawing in pencil point grisen on paper, realized by E.O. Wauquier (1808-1869).
Good conditions except for minor cos...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Man with a Basket - Original Drawing by Ferdinand Lemud - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Man with a basket is an original drawing in black point on paper, realized by Ferdinand Lemud.
Good conditions except for minor cosmetic wear. Image Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 cm
This bea...
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19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
The General….Baron de Brielhe - Pencil by E. O. Wauquier - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The general ... Baron De Brielhe is an original drawing in pencil with gray point, unsigned, on paper, realized by E. O. Wauquier (1808-1869).
Good conditions except for minor cosme...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
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...
Category
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Pencil
Un Gros Bonnet de Fuilly. Les Oioes - China Ink Drawing by A.C. Rodet - Mid 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Un gros bonnet de Fuilly – les – oioes is an amusing drawing in ink and tempera on paper realized by Anne Charlotte Claudine Rodet. The drawing, signed in pen on the lower left “A. Rodet”, is in very good conditions. On the upper part, there is the inscription in pen “Un gros bonnet de Fuilly – les – oioes”. The paper is applied on a light straw-colored cardboard of the same measures. This cardboard presents traces of glue on the back.
Anne Charlotte Claudine Rodet was a painter active in Lyons in the 19th century, famous for her paintings on glass and for inventing a new method relating to this technique.
The drawing represents an old man portrayed frontally with detailed features, with his hands in the pockets and wearing a jacket and a cap, following the French male fashion...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Thieves - Original Pencil, Watercolor and White Lead - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Thieves is an original drawing in watercolor, white lead and pencil artwork on greenish cardboard realized by an Anonymous artist of the XIX century.
The State of preservation is g...
Category
19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Pencil
Woman Bust - Pencil on Paper by A. Mérodack-Jeanneau
Located in Roma, IT
Woman Bust is a beautiful pencil drawing on ivory paper realized by Alexis Mérodack-Jeanneau in the early 20th century.
Stamp of the artist's atelier on the lower right corner of th...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
