Delia Robins

Delia Robins (fl.1856-1858) - 1854 Watercolour, Supper Time

1854

This delightful scene depicts a woman perched on a rock looking intently at her knitting. In the background waves crash against the sandy shoreline. The artist pays particular attent...

A fine oval watercolour with body colour highlights depicting a young woman in a rural landscape. Her face, hands, and feet are particularly finely painted with minute brush strokes....

Country Woman is an original watercolor artwork realized in the XIX century by Agostino Aglio Good conditions except for tears along the margin and a little hole on higher right side. This precious modern artwork represents a woman, probably a peasant woman leaning against a little wall. Agostino Aglio (Cremona, 15 December 1777 - London, 30 January 1857) was an Italian painter, draftsman, engraver and lithographer. Son of Gaetano and Anna Maria Mondoni, he was sent to Milan in 1789 to study with Giocondo Albertolli., And then in Rome with the landscape artist Campovecchio. In 1798 he volunteered in the legion of the Cisalpine Republic and from 1799 to 1802 he traveled to Greece and Egypt with the architect William Wilkins, who invited him to England, where he settled in 1803; two years later he married Letitia Clarke. He decorated churches, theaters and villas, executed two portraits of Queen Victoria...

A well executed framed miniature watercolor titled 'Italian Peasant' by Marion Edith Hewkley (Mrs Sutherland Gill of Worthing0 dated 1923. The watercol...