Ernest Proctor

Study of a Woman, Graphite Sketch, 20th Century British Artist, Signed

Graphite on paper, signed lower right Image size: 9 x 12 1/2 inches (23 x 32 cm) Mounted and framed Little is known about the artist Winifred Anne Rymer apart from that her career f...

James Stroudley 1906 -1985 Florentine Lady Graphite on paper, signed and inscriber '1932 Florence' Image size: 24 x 19 inches James Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year. From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker...

Portrait of a Woman is an original pencil drawing realized by Serge Fontinsky (1887-1971) in the half of the 20th Century. Good conditions, minor cosmetic wear. Hand-signed on the...

Portrait of Woman is a drawing in pencil on paper by an Anonymous Artist of the XX century. Sheet dimension: 32 x 24.5 cm The state of preservation is good and aged Hand-signed o...