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Period: 18th Century
French School, 18th Century, Portrait Of A Man Seen From Three Quarters, chalk
Located in PARIS, FR
French School - 18th century
Paris, Louis XV-Transition period
Portrait of a man seen from three quarters
Mid-18th century
Sanguine
40 x 29 cm
59 x 50 cm framed
Superb Transition pe...
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French School 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper
Ritratto a matita del pittore Francesco Albani, inizi del XIX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno rappresenta, come riportato a penna in basso al centro del foglio, il ritratto del celebre pittore dell'Emilia Romagna Francesco Albani, uno dei massimi rappresentanti del...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pencil
Bust Of A Woman In Profile, Sanguine On Paper, Signed And Dated
Located in PARIS, FR
Nicolas-André COURTOIS
Paris 1734-1806
Bust of a woman in profile
1791
Sanguine
Signed and dated lower left on the original mount
43.5 x 37 cm framed
19 x 25 cm
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French School 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
French school Drawing 18th Portrait Ténor SAINT AUBIN three chalks Paris Opéra
Located in PARIS, FR
French school of the 18th century
Three pencils (pencil, red chalk, white chalk) on paper
27 x 18 cm (45 x 34 cm with frame)
Inscription at bottom “Saint-Aubin de l’Académie de musique”
Dated "1785"
Augustin d'Herbez known as "Saint-Aubin" was a tenor and member of the Royal Academy of Music...
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Academic 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Paper, Chalk
Portrait of woman
Located in PARIS, FR
French School of the 18th century
Woman portrait
Pastel on paper mounted on canvas
Pastel: 46.5 x 63 cm (18.3 x 24.8 inches)
Frame: 57 x 71 cm (22.4 x 28 inches)
Very good condition
...
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Academic 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Study of a Child. Circle of François Boucher (French 1703 - 1770)
By François Boucher
Located in Sydney, NSW
Circle of François Boucher (French 1703 - 1770), Study of a Child.
This charming work is probably a study for a painting, it shows a child with a swathe of billowing fabric over her ...
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Rococo 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir in his harem in flagrante delicto
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cre...
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Rajput 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 18th Century Emperor Jahangir with Empress Nur Jahan
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir and Empress Nur Jahan exchanging lotus blossoms; a symbol of beauty, purity, honesty, rebirth, self-regeneration, and enlightenment....
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Rajput 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir dancing with his harem attendees
Located in Middletown, NY
A joyful scene of lighthearted merriment in the palace of Jangahir Mahal Agra
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on light weight cream laid paper, 8 1/4 x 6 inches (2...
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Rajput 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Rajput School, 17th century Krishna with his beloved, Radha; from Mahabharata
Located in Middletown, NY
Vishnu in the form of Krishna being serenaded with his beloved Radha. An illuminated page from the epic of Mahabharata
circa 1690. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cream lai...
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Rajput 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Portrait of Mrs Sarah Kembel Siddons
Located in London, GB
Charcoal and sanguine on paper, signed and dated '1793' lower right
Image size: 21 x 14 1/2 inches (53.25 x 37 cm)
Framed
Provenance
Collection of Mr and Mrs John Whitehead (England), collection of the Duchess of Rutland (Wales), collection of Mr Michael W. Murphy (El Dorado).
Exhibitions
No.97, 'National Portraits', The South Kensington Museum (V&A), 1868 (label on reverse).
Sarah Siddons was a welsh actress and the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century. Siddons's first major success came in 1782 with her portrayal of Isabella in the Fatal Marriage, written by David Garrick the leading actor-manager of the period. Siddons continued to dominate the London stage until her farewell in 1812.
Part of a powerful theatrical dynasty, her brothers were the actors Philip and Charles Kemble, her husband was the actor William Siddons and her son, Henry Siddons was also an actor. She was hailed as the chief interpreter of Shakespeare. Her masterpiece was Lady Macbeth as she excelled in roles that allowed her to combine passionate intelligence with pathos. The critic William Hazlitt proclaimed her 'tragedy personified'.
William Hamilton
William Hamilton RA (1751–1801) was an English painter and illustrator. Hamilton was born in Chelsea, London, but travelled and worked in Italy with Antonio Zucchi...
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Victorian 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Charcoal
Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jahangir taking tea in his harem
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
circa 1750. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on li...
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Rajput 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jangahir on a pleasure boat with his harem a
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir depicted with his harem attendees aboard a pleasure cruise, the water filled with lotus blossoms; symbols of paradise itself.
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold ...
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Rajput 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Gold
Disegno matite su carta ritratto di fanciullo con cappellino del XVIII secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno a matita grigia e rossa raffigura un intenso ritratto frontale di un fanciullo con cappello, con le braccia incrociate davanti.
Sul retro, in grafia corsiva, è probabilme...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Mughal School, 18th cent – Emperor Jahangir & Empress Nur Jahan on a Tiger Hunt
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful composition depicting Empress Nur Jahan on a tiger hunt, an act of feminism.
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on brown laid paper, 12 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (317 x 210 mm), with a floral-motif border painted in blue and oxblood, the full sheet. With extensive inscriptions in Persian written in black ink on the verso. In good condition with overall toning and minor creasing, all consistent with age. The color is rich and and fresh with bright yellow illumination. In the distance we see the Jahangir Mahal Agra, as well as a sage meditating in his hut. A beautiful composition.
Nur Jahan was fond of hunting and often went on hunting tours with her husband and was known for her boldness in hunting ferocious tigers. She is reported to have slain four tigers with six bullets during one hunt. According to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan this feat, inspired a poet to declaim a spontaneous couplet in her honor: "Though Nur Jahan be in form a woman, In the ranks of men she...
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Rajput 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jahangir with Empress Nur Jahan on a Tiger
Located in Middletown, NY
circa 1750. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on brown laid paper, 12 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (317 x 210 mm), with a floral-motif border painted in blue and gold, the full sheet. With extensive inscriptions in Persian written in black ink on the verso. In good condition with extraordinary color. We see Empress Nur Jahan making an offering to a sage in his hut, as Emperor Jahangir looks on from a tree stand.
Nur Jahan was fond of hunting and often went on hunting tours with her husband and was known for her boldness in hunting ferocious tigers. She is reported to have slain four tigers with six bullets during one hunt. According to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan this feat, inspired a poet to declaim a spontaneous couplet in her honor: "Though Nur Jahan be in form a woman, In the ranks of men she...
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Rajput 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 18th century – Tiger Hunt
Located in Middletown, NY
An unusual horizontal composition with extensive marginalia.
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on light weight cream laid paper, 5 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (140 x 298 mm...
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Rajput 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 17th century – Emperor Jahangir reclining in his harem
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
Circa 1690. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on light...
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Rajput 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
English school, circa 1784 'Mr and Mrs Rogers', pastel on paper, a pair
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A wonderful naive pair of 18th Century portraits of Mr and Mrs Rogers, (A pair).
The details are:
English school, circa 1784
Mr and Mrs Rogers
Pastel on paper
Inscribed with sitter...
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English School 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Attrib. Lady Diana Beauclerk (1734-1808) - Watercolour, Shepherdess with Baby
Located in Corsham, GB
A heartwarming sepia study of a shepherdess comforting her young baby. Well-presented in a contemporary gilt-effect frame. Unsigned. On paper.
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18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Attrib. William Hamilton RA (1751-1801) Watercolour, The Little Fortune Teller
By William Hamilton
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour study depicting a young woman wearing a dress and smock. She points to her left hands showing her palm to the viewer. The artist captures her with a delicate...
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18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Framed 18th Century Watercolour - The Blind Man
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine 18th century portrait in watercolours, depicting a blind man seated in an expansive country landscape. The artist delicate brushwork and monochrome pa...
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18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Costume drawings for ‘Ambassadeur de Siam’ and ‘La Sultana Reine’
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809)
‘Ambassadeur de Siam’ and ‘La Sultana Reine’
Both titled lower centre, the drawing of the ambassador inscribed with colours intended for the prints, e...
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Old Masters 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait of a Lady, Drawing Signed and Dated by Augustin de Saint-Aubin
Located in PARIS, FR
This drawing full of freshness presents us with the profile of an elegant lady, drawn by Augustin de Saint-Aubin on a beautiful summer day in 1776, during the early months of Louis X...
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Old Masters 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
The Introduction, French School, 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
In this charming scene a maid appears bashful as she is introduced by her mother to the shepherd’s son.
Ink and wash on hand made, cool-toned cream laid paper, 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches...
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French School 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Study of a Sleeping Girl in a Cap
By Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite on greenish gray wove paper. 15 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches (390 x 295 mm). Initialed "G. B." in pencil on the lower right recto. In generally good condition with some minor scattered surface soiling. Condition is consistent with age.
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This drawing is closely related to two known mid 18th century oils...
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Old Masters 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Handmade Paper, Graphite
French School 18th Century, L'étonnement, form of expression, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century,
L'étonnement, Astonishment as a form of expression,
Titled on the lower right "L'étonnement N°9"
Black chalk on paper
43 x 29 cm
In good condition, a sta...
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Old Masters 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Portrait of a Man Wearing a Turban, 18th Century Pastel Drawing
By Thomas Frye
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Image size: 13 x 17 1/2 inches (33 x 44.5 cm)
Mounted and framed
This original pastel drawing by Thomas Frye is a half-length portrait of a man dressed in a turban. This drawing is the original sketch for one of the heads depicted in Frye's collection 'Twelve Mezzotint Prints' of 1760 and it can be assumed that this pastel work was created earlier of this same year.
Two versions of the print, created from this original work, are currently held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Frye's evocative figures, although presumably based on living models, exceed the conventions of portraiture, and also function as character studies. The man shown here - dressed in the fashionable 'Turkish' manner - turns with parted lips as if poised to speak, while raising the elegant fingers in one hand in a rhetorical gesture. His long eyelashes and smoothly rendered wrinkles and dimples are hallmarks of Frye's refined style.
The Artist
Thomas Frye (c. 1710 – 3 April 1762) was an Anglo-Irish artist, best known for his portraits in oil and pastel, including some miniatures and his early mezzotint engravings. He was also the patentee of the Bow porcelain factory, London, and claimed in his epitaph to be "the inventor and first manufacturer of porcelain in England," though his rivals at the Chelsea porcelain factory seem to have preceded him in bringing wares to market. The Bow porcelain works did not long survive Frye's death; their final auctions took place in May 1764.
Frye was born at Edenderry, County Offaly, Ireland, in 1710; in his youth he went to London to practice as an artist. His earliest works are a pair of pastel portraits of boys...
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English School 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Oil Pastel
Antique French Miniature Portrait of Lady Biographical details with painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Miniature Portrait
French School, late 18th/ early 19th century
framed: 5.5 x 5.5 inches
board: 2 x 2 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound c...
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Old Masters 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Frederick I of Prussia
By Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder
Located in PARIS, FR
Georg Philipp I RUGENDAS (1666-1742)
Frederick I of Prussia
Red chalk, ink and brown wash on paper
45x42 cm
This drawing has been long considered representative of Charles VI. In r...
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18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
French Pastel Portrait of a Chevalier of the Order of St Louis.
By (Circle of) Jean Baptiste Greuze
Located in Cotignac, FR
A fine 18th century French pastel portrait on paper of an aristocrat wearing the order of St Louis, inferring that the sitter had been in the military serving the King. The pastel is unsigned but to the the back is a piece of the original backing paper with a notation to the Baronne de Minck. The paper has been backed with a type of vellum, It is presented in a plain gilt wood frame on a period stretcher under 18th century glass.
The artist has used the pastel to create a wonderful soft velvety texture so characteristic of this medium which became so popular for portraits in the 18th century.
A charming rendition of a typical 18th century nobleman...
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Romantic 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pastel
French School 18th Century, Le Mépris et la Haine, form of expression, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century,
Le Mépris et la Haine, Contempt and Hate as a form of expression,
Titled on the lower right "Le mépris et la haine N°7"
Black c...
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Old Masters 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Chalk
A pair of oval drawings for Ovid, Metamophoses
By Charles Joseph Natoire
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A pair of oval drawings for Ovid, Metamophoses
Left: The Triumph of Amphitrite (Book I)
Right: Diana and Actaeon (Book III)
From: Ovid, Metamophoses
These mythological studies are a...
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Baroque 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
French School 18th Century, Le Rire, Laughter as a form of expression, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century,
Le Rire, Laughter as a form of expression,
Titled on the lower right "Le rire N°12"
Black chalk on paper
43 x 29 cm
In quite good condition, stains vsibl...
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Old Masters 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Chalk
Portrait - Drawing - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an Ink, pastel and Watercolor realized by an artist of 18th Century.
Good condition on a grey paper, included a brown cardboard passpartout.
No signature.
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Modern 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pastel, Watercolor
Italian School 18th century, An Ancient soldier in profile, red chalk on paper
Located in Paris, FR
Italian School 18th Century
An Ancient soldier in profile,
red chalk on paper
35 x 23.5 cm
in good condition, traces of folds in the lower right corner
Framed : 46.5 x 35.5 cm
This...
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Baroque 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Chalk
Attributed J S Copley Two Nobles Portrait Paintings 18 century pastel parchment
Located in Florence, IT
On the cardboard applied on the frame there is an annotation, belonging to some of the old owners, reporting the names of the portrayed in Kurrent handwriting: "Urgroßvater Ludwig Fr(ei)h(e)r(r) von Keller" "Urgroßmutter Fr(ei)h(e)r(rin) von Keller geb(oren) von Niebecker". So we can deduce that the models were Ludwig Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Baron of Keller (1760-1835), a German politician who was the director of the district of Prussia, and his wife Auguste Johanne Henriette Baroness of Niebecker (1760-1832).
Their high class provenience is highlighted by the not contained expressive liveliness, by the proud pose imitating movement and by the elegance of the clothes which fabric seems palpable (especially sincere is the evanescent depiction of the pleated veil of the gorget and the adorned with arabesques decoration of the sleeves and the vest).
The two pieces can be attributed to John Singleton Copley...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Parchment Paper, Pastel, Cardboard
Portrait Miniature c1765 Letitia Preston Vallancey
Located in Holywell, GB
A fine sanguine chalk drawing on paper of Letitia aged about ten dating to around 1765. Unsigned, inscribed verso and presented in a 19th century mount and frame.
“When Letitia Pres...
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Old Masters 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Woman in Fantasy Costume (pair)
By Jean Baptist Le Prince
Located in New York, NY
The pair consists of the present work and an engraving after it by the hand of Giles DeMarteau (Liège 1722 – 1776 Paris) titled Woman in Fantasy Costume, after Jean Baptiste Le Prince, and measuring, 10 ⅜ x 8 ⅝ inches (26.5 x 22 cm).
DeMarteau's engraving is inscribed at the bottom:
Le Prince inv. del. / Demarteau sc. / A Paris ches Demarteau Graveur du Roi, rue de la Pelterie à la Cloche...
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18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Engraving
Costume of an envoy of Venice, a drawing by Francesco Galimberti (1755 - 1803)
Located in PARIS, FR
We thank Mrs. Bożena Anna Kowalczyk who suggested the attribution to Francesco Galimberti based on a photograph of the artwork.
This engaging drawing, finely executed in black and red chalks, depicts a Venetian diplomat in his 'new clothes...
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Old Masters 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
After John Downman - 1794 Watercolour, Sarah Siddons (née. Kemble)
By John Downman
Located in Corsham, GB
This accomplished watercolours is a fine copy of John Downman's portrait of Sarah Siddons. Painted in the early 19th century, watercolours was a contempo...
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18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Figure of Man - Original Pencil Drawing by Augustin de Saint-Aubin- 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of Man is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Augustin de Saint-Aubin (1736-1807).
Good condition included a green and white cardboard passpartout (65x48 cm).
No signatur...
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Modern 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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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Rococo 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil
Mercurio / Mercury
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely, early drawing of the Roman god Mercury.
Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, with a partial crown and shield watermark, 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches (184x 123 mm) (matrix). In go...
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Old Masters 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Portraits of the Hon. Mary Shuttleworth and Anna Maria, 9th Baroness Forrester
Located in London, GB
THE HON. MARY SHUTTLEWORTH, NÉE COCKBURN (D. 1777)
and her sister
ANNA MARIA, 9TH BARONESS FORRESTER (D. 1808)
Pastel and gouache on paper laid on canvas, on their original backb...
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Old Masters 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Portrait of a Young Officer, Thomas Lawrence
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in London, GB
Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA
1769-1830
Portrait of a Gentleman
Pastel on paper
Mounted and gilt frame
Provenance
Old label verso describes how this was drawn in 1783 at the age of 14!
This rare early portrait drawn in Bath shows the level of technical skill that Lawrence had reached at 14 years old. His use of colour and tone to depict flesh and all the subtle variations in the texture and pigmentation of his sitter’s face, powdered hair and clothes show how Lawrence conceived pastel as a form of painting and partly explains how he could have made the smooth transition to oil painting so soon afterwards.
When he arrived in Bath from Devizes in 1780, eleven-year-old Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) was promoted as a natural-born genius like his Renaissance predecessor Raphael. The local press announced the arrival of the boy wonder and his ‘Striking Sketches’, inviting the ‘Nobility and Gentry’ to sit for their portraits.
Thomas Lawrence was a prodigious portraitist from the age of just eight, when he began to draw his first portraits in pencil...
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18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
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
Seaman in petticoat breeches and slops, smoking a pipe, carrying a carpetbag.
Located in Middletown, NY
English School, 18th century
Pen and black ink with gray wash on cream laid paper, 9 1/4 x 5 inches (238 x132 mm). 1/4 inch repaired loss, top center, to the left of the figure’s h...
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Realist 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Pen
Portrait Old Master, Joseph Vivien, Mme Silvestre, French Rococo, Pastel
By Joseph Vivien
Located in Greven, DE
The portrait shows Mme Silvestre.
Born in Paris, Silvestre was the daughter of Charles-Antoine Hérault and his wife Marie-Geneviève, who were her first teachers. In 1706 she married the painter Louis de Silvestre, moving with him in 1716 to Dresden. The couple's daughter Marie-Maximilienne became a pastellist. Silvestre died in Dresden, the year before her husband retired and returned to Paris. Her surviving pastels show the influence of Rosalba Carriera...
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Rococo 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Oil Pastel
Portrait of Raffaello / Italian School
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite and ink on handmade, watermarked C & I Honig laid paper, 8 15/16 x 6 3/4 inches (226 x 170 mm). Signed illegibly in ink, lower margin. Scattered light creasing and surface...
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Italian School 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Portrait of a Lady - Late 18th Century European Pastel
Located in London, GB
European School
Late 18th Century
Portrait of a Lady
Pastel on paper, mounted on canvas
Image size: 28 x 23 inches
Contemporary style frame
Provenance:
Ernst Museum Auction
This pastel portrait of a lady dates from the late eighteenth century. She is pictured in a white muslin dress...
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18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Pastel
18th Century Pastel - Rebecca
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming portrait captures Rebecca, daughter of John and Mary Davis of London at a desk writing with a quill. Her fine dress with lace embellishment...
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18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
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
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Rococo 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
The Parnassus after Raphael Vatican 18th Century Pen Ink Wash Drawing c. 1780
By (after) Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Meinisberg, CH
The Parnassus after Raphael
• 18th century Pen and Ink Wash Drawing
• Later glazed wood frame, ca. 62 x 78.5 cm
• Mounted behind a modern arched matt...
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Italian School 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink
French Art, Rococo Portrait, Oval, Pastel, Portrait of a Lady, Circle of Vivien
Located in Greven, DE
French School, Portrait of a Lady, Rococo, 18th Century, Fine drawing in Pastel/ Oil Pastel on Paper in the style of Vivien. The Lady might be a woman from Marie Antoinette's Court. It is part of a Pendant (see the other listing with the portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette...
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Rococo 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
18th century pastel portrait of Lady Augusta Corbett and her son, Stuart
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Commissioned by Andrew Corbett, husband of the sitter;
The Venerable Stuart Corbett;
Sir Stuart Corbett;
By descent to 2002;
Sotheby’s, London 21 March 2002, lot.104;
Lowell Libson...
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Old Masters 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Eighteenth-century Irish portrait of the Rev. Henry Dabzac
By Hugh Douglas Hamilton
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper, oval
9 x 7 ¼ inches; 230 x 185 mm
Inscribed on the verso:
‘The Revd Henry Dabzac D.D./ late Senior Fellow of/ Trinity College Dublin/ ever to be lamented by all that knew/ Him. Extensive learning, zeal, gently tempered/ by a spirit of charity & above all, a strong/ faith & a piety deservedly gained/ the character of a great and good man./ This exceptional man died 12th May 1790/ This picture was his give to Jane [Mary] Crofton, his sincerely [missing] sister.’
Collections:
Rev. Dr Henry Dabzac gift to his sister, Jane Crofton (d.1797);
Sir Hugh Crofton (1763-1834);
By descent to 1990;
Private collection, Dorset to 2020.
Literature:
Robert Staveley, Traces of Past and Present, Dublin, 1895, p.74;
Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800, online edition, no.J3751247
This characteristic pastel portrait by Hugh Douglas Hamilton was made early in his career; it depicts precisely the kind of education, well-connected Irish sitter who fuelled his success. The Reverend Henry Dabzac was from a distinguished Huguenot family, a celebrated academic historian, Dabzac received the Donegall lectureship in 1764 and from 1785 was Librarian and Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. According to his earliest biographer, Hamilton was the son of a peruke-maker based in Crow Street, Dublin. As Anne Hodge has pointed out, this places Hamilton’s father at the heart of the city: Crow street was a narrow thoroughfare formed part of the busy warren of streets bordered by the old Houses of Parliament and Trinity College at one end, and by Dublin Castle at the other. It is perhaps telling that in this early portrait, Hamilton shows Dabzac in a splendid powdered wig and his clerical bands. In 1754 Hamilton was apprenticed to James Mannin, a ‘pattern drawer’ who two years later was appointed master of the school of ornament at the Dublin Society’s drawing school, run by Robert West. Here Hamilton took the first prize in the 1755 competition, winning a premium of £1/16/. Hamilton developed a popular and profitable method of making pastel likenesses of sitters in a distinctive oval format. Hamilton developed a technique of using a sharpened pastel to hatch shaded areas of the features and, in the case of this portrait of Dabzac, the white powdered wig, which is drawn with particular care. In 1764 Hamilton moved to London where this small, oval pastels proved...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
School of Athens after Raphael Vatican 18th Century Pen Ink Wash Drawing c. 1780
By (after) Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Meinisberg, CH
The School of Athens after Raphael
• 18th century Pen and Ink Wash Drawing
• Later glazed wood frame, ca. 62 x 78.5 cm
• Mounted behind a modern arch...
Category
Naturalistic 18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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