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Art Subject: Photography
Robert Luard Selby (1800-1880) - 19th Century Graphite Drawing, Dutch Peasant
Located in Corsham, GB
A finely drawn graphite study of a portly lady sitting on a bench in the style of David Teniers the Younger. She holds a large jug and wears ragged clothing, with an unusual hat. The...
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Eve Disher (1894-1991) - Mid 19th Century Gouache, Satisfied Stare
Located in Corsham, GB
A characterful portrait showing a man, with folded arms, looking satisfied while looking off into the distance. The artist has used a very unusual dry brush technique to give the gou...
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Eve Disher (1894-1991) - Mid 20th Century Gouache, Portrait In A Red Tie
Located in Corsham, GB
A charmingly characterful portrait of a smart gentleman in a red tie. The artist has used an unusual dry brush technique to give the gouache a textured, scrubbed effect. The lack of ...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
UPOFU
Located in Miami, FL
Black and White Hyperrealism Drawing
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pencil, Carbon Pencil
Late 19th Century Watercolour - Young Girl Head Study
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour portrait of a young girl with big eyes and cherubic lips. The painting is presented in an incredibly pretty oval frame with a pale pink mount. The frame has or...
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Framed Early 19th Century Watercolour - Georgian Gentleman
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate and characterful watercolour portrait with graphite elements. The sitter is a Georgian Gentleman with a gentle smile, dressed in fine att...
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Matt Latham - Large Scale Portrait, Original Charcoal on Mylar
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
Mary Borgman’s work captivates the viewer in several ways. First is their scale. They hang like medieval tapestries, with figures standing as tall as eight feet. There is also their texture – created by using charcoal on Mylar, and the results are richly gestural, with distinct charcoal strokes and eraser marks animating the figure and ground alike. With a flat surface, she creates volume and life. And perhaps the most powerful of all, the viewer is caught be the gazes of the models, who stare forcefully out of the picture. They seem to be examining us every bit as much as we are examining them.
These larger-than-life portraits stem from chance encounters that grow into meaningful connections between the artist and her subject. Most are strangers that she approaches on the street. They capture her attention with expressive eyes that show experience and wisdom, distinctive shapes and a casual body language. “I try to honor the people I am drawing by centering them in the format and shooting from slightly below their eye level. I choose an expression that exudes intelligence, self-awareness and complexity. I try to convey their humanness. I want the viewer to feel this person might be someone interesting to know”, says Borgman of her subjects. The intensity with which she conveys the eyes may stem from her many years of communicating in sign language, which is based on sustained eye contact.
Borgman loves the directness of drawing. It is immediate, there is no lag time. There is no time waiting for the paint to dry. She works solely in charcoal which she can manipulate to achieve varying degrees of darkness and opacity. It is messy and the artist loves that.
Mary Borgman
Portrait of Matt Latham
charcoal on mylar
60h x 40w in
152.40h x 101.60w cm
MBG011
FRAMED DIMENSIONS
62h x 42w x 2.25d in
157.48h x 106.68w x 5.71d cm
[This work is custom framed in shadow box style with non-reflective Tru-Vue Museum Glass]
Mary Borgman
b. October 4, 1959 St. Louis, MO
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 Grand Opening: Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2013 SOFA Chicago 2013, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, National Portrait Gallery, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
2012 Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
SOFA Chicago 2012, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
SOFA NY, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Gallery Group Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
SOFA NY, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
2010 SOFA Chicago 2010: Special Installation at SOFA Café, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
What’s the Buzz on the Playground: Art of Today from St. Louis curated by Mary Sprague...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Charcoal
Early 19th Century Watercolour - Portrait Of Mrs Powell
Located in Corsham, GB
A beautifully executed, Regency era portrait of an older woman in a lace mob cap. She is sporting the tight curls around her face, typical of this...
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Alfred Kingsley Lawrence RA (1893-1975) - 20th Century Graphite Drawing, Girl
Located in Corsham, GB
A page of soft facial studies in graphite of a young girl. Although just studies, the drawings capture a lot of the child's personality.
The drawing has been presented in a black, g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
20th Century Charcoal Drawing - Pensive Female Portrait
Located in Corsham, GB
An intense charcoal portrait of a striking young woman in a headscarf.
The drawing is unsigned and presented in a glazed, black frame with a white mount.
On wove.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Jay Jaselton - 1998 Pastel, Two Terriers
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful and delicate pastel portrait of two terriers well presented in a wooden frame with a gilt inner border. The artwork is mounted in an oval olive mountboard.
Attached to the glazing is an engraved gold sticker...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of Justin Shanitkvich - Large Scale Charcoal on Mylar Original, Framed
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
Mary Borgman’s work captivates the viewer in several ways. First is their scale. They hang like medieval tapestries, with figures standing as tall as eight feet. There is also their texture – created by using charcoal on Mylar, and the results are richly gestural, with distinct charcoal strokes and eraser marks animating the figure and ground alike. With a flat surface, she creates volume and life. And perhaps the most powerful of all, the viewer is caught be the gazes of the models, who stare forcefully out of the picture. They seem to be examining us every bit as much as we are examining them.
These larger-than-life portraits stem from chance encounters that grow into meaningful connections between the artist and her subject. Most are strangers that she approaches on the street. They capture her attention with expressive eyes that show experience and wisdom, distinctive shapes and a casual body language. “I try to honor the people I am drawing by centering them in the format and shooting from slightly below their eye level. I choose an expression that exudes intelligence, self-awareness and complexity. I try to convey their humanness. I want the viewer to feel this person might be someone interesting to know”, says Borgman of her subjects. The intensity with which she conveys the eyes may stem from her many years of communicating in sign language, which is based on sustained eye contact.
Borgman loves the directness of drawing. It is immediate, there is no lag time. There is no time waiting for the paint to dry. She works solely in charcoal which she can manipulate to achieve varying degrees of darkness and opacity. It is messy and the artist loves that.
Mary Borgman
Portrait of Justin Shanitkvich, 2022
charcoal on mylar
53h x 40w in
134.62h x 101.60w cm
MBG009
[This work is custom framed in shadow box style with non-reflective Tru-Vue Museum Glass]
FRAMED DIMENSIONS
55.25h x 42.50w x 2.25d in
140.34h x 107.95w x 5.71d cm
Mary Borgman
b. October 4, 1959 St. Louis, MO
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 Grand Opening: Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2013 SOFA Chicago 2013, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, National Portrait Gallery, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
2012 Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
SOFA Chicago 2012, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
SOFA NY, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Gallery Group Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
SOFA NY, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
2010 SOFA Chicago 2010: Special Installation at SOFA Café, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
What’s the Buzz on the Playground: Art of Today from St. Louis curated by Mary Sprague...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Charcoal
Geoffrey Tristram - 20th Century Gouache, Bartholomew
Located in Corsham, GB
A superb study of a cat on a marble topped mantlepiece by the British artist Geoffrey Tristram. Originally painted for a stationery and ceramic range. D...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of Feleg Abraha - Large Scale Original Charcoal on Mylar, Framed
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
Mary Borgman’s work captivates the viewer in several ways. First is their scale. They hang like medieval tapestries, with figures standing as tall as eight feet. There is also their texture – created by using charcoal on Mylar, and the results are richly gestural, with distinct charcoal strokes and eraser marks animating the figure and ground alike. With a flat surface, she creates volume and life. And perhaps the most powerful of all, the viewer is caught be the gazes of the models, who stare forcefully out of the picture. They seem to be examining us every bit as much as we are examining them.
These larger-than-life portraits stem from chance encounters that grow into meaningful connections between the artist and her subject. Most are strangers that she approaches on the street. They capture her attention with expressive eyes that show experience and wisdom, distinctive shapes and a casual body language. “I try to honor the people I am drawing by centering them in the format and shooting from slightly below their eye level. I choose an expression that exudes intelligence, self-awareness and complexity. I try to convey their humanness. I want the viewer to feel this person might be someone interesting to know”, says Borgman of her subjects. The intensity with which she conveys the eyes may stem from her many years of communicating in sign language, which is based on sustained eye contact.
Borgman loves the directness of drawing. It is immediate, there is no lag time. There is no time waiting for the paint to dry. She works solely in charcoal which she can manipulate to achieve varying degrees of darkness and opacity. It is messy and the artist loves that.
Mary Borgman
Portrait of Feleg Abraha
charcoal on mylar
41h x 56w in
104.14h x 142.24w cm
MBG010
[This work is custom framed in shadow box style with non-reflective Tru-Vue Museum Glass]
FRAMED DIMENSIONS
44.75h x 58.75w x 2.25d in
113.67h x 149.22w x 5.71d cm
Mary Borgman
b. October 4, 1959 St. Louis, MO
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 Grand Opening: Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2013 SOFA Chicago 2013, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, National Portrait Gallery, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
2012 Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
SOFA Chicago 2012, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
SOFA NY, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Gallery Group Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
SOFA NY, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
2010 SOFA Chicago 2010: Special Installation at SOFA Café, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
What’s the Buzz on the Playground: Art of Today from St. Louis curated by Mary Sprague...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Charcoal
'Portrait Of A Woman' Pen & Ink & Acrylic Original Drawing By Devie
Located in Carmel, CA
Inspired by the theatre world, Devie had retained her own unique drawing strokes. Her works reflect an approachable other-worldliness. She paints a story to be told and answered.
Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Ink, Handmade Paper
Early 20th century English portrait of a young girl, Deborah Blencowe
Located in Woodbury, CT
Louise H. "Louie" Burrell (née Luker 1873 – 1971) was an English-born artist who also lived in Canada and the United States.
The daughter of William and Ada Luker, both artists, Bur...
Category
1920s Victorian Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
In full swing n°2 by John Torcapel - Gouache on paper 37x25 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Early 20th century English portrait of a red haired young girl
Located in Woodbury, CT
Louise H. "Louie" Burrell (née Luker 1873 – 1971) was an English-born artist who also lived in Canada and the United States.
The daughter of William and Ada Luker, both artists, Bur...
Category
1920s Victorian Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Rococo Portait, French Rococo, Marie Baudouin, Daughter of Francois Boucher
By François Boucher
Located in Greven, DE
Portrait of the daughter of Francois Boucher, Marie-Emilie Baudouin, holding a basket of flowers. Pastel on Parchment. The work is related to an oval portrait painting...
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Spring - Chalk design drawing for a Minton plaque by Herbert Wilson Foster
Located in London, GB
HERBERT WILSON FOSTER
(1846-1929)
Spring
Inscribed with title beneath the mount
Chalk, circular
Framed
Diameter 42 cm., 16 ½ in.
(frame size 61 by 58 cm., 24 by 22 ¾ in.)
Herbert Wilson Foster was born in Endon, Staffordshire. He attended Hanley School of Art before continuing his studies in London, Belgium and France. His paintings of rural and domestic subjects were exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1873 and 1899. In 1893 he accepted a teaching position at the Nottingham School of Art, where his pupils included Laura Knight and Harold Knight. Works by him are in the collections of the Minton archives; the Wisbech & Fenland Museum; Leicester Art Gallery; Rushcliffe Council and Nottingham Castle Museum.
In addition to his work as a painter he worked as a porcelain painter, working at one point on the tile panels in the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is known to have worked at Mintons from 1872 where he specialized in portraits of contemporary personalities, including members of the Royal Family. This head of a girl was probably intended for a painted ceramic wall charger...
Category
1870s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Chalk
Infanta La Danza de la Muerte no. 1
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Infanta La Danza de la Muerte no. 1' features the face of a young woman with flora motif (top) and series of birds and flora motif (bottom) representing lif...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper, Graphite
French school, circa 1900, Studies of characters, four drawings
Located in Paris, FR
French School circa 1900
Studies of characters, four drawings in a same frame
Pencil on paper
Sizes of the drawings (from left to right and from top to bottom)
A couple at a table ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Girl Look Up
Located in Denver, CO
Jenna Ringuette's "Girl Look Up" is an original, handmade charcoal drawing that depicts a female model in a striped robe looking upwards beyond the composition.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Amanda
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Watercolour on paper
Paper size: 16 x 22 inches
Framed size: 30 x 26 inches
Signed lower left
Category
20th Century Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
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...
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil Pastel
Untitled 6 - Series Final Fantasy, Minutiae Contemporary Figurative Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Magdalena Peszkowska born in 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland. Studied in Department of Painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (1999-2004). Diploma with special recognition in painting in 2004.
The cycle of ‘Final Fantasy...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
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...
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil
Miniature portrait of a Gentleman
Located in Lincoln, GB
Miniature portrait of a Gentleman
Early 19th Century, watercolour on paper
c. 1840
Category
1840s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Black & White Sketch of Leonard
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. 20th Century - Graphite Character Drawing of Leonard Brezhnev done by Ben Blum
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glass, Graphite
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...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Dr. Moore Roy Glapion Funeral" - Framed Contemporary New Orleans Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
A splendid depiction of a New Orleans jazz funeral (sorry for the reflection on the glass). Typically a crowd of mourners will follow the band, walking and swaying slowly at first to...
Category
Early 2000s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Stages II
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Stages II
Watercolor on Arches paper, 2021
Signed with the artist's initials lower right (see photo)
Signed with the artist's Yummy blindstamp lower right
Signed, titled and dated in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait - Watercolor and Charcoal by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original Charcoal and Watercolour realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century.
Good condition on a cream colored paper.
Hand-signed by the artist with pencil.
Min...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
[Portrait of a Man]
By Ricardo Cinalli
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated top right: "Cinalli / MCMXCVII".
Ricardo Cinalli was born in Froylan Palacios in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied Psychology at the University of Rosario, and previously studied Painting at the Academia Fornells and Piano at the Conservatorio Chopin.
He moved to London in 1973 to study Painting at the Harrow School of Art and later on at Hornsey School of Art. In 1980 he started to exhibit his works in various galleries and museums in Europe, North and South America and Australia. Amongst his public commissions are frescoes in the Londersborough Room in Alexandra Palace, Vintners Place in London, and the Argentinian Embassy among others.
He has created the set designs for Les Parents Terribles by Jean Cocteau for the National Theatre, London (1996), Daphnis and Chloe by Maurice Ravel at the Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro (1998) and Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Colon...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
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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
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Nude of Woman - China Ink by Sergio Barletta - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an original artwork realized by Sergio Barletta in the 1970s.
Pen ink drawing on paper. Includes a beautiful gilded frame.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait of the Nun - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of the Nun is an original Charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in the Mid-20th Century.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed by the artist with pencil.
Mi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
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...
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
French 18th Century Pastel Portrait
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 18th Century French pastel portrait on paper of a young lady in period dress in a 'feigned oval'. In gilt wood frame presented under glass.
Very much of its period and similar ...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper, Crayon
Fernand de Launay (1855-1904) Portrait of a child, 1890, original drawing
By Fernand de Launay
Located in Paris, FR
Fernand de Launay (1838-1904)
Portrait of a child, probably the daughter of the artist
Lead pencil on paper
Signed and dated "4 septembre 1890" on the lower left
27 x 21 cm
In quite ...
Category
1890s Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Self Portrait
Located in ATLANTA, GA
You meet the Spanish artist Alexandro Santana and you think, cripes, can he be for real? So handsome, so flamboyant, so seductive, so amusing -- you’...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Portrait Drawings a...
Materials
Pencil
Dibujo a la manera de Velasquez (Drawing in the Manner of Velasquez)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A drawing by Fernando Botero. "Dibujo a la Manera de Velasquez" is a portrait, charcoal and pastel on cardboard in an earth-tone palette by Latin American artist Fernando Botero. It is signed upper right, "Sobre Velazquez Botero -1-27-60 Para Rita. el recuerdo de uno payaso".
Fernando Botero, best known for his voluptuously rotund human figures, was born in Medellín, Colombia on April 19, 1932. His father died when he was young, and he was raised by his mother, along with his two brothers. He attended a Jesuit school in Medellín and from the age of 12 to 14, he attended a matador training school. The bull fight became a recurring theme in Botero’s early work and while he was in his early teens, he sold his pictures of bull fights in front of the arena.
By the time he was 16 years of age, Botero was working as an illustrator for the local magazine El Colombiano. He also began writing articles about art theory, one of which, entitled Picasso and Non-Conformity in Art, led to his expulsion from the Jesuit school for its endorsement of Cubism. One of Botero’s important early works, Woman Crying...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Cardboard
'The Red Headdress' by W. Worms
Located in London, GB
'The Red Headdress', pastel on art paper, by W. Worms (circa 1960s). A beautiful woman with contemplative expression and tender eyes is exquisitely portrayed by the artist. The treat...
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1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Leon Kroll Original Graphite Portrait of a Young Man c.1940
By Leon Kroll
Located in San Francisco, CA
eon Kroll Original Graphite Portrait of a Young Man c.1940
Outstanding portrait by listed American artist Leon Kroll
Graphite on paper
Dimensions 12" wide x 18" high
The vintage ...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
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
Portrait of an Old Woman - Pencil Drawing - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of an old woman is an original drawing realized in the late 18th Century.
The artwork is a black and white pencil and pastel drawing depicting an old woman.
Mint condition...
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Late 18th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait of a young woman, 19th Century Pastel
Located in London, GB
John Raphael Smith
1751 - 1812
Portrait of a young lady
Pastel on paper on canvas stretcher
Image size: 9 x 7 inches (23 x 18 cm)
Framed
Category
Early 1800s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
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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18th Century Rococo Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
Steve Job, 2017
By Mefa Basel
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Man, 2017
By Mefa Basel
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Leon Kroll Original Graphite Male Portrait in Profile C.1940
By Leon Kroll
Located in San Francisco, CA
Leon Kroll Original Graphite Male Portrait in Profile C.1940
Outstanding portrait by listed American artist Leon Kroll
Graphite on paper
Dimensi...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Colorful Watercolor Portrait of Seated Female in Pink and Orange Striped Dress
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful watercolor portrait of seated female in a pink and orange striped dress by Mexican artist, Nadine Mayes. Signed by the artist in the bottom right corner and currently displ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Watercolor, Paper
Portrait - Original Pastel and Charcoal by Fernand Renault - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a beautiful drawing in pastel and charcoal on paper realized by Fernand Renault (1865-1909)
In good condition.
Stamped on the lower right.
The artwork represents the p...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
Star Trek Stars
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal, White Pastel on Canson MiTientes Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Dimensions: 25.00" x 19.00" Unframed
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Dorothy and Toto
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal and White Pastel on Canson MiTientes paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: 25.00" x 19.00" Unframed
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper, Pastel
Shoe-Shine Boy - Original Mixed Media - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Shoe-shine boy is an original is a mixed media artwork realized by Anonymous artist in the 1970s.
The artwork represents a shoe-shine boy.
Colored mixed media on paper.
The artwo...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Colorful Watercolor Portrait of Seated Female in Blue Dress and Black + Red Hat
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful watercolor portrait of seated female in a blue dress and black + red hat by Mexican artist, Nadine Mayes. Signed by the artist in the bottom right corner and currently disp...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Watercolor, Paper
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...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
