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Antonio Enrico Fiorentino (1894-1962) - Watercolour, Portrait of an Elderly Lady

Early 20th Century

A full length and highly detailed watercolour portrait of a child wearing traditional tartan. Signed and dated (1855) to the lower left. Finely presented in a slim gilt frame with a ...

A delightful watercolour study by French artist Antoine Calbet. The scene depicts two ladies reclining in a stately garden in high summer. There are sur...

A delightful depiction of a young girl wearing a yellow straw hat with blue ribbon, admiring the last of the yellow dahlias as the garden turns to autumn. The watercolour has been in...

A delightful gouache study depicting a stylish woman in 1920's attire walking her lurcher. The woman holds a small posy of flowers, seemingly picked from the wild meadows that surrou...

One of the characters in this scene is a mature man, kneeling with his head bowed and hands clasped near his chest in a gesture of supplication. His posture conveys a sense of humili...

Gouache and charcoal on paper, 53cm x 37cm (74cm x 55cm framed). Provenance: the Artist’s estate (stamped verso). Stonehouse had an extraordinary life. As a young art student studying fashion illustration, he joined the Royal Artillery at the beginning of WWII but soon became a part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He was sent to France as a radio operator but three and a half months later was caught by the Gestapo, tortured, given a death sentence and then selected for slave labour. He spent the subsequent war years in three French prisons and five concentration and labour camps, including Dachau. He still managed to continue to draw in some of the camps. Following the war, Stonehouse went to the US and continued his career as a fashion artist painting for magazines...

Bernard Fleetwood-Walker RA RWS (1893-1965) Study for Mr and Mrs R. H. Butler and Their Daughters, c. 1932 Graphite, coloured graphite and wash on paper, mounted to card 64.5 x 74.5 cm.; (within frame) 87.4 x 91.8 cm. Provenance: The artist’s studio, 1965 (no. 525); Private Collection, United Kingdom. Dated to c. 1932, the present drawing belongs to a series of preparatory studies for Mr and Mrs R. H. Butler and Their Daughters (1932), a large family composition...

Louis Gallait (1810-1887) Portrait of a Gentleman, Watercolor and gouache on paper, square white lines, 24 x 16 cm Stamp of the Louis Gallait Estate on the mount on the lower righ...