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Charles Stuart - The Young Pretender, English School Mid 18th Century Miniature

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Guercino Italian 1591-1666 Portrait of a Merchant Sanguine on laid paper Image size: 12 ¾ x 16 inches (32 x 40....

Trelawney Dayrell Reed Born 1886 Self Portrait Watercolour with bodycolour on card, signed and dated '1912' bottom right Image size: 19 x 25 inches (48.5 x 63.5 cm) Contemporary frame This striking self-portrait by Trelawney Dayrell Reed is undeniably unique. Looking out directly at the viewer, Reed has depicted himself wearing a large dramatic Venetian cape dwarfing his body and taking over the lower half of the picture. The figure is framed with an unusual background of graphic geometric shapes and drapes of fabric that seem to hang off nothing in mid-air. Reed's face and hair is created with, occasionally angular, sweeps of dynamic colour. His use of green shadow employs colour theory to work with the range of flesh tones to create a balanced and coherent palette. Trelawney Dayrell Reed was a historian whose published titles include The Battle for Britain in the Fifth Century. An essay in Dark Age history (1944) and The Rise of Wessex. A further essay in Dark Age history (1947), and worked as a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Farnham, sister to the first Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford. Reed was also the author of a book about the alehouse game 'Shove Ha'penny', an eccentric volume threaded with peppery asides about urban values ('London is not the centre of Dorset') and the diverse forces considered to be undermining rural life ('cheap press headline, Sunday newspapers and semitic Cinema captions hot from Hollywood'). Artist John Craxton at the age of 17 was picking up antiques...

John Downman 1750-1824 Portrait of a Lady in a White Dress Pencil, stump and watercolour, heightened with white chalk, signed and dated 1784 Imag...

Watercolour on paper, signed and dated 1884 top left Image size: 11 x 8 3/4 inches (28 x 22.25 cm) Original gilt frame This is a late 19th century portrait of a girl in profile, wea...

V Ward Unknown Officer in Trench Cap Watercolour and pencil Signed and dated 1918, lower right Image size: 12 x 10 inches

V Ward Unknown Officer in Trench Cap Watercolour and pencil Signed and dated 1918, lower right Image size: 12 x 10 inches

Collections: The sitter, and by descent; Christie's, 19th March 1928, lot 6; Private collection to 2019 Literature: G.C. Williamson, John Downman, A.R.A., his Life and Works, Lon...

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...

Collections: With Ellis Smith, London; Private collection, to 2015. Literature: G.C. Williamson, John Downman A.R.A., his Life and Works, p. lviii no's. 2 and 3, p. xxxi. Exhi...

French school circa 1840 Portrait of a Lady watercolor on Bristol paper 25.5 x 20 cm oval in quite good condition : slightly yellowed by time, multiple little scratches, stains (see ...

Pen and sepia ink and wash on vellum, 8 7/8 x 10 1/2 inches (225 x 267 mm). In very good condition with some modern notations in pencil on the verso, minor cockling, and a 1-inch hor...

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...