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Period: 19th Century
English School Late 19th Century Watercolour - Helianthus
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate watercolour illustration of yellow Helianthus, inscribed with famous quotes by American poets Bayard Taylor and James Russell Lowell. Presented in a beautiful gilt-effect ...
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
FINE 19thC BOTANNICAL WATERCOLOUR DRAWING - NE PLUS MEURIS - DATED 1863, KENT
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: English School, 19th century, dated 1863
Title: botannical study 'Ne Plus Meuris'
Medium: watercolour drawing on paper, with ink inscription below
Size: image: 9.5...
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Victorian 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
19th Century Watercolour - Parrot Tulip Posy
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame and wash-line mount. On paper.
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) A Flowerbed, signed watercolor
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920)
A Flowerbed
signed lower left
Watercolor on paper,
15.5 x 23.5 cm
Framed : 25.5 x 33 cm
This is a particularly original work by Paul Lecomte. It shows his ...
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Impressionist 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
19th century American watercolor - Flowers Butterfly Alps Switzerland Germany
Located in Aartselaar, BE
This beautiful and vibrant 19th century American watercolor is an hommage by Paul de Longpré to the Alps, as it features a rich variety of Alpine flowe...
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
J. Eden - Fine 19th Century Watercolour, Evening Primrose
Located in Corsham, GB
This delightful study depicts an intricate botanical study of evening primroses in pink and red. Signed to the lower right. Well presented in a gilt frame with beaded and lambs tongu...
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Victorian vintage fine art painting by Clare Vincent - fruits and grapes
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions ; Excellent condition, original canvas frame, no prior retouching or restauration, and no future restauration necessary. Original Victorian gilet frame in perfect conditio...
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Victorian 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Pair of Rococo-Inspired Watercolors Featuring Ornate Floral Wreaths Butterflies
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pair of Rococo-Inspired Paintings
watercolor on artist paper, stuck on blue paper
painting: 12.75 x 10 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound condition
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Rococo 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), A trophy of arms, original signed Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
A trophy of arms
11.5 x 20 cm
Pen and ink with heightenings of white gouache on paper
Signed and dated 1885 lower right and annotated "Armée française...
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Academic 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Still Life with Flowers by Isidor Rosenstock
By Isidore Rosenstock
Located in Pasadena, CA
ISIDOR Rosenstock, born in Strasbourg in 1880, died in 1956. 20th century
painter of landscapes and flowers, watercolor.
He exhibited in Paris at the Salon of French Artists, the...
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Impressionist 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Irises and Roses in Basket - Italian 19th Century art floral still life painting
By Ermocrate Bucchi
Located in London, GB
This lovely floral is an original and very rare to find large watercolour. It is a stunning floral arrangement by famous Italian floral artist Ermocrate Bucchi. Bucchi is a well list...
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Impressionist 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
William Cruikshank (1848-1922) - Framed Watercolour, Bird's Nest Amongst Blossom
Located in Corsham, GB
This delicate oval composition captures a poignant moment in nature, featuring a small bird's nest with eggs nestled among blossom and woodland foliage. The artist's attention to det...
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Antique French Signed Watercolor Painting Still Life of Roses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life of Roses
French artist, late 19th century
signed watercolour painting on thin board, unframed
painting: 17 x 22 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: ve...
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French School 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Watercolor 19th French school flowers hollyhocks large Academic
Located in PARIS, FR
French school of the mid-19th century
Watercolor
51 x 37 cm (69 x 55 cm with frame)
Signed and dated at the bottom “M. C. / 1857”
The hollyhock comes from China, passing through Sy...
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
William Cruikshank (1848-1922) - Framed Watercolour, The Robin's Nest
Located in Corsham, GB
This delicate oval composition captures a poignant moment in nature, featuring a robin's nest with eggs nestled among blossoming primroses and woodland foliage. The artist's attentio...
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Madame F.C. Byrne (1789-1876) - Framed Watercolour, Bigonia Discolor
Located in Corsham, GB
Fine early 19th-century botanical study. Presented in a gilt frame. Signed and inscribed in pencil. On paper.
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
FINE 1860'S BOTANNICAL WATERCOLOUR DRAWING - ISABELLA GRAPES ON THE VINE
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: English/ American School, 19th century, circa 1860's.
Title: Isabella Grapes on the vine. Interesting inscription telling the history of the drawing and how the orig...
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Victorian 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
'Still Life, Red Tulips with Japanese Porcelain', Belgian Lace, Japonaiserie
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A finely-drawn, pastel still-life showing red tulips informally arranged in a Chelsea soft paste porcelain Chocolate pot decorated in the Japanese style and set beside a cup and sauc...
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Academic 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Gold Leaf
Plant Impression in Locarno - Floral Crescendo -
Located in Berlin, DE
Alexander Frenz (1861 Rheydt - 1941 Düsseldorf). Plant impression in Locarno. Gouache and watercolour. 35 x 23,5 cm (visible size), 49,5 x 38,5 cm (fra...
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Impressionist 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pre-Raphaelite, British turn of the 20th C 'Study of a tree' by Evelyn de Morgan
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Evelyn De Morgan (British, 1855 – 1919)
Study of a tree
pencil on paper
19 x 11.3/4 in. (48.2 x 30 cm.)
Provenance: The Clayton-Stamm Collection.
Dom...
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Pre-Raphaelite 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Hollyhocks and Roses in a Garden with Butterfly
Located in Stockholm, SE
This is a beautiful and highly decorative watercolor painting, featuring a charming garden scene filled with pink and white hollyhocks alongside blooming roses. Nestled among the del...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Morning Glory and Poppy Floral - British art Old Master flower painting W/C
Located in London, GB
This charming Old Master circa 1800 water colour painting is of morning glory flowers and tendrils entwined with a poppy. The foliage has a metallic green tone and the white morning ...
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Old Masters 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
British turn of the 20th Century 'Narcissi' by Pre-Raphaelite Evelyn de Morgan
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Evelyn De Morgan (British, 1855 – 1919)
Narcissi
Pencil on paper
5.1/2 x 15 in. (14 x 38 cm.)
Provenance: The Clayton-Stamm Collection.
Dominic Wint...
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Pre-Raphaelite 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Louis-Eugène Lambert (1825-1900) The Mountain and the mouse, drawing signed
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Eugène Lambert (1825-1900)
La Montagne qui accouche d'une souris (The Mountain and the mouse)
Pen and black ink, ink wash on paper
Signed lower ...
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Romantic 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
19th Century Italian Floral Wallpaper Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Architectural Floral Wallpaper Fragment
19th Century Italian hand painted floral design wallpaper lined with linen, in gold leaf framed.
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Italian School 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper, Linen
19th Century Italian Wall Paper Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Italian Floral Wallpaper Fragment
19th Century Italian hand painted floral design wallpaper lined with linen, in gold leaf frame.
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Italian School 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper, Linen
"Treasures of the Scholars' Studio, " Ink and Paint on Fabric
Located in Chicago, IL
With careful brushwork, this 19th-century painting honors the four treasures of the scholar's studio - paper, calligraphy brush, ink, and inkstone. Essential to his way of life, the ...
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Qing 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Silk, Ink, Pigment
"Scholars' Treasures, " Qing-Dynasty Ink Painting on Fabric
Located in Chicago, IL
A scroll and a small lantern depicted in this 19th-century painting suggest the romantic notion of a Chinese scholar painting in the evening hours. Re...
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Qing 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Silk, Ink, Pigment
Still life with lantern - English School, 19th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
A luminous 1850 still life study of a tin lantern.
Black chalk with white heightening on brownish-gray, fibrous, handmade buff wove paper, 10 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches (262 x 172 mm), the ...
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English School 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Chalk, Handmade Paper, Pencil
Rococo-Inspired Pair of Watercolor Paintings with Elaborate Floral Arrangements
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rococo-Inspired Pair of Watercolor Paintings
watercolor on artist paper, stuck on blue paper
painting: 12.75 x 10 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and soun...
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Rococo 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Grand Tour study of ruins in the Roman Forum - English School, early 19th C.
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and wash in black ink with pen in black ink on watermarked C & I Honig cream laid paper, 14 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (378 x 311 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with some m...
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French School 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink
French School Swags of Apples a Pair of Watercolour Paintings c1890
Located in Holywell, GB
Martin Jules CHOUARD (1839-1919) Swags of Apples a Pair of Watercolours c1890
A near pair of decorative watercolour paintings signed and presented in expensive stylish maple frames....
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French School 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
"Common Columbine - Aquilegia Vulgaris"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A Collection of Botanical Watercolours: Drawings of British Plants
Emily Stackhouse (1811-1870) perfectly illustrates the Victorian fascination with the countryside in this remarkab...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Watercolor British school 19thcentury Diamond jubilee Portrait Queen Victoria
Located in PARIS, FR
English school from the end of the 19th century Watercolor and gouache 38 x 28 cm (60x49 cm with the frame) Very beautiful late 19th century frame in pitch pine wood. Very good condition
This watercolor was made for the diamond "jubilee" in 1897 of Queen Victoria, crowned on the 20 June 1837 Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. She was also Queen of Canada from 1867 and Empress of India from 1876. This watercolor represents two portraits of the Queen, one in 1837 and the other in 1897, as well as a beautiful diamond which reminds of the famous Indian diamond the Koh-i-Nor which was presented in 1850 to Queen Victoria, for the 250th anniversary of the English East India Company, and cut and mounted on a tiara with two thousand other diamonds in 1852. We also recognize in this watercolor the insignia of the Order of the Star of India...
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English School 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Exquisite Rose Drawing (unique) done in graphite, hand signed with provenance
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt
Untitled Rose, 1983
Graphite on Lanaquarelle Watercolor Paper
Signed and dated on the front
Framed
Unique, poignant, exquisitely rendered graphite drawing on watercolor paper with deckled edges. This work is framed and ready to hang; frame bears Alan Brown Gallery (Hartsdale) label verso. It was acquired from the Estate of Noel Frackman, renowned art historian, scholar, writer, and professor with a lifelong passion for 20th Century Art - and a close personal friend of Lowell Nesbitt. She earned a M.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in English Literature and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. She was an art critic for the Patent Trader Newspaper and the Scarsdale Inquirer, contributing editor for Arts Magazine, author of numerous catalogs including ''John Storrs'', for the Whitney Museum of American Art. For 19 years she was a faculty member at Purchase College, State University of New York.
Measurements:
Framed: 13 inches by 13 inches x .5
Artwork: approx. 10.5 inches by 10.5 inches
Lowell Nesbitt Biography:
Lowell Blair Nesbitt, painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and sculptor, was born in Baltimore, Maryland on 4 October 1933. He studied at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Nesbitt worked in abstraction until Robert Indiana suggested in the early 1960s that he explore realism in his paintings. As subjects for his work he favored studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes, his Rottweiler, the Neo-Classical facades of 19th century cast iron buildings, and Manhattan's bridges. He was also famous for his enormous paintings and prints of roses, lilies, irises, and other flowers. In 1980, the United States Post Office issued...
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Realist 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite, Mixed Media
William Cruikshank (1848-1922) - 1864 Watercolour, Apples and Berries
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine watercolour study with gum arabic details depicting apples and berries in under bush. Signed and dated to the lower right. Presented in a silver gilt frame. On paper.
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Fine Early 19th Century Watercolour - Dahlia from Two Sides
Located in Corsham, GB
A particularly fine Victorian botanical study depicting a two toned dahlia from two sides. Well-presented in a complimenting oak frame with mount. On paper.
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Interior Scene with Potted Plant
Located in Astoria, NY
Jozsef Rippl-Ronai (Hungarian, 1861-1927), Interior Scene with Potted Plant, Pastel on Paper, signed lower center, Herbert Feist carved giltwood frame. Image: 9.25" H x 13" W; frame:...
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Impressionist 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pastel
William Cruikshank (1848-1922) - Late 19th Century Watercolour, Study of Game
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine watercolour study of a game bird and hare in a pantry interior. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a part gilt frame.
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Abstract Impressionist 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
House temple in Singaradja, 1904
Located in Amsterdam, NL
House temple in Singaradja, 1904
Signed with initials upper centre and described with location and date, lower centre (vaguely in pencil 11 oct.). Pencil, ink and watercolour on pap...
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink, Pencil
Collection of Watercolour Designs for Silverware.
Located in London, GB
[ANON.]
Collection of Watercolour Designs for Silverware.
South Germany, [Late 19th century].
A series of 9 watercolours, each framed and glazed, ...
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Pumpkin Vine Watercolor Painting 19th C. American Artist Charles DeWolf Brownell
Located in Surfside, FL
Charles De Wolf Brownell (American, 1822 - 1909)
Watercolor on paper depicting a pumpkin on a flowering vine
Hand dated and inscribed "Lyme ...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Late 19th Century Watercolour - Blooms and Butterfly
Located in Corsham, GB
An oval still life depicting a vase full of flowers with a butterfly perched on a leaf in the lower register of the composition. Presented glazed in a ...
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
English School 19th Century Watercolour - Bee Orchid
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame and wash-line mount. On paper.
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Madame F.C. Byrne (1789-1876) - Mid 19th Century Watercolour, Alstroemeria
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Acquired with other signed works by the same hand. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Vintage oil painting by Vincent Clare - fruit and apples oil signed
By George Clare
Located in PARIS, FR
Condition: Excellent overall Condition. Original canvas and frame. No restauration necessary. No retouching under UV light. Dimensions with frame 28 x 34 cm.
Free US CONTINENTAL Shi...
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Victorian 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Lemon and Hat - Oil Paste and Chalk Drawing - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with Lemon and Hat is beautiful original oil pastel and chalk drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by an anonymous French artist of the end of XIX century.
On a table...
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Modern 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Charcoal
A Buginese boat, Semarang 1898
Located in Amsterdam, NL
'A Buginese boat, Semarang 1898’
Signed, dated, and annotated, upper right Pen, brush and ink on cardboard, H. 11.4 x W. 26.3 cm
Literature: Venselaar, 2019, p. 69 (ill.)
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink, Pencil
William Cruikshank (1848-1922) - Late 19th Century Watercolour, Goldfinch Nest
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine study in watercolour and gum arabic depicting a goldfinch and its nest. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
William Cruikshank (1848-1922) - Watercolour, The Blue Tit's Nest
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine watercolour study depicting a blue tit by a nest of eggs and primroses. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Porcelain Service - Original Ink and Watercolor - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Porcelain service is an original china ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colored paper realized by a French Anonymous Artist of the late 19th Century.
In very good conditions.
This artwork represents porcelain drinking service...
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Modern 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Watercolor
Original watercolour Victorian children's book illustration by Sowerby
Located in London, GB
JOHN GEORGE SOWERBY
(1849-1914)
Tailpiece for “A Rainy Day”
Watercolour heightened with white, circular
Unframed, in mount only
Diameter 7 cm., 2 ¼ in.
(mount size 25.5 by 20 cm., 10 by 8 in.)
Reproduced:
J G Sowerby & Thomas Crane, At Home, Marcus Ward & Co, 1881, p.17.
The current work was reproduced in Sowerby and Crane’s 1881 children’s book...
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Realist 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
'The Old Oak Tree, Bushey School of Art, British
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Laurence Bell' (British, died 1916) and painted circa 1910.
Bell studied at the Bushey School of Art in Hertfordshire in England. H...
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Academic 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Framed 19th Century Watercolour - A Floral Posy
Located in Corsham, GB
A particularly fine botanical study from the Victorian period. The picture shows a beautiful posy of English summer flowers, some in bud some in bloom. Presented in an antique bird's...
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
G.L. Falconer - 1879 Watercolour, Vines and Grapes
Located in Corsham, GB
A still life depicting vines and grapes beside an urn. Well-presented glazed in a blue card mount with a gilt-effect border and a gilt-effect wooden frame. Signed and dated to the lo...
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19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Plants, Bristol 1863 Watercolor Painting American Artist Charles DeWolf Brownell
Located in Surfside, FL
Charles De Wolf Brownell (American, 1822 - 1909)
Watercolor on paper depicting several plants in close proximity
Hand dated and inscribed "Br...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Group of Eight Exotic Fruit.
Located in London, GB
[CHINESE SCHOOL].
Group of Eight Exotic Fruit.
19th century, c.1880.
Group of eight watercolour and gouache pith papers of Exotic Fruits, edged in turquoise silk ribbon and laid ...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Clay jug on a bench - The essence of the clay jar revealed by the sunlight -
By Hans Richard von Volkmann
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Richard von Volkmann (1860 Halle (Saale) - 1927 ibid.), Clay jug on a bench. Pencil and Watercolour on paper. 20 x 26,7 cm (visible size), 37 x 45 cm (frame), dated and monogrammed lower left "Februar 1890 - HR. V. V."
- Minimally tanned. Framed behind glass in a passepartout.
About the artwork
Using the technique of his early youth - pencil and watercolour - Hans Richard von Volkmann depicts a still life. However, this is not a conventional indoor still life, but an open-air depiction, painted outdoors and not in the studio. It is therefore an open-air painting, characteristic of von Volkmann's oeuvre, which could have been painted in the Willingshausen colony of painters, where open-air painting was programmatically practised there and the artist stayed there that year.
And indeed, this painting is a manifesto of open-air painting. Von Volkmann demonstrates that leaving the studio for the light of nature leads to an entirely new quality of art. To prove this, he uses the genre of still life, which can be described as the studio subject par excellence. Moreover, light plays an essential role in the classical still life. It is the real protagonist of the still life. And it is precisely this moment, essential to the still life, that von Volkmann exploits to demonstrate the potential of plein-air painting: He presents the objects as they appear in the sunlight. The date of February and the bare branches in the foreground make it clear that this is a clear winter day in bright sunlight. The delicate plant in the foreground casts a clearly defined shadow, as does the jug. However, the shadow is most pronounced on the jug itself: The underside of the handle appears almost black, making the top, and therefore the jug itself, shine all the more brightly. The shining of the objects in the sunlight is also visible on the bench. As complementary phenomena to the shadow zones, light edges can be seen on the boards of the seats and the upper foot of the bench shines entirely in the light. To achieve this intensity of light, von Volkmann activated the bright white of the painting ground.
By depicting the objects in glistening sunlight, von Volkmann demonstrates that this quality of light is only to be found outdoors. And this light leads to a new way of looking at the objects themselves. The jug on the bench seems like an accidental arrangement, as if the artist had stumbled upon this unintentional still life and captured it with fascination. And in this fascination there is a moment of realisation that refers to the objects themselves. It is only when they shine brightly in the sunlight that their true nature is revealed. In this way, sunlight allows the objects to come into their own, so to speak. Sunlight, which is not present in the studio, gives the still life an entirely new dimension of reality, which is also reflected in the colours interwoven by the sunlight: The bench and the jug stand in a harmonious grey-pink contrast to the green of the implied meadow.
The emphasis on the jug as the central subject of the picture also implies that the watercolour has not been completed. This non finito inscribes a processuality into the picture, making it clear that something processual has been depicted, the temporality of which has been made artistically permanent. This is why von Volkmann signed the painting and dated it to the month.
About the Artist
Von Volkmann made his first artistic attempts at the age of 14. He painted many watercolours of his home town of Halle. This laid the foundation for his later outdoor painting.
In 1880 his autodidactic beginnings were professionalised with his admission to the Düsseldorf Art Academy. There he studied under Hugo Crola, Heinrich Lauenstein, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and Eduard von Gebhardt until 1888. Von Volkmann then moved to the Karlsruhe Academy, where he was Gustav Schönleber's master pupil until 1892.
In 1883 he came for the first time to Willingshausen, Germany's oldest painters' colony, at the suggestion of his student friend Adolf Lins...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
