William Cruikshank

William Cruikshank (1848-1922) - 1864 Watercolour, Apples and Berries

1864

This finely painted still life showcases a thoughtful arrangement of books, fruits, and a decorative bowl, creating a harmonious balance between academic pursuits and natural abundan...

A fine watercolour painting with gouache details by the British artist Christopher Hughes, depicting a still life of apples and grapes. Signed to the lower right-hand corner. Well-pr...

A charming late 19th century watercolour by the artist George Goodwin Kilburne (1839-1924) depicting a tender moment between mother and child. The figures sit at the dining table pee...

A delicate and finely executed early 20th Century watercolour still life showing a bowl of apples and bananas, a delicate green goblet with hobnail glass...

Print Sz: 11 1/2"H x 9 1/2"W Frame Sz: 19 1/4"H x 16 3/4"W Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown Plate LX George Brookshaw, also known as G. Brown, was a notable English painter and illustrator from London. His early career was spent as a London cabinet-maker specializing in painted furniture, often with floral decorations. Brookshaw also published supplementary drawing manuals on fruit, flowers, and birds. Pomona Britannicaa London 1804-1812 Engravings with original hand-coloring George Brookshaw's splendid "Pomona Brittanica" is a masterpiece among 19th-century British flower books. The publication of the "Pomona" marked the re-emergence of the acclaimed artist into the public eye after a total disappearance of nearly a decade. Initially a cabinet-make specializing in painted furniture decorated with borders of flowers, Brookshaw appears to have abandoned this career at about the same time as he parted company with his wife and began living with Elizabeth Stanton, and under the assumed name of G. Brown (c.1794-1804). During this time he earned a living as a teacher of flower-painting and on the proceeds of his first painting manual "A New Treatise on Flower Painting", 1797. Characterized by the highest standards of production and artistic quality, the superb illustrations that Brookshaw drew and engraved for the "Pomona" remain perhaps the most sumptuous and distinctive of the early 19th century. This magnificent and stylistically unique work took Brookshaw nearly ten years to produce. Rivaled only by Dr. Robert Thornton...

A Branch with Apples, watercolor and gouache on paper by Swedish artist Otto Strandman (1871–1960). The composition features a delicately rendered branch with green and reddish apple...

Artist/ School: English School, 19th century, indistinctly signed lower corner. Title: botannical study of two apples with a branch next to them. Medium: watercolour drawing on pap...

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....