English School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

A study in red chalk of a girl sitting and reading a book. Red chalk on paper under glass in a giltwood and gesso frame. This small drawing has a sense of intimacy in the capturing of a moment where the sitter is seemingly unaware of being observed, unlike the feeling of formailty and self-awareness in a staged portrait sitting Provenance: Private collection, Somerset With J. Davey & Sons Ltd, Liverpool William Hoare...

V JORDAN (19th Century) A Warwickshire Cottage, watercolour heightened with white, signed, inscribed mounts, size overall 23 x 19 inches approx. painting 9 1/2" x 13 1/2", The waterc...

A 19th Century WATERCOLOUR depicting a charming British rural scene with Milk maids and children in a farmstead size of image approx 28 x 23 cm (11" by 9") oval overall size( 41 x 46...

Company School 18th Century Ramnagar Fort, India Pen & ink on paper Inscribed and dated 1793 Acid free mount This incredible detailed work would probably have been drawn by an En...

This charming 19th-century drawing by British artist Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix (1840-1916) depicts a timber-framed public house, figures, horses and a leaning signpost. De ...

Thomas Barclay Hennell (1903-1945) Gathering potatoes, Inscribed, "Gathering potatoes/ Folkestone/ Sept 30 1931", Pencil with pen highlights, 11 x 17½ inches 18 x 24 inches with the...

Graphite on paper, signed bottom right Image size: 13 x 8 3/4 inches (33 x 22.25 cm) Original frame Dora Thacher Clarke, later Dora Middleton, (1895–1989) was a British sculptor and wood carver who also wrote about, and promoted African art. Clarke was born in Harrow in Middlesex. Her father, Joseph Thacher Clarke was an American architect. Clarke won a scholarship that allowed her to attend the Slade School of Fine Art. Aged fifteen, Clarke initially studied at the Slade on a part-time basis for three days each week throughout 1910 and 1911 but during 1915 and 1916 she studied sculpture there as a full-time student. Clarke first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1923 and continued to do so until 1959. In the early 1930s she was a regular exhibitor in group shows at the Goupil Gallery and in March 1937 had her first solo show at the French Gallery. She also exhibited at the Paris Salon and with the Royal Society of British Artists. Clarke's works included bronze castings, memorials and wood sculptures, often of African heads. For example she was commissioned to sculpt the posthumous portrait bust of Sir Walter Morley Fletcher. The most notable of her memorials is the panel and medallion tribute to Joseph Conrad at Bishopsbourne in Kent, which was unveiled in 1927. Clarke also wrote about, and promoted African art and spent a year, between 1927 and 1928 in Kenya, where she made many drawings which when she returned to London she used as the basis for wood carvings and bronzes of tribal figures. Wood carving became her technique of choice, often working with hardwoods and, on occasion, sperm whale teeth. Clarke married Admiral Gervase B Middleton in 1938 but rarely exhibited work under her married name. During World War II, Clarke was commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee to produce a portrait medallion depicting a serviceman who had been awarded the George Cross. This proved to be the only portrait medallion acquired for the WAAC collection. Sculptures by Clarke are held in various museums, including the Ashmolean Museum which also holds a 1936 portrait of her by Orovida Camille Pissarro.

Graphite on paper Image size: 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 (26 x 22 cm) Mounted Drawing was at the heart of all of his artistic practice. A friend once recalled an anecdote that out on a walk he ...

Graphite on paper Image size: 5 1/4 x 8 inches (13 x 20.25 cm) Mounted Jane Ross Little is known about Jane Ross apart from that she attended Heatherley's Art School. Here she met...

Housed in a period gold leaf frame. Inscribed lower left, "Market Place Tanta Egypt". Signed and dated 1874. This watercolor depicts an Arab Marketplace (Souk) in Tanta, Egypt. William Paton Burton was born 1828, in Madras, India and died December 1883, in Aberdeen, Scotland. William Paton Burton was an architect, painter and watercolourist. His father was an officer in the Indian Army. Burton first studied with David Bryce...

Watercolour and graphite on paper Image size: 9 1/2 x 12 inches (24 x 30.5 cm) Acid free mount This is a view just outside of the village of Warlingham, Surrey, where Scott had a house. The Artist Gordon Scott frst studied at Croydon School of Art and then was trained at the Royal College of Art between 1934-38 under Gilbert Spencer, Alan Sorrell and Charles Mahoney...

Graphite on paper, signed with stamp Image size: 9 x 6 ¾ inches Acid free mount Born in London, Moody studied at Battersea Polytechnic and at Royal College of Art under William Roth...

Graphite on paper Image size: 7 x 5 inches (17.75 x 12.75 cm) Mounted Jane Ross Little is known about Jane Ross apart from that she attended Heatherley's Art School. Here she met ...

Graphite on paper, signed lower right Image size: 17 x 21 inches (43.25 x 53.25 cm) Contemporary frame James Stroudley Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year. From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker, paid homage to Stroudley by including his work in the exhibition ‘Pupil & Masters’, held at Westgate House, Long Melford, Suffolk. Stroudley married three times, and his wives included the fashion artist to the Sun newspaper...

Watercolour on paper, signed, titled & dated 1933 Image size: 11 ½ x 7 inches (29 x 18 cm) Mounted This work is initialled lower right 'CT' and inscribed lower left 'Bristol Savages...