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Style: Victorian
Christmas Winter English watercolor of a Caffinch on a snow covered tree
By Ella Bruce
Located in Woodbury, CT
An outstanding painting by author and painter Ella Bruce. This watercolor is of the finest quality and shows the skill of the painter to the full. A vibrant and unique piece. The white highlights are painted in gouache or body color, which gives the piece great depth and an added level of quality.
This and the others from the collection were I'm sure painted for Christmas or Holiday cards...
Category
1970s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Christmas Winter English watercolor of two blue tits on a snow covered tree
By Ella Bruce
Located in Woodbury, CT
An outstanding painting by author and painter Ella Bruce. This watercolor is of the finest quality and shows the skill of the painter to the full. A vibrant and unique piece. The white highlights are painted in gouache or body color, which gives the piece great depth and an added level of quality.
This and the others from the collection were I'm sure painted for Christmas or Holiday cards...
Category
1970s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Victorian Cornish Sunset Landscape Watercolour of Young Lady on Coastal Path
Located in ludlow, GB
Victorian Cornish Sunset Landscape with Young Lady on a Coastal Path near Bude, Cornwall. A Watercolour and gouache painting on Paper, laid on board with mount, Framed and Glazed.
J...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Framed Victorian Watercolor Painting Prospect Of Nottingham Castle & The Park
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Thomas Cooper Moore.
English ( b.1827 - d.1901 ).
Prospect Of Nottingham Castle And The Park.
Watercolor.
Signed Lower Left.
Image size 12 inches x 17.3 inches ( 30.5cm x 44cm ).
Fr...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of Young Girl Victorian British Pre-Raphaelite portrait pencil drawing
Located in London, GB
This beautiful Victorian pencil drawing dates to around 1890 and is by an unknown hand. It is a bust length seated portrait of a young girl gazing to her right. Her long hair is bac...
Category
19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
$3,901 Sale Price
20% Off
Gypsies Around a Camp Fire - British art Victorian painting pastoral landscape
Located in London, GB
A vibrant Victorian watercolour which is signed and dated 1869 by Henry George Hine RI. A lovely scene around the camp fire with gypsies such as the man smoking and the laundry hung ...
Category
19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Pair of 19th century English Antique watercolor portraits of a man and woman,
Located in Woodbury, CT
A pair pf 19th century English School watercolor portraits of a man and woman, possibly husband and wife.
Both are inscribed on the rever...
Category
1840s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Early Twentieth Century Watercolour Landscape of Mill on River Ludlow, England
Located in ludlow, GB
Early Twentieth Century Victorian Watercolour Landscape of a Fulling Mill on the River Teme, Ludlow. A rare view of the Mill on Ludford Bridge before the first of the two fires that...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Very Fine Original 1870s Watercolor Of Fishing Boats On Beer Beach In East Devon
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Frederick Williamson.
English ( b.1835 - d.1900 ).
Fishing Boats & Fishermen On Beer Beach, East Devon.
Watercolor.
Signed Lower Right.
Image size 5.9 inches x 8.9 inches ( 15cm x 2...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Christmas Winter English watercolor of a Robin on a holly bush
By Ella Bruce
Located in Woodbury, CT
An outstanding painting by author and painter Ella Bruce. This watercolor is of the finest quality and shows the skill of the painter to the full. A vibrant and unique piece. The white highlights are painted in gouache or body color, which gives the piece great depth and and added level of quality.
This and the others from the collection were Im sure painted for Christmas or Holiday cards...
Category
1970s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Christmas Winter English watercolor of a Robin with holly and berries
By Ella Bruce
Located in Woodbury, CT
An outstanding painting by author and painter Ella Bruce. This watercolor is of the finest quality and shows the skill of the painter to the full. A vibrant and unique piece. The white highlights are painted in gouache or body color, which gives the piece great depth and and added level of quality.
This and the others from the collection were Im sure painted for Christmas or Holiday cards...
Category
1970s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A view of Bridgetown, Barbados with the U.S.S Shamokin 1868
Located in Woodbury, CT
A very interesting scene off of the coast of Bridgetown, Barbados. The USS Shamokin at sea on one of its first voyages after being de-commisioned from the American Navy.
Category
1860s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Max Beerbohm, 19th Century British caricature of Mr Harry Nichols
By Max Beerbohm
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Max Beerbohm (British, 1872 – 1956)
Mr Harry Nicholls (In a life of pleasure), 1893
Signed ‘MAX’ (lower right), inscribed with title in ink
Pencil on paper with evidence of some wate...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Canal Nocturne - British art Victorian watercolour horse barges moonlight
By Arthur Hopkins
Located in London, GB
A beautiful Victorian nocturne watercolour by Arthur Hopkins which dates to circa 1890. In outstanding condition, the colour is excellent. A super painting depicting a city canal a...
Category
19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Victorian Portrait of little baby Girl or Child playing with her toys
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful Early Victorian English watercolor of a little girl. The piece is full of quality and precise brushwork giving the painting a great feeling. I think the frame is later poss...
Category
1830s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$1,160 Sale Price
20% Off
“The Nest”
Located in Southampton, NY
Wonderful original watercolor on archival paper by the well known British artist, Vincent Clare. Signed lower right. Signed and titled verso. Circa 1890. Condition is excellent. Beau...
Category
1890s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$2,200 Sale Price
21% Off
Pencil drawing off of Sandy Hook, NY of a ship on its way to Brazil
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful and historically interesting scene of a steam ship off the coast of Sandy Hook, New YorkCity before its voyage to Brazil. Part of a collection of pencil drawings , all uns...
Category
1860s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
A Seraph (no. 1)
Located in Atlanta, GA
Framed dimensions 18.5 x 17.5 inches
One of two original drawings of seraphim created for the British firm of stained-glass designers Shrigley and Hunt. The drawings are by the cele...
Category
1880s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Watercolor
Pair of Antique Tropical Watercolor Paintings
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare pair of 19th Century watercolors on paper painted in tropical settings both signed MWW 87 and presented in wood frames under glass.
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Seraph (no. 2)
Located in Atlanta, GA
Framed dimensions 18.5 x 17.5 inches
One of two original drawings of seraphim created for the British firm of stained-glass designers Shrigley and Hunt. The drawings are by the cele...
Category
1880s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Watercolor
Set of Two Fine Antique British Botanical Paintings White Flower Sketches
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Two very fine original antique English botanical watercolour paintings depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey,...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Dinan, Brittany clock tower watercolour attr Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding
Located in London, GB
Attributed to Antony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787 - 1855)
Dinan Tour de l’Horloge (Dinan Clock Tower)
Watercolour
28 x 21 cm
A spirited watercolour of Dinan, Brittany. Dinan's famo...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
William Roxby Beverley 'Durham Cathedral from the North East' University
Located in London, GB
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Category
19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
John Fulleylove attrib. St John's College Canterbury Quad Oxford watercolour
Located in London, GB
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Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Fine Antique British Botannical Watercolour Painting, circa 1900's
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, England and had been part of an album of works assembled by the artist during the early 1900's.
During the Victorian and Edwardian era in Britain, it was very fashionable for ladies of aristocratic and wealthy backgrounds to draw and paint still lifes of flowers and plants that they had picked or seen in gardens. Many were highly accomplished and extremely talented artists, who sadly were not encouraged to exhibit due to society frowning upon such activities.
Artist/ School: Caroline Worsley...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
John Fulleylove Trinity College Great Court, Cambridge 1890 watercolour
Located in London, GB
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Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Cotswold Village, England /// Antique British Watercolor City Scene Cottage Art
By Maud Hollyer
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Maud Hollyer (English, 1867-1910)
Title: "Cotswold Village, England"
*Signed by Hollyer lower left
Circa: 1900
Medium: Original Watercolor on paper
Framing: Not framed, but beautifully matted with hand decorated archival French matting...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Resting Lady, Roma /// Antique Rome Italian Watercolor Figurative Landscape Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Filippo Bartolini (Italian, 1861-1908)
Title: "Resting Lady, Roma"
*Signed by Bartolini lower right
Circa: 1900
Medium: Original Watercolor on heavy wove paper
Framing: Rece...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
In Cambridgeshire /// British English Sheep Farm Cottage Village Watercolor Art
By John Arthur Dees
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: John Arthur Dees (English, 1876-1959)
Title: "In Cambridgeshire"
*Signed by Dees lower right
Circa: 1915
Medium: Original Watercolor on paper
Framing: Not framed, but beautifully matted with hand decorated French matting...
Category
1910s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Windy Day ... Blackstone Edge /// British English Antique Watercolor Landscape
By Tom Whitehead
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Tom Whitehead (English, 1886-1959)
Title: "A Windy Day ... Blackstone Edge"
*Signed by Whitehead in green watercolor on verso
Circa: 1920
Medium: Original Watercolor on paper, laid down to thin board
Framing: Not framed, but beautifully matted with hand decorated French matting
Matted size: 16.25" x 20.25"
Image size: 9.25" x 13.75"
Condition: A few cosmetic surface marks on lower margin of mat. In excellent condition
Notes:
Retains partial original gallery label with pencil inscriptions upper left on verso.
Blackstone Edge is a gritstone escarpment at 1,549 feet (472 m) above sea level in the Pennine hills surrounded by moorland on the boundary between Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire in England.
Biography:
Tom Whitehead (English, 1886-1959) was born in Leeds and died in Halifax in 1959. He studied at the Halifax School of Art and the Royal College of Art in Paris, France. In addition to his printmaking primarily in etching, Whitehead, a member of the Society of Yorkshire Artists...
Category
1920s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
19th-Century Austrian School, Lady Riding A Grey Mare
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming mid-19th-century European watercolour depicts a young lady riding a grey mare before a view of Berg Perchtoldsdorf, Austria.
During the 19th century, aristocratic wome...
Category
1860s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Paper
19th century ink drawing seated female figure with book sketch signed
By Hannah de Rothschild
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The New Year" is a pen and ink on paper portrait signed by Hannah de Rothschild. A girl sits quietly in a corner with a cap. Her focus is on a book in her lap, she is about to rip a...
Category
1860s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Sketch-book Page, Shoreham, Samuel Palmer, Late 19th Century
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, numerous pencil inscriptions
Image size: 5 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (14 x 55 cm)
Period style hand made gilt frame
Provenance
The collection of Ernest Pearce (1930-20...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Bahamian Street Scene Watercolor Painting
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Watercolor painting of a Bahamian street scene possibly in Nassau. Complete with a woman carrying a bundle, a man in a cart, palm trees, house, gates and warm peaceful ambiance. Sign...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Study for Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 inches (19 x 23 cm)
Carved gilt frame
Literature
Illustrated in Malcolm Bell's 'Sir Edward Burne-Jones, A Record and Review', London, 1899, p.127.
Provenance
Major Charles Sydney Goldman 1958
By descent to his Sons
John and Margaret Monck (John Goldman Monck) 1958-1963
Commander Victor Robert Penryn Monck (Victor Robert Penryn Monk Goldman) 1958-1963
Christie's London (Christie, Manson and Woods) 1963, John Monck and Cmdr Penryn Monck sale 26 April 1963 part lot 71
Sir John Richardson, 2019
Burne-Jones decided that the folds in the drapery in this study were too complex for the final painting and fairly soon after he simplified the draperies.
The work is a drapery study for the seated figures at the centre of Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones monumental The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon (Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico). The artist spent seventeen years working on the complex narrative, even moving his studio to a larger space to accommodate the canvas. Born as a commission from his patron George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle, to decorate a wall in his library at Naworth Castle, The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon was left unfinished in Burne-Jones’ studio upon his death. The work was bequeathed to a studio neighbour whose descendants sold it at auction in 1963, where it was purchased by Luis A. Ferré, politician and founder of the Museo de Arte de Ponce.
To his friends and family, Burne-Jones was known for his 'unpainted masterpieces'. Indeed, from his youth he made swift sketches, such as this study, that appeared effortless in contrast to his carefully crafted paintings and allowed him to work out ideas and refine details. He also drew outside of the studio, and his contemporaries remarked at his uncanny ability to do so while fully engaged in other activities. The painter W. Graham...
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19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Original artwork for Illustrated London News of Wolverhampton School of Art
Located in London, GB
Wolverhampton School of Practical Art
Original artwork for engraving published for London Illustrated News (25 June 1853)
17.5x29cm
Watercolour
Category
1850s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Cute Children's Book Illustration British Female Illustrator - Teddy Bears
Located in Miami, FL
A British Female Illustrator paints a warm and fuzzy scene from a child's imagination, with ducks and teddy bears gazing at a "Mr Willoughby's eyeglass" standing on it's edge as it l...
Category
1920s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Inquisitive
Located in Marlborough, England
Valentine Thomas Garland, R.A., R.B.A., R.I., R.O.I., R.S.A. (1868 - 1914)
INQUISITIVE
Signed and dated 1891, lower right.
Watercolour and body colour
Frame H. 45cm. x W. 39cm.
Image...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract Silhouette Hat Portraits - Female Illustrator of Golden Age
Located in Miami, FL
115 years after they were created, one can view these silhouettes differently than the artist’s intent.
After all, the genesis of this work was an editorial illustration for Life Magazine to showcase elaborate women’s hats.
They were done for a commercial assignment with a deadline, and picky editors were overseeing the final work.
Today, they have a dual meaning.
These charming silhouettes are abstractions as much as they are representations.
Moreover, each one is a compact little gem stuffed with observational detail.
Golden Age female illustrator Jesse Gillespie's mastery of technical skill, is apparent in minute details and composition.
Young women, old women, pendants, necklaces, feathers, and laced vails all contribute to the works understated complexity.
The identity of the subjects are revealed by small areas of exposed neck and chin.
As the viewers eyes goes from left to right - all six silhouettes read as fashion hieroglyphs in a sentence with a visual rhythm and cadence. .
Initialed JG lower right., Matted but not framed.
Published: Life Magazine, March 17th, 1910.
Provenance: Honey and Wax Bookstore
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jessie Gillespie Willing (March 28, 1888 – August 1, 1972) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of illustration. She was considered the foremost silhouette illustrator of her time, although she did traditional illustration as well. Willing illustrated for books and magazines including Life, The Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's Home Companion, Mother and Child, McClure's Magazine, Childhood Education, the Sunday Magazine, Association Men (the magazine of the YMCA), Farm and Fireside, Every Week, Children: The Magazine for Parents (which became Parents Magazine), and the American Magazine. She is perhaps most well known for her work for the Girl Scouts.
Early life
Willing was born in Brooklyn on March 28, 1888 to John Thomson Willing (August 4, 1860 – July 8, 1947)[1][2] and Charlotte Elizabeth Van Der Veer Willing (December 1, 1859 – March 4, 1930).[3] Thomson Willing was a noted illustrator and art editor. He was also well known for finding new artistic talent. Jessie Willing was the eldest of three children. Her brother Van Der Veer (November 30, 1889 – January 14, 1919), who died of pneumonia at the age of 29, was an advertising agent.[4] Her sister Elizabeth Hunnewell Willing (July 26, 1908 – August 15, 1991) was one of the first women to graduate from the Philadelphia Divinity School.[5][6] Elizabeth married the Rev. Orrin Judd, rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, on September 22, 1931, and was active in church work.[citation needed]
The Willing family moved to the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia in 1901 or 1902. Jessie Willing attended the Stevens School, from which she graduated in 1905. She then went on to attend the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts from 1906 to 1907.[7][8]
Career
Willing used her middle name Gillespie as her professional surname. She also often signed her illustrations J.G.[9] The story goes that the art editor of Life magazine was in Thomson Willing's office when he was the art editor of the Associated Sunday Magazine syndicate. Thomson Willing had some of Jessie's artwork on his desk, which the Life editor saw and admired. He asked for the artist's information so that he could give her freelance work. Thomson Willing did not want to be accused of nepotism so he persuaded Jessie to use Jessie Gillespie as her professional name, which she did.[10][11]
In addition to her extensive illustration work, Willing was also the editor of Heirlooms and Masterpieces from 1922 to 1931 and the art editor of Jewelers' Circular-Keystone from 1933 to 1939.[12] She specialized in jewelry publicity and advertising. In 1966 she won the Gold medal of the Printing Week Graphic Arts Exhibit in Philadelphia for her Christmas catalog for J.E. Caldwell Co., Philadelphia.
Willing was a member of the Plastic Club of Philadelphia,[13] the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and the National Arts Club of New York.[14] She was an honorary life member of the National Arts Club[15] and served on its Board of Governors from 1941-1970. In 1963, she received the Gold Medal of the National Arts Club in recognition of 32 years of selfless devotion.[15] Additionally, she was the national director of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) from 1943 to 1946.[15] Previous to this she served as the Program Chairman of the AIGA and in that position she put together a travelling exhibit on the "history of narrative art from the first recorded picture story to the comic book of the twentieth century."[16][17]
Illustrations in books
With Tongue and Pen--Frederick Bair, et al. (MacMillan, 1940)
Masoud the Bedouin--Alfred Post Carhart (Missionary Education Movement, 1915)
The Path of the Gopatis--Zilpha Carruthers (National Dairy Council, 1926)
The Schoolmaster and His Son: A Narrative of the Thirty Years War--Karl Heinrich Caspari (Lutheran Publication Society, 1917)
On a Rainy Day--Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Sarah Scott Fisher (A.S. Barnes and Co., 1938)
Book of Games for Home, School and Playground--William B. Forbush and Harry R Allen...
Category
1910s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Portrait of a Young Man, 19th Century English, Charcoal, Signed and Dated '1888'
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, signed and dated '1888' bottom right
Image size: 9 x 7 1/2 inches (22.75 x 19 cm)
Period frame
The half-length portrait depicts the subject sat, wearing a white s...
Category
1880s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Portrait of Rebecca Octavia Dorothy Nash, Victorian Graphite Drawings
By Joseph Nash
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, inscribed on original backing
Image size: 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (16.5 x 14 cm)
Mounted
This is a delightful graphite drawing by the artist Joseph Nash that depict...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Stirling Castle, 19th Century British School Signed Watercolour
Located in London, GB
BRITISH SCHOOL
19th Century
STIRLING CASTLE
Watercolour, signed lower right
Image size: 12 x 10 inches
(30 x 25.5 cm)
Category
19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Experiment, Dated 1838, Signed English Watercolour
By Alfred H. Taylor
Located in London, GB
Alfred H. Taylor
The Experiment
Watercolour, signed and dated 1838
Image size: 9 ½ x 8 inches
Category
19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Music Party, 19th Century Company School Watercolour
Located in London, GB
COMPANY SCHOOL
19th Century
The Music Party
Watercolour
Image size: 4 ¾ x 7 ½ inches
Acid free mount
Category
19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Hill, Hampstead, Signed Early 20th Century British Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and scratching out on paper, signed lower left
Image size: 11 x 17 1/2 inches (28 x 44.5 cm)
Original giltwood frame
Provenance
Christopher Wood Gallery
R Mellon, USA
...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Chestnut Seller, Victorian Watercolour Genre Scene
Located in London, GB
Brown ink and watercolour, heightened with white, signed lower right
Image size: 18 x 14 1/4 inches (45.75 x 36 cm)
Gilt frame
Modern moral subjects were a special kind of genre that was invented by William Hogarth which satirised the manners and morals of the period in which the artist lived. They were particular in their frankness and often biting social satire. Genre painting became hugely popular in the Victorian age and towards the end of the nineteenth century a new focus for genre painting emerged.
The Artist
Joseph H Barnes...
Category
1860s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Oh if brother would only let me have the key."
Located in Miami, FL
Signed "Violet Moore Higgins" in right-center image. Taped to board and matted.
Story illustration for unknown publication.
Though unconfirmed, it is possible this illustration was produced for The Little Lame Prince by Miss Mulock (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik) (Chicago: Albert Whitman Co., 1927, chapter VII).
Violet Moore Higgins, born Violet Idelle Moore, attended the Art Institute of Chicago in the early 1900s, and then settled in New York as an illustrator for children's books and magazines. She has illustrated books like 'Pinocchio', 'Heidi', 'Hans Brinker' and 'The Three Bears'. In the 1910s she made 'Picture Puzzle...
Category
1920s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Study of a Standing Female Nude
Located in London, GB
Evelyn de Morgan
Study of a Standing Female Nude
1855 - 1917
Black chalk and pastel on grey paper
Image size: 12 ½ x 19 inches (48.2 x 31.7 cm)
Pre-Raphaelite style frame
Provenance
J.S. Mass & Co., Ltd., London, J.X. Reynolds & Co., Ltd.
Once she had graduated from the Slade School of Art, Evelyn continued to draw every day for the rest of her life. Her drawings are enlightening not only for their skill and subject matter, but also for their ability to teach us her working process. From loose compositional sketches, Evelyn swiftly progressed to detailed life studies for the figures in her paintings. Choosing to draw mainly on a grey wove paper in pencil and pastel, Evelyn produced hundreds of figure studies. Her rigorously-examined double studies of clothed and nude figures are particularly fascinating and underline the artist’s obsession with the human form and her desire for accuracy. A deep understanding of anatomy is obvious in this drawing and looking at the work you feel as though you can reach out and feel the muscle and bone under the skin, that you could feel the pulse of life through the soft skin.
Evelyn de Morgan
Born into a landowning family, from an early age Evelyn De Morgan, née Pickering, demonstrated a precocious artistic talent and a passionate desire to pursue a career as an artist, writing in her diary on her seventeenth birthday ‘Art is eternal, life is short… I have not a moment to lose’ (Evelyn De Morgan’s Diary, 30 August 1872, De Morgan Foundation Archive). Her maternal uncle, the artist John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope encouraged her talents and accompanied her on her first formative journeys to Italy where she discovered the Renaissance masters, particularly Botticelli. Overcoming initial parental opposition, Evelyn enrolled at the newly formed Slade School in 1873, one of the first women to do so.
The Slade revolutionised women’s artistic education by allowing female students to study the nude from life alongside their male counterparts. Whilst at the Slade she began to submit work under her middle name Evelyn, rather than her Christian name Mary, as its gender ambiguity offered a chance for her work to be judged on its own merit.
One of her tutors, Edward Poynter...
Category
20th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pastel
Price Upon Request
Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban, Early 19th Century Orientalist Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper
Image size: 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (11.5 x 9 cm)
Mounted and framed
This is an arresting image featuring a head and shoulders portrait of a bearded man wearing a ...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Ruins of Hailes Abbey, 19th century landscape sketch
Located in London, GB
Graphite on buff paper
'Hales Abbey, Gloucestershire' initialled, inscribed and dated 1837 bottom left
Image size: 8 x 13 1/2 inches (20 x 34.5 cm)
18th Century Hogarth frame and was...
Category
1830s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
An Opulent Evening
By Guiseppe Aureli
Located in Missouri, MO
Guiseppe Aureli (1858-1929)
"An Opulent Evening" c. 1880s
Watercolor on Paper
Signed Lower Right
Site Size: approx. 30 x 20 inches
Framed Size: approx. 37 x 29 inches
Giuseppe Aureli (December 5, 1858 in Rome – 1929) was an Italian painter and watercolorist. His work is noted for its historical subject matter, portraits of Italian noble families as well as genre paintings and local scenes, especially work with Oriental themes.
He received his early art education at the Academia de San Luca where he was the pupil of Pietro Gabarini and Cesare Maccari.[1] He exhibited in various exhibitions; including: The International Exhibition of 1888 in Munich and the World Fair of 1893 in Chicago, but his Oriental works were rarely included in these early exhibitions. Having his workshop at 48 Via Margutta in Rome, Aureli was in a position to exchange ideas with the most prolific Orientalist artists at that the time. He used the same staircase that led to a rabbit-warren of studios including those of Filippo Bartolini, Enrico Tarenghi...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
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