Hans Herrmann

Hans HERRMANN (1858-1942) Watercolor Painting c1900 Dutch School

1900

Danish School 19th Century A typical Scandinavian composition showing a woman heading towards a gate. This genre of painting is designed to intrigue the viewer and ask the question,...

Circle of Fred MORGAN (1847-1927) c1890 A sensitively painted portrait, possibly a study for a larger work, of a young country girl. Indistinctly signed ** Morgan, possibly Fred. Unfortunately Fred signed in a number of different ways depending on the grandeur of his work. However, a consistent element was the colour, a reddish brown similar to the colour of the signature on this painting. I can offer no provenance with this painting, so I am selling at as circle of Morgan rather than actually by him. “Frederick Morgan ROI was an English painter of portraits, animals, domestic and country scenes. He became known for his idyllic genre scenes of childhood. Morgan was born in London to John Morgan and his wife, Henrietta Hester Clare. His father was a successful genre artist sometimes known as 'Jury Morgan' (after one of his paintings The Gentlemen of the Jury). At the age of 14, he was taken out of school by his father who then tutored him in art. At the age of 16, while still studying with his father, his first picture, The Rehearsal, was exhibited at the Royal Academy, and, after a hiatus of several years, his paintings were shown there regularly. For a while he worked as a portrait artist for an Aylesbury photographer; this training proved to be crucial as it "taught him how to observe closely and to give the greatest attention to detail." Eventually he turned to other subjects for his art, in particular idyllic genre scenes of country life and childhood. For many years, starting in 1874, Thomas Agnew & Sons' purchased all the work he produced. Although an excellent portrait artist, Morgan had problems in depicting pets and barnyard animals - he enlisted the aid of either Arthur John Elsley...

19th Century French School A charming portrait of a young woman resplendent in her best bonnet. Indistinctly signed on the front, also inscribed on the frame verso with the artist’...

Pierre Emmanuel Damoye (1847–1916) French Barbizon School A desolate snow covered landscape of fishing boats and nets drying on the banks of the river ...

A fine rural watercolour showing men hard at work in a clearing, preparing to turn heavy trunks into timber for raw material. The painting is signed by the artist to the lower right....

A view from the water in Rotterdam including figures and boats in the foreground in the manner of Samuel Prout OWS (1783-1852). Presented glazed in a cream and beige double mount and...

A charming depiction of the Cathedral in Rotterdam, The Netherlands from the canal harbour. Signed. Presented in a gilt frame with a plaque bearing the artist name and title. On paper.

A finely painted watercolour of two Dutch women and a young child resting in a landscape. The artist has caught both women in a moment of silence, sat upon rocks. The genre scene has...