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Period: 19th Century
Medium: Paper
François Lafon (French, 1846-c.1920) Nude Female Portrait France Oil on Painting
By François Lafon
Located in Meinisberg, CH
François Lafon
(French, 1846-c.1920)
Draped nude Woman seated between Pillars with young Child
• Oil sketch on paper
• Visible image, ca. 35 x 22 cm
•...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Paper Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
On the Anglesea Coast - Welsh Coastal Beach Watercolour Antique Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A fine late 19th century watercolour depicting fishermen bringing in the days catch on the Anglesea Coast by James Aitken. The artist specialised in coastal scenes around the British Isles and is very well regarded. Signed lower right.
This is one of a pair that we currently have available - the other depicting the Mull of Galloway in Scotland.
Artist: James Aitken (British, active 1880-1935)
Title: On the Anglesea Coast
Medium: Watercolour on paper laid on card
Size: 15 x 21.5 in (38 x 55 cm) unframed
Condition: Very good original condition
Provenance: Private collection, Kent
James Aitken was born at Newburgh in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1853/54. He is known to have been active as an artist from 1880 and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1894-1918.
He painted mainly maritime scenes in England and Scotland, and also made several visits to the continent, to paint in France, Italy and Switzerland. From 1894 he visited the Isle of Man, and liked it so much that he moved there permanently with his family in 1911. They took up residence in Port St. Mary.
James Aitken exhibited works at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute, the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Cambrian Society as well as in the provinces. He was a member of the Liverpool Academy of Arts. Today, he has works in the Warrington Museum, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and the Merseyside Maritime Museum.
James Aitken was the father of John Ernest...
Category
1890s Paper Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Watercolor
"Portrait of senior military man in uniform" Tempera, original frame 1881
Located in Torino, IT
Interesting portrait of 1881, on the back there is a letter in French. Set historical relic
Category
1880s French School Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
"Study of a Frog Studying Various Plants" France, Early 19th century
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Study of a Frog Studying Various Plants"
France, 19th century
OIl on paper
Signed
14 x 10 (18 x 14 frame) inches
This well-painted composition of a frog which seems to be observin...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Prior- Hamblin School Portraits of John & Sally Eaton, Parents of A.H. Harris
Located in Milford, NH
A fine pair of 19th century Prior-Hamblin School oil on paperboard portraits, identified as John & Sally Eaton, parents of AH Harris, unsigned, and housed in wooden frames with a mar...
Category
19th Century Paper Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
The Country House - Farm Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
The Country House - Farm Landscape
Highly detailed scene with a country house, workers, and a hare with rider by an unknown artist (19th Century). Five people - one on a horse - are...
Category
19th Century Realist Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Watercolor
Two Mandarin Ducks, Circle of Sunqua, Gouache on Pith Paper, Qing Dynasty
By Sunqua
Located in Stockholm, SE
Circle of Sunqua (active 1830-1870)
Two Mandarin Ducks
pith paper (rice paper)
gouache
c.1830-1870 China
Also close to: Chincqua, Lam Qua, Youqua.
Compare ...
Category
19th Century Paper Paintings
Materials
Rice Paper, Gouache
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 Paper Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor
19th Century Italian gouache painting of Mount Vesuvius and Naples, summertime
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A beautiful and naive painting of Naples from the sea in summertime from the 19th Century. The beautiful light blue tones of the sea highlight the architecture of Naples and Vesuvius beyond.
Circle of Gioacchino La Pira...
Category
19th Century Academic Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Gerge Ottman / Charleston, N.Y.
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right and dated lower left August 29, 1893
Little is known about Fritz Vogt until 1890 to 1900 when he earned a reputation for doing nearly 500 graphic architectural drawings near Sharon Springs and Ames in upstate New York. These were rural agricultural towns of German immigrants.
His renderings were precise and detailed and indicate he had studied architecture either in Germany or America. His work resembles drawing produced for the Beers Company of Philadelphia, publishers of atlases, but extensive attempts to research his life before 1890 have not been successful. It is known that when he did his upstate New York drawings he stayed with farm families and worked with paper, pencil, and ruler, and that he often worked outdoors. He played musical instruments and sometimes worked as a farm hand.
His drawings, many of them in color pencil, showed the types of crops planted, the animals, and details of the buildings. He also did several drawings of churches...
Category
1890s Folk Art Paper Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
"Portrait of an Italian Fencer, " John Frederick Kensett, Hudson River School
Located in New York, NY
John Frederick Kensett (1816 - 1872)
Portrait of an Italian Fencer, circa 1845-47
Watercolor on wove paper
13 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Signed with initials and inscribed lower right "J.F.K. Rome"
From October 1845 through the spring of 1847, Kensett lived in Rome. He attended classes where he sketched from live models, and he sketched in the countryside outside Rome and around Florence, Perugia, and Venice, places he visited with his artist friends. He fulfilled commissions for paintings from Americans in Italy, and by 1847 his career was well established.
Son of an English immigrant engraver, John Kensett lacked enthusiasm for that medium and became one of the most accomplished painters of the second generation of Hudson River School painters. His reputation is for Luminism, careful depiction of light, weather, and atmosphere as they affect color and texture of natural forms. He was particularly influenced by the painting of Asher Durand in that he focused on realism and detail rather than the highly dramatic views associated with Thomas Cole. Going to the western United States in the mid 1850s and the 1860s, he was the first of the Hudson River School painters to explore and paint the West.
Kensett was born and raised in Cheshire, Connecticut, and learned his engraving from his father, Thomas Kensett with whom he worked in New Haven, Connecticut until 1829. He continued working until 1840 as an engraver of labels, banknotes and maps and was employed part of that time by the American Bank Note Company in New York City. There he met Thomas Rossiter, John Casilear, and other artists who urged him to pursue painting. In 1840, he and Rossiter, Asher Durand, and Casilear went to Europe where Kensett stayed for seven years and supported himself by doing engraving but became accomplished in landscape painting.
Having sent canvases of Italian landscapes back to New York, he had a reputation for skillful painting that preceded him. When he returned to New York City in 1847, he was an "instant success" and very sought after by collectors. Two of his Italian landscapes had already been purchased by the American Art Union. By 1849, he was a full member of the National Academy of Design and was generally popular among his peers. His studio was a gathering place with travelers stopping by to see his canvases and to identify "precise locations in the Catskills or Newport or New England in the oil sketches and drawings that covered his walls." (Zellman 170). For the women, he was a popular bachelor, "romantic looking with high forehead and sensitive expression." (Samuels 262)
He was also sought after by many organizations. Among his activities were serving on the committee to oversee the decoration of the United States Capitol in Washington DC, and becoming one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
An inveterate traveler, Kensett spent summers on painting excursions away from New York City. One of these trips was a special painting excursion with fifteen other artists sponsored by the B & O Railroad from Baltimore, Maryland to Wheeling, West Virginia. Unlike many of the Hudson River painters...
Category
1840s Hudson River School Paper Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Fishing Camp on the Labrador Coast
Located in New York, NY
In 1852, twenty-nine year old William Bradford was a failing shopkeeper in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. With a wife and child at home, Bradford, by his own admission, “spent too much time in painting to succeed” in business. Rescued from insolvency by his well-to-do in-laws, this is not the beginning of a narrative that generally leads to a happy ending. Not so with Bradford, who ultimately found international fame and fortune as a painter of arctic seascapes and dramatic marine paintings.
William Bradford, the artist, was a lineal descendant of the 17th-century Separatist leader William Bradford, a founder of the Plymouth Plantation, signer of the Mayflower Compact and Governor of the Plymouth Colony. Our Bradford born to a New Bedford ship outfitter in Fairhaven, Massachusetts By the nineteenth century, this line of Bradfords were Quakers, living on the tract purchased nearly two centuries earlier by their pilgrim ancestor. Fairhaven, across the mouth of the Acushnet River from the whaling center of New Bedford was described by a New York journalist in 1857 as “the Brooklyn of New Bedford” (Home Journal, January 3, 1857). Young Bradford displayed an early predilection for the arts, but his Quaker parents were disinclined to support this particular pursuit. After working in his father’s business and then for a dry goods merchant in New Bedford, by 1849 Bradford had set up in New Bedford as a “merchant tailor” offering outfits for “those going to California,” “seamen’s clothing,” custom-tailored “piece goods...
Category
19th Century American Realist Paper Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
English Country Side Painting by Alfred A. Waters
Located in Rochester, NY
English country side painting by Alfred A Waters (1849 - 1912 United Kingdom). Watercolor on paper. Late 19th century. Unframed.
Category
Late 19th Century Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Pompeian Still Life Gouache
Located in New York, NY
Original gouache by an unknown Neapolitan artist, circa 1840. Upper right panel after a fresco in Casa dei Dioscuri, Pompeii.
Category
1840s Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Big sky, clouds over the Seine River French Impressionist landscape painting
By Gaston Prunier
Located in Norwich, GB
A stunning sky and cloud study by Gaston Prunier. Originally from Le Havre, the sea port where the Seine empties into the English Channel, Prunier was c...
Category
1890s French School Paper Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Gouache, Watercolor
Tommaso Minardi Flight to Egypt 19 century oil paper wood
Located in Florence, IT
The scene depicted is taken from the Chapter 20 of the apocriphal gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, telling about an event happened during the rest on the flight...
Category
Early 19th Century Other Art Style Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Wood, Oil
19th Century French woodland scene with girl by a stream by Rerolle
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Joseph Rerolle (French, 1829 – 1901)
A girl at a woodland stream, Leman
Oil on paper laid down on board
Signed ‘J. Rerolle’ (lower left)
13.7/8 x 16.3/4 in. (35.3 x 42.5 cm.)
Category
19th Century Impressionist Paper Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Board
William Daniell (British, 1769-1837) Fortification 19th Century Ink Wash Drawing
By William Daniell
Located in Meinisberg, CH
William Daniell
(British, 1769-1837)
Bridged Fortification in a Mountainous River
• Blue wash on paper, laid on card, ca. 18 x 32 cm
• Presented behi...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Paper Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Cardboard, Ink
19th C. German painting of figures at a waterfall in the manner of Friedrich
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A very romantic and detailed painting of figures enjoying the views of a waterfall in summertime, Europe
Circle of Caspar David Friedrich (Germ...
Category
19th Century Academic Paper Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
Contemporary Art, Antique Japanese Paper, Textile Art-Unwritten History
Located in Delaware , OH
Contemporary Art, Antique Japanese Paper, Textile Art-Unwritten History
A B O U T T H I S P I E C E :
This 100 year old holistic dyed paper has...
Category
Early 19th Century Contemporary Paper Paintings
Materials
Glass, Archival Paper
'Picnic on the Coast', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Salon des Independants, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Dambourgez' for Edouard-Jean Dambourgez (French, 1844-1931) and painted circa 1880.
Edouard-Jean Dambourgez first studied under Jules Lefebvre and, later, as an engraver and chromo-lithographer with Gustave Boulanger. Dambourgez commenced exhibiting in 1880 at the Salon des Artistes Français, and, in 1883, was elected a member of the Society. He exhibited frequently and with success at the other major Paris salons including the Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Independants and the Salon des Champs-de-Mars. In 1884, he was commissioned by the Louvre to engrave the illustrations for the catalog to the Thiers Collection, recently bequeathed to the Museum. The recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards, Dambourgez received an honorable distinction in 1888 and an honorable mention in 1891.
In 1888, the critic Albert Wolff spotted his canvas 'A Cheese Shop' and recommended its inclusion at the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1891, the city of Paris bought his large canvas, 'The Cream and Cheese Market...
Category
1880s Impressionist Paper Paintings
Materials
Oil, Postcard
Contemporary Art, Antique Textiles, Paper Art, Textiles-Centurial Curio
Located in Delaware , OH
Contemporary Art, Antique Textiles, Paper Art, Textiles-Centurial Curio
A B O U T T H I S P I E C E :
This 100 year old holistic dyed paper has used to wrapping textiles in old Japa...
Category
Early 19th Century Abstract Paper Paintings
Materials
Glass, Archival Paper
'La Taverne Pausset, Paris', Salon d'Automne, Salon des Independants, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Dambourgez' for Edouard-Jean Dambourgez (French, 1844-1931), titled, 'Paris' and painted circa 1880. Titled with inscription, verso, on old backing, ''Taverne Pausset', grands boulevards a Paris".
A fine and detailed, cabinet-size oil painting showing an elegant Parisian cafe and bar, the interior lit by luminous, floor-to-ceiling stained-glass windows and filled with fashionably-dressed patrons drinking and socializing beneath a haze of pipe and cigar smoke. A minor, period masterpiece, providing an animated view of the city's fin-de-siècle nightlife, and characterised by finely observed and fully-realized figures showing an unusual degree of both social commentary and psychological penetration.
Edouard-Jean Dambourgez first studied with Jules Lefebvre and, subsequently, as an engraver and chromo-lithographer under Gustave Boulanger. In 1880, Dambourgez commenced exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français, and, in 1883, was elected a member of the Society. Throughout the 1880's, he exhibited frequently and with success at the major Paris salons including the Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Independants and the Salon des Champs-de-Mars. In 1884, he was commissioned by the Louvre to engrave all illustrations for the catalog to the Thiers Collection, recently bequeathed to the Museum. The recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards, Dambourgez was awarded an honorable distinction by the Salon in 1888, and an honorable mention in 1891.
In 1888, the critic Albert Wolff recommended his painting, 'A Cheese Shop', for inclusion at the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1891, the city of Paris bought his large canvas, 'The Cream and Cheese Market...
Category
1880s Impressionist Paper Paintings
Materials
Oil, Postcard
Victorian Butterfly Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Original watercolor from a Victorian album by an unknown artist. English, circa 1860.
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper
'The Cheese Market, Les Halles', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Salon des Independants
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Dambourgez' for Edouard-Jean Dambourgez (French, 1844-1931), titled, 'Paris' and painted circa 1890.
A fine and detailed, late-nineteenth century view of a counter of the bustling cheese market...
Category
1880s Impressionist Paper Paintings
Materials
Postcard, Oil
Late 19th Century Avalon, Catalina Island
By Guy Bedford
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful watercolor of early Avalon, Santa Catalina Island by Guy Bedford (American, 1866-1916), 1898.
Signed, titled and dated lower left corner.
Cond...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Paper Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
China Export Watercolour on Pith Paper: A Set of Twelve Processions
Located in London, GB
[China Export Water-colours on Pith Paper]
A Set of Twelve Processions.
China, ca. 1870].
Water-colour and gouache studies on pith paper, framed by blue silk ribbon, all mounted.
...
Category
1870s Other Art Style Paper Paintings
Materials
Rice Paper, Watercolor
Pair of Shell Watercolors
Located in New York, NY
Pair of original 19th Century watercolors displayed in custom w=k black stained frames.
Category
19th Century Paper Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Chinese Butterflies and Silk Worms with Lychee Nuts
Located in New York, NY
Original Chinese Export School gouache.
Category
1810s Paper Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Gouache
19th Century gouache of a visit to Pompei on the Grand Tour
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Neapolitan school (early 19th Century)
A visit to Pompei on the the Grand Tour
Gouache on paper
Inscribed ‘Porzione del quartiere a Pompei’ and ‘In Nap...
Category
19th Century Academic Paper Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
'Garden Landscape with River', 19th Century Kano School
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A finely-drawn Kano School watercolor and gouache showing figures in kimonos on a bridge and seated beside a stylized river flowing through a graceful garden. An elegantly formal com...
Category
Late 19th Century Paper Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Late 19th Century Avalon, Catalina Island Landscape
By Guy Bedford
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful pastel of early Avalon, Santa Catalina Island by Guy Bedford (American, 1866-1916), 1898. One of two estate pieces purchased one was signed and t...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Paper Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Laid Paper
Late 19th Century Bay Area Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Antique landscape watercolor painting of a country road in San Rafael, California, circa 1880. Unsigned and unframed. Presented in mat. Im...
Category
1880s American Impressionist Paper Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
1840 rare watercolor, Native American encampment, Western Indian Unknown artist
Located in Buffalo, NY
A rare mid 19th Century watercolor depicting Native Americans approaching a fort.
The subjects appear to be from a Northern Plains Tribes, and arre approaching a palisades style f...
Category
1840s American Realist Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Watercolor
"Family Interior Scene”, peasant family in 19thC Austria, original oil on paper
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Frans Wens (19th Century).
A charming family interior scene painted by the Austrian artist Frans Wens. There is little recorded biographical informat...
Category
19th Century Victorian Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
The King's Camelopard
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1775–1850)
‘Camelopard – a present from the Pacha of Egypt to the King – at Malta on its way to England’
Signed and dated C.F. de Brocktorff. / 1827. lower right, inscribed as titled in the painted margins lower centre. Pencil and watercolour heightened with gold paint and gum arabic on paper, 36.8 x 27.9 cm
A gift so majestic, it made kings blush, and a gift so grand, it would startle Europe into a craze. Pasha Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1805-1848) did it in 1827: he sent to Europe three magical spotted, horned creatures, each with a neck reaching the skies and legs as long as a house is high. One giraffe to King Charles X of France, one to Francis I of Austria and the most fabled one to King George IV of England. A curious sight for Europeans, who had not seen such a beast since the Medici giraffe in 1487.
Few animals created more of a stir in Europe than these royal...
Category
1820s Naturalistic Paper Paintings
Materials
Gold
Persian Illuminated Miniature with Four Figures Playing Polo in a Landscape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present illuminated folio page contains a fine miniature depicting four figures playing polo. Polo, also called 'chagun,' was the sport of kings and princes of central Asia and Iran, and the sport probably originated there in the 6th century BCE. Polo matches appear in a large number of early Persian texts, including in the writings of the 10th century epic writer Abu l-Qasim al-Firdawsi: He describes numerous polo matches in his famous 'Shahnameh' (The Persian Book of Kings). This particular illumination also is closely related to an example held at the Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art: a folio from 'Guy u Chawgan' (The ball and the polo-mallet) which shows a polo game with the dervish and the shah.
12 x 8.25 inches, artwork
19.75 x 15.88 inches, frame
accompanied on the back with an image of the verso
framed to conservation standards with a 100% rag silk-lined mat in a gold gilded frame
A Persian miniature is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa. The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts. Although there is an equally well-established Persian tradition of wall-painting, the survival rate and state of preservation of miniatures is better, and miniatures are much the best-known form of Persian painting in the West, and many of the most important examples are in Western, or Turkish, museums. Miniature painting became a significant genre in Persian art in the 13th century, receiving Chinese influence after the Mongol conquests, and the highest point in the tradition was reached in the 15th and 16th centuries. The tradition continued, under some Western influence, after this, and has many modern exponents. The Persian miniature was the dominant influence on other Islamic miniature traditions, principally the Ottoman miniature...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Paper Paintings
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Laid Paper
The Warning
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Edward Lamson Henry (American, (1841 - 1919))
“The Warning”
Grisaille on paper mounted on board, signed lower left ‘E L Henry’ (partially obscured by frame)
...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paper Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil, Laid Paper
Persian Illuminated Miniature with Three Hunters on Horseback in a Landscape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present illuminated folio page contains a fine miniature depicting three figures hunting while on horseback, an image meant to accompany a historic epic. During the medieval period, hunting was an important pastime of male nobility throughout the Islamic world. The Quran itself explicitly endorses hunting and the use of animals to aid in capturing prey: "Lawful to you are foodstuffs that are good to eat and any game that, at your wish, is captured by beasts of prey which train as you do dogs, according to the method that Allah has taught you, after you have spoken the name of Allah over it." (Q 6:4) Muslim princes and nobles enjoyed the chase of the prey via horseback, using bow and arrow, crossbows, and blowpipes to capture their prey Horseback riding itself trained young men in the necessary skills for armed combat and warfare, developing their speed and strength.
12 x 8.25 inches, artwork
19.75 x 15.88 inches, frame
accompanied on the back with an image of the verso
framed to conservation standards with a 100% rag silk-lined mat in a gold gilded frame
A Persian miniature is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa. The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts. Although there is an equally well-established Persian tradition of wall-painting, the survival rate and state of preservation of miniatures is better, and miniatures are much the best-known form of Persian painting in the West, and many of the most important examples are in Western, or Turkish, museums. Miniature painting became a significant genre in Persian art in the 13th century, receiving Chinese influence after the Mongol conquests, and the highest point in the tradition was reached in the 15th and 16th centuries. The tradition continued, under some Western influence, after this, and has many modern exponents. The Persian miniature was the dominant influence on other Islamic miniature traditions, principally the Ottoman miniature...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Paper Paintings
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Laid Paper
Study of the Head of a Moorhen
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Watercolour on paper
Paper size: 4 x 5 inches
Framed size: 19 x 19.75 inches
PROVENANCE
A gift from Joseph Mallord William Turner to Miss Amelia Hawksworth (later Mrs Hotham), niece of Walter Fawkes. The watercolour descended through the ownership of Amelia Hawksworth, daughter of Francis Fawkes ( Walter Fawkes's brother) who was the main compiler of the Ornithological Collection (Miss Hawksworth owned five other bird studies by Turner).
Private collection, London
LITERATURE:
For similar works by J M W Turner see Anne Lyles, The Tate catalogue for the exhibition 'Turner and Natural History, The Farnley Project', 1988.
The present watercolour was drawn circa 1815-1820 for Walter Fawkes of Farnley Hall, for his Ornithological Collection Volume IV.
Between 1808 and 1824, Turner visited Farnley Hall in Yorkshire to stay with the Fawkes family. Turner felt at home at Farnley - the Fawkes daughters reminded him of his own. He helped illustrate a five volume ornithological scrap book for the Fawkes children, making watercolour studies of the birds for the children to stick in opposite the pages on which feathers from similar birds were attached. His bird portraits were most effective, most "life-like", when in fact the bird was dead ! His watercolours of a live robin and goldfinch have a more hesitant touch.
At this time Turner enjoyed the patronage first of Edward Lascelles, the heir to Harewood, and after 1808, of the radical landlord Walter Fawkes of Farnley Hall, near Otley. He became a close friend of the Fawkes family with whom he stayed for most summers until 1824.
The last owner of Old Farnley Hall was Francis Fawkes, a rich widower with no direct heirs. When Francis Fawkes died in 1786 he left the house to Walter Beaumont Hawksworth of Hawksworth Hall, on condition that Hawksworth adopt the Fawkes name by Royal Licence. Walter Fawkes brought in architect John Carr of York to make extensions to the house, but he died before the work was completed, and Farnley Hall was passed on to his son, also called Walter who also took the Fawkes name and was known as Walter Ramsden Fawkes. It was this Walter who was a great friend of J M W Turner.
Anne Lyles has confirmed the attribution and writes:
"Everything fits in relation to the style of the watercolour and most especially the provenance - in the Turner and Natural History exhibition catalogue of 1988 we know that Amelia Hawksworth (Mrs Hotham) owned three studies of birds' heads by J M W Turner (previously with the Maas Gallery, and numbers 36, 37 and 61 in that catalogue) as well as two studies of dead game by the artist (catalogue numbers 59 and 63, the latter untraced in 1988). Interestingly, catalogue numbers 36 and 37 (the Merganser and the Smew) seem also originally to have been intended for Volume IV of the Ornithological Collection - it is likely that the "Study of the Head of a Moorhen...
Category
19th Century Paper Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Vienna, Original Watercolor Painting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Stephen Scott Young
Title: Vienna
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 1983
Signed: Inscribed Bottom Left and Signed Back of Paper
Dimensions: Unframed 13.5 x 7 Framed 18.5 x 17...
Category
1830s Realist Paper Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Gossips, A Venetian Scene
Located in Austin, TX
Title: "Gossips, A Venetian Scene"
Artist: Francis William Topham
Medium: Oil paint on paper
Size: 7.75" x 6.5"
Period: 19th Century
Framed
Category
Mid-19th Century Paper Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil
Gathering Heather Stalks
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Watercolour on paper
Paper size: 10 x 14 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Crossing the Water. Mid 19th Century Realist Painting. Ecouen school.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th century Realist ink, watercolour and gouache portrait on paper of a young man in a field by John George Todd. The painting is signed G Todd bottom left as was his usual mann...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Paper Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Ink, Gouache
Young Girl in the Woods
Located in Milford, NH
A fine watercolor of a young girl in the woods surrounded by flowers by British American artist John George Brown (1831-1913). Brown was born in Dur...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Asleep in the Manger
By Walter Hunt
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Pastel on paper
Paper size: 13.75 x 20.5 inches
Framed size: 21.5 x 28.25 inches
Signed lower left
Category
19th Century Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
William DeKoornbolt "Wonton Malice" Original Mixed Media Abstract Painting c.198
Located in San Francisco, CA
William DeKoornbolt "Wonton Malice" Original Mixed Media Abstract Painting c.1981
Fine mixed media abstract painting by noted artist William DeKoornbolt (American, b.1945)
Acrylic,...
Category
Late 19th Century Abstract Paper Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
View of San Giorgio Maggiore
Located in New Orleans, LA
Signed and inscribed "Veduta di S. Girgio Maggiore, e la punta della Giudeca / all Ospedaletto in SS. Gion e Paolo No. 5245 dimandar / Giacomo de Guardi" (en verso)
Gouache on paper
Italian veduta painter Giacomo Guardi...
Category
Early 19th Century Other Art Style Paper Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Bay-breasted Warbler, no. 44, pl. XXIX
Located in Austin, TX
After John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851)
Title: "Bay-breasted Warbler," no. 44, pl. LXIX
Medium: hand-colored engraving with aquatint on J. Whatman wove paper
Dimensions: plate 19.38" x 12.25"
. frame 48.88" x 38.38"
Description: from "The Birds of America (1826-1838)," Robert Havell edition...
Category
1820s American Realist Paper Paintings
Materials
Engraving, Handmade Paper
'In the Kitchen', 19th Century Flemish Genre Painting
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Style of Richard Brakenburgh (Dutch 1650-1702) and painted circa 1820.
Displayed in a shot silk mat with gilded slip within an 18th century, Dutch ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Late 19thCentury English Fisherman Figural Landscape Watercolor, "Golden Autumn"
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th century figurative landscape watercolor painting of a fisherman in a small boat on a small pond in London, by H. Darnelli ( England, 19th C). Signed “H. Darrnelli” in the ...
Category
1890s Impressionist Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Farmer - 19th century Portrait oil over a photographic base
Located in London, GB
BRITISH SCHOOL
(circa 1890)
The Farmer
Oil over a photographic base, on card and mounted onto original canvas
Framed in original frame and behind glas...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paper Paintings
Materials
Photographic Paper, Oil
Watching the Geese
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Watercolour on paper
Paper size: 9.5 x 6.5 inches
Framed size: 17.75 x 14.25 inches
Signed lower left
Category
19th Century Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Antique watercolour of Palazzo Signoria in Florence
By A. Marrani
Located in London, GB
This beautiful view of a Florentine courtyard was painted by A. Marrani, an artist who, in the late 19th Century, painted many views of the Tuscan city. The cortile (‘courtyard’) sho...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Board
Morrisinia, New York in the Bronx
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left, titled and dated
Born in Staindrop, County Durham, England, he was a portrait and landscape painter, especially appreciated for watercolor painting, which he sold...
Category
1850s Hudson River School Paper Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Sunset Over Lake, Late 19th Century Hudson River School Pastel Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful late 19th century Hudson River School pastel landscape by unknown artist in the style of Fredrick Edwin Church (American, 1826 to...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Paper Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Twilight on the Sawmill River
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower right: J.F. Cropsey 1887
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paper Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
"The New Year, " Pen & Ink on Paper Portrait 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 Paper Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
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