Antique Sketch

He spent his free time studying design and composition and sketching in the city and the surrounding countryside.

The beard and skin tunic are rendered with striking economy: swift, decisive incisions lend these details a sketched, unfinished quality that, far from weakening the work, charges it...

The volumes include Stowe’s most important works, including Uncle Tom’s Cabin (in two volumes), Dred, The Minister’s Wooing, Oldtown Folks, Agnes of Sorrento, The Pearl of Orr’s Isla...

Signature: Signed lower right and stamped with two further cachets verso Dimensions: Framed: 19"x22" Unframed: 13"x16" Provenance: This work is accompanied by a certificate of aut...

Footnote: The design for a rosewood sofa table in the sketch book of 13 April 1813, made for John Gladstone of Liverpool, father of the future Prime Minister, is published in Susan E...

She was the daughter of the 2nd Earl of Sheffield and an accomplished artist who illustrated her husband's 1851 book, A Sketch of Madeira. Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (Adelaide Ameli...

In the winter and spring of 1912-13, I taught at the Art Students League of Los Angeles, after which, for eight months, I painted and studied in Paris, going to the Ecole Colarossi s...

The artwork represents the picturesque scenery with a bridge inside a frame with sketches on the rear, through deft strokes in a well-balanced composition.

Such tangible representations serve as a tactile way of thinking, bridging ideas from sketches to reality. Today this work is largely done by 3-D rendering programs but many vintage ...

The soft light of the region inspired him to focus on painting children and young women, generally in peasant scenes. He would often sketch profusely during the summer, then finish t...

A captivating 19th-century French or Italian pencil-on-paper drawing depicting three studies of a mountain goat, presented within a resplendent Neoclassical giltwood frame that eleva...

While the piece reads primarily as a tonal sketch, deliberate hints of color have been woven in, specifically the golden-yellow tones defining the crown of the hair and the pinkish-r...

A sprawling, endless garden of stylized palmettes and sweeping botanical vines unfolds across the staggering expanse, sketched in rich walnut and deep chocolate brown. These darker, ...

Signed and dated lower right Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Ernest Albert won the Graham Art medal given by the Brooklyn School of Design at the age of fifteen and shortly t...

A detailed pencil sketch depicting the remains of the Russian Imperial Theatre (Bolshoi Theatre) after a fire in 1853.

Adrien DAUZATS (Bordeaux, 1804 – Paris, 1868) Mosque in Cairo, sketch Oil on canvas 35,5 x 27,5 cm without frame Unsigned c. 1840 Adrien Dauzats was born on July 16, 1804, in Bo...

The case is surmounted by a finely modeled gilt bronze figure of an artist holding a sketch pad, capturing a moment of artistic inspiration with extraordinary realism and expression.

Alongside his friend and painter Eugène Delacroix, he spent countless hours at the Jardin des Plantes zoo in Paris. He meticulously sketched live predators and attended animal dissec...

Alongside his friend and painter Eugène Delacroix, he spent countless hours at the Jardin des Plantes zoo in Paris. He meticulously sketched live predators and attended animal dissec...

Studies of this kind were often produced as observational sketches, theatrical costume studies, or preparatory works, offering a fascinating glimpse into everyday life and artistic p...

Drawings of this type were often produced as observational studies, costume sketches, or preparatory works, reflecting the keen interest in everyday figures and theatrical characters...

The composition shows a seated shepherd at rest, staff and dog at his side, against a backdrop of twisted trees and ruined architecture, with a second figure loosely sketched in the ...

A neoclassical sketch after an engraving by Paolo Fidanza (1713-1785), himself working after Raphael.

A watercolour sketch with pen and ink detail attributed to William McConnell.

He was active in the St. Louis Sketch Club, formed in 1877, which was open to professional and amateur artists alike.

The Rogers view is thought to derive from a sketch of 1804 attributed to Dobbins, recording the Common when it was still a working pasture.

The result possesses the immediacy of a sketch. This apparent roughness is precisely what gives the print its importance.

Between 1908 and 1910, Bluemner began painting in earnest, making sketching trips throughout New Jersey and Long Island.

Between 1908 and 1910, Bluemner began painting in earnest, making sketching trips throughout New Jersey and Long Island.

Between 1908 and 1910, Bluemner began painting in earnest, making sketching trips throughout New Jersey and Long Island.

Between 1908 and 1910, Bluemner began painting in earnest, making sketching trips throughout New Jersey and Long Island.

Between 1908 and 1910, Bluemner began painting in earnest, making sketching trips throughout New Jersey and Long Island.

Between 1908 and 1910, Bluemner began painting in earnest, making sketching trips throughout New Jersey and Long Island.

Between 1908 and 1910, Bluemner began painting in earnest, making sketching trips throughout New Jersey and Long Island.

Between 1908 and 1910, Bluemner began painting in earnest, making sketching trips throughout New Jersey and Long Island.

Between 1908 and 1910, Bluemner began painting in earnest, making sketching trips throughout New Jersey and Long Island.

Between 1908 and 1910, Bluemner began painting in earnest, making sketching trips throughout New Jersey and Long Island.

The brushwork remains controlled yet expressive, especially in the looser treatment of the lower section, suggesting an oil sketch or study executed from life. This work reflects the...

Oval Allegorical Composition, Circle of Jean Portaels, Belgian School, mid-19th C, Oil sketch. This work is a preparatory oil sketch, likely executed in connection with a larger all...

Particular attention is given to the face and to the rendering of the curly hair, while a shoulder and part of an arm are only lightly sketched. The concise character of the sheet su...

The drawing possesses considerable visual appeal, balancing the immediacy of a sketch with the refinement of a finished composition.

Between 1908 and 1910, Bluemner began painting in earnest, making sketching trips throughout New Jersey and Long Island.

Works such as these were often created as humorous sketches, theatrical studies, or social satires, capturing the spirit of Georgian comic illustration.

On the right, the second figure, lighter and more sketch-like, with her arms raised behind her head, reveals the artist’s exploration of line, volume and light.

Executed primarily in black lithographic crayon with subtle red highlights, the composition demonstrates Ibels' mastery of economy and expression. The sketch-like quality of the draw...

There he worked as a sketch artist for a newspaper. Paul Muller came to the United States in 1926 and settled in New York City.

Additionally signed, verso, dated and titled, 'Original Sketch. Trees in the grounds of Mr. Baker, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin' with artist's chronology number, dimensions and original sa...

The style is certainly more modern, but we find in this work the creamy fluidity of the sketches made from life in Italy by the young Bodinier between 1823 and 1825.

The reverse is decorated with the sketched blue floral branches that help pin these dishes to their workshops, around an unglazed foot rim showing the honest buff body of the tin-gla...

He was a close friend of Charles Schreyvogel and convinced him to attend classes Schwabe was teaching at the Newark Art League. The two frequently sketched together in the New Jersey...

He developed his own technique for producing his ideas: Argy-Rousseau first modeled his sketched idea in plaster, which was then covered with wax.

It is known that Fearon and her fellow student, Emily Carr, would hire local fisherfolk and children to sketch in the evening and on bad weather days. It would seem that Fearon and T...

Jean-Baptiste LE PRINCE (Attributed to) Metz, 1734 - Saint-denis-du-Port (Seine-et-Marne), 1781 The mandolin player Oil on canvas 29 x 37 cm Good condition The mandolin player is ...

In 1890, inspired by the example of Turner and Moran, he made a sketching trip to Venice. Powell also visited Rome, Paris, and Switzerland.

Our canvas depicts one of the legendary deities who inspired creative fervour and, over the centuries, acquired a specific influence in the fields of art and knowledge: in this case,...

The Virgin is depicted seated in a barely sketched landscape, at the foot of a large tree that forms the backdrop to the composition.

This colorful and lively portrait, probably a preliminary sketch, was a favored subject for the artist. Eugene de Blaas or Eugene von Blass was famous for his Academic Classicism and...

These sketches often possess a gestural energy and emotional intensity that rival his finished "six-footers."

Although the drawing is executed with the economy and spontaneity of a pen sketch, its imagery is unusually charged. The scene lies somewhere between observed nature, dream, biblical...

It seems likely, therefore, that the present painting was a preparatory sketch for a larger portrait, executed by an accomplished British artist who was working in the circle of Etty...