Antique Sketch

Unlike a great many of his contemporaries, Pritchett spent time working in Venice whilst on a sketching tour of Europe in 1828. Every other biography of Pritchett you will have ever ...

He would start with a number of sketches and then develop the work in his studio. Claude Monet admired his flower paintings and Van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo, alluded to ...

After Reffo’s death, Guglielmino inherited his master’s studio, where not only his own works but also drawings, preparatory sketches and cartoons by Enrico Reffo and other members of...

Following the death of her first husband, John Ross, it is said that in the summer of 1776, George Washington and two members of the Continental Congress visited her upholstery shop....

Two closely related designs are recorded in the Gillows Estimate Sketch Books, dated March 1790 and July 1793, further supporting the attribution.

The octagonal columns on these tables relates to a design for a card table in Thomas King’s Cabinet Maker’s Sketch Book of 1835 but the more ornate base suggests that these tables ar...

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...

The backs of many of his sketches are often filled with handwritten notes in German or English, recording observations and ideas he developed while creating the sketches.

In his spare time he wandered the streets of Dublin in the early 1900s, sketching the working people and characters of the streets.

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...

The artist signed this sketch and dated it on 20 June 1929, just a few months before his own death by drowning in the River Seine.

Unlike a great many of his contemporaries, Pritchett spent time working in Venice whilst on a sketching tour of Europe in 1828. For an in-depth look at the life and work of Edward Pr...

Subtle charcoal and muted black outlines frame the botanical elements, giving the delicate flora a hand-sketched, painterly depth that feels both ethereal and structured.

This manner of allowing the figure to emerge directly from the painted surface places the sketch within the most experimental current of British Romantic painting around 1830.

A colorful hand painted panel of 28 moroccan tiles. The tiles show sketches and symbols of the Berber culture. Like fish, camels, flowers, sun and salamanders.

Concertino is a graceful sketch in pencil realized by the French painter, illustrator, designer, and cartoonist Auguste Jean Baptiste Roubille.

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...

XII) Walther, I.F. & Metzger, R., (1989), Vincent van Gogh, Cologne. p. 22 (illustrated) Hulsker, J., (1996), The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, J.M. Meulenhoff

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...

While serving an apprenticeship aboard a trading ship, he began to sketch the scenes he saw during his voyages through the Mediterranean and Baltic seas.

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...

Given its nearly 100 years, it is notable for its state of preservation after having been removed from a sketch pad of the artist's. Please enjoy the photos accompanying this listing.

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

Comprising Scenes and Sketches In Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious.

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...

With a red ink stamp on lower margin with the monogram "V." and "Vente Giraud" This superb original drawing is composed of five different sketches, each one with an artistic and aut...

Likely conceived as a preparatory study or highly finished sketch, the work reflects the enduring fascination with classical antiquity that characterized Academic painting during the...

The artwork has been newly framed and glazed. Although this sketch is unsigned, our gallery holds virtually the entire remaining collection of Dulac's sketches and memorabilia and th...

The brushwork is direct and confident, with visible texture throughout the painted surface that lends the work a fresh, sketch-like quality while remaining carefully balanced.

The setting is a capriccio of objects related to the art and culture of the time, skilfully displayed, including a Persian carpet on the desk, a beautiful celestial globe on a pedest...

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, ...

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...

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...

Sunlit woodland scene of the nude young boy, in excellent condition, probably a sketch or preliminary study toward a larger work typical of Tuke's style.

He became a clerk in his father's dry goods shop in New Bedford but devoted his spare time to sketching, a diversion that caused him and his wife to lose a farm that had been given t...

Unsigned but authenticated (the watercolour preparatory sketch was sold by Bonhams for £3500 in 2014). Usnigned Provenance: Frost & Reed, London Measurements: 28" x 21" framed approx

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 drawing comes from his sketch book or 'carnet de voyage'. Acquired directly from the artist's estate sale in 1926 and in the same family collection ever since.

A series of Dulac's sketches may be acquired from our gallery on this platform to create a set to enhance a corridor or stairway of your home or workplace.

A quintessential example of the Picturesque tradition, popular among both professional artists and "gentleman sketchers" of the Georgian and Victorian eras. c1840.

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...

Passpartout included cm 25.5x38 The artwork represents a sketch of a group of people in an indoor set. Frédéric-Anatole Houbron was (1851- 1908).

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...

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...

He executed hundreds of sketches of the lands he came across, often selling or trading them for food.

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 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 ...

Cover for "L'Asino" is an original artwork by Gabriele Galantara. This the original sketch for the cover of "L'Asino" (Donkey Magazine) and is realized in China ink, tempera and wate...

Jones produced most of his commercial art in the winter season and devoted his summers to sketching en plein air. He showed work at the Salmagundi Club, the Panama Pacific Internatio...

There is a graphite and brownish ink sketch of a robed classical figure amongst ruins on the verso.

Rare, original hand colored etching (Aquatint) from the Poetical Sketches of Scarborough titled “A Tro to Scarbro’”.

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 interior is sparingly painted with a central sketch of two flowers growing among three plants, encircled higher on the wall by an airy border of alternating dots and circles.

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

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,...

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...

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