John Sergeant Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
1937-2010
Sergeant was born in London, the son of a civil servant. His family soon moved to Faversham in Kent after they were bombed during World War II. He studied at Canterbury College of Art from 1954-57, during which period he met John Ward, who was to become a lifelong friend and supporter. In 1959 he entered the Royal Academy Schools, where he won a Drawing Prize in 1961. In 1962 he married a fellow student, Carolyn Cann. After graduating from the RA he taught part-time at art schools in Kent and worked on commissions including book jacket designs and illustrations and series of ‘room-portraits’ of interiors. He moved to near Builth Wells, Wales in 1983. In 1989 the Prince of Wales asked Sergeant to contribute drawings to his book Vision of Britain; two years later he accompanied the prince on an official visit to Prague.
A superb draughtsman, he was a great exponent of the teaching of drawing in art school: “If you can draw you can paint. All you need to know as Whistler used to say, is which end of the brush to put in your mouth”. In his 2006 Colnaghi exhibition he described himself as a “serious serial draughtsman who explores, scrutinizes the same subject back, front, sideways, this way and that. It is all part of trying to understand”.to
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Artist: John Sergeant
John Sergeant - 20th Century British Portrait of the Artist's Wife
By John Sergeant
Located in London, GB
JOHN SERGEANT
(1937-2010)
Portrait of Carolyn, the artist’s wife.
Pencil and watercolour, unframed
33 by 21.5 cm., 13 by 8 ½ in.
(mount size 49.5 by 37 cm., 19 ½ by 14 ½ in.)
Ser...
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Mid-20th Century Realist John Sergeant Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Pencil
John Sergeant - Still Life of Fruit on a Chair - Modern British drawing
By John Sergeant
Located in London, GB
JOHN SERGEANT
(1937-2010)
Fruit on a Chair
Black chalk, unframed
36.5 by 33.5 cm., 14 ¼ by 13 ¼ in.
(mount size 53 by 49 cm., 21 by 19 ¼ in.)
Sergeant was born in London, the so...
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Mid-20th Century Realist John Sergeant Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Chalk
John Sergeant - 20th Century British Portrait Drawing of a Girl in a Hat
By John Sergeant
Located in London, GB
JOHN SERGEANT
(1937-2010)
Girl in a Hat
Pencil on tinted paper
Framed
24 by 18 cm., 9 ½ by 7 in.
(frame size 46 by 39 cm., 18 by 15 ¼ in.)
Sergeant was born in London, the son o...
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1960s Realist John Sergeant Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil
Pencil Portrait of a Young Man by 20th Century British Artist John Sergeant
By John Sergeant
Located in London, GB
JOHN SERGEANT
(1937-2010)
Head of a Young Man
Pencil
32 by 25 cm., 12 ½ by 10 in.
(frame size 51 by 43 cm., 20 by 17 in.)
Sergeant was born in London, the son of a civil servant....
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1960s Realist John Sergeant Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil
Dover Promenade - 20th Century British Landscape Watercolour by John Sergeant
By John Sergeant
Located in London, GB
JOHN SERGEANT
(1937-2010)
Dover Promenade
Watercolour and pen and ink, unframed, in conservation mount only
26.5 by 37 cm., 10 ½ by 14 ½ in.
(mount size 43 by 52 cm., 17 by 20 ½ ...
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1960s Realist John Sergeant Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Waterloo Crescent, Dover - 20th Century British chalk drawing by John Sergeant
By John Sergeant
Located in London, GB
JOHN SERGEANT
(1937-2010)
Waterloo Crescent, Dover
Chalks on grey paper
21.5 by 37.5 cm., 8 ½ by 14 ¾ in.
(mount size 38 by 52.5 cm., 15 by 20 ¾ in.)
Sergeant was born in London...
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1970s Realist John Sergeant Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Chalk
Still Life of Fruit - Modern British watercolour by John Sergeant
By John Sergeant
Located in London, GB
JOHN SERGEANT
(1937-2010)
Still Life of Fruit in a Bowl
Watercolour, unframed
16.5 by 24 cm., 6 ½ by 9 ½ in.
(mount size 33 by 39 cm., 13 by 15 ¼ in.)
Sergeant was born in London...
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Late 20th Century Realist John Sergeant Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Portrait of a Young Male, Graphite on paper sketch, 20th Century English Artist
By John Sergeant
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 (26 x 22 cm)
Mounted
Drawing was at the heart of all of his artistic practice. A friend once recalled an anecdote that out on a walk he ...
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20th Century English School John Sergeant Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Graphite
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