Tom Leaper Art

Watercolour and pencil on paper, 76cm x 51cm, (87cm x 61cm framed). Born in London to his renowned artist mother Elisabeth Frink RA and a French architect father, Michel Jammet, Ja...

Darling gouache and pencil sketch of a feminine stage costume complete with matching bonnet for a Paris theater by Willie & Co., circa 1930. Original artwork on paper displayed on a...

French painting in bright green, blue and yellow tones of someone sitting at a table by artist Jean-Charles Lauthe, 1971. Signed and dated lower right. Original artwork on paper dis...

Spirited pencil and watercolor sketch of a performing clown, circa 1940. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic sleeve and Certifica...

Collections: Muir Hetherington; Sir John and Lady Witt, acquired 1974; By descent to 2015. Literature: Tom Jones (ed.), William Henry Hunt 1790-1864, exh. cat., 1981, no. 145 (Girl in a bedroom); John Witt, William Henry Hunt (1790-1864) Life and Work, London, 1982, no. 553, p. 194, colour pl. 16. Exhibited: Wolverhampton, Central Art Gallery, Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery and Hastings, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, William Henry Hunt 1790-1864, 1981, no. 145 as Girl in a bedroom (Lent by Sir John & Lady Witt) Framed dimensions: 20 x 20.75 inches This unusually charming and well-preserved watercolour was painted by William Henry Hunt in around 1833. Almost certainly depicting his young wife, Sarah, possibly in the interior of her family home at Bramley in Hampshire. This work shows Hunt’s remarkable virtuosity as a watercolourist, Hunt, for example, articulates the profile of his young wife, by leaving a reserve of white paper to suggest the light modelling her features. Throughout the 1830s Hunt made a sequence of richly painted interior views of both domestic and agricultural spaces which pay scrupulous attention to detail. Hunt was born in London, the son of a tin-plate worker and japanner. J. L. Roget recorded the observation of Hunt’s uncle: ‘nervy, little Billy Hunt… was always a poor cripple, and as he was fit for nothing, they made an artist of him.’ At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to the landscape painter John Varley for seven years, moving to live with Varley at 18 Broad Street, Golden Square, London. There he made close friends with both John Linnell and William Mulready. Hunt worked at the ‘Monro Academy’, at 8 Adelphi Terrace, London, the house of Dr Thomas Monro, an enthusiastic patron of landscape watercolourists. Through Monro, Hunt was introduced to the 5th Earl of Essex...

Lovely one-of-a-kind pencil and watercolor sketch of various figures and a work horse, circa 1850. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival pl...

Simple French pencil and watercolor painting of woman in blue working at easel, circa 1930. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic ...

Gathering of African women at market in watercolor of African Village by French artist Stephane Magnard, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold ...

Ladies at the Beach is an original watercolour by British artist, illustrator and author Charlie Mackesy. This vintage watercolour is signed and dated 1986 in pencil. Three women in...

Lively watercolor painting of a woman enjoying the lakeside. Displayed in a white mat with a gold border and fits a standard-sized frame. Archival plastic sleeve and Certificate of...

A 19th Century WATERCOLOUR depicting a charming British rural scene with Milk maids and children in a farmstead size of image approx 28 x 23 cm (11" by 9") oval overall size( 41 x 46...

Beautifully detailed early 20th century French drawing of furniture details, circa 1930. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper...