William Roberts Art

Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809) ‘Ambassadeur de Siam’ and ‘La Sultana Reine’ Both titled lower centre, the drawing of the ambassador inscribed with colours intended for the prints, e...

Ida Bagoes Ketut Diding, Artist on bali 1937 Signed with initials, dated and titled, bottom centre Black chalk on paper, 29 x 31 cm Literature: Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbroek, W....

Stone statue in the temple at Madura, India, 1914 Signed with initials top right Pencil on paper, 21.2 x 16.7 cm Literature: Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbroek, W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp,B...

DOROTHY FITCHEW (1889-1975) “I Must Go Seek Some Dewdrops Here, And Hang a Pearl in Every Cowslip’s Ear.” Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II, Scene I Signed l.l.: DOROTHY FITCHEW ...

SIR WILLIAM BLAKE RICHMOND, RA (1842-1921) Study of an Angel Pencil on the artist’s writing paper for Beavor Lodge, Hammersmith Unframed 22.5 by 17 cm., 9 by 6 ¾ in. (mount size ...

Contemporary realistic figurative mixed media drawing on cardboard by Polish artist Andrzej Szypluk. Monochromatic drawing of a female in nude. PROVE...

Contemporary realistic figurative mixed media drawing on cardboard by Polish artist Andrzej Szypluk. Monochromatic drawing of a female in nude. PROVE...

Listing includes framing with UV plexi, free shipping and a 14 day return policy. Ed Templeton Untitled (Sunset Tower Hotel), 2019 Image size: 11 ...

Itzchak Tarkay (1935 -2012) "Desaccord" 2002 Mixed media watercolor on Paper - signed lower right. COA provided. Sheet Size 16"H x 12"W Frame Size 31"H x 27"W x1.5" D . ...

Mixed media watercolor on Paper - signed lower right. COA provided. Sheet Size 12"H x 12"W

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...

Signed and inscribed, lower center: Joseph / Ramanankamonjy / un enfant / Madagascar / “sanguine sur soie” Provenance: Private Collection, Paris Private Collection, Florida Sometim...