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Period: 20th Century
Period: 1880s
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Queens Road, 20th Century British School Signed Pastel, London Tube Station
By Peter Gardner
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper, signed and dated 19'76' bottom right
Image size: 12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.75 cm)
Mounted and framed
Peter Gardner
Peter Gardner was born in London in 1921. He stud...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Parsons Green, Modern British Signed Pastel, London Tube Station
By Peter Gardner
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper, signed and dated 19'75' bottom right
Image size: 6 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (16.5 x 19 cm)
Mounted and framed
Peter Gardner
Peter Gardner was born in London in 1921. He...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Country Lane, Modern British 20th Century Watercolour Landscape
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and dated '1973' bottom left
Image size: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (32 x 24 cm)
Contemporary frame
This is a wonderful watercolour of a winter landscape, with a country lane, frost-covered fields and an old farm building. As the artist has worked in his home county for much of his life, this is likely to be a view in rural Northamptonshire.
Peter Newcombe...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Wild Flowers, 20th Century British Oil Still Life, Signed and Dated 1975
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed and dated '1975' bottom right
Image size: 10 1/4 x 12 inches (26 x 30cm)
Contemporary style frame
This still life is a meticulous study by the artist of a selection of plants and flowers that could be found in any English hedgerow or roadside verge. Here Newcombe has depicted wild grasses, flowering nettles and dandelions in various states in their life cycle; pre-bud, full flower and having lost all of the fluffy seeds. The detail in this work is fine and reminiscent of the accuracy that was executed in 17th century Dutch artworks...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fulham Broadway, 20th Century English Artist, Signed and dated 1975
By Peter Gardner
Located in London, GB
Peter Gardner
Flourished: 1949-1979
Fulham Broadway
Pastel on Paper
Signed with monogram and dated 1975, lower right
Image size: 6 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
Acid free mount
Peter Gardn...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Portrait of Alfred Hardiman, Graphite Sketch, Signed and Dated 1925
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed and dated
Image size: 18 x 12 1/2 inches (46 x 32 cm)
Mounted and framed
The sitter for this portrait, Alfred Hardiman, was an English sculptor. Hardiman and Lyon were friends and met when they both attended the British School at Rome in the early 1920s.
Hardiman won a London County Council Scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1912, and three years later joined the Royal Academy School. After a period as an engineer's draughtsman in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, Hardiman resumed his studies and in 1920 was awarded the British Prix de Rome scholarship, spending two years at the British School at Rome. There he developed his style, a blend of naturalism and classicism influenced by Roman and Etruscan art and early fifth century Greek sculpture.
Hardiman's best-known (but also most controversial) work is the Earl Haig Memorial on Whitehall in London. More universally admired are the heraldic lions flanking the main entrance to the City Hall, Norwich, a work which fully epitomises his style. He was appointed consultant sculptor to the building, having worked with one of the architects, Stephen Rowland Pierce, on the Haig Memorial. Hardiman also carved three large stone figures for the outside of the council chamber, and worked with other sculptors on the project including James Woodford and Eric Aumonier.
Hardiman was elected Associate of the Royal Academy in 1936 and a full Academician in 1944. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1938 and the following year received their silver medal for his statue of Haig. In 1946 he won a gold medal for his bronze fountain figure for the New Council House, College Green, Bristol, which however was never erected.
In 1918 he married Violet, daughter of Herbert Clifton White, of London, and had two daughters. He died at Stoke Poges on 17th April 1949.
Robert Lyon...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Wooden Maquette of a Leg, Hand Carved British Sculpture
Located in London, GB
Hand-carved wooden trunk and plinth
Height: 38 1/2 inches (98 cm)
Width: 10 1/2 inches (27 cm)
Lawson Rudge
Lawson Rudge was born in 1936. He is...
Category
20th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
The Ginger Tom, Early 20th Century British Figurative Watercolour, Signed
Located in London, GB
Watercolour, initialled lower right
Image size: 15 x 13 inches (38 x 33 cm)
Acid free mount and hand made modern frame.
Little-known painter and etcher who studied at Goldsmith's c...
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cosmos, The Brightest Light, Early 20th Century English School Artwork
Located in London, GB
Gouache on paper
Image size: 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches (8 1/4 x 11 1/2 cm)
Original frame
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Summer, 20th Century British Landscape, Framed
Located in London, GB
Oil on board
Image size: 6 x 8 1/2 inches (15 x 21.5 cm)
Contemporary hand made float frame
We have a considerable collection of Benham's landscape works.
Please get in contact if ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Founded on Sand, Gouache and Ink Artwork, British School Mid-20th Century
Located in London, GB
Gouache and ink on board, inscribed on reverse
Image size: 12 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (31.75 x 37 cm)
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Board
Three Ages of Man, 20th Century Oil on Board Figurative Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on board
Image size: 16 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches (42.5 x 26 cm)
This work depicts the three stages of life: infancy, adulthood and old age.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Geologist, 20th Century British Oil Landscape Painting, 1968, Signed
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed and dated 1968 verso
Image size: 23 x 36 inches (58.5 x 92 cm)
Original gilt frame
Evan Charlton was born in London. He studied at ...
Category
1960s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Approaching Train, Mid-20th Century Graphite Sketch, White Gold Frame
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Pencil on Paper
Image size: 10 x 8 ¾ inches
White Gold Frame
The Artist
Gordon Scott was trained at the Royal College of Art (1934-38) under Gilbert Spencer, Alan Sorrell and Charl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of a Young Girl Oil Painting 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Circle of Thomas Derrick
British 1885 - 1954
Oil on panel
Image size: 21 1/2 x 14 inches (55 x 36 cm)
Hand made frame
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The New Hat, 20th Century British Oil Portrait Interior
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas on board
Image size: 15 3/4 x 21 3/4 inches (40 x 55 cm)
Contemporary style frame
This sensitive portrait captures the use of contemporary dress of this lady beautifu...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Harvest Time, Oil on Canvas, 20th Century Signed British Landscape
By Septimus Edwin Scott
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas on board, signed lower left
Image size: 10 1/2 x 14 inches
In the course of a long and varied career, Sep Scott exhibited in the Royal Academy and was a member of the Royal Watercolour Society.
Scott produced some famous works for the railway poster campaigns in his early years.
He became a book illustrator and one of the highest paid and respected of all British poster artists. Towards the end of his life, during a period when his style had gone somewhat out of vogue, he began working for Leonard Matthews and his trio of comics, Knockout, Sun and Thriller Comics Library.
At first, Scott was used for picture strips, drawing all the adventures of the pirate hunter, Captain Flame, and proving to be a natural born strip artist. Then, when Matthews took over Thriller Comics Library, Scott began to paint the covers. He drew scores of full colour cover paintings, which would, as Leonard Matthews commented, “grace the walls of any stately home”, and were, in all probability, largely responsible for the success of the Library and the fact that these comics are so valued today amongst collectors.
Scott also drew a number of short Robin Hood strips for the Library and some fine full-length adventure picture stories including Jane Eyre, Pride of the Ring, Secret Operator and the splendidly atmospheric, The Dark Shadows of London. For a short period, he also painted the occasional cover - and back page - for Comet and Sun and also contributed some paintings for the first Buck Jones Annual and the covers for both issues of the Billy the Kid Book...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Yellow Blocks, Three-Dimensional Mixed Media, 20th Century British
By Peter Manzaroli
Located in London, GB
Mixed media on board
Image size: 22 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (57 x 37 cm)
Original frame
A very fine three-dimensional original by the well listed British born artist, Peter Manzaroli (b...
Category
1970s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Board
The Standing Stone Wall, 20th Century English Signed, Oil Landscape
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed and dated '1948' bottom right
Image size: 10 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches (27.25 x 42 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
The Artist
Hugh Griffiths was a painter who was born in Karachi. Was educated at Canford School and the Dragon School, Oxford. Showed at RA, RBA and NEAC. Griffiths lived at Winchelsea and later St Leonards...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Blitz, World War Two Landscape, 20th Century, British Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed bottom right
Image size: 8 x 10 1/4 inches (20.25 x 26 cm)
Mounted and framed
Charles Rebel Stanton served with the First Surrey Rifles in Northern France and Belgium during the First World War. Although Stanton was not an official war artist, his stirring watercolours document the devastation of towns and villages that he visited while on active military service
The Artist
Charles Rebel Stanton was born in Kentish Town, London, on 3 February 1887, the third of seven children of the book seller’s assistant, Charles Stanton, and his wife, Amelia (née Tate). At the time of the 1891 Census, the family was living at 22 Corinne Road, Islington. Nothing is known of Stanton’s education but, at the time of the 1901 Census, when he was 14 years old, he was working as a Science Assistant for the School Board of London, probably at a local school. By then, he and his family had moved to 121 South Street, Greenwich, and his father was working as a carpenter.
In The Art of the RMS Queen Mary (1994), Douglas M Hinkey describes Stanton as ‘a painter trained as an architect’.
While nothing is known of his architectural training, he is described as an ‘artist’ in the 1911 Census, which also records that he was still living with his family, which had moved to 53 Grosvenor Park SE, St Mary Newington. In the previous year, he had won second prize in the class for ‘pictorial art’ in a competition organised by the magazine, The Studio.
Charles Stanton began his career as a commercial artist, designing posters and postcards and illustrating books, and signing his work ‘Charles R Stanton’. Commissions included a poster for the Fine Art Society that was general enough in its design to have been used to advertise any number of exhibitions (though the example that has come to light promoted ‘Water Colours of Flower Time...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Arbre en Fleurs, Oil Landscape, French Post-Impressionist
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, mounted on panel, signed lower right
Image size: 19 x 23 (48 x 58 cm)
Contemporary style handmade frame
£10,000
Provenance
Artists Estate
The Artist
Robert Deborne...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Porter, Contemporary British Artist, 1984
By Graham Dean
Located in London, GB
Graham Dean
1984
Porter
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: 40 x 29 inches
The model in this painting is the same as the one in the painting Camouflage. The artist researched a lot about ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Signpost, Contemporary British Artist, 1977
By Graham Dean
Located in London, GB
Graham Dean
1977
Signpost
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: 78 x 50 inches
The painting depicts a time before electronic travel boards, when train times were chalked on blackboards. The...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of Stanley Bate, 20th Century Musician
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 24 x 29 inches (61 x 73.5 cm)
Contemporary style gilt frame
Provenance
From the estate of the artist, Clara Klinghoffer
This portrait is by an artist who propelled rapidly into the limelight after her first solo exhibition in 1920, at the age of 19, with the Daily Graphic naming her as the 'Girl Who Draws Like Raphael'. Yet today Clara Klinghoffer's name is little know.
Klinghoffer's early success resulted in numerous portrait commissions, including this one of the English composer Stanley Bate. The bold use of colour and naive execution of this portrait clearly reveals the modernist influence of fellow Jewish artists such as Bernard Meninsky, Jacob Kramer and Mark Gertler...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Richmond Bridge, Victorian Oil Painting, London Scene
By Horace Mann Livens
Located in London, GB
HORACE MANN LIVENS
1862 - 1936
RICHMOND BRIDGE II
Watercolour, signed lower right
Image size: 12 x 10 inches
Framed
Livens was born in Croydon in 1862...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Waiting for the Train - Mid 20th Century Pencil & Wash
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Gordon Noel Scott A.R.C.A
1914 - 2016
Waiting for the Train
Pencil and wash on Paper
Image size: 10 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches
Modern contemporary style fr...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Rambles in the Wye Valley, Original Artwork for Book Cover, Railway Art
By Gwynn
Located in London, GB
Gouache on paper
Image size: 12 x 15 ¼ inches (30.5 x 39 cm)
Art Deco frame
This rare original artwork was used as the book cover for Hugh E. Page's 'Rambles in the Wye Valley' (1951). The Wye Valley is an area of outstanding natural beauty straddling the border between England and Wales. The internationally important protected landscape covers parts of the counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Monmouthshire and is particularly recognised for its limestone gorge scenery and dense native woodlands.
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of Marguerite Folin, Gerald Brockhurst
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in London, GB
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
1890 – 1978
Portrait of Marguerite Folin
Oil on panel, signed lower right
Image size: 18 x 14 inches (45.7 x 34.3 cm)
Original frame
The sitter for this po...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
St Paul's Cathedral, North Transept Portico, 20th Century British London
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 24 x 17 3/4 inches (61 x 45 cm)
Contemporary frame
This is a scene displaying the North Transept of St Paul's Cathedral. St Paul's Cathedral, located at the highest point of the City of London, is one of the most famous and recognisable sights in the city. The religious monument is particularly known for its architecture that boasts Neoclassical English Baroque-style elements designed by Sir Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of London in 1666.
The Artist
Vivian Bewick...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishguard to Rosslare - 20th Century Oil
By John S. Smith
Located in London, GB
John S. Smith
1921 - 2010
Fishguard to Rosslare
Oil and gouache on board, signed lower left
Image size: 35 × 22 inches (89 × 56 cm)
Contemporary art deco style frame
This wonderfull...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache, Board
Three Men Without Their Boat, Signed 20th Century French Illustration
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and ink on paper, signed bottom right
Image size: 7 x 10 1/2 inches (17.75 x 26.5 cm)
Gilt frame
An original artwork by an early 20th Century French illustrator, this is...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Self Portrait, 20th Century Jewish Artist Oil Painting
By Carl Felkel
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed bottom right
Image size: 13 1/2 x 17 inches (34.25 x 43 cm)
Contemporary frame
The Artist
Painter Carl Friedrich Felkel was born in 1896, in Stockerau, near Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) and was probably of Jewish descent. He initially studied under Walter Thor...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Service Vehicles, 20th Century Art Deco Style Artwork
By Reginald Shuffrey
Located in London, GB
Coloured inks on paper
Image size: 18 x 14 inches (45.75 x 35.5 cm)
Modern handmade frame
Shuffrey was an important pre-war artist who did advertisements and worked for The Motor a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The Cattle Market, 20th Century Signed English Watercolour
By James Bateman
Located in London, GB
Watercolour, signed lower right
Image size: 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (31 x 31 cm)
Hand made frame and mount
James Bateman was an English painter and engraver specialising in agricultural topics, rural subjects and pastoral landscapes.
Bateman was born in Kendal, the son of a blacksmith. During World War One he served with the Northumberland Fusiliers, the Machine Gun Corps...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Tug Boat on the Thames, Early 20th Century Etching Print, London Landscape
Located in London, GB
Etching on paper, signed bottom left
Image size: 9 x 4 3/4 inches (22.75 x 12 cm)
Framed
Category
1910s Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Portrait Study, 20th Century Graphite Artwork, Female Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed bottom left
Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (19 x 25cm)
Contemporary frame
A characterful portrait of a woman in profile. The artist has captured much of ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Spring in Dorset, 20th Century English Oil Landscape, Female Artist
Located in London, GB
Oil on board
Image size: 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (31.75 x 40 cm)
Contemporary style handmade frame
Exhibitions
1952 Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition, Gallery no. VII, no.429.
This forest scene invites the viewer into a multi-sensory event where the cool, damp shadows of the foliage can almost be felt and the rich bouquet of the forest floor recalled. Here, Sherlock has chosen a somewhat unusual angle and composition, dissecting each truck and tree form so that only a part can be seen. Furthermore, as we look into the depths of this space it becomes clear that we are stood gazing down into a valley that is in the distance, behind this wooded area. Indeed, instead of giving us an uninterrupted view of this vista, as perhaps would be expected, this view is deliberately blocked and our focus is directed instead towards the organic forms in the foreground.
The Artist
Marjorie Sherlock was born at Fir Tree Cottage, George Lane, Wanstead, Essex, on 3 February 1891, the elder child of the civil engineer, Henry Sherlock, and his wife, Alice (née Platts), who was born in Benares, India. By 1901, the family was living at ‘The Limes’, 121 Mill Road, Cambridge, and Marjorie received an education locally. In 1918, she entered into marriage with her cousin, Major Wilfrid Barrett, though this proved unsuccessful and they later divorced (he remarrying in 1941). She then continued to live at the family home until the Second World War.
During the First World War, Marjorie Sherlock studied at Westminster Technical Institute under the Camden Town School painters, Walter Sickert and Harold Gilman.
She exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1917, when she showed a powerful view of the interior of Liverpool Street Station (Government Art Collection) (to which the current etching [202] relates). In time, she would exhibit at the International Society, the New English Art Club, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Society of 207 Graphic Art and the Women’s International Art Club (becoming a member of the last two). She also showed work internationally.
Developing as a printmaker as well as a painter, Sherlock studied etching under Malcolm Osborne at the Royal College of Art in 1925. She published her etchings in four series, the titles of which indicate her love of travel: ‘English Etchings, ‘Egyptian Etchings’ (both 1925), ‘German Etchings’ (1929) and ‘Indian Etchings’ (1932). During this period, she also visited the united States. More admiring of Continental painters than British ones, she furthered her studies, in 1938, by working in Paris under André L’Hôte and André Dunoyer de Segonzac.
During the Second World War, Sherlock moved to East Devon and settled at Oxenways, a Victorian hunting lodge...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
African Landscapes, 20th Century British Artwork
Located in London, GB
Dimensions of the artworks vary.
Dorothy Carey Morgan was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, in 1886 as the daughter of a British solicitor
Relatively little is known about Car...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
Portrait of Thomas Cooper Gotch, 19th Century Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas on board
Image size: 7 x 5¼ inches (18 x 13.5 cm)
Framed
This portrait of Thomas Gotch is by his lifelong friend and confidante, Jane Ross, whom he met at Heatherley’s...
Category
1880s English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chelsea, Graphite Portrait, English School 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, initialled and dated 1960
Image size: 8 x 6 inches (20 x 15 cm)
Handmade frame
Category
1960s English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
The Overseas Daily Mail, Signed Original Advertisement Artwork, 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Gouache, signed and dated (19)14 lower right
Image size: 5 ¾ x 6 ½ inches (14.5 x 16.5 centimetres)
Original oak frame
The Daily Mail has long been noted for its foreign reporting a...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Self Portrait, 20th Century Female Artist Oil Painting
By Joan Fairfax Whiteside ARRC FMAA
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 17 3/4 x 13 inches (45 x 33 cm)
Contemporary hand made frame and oval mount
The Artist
Joan Fairfax Whiteside was a prodigious artist and illustrator. Bor...
Category
Mid-20th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Europa and the Bull, 20th Century British Graphite Drawing, Signed
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed with stamp
Image size: 9 x 6 ¾ inches
Acid free mount
Born in London, Moody studied at Battersea Polytechnic and at Royal College of Art under William Roth...
Category
20th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
A Frost, Bristol Savages CT, 20th Century Signed British Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed, titled & dated 1933
Image size: 11 ½ x 7 inches (29 x 18 cm)
Mounted
This work is initialled lower right 'CT' and inscribed lower left 'Bristol Savages...
Category
1930s English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
View Outside of Warlingham, 20th Century British Watercolour
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and graphite on paper
Image size: 9 1/2 x 12 inches (24 x 30.5 cm)
Acid free mount
This is a view just outside of the village of Warlingham, Surrey, where Scott had a house.
The Artist
Gordon Scott frst studied at Croydon School of Art and then was trained at the Royal College of Art between 1934-38 under Gilbert Spencer, Alan Sorrell and Charles Mahoney...
Category
20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
In Fashion, Sgrffito Signed Portrait, 20th Century British
Located in London, GB
Sgraffito on acrylic, signed below
Image size: 12 1/2 x 8 inches (32 x 20.5 cm)
Acid free mount
Mary A Brooks was a notable contributor to a vast array of children's publications from the early 1940s to the late 1980s. Brooks was the illustrator of Enid Blyton...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic
Summer on the Farmstead, 20th Century Oil Landscape Painting, New Zealand
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas on board
Image size: 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (19 x 14 cm)
Hand made contemporary style frame
This small-scale artwork depicts a working farmstead, in New Zealand. It is a textural work with lots of movement and life. Under blue skies luscious vegetation grows throughout this scene between the farm buildings.
There are signs of life everywhere in this scene - the fence at the rear has seemingly just been constructed as spare planks of wood rest just next to it. The farm carts...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Awakening of Spring, Early 20th Century Signed Oil Landscape
By Margaret Dovaston
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1908 bottom left
Image size: 15 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches (39.5 x 50.5 cm)
Contemporary style handmade frame
Exhibitions
The Royal Academy, London, 1908
...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tombs of St James and Zacharias, Valley of Jehoshaphat, Jerusalem
Located in London, GB
Graphite and watercolour on paper
Signed lower right
Image size: 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 (31 x 22 cm)
These are two of four sepulchres in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, on the east side of the K...
Category
Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Imperial Beauty, British School 20th Century Pastel Portrait
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper on canvas, initialled lower left "ND"
Image size: 13 ¾ x 22 ½ inches (35 x 57 cm)
Gilt frame
This fine Art Nouveau picture executed around 1900, depicts an auburn ha...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The Art Model, 20th Century Oil Painting, Nude
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 24 x 20 inches (61 x 51 cm)
Original silver frame
With her back turned to us, the viewer look across to a female artist facing us, whose gaze is fixed on t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ten Minute Rest, 20th Century Signed Nude Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed & dated lower right
Image size: 4 x 4 inches (10 x 10 cm)
Handmade frame
Category
Mid-20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Gaze, Signed Graphite 20th Century Portrait
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed bottom right
Image size: 13 x 8 3/4 inches (33 x 22.25 cm)
Original frame
Dora Thacher Clarke, later Dora Middleton, (1895–1989) was a British sculptor and wood carver who also wrote about, and promoted African art.
Clarke was born in Harrow in Middlesex. Her father, Joseph Thacher Clarke was an American architect. Clarke won a scholarship that allowed her to attend the Slade School of Fine Art. Aged fifteen, Clarke initially studied at the Slade on a part-time basis for three days each week throughout 1910 and 1911 but during 1915 and 1916 she studied sculpture there as a full-time student. Clarke first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1923 and continued to do so until 1959. In the early 1930s she was a regular exhibitor in group shows at the Goupil Gallery and in March 1937 had her first solo show at the French Gallery. She also exhibited at the Paris Salon and with the Royal Society of British Artists.
Clarke's works included bronze castings, memorials and wood sculptures, often of African heads. For example she was commissioned to sculpt the posthumous portrait bust of Sir Walter Morley Fletcher. The most notable of her memorials is the panel and medallion tribute to Joseph Conrad at Bishopsbourne in Kent, which was unveiled in 1927. Clarke also wrote about, and promoted African art and spent a year, between 1927 and 1928 in Kenya, where she made many drawings which when she returned to London she used as the basis for wood carvings and bronzes of tribal figures. Wood carving became her technique of choice, often working with hardwoods and, on occasion, sperm whale teeth.
Clarke married Admiral Gervase B Middleton in 1938 but rarely exhibited work under her married name. During World War II, Clarke was commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee to produce a portrait medallion depicting a serviceman who had been awarded the George Cross. This proved to be the only portrait medallion acquired for the WAAC collection.
Sculptures by Clarke are held in various museums, including the Ashmolean Museum which also holds a 1936 portrait of her by Orovida Camille Pissarro.
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Mid-20th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Ann Grant and her butler at 270 Fulham Road, Chelsea
By James Arden Grant
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29 x 24 inches
Contemporary frame
James Arden Grant RP was born in Liverpool in 1887 and studied at the School of Art there, where he also later taught. He...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The White Cross Inn, Richmond, New English Art Club Oil Painting
By William Henry Innes
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 20 x 24 inches
Framed
New English Art Club label to the back and his address for Herne Hill, London
Category
20th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Dance, 20th Century Oil Painting
By Francis Plummer
Located in London, GB
Oil on board
Image size: 30 ¼ x 23 ½ inches
Gilt frame
Plummer specialised in the medium of egg tempera, a technique little used since the frescos of the Renaissance, he often work...
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Mid-20th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Campfire, 19th Century Oil Painting, English, Signed
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed verso
Image size: 10 x 15 inches ( 25.5 x 38 cm)
Original frame
Born in Liverpool in 1864 and raised in Manchester, Tom Mostyn, the son of the artist Edwin Mos...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Morning Drive in Hyde Park, 20th Century English Oil Painting
By Doris Zinkeisen
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Image size: 28 3/4 x 28 3/4 inches (73 x 73 cm)
Contemporary frame
Doris Zinkeisen was a British painter, stage-set and costume designer, writer a...
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Mid-20th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Lady, Charcoal Drawing, 20th Century Russian
Located in London, GB
Charcoal , signed lower right and dated 'Paris 1935'
Image size: 25 x 19 inches (63.5 x 48 cm)
Original oak frame
An accomplished example of Russian art from the mid 20th century.
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1930s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Notting Hill Gate Station from the Road, 20th Century Oil Painting
By Edward McKnight Kauffer
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas board, signed lower left 'McKnight'
Image size: 19 ½ x 14 ½ inches (49.5 x 37 cm)
Contemporary frame
Looking from the bridge we peer down the Notting Hill Gate Train S...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
