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One of the Howling Dawashes in Cairo Orientalist Watercolour Portrait
By Carl Haag
Located in London, GB
Carl Haag
1820 - 1915
One of the Howling Dawashes in Cairo
Watercolour on paper, signed lower right & dated 1880
Image Size: 10 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches (27 x 19.5 cm)
Original Frame
'One...
Category
1880s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Death the Bride, Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Graphite on Paper
By Thomas Cooper Gotch
Located in London, GB
Thomas Cooper Gotch RBA RI
1854 - 1931
Death the Bride
Graphite on paper
Image size: 44 x 34 inches
Pre Raphaelite Style frame
The title of the painting comes from Shakespeare. It ...
Category
Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
The Callings of Saints Peter and Andrew
Located in London, GB
The Callings of Saints Peter and Andrew
Robert Edge Pine
1730-1788
Chalk on paper
Image size: 15 1/2 x 17 inches (39.5 x 43 cm)
Original frame
Here in Pine’s picture displays an ac...
Category
18th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Bernard, Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
English School
Bernard, Self Portrait
1950s
Pencil and sepia chalk on paper
Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (24 x 34.3 cm)
Handmade contemporary frame
This imaginative self-portra...
Category
1950s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
Two framed drawings - The School of Arms, Pen and Ink Fencing Drawing
Located in London, GB
These pen and ink studies show two gentleman fencers in various fighting positions. These have been hand drawn on early laid paper and are accompanied by a general explanation of the...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Study of a Standing Female Nude
By Evelyn de Morgan
Located in London, GB
Evelyn de Morgan
Study of a Standing Female Nude
1855 - 1917
Black chalk and pastel on grey paper
Image size: 12 ½ x 19 inches (48.2 x 31.7 cm)
Pre-Raphaelite style frame
Provenance
J.S. Mass & Co., Ltd., London, J.X. Reynolds & Co., Ltd.
Once she had graduated from the Slade School of Art, Evelyn continued to draw every day for the rest of her life. Her drawings are enlightening not only for their skill and subject matter, but also for their ability to teach us her working process. From loose compositional sketches, Evelyn swiftly progressed to detailed life studies for the figures in her paintings. Choosing to draw mainly on a grey wove paper in pencil and pastel, Evelyn produced hundreds of figure studies. Her rigorously-examined double studies of clothed and nude figures are particularly fascinating and underline the artist’s obsession with the human form and her desire for accuracy. A deep understanding of anatomy is obvious in this drawing and looking at the work you feel as though you can reach out and feel the muscle and bone under the skin, that you could feel the pulse of life through the soft skin.
Evelyn de Morgan
Born into a landowning family, from an early age Evelyn De Morgan, née Pickering, demonstrated a precocious artistic talent and a passionate desire to pursue a career as an artist, writing in her diary on her seventeenth birthday ‘Art is eternal, life is short… I have not a moment to lose’ (Evelyn De Morgan’s Diary, 30 August 1872, De Morgan Foundation Archive). Her maternal uncle, the artist John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope encouraged her talents and accompanied her on her first formative journeys to Italy where she discovered the Renaissance masters, particularly Botticelli. Overcoming initial parental opposition, Evelyn enrolled at the newly formed Slade School in 1873, one of the first women to do so.
The Slade revolutionised women’s artistic education by allowing female students to study the nude from life alongside their male counterparts. Whilst at the Slade she began to submit work under her middle name Evelyn, rather than her Christian name Mary, as its gender ambiguity offered a chance for her work to be judged on its own merit.
One of her tutors, Edward Poynter...
Category
20th Century Victorian Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pastel
'Don't I Wish it Was Loaded'
By John Hassall
Located in London, GB
Gouache on board, signed lower right and titled bottom left
Image size: 20 1/2 x 18 inches (52 x 46 cm)
Art Deco frame
Designed in 1907 for W.D & H.O Wills, advertising Capstan Navy Cut Tobacco & Cigarettes. The text that accompanied this painting on the original poster read 'Capstan Navy Cut, Tobacco and Cigarettes in three grades of Strength'.
This original artwork features a young boy and sailor stood together on a pebbly English beach. The boy stands to attention with a toy gun...
Category
Early 1900s Art Deco Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Littlehampton Watercolour Early 20th Century
By Horace Mann Livens
Located in London, GB
Horace Mann Livens
1862 - 1936
Littlehampton
Watercolour, gouache, and black chalk on paper, signed and dated '10' lower left
Image size: 11 ¼ x 15 inches (28.5 x 38 cm)
Acid free mo...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Watercolor, Gouache
Brockenhurst Gardens
By Ernest Arthur Rowe
Located in London, GB
Brockenhurst Gardens
Ernest Arthur Rowe
Watercolour, signed lower left and dated 1900 bottom left
Image Size: 12 x 18 3/4 inches (46 x 30.5 cm)
Original Victorian frame
Provenance
Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell
The collection of C. Buttersworth
Sale, Bonhams, London, 10th June 1998, lot 63
Exhibited
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, as 'Relics of the Civil Wars, Compton Wynyates', no.1
This watercolour is one of Rowe's few pictures of Brockenhurst park garden in the New Forest, Hampshire. Here Rowe exemplifies the garden's splendour through his deliberate low positioning within the composition. As well as the scenes mirrored...
Category
20th Century Post-War Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Tetouanoui Man
Located in London, GB
Tetouanoui Man
Albert Charles Dequene
Pastel on paper, signed and dated 1933 lower left, titled upper right
Image size: 23 x 18 inches (58.4 x 45.7 cm)
Hand made ebonised and gilded ...
Category
20th Century French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Sketch of a Man in Profile
Located in London, GB
Sketch of a Man in Profile
17th Century French School
Ink on paper
Image Size: 10 1/2 x 7 inches (26.5 x 17.5 cm)
Framed
Provenance
The estate of Joseph McCrindle
Christies Old Masters and British Pictures and Old Master Drawings Sale 12th December 2008
This highly worked picture shows us a man depicted in profile is seen interacting with a scene that extends beyond the boundaries of the paper's composition, the pen strokes intricately portraying the man's face, rendering a detailed, textured complexion. He points his left hand out to something in the distance, with a look of almost alarm.
The artist Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-64) did a series of oriental head studies.
The exotic headgear that he wears and this type of oriental head studies, had its principal source was of course Rembrandt, who etched many similar heads during the 1630s.
In the seventeenth-century Western European imagination, the turbaned figure represented the epitome of alterity: the Ottoman Turk. Ottoman costume...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Sketch of Finkel
Located in London, GB
Sketch of Finkel
Stephen Andrews
Born 1956
Ink on paper, signed bottom right
Image size: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches ( 23.5 x 31.5 cm )
Original Frame
Andrews, a friend of American direct...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Sketch of Marlon Brando
Located in London, GB
Sketch of Marlon Brando
Stephen Andrews
Born 1956
Ink on Paper, signed bottom left
Image size: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (23.5 x 31.5 cm)
Original frame
Andrews, a friend of American ac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Tettenhall Church Yard
Located in London, GB
Philip Byrne
20th Century
Tettenhall Church Yard
Ink on paper, signed and titled bottom left
Image size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (29.5 x 21 cm)
Hand made frame
Philip Byrne, an artist...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
The Quarry
Located in London, GB
Philip Byrne
20th Century
The Quarry
Ink on paper, signed and dated bottom left
Image size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (29.5 x 21 cm)
Hand made frame
Philip Byr...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Excavators at the Local Sand Quarry
Located in London, GB
Philip Byrne
20th Century
Excavators at the Local Sand Quarry
Ink on paper, signed, titled and dated bottom left
Image size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (29.5 x 21 cm)
Hand made frame
Phi...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-War Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
The Abattoir
Located in London, GB
Philip Byrne
20th Century
The Abattoir
Ink on paper, signed bottom left
Image size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (29.5 x 21 cm)
Hand made frame
Philip Byrne, an artist who studied at the W...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Sketch of Three Figures
Located in London, GB
Benjamin Robert Haydon
1786 - 1846
Sketch of Three Figures
Pen and ink on paper,
Image size: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (25 x 20 cm)
Acid Free mount, original frame
Provenance
Private Col...
Category
18th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Under the Pier
Located in London, GB
Under the Pier
Philip Byrne
Ink on paper, signed, titled and dated bottom right
Image size: 11 x 14 1/2 inches (28 x 12 cm)
Hand made frame
Philip Byrne, an artist who studied at th...
Category
20th Century Post-War Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Anne Hyde, Duchess of York; King James II
By Sir Peter Lely
Located in London, GB
After Sir Peter Lely
1618 - 1680
Anne Hyde, Duchess of York; King James II
Pencil, ink and white chalk on paper,
Image size: 10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20.5 cm)
Original frame
This work,...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Ink, Pencil
Fouta Djallon woman with crest headdress
Located in London, GB
Albert Charles Dequene
Fouta Djallon woman with crest headdress
Pastel on paper, signed lower right & dated '32'
Image size: 19 3/4 x 18 inches (50 x 46 cm)
Hand made ebonised and gi...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Portrait of a Man Gazing Right
By William Dring
Located in London, GB
William Dring
1904-1990
Ink on paper, signed middle right
Image size: 15 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (38.9 x 28.5cm)
The artwork portrays a man in profile, meticulously rendered in ink on paper. Dring pays close attention to the contours of the skin and hair. The intricate facial details prompt viewers to contemplate themes of identity and expression, while the minimalistic background underscores the figure’s separation from its surroundings.
William Dring
Dring was born with the forenames Dennis William, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring. He married the painter Grace Elizabeth Rothwell...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Portrait of a Man
By William Dring
Located in London, GB
William Dring
1904-1990
Ink on paper
Image size: 15 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (38.9 x 28.5cm)
The artwork portrays a man in profile, meticulously rendered in ink on paper. Dring pays close attention to the contours of the skin and hair. The intricate facial details prompt viewers to contemplate themes of identity and expression, while the minimalistic background underscores the figure’s separation from its surroundings.
William Dring
Dring was born with the forenames Dennis William, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring. He married the painter Grace Elizabeth...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Sketch of Antinous
Located in London, GB
Alfred Hunt
1830-1896
Graphite and wash on paper, inscribed lower right
Image Size: 9 ¾ x 10 ¾ inches (24.6 x 26.5 cm)
Mounted
This Sketch by Hunt is a rough study of the relief of ...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Miss Ruth Bowerie Watercolour Portrait 19th Century American
Located in London, GB
Gertrude Braud
19th Century
Watercolour on paper, initialled and dated 'Sep 29/69'.
Image size: 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches (24 x 17 cm)
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Fairy Tales 19th Century American Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Gertrude Braud
19th Century
Watercolour on paper, entitled on original backing paper
Image size: 11 x 16 1/2 inches (28 x 42 cm)
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
At Sea Ink and Wash Marine Artwork 19th Century French
By Jean Antoine Théodore Gudin
Located in London, GB
Théodore Gudin
1802 - 1880
At Sea
Ink and wash over pencil on paper, signed, inscribed and dated 1868 bottom left
Image size: 6 x 11 inches (15.5 x 27.75 cm)
Inscribed bottom left: ...
Category
1860s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
On the Beach, Post-Impressionist Oil Painting, English School
Located in London, GB
Oil on board
Image size: 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (29 x 22.25 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
Alike many painters at the start of the 20th century, this artist has recorded a s...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Board
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 ...
Category
20th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of a Boy, Pastel Drawing, 20th Century English
By William Dring
Located in London, GB
Pastel and graphite on paper
Image size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches (28 x 21.5 cm)
Mounted
William Dring
Dring was born with the forenames Dennis William, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring. He married the painter Grace Elizabeth Rothwell...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Graphite
View of Cornwall, Graphite Sketch, 20th Century English Female Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 5 1/4 x 8 inches (13 x 20.25 cm)
Mounted
Jane Ross
Little is known about Jane Ross apart from that she attended Heatherley's Art School. Here she met...
Category
20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The Cemetery, Graphite Sketch, 20th Century English Female Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 7 x 5 inches (17.75 x 12.75 cm)
Mounted
Jane Ross
Little is known about Jane Ross apart from that she attended Heatherley's Art School. Here she met ...
Category
20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Salamander, 20th Century British Artist, Abstract Painting
By Kenneth W. Hough
Located in London, GB
KENNETH W HOUGH
SALAMANDER
Watercolour
Image size: 10 ¾ x 14 inches
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Triptych: The Olympic Games, Modern British Drawing, Ancient Greek, Nude
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size of rectangular works: 33 x 43 inches (84 x 109 cm)
Image size of arched central work: 38 1/4 x 29 inches (97 x 73.5 cm)
Provenance
Private Collection of Seymour Stein, Vice President of Warner Bros Records
Sotheby's 'Modern British and Irish Art,' London, 19 May 2004, lot 92
The three impressive drawings are studies for Stroudley’s ‘Olympic Games in a Demi-Lune’. From left to right the studies depict groups of athletes practicing diving, a conversing crowd of oarsmen, hurdlers mid jump and a collection of javelin throwers. This study was created in 1930 when Stroudley practiced in the British School in Rome. There are few surviving works from Stroudley’s short stay in Rome, with the compositions from his Rome period being among the last wholly successful decorative cycles produced by a Rome Scholar prior to World War II. Indeed, as can be seen here, his drawings from this period are technically brilliant and even bear comparison with those of Eric Kennington.
James Stroudley
Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker, paid homage to Stroudley by including his work in the exhibition ‘Pupil & Masters’, held at Westgate House, Long Melford, Suffolk.
Stroudley married three times, and his wives included the fashion artist to the Sun newspaper...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The Ladder, 20th Century British Artist, Handmade White Gold Frame
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 9 3/4 x 8 inches (24.75 x 20.25 cm)
Hand made white gold frame
Gordon Scott
Gordon Scott was trained at the Royal College of Art (1934-38) under Gilb...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Nude Study, Graphite on Paper, 20th Century British Artwork
By William Dring
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 22 x 26 inches (56 x 66 cm)
Mounted and framed
William Dring
Dring was born with the forenames Dennis William, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring. He married the painter Grace Elizabeth Rothwell...
Category
20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of Rebecca Octavia Dorothy Nash, Victorian Graphite Drawings
By Joseph Nash
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, inscribed on original backing
Image size: 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (16.5 x 14 cm)
Mounted
This is a delightful graphite drawing by the artist Joseph Nash that depict...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Flower Gardens at Generalife, Granada
By Ernest Arthur Rowe
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed bottom left
Image size: 13 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (35 x 24 cm)
Mounted and framed
The Generalife was a summer palace and country estate of the Nasrid rulers...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a German Airman, Graphite on paper, 1919, Air Park Document Verso
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed and dated '13 Feb (19)19' bottom left
Image size: 13 x 8 1/4 inches (33 x 21 cm)
This is a portrait of a German airman that was done by the artist at the start of 1919. The artwork has been created on the reverse of a document from Adlershof, a German Air Park. This exact document is from the 'Airman Replacement Department' and is a request form for replacement parts for aircrafts - it asks the writer to specify the type and number of aircrafts, the type of engine and details of its propellers.
Adlershof is a place with a long and famous history. Germany's first motorised aircraft took off from here at the beginning of the 20th century and the Wright brothers moved their company to the airfield in 1909 shortly after it was opened. In 1912 German Experimental Institute for Aviation was established and made the location it's headquarters. Indeed, pre-war it was often known as 'The cradle of German Aviation'.
During the war the War ministry used the site for extensive military production and it is particularly well known for a series of competitions between various aviation firms' fighter aircraft designs that were held in 1918 and 1919. Even after the War had ended, work continued at Adlershof with the final flight competition being held between February and May 1919 (when this portrait was created). Eventually, the signing of the Versailles Treaty ended all military aircraft work for Germany and led to the dissolution of the Luffstreikrafte in May 1920.
Karl Ludwig Nagel...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
Portrait of a German Airman, Graphite on paper, 1919, Air Park Document Verso
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed and dated '13 Feb (19)19' bottom left
Image size: 13 x 8 1/4 inches (33 x 21 cm)
This is a portrait of a German airman that was done by the artist at the start of 1919. The artwork has been created on the reverse of a document from Adlershof, a German Air Park. This exact document is from the 'Airman Replacement Department' and is a request form for replacement parts for aircrafts - it asks the writer to specify the type and number of aircrafts, the type of engine and details of its propellers.
Adlershof is a place with a long and famous history. Germany's first motorised aircraft took off from here at the beginning of the 20th century and the Wright brothers moved their company to the airfield in 1909 shortly after it was opened. In 1912 German Experimental Institute for Aviation was established and made the location it's headquarters. Indeed, pre-war it was often known as 'The cradle of German Aviation'.
During the war the War ministry used the site for extensive military production and it is particularly well known for a series of competitions between various aviation firms' fighter aircraft designs that were held in 1918 and 1919. Even after the War had ended, work continued at Adlershof with the final flight competition being held between February and May 1919 (when this portrait was created). Eventually, the signing of the Versailles Treaty ended all military aircraft work for Germany and led to the dissolution of the Luffstreikrafte in May 1920.
Karl Ludwig Nagel...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
View of a Cathedral, 17th Century Dutch Ink and Wash Artwork, Mounted
Located in London, GB
Ink and wash on paper
Image size: 7 1/2 x 6 inches (19 x 15.25 cm)
Mounted
This drawing is of a Gothic style church in the Netherlands that is likely to have been built in the 15th ...
Category
17th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Boat Yard, 20th Century English Watercolour and Graphite Artwork
By William Dring
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and graphite on paper
Image size: 15 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (38.75 x 28.5 cm)
This wonderful 20th century watercolour painting depicts a small boat yard that is filled with fishing and pleasure vessels. It is possible that this work was created by Dring just after World War Two, when he travelled extensively around Britain and spent some time painting subjects in Portsmouth and the surrounding area.
William Dring
Dring was born with the forenames Dennis William, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring. He married the painter Grace Elizabeth...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Self Portrait, Charcoal on Paper, 20th Century British Drawing
By William Dring
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper
Image size: 4 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (11.5 x 10.75 cm)
Mounted with a contemporary style frame
This is a somewhat haunting self-portrait by William Dring, crafted in charcoal. Here, Dring presents himself through dark shadow and bright highlights, looking out directly at the viewer with a serious gaze.
Although the Dring has been economical in the use of his marks we are still given plenty of information and can identify the energy in which the strokes of charcoal must have been placed onto the surface.
William Dring
Dring was born with the forenames Dennis William, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring. He married the painter Grace Elizabeth...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Return from the Hunt, Pen and Ink 17th Century Artwork, Handmade Gilt Frame
Located in London, GB
Pen and ink, brown wash, heightened with white bodycolour
Image size: 9 x 10 1/2 inches (22.75 x 26.75 cm)
Mounted with hand made gilt frame
Lingelbach presents a scene from the end...
Category
17th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Portrait of a Young Man, 19th Century English, Charcoal, Signed and Dated '1888'
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, signed and dated '1888' bottom right
Image size: 9 x 7 1/2 inches (22.75 x 19 cm)
Period frame
The half-length portrait depicts the subject sat, wearing a white s...
Category
1880s Victorian Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Self Portrait, Graphite Sketch 20th Century British Female Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 12 1/4 x 8 inches (31 x 20.25 cm)
Hand made contemporary style frame
This is a wonderful self portrait that captures the artist as she stares, unafraid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Study of a Woman, Graphite Sketch, 20th Century British Artist, Signed
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed lower right
Image size: 9 x 12 1/2 inches (23 x 32 cm)
Mounted and framed
Little is known about the artist Winifred Anne Rymer apart from that her career f...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
L'eglise de Mézy-Moulins, Pastel 19thC French Landscape, Signed and dated 1921
By Léon Augustin Lhermitte
Located in London, GB
Pastel on mounted canvas, signed and dated '1921' lower right
Image size: 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)
Original gilt frame
This scene depicts the church of Mézy-Moulins in Northern ...
Category
1920s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Laid Paper
Great Gateway, Leading to the Temple at Karnac, Thebes, Original Watercolour
By David Roberts
Located in London, GB
Pencil and watercolour heightened with white, signed lower right and inscribed lower left
Image size: 14 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches (37.5 x 29.5 cm)
Mounted with handmade gilt frame
Prove...
Category
Early 19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Woman at Rest, Signed Charcoal Sketch, 20th Century British
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, signed lower left
Image size: 15 3/4 x 21 inches (40 x 53.5 cm)
Contemporary frame
James Stroudley
Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker, paid homage to Stroudley by including his work in the exhibition ‘Pupil & Masters’, held at Westgate House, Long Melford, Suffolk.
Stroudley married three times, and his wives included the fashion artist to the Sun newspaper...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Graphite Study of a Head, Monogrammed Victorian Sketch, Gilt Fame
By Henry Perronet Briggs
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, monogrammed lower left
Image size: 6 x 6 1/2 inches (15.25 x 16.5 cm)
Contemporary style handmade gilt frame
Henry Perronet Briggs
Henry Perronet Briggs RA wa...
Category
Early 19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The Jewellers, 19th Century Orientalist Graphite Sketch
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
Graphite on Paper
Image size: 21 x 13 3/4 inches (53.25 x 35 cm)
Carved gilt frame
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Carl Werner was born in Weimar in 1808, the son of a piano teacher...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
View of the Dome of the Rock, 19th Century Orientalist Sketch
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
Graphite on Paper
Image size: 14 x 20 inches (35.5 x 51 cm)
Acid free mount
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Carl Werner was born in Weimar in 1808, the son of a piano teacher and a ...
Category
Early 19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The Barbers, 19th Century Orientalist Graphite Sketch
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
Graphite on Paper
Image size: 12 ¼ x 19 ½ inches (36 x 50 cm)
Acid free mount
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Carl Werner was born in Weimar in 1808, the son of a piano teacher and ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Entrance to the Al-Azhar Mosque, 19th Century Orientalist Sketch
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
Graphite on Paper
Image size: 20 ¾ x 14 ¾ inches (53 x 37.5 cm)
Acid free mount
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Carl Werner was born in Weimar in 1808, the son of a piano teacher a...
Category
Mid-19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Saddler's Workshop in Cairo, Graphite on Paper, 19th Century Orientalist
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
Graphite on Paper
Image size: 12 ½ x 16 ¼ inches (31.75 x 41 cm)
Acid free mount
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Carl Werner was born in Weimar in 1808, the son of a piano teacher ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Vaulted Interior, 19th Century Orientalist Sketch, Graphite on Paper
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
Graphite on Paper
Image size: 19 x 14 inches (48.25 x 35.5 cm)
Acid free mount
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Carl Werner was born in Weimar in 1808, the son of a piano teacher and...
Category
Mid-19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
At the Fountain, Graphite Orientalist sketch, Mid-19th Century
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
Graphite on Paper
Image size: 15 x 19 ¼ inches (38 x 49 cm)
Acid free mount
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Carl Werner was born in Weimar in 1808, the son of a piano teacher and a...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Showstopper, 20th Century Ink and Watercolour Sketch, Wigan School
Located in London, GB
Ink and watercolour on paper
Image size: 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (35.25 x 24.25 cm)
Framed
Created in 1958 by the artist as evidence for study in their 'Examination in Art' at Wigan A...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ink and Watercolour Sketches, Wigan School, 20th Century British
Located in London, GB
Ink and watercolour on paper
Image size: 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (26.75 x 26.75 cm)
Framed
Created in 1958 by the artist as evidence for study in their 'Examination in Art' at Wigan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
