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Infighting, Ink Sketch, 20th Century British Artist, Framed
By Samuel Rabin
Located in London, GB
Ink on lined paper
Image size: 3 x 2 3/4 inches (8 x 7 cm)
Hand made frame
Sam Rabin
Samuel (Sam) Rabin, originally Samuel Rabinovitch, was an English sculptor, artist, teacher, singer, wrestler and Olympic bronze medallist. Rabin, who was Jewish, was born Samuel Rabinovitch on 20 June 1903 at Dewhurst Street, Cheetham, North Manchester. His parents were both Russian Jewish exiles from Vitebsk (now in Belarus).
During his childhood, the family moved to Salford where Rabin grew up and where his parents encouraged his talent for drawing. In 1914 Rabin won a scholarship to the Manchester Municipal School of Art making him, at the age of 11, the youngest pupil ever to attend the college. There he was taught drawing by French artist Adolphe Valette. In 1921 he moved to the Slade School of Fine Art in London where he continued his studies under Henry Tonks until 1924. After the Slade, Rabin studied in Paris where he met and was greatly impressed and influenced by sculptor Charles Despiau.
Rabin's own sculpture from this time is little known as he was a perfectionist and destroyed work that he considered unsatisfactory. In 1928, working under his full surname, he was commissioned by architect Charles Holden to carve West Wind, one of eight personifications of the four winds for the headquarters of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London at 55 Broadway. The sculpture was partly completed in-situ on the building. In 1930, he produced his only other public sculptures; two decorative winged masks, The Past and The Future, for the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. These were carved on the building directly from the scaffold.
Both commissions were well received at the time, but Rabin was unable to make a living as a sculptor and turned to another career – wrestling, for which he abbreviated his surname. Rabin was physically strong and had boxed and wrestled as an amateur to fund his art. He won a bronze medal in the middleweight division of the free-style wrestling at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Rabin turned professional in 1932 and fought as Rabin the Cat and Sam Radnor the Heb. Alexander Korda cast him as a wrestler in The Private Life of Henry VIII in 1933 and as Mendoza, a Jewish prize-fighter, in The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1934. Despite lacking any formal musical training, Rabin was a talented baritone and worked professionally during the 1940s singing with Stars in Battledress and sang operatic arias with the army's Classical Music Group. In 1946 he auditioned for La Scala's conductor, Victor de Sabata.
In 1949, Rabin began teaching drawing at Goldsmith's College of Art in New Cross, London. His disciplined teaching style including the production of demonstration works, followed that of his own teacher, Valette. His students included Mary Quant, Bridget Riley and Tom Keating...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Feeding the Birds, Colourful 20th Century Oil Painting, Female Artist
By Lena Gurr
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed verso
Image size: 40 1/4 x 29 inches (102.25 x 73.5 cm)
Hand made contemporary style frame
Here we see a smartly dressed woman sat on a park bench, feeding a group of pigeons that surround her. Lena Gurr had a prolific career in which she painted landscape scenes and still lifes but her most noted works are ones such as these, showing everyday city scenes that were laced with social commentary. Indeed, Gurr noted that her artwork always aimed to show "the joys and sorrows of everyday life."
During the course of her career Gurr's compositions retained emotional content as they evolved from a naturalistic to a semi-abstract cubist style. Discussing this trend, she once told an interviewer that as her work tended toward increasing abstraction she believed it nonetheless "must have some kind of human depth to it."
Lena Gurr
Lena Gurr, born in Brooklyn in 1897, studied at the Brooklyn Training School for Teachers, the Educational Alliance Art School, the Arts Students League with John Sloan, and with Maurice Sterne in Paris as well as in Mentone and Nice, France.
Gurr was a member of the Artists League of America, the National Association of Women Artists, the New York Society of Women Artists, the Brooklyn Society of Artists, Audubon Artists and the American Artists Congress. She exhibited in numerous exhibitions held by these organizations as well as the Whitney Studio Club, National Academy of Design, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, and the 1939 World's Fair.
Her work is included in the collections of the Biro-Bidjan Museum, Russia and the Library of Congress, where she has been selected as a "Curator's Choice" in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. In addition to her career as a painter, lithographer and serigrapher, she also taught art in the New York City public school system. She had three solo exhibitions at the ACA Gallery in 1935, 1939 and 1945, and a retrospective in 1963.
Notable among Gurr's colleagues - many of them WPA artists - were Mary Cecil Allen...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Board
The Cyclist, 20th Century English Graphite Sketch
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Pencil on Paper
Image size: 18 1/2 x 14 inches (45.75 x 35.5 cm)
White gold frame
Gordon Scott
Scott was trained at the Royal College of Art (1934-38) under Gilbert Spencer, Alan So...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Hornsley Rise, Graphite Sketch, 20th Century English Artist
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Pencil and wash on paper
Image size: 8 1/2 x 8 inches (22 x 20.25 cm)
Contemporary style frame
Gordon Scott
Gordon Scott was trained at the Royal College of Art (1934-38) under Gil...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Westminster Cathedral, 20th Century Graphite Sketch, English Artist
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 11 x 8 ½ inches (28 x 22 cm)
White gold frame
Gordon Scott
Gordon Scott was trained at the Royal College of Art (1934-38) under Gilbert Spencer, Alan ...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The Race, 20th Century Graphite Sketch, English Artist
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 11 3/4 x 16 inches (30 x 40.5 cm)
White gold frame
Gordon Scott
Gordon Scott was trained at the Royal College of Art (1934-38) under Gilbert Spencer, ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
View from Latin Convent, Jerusalem, Graphite and Watercolour Signed Artwork
By Richard Phene Spiers
Located in London, GB
Graphite and watercolour on paper, signed lower right
Orignial mount
Image size: 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 (31 x 22 cm)
Richard Phené Spiers
Spiers (1838 – 3 October 1916 London) was an Engli...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Architectural Stucco Design, Pen and Ink Drawing, Signed, 18th Century Italian
Located in London, GB
Pen and brown ink and brown and grey washes on paper
Signed top middle
Image size: 10 x 3 3/4 inches (25.5 x 8 cm)
The sketch is a useful example of Bigari's work in the late-Baroqu...
Category
Mid-18th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Essence of Line, Ink Nude Study, Early 20th Century Drawing, Signed and Dated
Located in London, GB
Ink on paper, signed and dated '34 lower left
Image size: 9 3/4 x 15 inches (24.75 x 24.5 cm)
Mounted and framed
A unique drawing, this work is typical of Brodzky's early nudes with its economy in the use of the line and the seemingly relaxed, informal pose of the model. The spontaneous feel of many of Brodsky's drawings does in a way indicate that the works, such as the present drawing, are purely sketches and studies. In fact, Brodsky was known for making perhaps twenty or thirty drawings at a sitting and of those he preserved perhaps only a handful, only those that 'pass his rigorous censorship sum up qualities resulting from the perfect collaboration of hand and eye and sensibility' (Forty Drawings by Horace Brodsky, by James Laver, 1935, p.15).
Laver continued to write that 'Brodsky preferred a pose that showed the body from an unexpected angle, daringly foreshortened or with the weight of the various parts freed from the monotony of the standing pose. He liked to see his models from above, the limbs relaxed, and.... he made many of his drawings from a step-ladder drawn up close to the platform on which the model is lying'.
Horace Brodsky
Horace Ascher Brodzky (30 January 1885 – 11 February 1969) was an Australian-born artist and writer most of whose work was created in London and New York. His work included paintings, drawings and linocuts, of which he was an early pioneer. An associate in his early career of many leading artists working in Britain of his period, including Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Mark Gertler, and members of the Vorticism movement, he ended his life relatively neglected.
Brodzky was born in Kew, Melbourne in 1885 to the Australian journalist Maurice Brodzky (a Jewish immigrant to Australia from Poland), and his wife Flora, née Leon. In his youth he assisted his father in the production of the magazine Table Talk.
Brodzky studied initially at the National Gallery School in Melbourne. In 1904 his father was bankrupted after exposing corruption, and Horace moved with his family to San Francisco.
In 1908, Brodzky went to London where he studied during 1911 at the City and Guilds South London Technical Art School. He became an acquaintance and follower of Walter Sickert. Amongst his friends was Henri Gaudier-Brzeska who created in 1913 a portrait bust of Brodzky (now in the Tate Gallery, London), and whose biography he wrote in 1933. Brodzky is said to have been so engrossed in talk when he visited Gaudier-Brzeska's studio in the King's Road, that he missed the last bus to Herne Hill where he lived.
Brodzky travelled to Italy with the poet John Gould Fletcher and this led to his first London exhibition, "Paintings and Sketches of Italian and Sicilian Scenes" (c. 1911), of which one painting was selected for the 1912 Venice Biennale. He was in fact the first Australian to be exhibited at the Biennale. In 1914 his work was exhibited along with that of other Jewish artists, including Mark Gertler and David Bomberg, in the Whitechapel Gallery. Brodzky became a member of The London Group. During this period he was a pioneer of the technique of linocut, in which medium he has been said to have "excelled". His early oils reveal the influence of both Gertler and Bomberg. Among his works of this period are portraits of Jacob Epstein and Jacob Kramer.
In 1915 Brodzky moved to New York, with an introduction to the art patron John Quinn. There he worked as a poster artist and an arts journalist, and in 1917 helped Quinn organize a New York exhibition of Vorticist artists. In 1919 he married Bertha Greenfield; they were to have three sons. In 1920 Egmont Arens...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Translucent Boy, 20th Century British Artist, Pastel Portrait
By Peter Gardner
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Image size: 6 x 7 inches (15.25 x 17.75 cm)
Mounted
Peter Gardner
Peter Gardner was born in London in 1921. He studied at the Hammersmith School of Art between 193...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The Works, Pen and Ink 20th Century Artwork, Female British Artist
Located in London, GB
Pen, ink and wash on paper
Image size: 8 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (21.5 x 24 cm)
Mounted
Mary A Brooks
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
20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Mending, Graphite Portrait, 20th Century Modern British, Signed Artwork
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed lower right
Image size: 17 x 21 inches (43.25 x 53.25 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
20th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Anatomy of Man, Signed Graphite Nude Sketch on Paper, 19th Century French Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on laid paper, signed verso and paper watermarks and atelier stamp
Image size: 23 ¾ x 16 ¾ inches (60.25 x 43.5 cm)
Gilt Whistler frame
Leon Bellemont
Born on August 20, 1866, in the family home on rue du Grand-Cloître, Léon Bellemont studied from 1875 to 1883 at the Diderot college, where he was an excellent student. At the same time, he joined the municipal drawing school, where his exceptional predispositions were very quickly noted.
In 1884, at the age of 18, Léon Bellemont left Langres to join Paris and its National School of Decorative Arts, then the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts. There, he followed the teaching of Léon Bonnat, a renowned portraitist, and obtained his first rewards and several prizes. It was in 1892, however, that his artistic career took off, with his first participation in the Salon des artistes français, where he exhibited until 1956.
A landscape and impressionist painter, particularly impressing marine worlds, Léon Bellemont stayed more and more regularly in Brittany at the beginning of the 20th century, where he painted numerous paintings. His notoriety grew, as did the profits from his sales, and the State itself ended up placing a few orders with him. His work “The Breton Faith” was, for example, acquired by the museum in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Subsequently, always in search of inspiration, Léon Bellemont travelled extensively. He was in Bruges from 1907 to 1909, then traveled across France for several years participating in exhibitions. During the First World War, he settled in Algiers where he remained for several years. He then returned to Paris, worked extensively there and achieved great fame. A socialite, he frequented salons and regularly received his friends Jules Adler...
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Late 19th Century French School Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Graphite
Green Line, Travel Poster Original Artwork 20th Century Gouache
By Hazel Bruce Dunlop
Located in London, GB
HAZEL BRUCE DUNLOP
Flourished: 1935-1940
GREEN LINE
Gouache
Image size: 20 × 13 inches (51 × 33 cm)
Provenance
Commissioned by Green Line 1938
Private Collection
Green Line was part of London Transport running coach services to towns and villages outside of London.
Hazel Bruce Dunlop mainly painted portraits.She was born in Borneo and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art with Henry Tonks, Philip Wilson Steer and Randolph Schwabe...
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20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Studies of a Woman Sitting, Red Chalk Drawing, Modern British Artist, Framed
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper
Image size: 21 x 14 1/2 inches (54 x 37 cm)
Gilt 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
20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Study of a Woman Sitting, Graphite Drawing, 19th Century French School
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 13 x 10 1/2 inches (33 x 27 cm)
Mounted
This is a delicate 19th century academic graphite drawing of a seated female nude in the neoclassical style.
A...
Category
19th Century French School Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The Death of Attis, 18th Century French Red Chalk Drawing, Greek Mythology
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper
Image size: 9 x 7 inches (23 x 17.75 cm)
Acid free mount
The Greek god Attis was the spouse of Cybele, the fertility goddess. He was from Phrygia, a kingdom in c...
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18th Century French School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
The Hill, Hampstead, Signed Early 20th Century British Watercolour
By Ernest Arthur Rowe
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and scratching out on paper, signed lower left
Image size: 11 x 17 1/2 inches (28 x 44.5 cm)
Original giltwood frame
Provenance
Christopher Wood Gallery
R Mellon, USA
...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cypresses, Villa D'Este, Tivoli, Early 20th Century English Watercolour
By Ernest Arthur Rowe
Located in London, GB
Watercolour, signed and dated '1912' bottom right
Image size: 21 x 14 inches (53.25 x 35.5 cm)
Original frame
Exhibitions
The Fine Arts Society
Ernest Arthur Rowe
Rowe was a watercolourist specialising in garden scenes. He spent his career responding to the Victorian love of formal gardens with his meticulous paintings of the grounds of the country’s finest historic houses. Ernest Arthur Rowe was born in West Ham, which was then in Essex. He trained first as a lithographer and, in 1884, began studying at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours where he won a President’s Medal in 1885.
Initially, Rowe painted landscapes in general, but by the 1890s he was specialising in gardens. During that decade, he joined the London Sketch...
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1910s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
St Mark's Square, Venice, 19th Century French Watercolour, Signed, '1868'
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and dated '1868' lower right
Image size: 16 x 11 1/2 inches (40.5 x 29.25 cm)
Mounted
The scene represents the edge of the piazza at St Mark's Square i...
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1860s French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Study of a Woman, Graphite Sketch, 20th Century British Artist, Signed
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed on reverse
Image size: 11 x 9 1/2 inches (28 x 24 cm)
Mounted and framed
Ernest Proctor
Born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, the son of a scientist, Ernest was educated at Bootham Friends' School in York and then came to Newlyn in 1907 to study with Stanhope Forbes. He quickly become recognized as the best student of the School. He acted as Assistant to Stanhope Forbes and Elizabeth Forbes...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
At Rest, 20th Century British Artwork, Pastel Interior with Original Frame
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Image size: 22 x 14 3/4 inches (55.75 x 37.5 cm)
Original frame
Gordon Scott
Gordon Scott was trained at the Royal College of Art (1934-38) under Gilbert Spencer, ...
Category
20th Century Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
18th Century Monument, Pencil and Wash Artwork, German School
By German School
Located in London, GB
Pencil and wash
Image size: 10 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches (27 x 40 cm)
Mounted
Category
18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
18th Century Monument Side View, Pencil and Wash Artwork, German School
By German School
Located in London, GB
Graphite and wash
Image size: 10 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches (27 x 40 cm)
Mounted
Category
18th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
A River Landscape, 19th Century British Watercolour, Signed and Dated 1880
By Alfred East
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and dated '1880' bottom left
Image size: 9 x 13 inches (23 x 30 cm)
Hand made gilt frame
Sir Alfred East
Sir Alfred East was born in Kettering, Northa...
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1880s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban, Early 19th Century Orientalist Watercolour
By William Henry Hunt
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper
Image size: 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (11.5 x 9 cm)
Mounted and framed
This is an arresting image featuring a head and shoulders portrait of a bearded man wearing a ...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Village Fete, Signed Watercolour 20th Century British Female Artist
Located in London, GB
Watercolour, ink and graphite on paper, signed bottom left
Image size: 9 x 5 1/2 inches (23 x 14 cm)
Mounted
This is a bright and vibrant work that depicts a populated village fête - an event that many considered to be an archetypal feature of rural British life.
Fairs have been a feature of life in Britain since medieval times, and were originally a marketplace for the buying and selling of stock, and the hiring of men. Many counties still hold these fairs, which have gradually evolved into agricultural shows...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Circular Temple at Baalbek, Rare Original Signed Watercolour by David Roberts
By David Roberts
Located in London, GB
Watercolour with touches of bodycolour on buff paper, signed lower middle and inscribed and dated '1839' lower left
Image size: 8 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (22 x 31 cm)
Acid free mount and period style gilt frame
This original watercolour by Roberts depicts the temple at Baalbek with the ruined palace behind, seen from the opposite bank of a brook, where a group of figures are seated and kneeling around a table, with an arched bridge nearby.
David Roberts was the first professional British artist to travel independently to the Middle East in 1838. He was the first British artist to draw the ruins of Ancient Egypt and Roberts produced a series of finished watercolours, including the painting, which he had worked up from sketches made during his tour.
Like many British artists he used the familiar visual language of European landscapes to capture the unfamiliar scenery. By using architectural motifs to provide structure to compositions like this he is able to present a dramatic scene of classical grandeur, illuminated by sunlight complemented by a large area of shade in the foreground.
The dramatic scene is enhanced by the three groups of figures, which convey the sense of scale. The figures also give the picture richer, darker and redder tones that contrast with the sandy colours of the architecture. This painting uses a lot of the essential ingredients that make up a picturesque scene: distant mountains, classical ruins and figures for human interest and to convey motion.
Robert's Trip to Baalbek
David Roberts visited Baalbek near the end of his travels around Egypt and the Middle East. Roberts and his party rode to the site of Baalbek on 2nd May in a heavy-rain storm. He was miserable, totally drenched and feverish. But the sight of the ancient Roman settlement rallied him. Despite his physical debilitation, 'I was... so much struck with the magnificence of the temple, that I could not resist visiting and examining it'. The storm then continued through the night, pummelling the traveller's tents. In the morning, Roberts felt extremely ill and sought the help of a Greek priest, who found him dry shelter in a cowshed. For the first time on his gruelling journey, Roberts devoted the whole day to bed rest.
On May 4th, regaining some strength, Roberts explored the site. With obscure origins connected with the god Baal, the city of Baalbek had grown to importance in Hellenistic times, when it was known as Heliopolis ('The City of the Sun'). In the first century B.C. the Romans had established a cult of the Heliopolitan Jupiter there, and both Josephus Flavius...
Category
1830s Victorian Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Watchers, Pen and Ink Drawing, 20th Century British School, Signed 1990
By Peter Gardner
Located in London, GB
Ink and ink on paper, signed and dated 19'90' bottom left
Image size: 7 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (19 x 16.5 cm)
Mounted and framed
Peter Gardner
Peter Gardner was born in London in 1921...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
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...
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1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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
Castle San Angelo, Rome, David Roberts, 19th Century Original Watercolour
By David Roberts
Located in London, GB
Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with white.
Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches (24 x 34 cm)
Hand made gilt frame
Provenance
The Fine Art Society 1981 (Label Verso)
Priv...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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...
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1920s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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
Portrait Study of a Young Girl, Signed 19th Century Victorian Sketch
By Augustus Leopold Egg
Located in London, GB
Pencil and coloured chalk on paper, signed bottom right
Image size: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (3.75 x 3 cm)
Mounted and framed
Provenance
Studio sale, Christies 18th May 1863
The Artis...
Category
Mid-19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
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 Man, Charcoal 1800 French School, Romanticism
Located in London, GB
Charcoal and grey wash on paper
Image size: 14 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (37.5 x 36 cm)
Hand made gilt frame
Provenance
Private collection, Washington DC.
C.G. Sloan & Co., Sept. 1980.
T...
Category
Early 1800s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
A View of Riseholme, 18th Century English Signed Watercolour Landscape
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and entitled bottom right
Image size: 12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.5 cm)
Category
18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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
Sketch from Life, 19th Century English Watercolour, Girl in Profile
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and dated '1870' lower left
Image size: 5 x 6 1/2 inches (13 x 16.5 cm)
Category
1870s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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
Ramnagar Fort, India, Company School Late 18th Century Pen and Ink
Located in London, GB
Company School
18th Century
Ramnagar Fort, India
Pen & ink on paper
Inscribed and dated 1793
Acid free mount
This incredible detailed work would probably have been drawn by an En...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
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
The Chestnut Seller, Victorian Watercolour Genre Scene
Located in London, GB
Brown ink and watercolour, heightened with white, signed lower right
Image size: 18 x 14 1/4 inches (45.75 x 36 cm)
Gilt frame
Modern moral subjects were a special kind of genre that was invented by William Hogarth which satirised the manners and morals of the period in which the artist lived. They were particular in their frankness and often biting social satire. Genre painting became hugely popular in the Victorian age and towards the end of the nineteenth century a new focus for genre painting emerged.
The Artist
Joseph H Barnes...
Category
1860s Victorian Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sketch-book Page, Shoreham, Samuel Palmer, Late 19th Century
By Samuel Palmer (b.1805)
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, numerous pencil inscriptions
Image size: 5 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (14 x 55 cm)
Period style hand made gilt frame
Provenance
The collection of Ernest Pearce (1930-20...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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
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
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
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
Portrait of a Young Duke, 19th Century French Chalk Drawing
Located in London, GB
Black chalk, white smudge and highlights, on paper
Image size: 10 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (27.25 x 14.5 cm)
A half-length portrait of a young Duke wearing a long wig...
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Study of the Apollo Belvedere, Graphite Sketch, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 13 3/4 x 26 inches (35 x 66 cm)
This is most likely to be a drawing from an Academy student, executed as part of their academic training. The academic ...
Category
19th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
A Study of Thomas Cooper Gotch, 19th Century Graphite Sketch
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 5 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches (14 x 52 cm)
Framed
This sketch is a portrait of Thomas Gotch is by his lifelong friend and confidante, Jane Ross, whom he met at...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
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
Portrait of a Man Wearing a Turban, 18th Century Pastel Drawing
By Thomas Frye
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Image size: 13 x 17 1/2 inches (33 x 44.5 cm)
Mounted and framed
This original pastel drawing by Thomas Frye is a half-length portrait of a man dressed in a turban. This drawing is the original sketch for one of the heads depicted in Frye's collection 'Twelve Mezzotint Prints' of 1760 and it can be assumed that this pastel work was created earlier of this same year.
Two versions of the print, created from this original work, are currently held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Frye's evocative figures, although presumably based on living models, exceed the conventions of portraiture, and also function as character studies. The man shown here - dressed in the fashionable 'Turkish' manner - turns with parted lips as if poised to speak, while raising the elegant fingers in one hand in a rhetorical gesture. His long eyelashes and smoothly rendered wrinkles and dimples are hallmarks of Frye's refined style.
The Artist
Thomas Frye (c. 1710 – 3 April 1762) was an Anglo-Irish artist, best known for his portraits in oil and pastel, including some miniatures and his early mezzotint engravings. He was also the patentee of the Bow porcelain factory, London, and claimed in his epitaph to be "the inventor and first manufacturer of porcelain in England," though his rivals at the Chelsea porcelain factory seem to have preceded him in bringing wares to market. The Bow porcelain works did not long survive Frye's death; their final auctions took place in May 1764.
Frye was born at Edenderry, County Offaly, Ireland, in 1710; in his youth he went to London to practice as an artist. His earliest works are a pair of pastel portraits of boys...
Category
1750s English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
