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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Category
18th Century French School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Tambourine Player, Watercolour Painting, Dated 1853
By Carl Haag
Located in London, GB
Watercolour with bodycolour on card
Titled 'Donn d'Albano' lower left and signed and inscribed 'Roma 1853' lower right
Image size: 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (50 x 34 cm)
This is a full...
Category
1850s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard
Old Masters Chalk Drawing, 17th Century Italian Sanguine on Paper
Located in London, GB
Sanguine chalk on paper
Image size: 7 x 8 1/2 inches (18 x 22 cm)
Acid free cut-out mount
This 17th century drawing depicts a reclining woman with her back.
The Sanguine chalk that...
Category
17th Century Italian School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
The Boxing Match
By Thomas Rowlandson
Located in London, GB
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on laid paper
Image size: 12 ¾ x 16 inches (33 x 40.5 cm)
Wash mount and period frame
Boxing was a subject that Rowlandson depicted on a number ...
Category
Late 18th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Pencil
Road-workers, Early 20th Century Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Ink and watercolour on paper
Image size: 18 x 19 3/4 inches (46 x 50 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
The Gathering, Train Station Pastel, British Mid 20th Century
By Peter Gardner
Located in London, GB
Pastel and graphite on paper
Image size: 8 1/4 x 5 inches (21 x 12.75 cm)
Contemporary style handmade frame
The Artist
Peter Gardner was born in London in 1921. He studied at the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Graphite
X MARKS THE SPOT - 1920's Original Illustration
By Joan Fairfax Whiteside ARRC FMAA
Located in London, GB
J Fairfax Whiteside ARRC FMAA 1904 - 2001
X MARKS THE SPOT
Gouache, signed lower right
Image size: 30 x 17 inches (76 x 43 cm)
Hand made frame
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
SR - European Advertisement Original Artwork
Located in London, GB
C.M.
European 1946
Cibon Chocolat
Gouache on paper
Image size: 38 x 24 inches
£400
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Worse for Wear. Pen and Ink Mid 20th Century
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Gordon Noel Scott A.R.C.A
1914 - 2016
Worse for Wear
Ink on Paper
Image size: 8 x 8 inches
White gold frame
GORDON SCOTT EXHIBITION AT DARNLEY FINE ART
11th - 18th November 2017
Gordon Scott was trained at the RCA (1934-38) under Gilbert Spencer...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cibon Chocolat
Located in London, GB
C.M.
European 1946
Cibon Chocolat
Gouache on paper
Image size: 38 x 24 inches
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Study for Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 inches (19 x 23 cm)
Carved gilt frame
Literature
Illustrated in Malcolm Bell's 'Sir Edward Burne-Jones, A Record and Review', London, 1899, p.127.
Provenance
Major Charles Sydney Goldman 1958
By descent to his Sons
John and Margaret Monck (John Goldman Monck) 1958-1963
Commander Victor Robert Penryn Monck (Victor Robert Penryn Monk Goldman) 1958-1963
Christie's London (Christie, Manson and Woods) 1963, John Monck and Cmdr Penryn Monck sale 26 April 1963 part lot 71
Sir John Richardson, 2019
Burne-Jones decided that the folds in the drapery in this study were too complex for the final painting and fairly soon after he simplified the draperies.
The work is a drapery study for the seated figures at the centre of Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones monumental The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon (Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico). The artist spent seventeen years working on the complex narrative, even moving his studio to a larger space to accommodate the canvas. Born as a commission from his patron George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle, to decorate a wall in his library at Naworth Castle, The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon was left unfinished in Burne-Jones’ studio upon his death. The work was bequeathed to a studio neighbour whose descendants sold it at auction in 1963, where it was purchased by Luis A. Ferré, politician and founder of the Museo de Arte de Ponce.
To his friends and family, Burne-Jones was known for his 'unpainted masterpieces'. Indeed, from his youth he made swift sketches, such as this study, that appeared effortless in contrast to his carefully crafted paintings and allowed him to work out ideas and refine details. He also drew outside of the studio, and his contemporaries remarked at his uncanny ability to do so while fully engaged in other activities. The painter W. Graham...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
The Beekeepers Mid 20th Century Female Artist Graphite
By Alice Headley Neave
Located in London, GB
Alice Headley Neave
1903-1977
The Beekeepers
Graphite on paper, signed and dated 'Christmas 1942'
Image size: 9 x 9 inches
Contemporary frame
The daughter of Dr Arthur Henry Headley Huckle, a surgeon and 'painting dealer', Alice was...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The Train Station Original Watercolour 20th Century
By Arthur Charles Conrade
Located in London, GB
ARTHUR CHARLES CONRADE
1863–1955
The Train Station
Watercolour & pencil, signed lower left
Image size: 12 x 14½ inches (30 x 37 cm)
Gilt frame
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Consecration of a Church 15th Century English School Illuminated Manuscript
Located in London, GB
English School
15th Century
The Consecration of a Church
Illuminated manuscript on Vellum
Image size: 5 ½ x 5 inches (14 x 12.7 cm)
18th century ornate Tabernacle frame
Category
15th Century and Earlier Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Vellum
Portrait of a Hunter, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Portrait of a Hunter
Graphite on paper
Image size: 24 x 15 inches
James 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...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Alleyway in Cairo - Original 19th Century Graphite Sketch
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
CARL FRIEDRICH HEINRICH WERNER
1808 - 1894
Alleyway in Cairo
Graphite on Paper
Acid free mount
Image Size: 16 ¾ x 10 ¾ inches
SKETCHES OF CARL WERNER EXHIBITION
AT OUR GALLERY
Ca...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Jesus at the Stairs, Mid 20th Century Pencil Drawing
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Gordon Noel Scott A.R.C.A
1914 - 2016
Jesus at the Stairs
Pencil on Paper
Image size: 10 ½ x 8 inches
Contemporary style frame
GORDON SCOTT EXHIBITION AT DARNLEY FINE ART
11th - 18th November 2017
Gordon Scott was trained at the RCA (1934-38) under Gilbert Spencer, Alan Sorrell and Charles Mahoney. A reserved and highly principled man, during WWII he was a conscientious objector, stationed at Bulford Camp on Salisbury Plain. His defined role is unknown, but during his time there he produced a number of sketches and paintings of soldiers...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
The Supreme Court, London, Early 20th Century Graphite
By William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.
Located in London, GB
William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.
1874 - 1943
The Supreme Court, Parliament Square
Graphite, watercolour and gouache
Image size: 29 x 20 inches (74 x...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
South Kensington Station, 20th Century Pastel Signed and Dated
By Peter Gardner
Located in London, GB
Peter Gardner
Flourished: 1949-1979
A London Station
Pastel on Paper
Signed with monogram and dated 1975, lower right
Image size: 9 x 12 ½ inches
Acid free mount
Peter Gardner wa...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The River Nymph, Early 20th Century Art-Deco Watercolour
By Ernest Collier
Located in London, GB
ERNEST COLLIER
1847 - 1911
THE RIVER NYMPH
Watercolour
Image size: 5 ½ x 4 inches
(13 x 10 cm)
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Record, Geneva, 20th Century Gouache on Paper Original Advertisement
Located in London, GB
C.M.
European 1946
Record, Geneva
Gouache on paper
Image size: 38 x 24 inches
£400
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Purchasing a Hawk, 19th Century Graphite Orientalist
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
CARL FRIEDRICH HEINRICH WERNER
1808 - 1894
Purchasing a Hawk
Graphite on Paper
Carved giltwood frame
Image Size: 12 x 18 ½ inches
SKETCHES OF CARL WERNER EXHIBITION
AT OUR GALLERY...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
SAFE HARBOUR, 20th Century Art Deco Gouache
By Joan Fairfax Whiteside ARRC FMAA
Located in London, GB
J Fairfax Whiteside ARRC FMAA
1904 - 2001
SAFE HARBOUR
Gouache, signed
Image size: 29 x 19 inches
Framed
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
A Moment's Rest, 19th Century Graphite Orientalist
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
CARL FRIEDRICH HEINRICH WERNER
1808 - 1894
A Moment's Rest
Graphite on Paper
Gilt Frame
Image Size: 10 x 17 ¼ inches
SKETCHES OF CARL WERNER EXHIBITION
AT OUR GALLERY 1st - 9TH D...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
THE CHOSEN PATH, English School 19th Century Watercolour
By John Edward Goodall
Located in London, GB
JOHN EDWARD GOODALL
1853 - 1920
THE CHOSEN PATH
Pencil, watercolour and gouache, signed lower right
Image size: 6 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches (16 x 21 cm)
Hand made gilt frame
John Edward Goodall was the son of Alfred Goodall and Mary Palmer. Alfred was a brother to Edward A. and Frederick Goodall, both accomplished artists. He was most prolific during the period between 1877 and 1911. In the 1891 census he is shown as being married to Grace, manager of the Sommerville Club, London but by 1901 he is to be found with a woman named Annie. John associated with a bohemian art circle and tended to have a corresponding lifestyle.
The work produced by Goodall is well executed and often in watercolour. He trained at art school in London and travelled extensively. He was not the prolific artist like his uncles and a lot about his life is still...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Anight My Shallop, 20th Century Watercolour Illustration
By Norman Ault
Located in London, GB
NORMAN AULT
1880 – 1950
ANIGHT MY SHALLOP
Pencil & watercolour, signed & dated 1913
Image size: 10 ¼ x 7 ½ inches (26 x 19 cm)
This watercolour was used as an an illustration in Mar...
Category
1910s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Ladders, English 20th Century Signed Gouache
By Charles Paine
Located in London, GB
Charles Paine
1895 - 1967
Ladders
Gouache
Signed lower left with monogram
Image size: 4.5 × 4.5 inches
Acid free mount and black frame
Perhaps best known for his iconic London Under...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
