Sarah Colegrave Fine Art

GEORGE HOWARD, 9th EARL OF CARLISLE (1843-1911) George Howard with Family and Friends in Fancy Dress, Christmas 1879 Inscribed with initials of sitters and dated u.l.: GH. ERH. MHH...

CLAUDE ALLIN SHEPPERSON, ARA, ARWS (1867-1921) Petrushka – Scene from the Ballets Russes Signed l.l.: Shepperson Watercolour over traces of pencil on paper Framed 30.5 by 45.5 cm., 12 by 18 in. (frame size 52.5 by 66 cm., 20 ¾ by 26 in.) Provenance: Richard C Davis...

MAXWELL ARMFIELD, RWS. (1882-1972) Siegfried Signed, inscribed and dated l.c.: MAXWELL ARMFIELD/MDCCCCIV [1904] PARIS;SIEGFRIED/ACT III Pencil and watercolour on paper Framed 24 by 16 cm., 9 ½ by 6 ¼ in. (frame size 42.5 by 34.5 cm., 16 ¾ by 13 ½ in.) Provenance: Fine Art Society, London, 1979. Born at Ringwood, Hampshire, of Quaker parents, his father being a milling engineer, Armfield studied at the Birmingham School of Art under Arthur Gaskin and Joseph Southall who taught him the tempera technique he was to practice for the rest of his life. In September 1902, after visiting Italy at the suggestion of Gaskin, he went to Paris, enrolling at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and sharing a studio with three other students – Norman Wilkinson (also from Birmingham), Keith Henderson and the sculptor Gaston Lachaise. Returning to London the following year, he embarked on the series of one-man exhibitions that were henceforth to mark his career, showing first at Robert Ross...

JAMES JOSHUA GUTHRIE (1874-1952) The Sower Signed with monogram l.r., inscribed with title l.c. Watercolour, bodycolour and pen and ink on paper 21 by 15.5 cm., 8 ¼ by 6 in. (frame size 39.5 by 33 cm., 15 ½ by 13 in. Provenanace: Pickford Waller...

SIR CECIL BEATON, CBE (1904-1980) Ballet Costume Design for Le Pavillon - 1936 Signed and bears wardrobe mark l.r.: Beaton Watercolour and ink on paper 49 by 39 cm., 19 ¼ by 15 ½ ...

JOHN DRONSFIELD (1900-1951) Full Sail Watercolour and pencil Unframed, in mount only 31 by 27.5 cm., 12 ¼ by 10 ¾ in. (mount size 45.5 by 41 cm., 18 by 16 in.) John Marsden Dron...

ROBERT TAVENER (1920-2004) Cornfield and Downs Signed, inscribed with title and numbered 45/75 Linocut Framed 40 by 55 cm., 15 ¾ by 21 ¾ in. (frame size 62 by 76.5 cm., 24 ¼ by 30...

FREDERIC JAMES SHIELDS, ARWS (1833-1911) Ellen, A Greek Model Signed and indistinctly inscribed with the name of the sitter on the reverse Chalks on blue/green tinted paper 37 by 28.5 cm., 14 ½ by 11 ¼ in. (frame size 63.5 by 54.5 cm., 25 by 21 ½ in.) Provenance: The Artist’s estate; Private collection. Shields was born in Hartlepool and brought up in extreme poverty with most of his family succumbing to TB. Employed by a commercial engraver he studied at evening classes in London and then in Manchester, where he settled in 1848. He was greatly impressed by the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which he saw at the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition in 1857. The quality of his illustrations for Defoe’s History of the Plague (1862) and Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress...

HELEN ALLINGHAM, RWS (1848-1926) The Woodland Path Signed Watercolour on paper 27 by 20 cm., 10 ¾ by 8 in. (frame size 47 by 42 cm., 18 ½ by 16 ½ in...

FRANK DOBSON, R.A. (1886-1963) Study Towards Cornucopia Unsigned Pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper Framed 51 by 35.5 cm., 20 by 14 in. (frame size 71 by 55 cm., 28 by 21 ½ ...

AMY ATKINSON (1859-1916) Fillette Signed l.r.: A B ATKINSON; signed and inscribed with title on the stretcher Oil on canvas Framed 25.5 by 20.5 cm., 10 by 8 in. (frame size 46 by ...

AUGUSTA WELLS (1841-1893) The River in Summer Oil on board Framed 8.5 by 17 cm., 3 ½ by 6 ¾ in. (frame size 16 by 25 cm., 6 ¼ by 9 ¾ in.) Provenance: From a folio of drawings and paintings by George Price Boyce...