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Venice - 20th Century British watercolour by Leonard Russell Squirrell
Located in London, GB
LEONARD RUSSELL SQUIRRELL, RWS
(1893-1979)
Venice
Signed and dated l.l.: L R Squirrell 1977
Watercolour heightened with white
Framed
19 by 37.5 cm., 7 ½ by 14 ¾ in.
(frame size 39...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1950s British Fashion illustration by Eve Sheldon-Williams
Located in London, GB
EVE SHELDON-WILLIAMS
(1916-2001)
Fashion Illustration
White wash on black paper
Framed
30.5 by 15.5 cm., 12 by 6 in.
(frame size 50 by 34.5 cm., 19 ¾ by 13 ½ in.)
Provenance:
The artist’s family.
Eve Sheldon-Williams was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the younger daughter of artist Inglis and Ina Sheldon-Williams. She was governess educated until the age of ten, before settling with her parents on the Italian Riviera from 1926 to 1930. After finished her education in England she studied painting, illustration and design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts 1937-1941, under William Roberts, John Skeaping, Bernard Meninsky and John Farleigh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Study of an Angel by British Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir William Blake Richmond
By Sir William Blake Richmond
Located in London, GB
SIR WILLIAM BLAKE RICHMOND, RA
(1842-1921)
Study of an Angel
Pencil on the artist’s writing paper for Beavor Lodge, Hammersmith
Unframed
22.5 by 17 cm., 9 by 6 ¾ in.
(mount size ...
Category
1890s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Figures at a Road Junction - Modern British drawing by Harold Cheesman
Located in London, GB
HAROLD CHEESMAN, RSA
(1915-1982)
Figures at Road Junction
Signed, inscribed with title and dated 1960 on a label on the backboard
Charcoal and black conte crayon
Framed
36 by 53 ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Orpheus - Art Deco British watercolour design for a mural by H C Attwood
Located in London, GB
HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD
(1907-1985)
Orpheus - Design for Eltham Palace
Watercolour, squared for transfer
Framed
22.5 by 14 cm., 9 by 5 ½ in.
(frame size 39.5 by 31.5 cm., 15 ½ by 1...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Berkeley Square, London - 20th Century British watercolour by M von Werther
Located in London, GB
MARIANNE VON WERTHER, RBA
(1901-1984)
The Pump House Gazebo, Berkeley Square, London
Signed l.r.: M von Werther
Pen and ink and watercolour
Unframed,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Painting at the Window - British Impressionist watercolour by Austin Taylor
Located in London, GB
AUSTIN TAYLOR
(1908-1992)
Painting at the Window
Gouache
Unframed
29 by 21.5 cm., 11 ½ by 8 ½ in.
(mount size 47 by 38 cm., 18 ½ by 15 in.)
Austin Taylor was born in Bolton, Lancashire. The family emigrated to Winnipeg in Canada in 1912, and in 1917 his father, who had joined the Canadian Army...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Reverie - Early 20th Century British chalk drawing of a girl by H J Harvey
By Herbert Johnson Harvey
Located in London, GB
HERBERT JOHNSON HARVEY
(British 1883-1956)
Reverie
Signed with monogram and dated l.l.: HJ 09
Red chalks
Framed
29.5 by 22 cm., 11 ¾ by 8 ¾ in.
(fra...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
1901 British watercolour illustration of Polar Bears by Alfred Boese
Located in London, GB
ALFRED ADALBERT BOESE
(1875-1923)
The Polar Bears at Home
Indistinctly signed and dated l.r.: B Boese/01; signed, dated, inscribed with title and the artist’s address on the revers...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
London Stock Exchange Waiter - 1960s British drawing by Francis Watt
By Frances Watt
Located in London, GB
FRANCES WATT
(1923-2009)
London Stock Exchange Waiter
Pen and ink and watercolour wash, unframed, in mount only
17 by 13 cm., 6 ½ by 5 in.
Edith Frances Watt was born in Falkirk in 1923. In 1926 the family moved to Switzerland when her father, the Rev Thomas Meikle Watt, was appointed permanent chaplain to the Church of Scotland in Geneva. Her father died in 1938 and the family returned to Scotland where Frances continued her schooling at Aberdeen High School for Girls. Her mother moved the family to London in about 1940 and they settled in Southwood Lawn Road, Highgate. Frances attended the Hornsey School of Art were she gained a National Diploma in Design before going on to study at the Byam Shaw School in London, where she later taught. In Highgate she was a member of the Highgate Artists Group, which included Sir Kyffin Williams among its exhibiting members, and she was also an active member of the Highgate Choral Society, designing many programmes and posters for its productions in the 1950s.
In the early 1960s she was commissioned by the Council of the Stock Exchange to record the daily life in the Square Mile. Over the next 20 years she was brilliantly placed to observe the enormous changes taking place in the great institutions of the Stock Exchange and Lloyd’s of London...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
A Coachman - 18th Century British Figure watercolour drawing by Paul Sandby
By Paul Sandby
Located in London, GB
PAUL SANDBY
(1731-1809)
Study of a Coachman
Pencil and brown wash, shaped
Framed
16.5 by 9 cm., 6 ½ by 3 ½ in.
(frame size 32 by 22.5 cm., 12 ½ by 9 in.)
Provenance:
Iolo Williams;
Private collection.
Exhibited:
Sudbury, Gainsborough House, 1979.
Sandby was born in Nottingham and moved to London in 1745. He and his brother Thomas first worked in the military drawing department at the Tower of London, later working on a military survey of new roads and bridges in the Highlands. On leaving this post in 1751 he spent some time living with his brother who had been appointed Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park. There he assisted his brother, and made a series of drawings of the castle, town and neighbourhood. In 1760 he settled in London where he contributed to the first exhibition of the Society of Artists where he regularly exhibited until the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, becoming one of its founder members. In same year he was appointed chief drawing...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Harry Morley - The Romany Camp - 20th Century British watercolour
By Harry Morley
Located in London, GB
HARRY MORLEY, ARA, RWS
(1881-1943)
The Romany Camp
Signed and dated 1927
Watercolour and bodycolour, framed
36.5 by 52cm., 14 ¼ by 20 ½ in.
(frame size 60.5 by 75 cm., 23 ¾ by 29...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Watercolour of a European Piazza by James Kerr-Lawson, circa 1900
Located in London, GB
JAMES KERR-LAWSON
(1864-1939)
The Piazza
Signed l.l.: J Kerr Lawson
Watercolour over traces of pencil
Unframed, in conservation mount only
13.5 by 20 cm....
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Summer - Chalk Drawing Design for Minton charger by Herbert Wilson Foster
By Herbert Wilson Foster
Located in London, GB
HERBERT WILSON FOSTER
(1846-1929)
Summer
Inscribed with title beneath the mount
Chalk, circular
Framed
Diameter 42 cm., 16 ½ in.
(frame size 61 by 58 cm., 24 by 22 ¾ in.)
Herbert Wilson Foster was born in Endon, Staffordshire. He attended Hanley School of Art before continuing his studies in London, Belgium and France. His paintings of rural and domestic subjects were exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1873 and 1899. In 1893 he accepted a teaching position at the Nottingham School of Art, where his pupils included Laura Knight and Harold Knight. Works by him are in the collections of the Minton archives; the Wisbech & Fenland Museum; Leicester Art Gallery; Rushcliffe Council and Nottingham Castle Museum.
In addition to his work as a painter he worked as a porcelain painter, working at one point on the tile panels in the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is known to have worked at Mintons from 1872 where he specialized in portraits of contemporary personalities, including members of the Royal Family. This head of a girl was probably intended for a painted ceramic wall charger...
Category
1870s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pencil
Spring - Chalk design drawing for a Minton plaque by Herbert Wilson Foster
By Herbert Wilson Foster
Located in London, GB
HERBERT WILSON FOSTER
(1846-1929)
Spring
Inscribed with title beneath the mount
Chalk, circular
Framed
Diameter 42 cm., 16 ½ in.
(frame size 61 by 58 cm., 24 by 22 ¾ in.)
Herbert Wilson Foster was born in Endon, Staffordshire. He attended Hanley School of Art before continuing his studies in London, Belgium and France. His paintings of rural and domestic subjects were exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1873 and 1899. In 1893 he accepted a teaching position at the Nottingham School of Art, where his pupils included Laura Knight and Harold Knight. Works by him are in the collections of the Minton archives; the Wisbech & Fenland Museum; Leicester Art Gallery; Rushcliffe Council and Nottingham Castle Museum.
In addition to his work as a painter he worked as a porcelain painter, working at one point on the tile panels in the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is known to have worked at Mintons from 1872 where he specialized in portraits of contemporary personalities, including members of the Royal Family. This head of a girl was probably intended for a painted ceramic wall charger...
Category
1870s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pencil
Original watercolour Victorian children's book illustration by Sowerby
By John George Sowerby 1
Located in London, GB
JOHN GEORGE SOWERBY
(1849-1914)
Tailpiece for “A Rainy Day”
Watercolour heightened with white, circular
Unframed, in mount only
Diameter 7 cm., 2 ¼ in.
(mount size 25.5 by 20 cm., 10 by 8 in.)
Reproduced:
J G Sowerby & Thomas Crane, At Home, Marcus Ward & Co, 1881, p.17.
The current work was reproduced in Sowerby and Crane’s 1881 children’s book...
Category
1880s Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woodland Path - British 19th Century landscape watercolour by Helen Allingham
Located in London, GB
HELEN ALLINGHAM, RWS
(1848-1926)
The Woodland Path
Signed
Watercolour
27 by 20 cm., 10 ¾ by 8 in.
(frame size 47 by 42 cm., 18 ½ by 16 ½ in.)
Helen...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Scientific Accuracy - British 19th Century ink illustration by George du Maurier
Located in London, GB
GEORGE DU MAURIER, ARWS
(1834-1896)
Scientific Accuracy
Ada: “What horrid things black-beetles are, Miss Grimm!
The kitchen is full of t...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Great Yarmouth, 19th Century British watercolour by Charles John Watson
By Charles John Watson
Located in London, GB
CHARLES JOHN WATSON
(1846-1927)
Row No.142, Great Yarmouth
Watercolour over pencil, heightened with white
Framed
23.5 by 9 cm., 9 ¼ by 3 ½ in.
(frame...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid 20th Century British Cubist watercolour drawing by John Sutton
By John Sutton
Located in London, GB
JOHN SUTTON
(20th Century)
Still Life with Fruit
Signed, inscribed and dated: 10/5/42
Watercolour, chalks and pen and ink, unframed
25 by 31.5 cm., 10 by 12 ½ in.
(mount size 40 ...
Category
1940s Cubist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Watercolor
The Open Window - 19th Century British Children's Book illustration by Sowerby
By John George Sowerby 1
Located in London, GB
JOHN GEORGE SOWERBY
(1849-1914)
Phoebe - The Open Window
Watercolour heightened with white
Unframed, in mount only
8 by 7 cm., 3 by 2 ¼ in.
(mount size 25.5 by 20 cm., 10 by 8 in.)
Reproduced:
J G Sowerby & Thomas Crane, At Home, Marcus Ward & Co, 1881, p.42.
The current work was reproduced in Sowerby and Crane’s 1881 children’s book, At Home, where is accompanied by the following verse:
All the morning, all the morning,
Sat she till her tasks were done;
While without were birds and blossoms,
And the pleasant sun.
And the leaves in ev’ry rustle,
And the birds in ev’ry song:-
“Phoebe, Phoebe, are you coming?
Phoebe, don’t be long!”
Whispered thro’ the open window
Gentle breezes, passing by:-
“Phoebe, are you coming, Phoebe?
Come before we die!”
Till the clock, with joyful measure,
Struck the hour when work is o’er;
Crying “Ponto’” Phoebe vanished
Through the open door.
Whither sped out nimble Phoebe?
She is in the study now;
Ponto heard her with she called him, -
Answered back “Bow-wow!’
“Ponto, tho’ the birds and garden,
Called me all the morning thro’
I had first to do my lessons –
So I think should you.”
Poor old Ponto! He is longing,
Longing for his game of play,
And the garden – ah: but Phoebe
Has a word to say.
“Beg then – beg, sir – do you hear me?
No, no, Ponto, that is wrong;
Paws up! Steady! Ah, that’s better!
Good dog, come along!”
John George Sowerby was born into a prosperous Gateshead family of glass manufactures and artists. He inherited the family business, the Ellison Glass Works, one of the world’s largest producers of pressed glass, where he introduced designs inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement. Initially he combined his energies at the glass works with his work as an illustrator and painter of landscapes and floral subjects with a Pre-Raphaelite intensity, strong colours and rich detail. He exhibited many of these paintings at the Royal Academy. In the 1880s he collaborated with Newcastle artist, Henry Hetherington Emmerson, on illustrations for the children’s books Afternoon Tea (1880) and The May Blossom (1881). Although were critically very well received but the publications were attacked by Kate Greenaway who considered them too close to her own work. Sowerby then went on to produce highly aesthetic illustrated books At Home (1881) and At Home Again (1883), with decorations by Thomas Crane. Gleeson White, editor of The Studio magazine stated that in Afternoon Tea Sowerby “set a new fashion for ‘aesthetic’ little quartos’ (The Studio, 1897). Roger Dixon in Belfast Publishing (Oxford University Press, 2011, p.79) considered these At Home and At Home Again to be “among the loveliest books ever produced.” Never very wise as a business man, in the early 1880s he left Ellison Glass Works being declared bankrupt in 1884. He returned to the works again as a paid employee.
Sowerby’s daughter, Millicent Sowerby...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
19th Century British watercolour of Country House in a Landscape
Located in London, GB
Attributed to BENJAMIN SHIPHAM
(1806-1872)
A Country House in an Extensive Landscape
Signed with initials l.r.: BS
Watercolour
Framed
17 by 27 cm., 6 ¾ by 10 ½ in.
(frame size 33...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
St Lunaire, Brittany - Early 20th Century British landscape by Ernest Normand
By Ernest Normand
Located in London, GB
ERNEST NORMAND
(1857-1923)
St Lunaire, Brittany
Signed, inscribed and dated l.l.: Ernest Normand/St Lunaire 1902
Oil on canvas
Framed
26 by 49 cm., 10 ¼ by 19 ¼ in.
(frame size 38 by 61 cm., 15 by 24 in.)
Ernest Normand was born in London and studied at the Royal Academy Schools. He is best known as a painter of history and orientalist paintings and portrait commission. In 1884 he married the painter and writer Henrietta Rae. They lived in Holland Park and were part of that area’s artistic group which included Leighton, Millais, Prinsep and Watts. In the 1890s they travelled of Paris to study at the Academie Julian with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and works by him are in the collections of Glasgow Museum...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pencil drawing of an Italian Girl by British Sculptor & Artist James H Thomas
Located in London, GB
JAMES HAVARD THOMAS
(1854-1921)
Study of a Girl, Taormina
Inscribed and dated on the reverse: Study of a Girl/by J. Havard Thomas/Taormina 1910
Pencil, unframed
9 ¾ by 6 ¾ in., 25...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
War Birds - 1920s British watercolour on silk by George Sheringham
By George Sheringham
Located in London, GB
GEORGE SHERINGHAM
(1884-1937)
The War Birds
Signed and inscribed with title on a label on the backboard
Watercolour and gold paint on silk, semi circle shape, in artist’s decorated mount
Framed
24 by 47.5 cm., 9 ½ by 18 ¾ in.
(frame size 46 by 71 cm., 18 by 28 in.)
Exhibited:
London, Leicester Galleries.
Sheringham was born in London, the son of the Rector of Christ Church, Marylebone. He studied at the Slade under Henry Tonks and later in Venice, Brussels, Berlin and Paris, holding his first one-man exhibition in Paris in 1905. On his return to London he initially supported himself with poster designs and teaching.
Before and during World War I he concentrated much of his artistic energy on painting fan leaves, often on silk. His first exhibition of fan designs and silk panels was held at the Ryder Gallery in 1909 followed by another in the following year. With enthusiastic reviews in Studio he had launched his career as a decorative designer, theatrical designer and illustrator.
Sheringham also worked as an illustrator, providing illustrations for books by Max Beerbohm and Cyrus MacMillan and others. In 1921 he collaborated with his brother Hugh on a book about fishing, The Book of the Fly Rod. He wrote Drawing in Pen and Pencil (1922), with James Laver, Design in the Theatre (1927) and with Rupert Mason and R Boyd Morrison he edited Robes of Thespis, Costume Designs by Modern Artists (1928).
As a decorator, Sheringham designed the music room at 40 Devonshire House...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cupid Sleeping - 18th Century British watercolour by Richard Westall RA
By Richard Westall
Located in London, GB
RICHARD WESTALL, RA
(1765-1836)
Cupid Sleeping; from a poem of Mrs Robinson
- The Duchess of Devonshire Discovers the Sleeping Cupid
Watercolour on paper, oval
36 by 44.5 cm., 14 ¼ by 18 in.
(frame size 55 by 66 cm., 21 ¾ by 26 in.)
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1792, no.448.
Richard Westall was bon in Reepham, near Norwich. Initially apprenticed to a London silver engraving he began studying at the Royal Academy Schools from 1785 and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1784 and 1836. Westall became an Associate member of the Royal Academy in 1792 and a full member in 1794.
Westall painted in both oil and watercolour, his works being romantic and neoclassical in style. He contributing to both Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery and Fuseli’s Milton Gallery and was also a prolific book illustrator of both fiction and poetry including works by Sir Walter Scott and Byron, whose portrait he also painted. For a time he was also art master to the young Princess Victoria.
This is probably Westall’s 1792 Royal Academy exhibit (no.448). The subject was inspired by the poem Cupid Sleeping by the poetess-actress Mary Darby Robinson, which had been published in the previous year. The poem was dedicated to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and the picture show the Duchess discovering the sleeping cupid who she then relieves of his bow and arrows. Mrs Robinson was not only the Duchess’s protégée but also the first public mistress of the Prince of Wales. William Nutter’s engraving of Westall’s picture was also dedicated to the Duchess of Devonshire.
Close in a woodbine's tangled shade,
The blooming god asleep was laid;
His brows with mossy roses crown'd;
His golden darts lay scatter'd round;
To shade his auburn, curled head,
A purple canopy was spread,
Which gently with the breezes play'd,
And shed around a soften'd shade.
Upon his downy smiling cheek,
Adorned with many a "dimple sleek,"
Beam'd glowing health and tender blisses,
His coral lip...
Category
1790s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
London Bridge in 1827 - British watercolour by Henry Barlow Carter
By Henry Barlow Carter
Located in London, GB
HENRY BARLOW CARTER
(1795-1867)
View of New London Bridge in June 1827. John Rennie, Esq., Engineer
Signed and dated 1827
Sepia watercolour on p...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Water Hyacinth - Early 20th Century Botanical watercolour of by Arthur Wardle
By Arthur Wardle
Located in London, GB
ARTHUR WARDLE
(1864-1949)
Study of a Water Hyacinth
Signed
Watercolour and bodycolour on linen, framed
33.5 by 23 cm., 13 ½ by 9 in.
(frame size 52.5 by 43 cm., 21 ¾ by 17 in.)
A...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cats in a Conservatory - Applique work Picture, British c.1950
Located in London, GB
Circle of Constance Howard
British School, circa 1950
Cats and Flowers in a Conservatory
Applique work picture
Framed
60 by 50.5 cm., 23 ¾ by 20 in...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Textile
Charon's Ferry - Early 19th Century Scottish Romantic watercolour by David Scott
By David Scott
Located in London, GB
DAVID SCOTT, RSA
(British 1806-1849)
Charon’s Ferry
Signed with initials and indistinctly inscribed l.l.
Watercolour
Unframed, in mount only
29 by 40.5 cm., 11 ½ by 16 in.
(mount size 40.5 by 55.5 cm., 16 by 22 in.)
Provenance:
William Bell Scott, London;
Mrs Balton;
Private collection.
David Scott was born in Edinburgh. He studied art under his father, the engraver, Robert Scott. He exhibited his first picture oil painting, Hopes of Early Genius Dispelled by Death in 1828, becoming a regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1832 he visited Italy. He specialised in large canvases of historical or symbolist subjects, being much influence by William Blake. From the mid 1830s he became absorbed in a series of designs and illustration for Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, Bunyan’s Pilgrim...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Cello - 1960s Modern British watercolour drawing by William S Taylor
By William S Taylor
Located in London, GB
WILLIAM S. TAYLOR
(1920-2010)
The Cello
Signed and dated l.r.: W S Taylor ‘60
Watercolour and pen and ink over traces of pencil
29 by 32 cm., 11 ½ by 12 ½ in.
(frame size 49.5 by ...
Category
1960s Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Going to Mass, Spain - 20th Century British drawing by Robert Sargent Austin
By Robert Sargent Austin, R.A., P.R.E., P.R.W.S.
Located in London, GB
ROBERT SARGENT AUSTIN, RA, PRWS, RE
(1895-1973)
Going to Mass, Spain
Black, brown and white chalks on grey paper
Framed
49 by 38 cm., 19 ¼ by 15 in.
(frame size 73 by 60.5 cm., 2...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
White Pony in the New Forest - Etruscan School British landscape by Arthur Lemon
By Arthur Lemon
Located in London, GB
ARTHUR LEMON
(1850-1912)
New Forest
Inscribed with title and Goupil Gallery details on the reverse
Oil on panel
15 by 22 cm., 6 by 8 ½ in.
(frame size 24 by 31 cm., 9 ½ by 12 ¼ in...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Toy Boat - Anglo Dutch early 20th century Watercolour by Nico Jungman
By Nico Jungman
Located in London, GB
NICO JUNGMAN
(1872-1935)
The Toy Boat
Signed l.r.; Nico W Jungman
Watercolour and bodycolour over traces of pencil
Framed
44 by 32 cm., 17 ¼ by 12 ½ in...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Rocher St Michel D'Aiguilhe
By Albert Rutherston
Located in London, GB
ALBERT RUTHERSTON, RWS
(1881-1953)
Rocher St Michel D’Aiguilhe
Signed and dated l.l.: Albert R 1914
Watercolour and bodycolour
Framed
35.5 by 25 c...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Giant's Head Farm, Cerne Abbas - 1930s British drawing by Randolph Schwabe
Located in London, GB
RANDOLPH SCHWABE, RWS, NEAC
(1885-1948)
Giant’s Head Farm, Cerne Abbas
Signed with initials, inscribed Giant’s Head Farm, Cerne Abbas and dated 193...
Category
1830s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Siegfried
By Maxwell Armfield, RWS
Located in London, GB
MAXWELL ARMFIELD, RWS.
(1882-1972)
Siegfried
Signed, inscribed and dated l.c.: MAXWELL ARMFIELD/MDCCCCIV [1904] PARIS;SIEGFRIED/ACT III
Pencil and watercolour
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...
Category
Early 1900s Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Sportsmen - Early 20th Century British illustration
Located in London, GB
STEPHEN BAGHOT DE LA BERE
(1877-1927)
The Sportsmen
Signed
Watercolour and pencil
Framed
36 by 30.5 cm., 14 ¼ by 12 in.
(frame size 48.5 by 43 cm., 19 by 17 in.)
Baghot de la Ber...
Category
1890s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Farmer - 19th century Portrait oil over a photographic base
Located in London, GB
BRITISH SCHOOL
(circa 1890)
The Farmer
Oil over a photographic base, on card and mounted onto original canvas
Framed in original frame and behind glas...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Photographic Paper
Still Life of Fruit - Modern British watercolour by John Sergeant
By John Sergeant
Located in London, GB
JOHN SERGEANT
(1937-2010)
Still Life of Fruit in a Bowl
Watercolour, unframed
16.5 by 24 cm., 6 ½ by 9 ½ in.
(mount size 33 by 39 cm., 13 by 15 ¼ in.)
Sergeant was born in London...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mr Punch - How to Grow Tobacco - Original ink 20th Century British illustration
By Joshua Charles Armitage
Located in London, GB
“IONICUS” JOSHUA CHARLES ARMITAGE
(1913-1998)
Mr Punch – How to Grow Tobacco
Pen and ink heightened with white, unframed
5.5 by 10 cm., 2 ¼ by 4 in.
(mount size 25.5 by 25.5 cm., ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait of a Young Man by Victorian artist George Elgar Hicks
By George Elgar Hicks
Located in London, GB
GEORGE ELGAR HICKS
(1824-1914)
Portrait of a Young Gentleman
Signed and dated 1858
Watercolour and bodycolour, oval
30 by 25 cm., 11 ¾ by 9 ¾ in.
(frame size 50 by 41 cm., 19 ¾ b...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Study for a Fallen Statue, Aston Hall, 20th Century British drawing by Hickman
By Neville Hickman
Located in London, GB
NEVILLE HICKMAN
(1930-2012)
Study of a Statue, Aston Hall
Signed with initials, inscribed and dated: May 2 67. Aston Hall
Pen and ink, unframed
25.5 by 17.5 cm., 10 by 7 in.
(mount size 34.5 by 28 cm., 13 ½ by 11 in.)
Aston Hall is a magnificent seventeenth century red-brick mansion situated in a public park on the north side of Birmingham. It was built between 1618 and 1635 by Sir Thomas Holte, the head of an important Warwickshire family and was one of the last great Jacobean houses...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Visit to the Bazaar - 1916 British watercolour on silk by Sheringham
By George Sheringham
Located in London, GB
GEORGE SHERINGHAM
(1884-1937)
Visit to the Bazaar
Signed; inscribed with title on a label on the backboard
Watercolour and gold paint on silk
15 by 38 cm., 6 by 15 in.
(frame size 34 by 56 cm., 13 ½ by 22 in.)
Exhibited:
London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Works by George Sheringham, 1916, no.17.
Sheringham was born in London and studied at the Slade under Henry Tonks and later in Venice, Brussels, Berlin and Paris where he held his first one-man exhibition in 1905. On his return to London he initially supported himself with poster designs and teaching. His first exhibition of fan designs was held at the Ryder Gallery in 1909 followed by another in the following year. With enthusiastic reviews in Studio he had launched his career as a decorative designer, theatrical designer and illustrator. He illustrated books by Max Beerbohm and Cyrus MacMillan. In 1921 he collaborated with his brother Hugh on a book about fishing, The Book of the Fly Rod. He wrote Drawing in Pen and Pencil (1922), with James Laver, Design in the Theatre (1927) and with Rupert Mason and R Boyd Morrison he edited Robes of Thespis, Costume Designs by Modern Artists (1928). As a decorator, Sheringham designed the music room at 40 Devonshire House...
Category
1910s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Chickens, Cerne Abbas - 1930s British watercolour by Randolph Schwabe
Located in London, GB
RANDOLPH SCHWABE, RWS, NEAC
(1885-1948)
Chickens, Cerne Abbas
Inscribed Cerne Abbas and dated 1937
Watercolour and pen and ink over traces of penci...
Category
1930s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Pitchmarket, Cerne Abbas - 1930s British watercolour drawing by Schwabe
Located in London, GB
RANDOLPH SCHWABE, RWS, NEAC
(1885-1948)
The Pitchmarket, Cerne Abbas
Signed, inscribed Cerne Abbas and dated 1937
Pencil and watercolour
Framed
34...
Category
1930s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Laburnums at Battersea
By Theodore Casimir Roussel
Located in London, GB
THEODORE ROUSSEL, RBA
(1847-1926)
Laburnums at Battersea
Etching, signed in the plate, trimmed to the plate mark and signed and inscribed on the tab: Theodore Roussel Inv. Between...
Category
1880s Aesthetic Movement Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Street, Chelsea - 1880s etching by Whistler follower Theodore Roussel
By Theodore Roussel
Located in London, GB
THEODORE CASIMIR ROUSSEL, RBA
(1847-1926)
The Street, Chelsea Embankment
Etching, signed in the plate, signed on the artist’s tab, trimmed to the platemark by the artist, framed
15...
Category
1880s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Monument to Denzil Holles, Dorchester - 1950s drawing by British Artist
By Neville Hickman
Located in London, GB
NEVILLE HICKMAN
(20th Century)
Monument to Denzil Holles, Dorchester
Signed, inscribed and dated: Holles Monument, St Peter’s Church, Dorchester, 16 April 1958.
Chalks heightened ...
Category
1950s Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Primordium Vitae - Late 19th Cent Scottish Celtic Revival Symbolist watercolour
By Robert Traill Rose
Located in London, GB
ROBERT TRAILL ROSE
(1863-1942)
Primordium Vitae
Signed with monogram; signed, inscribed with title and the artist’s address and dated 1899 on a labe...
Category
1890s Symbolist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Interior - 1940s Cubist chalk drawing of an interior still life by John Sutton
By John Sutton
Located in London, GB
JOHN SUTTON
(20th Century)
Interior
Signed, inscribed with title and dated: 12/5/42
Watercolour and chalks, unframed, in mount only
25 by 34.5 cm., 10 by 13 ½ in.
(mount size 40 ...
Category
1940s Cubist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
The Travellers - 1920s British Children's book illustration by Frank Watkins
By Frank Watkins
Located in London, GB
FRANK WATKINS (1863-1929)
The Travellers
Signed
Pen and ink, unframed, in conservation mount only
17.5 by 26 cm., 7 by 10 ¼ in.
(frame size 33.5 by 41 cm., 13 ¼ by 16 in.)
Frank Henry Watkins was born in Lambeth, London and was the son of a bank clerk. He worked as a children’s book and comic illustrator in the early 20th century, drawing for many children’s stories including Dolly Twoshoes (1901); The Wonder and Dolly Daydream (1902); Illustrated Chips and Dick and Daisy (1919-1921) and also for Merry Moments. He provided book illustrations for The Man From the Moon by Philip Carmichael (1909); The Sun’s Babies by Edith Howes (1910); The King Who Never Died: Tales of King Arthur by Dorothy Senior (1910) and Fairy Rings...
Category
1920s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Alfreda, The Artist's Daughter - British 1950s plaster bust by Richard Garbe
By Richard Garbe
Located in London, GB
RICHARD LOUIS GARBE, RA
(1876-1957)
Alfreda, The Artist’s Daughter
Signed and dated 1956
Plaster with patinated surface on a wooden base
30 cm., 11 ¾ in. high
Provenance:
Gifted ...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Lionel Durieu - The Lily and the Rose - Belgian Arts & Crafts watercolour
Located in London, GB
LIONEL DURIEU
(Born 1865)
The Tournay of the Lily and the Rose
Signed and dated 1898
Watercolour and gold and silver paint on vellum
Framed
19 by 31 cm., 7 ½ by 12 ¼ in.
(frame ...
Category
1890s Pre-Raphaelite Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
The Hen Coop - 1940s Modern British watercolour by Pamela Spencer
Located in London, GB
PAMELA MARY SPENCER
(1924-2012)
The Hen Coop
Signed and dated 1946
Watercolour and pencil, unframed in conservation mount only
30 by 28 cm., 11 ¾ by 11 in.
Provenance:
The artist’s estate.
Pamela Spencer was the niece of Sir Stanley Spencer RA and Gilbert Spencer...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Corner of Cheyne Walk, Chelsea - 19th Century British Etching by Roussel
By Theodore Roussel
Located in London, GB
THEODORE CASIMIR ROUSSEL, RBA
(1847-1926)
The Corner of Cheyne Walk, Chelsea
Etching, unsigned, with the artist’s tab, signed in the plate, trimmed to th...
Category
1880s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Fenland Reed Cutters - Victorian Idyllist landscape painting by Walker Macbeth
Located in London, GB
ROBERT WALKER MACBETH, RA
(1848-1910)
Fenland Reed Cutters
Signed with initials and dated 1900
Oil on canvas
59 by 79 cm., 23 ¼ by 31 in.
(frame size 82 by 102 cm., 32 ¼ by 40 in.)
Provenance:
Agnews;
Fine Art Society, London.
Macbeth was born in Glasgow, the son of the Scottish portrait painter Norman Macbeth, RSA. He first studied at the Royal Scottish Academy, before moving to London in 1870 to join the staff of The Graphic. On his arrival in London he first exhibiting at the Dudley Gallery. He soon became acquainted with Hubert von Herkomer, Fred Walker...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman in a Bonnet - Early 20th Century British Theatrical Portrait
Located in London, GB
BRITISH SCHOOL
(20th Century)
Woman in a Bonnet
Pastel, unframed, in conservation mount
5 ½ by 3 ¼ in., 14 by 8 cm.
This drawing is one of a group of similar theatrical portrai...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Charlie Chaffinch - Original 1930s illustration by Steven Spurrier
By Steven Spurrier
Located in London, GB
STEVEN SPURRIER
(1878-1961)
Charlie Chaffinch
Signed; inscribed beneath the mount: Charlie Chaffinch. Sampsons Circus No.4 Faber & Faber
Pen and ink, framed
17 by 9.5 cm., 6 ¾ by 3 ¾ in.
(frame size 34 by 24.5 cm., 13 ½ by 9 ¾ in.)
After an apprenticeship to his silversmith father, Spurrier studied art and became a freelance magazine illustrator contributing to such magazines as The Graphic, Illustrated London News and the Radio Times. He also produced posters for theatrical productions and illustrated books. From 1913 he exhibited his paintings at the Royal Academy, a favourite theme being circus performers. During the First World War he worked with the Admiralty developing dazzle camouflage...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Waterloo Crescent, Dover - 20th Century British chalk drawing by John Sergeant
By John Sergeant
Located in London, GB
JOHN SERGEANT
(1937-2010)
Waterloo Crescent, Dover
Chalks on grey paper
21.5 by 37.5 cm., 8 ½ by 14 ¾ in.
(mount size 38 by 52.5 cm., 15 by 20 ¾ in.)
Sergeant was born in London...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
