Sarah Colegrave Fine Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
to
2
123
19
7
2
2
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
2
34
117
4
4
9
20
4
1
9
6
1
1
2
9
8
2
1
86
63
113
55
53
41
41
23
17
15
13
13
10
10
10
7
6
6
4
4
4
4
101
100
20
20
19
7
5
3
3
3
80
153
Harry Carleton Attwood - The Resurrection - 1930s Mural Design for Eltham Hall
Located in London, GB
HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD
(1907-1985)
Resurrection – Mural Design for Eltham Hall
Signed with initials, dated and inscribed l.c.: Designs for Eltham Hall / 17/4/36 / HCA
Watercolour ...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Carolyn Sergeant - 20th Century British drawing of nude figure
By Carolyn Sergeant
Located in London, GB
CAROLYN SERGEANT
(1937-2018)
Standing Nude
Signed A M C Cann (the artist's maiden name) on the reverse and inscribed Finals
Pencil on buff paper, unframed
49.5 by 34 cm., 19 ½ by...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Lallia - British 1930s Art Deco graphic design by Marie Palmer-Smith
Located in London, GB
MARIE PALMER-SMITH
(1899-1997)
Lallia
Bears artist’s studio stamp on the reverse
Gouache, unframed in mount
24 by 17 cm., 9 ½ by 6 ¾ in.
(mount size 39 by 31 cm., 15 ¼ by 12 ¼ in....
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Plain Gangster - Early 20th Century British Illustration by Rex Whistler
Located in London, GB
REX JOHN WHISTLER
(British 1905-1944)
The Plain Gangster
Inscribed with title
Pen, brush and ink
Framed
20 by 16.5 cm., 8 by 10 ½ in.
(frame size 39 b...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Olivia - 1930s British Art Deco Graphic Design for Paper by Marie Palmer-Smith
Located in London, GB
MARIE PALMER-SMITH
(1899-1997)
Olivia
Bears artist’s studio stamp on the reverse
Gouache on textured paper, unframed in mount
22 by 17 cm., 8 ¾ by 6 ¾ in.
(mount size 37 by 31 cm....
Category
1930s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
20th Century Modern British drawing of a Seated Woman by Carolyn Sergeant
By Carolyn Sergeant
Located in London, GB
CAROLYN SERGEANT
(1937-2018)
Seated Woman in Profile
Pen and ink with wash, unframed
45.5 by 32 cm., 18 by 12 ½ in.
(mount size 62 by 47 cm., 24 ½ by 18 ½ in.)
Carolyn Cann stud...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Brimscombe Hill - Early 20th Century Cotswold Group Watercolour by H A Payne
By Henry Arthur Payne, RWS
Located in London, GB
HENRY ARTHUR PAYNE, RWS
(1868-1940)
Evening, Brimscombe Hill
Signed and indistinctly dated l.l..: HENRY A PAYNE
Watercolour
Framed
20.5 by 24.5 cm.; 8 by 9 ...
Category
Early 20th Century Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
James Joshua Guthrie - The Sower, Early 20th Century British Watercolour
Located in London, GB
JAMES JOSHUA GUTHRIE
(1874-1952)
The Sower
Signed with monogram l.r., inscribed with title l.c.
Watercolour, bodycolour and pen and ink
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...
Category
Early 1900s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Female Nude - 1920s chalk drawing by Belgian Symbolist artist Marcel Delmotte
Located in London, GB
MARCEL DELMOTTE
(1901-1984)
Nude
Signed and dated l.r.: M Delmotte/1928
Black and red chalks
Framed
33 by 20 cm., 13 by 8 in.
(frame size 53 by 39 cm., 21 by 15 ¼ in.)
The son of...
Category
1920s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
The Model - 1930s mural design for Eltham Palace by Harry Carleton Attwood
Located in London, GB
HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD
(1907-1985)
The Model - Design for Eltham Palace
Coloured chalks, arched top
Framed
21 by 13 cm., 8 ¼ by 5 in.
(frame size 39.5 by 31.5 cm., 15 ½ by 12 ½ in...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
The Duet - A 1930s Theatrical Illustration by British artist John Dronsfield
By John Dronsfield
Located in London, GB
JOHN DRONSFIELD
(1900-1951)
The Duet
Watercolour and pencil
Unframed, in mount only
32.5 by 26 cm., 12 ¾ by 10 ¼ in.
(mount size 45.5 by 39 cm., 18 by 15 ¼ in.)
John Marsden Dron...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Archibald Hartrick - 1884 chalk drawing by Frank Lewis Emanuel
Located in London, GB
FRANK LEWIS EMANUEL
(1865-1948)
Portrait of Archibald Hartrick
Signed, inscribed and dated l.l.: A S HARTRICK (artist) by F L EMANUEL 1884
Black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper...
Category
1880s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Fruit Gatherers - 1930s Design for a mural by Harry Carleton Attwood
Located in London, GB
HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD
(1907-1985)
Fruit Gatherers - Design for Eltham Palace
Chalks
Framed
23 by 13 cm., 9 by 5 in.
(frame size 39.5 by 31.5 cm., 15 ½ by 12 ½ in.)
Attwood was b...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
The Pipe's of Pan - British Watercolour by Hubert von Herkomer
By Sir Hubert Von Herkomer R.A. RWS.
Located in London, GB
SIR HUBERT VON HERKOMER, RA, RWS
(1849-1914)
The Pipe’s of Pan
Signed with initials and dated 26/2/74
Watercolour and bodycolour on paper
17 by 22 cm., 6 ¾ by 8 ¾ in.
(frame size ...
Category
1870s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Pair of Watercolour Illustrations of a Donkey and Cow by Carton Moore Park
By Carton Moore-Park
Located in London, GB
CARTON MOORE PARK
(1877-1956)
The Kicking Donkey and Watching Cow
A Pair
One signed
Both grisaille watercolour heightened with white
Framed
37 by 35 cm., 14 ½ by 13 ¾ in. each
(frame size 58.5 by 55.5 cm., 23 by 21 ¾ in. each)
Canadian born Frederic Carton Moore Park studied at Glasgow School of Art under Francis Newbery. He specialized in highly stylized illustrations and prints of animal subjects. He wrote and illustrated a variety of children’s books featuring animals, including; An Alphabet of Animals (1899); A Book of Birds (1900); The Dog Book...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Gerald Mackenzie Leet - A Day at the Seaside - Design for a Mural
Located in London, GB
GERALD MACKENZIE LEET
(BRITISH 1913-1998)
A Day at the Seaside – Design for a Mural
Watercolour and gouache over pencil, arched top
Framed
26.5 by 49.5 cm., 10 ½ by 19 ½ in.
(frame size 47.5 by 69.5 cm., 18 ¾ by 27 ½ in.)
Provenance:
The artist’s estate;
Harry Moore-Gwyn Fine Art.
Gerald Leet was born in South London and studied at Goldsmiths’ School of Art 1929-1934, the Royal Academy of Art 1934-1937 and later at the Courtauld Institute. As a young man he shared a studio with Carel Weight. His first teaching appointment at Ealing School of Art in 1933 where he met fellow art student Denton...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Thames by Tower Bridge - British Impressionist watercolour by Austin Taylor
Located in London, GB
AUSTIN TAYLOR
(1908-1992)
The Thames by the Angel at Rotherhithe, looking towards Tower Bridge
Signed l.l.: Austin
Watercolour and bodycolour over chalk
Unframed
25 by 34 cm., 9 ¾ by 13 ½ in.
(mount size 40.5 by 48.5 cm., 16 by 19 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
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Eileen Soper - 20th Century British drawing of chicks in the nest
By Eileen Soper
Located in London, GB
EILEEN SOPER
(1905-1990)
The Coconut Nest Box
Dated l.r.: June 14 1956, bears artist’s studio stamp on the reverse
Pencil
Unframed, in conservation mount only
18 by 15 cm., 7 by 6 in.
(mount size 37 by 33.5 cm., 14 ½ by 13 ¼ in.)
Provenance:
The artist’s estate;
Chris Beetles, London;
Private collection.
Eileen Alice Soper was born in Enfield, Middlesex in 1905. In 1908 the family moved to Harmer Green, Welwyn in the Hertfordshire countryside and she was the live in that same house of the rest of her life. She attended Hitchen Girls School and was artistically trained by her father, the noted illustrator and etcher, George Soper...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Eileen Soper - 20th Century British drawing of Netsheds on Hastings Beach
By Eileen Soper
Located in London, GB
EILEEN SOPER
(1905-1990)
Netsheds, Hastings Beach
Pencil
Unframed, in conservation mount only
15.5 by 22.5 cm., 6 ¼ by 9 in.
(mount size 33 by 39 cm., 13 by 15 ¼ in.)
Provenance:
The artist’s estate;
Chris Beetles, London;
Private collection.
Eileen Alice Soper was born in Enfield, Middlesex in 1905. In 1908 the family moved to Harmer Green, Welwyn in the Hertfordshire countryside and she was the live in that same house of the rest of her life. She attended Hitchen Girls School and was artistically trained by her father, the noted illustrator and etcher, George Soper...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Arthur Wardle - Convolvulus - British watercolour on linen
By Arthur Wardle
Located in London, GB
ARTHUR WARDLE
(1864-1949)
Convolvulus
Signed
Watercolour and bodycolour on linen
21 by 13.5 cm., 8 ¼ by 5 ¼ in.
(frame size 34.5 by 27 cm., 13 ½ by 10 ½ in.)
Arthur Wardle was bo...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1970s British watercolour of Rusting Cars by Ian Hay
Located in London, GB
IAN HAY
(Born 1940)
Cars Rusting
Signed l.r.: Ian Hay; bears title and dated 1973 on exhibition label on the backboard
Watercolour and gouache
Framed
44 by 88 cm., 17 ¼ by 34 ¾ in...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
William Henry Barribal - 1920s British watercolour of a Girl in a Fancy Bonnet
By William Henry Barribal
Located in London, GB
WILLIAM HENRY BARRIBAL
(1873-1956)
Her Best Bonnet
Watercolour and bodycolour over traces of pencil
Framed
23.5 by 18.5 cm., 9 ¼ by 7 ¼ in.
(frame size 42 by 36 cm., 16 ½ by 14 ¼...
Category
1920s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Moored Barges - Arts & Crafts British pastel by Bernard Sleigh
Located in London, GB
BERNARD SLEIGH
(1872-1954)
Moored Boats
Pastel
Framed
24 by 22 cm., 9 ½ by 8 ½ in.
(frame size )
At the age of 14 Sleigh was apprenticed to a wood e...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
20th Century British drawing of a Girl Reading by Carolyn Sergeant
By Carolyn Sergeant
Located in London, GB
CAROLYN SERGEANT
(1937-2018)
Girl Reading
Pencil and black chalk, heightened with white, unframed
40.5 by 28 cm., 16 by 11 in.
(mount size 57 by 43 cm., 22 ½ by 17 in.)
Carolyn Cann studied at Wimbledon School of Art (1955-59) and at the Royal Academy Schools (1959-62) where she was a Silver Medallist. At the Royal Academy Schools she met and later married her fellow student, John Sergeant. She had several one-man exhibitions in London, at the Fine Art Society, Colnaghi, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, the Waterhouse Gallery and Waterman Gallery. She also showed at the Leicester Galleries, Roland, Browse and Delbanco and elsewhere.
In 1983 John and Carolyn bought an old run down farm house near Builth Wells in Powys, mid Wales. The house needed such extensive renovation that it took many years to complete. After their two sons...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
20th Century British Theatre Costume Design by John Dronsfield
By John Dronsfield
Located in London, GB
JOHN DRONSFIELD
(1900-1951)
Boy with Whip and Top
Signed l.r.: Dronsfield
Watercolour
Unframed
40 by 33 cm., 15 ¾ by 13 in.
(mount size 59.5 by 51 cm., 23 ½ by 20 in.)
John Marsd...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
William Walcot - 20th Century British watercolour of top of Spanish Steps, Rome
By William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.
Located in London, GB
WILLIAM WALCOT
(1874-1943)
Piazza Trinita die Monti, the Spanish Steps, Rome
Signed and dated l.r.: W Walcot 1922
Watercolour and bodycolour over traces of pencil
Framed
54 by 84...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Pool of London - 20th Century British marine watercolour by William Walcot
By William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.
Located in London, GB
WILLIAM WALCOT
(1874-1943)
The Pool of London
Signed and dated l.r.: W Walcot 1924
Watercolour and bodycolour over traces of pencil
Framed
40.5 by 71.5 cm., 16 by 28 ¼ in.
(frame...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
20th Century British Theatre Costume Design by John Dronsfield
By John Dronsfield
Located in London, GB
JOHN DRONSFIELD
(1900-1951)
Costume Design
Signed l.l.: Dronsfield
Watercolour and pencil
Unframed
42 by 34 cm., 16 ½ by 13 ½ in.
(mount size 61.5 by 53 cm., 24 ¼ by 21 in.)
John...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
20th Century British Watercolour of Boats at Teddington by Paddy Carstairs
Located in London, GB
JOHN PADDY CARSTAIRS
(1910-1970)
Boats at Teddington
Signed and dated ‘52; bears title and the artist’s address on the label attached to the backboard
Watercolour and bodycolour over pencil
34 by 48.5 cm., 13 ½ by 19 in.
(frame size 47 by 61 cm., 18 ½ by 24...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Plenty - 1930s British Art Deco design for a Mural by Harry Carleton Attwood
Located in London, GB
HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD
(1907-1985)
Plenty - Design for Eltham Palace
Chalks
Framed
20.5 by 12 cm., 8 by 4 ¾ in.
(frame size 39.5 by 31.5 cm., 15 ½ by 12 ½ in.)
Attwood was born i...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Winter Ploughing - Pre-Raphaelite watercolour by William Bell Scott
By William Bell Scott
Located in London, GB
WILLIAM BELL SCOTT
(British 1811-1890)
Winter Ploughing
Signed with initials and dated l.r.: WBS 1885
Watercolour with scratching out
12 by 17 cm., 4 ¾ by 6 ¾ in.
(frame size 31 by 35.5 cm., 12 ¼ by 14 in.)
Provenance:
Agnews, London
William Bell Scott was the son of Robert Scott, an Edinburgh engraver and brother of the artist David Scott. He was born at St Leonard’s, Edinburgh and studied under his father, and at the Trustees’ Academy before leaving for London in 1837. After entering for the Westminster Hall Competition he was appointed as master of the Government School of Design in Newcastle in 1843. Rossetti wrote to him in 1847 praising one of his poems, the two became close friends and Scott contributed several poems to The Germ...
Category
1880s Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Jack Escapes the Giant - 1920s British Children's illustration by Frank Watkins
By Frank Watkins
Located in London, GB
FRANK WATKINS
(1863-1929)
Jack Escapes the Giant
Pen and ink, unframed, in conservation mount only
24 by 29 cm., 9 ¾ by 11 ½ in.
(mount size 40 by 44.5 cm., 15 ¾ by 17 ½ 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
Resting - 1930s British design for a mural by Harry Carleton Attwood
Located in London, GB
HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD
(1907-1985)
Resting - Design for Eltham Palace
Watercolour over traces of pencil
Framed
20 by 14 cm., 8 by 5 ½ in.
(frame size 39.5 by 31.5 cm., 15 ½ by 12 ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Brewer Street, Soho - 1930s British London Scene by Randolph Schwabe
Located in London, GB
RANDOLPH SCHWABE, RWS, NEAC
(1885-1948)
Austin’s Stores, Brewer Street, Soho
Signed and dated l.r.: R Schwabe 1936
Grisaille watercolour and pen an...
Category
1930s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Women Resting - 1930s British Design for a Mural by Harry Carleton Attwood
Located in London, GB
HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD
(1907-1985)
Women Resting - Design for Eltham Palace
Watercolour
Framed
20.5 by 14.5 cm., 8 by 5 ¾ in.
(frame size 39.5 by 31.5 cm., 15 ½ by 12 ½ in.)
Attw...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Original 1920s British Pen and ink Children's book Illustration by Frank Watkins
By Frank Watkins
Located in London, GB
FRANK WATKINS
(1863-1929)
The Boat Builder Giant
Pen and ink, unframed, in conservation mount only
20.5 by 29.5 cm., 8 by 11 ¾ in.
(frame size 36.5 by 45 cm., 14 ½ by 17 ¾ 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
A Surrey Common - Pre-Raphaelite landscape watercolour by George Price Boyce
Located in London, GB
GEORGE PRICE BOYCE, RWS
(1826-1897)
A Surrey Common in November
Signed, inscribed and dated 1866.7; indistinctly signed and inscribed with title and the...
Category
1860s Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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
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
