Connecticut - Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Incredible quality and strong appeal this is a top notch still life done in soft pastels. Hills is the most noted American artist to depict flowers in pastel. A master at capturing the essence of the flower in still-life, deftly portrays the elegance of the smallest detail of flower, vessel, and backdrop with light-handed precision. In Basket of Flowers...

English illustrator, etcher and painter. Best known as the illustrator of the novels of Charles Dickens, under the pen-name Phiz. Browne had little formal training as an artist. He sporadically attended the St Martin’s Lane Academy life-class and was apprenticed to the line-engraver William Finden (1787-1852). In 1834 he cancelled his indenture and established an illustrators’ workshop with fellow apprentice Robert Young, producing etchings and watercolours in preference to the more laborious line-engravings. In the spring of 1836, he met Charles Dickens who was then looking for someone to illustrate The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club which was originally issued in monthly parts. Robert Seymour (1798-1836) provided the illustrations for the first two instalments before his suicide. Robert Buss (1804-1875) illustrated the third instalment, but his work was not liked by Dickens and the remaining instalments were illustrated by Browne. Browne initially signed himself ‘Nemo’ and then ‘Phiz’ (a depicter of physiognomies) to harmonize with Dickens’s ‘Boz’. He went on to illustrate most of Dickens’ novels. Browne’s long career as an illustrator, including work for Charles Lever...

Frame Sz:16.25"H x 17.75"W

An original ink & coloured wash drawing by the Rex Whistler (1905-1944) depicting "The Duke of Sussex" tipsily approaching The Queen 'Victoria' & to the left, The Prince Consort playing chess, all assembled in a state room in a rococo cartouche manner topped by upper 'L&R' corner gouache crowns on pearl grey paper then published by Nash Magazine February/ March 1937 as illustrations to 'The Court Circle' by Laurence Housman Thence our original work on paper on offer being the 2nd in the series of four Provenance: The Estate of John Teed Esq~ description featured on pg 91 in: 'The Works of Rex Whistler' by Laurence Whistler (his brother) & Ronald Fuller pub. 1960 by Batsford Press Since birdseye maple framed in a lavender mat. Frame Sz: 16"Sq Image Sz: 9-1/8"Sq Artist Bio: Reginald John Whistler was born in Britain on 24 June 1905, at Eltham, greater London, the son of architect and estate agent Henry Whistler and Helen Frances Mary, daughter of Rev. Charles Slegg Ward, vicar of Wootton St Lawrence, near Basingstoke, Hampshire.[1] In May 1919 he was sent to boarding school at Haileybury, where he showed a precocious talent for art, providing set designs for play productions and giving away sketches to prefects in lieu of "dates" (a punishment at Haileybury, similar to "lines" whereby offenders are required to write out set lists of historical dates). After Haileybury the young Whistler was accepted at the Royal Academy, but disliked the regime there and was "sacked for incompetence". He then proceeded to study at the Slade School of Art, where he met Stephen Tennant, soon to become one of his best friends and a model for some of the figures in his works. Through Tennant, he later met the poet Siegfried Sassoon and his wife Hester, to both of whom Whistler became close. Upon leaving the Slade he burst into a dazzling career as a professional artist. His work encompassed all areas of art and design – from the West End theatre to book illustration (including works by Evelyn Waugh and Walter de la Mare, and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels) and mural and trompe-l'oeil painting. Paintings at Port Lympne Mansion (within Port Lympne Wild Animal Park), Plas Newydd, Mottisfont Abbey and Dorneywood among others, show his outstanding talent in this genre. During his time at Plas Newydd he may well have become the lover of the daughter of the 6th Marquess of Anglesey, the owner of the house, who had commissioned him to undertake the decorative scheme. Whistler and Lady Caroline Paget are known to have become very close friends and he painted numerous portraits of her, including a startling nude. Whether this painting was actually posed for or whether it was how Whistler imagined her naked is a matter of debate. His most noted work during the early part of his career was for the café at the Tate Gallery, completed in 1927 when he was only 22. He was commissioned to produce posters and illustrations for Shell Petroleum and the Radio Times. He also created designs for Wedgwood china based on drawings he made of the Devon village of Clovelly. Whistler's elegance and wit ensured his success as a portrait artist among the fashionable; he painted many members of London society, including Edith Sitwell, Cecil Beaton and other members of the set to which he belonged that became known as the "Bright Young Things". His murals for Edwina...

An amazing collection of 18th century gouache and chalk/charcoal draawings by this well known French artist. Each has been framed and matted in the most amazing frames which set the ...

Moravian Home for Old Ladies. c. 1919. Pencil drawing. 6 1/2 x 8 1/8. Unsigned; titled 'Moravian Home for Old Ladies' lower right Housed in a 16 c 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing. Currently the building is in use at the Priscilla Payne Hurd Campus of the Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Moravian Bell House, erected in 1745, was used first as the Family House. It was used as the Girls' School in 1746-1791. The Bethlehem Female Seminary, which was founded in 1742 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, as the first school for young women in the U.S. The seminary was created by the sixteen-year-old Benigna, Countess von Zinzendorf, the daughter of Count Nikolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, who was the benefactor of the fledgling Moravian communities in Nazareth and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Female Seminary was incorporated by the Pennsylvania State Legislature in 1863 and became the woman's college, the Moravian Seminary and College for Women in 1913. A full history can be found online at Moravian College. The bell, still in use, was cast in Bethlehem. The turret had first town clock...