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Item Ships From: England
Red Lips by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Red Lips by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Coloured crayon and black pencil on paper
25.5 x 19.5 cm (10 x 7 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower left with Estate stamp
Created in Morocco a...
Category
20th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Montagnard des Environs de Szczaronica by Franciszek Tepa - Realist portrait
By Franciszek Tepa
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
Montagnard des Environs de Szczaronica by Franciszek Tepa (1829-1889)
Watercolour
26.3 x 20 cm (10 ⅜ x 7 ⅞ inches)
Signed and dated lower right, F. Tepa 1873
Artist ...
Category
1870s Realist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Rifleman, 20th Century English Artist, Watercolour and Ink, War Theme
By V. Ward
Located in London, GB
V Ward
Rifleman
Watercolour and ink
Signed and dated 1918, lower right
Image size: 11 x 8 inches
Category
20th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
L’Orientale à la Mandoline by GEORGES MANZANA PISSARRO - Orientalist art
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
L’Orientale à la Mandoline by GEORGES MANZANA PISSARRO (1871-1961)
Mixed media with gold on paper
31.5 x 41.5 cm (12 ⅜ x 16 ⅜ inches)
Signed lower right, Manzana
Executed in 1910
T...
Category
1910s Art Deco England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Yvonne debout by Paulémile Pissarro - Nude drawing of the artist's wife
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
THIS WORK IS SOLD UNFRAMED
Yvonne debout by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Pencil on paper
30.5 x 26 cm (12 x 10 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower centre, P...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Paysage à Chippenfield by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Landscape watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Paysage à Chippenfield by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
23 x 33 cm (9 x 13 inche...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Yvonne Jouant au Tennis by Paulémile Pissarro, 1972 - graphite on paper
Located in London, GB
THIS WORK IS SOLD UNFRAMED
Yvonne Jouant au Tennis by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972)
Graphite on paper
20.2 x 27 cm (8 x 10 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile-Pissarro-
Pa...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Still Life by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Charcoal on paper
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Still Life by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Charcoal on paper
28.4 x 24.3 cm (11 ⅛ x 9 ⅝ inches)
Signed lower right, L. Rodo
Provenance
Private Collection, London
This work is ...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
19th Century watercolour painting of Empress Alexandra of Russia
By Pierre Tetar van Elven
Located in London, GB
The Dutch artist Pierre Tetar van Elven (1828-1908), the court painter of King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (1828-1878) is responsible for this stunning watercolour painting. The image portrays the Russian Queen...
Category
19th Century Realist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
La Seine à Paris by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Work on Paper, Paris scene
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
La Seine à Paris by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pencil on paper
22.5 x 28.3 cm (8 ⁷/₈ x 11 ¹/₈ inches)
Stamped lower right, Manzana-Pissarro
Executed circa 1930
This work i...
Category
1930s Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Inconscience by Yvon Pissarro - Contemporary work on paper
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Inconscience by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Conté chalk and pastel pencil on paper
50 x 65 cm (19 ³/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, y. vey
Provenance: Studio of the artist, Montpe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Conté, Pastel, Pencil
Battage à la Taillerie by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel, Post-Impressionist
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Battage à la Taillerie by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a certifi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
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 England - 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 England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
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 England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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 England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Lifting the Torah by Ludwig Meidner - Religious scene, work on paper
By Ludwig Meidner
Located in London, GB
Lifting the Torah by Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966)
Watercolour on paper
67 x 56 cm (26 ³/₈ x 22 inches)
Signed upper right, LM
Executed in 1943
Category
1940s England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
My Child by Lélia Pissarro - Mixed media on paper
By Lelia Pissarro
Located in London, GB
My Child by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963)
Oil, gold paint, glitter and pencil on paper
13 x 15 cm (5 ¹/₈ x 5 ⁷/₈ inches)
Signed lower right, Lélia Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the artist.
Artist biography:
Born in Paris in 1963, Lélia is the third and youngest child of Hugues-Claude and Katia Pissarro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Eighteenth century Old Master drawing - Apollo destroying Niobe's children
By John Hamilton Mortimer
Located in London, GB
Pen, ink and wash
Framed dimensions: 13 x 11 ¼ inches
Drawn c.1765
Verso: a study of a hanged man
Mortimer has filled this small sheet with action, depicting in the top right, Apollo and Artemis...
Category
18th Century Old Masters England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Le Ramassage des Foins by Paulémile Pissarro - Graphite drawing
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Le Ramassage des Foins by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Graphite on paper
12.9 x 20 cm (5 ¹/₈ x 7 ⁷/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile-Pissarro-
Provenance
Estate of the Artist...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Farmhands by Yvon Pissarro, 1983 - Pencil on Paper Drawing
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Farmhands by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Pencil on paper
56 x 76 cm (22 x 30 inches)
Signed
Executed 1983
Provenance
Studio of the Artist, Montpellier
Artist's Biography
The son of Pau...
Category
1980s England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Funeral by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Funeral by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
17.6 x 21.2 cm (6 ⁷/₈ x 8 ³/₈ inches)
Signed with the Artist’s initials lower l...
Category
Early 19th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Le Petit Cheval by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Animal charcoal drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
Le Petit Cheval by Georges Manzana Pissarro
Charcoal and gold on paper
31 x 31 cm (12 ¼ x 12 ¼ inches)
Signed lower right, Manzana Pissarro
Executed circa 1920
Proven...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Abandon by Yvon Pissarro - Contemporary work on paper
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Abandon by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Conté chalk on paper
50 x 65 cm (19 ³/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed centre right, y. vey
Provenance: Studio of the artist, Montpellier
Artist biogr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Conté
Farmhands by Yvon Pissarro - Figurative drawing
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Farmhands by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Pencil on paper
75 x 108 cm (29 ¹/₂ x 42 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed lower right, Yvon Vey
Provenance: Studio of the Artist, Montpellier
Artist biograph...
Category
1980s Modern England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Etude de Chiens by Paulémile Pissarro - Ink on paper
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
Etude de Chiens by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972)
Ink on paper
23 x 31 cm (9 x 12 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed with estate stamp lower left
This work is accompanied by a ce...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Study of Heads by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Study of Heads by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pencil on paper
27 x 21 cm (10 ⁵/₈ x 8 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower right
This work is accompanied by a certific...
Category
20th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Place Dauphine by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Place Dauphine by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
21 x 15.7 cm (8 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower left
Ins...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Farmhands, Pencil on Paper Drawing by Yvon Pissarro, Signed
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Farmhands by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Pencil on paper
79 x 108 (31 ¹/₈ x 42 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed upper right, Yvon Vey
Provenance
Studio of the Artist, Montpellier
Artist's Biography
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Le Due Fait de la Peinture by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Colourful drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Le Due Fait de la Peinture by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
27.5 x 18.3 cm (10 ⁷/₈ x 7 ¹/₄ inches)
Graphite and coloured crayon on paper
Inscribed upper left and signed lower ...
Category
1940s England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Undressing by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Nude drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Undressing by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pencil on paper
13.6 x 10.6 cm (5 ³/₈ x 4 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower right, manzana- Pissarro
This work is accompa...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Indifference by Yvon Pissarro - Contemporary artwork
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Indifference by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Conté chalk and pastel pencil on paper
50.3 x 64 cm (19 ³/₄ x 25 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower right, y. vey
Provenance: Studio of the artist, Mon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Conté, Pastel, Pencil
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
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Ca...
Category
19th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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 England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
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 England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
American Soldier, 20th Century Signed Watercolour
By V. Ward
Located in London, GB
V Ward
American Soldier
Watercolour
Signed and dated 1918, lower left
Image size: 12 x 10½ inches
Category
20th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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 England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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 England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Pencil
'Asphodelus Lutea' - Still Life of Flowers with Botanical Notes, c. 1969
By John Nash
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Asphodelus Lutea
Category
20th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Crayon, Ink, Pen
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 England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
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 England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Draveil by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952) - Watercolour on paper
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Draveil by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952)
Watercolour on paper
24 x 32 cm (9 1⁄2 x 12 5⁄8 inches)
Titled and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Pencil
Drawing of a captive woman
By Henry Fuseli
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Sir Thomas Lawrence, who acquired the contents of Fuseli’s studio;
Susan, Countess of Guilford, née Coutts (1771-1837), acquired from the Lawrence estate;
Susan, Baroness North (1797-1884), daughter of the above;
Mrs A. M. Jaffé, acquired in France, c. 1950 to 2016.
Black chalks, on buff-coloured paper
Stamped verso: ‘Baroness Norths Collection / of Drawings by H Fuseli Esq.’
Framed dimensions: 26.38 x 20.63 inches
This boldly drawn sheet depicting a seated figure was made by Fuseli at an important and highly productive moment in his career. The monumental drawing is closely related to another sheet by Fuseli in the British Museum which Schiff published as subject unknown. Both drawings were made when Fuseli was designing his most important sequence of historical works, including scenes from Shakespeare and Milton, The Nightmare and The Death of Dido which was exhibited at the Royal Academy to great critical acclaim in 1781. The present drawing does not relate directly to any of Fuseli’s finished historical paintings of the period, but evidently the image of a slightly menacing, seated and covered old woman was precisely the sort of motif he was playing with. It is notable that the same figure reappears later in Fuseli’s work as the witch from Ben Jonson’s Witch’s Song which Fuseli produced as both a painting and engraving in 1812.
Fuseli returned to London in 1779 from a highly creative and productive period in Rome and established himself as one of the leading history painters of the period. Fuseli re-established contact with his old mentor Sir Joshua Reynolds, becoming a regular guest at his dinner table and visitor to his studio. The earliest and most striking manifestation of this strategy was Fuseli's Death of Dido, exhibited in 1781 at the Royal Academy. Executed on the same scale as Reynolds's version (Royal Collection), Fuseli's vertically oriented picture was hung directly opposite Reynolds's with its horizontal orientation, inevitably inviting comparison between the two works and garnering Fuseli much publicity and favourable reviews in the newspapers.
The present, previously unpublished sheet, relates closely to a drawing now in the British Museum. That sheet shows the same seated old woman, drawn on a smaller scale and more schematic in design, seated next to an anatomical drawing of a man. The pose of this figure is related to the pose of Dido in his Death of Dido; the foreshortened torso, arrangement of head, oblique view of Dido’s features and arms all suggest that the study can be viewed as an initial thought for the composition. Fuseli may have initially thought of including the figure of the hunched and covered old woman. Drawn on identical paper to the British Museum sheet, our study is an enlarged depiction of the same figure, more elaborately delineated and developed. The presence of a chain to the right of the figure, suggests that the iconography was related in some way to a scene of imprisonment.
Fuseli had first explored the motif of the hooded old woman in an early Roman drawing, 'The Venus Seller'. The idea of a grotesque old woman, hooded and with angular nose and projecting chin seen in profile was most spectacularly used by Fuseli in his sequence of paintings depicting The Three Witches from Macbeth. Fuseli seems to have kept the present sheet and may have returned to it when preparing a painting of The Witch and the Mandrake from Ben Jonson’s Witch’s Song from his Masque of Queens in 1812. Here the same seated figure looks out from under her hood and picks a mandrake by moonlight. Jonson’s drama had been performed at the court of James I in 1609, inspired the subject. To throw the nobility of the queens into relief, the poet added a coven of witches, one of whom declares: ‘I last night lay all alone, On the ground, to hear the mandrake groan; And plucked him up, though he grew full low, And, as I had done, the cock did crow.’ The figure was reversed in the associated etching which was published in 1812. It seems likely that the present drawing remained as part of Fuseli’s working archive of figure studies.
The present drawing was presumably purchased with the bulk of Fuseli’s drawings after the artist’s death by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Lawrence’s large group of Fuseli drawings were then acquired by Susan, Countess of Guildford (1771-1837). Lady Guildford was the eldest daughter of the banker Thomas Coutts (1735-1822), who himself had supported Fuseli’s journey to Rome in the 1770s and had remained one of the artist’s key...
Category
18th Century Old Masters England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Le Ramassage de Foin by Paulémile Pissarro - Work on paper
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Le Ramassage de Foin by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Charcoal on paper
26 x 33 cm (10 ¹/₄ x 13 inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile- Pissarro-
This work is accompanied by a certif...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Misano, Bay of Naples
By Charles Edmund Rowbotham
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Watercolour on paper
Paper size: 6.25 x 8.25 inches
Framed size: 13.5 x 14.75 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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 England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Cellist - Charlie Mackesy, Original Pastel, Musician, Instrument, Dark, British
By Charlie Mackesy
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
An original pastel-on-paper drawing by British artist Charlie Mackesy - depicting the motion of a musician playing the Cello. Mackesy instantly draws y...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
Bathing Women Badende Frauen - Landscape Bathers German
By Erich Heckel
Located in London, GB
This watercolour is hand signed with the artist’s monogram and dated in pencil "EH 29" [1929] in the lower right image.
It is also hand titled in pencil “Badende Frauen” [Bathing Wo...
Category
1920s Expressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Watercolor
The Experiment, Dated 1838, Signed English Watercolour
By Alfred H. Taylor
Located in London, GB
Alfred H. Taylor
The Experiment
Watercolour, signed and dated 1838
Image size: 9 ½ x 8 inches
Category
19th Century Victorian England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Music Party, 19th Century Company School Watercolour
Located in London, GB
COMPANY SCHOOL
19th Century
The Music Party
Watercolour
Image size: 4 ¾ x 7 ½ inches
Acid free mount
Category
19th Century Victorian England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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 England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
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 England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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 England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Street Tailors in Cairo - Original Sketch, 19th Century
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
CARL FRIEDRICH HEINRICH WERNER
1808 - 1894
Street Tailors in Cairo
Graphite on Paper
Image Size: 13 ¾ x 19 ¾ inches
Acid free mount
SKETCHES OF CARL WERNER EXHIBITION
AT OUR G...
Category
19th Century England - 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 England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, 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 England - 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 England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Eighteenth century Old Master drawing - St Jerome
By John Hamilton Mortimer
Located in London, GB
Pen, ink and wash
Framed dimensions: 9 ½ x 11 ¼ inches
Drawn c. 1763
This small, powerful study shows St Jerome contemplating the bible with a cross and sk...
Category
18th Century Old Masters England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Cityscape
By László Mednyánszky
Located in London, GB
LASZLO BARO MEDNYANSZKY 1852-1919
Beckó, Slovakia 1852-1919 Vienna (Hungarian)
Title: Cityscape, 1912
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Dated Pencil Drawing on Paper
s...
Category
1910s England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Sketchbook II
By Artur Markowicz
Located in London, GB
ARTUR MARKOWICZ 1872-1934
Podgórze (Poland) 1872-1934 Cracow (Polish)
Title: Sketchbook II, 1915
Technique: A Sketchbook with 149 Pencil and Colour Pencil Drawings on Paper with Stamp
Size: 16.5 x 20.5 cm. / 6.5 x 8.1 in.
Additional Information: This is an original sketchbook...
Category
1910s England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
