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Item Ships From: England
Simonetti - Late 19th Century Watercolour, Minstrel by a Balcony
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour study of a medieval minstrel playing the lute. The artist captures the costume of the musician in fine detail. Presented in a simple gilt frame. On paper.
Category
Late 19th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$437 Sale Price
20% Off
Delia Robins (fl. 1856-1858) - 1854 Watercolour, Knitting by the Sea
Located in Corsham, GB
This delightful scene depicts a woman perched on a rock looking intently at her knitting. In the background waves crash against the sandy shoreline. The artist pays particular attent...
Category
Mid-19th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$335 Sale Price
20% Off
Isabelle Mulvany - 2020 Gouache, Corona Girls
By Isabelle Mulvany
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking contemporary illustration, showing a group of glamorous girls out for drinks. The painting is full of interesting commentary on Covid, from the year 2020, at the start of the outbreak. One woman, shows off her hand, dripping with hand sanitiser, to her friends, with her stash of flu pills and hand sanitiser bottles at her side. Another holds a bottle of Corona beer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$346 Sale Price
20% Off
Framed Mid 20th Century Pastel - Portrait of a Woman
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming pastel portrait of a woman in thought.
Indistinctly signed.
Well presented in a gilded and molded frame with glazing and a white mount-board
On wove.
Category
20th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
$375 Sale Price
20% Off
Regency portrait drawing of Arabella Graham-Clarke
By John Downman
Located in London, GB
Collections:
The sitter, and by descent;
Christie's, 19th March 1928, lot 6;
Private collection to 2019
Literature:
G.C. Williamson, John Downman, A.R.A., his Life and Works, Lon...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
The Art Model, 20th Century Oil Painting, Nude
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 24 x 20 inches (61 x 51 cm)
Original silver frame
With her back turned to us, the viewer look across to a female artist facing us, whose gaze is fixed on t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1940's Fashion Illustration - Black & White Stylish Women In Chic Clothing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas.
The painting, executed in gouache and pencil.
The s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Chez Maxim's
By André Meurice
Located in London, GB
'Chez Maxim's', pastel and gouache on fine art paper, by André Meurice (circa 1950s - 60s). The artist depicts the glamorous clientele at the entryway to...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Nouveau England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
$653 Sale Price
20% Off
Sir Stanley Spencer 'Portrait of Hilda, Stanley's wife', 1924, drawing
By Stanley Spencer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE RA (British, 1891 – 1959)
A Portrait of Hilda, the artist’s wife
Pencil on paper
Signed and dated ‘Stanley spencer 1924’ (lower right)
8 x 9.3/4 in. (20.3 x ...
Category
20th Century Academic England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait of Ben Nicholson
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Christopher ' Kit ' Wood 1901-1930, was an English painter who briefly attended Liverpool University to study architecture but pursued an artistic career. He trained at the Academy J...
Category
1920s England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
English Graphite Portrait Sketch of Female Nude, Forward Pose
By Henry George Moon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Graphite Sketch of a Female Nude, Forward Facing
by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905)
on off white artists paper, unframed
measurements: sheet 22 x 14.75 inches
provena...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Bernard, Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
English School
Bernard, Self Portrait
1950s
Pencil and sepia chalk on paper
Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (24 x 34.3 cm)
Handmade contemporary frame
This imaginative self-portra...
Category
1950s England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, 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 England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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 England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pencil
English Graphite Portrait Sketch of Female Nude, Seated
By Henry George Moon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Graphite Sketch of a Female Nude, Seated
by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905)
on off white artists paper, unframed
measurements: sheet 18.5 x 12 inches
provenance: from...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Self Portrait, Charcoal on Paper, 20th Century British Drawing
By William Dring
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper
Image size: 4 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (11.5 x 10.75 cm)
Mounted with a contemporary style frame
This is a somewhat haunting self-portrait by William Dring, crafted in charcoal. Here, Dring presents himself through dark shadow and bright highlights, looking out directly at the viewer with a serious gaze.
Although the Dring has been economical in the use of his marks we are still given plenty of information and can identify the energy in which the strokes of charcoal must have been placed onto the surface.
William Dring
Dring was born with the forenames Dennis William, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring. He married the painter Grace Elizabeth...
Category
20th Century Modern England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Portraits of the Hon. Mary Shuttleworth and Anna Maria, 9th Baroness Forrester
By Daniel Gardner
Located in London, GB
THE HON. MARY SHUTTLEWORTH, NÉE COCKBURN (D. 1777)
and her sister
ANNA MARIA, 9TH BARONESS FORRESTER (D. 1808)
Pastel and gouache on paper laid on canvas, on their original backb...
Category
18th Century Old Masters England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Portrait of a Lady -British Victorian art female portrait realist pencil drawing
By Horace Henry Cauty
Located in London, GB
A fine large half-length portrait of a lady which was drawn in the late 19th century by British artist Horace Henry Cauty. A stunning and detailed work it is dated May 1892. It is a...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
English Graphite Portrait Sketch of Male Nude, Back View
By Henry George Moon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Graphite Sketch of a Male Nude, Back View
by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905)
on pale blue/grey artists paper, unframed
measurements: sheet 18.75 x 12 inches
provenance...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour - A Tender Moment
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming late 19th-century watercolour depicting a tender moment between husband and wife. Presented in a gilt frame with a beaded inner. Unsigned. On card.
Category
Late 19th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Study of Young Girl - 20th Century Portrait Drawing in Ink, Pencil and Crayon
By Jacob Kramer
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Study of Young Girl, Ink and Crayon Painting by Jacob Kramer
Additional information:
Medium: Ink, pencil and crayon
20.3 x 17.8 cm
8 x 7 in
Signed
Provenance
Private Collection, UK.
Category
20th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Crayon, Pencil
English Graphite Portrait Sketch of Female Nude, Kneeling
By Henry George Moon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Graphite Sketch of a Female Nude, Kneeling
by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905)
on off white artists paper, unframed
measurements: sheet 18.75 x 12 inches
provenance: f...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Oswald Rimmer (1870-1951) - Early 20th Century Watercolour, At The Piano
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour study depicting a young girl at the piano. She sits facing the artist dressed in blue with a music sheet opened behind her. Signed to the lower right. Presen...
Category
20th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$484 Sale Price
20% Off
The girl from Saint Tropez: American artist in the South of France portrait
Located in Norwich, GB
Alexander Warshawsky was born in Cleveland, Ohio on March 29, 1887. He studied painting at the Cleveland School of Art and the National Academy of Design in New York City. Warshawsky...
Category
1920s American Impressionist England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
French School 19th Century Watercolour - Sweet Dreams
Located in Corsham, GB
This delicate artwork captures the tender moment of a sleeping child, rendered in soft, muted tones that evoke a dreamlike quality. Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
18th century portrait drawing of the Rev. William Atkinson
By George Romney
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1882-1950);
Private collection, UK to 2019
Framed dimensions: 14.50 x 15.38 inches
This drawing is one of only two known portrait drawings by Romney (as opposed to preliminary studies for portraits) and is dated by Alex Kidson as being executed no later than 1769. It is likely that the present drawing was originally part of a sketchbook, now largely dismembered (Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal), which Kidson notes, contained some of Romney’s most beautiful early drawings. This drawing, and a second sheet formerly with Andrew Wyld, have been identifying as depicting the Rev. William Atkinson...
Category
18th Century Old Masters England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
English Graphite Portrait Sketch of Female Nude, Leaning
By Henry George Moon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Graphite Sketch of a Female Nude, Leaning
by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905)
on off white artists paper, unframed
measurements: sheet 18.25 x 11.5 inches
provenance: ...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
After Sir Thomas Lawrence - 19th Century Pastel, Portrait of Elizabeth Farren
Located in Corsham, GB
An elegant coloured chalk portrait of Elizabeth Farren. Presented in an attractive oval frame with delicate running patterns. Signed 'Caste' to the lower right. After Sir Thomas Lawr...
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Kate Porter - Framed 1996 Watercolour, Blyth Tait & Ready Teddy
Located in Corsham, GB
A very finely painted watercolour study of the New Zealand equestrian Blyth Tait. Ready Teddy was an eventing horse competitively ridden by Blyth. Together the pair competed in three...
Category
20th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$328 Sale Price
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1976 Pastel - Seductive Stare
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait in pastel showing a beautiful woman with a seductive gaze. The artist has initialed and dated in the lower right corner. The drawing has been presented in a contempor...
Category
20th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
$410 Sale Price
20% Off
Abu Bakar Ibrahim (1925-1977) - Mid 20th Century Watercolour, Portrait of a Man
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming portrait of a man wearing a white smock and patterned turban. The sitter looks straight at the viewer with a serious but expressive stare. Signed to the lower left. Presen...
Category
20th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
M.H. Hawkins - Early 20th Century Watercolour, Patience
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine and expressive watercolour painting by M.H. Hawkins, depicting a child playing a game of card. Unsigned. The title is inscribed to the lower margin. The artist's name is inscr...
Category
Early 20th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$321 Sale Price
20% Off
India Naga Tribe Watercolour 19th Century Company School Painting Indian
Located in Norfolk, GB
Untitled - Rongmei Naga Tribe India
Watercolour on Paper
c 1860
Mounted Unframed: 38 x 45 cm
Image size: 24.5 x 31 cm
Provenance: Private UK Collection
This is a fabulous and rare 19th century watercolour from India in a style that is often referred to as Company School Painting...
Category
Late 19th Century Other Art Style England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of Boy in a Chair
By Raymond Debieve
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Boy in a Chair', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1960s). Here the artist paints a young boy, very probably his son, Vincent, sitting in a chair posing fo...
Category
1960s Modern England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$2,612 Sale Price
20% Off
18th century pastel portrait of Lady Augusta Corbett and her son, Stuart
By Daniel Gardner
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Commissioned by Andrew Corbett, husband of the sitter;
The Venerable Stuart Corbett;
Sir Stuart Corbett;
By descent to 2002;
Sotheby’s, London 21 March 2002, lot.104;
Lowell Libson...
Category
18th Century Old Masters England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Study of a Dancer and a Lady by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Study of a Dancer and a Lady by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and pencil on paper
21 x 15.7 cm (8 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower right
Executed circa ...
Category
Early 1900s Fauvist England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
After Guido Reni (1575-1642)-Early 20thC Watercolour, Portrait of Beatrice Cenci
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate and finely executed copy of the original portrait by Guido Reni. The artist has rendered the sitter in the style of of the early 19th Century, with cherubic features and a...
Category
20th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
English School 18th Century Graphite Drawing - Portrait of Two Children
Located in Corsham, GB
A miniature English School portrait of two children holding a loving embrace. Well presented in a charming bird's-eye maple frame with internal gilt slip and glazing. Unsigned. On pa...
Category
Early 18th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Dutch School Early 19th Century Pastel - Portrait of a Lady in Lace
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate pastel portrait depicting a member of the Danken Family. Inscribed to the reverse in Western Frisian. Unsigned. On velum.
Category
Early 19th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
$320 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of Seated Nude
By Guillaume Dulac
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Seated Nude', pencil on art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger oil pai...
Category
1920s England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$653 Sale Price
20% Off
After Sir Thomas Lawrence - Framed 19th Century Watercolour, Miss Murray
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming copy of Sir Thomas Lawrence's oil portrait of Miss Murray, commissioned by Sir George Murray, the Scottish soldier and politician, in 1826. The watercolour depicts Murray'...
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$279 Sale Price
20% Off
Set of 9 Figure Illustrations Egyptian Classical Characters Listed American
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Set of x 9 figures
original watercolour painting on artist paper
signed by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below
piece of paper is 14 x 10 inches
In good condition
provenance...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Achille Buzzi - Framed Italian School 19th Century Watercolour, A Moment's Rest
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderful 19th century watercolor by Italian artist Achille Buzzi, depicting a woman resting on stone steps after an impressive morning harvest. The wome...
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pencil Portrait of a Young Man by 20th Century British Artist John Sergeant
By John Sergeant
Located in London, GB
JOHN SERGEANT
(1937-2010)
Head of a Young Man
Pencil
32 by 25 cm., 12 ½ by 10 in.
(frame size 51 by 43 cm., 20 by 17 in.)
Sergeant was born in London, the son of a civil servant....
Category
1960s Realist England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of a Young Officer, Thomas Lawrence, Irish Volunteers
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in London, GB
Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA
1769-1830
Portrait of a Young Officer
Pastel with touches of black chalk on paper
Signed and inscribed on an old label verso: "Be pleased to keep away / from the Damp & from dust / T Lawrence AE 13. / 1783."
Wash mount and gilt frame
Provenance
W.E. Spooner;
Anonymous sale, Phillips London, 17 April 2000 lot 196
Sothebys, Old Master & Early British Paintings, 14 April 2011 • London Lot 246
Old label verso describes how this was drawn in 1783 at the age of 14!
This is a portrait of an officer from the Irish Volunteers. The Irish Volunteers was a part-time military force raised by local initiative in Ireland in 1778. Their original purpose was to guard against invasion and to preserve law and order at a time when British soldiers were withdrawn from Ireland to fight abroad during the American Revolutionary War.
As a young boy Thomas Lawrence lived with his parents who ran a coaching inn near Bath. Clearly talented from this young age, he drew the passing travellers who stopped at the inn and this soldier may have been one such sitter. Lawrence was only 13 years old when he drew this work. To capitalise upon their son's talents, the family later moved to Bath and sent Lawrence to London in 1787 where he entered the Royal Academy schools at the earliest possible age. Works from such an early period of Lawrence's creativity are rarely to be found today.
This rare early portrait drawn in Bath shows the level of technical skill that Lawrence had reached at 14 years old. His use of colour and tone to depict flesh and all the subtle variations in the texture and pigmentation of his sitter’s face, powdered hair and clothes show how Lawrence conceived pastel as a form of painting and partly explains how he could have made the smooth transition to oil painting so soon afterwards.
When he arrived in Bath from Devizes in 1780, eleven-year-old Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) was promoted as a natural-born genius like his Renaissance predecessor Raphael. The local press announced the arrival of the boy wonder and his ‘Striking Sketches’, inviting the ‘Nobility and Gentry’ to sit for their portraits.
Thomas Lawrence was a prodigious portraitist from the age of just eight, when he began to draw his first portraits in pencil...
Category
1780s Romantic England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
W.B - Framed 19th Century Watercolour, Helen of Troy
Located in Corsham, GB
An accomplished miniature portrait in watercolour, depicting the beautiful maiden Helen of Troy. Mounted in a handsome veneer frame with glazing. On paper.
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$298 Sale Price
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H.E. Foster - Early 20th Century Charcoal Drawing, Old Scott
Located in Corsham, GB
A characterful sketch portrait of an elderly sea captain, captured in side profile with a flowing white beard. Executed with confident, economical lines, the drawing conveys a strong...
Category
20th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Victorian School head study of a golden haired boy
By George Elgar Hicks
Located in Harkstead, GB
A beautifully painted study of a cherubic young boy, his golden haired head turned to the sun, his eyes closed as he feels its warmth.
Pre-Raphaelite School, late 19th century
Head...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
$517 Sale Price
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Imperial Beauty, British School 20th Century Pastel Portrait
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper on canvas, initialled lower left "ND"
Image size: 13 ¾ x 22 ½ inches (35 x 57 cm)
Gilt frame
This fine Art Nouveau picture executed around 1900, depicts an auburn ha...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
OriginalSet-the Way of Seeing-Meeting Raphael-studies of Masters-British Artist
Located in London, GB
Free shipping worldwide ! This set of drawings included Two Studies of Raphael's paintings in National Gallery, London where Shizico Yi learned her craft in drawings from old masters...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Soldiers Playing Cards
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Soldiers Playing Cards', watercolour and gouache on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1939). Such an atmospheric image, this stunning depiction by celebrated F...
Category
1930s England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
$3,538 Sale Price
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Portrait of a Lady - British Art Deco 30's drawing young woman good provenance
By Hubert John Williams
Located in London, GB
A fine and detailed Art Deco pencil, black, red and white chalk portrait of a young woman by Hubert Williams. The work dates to circa 1930 and is very skilful in its execution. A bea...
Category
1930s Realist England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Color Pencil
Le Café
By Catherine Garros
Located in London, GB
'Le Café', watercolour on paper, by Catherine Garros (circa 1990s). Many people's idea of heaven is being seated at an outdoor café somewhere in one o...
Category
1990s England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$979 Sale Price
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Portrait of a Man Wearing a Turban, 18th Century Pastel Drawing
By Thomas Frye
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Image size: 13 x 17 1/2 inches (33 x 44.5 cm)
Mounted and framed
This original pastel drawing by Thomas Frye is a half-length portrait of a man dressed in a turban. This drawing is the original sketch for one of the heads depicted in Frye's collection 'Twelve Mezzotint Prints' of 1760 and it can be assumed that this pastel work was created earlier of this same year.
Two versions of the print, created from this original work, are currently held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Frye's evocative figures, although presumably based on living models, exceed the conventions of portraiture, and also function as character studies. The man shown here - dressed in the fashionable 'Turkish' manner - turns with parted lips as if poised to speak, while raising the elegant fingers in one hand in a rhetorical gesture. His long eyelashes and smoothly rendered wrinkles and dimples are hallmarks of Frye's refined style.
The Artist
Thomas Frye (c. 1710 – 3 April 1762) was an Anglo-Irish artist, best known for his portraits in oil and pastel, including some miniatures and his early mezzotint engravings. He was also the patentee of the Bow porcelain factory, London, and claimed in his epitaph to be "the inventor and first manufacturer of porcelain in England," though his rivals at the Chelsea porcelain factory seem to have preceded him in bringing wares to market. The Bow porcelain works did not long survive Frye's death; their final auctions took place in May 1764.
Frye was born at Edenderry, County Offaly, Ireland, in 1710; in his youth he went to London to practice as an artist. His earliest works are a pair of pastel portraits of boys...
Category
1750s English School England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Portrait of a Lady in a White Dress - 18th Century Watercolour
By John Downman
Located in London, GB
John Downman
1750-1824
Portrait of a Lady in a White Dress
Pencil, stump and watercolour, heightened with white chalk, signed and dated 1784
Imag...
Category
18th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Portrait of a Lady, Charcoal Drawing, 20th Century Russian
Located in London, GB
Charcoal , signed lower right and dated 'Paris 1935'
Image size: 25 x 19 inches (63.5 x 48 cm)
Original oak frame
An accomplished example of Russian art from the mid 20th century.
...
Category
1930s Art Deco England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Jiminsky - 2010 Watercolour, Form And Colour
Located in Corsham, GB
A colourful watercolour portrait with echoes of Klimt's style of composition. The painting shows a woman in a yellow dress, with her black hair...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$342 Sale Price
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Portrait of a Young Woman
By Sir Peter Lely
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper
Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (19 x 23.5 cm)
Contemporary frame
An enigmatic portrait of a young woman after Sir Peter Lely's drawing, currently shown in the B...
Category
Mid-17th Century Victorian England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Andrea Finardi - Gilt Framed 19th Century Watercolour, The Young Italian
By Andrea Finardi
Located in Corsham, GB
An impressive watercolour with fine detail depicting an Italian boy. Signed 'A. Finardi Roma' in the lower right and further inscribed with the title and artist to lower. Presented i...
Category
19th Century England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Reposing Nude and Tree
By Guillaume Dulac
Located in London, GB
'Reposing Nude and Tree', pencil on art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger oil pain...
Category
1920s England - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$435 Sale Price
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