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Item Ships From: London
Red Sailing Ship Stained Glass Window Design c 1900 For TW Camm by Florence Camm
By Florence Camm
Located in London, GB
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Florence Camm (1874-1960)
Red Sailing Ship Stained Glass...
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Early 20th Century Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Animal Large Surrealist Painting Royal of College Art LGBTQ+ Woman Artist Tiger
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination. Hugely inspired by Paula Rego, Isabel Rock is part of a formidable group of women artists (Leonora Carrington and Eileen Agar amongst others) working with Surrealism.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams...
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2010s Contemporary London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
Tenterden by Lucien Pissarro - Watercolour
By Lucien Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Tenterden by Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944)
Watercolour, ink, pen and coloured crayon
16.5 x 24 cm (6 ¹/₂ x 9 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed with monogram and titled lower right
Provenance: The Redfern Gallery...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen, Watercolor, Crayon
Moroccan Market by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Moroccan Market by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pencil on paper
20.8 x 26.9 cm (8 ¹/₄ x 13 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower left
Execu...
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1940s London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Gouache of St John's College, Cambridge
Located in London, GB
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20th Century Realist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Puslinch House, Devon architectural drawing by S Clapham
Located in London, GB
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S Clapham (active 1940 - 1960)
Puslinch House
Pencil
55 x 77 cm
An architectural drawing of Puslinch House, a fine Christopher Wren-style Georgian mansion in Devon. The estate was owned by the Poslylinch, Mohun, and Upton families before being taken over by the Yonge family in 1718, following the marriage of John Yonge and Mary Upton. The Queen Anne House mansion was built on the occasion of their wedding and an earlier medieval...
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Mid-20th Century Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Male Torso
By John Koch
Located in London, GB
Pencil, coloured pencil and chalk on paper, titled (lower left), signed (lower right), 31cm x 46cm, (51cm x 68cm framed).
John Koch was an American painter and teacher, and an impo...
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1950s American Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil, Color Pencil
$2,271
Cutting Wheat, 20th Century British Watercolour Landscape Painting
By Charles Tunnicliffe
Located in London, GB
CHARLES TUNNICLIFFE
1901-1979
Cutting Wheat
Watercolour with body colour
Image size: 9 ½ x 7 inches (25 x 18 cm)
Gilt frame
Category
20th Century London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Design for Art Deco Marquetry Panels 1927 for Furniture George M Hammer London
By Donald L. Hadden
Located in London, GB
One of a series of designs we have listed for Geo. M Hammer. To see them - and our other architectural and design-related drawings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" and then search.
Donald L Hadden (British, 20th century)
Design for a Pair of Marquetrie Panels for Geo. M Hammer with two dancing figures
23x31.5cm
Watercolour signed and dated 1927
Hadden was a senior designer for Geo M Hammer, designers and retailers of school and ecclesiastical furniture. Their lift-top school desks are particularly well regarded, and always carried their brass name plate. Hammer were renowned for their interior woodwork, they were commissioned to undertake the choir stalls in Sir Basil...
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1920s Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
18th century portrait of the Royal Academy model George White
By John Russell
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Russell sale, Christie’s, 14 February, 1807: ‘John Russell, Esq., R.A. deceased, crayon painter to His Majesty, the Prince of Wales, and Duke of York; and brought from his late Dwelling in Newman Street’, lot 92, ‘St Peter’, bt. Thompson (£1.13s);
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 25th September 1980, lot 113;
Private collection, UK, 2016.
Literature:
Martin Postle, 'Patriarchs, prophets and paviours: Reynolds's images of old age', The Burlington Magazine, vol. cxxx, no. 1027, October 1988, pp. 739-40, fig. 9;
Martin Postle, Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Subject Pictures, Cambridge, 1995, p.136, repr.;
Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online edition, J.64.2928.
Signed and dated: J Russell/ fecit 1772 (lower right)
Framed dimensions: 25 x 31 inches
John Russell was admitted to the Royal Academy in March 1770, at the same time as Daniel Gardner. The nascent Academy Schools were still establishing their teaching structures, but central to the syllabus were the twin components of drawing after the antique and from life models. By 1772 Russell had already been awarded a silver medal and progressed to the life academy, where he produced this remarkable pastel study of George White. White was the most famous model employed by the Royal Academy and prominent artists in the second half of the eighteenth century. A paviour – or street mender –by profession White had been discovered by Joshua Reynolds, who in turn introduced him to the Academy. Russell’s striking head study demonstrates his abilities as a portraitist and pastellist, at the same time showing his interest in the Academy’s preoccupation with promoting history painting.
George White was one of the most celebrated models in eighteenth-century London. According to the painter Joseph Moser:
'Old George…owed the ease in which he passed his latter days, in a great measure to Sir Joshua Reynolds, who found him exerting himself in the laborious employment of thumping down stones in the street; and observing not only the grand and majestic traits of his countenance, but the dignity of his muscular figure, took him out of a situation to which his strength was by no means equal, clothed, fed, and had him, first as a model in his own painting room, then introduced him as a subject for the students of the Royal Academy.'
As Martin Postle has pointed out, whilst characterful studies of old men posed as biblical figures, prophets or saints by Continental old masters were readily available on the art market – Reynolds himself had copied a head of Joab by Federico Bencovich in the collection of his friend and patron, Lord Palmerston - finding a model in Britain from whom to execute a painting was more difficult.
White therefore offered a rare opportunity for artists to combine portraiture and history painting, by painting a model in the guise of an historical or literary character. In 1771 Reynolds showed at the Royal Academy a picture of White entitled Resignation. It was engraved in 1772 and accompanied by a stanza from Oliver Goldsmith’s Deserted Village, implying a literary context to what is essentially a portrait. In his annotated Royal Academy catalogue, Horace Walpole noted: ‘This was an old beggar, who had so fine a head that Sir Joshua chose him for the father in his picture from Dante, and painted him several times, as did others in imitation of Reynolds. There were even cameos and busts of him.’ White sat to, amongst others Johan Zoffany, John Sanders, Nathaniel Hone and the sculptor John Bacon...
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18th Century Old Masters London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Reginald Hallward: Design: Church Interior Werneth Church Oldham Ecclesiastical
By Reginald Hallward
Located in London, GB
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1910s Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Laurence Dunn Otra painting maritime art ship boat coastal shipping
By Laurence Dunn
Located in London, GB
Laurence Dunn (1910-2006)
Otra
Gouache
11.5x18cm
Inscribed to reverse 'Rough sketch for painting of "Otra" commissioned for Capt. F.E. Eagle, whose favourite command she was' and sig...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
River Eure, Lyons la Forêt by Paulémile Pissarro - Landscape watercolour
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
River Eure, Lyons la Forêt by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Watercolour and crayon on paper
31.5 x 48.5 cm (12 ³/₈ x 19 ¹/₈ inches)
Titlted, signed and dated lower left, Lyons la Fo...
Category
1920s Impressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor
University of Oxford Botanic Garden watercolour by Margaret Waller
Located in London, GB
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Margaret Waller...
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20th Century Realist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Automotive design for Alexis Kellner AG Berlin
By Herschu (Herbert Schultz)
Located in London, GB
Half-Limousine coachwork design for an Austro-Daimler.
Gouache and watercolour heightened with gum-arabic on very dark green card, annotated in pale ink with body type below, numbere...
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1930s Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Clifford Ellis Mid-Century Abstract drawing Modern British Art
By Clifford Ellis
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of paintings and drawings from Clifford and Rosemary Ellis's studio. To find more scroll down to "More from this Selle...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
TW Camm Valley of the Shadow of... Stained Glass Window Design Wrekin College UK
By Florence Camm
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of designs for stained glass windows from the TW Camm studios. To see more of them scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from thi...
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Early 20th Century Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Jugglers and Horse Giocolieri e Cavallo
By Marino Marini
Located in London, GB
MARINO MARINI 1901-1980
Pistoia, Italy 1901-1980 Viareggio, Italy (Italian)
Title: Jugglers and Horse Giocolieri e Cavallo, 1943
Technique: Double-sided Hand Signed and Dated Pencil, Watercolour and Gouache on Thin Card
Paper size: 49 x 34.5 cm. / 19.3 x 13.6 in.
Additional information: This pencil, watercolour and gouache work is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Locarno 1943 Marino" in the lower left image.
It is also signed in ink "Marino" in the lower right image.
The drawing was created in Locarno in 1943.
Furthermore, there is a sketch of Horse...
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1940s London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Lyric Suite
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Brown ink with orange bleed on rice paper
22.9 x 27.9 cms (9 x 11 ins)
Category
20th Century London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Artists and their muses
Located in London, GB
Playboy School, 20th Century
Artists and their muses: Titian and Violante; Sir Peter Lely and Nell Gwyn; Francois Boucher and Louise O’Murphy; Hogarth, Nell...
Category
1980s Romantic London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
$5,780
Hugh Casson St John's College Oxford watercolour
By Hugh Casson
Located in London, GB
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Sir Hugh Casson CH, KCVO, PRA, RDI (1910-1999)
St John’s College, Oxford, C...
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1980s Impressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Hampton Ferry, Bodycolour painting by Laurence Dunn
By Laurence Dunn
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of marine works from Laurence Dunn's Archives. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller."
Laurence D...
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Late 20th Century Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Clifford Ellis Swallow watercolour Modern British Art Wildlife Bird Migration
By Clifford Ellis
Located in London, GB
From a series of paintings by Clifford Ellis. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - o...
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1950s Realist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Carbon Pencil
Anatomy of Man, Signed Graphite Nude Sketch on Paper, 19th Century French Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on laid paper, signed verso and paper watermarks and atelier stamp
Image size: 23 ¾ x 16 ¾ inches (60.25 x 43.5 cm)
Gilt Whistler frame
Leon Bellemont
Born on August 20, 1866, in the family home on rue du Grand-Cloître, Léon Bellemont studied from 1875 to 1883 at the Diderot college, where he was an excellent student. At the same time, he joined the municipal drawing school, where his exceptional predispositions were very quickly noted.
In 1884, at the age of 18, Léon Bellemont left Langres to join Paris and its National School of Decorative Arts, then the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts. There, he followed the teaching of Léon Bonnat, a renowned portraitist, and obtained his first rewards and several prizes. It was in 1892, however, that his artistic career took off, with his first participation in the Salon des artistes français, where he exhibited until 1956.
A landscape and impressionist painter, particularly impressing marine worlds, Léon Bellemont stayed more and more regularly in Brittany at the beginning of the 20th century, where he painted numerous paintings. His notoriety grew, as did the profits from his sales, and the State itself ended up placing a few orders with him. His work “The Breton Faith” was, for example, acquired by the museum in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Subsequently, always in search of inspiration, Léon Bellemont travelled extensively. He was in Bruges from 1907 to 1909, then traveled across France for several years participating in exhibitions. During the First World War, he settled in Algiers where he remained for several years. He then returned to Paris, worked extensively there and achieved great fame. A socialite, he frequented salons and regularly received his friends Jules Adler...
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Late 19th Century French School London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Graphite
Design for Modernist Game Keeper Lodge architectural drawing Mid Century Modern
Located in London, GB
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V A Hards (British, c. 1930-c. 2012)
Design for Game Keeper...
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1950s Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
[CHINESE SCHOOL]. Two Watercolour Scenes.
By 19th Century Chinese school
Located in London, GB
[CHINESE SCHOOL].
Two Watercolour Scenes.
Possibly Canton ca.1820].
Very impressive large scale watercolours of Chinese scenes, presumably executed for the Western market by an an...
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1820s Naturalistic London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
![[CHINESE SCHOOL]. Two Watercolour Scenes.](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_14192/1683810326664/86803a_master.jpg?width=240 "19th Century Chinese school - [CHINESE SCHOOL]. Two Watercolour Scenes.")
Agatha Christie's stables architectural design by Louis Osman FRIBA
By Louis Osman
Located in London, GB
Louis Osman was an English artist, architect, goldsmith, silversmith and medallist. He is notable for the gold coronet he designed and made for the investiture in 1969 of Charles, Pr...
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1950s Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
'The Market Seller in Nice' French Vintage Gouache Painting
By Alfred Salvignol
Located in London, GB
'The Market Seller in Nice', gouache on paper, by Alfred Salvignol (circa 1950s). The role of women as support to their families has been both very important and highly undervalued b...
Category
1950s Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$715 Sale Price
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Sir Lancelot and Elaine Arthurian Stained Glass Window Design For TW Camm
By Florence Camm
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of designs for stained glass windows from the TW Camm studios that had not been seen for decades. To see more of them scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller". Further designs will be listed in due course, please send us a message if you would like to see them.
Florence Camm (1874-1960)
Sir Lancelot...
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Early 20th Century Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
One of the Howling Dawashes in Cairo Orientalist Watercolour Portrait
By Carl Haag
Located in London, GB
Carl Haag
1820 - 1915
One of the Howling Dawashes in Cairo
Watercolour on paper, signed lower right & dated 1880
Image Size: 10 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches (27 x 19.5 cm)
Original Frame
'One...
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1880s London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Lykas, The Songs of Bilitis
By George Barbier
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and Chinese ink on paper, signed and dated (upper right), 10cm x 17cm (30cm x 38cm framed).
George Barbier was one of the great French illustrators of the early 20th century. Born in Nantes, France on 16 October 1882, Barbier was 29 years old when he mounted his first exhibition in 1911 and was subsequently swept to the forefront of his profession with commissions to design theatre and ballet costumes...
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1910s Art Nouveau London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Ink, Watercolor
19th century watercolour of a Girl at her Dressing Table
By William Henry Hunt
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Muir Hetherington;
Sir John and Lady Witt, acquired 1974;
By descent to 2015.
Literature:
Tom Jones (ed.), William Henry Hunt 1790-1864, exh. cat., 1981, no. 145 (Girl in a bedroom);
John Witt, William Henry Hunt (1790-1864) Life and Work, London, 1982, no. 553, p. 194, colour pl. 16.
Exhibited:
Wolverhampton, Central Art Gallery, Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery and Hastings, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, William Henry Hunt 1790-1864, 1981, no. 145 as Girl in a bedroom (Lent by Sir John & Lady Witt)
Framed dimensions: 20 x 20.75 inches
This unusually charming and well-preserved watercolour was painted by William Henry Hunt in around 1833. Almost certainly depicting his young wife, Sarah, possibly in the interior of her family home at Bramley in Hampshire. This work shows Hunt’s remarkable virtuosity as a watercolourist, Hunt, for example, articulates the profile of his young wife, by leaving a reserve of white paper to suggest the light modelling her features. Throughout the 1830s Hunt made a sequence of richly painted interior views of both domestic and agricultural spaces which pay scrupulous attention to detail.
Hunt was born in London, the son of a tin-plate worker and japanner. J. L. Roget recorded the observation of Hunt’s uncle: ‘nervy, little Billy Hunt… was always a poor cripple, and as he was fit for nothing, they made an artist of him.’ At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to the landscape painter John Varley for seven years, moving to live with Varley at 18 Broad Street, Golden Square, London. There he made close friends with both John Linnell and William Mulready. Hunt worked at the ‘Monro Academy’, at 8 Adelphi Terrace, London, the house of Dr Thomas Monro, an enthusiastic patron of landscape watercolourists. Through Monro, Hunt was introduced to the 5th Earl of Essex...
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19th Century Old Masters London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Design for Modernist Brutalist Institute I mid-century architectural drawing
Located in London, GB
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V A Hards...
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1950s Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Pen
Design for Art Deco Marquetry Panels 1927 for Furniture George M Hammer London
By Donald L. Hadden
Located in London, GB
One of a series of designs we have listed for Geo. M Hammer. To see them - and our other architectural and design-related drawings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" and then search.
Donald L Hadden (British, 20th century)
Design for a Pair of Marquetrie Panels for Geo. M Hammer with two dancing figures
23x31.5cm
Watercolour signed and dated 1927
Hadden was a senior designer for Geo M Hammer, designers and retailers of school and ecclesiastical...
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1930s Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Christ Church, Charnock Richard, watercolour stained glass design by Jane Gray
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of watercolour stained glass designs from Jane Gray's studio. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller...
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Late 20th Century Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Edward Bawden drawing 'White Collar Worker Cat' pen and ink Modern British Art
By Edward Bawden
Located in London, GB
From a series of Bawden Cat illustrations we have listed. To see the others and our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" a...
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Mid-20th Century Realist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
King's College Cambridge River Cam 1920s Art Deco Jazz Age watercolour art
Located in London, GB
Anonymous
King's College Cambridge with the River Cam and Bridge to foreground
51x63.5cm
Watercolour
c. 1920s
A fine, and large, view of King's College. The...
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1920s Art Deco London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Laurence Dunn: The Emperor and Grosvenor coastal tramp ships watercolour
By Laurence Dunn
Located in London, GB
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20th Century Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
St Peters Rome, 19th Century Victorian Signed Watercolour
By Ernest Arthur Rowe
Located in London, GB
ERNEST ARTHUR ROWE 1863 - 1922
St Peter's Rome
Watercolour
Signed lower left
Image size: 9 ¾ x 7 inches
Original gilt frame
Category
19th Century Victorian London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Le Sentier
By Paul Cézanne
Located in London, GB
Paul Cézanne
Le Sentier
ca. 1890
Watercolour and pencil on paper
34.6 x 51.5 cms (13 5/8 x 20 1/4 ins)
PC16325
Category
1890s Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
$275,283
Venus
By Richard Westall
Located in London, GB
Richard Westall, R.A. (1765-1836)
Venus
signed and dated ‘R. Westall 1794’ (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, with white heightening
image 11 ⅞ x 15 ¼ in. (30.2 x 38.7 cm.)
frame 22 ⅛ x 26 in. (56.3 x 66.1 cm.)
Provenance:
Private Collection, UK.
Venus (1794) was produced during a highly creative and defining period of Richard Westall’s career and artistic development, when from 1790-95 the ambitious young artist was sharing a house at 57 Greek Street, Soho, with his friend Sir Thomas Lawrence, the future President of the Royal Academy.
Whilst lodging together, Lawrence became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1791, Westall the following year, and both were elected full-members in 1794 – the year Lawrence was appointed Painter-in-Ordinary to His Majesty King George III. Westall was to become Queen Victoria’s first Drawing Master, before her ascension to the throne.
It was in this very year, 1794 - as the two young artists became Royal Academicians - that the present watercolour was executed, and it is exciting to speculate that Lawrence would have examined and given his thoughts on the work.
Highly comparable to The Wallace Collection’s Nymph and cupids (c.1793, cat. P757), acquired by Francis Seymour-Conway (1777-1842), 3rd Marquess of Hertford, (who hung it in his bedroom), the mid-1790s saw Westall exhibiting and returning to similar subject-matter on a number of occasions. Two works with titles that could be applied to the present picture were exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1794 (no. 341 Nymph and Cupids) and 1795 (no. 620, A Wood–nymph and Cupids). However, a print after the watercolour, engraved by F. Screen, entitles the piece Venus.
Westall is regarded as a great virtuoso watercolourist, and Venus is evidence of the young artist’s mastery of the medium. Indeed, it is unusual to find a watercolour of comparable age so well preserved, and retaining such vibrancy - the superb condition providing an insight into his exceptional brushwork and use of colour.
Venus languishes luxuriously on her woodland bed, the trunk of a tree resembling a curtain, while three winged putti play beside her, seeming to gesture to someone in the woods. Cupid draws back his bow and aims an arrow of love, perhaps about to pierce the heart of a hunting nobleman, or unsuspecting woodcutter. The striking contrast between the almost luminescent nymph, with the deep, rich, luxuriant forest, gives the glade an alluring sense of mystery – perhaps an allusion to the mysteries of the heart, a pre-occupation with Romanticism, central to the emerging thought of the time. Westall can be classified as one of the great Romantic artists, and even painted Lord Byron’s portrait...
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1790s Romantic London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
$25,463
Illuminated psalter Psalm 31 manuscript
Located in London, GB
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Illuminated psalter - Psalm 31
Illuminated manuscript on vellum
15 x 11 (sheet), 11 x 9 cm (framed area)
A beautifully illuminated psalter page, including the Latin text...
Category
19th Century London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Vellum
20th century British Drawing - Les Deux Landaises (Evening)
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in London, GB
Pencil on paper
Signed 'G.L. Brockhurst’ (lower right)
Drawn c.1920
Collections:
The Fine Art Society, London, 1981;
Mr & Mrs Alan Fortunoff, acquired from the above;
Private col...
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20th Century London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
THE CHOSEN PATH, English School 19th Century Watercolour
By John Edward Goodall
Located in London, GB
JOHN EDWARD GOODALL
1853 - 1920
THE CHOSEN PATH
Pencil, watercolour and gouache, signed lower right
Image size: 6 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches (16 x 21 cm)
Hand made gilt frame
John Edward Goodall was the son of Alfred Goodall and Mary Palmer. Alfred was a brother to Edward A. and Frederick Goodall, both accomplished artists. He was most prolific during the period between 1877 and 1911. In the 1891 census he is shown as being married to Grace, manager of the Sommerville Club, London but by 1901 he is to be found with a woman named Annie. John associated with a bohemian art circle and tended to have a corresponding lifestyle.
The work produced by Goodall is well executed and often in watercolour. He trained at art school in London and travelled extensively. He was not the prolific artist like his uncles and a lot about his life is still...
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19th Century London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Design for Modernist Brutalist Institute III mid-century architectural drawing
Located in London, GB
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V A Hards...
Category
1950s Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
St Mary’s Church, Chirk, Watercolour Stained Glass Window Design, Jane Gray
Located in London, GB
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Category
Late 20th Century Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
La Rivière de Dotahn by Lélia Pissarro - Pastel on paper
By Lelia Pissarro
Located in London, GB
La Rivière de Dotahn by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963)
Pastel on paper
12.5 x 19 cm (4 ⁷/₈ x 7 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed lower right, Lélia Pissarro
Executed in 2020
This work is accompanied by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The Gateway to Cornwall GWR poster design charcoal drawing by Ronald T Horley
Located in London, GB
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Ronald T Horley c.1905-? (active 1930s - 1960s)
The Gateway to Cornwall
Charcoal heightened with white
76 x 53 cm
Signed and inscribed lower right 'Architect's Office, 83 Marlborough Place NW8 Marylebone'.
Horley attended Radley School, joining in 1918. He painted architectural watercolours. This was produced whilst working for the GWR's own Architect's Office.
The Great Western Railway commissioned a series of posters promoting train travel around the UK. This charcoal drawing of the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash is the artist's original design for a poster encouraging rail travel to Devon and Cornwall. The bridge is known fondly as the 'Gateway to Cornwall'.
The Royal Albert Bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel...
Category
1930s London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
V A Hards: 'Design for A Departmental Store' Mid Century architectural drawing
Located in London, GB
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V A Hards (British, c. 193...
Category
1950s Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sklye by Sam Francis - Painting, Acrylic, Abstract Art
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
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Sklye by Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Acrylic on paper
14.6 x 10.2 cm (5 ³/₄ x 4 inches)
Signed, Sam Francis and dated on th...
Category
1980s Abstract London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Oscar Andreae: Kiosk on the Bosphorus drawing 1866
By Oscar Andreae
Located in London, GB
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Category
1860s Impressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Untitled (ID 1298) (Abstract painting)
By Fieroza Doorsen
Located in London, GB
Ink and acrylic on paper - Unframed
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge when structure meets intu...
Category
2010s Abstract London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Crews Training at Hammersmith, 20th Century English Artist, Signed and Dated
By Alfred Daniels
Located in London, GB
Alfred Daniels
1924 - 2015
Crews Training at Hammersmith
Mixed Media, signed & dated lower left
Image size: 56 x 76 cm
Original frame
Category
20th Century London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled 24.6.15 (Abstract Drawing)
By Richard Caldicott
Located in London, GB
Untitled 24.6.15 (Abstract Drawing)
Pen and Inkjet on Paper - Unframed.
Caldicott's drawings have a minimal esthetic, an architectural character, created with only one or two lines....
Category
2010s Abstract London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen, Inkjet
Untitled 2009 (Abstract Drawing)
By Fieroza Doorsen
Located in London, GB
Untitled 2009 (Abstract Drawing)
Oil on postcard - Unframed.
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge...
Category
2010s Abstract London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Postcard
Oliver Hall RA Boat House Windermere Lake District Drawing Modern British Art
By Oliver Hall, R.A., R.E., R.S.W.
Located in London, GB
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Oliver Hall...
Category
20th Century Realist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Prospect of Durham from the River 19th Century Watercolour
Located in London, GB
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Category
19th Century Realist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Port in Saint Tropez - Watercolour and Ink - Polish Ecole de Paris
By Mela Muter
Located in London, GB
MELA MUTER 1876-1967
(Maria Melania Muter)
Warsaw 1876 - 1967 Paris (Polish)
Title: Port in Saint Tropez, 1920
Technique: Signed Watercolour and Ink on Thick Textured Card
Size: ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Edward Bawden drawing 'Captain of the Team Cat' pen and ink Modern British Art
By Edward Bawden
Located in London, GB
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Edward Bawden R.A. (British, 1903 - 1989)
Captain of the Team Cat
Pen and ink
38 x 27 cm
Signed and inscribed lower right.
Bawden developed a love of cats at a young age, copying Louis Wain's cat pictures...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Clifford Ellis Abstract Painting Mid-Century Modern British Art Grey & Black
By Clifford Ellis
Located in London, GB
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Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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