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Item Ships From: London
Portrait of a Young Girl Writing
By Guillaume Dulac
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Young Girl Writing', pencil on art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - man...
Category
1920s London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$653 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of Smiling Woman
By Raymond Debieve
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Smiling Woman', pastel and crayon on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1970s). Is this a modern version of da Vinci's Mona Lisa? The simi...
Category
1970s Modern London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
$1,524 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of a Man
Located in London, GB
Charcoal, chalk and red chalk
Initialled (lower left and right)
12cm × 9.5cm (41cm × 37cm framed)
A French actor and artist. He is known for acting in several French films in the 1...
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20th Century French School London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Mon Colonel
By Auguste Chabaud
Located in London, GB
'Mon Colonel', pencil and crayon on paper, by noted French artist, Auguste Chabaud (circa 1914-1918). A delightfully simple drawing of a French Army colonel in profile along with clo...
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1910s Modern London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
$544 Sale Price
20% Off
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 - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of a Merchant
By Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Il Guercino)
Located in London, GB
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Guercino
Italian 1591-1666
Portrait of a Merchant
Sanguine on laid paper
Image size: 12 ¾ x 16 inches (32 x 40....
Category
17th Century Old Masters London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
$19,595
Theresa
By Kay Boyce
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Mixed media on paper
Paper size: 14 x 12.25 inches
Framed size: 23.75 x 21.75 inches
Signed lower right
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
$5,375
HUMAN ATMOSPHERE Retro-study 1 - contemporary artwork, emerging artist
By Michael Pemberton
Located in London, GB
In this collection, British painter Michael Pemberton (b. 1974) suggests we each have a personal HUMAN ATMOSPHERE. An ether where we truly exist, unseen by the naked eye but as real ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Untitled
Located in East Quogue, NY
Ágnes Széphfalvi (b.1965) studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Budapest (1984–1990). In her paintings, she deals with narratives of women's lives. She thematizes painting as a subject...
Category
1990s London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
A Study of Human Head and Tiger by Orovida Pissarro - Sketch
By Orovida Pissarro
Located in London, GB
A Study of Human Head and Tiger by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Pencil on paper
25.5 x 20 cm (10 x 7⁷/₈ inches)
Executed circa 1917
Artist biography:
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucie...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait of a Young Girl
By Guillaume Dulac
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Young Girl', 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 pa...
Category
1920s London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$544 Sale Price
20% Off
Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
Pen and ink, ink wash and pencil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 38cm x 29cm (65cm x 55cm framed).
This penetrating and wonderfully executed self-portrait, is all the mor...
Category
1910s Old Masters London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil, Ink
Figure Studies ink drawing by Peter Collins ARCA
By Peter Collins ARCA
Located in London, GB
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1990s Modern London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Self-Portrait watercolour by Peter Collins ARCA
By Peter Collins ARCA
Located in London, GB
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1990s Modern London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Young Man, Charcoal 1800 French School, Romanticism
Located in London, GB
Charcoal and grey wash on paper
Image size: 14 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (37.5 x 36 cm)
Hand made gilt frame
Provenance
Private collection, Washington DC.
C.G. Sloan & Co., Sept. 1980.
T...
Category
Early 1800s London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Young Man Reclining (Boris Snezhkovsky)
Located in London, GB
Konstantin Andreevich Somov (Russian 1869-1939), Young Man Reclining (Boris Snezhkovsky), 1931, Sanguine and pastel on paper, signed and dated (twice) (lower right), 32cm x 48cm, (46...
Category
1930s Art Deco London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Chalk, Paper
Regency portrait drawing of Lady Nugent
By John Downman
Located in London, GB
Collections:
With Ellis Smith, London;
Private collection, to 2015.
Literature:
G.C. Williamson, John Downman A.R.A., his Life and Works,
p. lviii no...
Category
19th Century Old Masters London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
James, Duke of York, (later James II) and Anne Hyde, Duchess of York
Located in London, GB
After Sir Peter Lely, Late 17th Century
(1618–1680)
James, Duke of York, (later James II) and Anne Hyde, Duchess of York
Chalk on paper
Image size: 8...
Category
17th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Monument to Denzil Holles, Dorchester - 1950s drawing by British Artist
By Neville Hickman
Located in London, GB
NEVILLE HICKMAN
(20th Century)
Monument to Denzil Holles, Dorchester
Signed, inscribed and dated: Holles Monument, St Peter’s Church, Dorchester, 16 April 1958.
Chalks heightened ...
Category
1950s Realist London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
The Japanese Girl by Orovida Pissarro - Watercolour on paper, Portrait
By Orovida Pissarro
Located in London, GB
The Japanese Girl by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Watercolour on paper
17.78 x 12.7 cm (7 x 5 inches)
Signed lower right, Orovida
Circa 1920
This high...
Category
1920s Art Deco London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Man Gazing Right
By William Dring
Located in London, GB
William Dring
1904-1990
Ink on paper, signed middle right
Image size: 15 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (38.9 x 28.5cm)
The artwork portrays a man in profile, meticulously rendered in ink on paper. Dring pays close attention to the contours of the skin and hair. The intricate facial details prompt viewers to contemplate themes of identity and expression, while the minimalistic background underscores the figure’s separation from its surroundings.
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 Rothwell...
Category
20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Portrait drawing of Harriot Mellon, Mrs Thomas Coutts
By Henry Fuseli
Located in London, GB
Inscribed by the artist in pen and brown ink, upper margin: 'σοφὴν δὲ μισῶ: μὴ γὰρ ἔν γ' ἐμοῖς δόμοις / εἴη φρονοῦσα πλείον' ἢ γυναῖκα χρή [Euripides, Hippolytus, 11, 640-41: “But a ...
Category
19th Century Old Masters London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Large black and white drawing by Yvon Pissarro titled Farmhand in a Cowshed
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Farmhand in a Cowshed by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Graphite on paper
56 x 76 cm (22 x 30 inches)
Signed lower left Yvon Vey
Provenance
Studio of the arti...
Category
1980s Contemporary London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Head of a Young Woman
Located in London, GB
Karl Parsons
English 1884 - 1934
Head of a Young Woman
Graphite on paper
Signed and dated '(19)07' lower left
Image size: 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (16 x 21.5 cm)
Contemporary Pre-Raphaelite style frame
One of Britain's leading stained glass designers during the early decades of the 20th century, Karl Parsons drew portraits invariably for pleasure rather than commissions, throughout his life, and it is in these that one sees most clearly the influence of some of the artists whom he most admired, notably Botticelli, Rossetti and Burne-Jones.
Though harkening back to these illustrious forebears, both technically and compositionally, this portrait also epitomises the type of portraiture that was fashionable in British high society at the start of the 20th century. Karl Parson's technique here, with delicate shading and strong outlines, is certainly comparable to Gerald Leslie Brockhurst's graphic style. It is clear that Parsons took delight in demonstrating his skill at sculpting human forms through gentle shading.
Karl Parsons was an English stained glass artist associated with the arts and craft movement. Parsons was born in Peckham in Surrey in 1884, the 12th child of Arthur William Parsons...
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Early 20th Century Pre-Raphaelite London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Eighteenth-century Irish portrait of the Rev. Henry Dabzac
By Hugh Douglas Hamilton
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper, oval
9 x 7 ¼ inches; 230 x 185 mm
Inscribed on the verso:
‘The Revd Henry Dabzac D.D./ late Senior Fellow of/ Trinity College Dublin/ ever to be lamented by all that knew/ Him. Extensive learning, zeal, gently tempered/ by a spirit of charity & above all, a strong/ faith & a piety deservedly gained/ the character of a great and good man./ This exceptional man died 12th May 1790/ This picture was his give to Jane [Mary] Crofton, his sincerely [missing] sister.’
Collections:
Rev. Dr Henry Dabzac gift to his sister, Jane Crofton (d.1797);
Sir Hugh Crofton (1763-1834);
By descent to 1990;
Private collection, Dorset to 2020.
Literature:
Robert Staveley, Traces of Past and Present, Dublin, 1895, p.74;
Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800, online edition, no.J3751247
This characteristic pastel portrait by Hugh Douglas Hamilton was made early in his career; it depicts precisely the kind of education, well-connected Irish sitter who fuelled his success. The Reverend Henry Dabzac was from a distinguished Huguenot family, a celebrated academic historian, Dabzac received the Donegall lectureship in 1764 and from 1785 was Librarian and Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. According to his earliest biographer, Hamilton was the son of a peruke-maker based in Crow Street, Dublin. As Anne Hodge has pointed out, this places Hamilton’s father at the heart of the city: Crow street was a narrow thoroughfare formed part of the busy warren of streets bordered by the old Houses of Parliament and Trinity College at one end, and by Dublin Castle at the other. It is perhaps telling that in this early portrait, Hamilton shows Dabzac in a splendid powdered wig and his clerical bands. In 1754 Hamilton was apprenticed to James Mannin, a ‘pattern drawer’ who two years later was appointed master of the school of ornament at the Dublin Society’s drawing school, run by Robert West. Here Hamilton took the first prize in the 1755 competition, winning a premium of £1/16/. Hamilton developed a popular and profitable method of making pastel likenesses of sitters in a distinctive oval format. Hamilton developed a technique of using a sharpened pastel to hatch shaded areas of the features and, in the case of this portrait of Dabzac, the white powdered wig, which is drawn with particular care. In 1764 Hamilton moved to London where this small, oval pastels proved...
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18th Century Old Masters London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of a German Airman, Graphite on paper, 1919, Air Park Document Verso
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed and dated '13 Feb (19)19' bottom left
Image size: 13 x 8 1/4 inches (33 x 21 cm)
This is a portrait of a German airman that was done by the artist at the start of 1919. The artwork has been created on the reverse of a document from Adlershof, a German Air Park. This exact document is from the 'Airman Replacement Department' and is a request form for replacement parts for aircrafts - it asks the writer to specify the type and number of aircrafts, the type of engine and details of its propellers.
Adlershof is a place with a long and famous history. Germany's first motorised aircraft took off from here at the beginning of the 20th century and the Wright brothers moved their company to the airfield in 1909 shortly after it was opened. In 1912 German Experimental Institute for Aviation was established and made the location it's headquarters. Indeed, pre-war it was often known as 'The cradle of German Aviation'.
During the war the War ministry used the site for extensive military production and it is particularly well known for a series of competitions between various aviation firms' fighter aircraft designs that were held in 1918 and 1919. Even after the War had ended, work continued at Adlershof with the final flight competition being held between February and May 1919 (when this portrait was created). Eventually, the signing of the Versailles Treaty ended all military aircraft work for Germany and led to the dissolution of the Luffstreikrafte in May 1920.
Karl Ludwig Nagel...
Category
Early 20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
Self-Portrait in Two Mirrors with Nude ink drawing by Peter Collins ARCA
By Peter Collins ARCA
Located in London, GB
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Category
1990s Modern London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Sketch of a Man in Profile
Located in London, GB
Sketch of a Man in Profile
17th Century French School
Ink on paper
Image Size: 10 1/2 x 7 inches (26.5 x 17.5 cm)
Framed
Provenance
The estate of Joseph McCrindle
Christies Old Masters and British Pictures and Old Master Drawings Sale 12th December 2008
This highly worked picture shows us a man depicted in profile is seen interacting with a scene that extends beyond the boundaries of the paper's composition, the pen strokes intricately portraying the man's face, rendering a detailed, textured complexion. He points his left hand out to something in the distance, with a look of almost alarm.
The artist Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-64) did a series of oriental head studies.
The exotic headgear that he wears and this type of oriental head studies, had its principal source was of course Rembrandt, who etched many similar heads during the 1630s.
In the seventeenth-century Western European imagination, the turbaned figure represented the epitome of alterity: the Ottoman Turk. Ottoman costume...
Category
17th Century Old Masters London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Portrait of a Young Woman
By Béla Czóbel
Located in London, GB
BELA CZOBEL 1883-1976
1883 - Budapest-1976 (Hungarian)
Title: Portrait of a Young Woman
Technique: Original Hand Signed Pencil Drawing on paper
size: 28.3 x 21 cm / 11.3 x 8.6 in...
Category
1950s Contemporary London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Self Portrait
By Sándor Bortnyik
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 33cm x 24cm, (66cm x 56cm framed). The work is framed behind UV glass and stepped gilded frame.
Bortnyik was a painter and graphi...
Category
1910s Bauhaus London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Récolte des Pommes by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Mixed media on paper
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Récolte des Pommes by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Mixed media on paper, laid on board
44.5 x 55 cm (17 ½ x 21 ⅝ inches)
Signed and dated lower left, Manzana 1906
This work ...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Board
Portrait of Cecil Day Lewis 20th Century Original Chalk Drawing
By Sir William Rothenstein
Located in London, GB
Sir William Rothenstein
1872 - 1945
Portrait of Cecil Day Lewis
Black and white chalk on paper
Image size: 13 ½ x 9 inches
Period gilt frame
Category
20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Amanda
By William Russell Flint
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Watercolour on paper
Paper size: 16 x 22 inches
Framed size: 30 x 26 inches
Signed lower left
Category
20th Century Impressionist London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$33,951
Self Portrait, Graphite Sketch 20th Century British Female Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 12 1/4 x 8 inches (31 x 20.25 cm)
Hand made contemporary style frame
This is a wonderful self portrait that captures the artist as she stares, unafraid...
Category
Mid-20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Madame Petitjean Assise by Hippolyte Petitjean - Pastel, Drawing, Portrait
By Hippolyte Petitjean
Located in London, GB
Madame Petitjean Assise, 19 mai 1901 by Hippolyte Petitjean (1854-1929)
Sanguine on paper
52.8 x 38.6 cm (20 ³/₄ x 15 ¹/₄ inches)
Studio stamp and dated lower left, 19 mai 1901
Execu...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Portrait of Alfred Hardiman, Graphite Sketch, Signed and Dated 1925
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed and dated
Image size: 18 x 12 1/2 inches (46 x 32 cm)
Mounted and framed
The sitter for this portrait, Alfred Hardiman, was an English sculptor. Hardiman and Lyon were friends and met when they both attended the British School at Rome in the early 1920s.
Hardiman won a London County Council Scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1912, and three years later joined the Royal Academy School. After a period as an engineer's draughtsman in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, Hardiman resumed his studies and in 1920 was awarded the British Prix de Rome scholarship, spending two years at the British School at Rome. There he developed his style, a blend of naturalism and classicism influenced by Roman and Etruscan art and early fifth century Greek sculpture.
Hardiman's best-known (but also most controversial) work is the Earl Haig Memorial on Whitehall in London. More universally admired are the heraldic lions flanking the main entrance to the City Hall, Norwich, a work which fully epitomises his style. He was appointed consultant sculptor to the building, having worked with one of the architects, Stephen Rowland Pierce, on the Haig Memorial. Hardiman also carved three large stone figures for the outside of the council chamber, and worked with other sculptors on the project including James Woodford and Eric Aumonier.
Hardiman was elected Associate of the Royal Academy in 1936 and a full Academician in 1944. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1938 and the following year received their silver medal for his statue of Haig. In 1946 he won a gold medal for his bronze fountain figure for the New Council House, College Green, Bristol, which however was never erected.
In 1918 he married Violet, daughter of Herbert Clifton White, of London, and had two daughters. He died at Stoke Poges on 17th April 1949.
Robert Lyon...
Category
1920s Modern London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of a German Airman, Graphite on paper, 1919, Air Park Document Verso
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed and dated '13 Feb (19)19' bottom left
Image size: 13 x 8 1/4 inches (33 x 21 cm)
This is a portrait of a German airman that was done by the artist at the start of 1919. The artwork has been created on the reverse of a document from Adlershof, a German Air Park. This exact document is from the 'Airman Replacement Department' and is a request form for replacement parts for aircrafts - it asks the writer to specify the type and number of aircrafts, the type of engine and details of its propellers.
Adlershof is a place with a long and famous history. Germany's first motorised aircraft took off from here at the beginning of the 20th century and the Wright brothers moved their company to the airfield in 1909 shortly after it was opened. In 1912 German Experimental Institute for Aviation was established and made the location it's headquarters. Indeed, pre-war it was often known as 'The cradle of German Aviation'.
During the war the War ministry used the site for extensive military production and it is particularly well known for a series of competitions between various aviation firms' fighter aircraft designs that were held in 1918 and 1919. Even after the War had ended, work continued at Adlershof with the final flight competition being held between February and May 1919 (when this portrait was created). Eventually, the signing of the Versailles Treaty ended all military aircraft work for Germany and led to the dissolution of the Luffstreikrafte in May 1920.
Karl Ludwig Nagel...
Category
Early 20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
Advertising design for Pye Records Cambridge gouache Mid Century Wireless
Located in London, GB
Bowens (British, fl. mid 20th Century)
Cambridge: Centre of Scientific Research
Pye Group Records
Pye - Nixa - Mercury - Vanguard - EmArcy
c. mid-late 1950s
Haig Road in Cambridge, where Pye had their factory, was subsumed into Elizabeth Way and was a long way from King's College chapel. However that iconic building is used to illustrate the Cambridge connection.
EmArcy Records is a jazz record...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Tetouanoui Man
Located in London, GB
Tetouanoui Man
Albert Charles Dequene
Pastel on paper, signed and dated 1933 lower left, titled upper right
Image size: 23 x 18 inches (58.4 x 45.7 cm)
Hand made ebonised and gilded ...
Category
20th Century French School London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Portrait Study, 20th Century Graphite Artwork, Female Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed bottom left
Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (19 x 25cm)
Contemporary frame
A characterful portrait of a woman in profile. The artist has captured much of ...
Category
Mid-20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Sketch of Finkel
Located in London, GB
Sketch of Finkel
Stephen Andrews
Born 1956
Ink on paper, signed bottom right
Image size: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches ( 23.5 x 31.5 cm )
Original Frame
Andrews, a friend of American direct...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Wistful Thoughts
By Charles Edward Wilson
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Watercolour on paper
Paper size: 21 x 13.5 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Lady, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Portrait of a Lady
Graphite on paper
Image size: 15 x 12 inches
James 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...
Category
20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Miss Ruth Bowerie Watercolour Portrait 19th Century American
Located in London, GB
Gertrude Braud
19th Century
Watercolour on paper, initialled and dated 'Sep 29/69'.
Image size: 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches (24 x 17 cm)
Category
19th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Boy, Pastel Drawing, 20th Century English
By William Dring
Located in London, GB
Pastel and graphite on paper
Image size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches (28 x 21.5 cm)
Mounted
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 Rothwell...
Category
Mid-20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Graphite
Portrait of Julieta, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Portrait of Julieta
Graphite on paper, signed and inscribed '1931'
Image size: 15 x 12 inches
James 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...
Category
20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of a Young Man, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Portrait of a Young Man
Graphite on paper
Image size: 18 x 16 inches
James 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...
Category
20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Study of a Woman, Graphite Sketch, 20th Century British Artist, Signed
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed on reverse
Image size: 11 x 9 1/2 inches (28 x 24 cm)
Mounted and framed
Ernest Proctor
Born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, the son of a scientist, Ernest was educated at Bootham Friends' School in York and then came to Newlyn in 1907 to study with Stanhope Forbes. He quickly become recognized as the best student of the School. He acted as Assistant to Stanhope Forbes and Elizabeth Forbes...
Category
20th Century Modern London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of a Young Male, Graphite on paper sketch, 20th Century English Artist
By John Sergeant
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 (26 x 22 cm)
Mounted
Drawing was at the heart of all of his artistic practice. A friend once recalled an anecdote that out on a walk he ...
Category
20th Century English School London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
18th century ink study for the Leveson-Gower Children
By George Romney
Located in London, GB
Collections: J. Goodfriend, USA.
Brown wash and pencil on laid paper
Framed dimensions: 13.25 x 11.75 inches
This powerful drawing was made at the time that Romney was painting the famous group portrait of the Gower Children now in Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal. Romney was a bold and incisive draughtsman who made numerous rich brown ink studies, principally for historical compositions; by contrast, comparatively few studies linked directly to his portraits survive. The existence of a group of studies for the Gower Children underscores its importance to Romney. The sitters were the five youngest of the eight children of Granville, 2nd Earl Gower who, at the time the portrait was commissioned, was President of the Council in Lord North’s government and one of the best-connected and most influential people in England. The present drawing which is a large scale treatment of the composition in its final form perfectly distils Romney’s conceit: the younger children dancing whilst their elder sister, in the guise of a Bacchante plays the tambourine. The bold and dramatic study underlines both the artistic confidence and classical grandeur Romney gained during his trip to Italy between 1773 and 1775.
The commission from Granville, 2nd Earl Gower to paint five of his children came shortly after Romney’s Continental tour. The initial idea, as represented by the present drawing, seems to have been to paint Lady Anne, the figure on the right of the composition playing the tambourine, who was the youngest of Gower’s first four children by his second wife Lady Louisa Egerton and who married the Rev. Edward Vernon Harcourt, later Archbishop of York, with three of her younger half-siblings by Gower’s third wife, Lady Susanna Stewart: at the left Lady Georgina, who became Countess of St Germans following her marriage to the Hon. William Eliot; at the right Lady Charlotte Sophia, later Duchess of Beaufort and in the centre Lady Susanna, later Countess of Harrowby. Romney added a fifth child to the finished portrait, Gower’s son: Lord Granville, later created Viscount Granville and Earl Granville. In Italy Romney had produced a large number of studies of classical antiquities and old master paintings.
The commission from Gower offered Romney the opportunity to explore a complex multi-figural group, putting into practice the kind of ambitious classical quotations that Reynolds was currently exploiting. In 1773 Reynolds had completed the remarkable group portrait of the Montgomery Sisters, now in the Tate Gallery, London, which showed them adorning a herm of the Roman god Hymen; the composition used a garland to link the three figures who were shown in classical costume dancing at the foot of a Roman sculpture. Scholars have long pointed to a similar sources for the two compositions: the works of Nicolas Poussin. Whilst the Montgomery Sisters is based, in part, on a Bacchanal now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, the Gower Children has always been associated with Poussin’s Dance to the Music of Time, now in the Wallace Collection, London. It seems more likely that Romney was looking to an antique source in the form of the Borghese Dancers, a Roman relief, then in Palazzo Borghese in Rome. Romney would have seen the relief of interlocking, dancing maidens and would also have known Guido Reni’s Aurora...
Category
18th Century Old Masters London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Portrait of a Young Man, 19th Century English, Charcoal, Signed and Dated '1888'
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, signed and dated '1888' bottom right
Image size: 9 x 7 1/2 inches (22.75 x 19 cm)
Period frame
The half-length portrait depicts the subject sat, wearing a white s...
Category
1880s Victorian London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
D'après Renoir by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Portrait drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
D'après Renoir by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pencil on paper
19.5 x 25.8 cm (7 ⁵/₈ x 10 ¹/₈ inches)
Titled and signed lower right
This work is accompanied by a certificate...
Category
20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait of Rebecca Octavia Dorothy Nash, Victorian Graphite Drawings
By Joseph Nash
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, inscribed on original backing
Image size: 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (16.5 x 14 cm)
Mounted
This is a delightful graphite drawing by the artist Joseph Nash that depict...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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 London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Companions
By Walter Langley
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Watercolour on paper
Paper size: 10 x 13.75 inches
Framed size: 18.75 x 21.5 inches
Signed lower left
Category
19th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$21,704
Portrait of the Artist's Wife, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906-1985
Portrait of the Artist's Wife
Graphite on paper
Image size: 13 x 10 inches
Unframed
James Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James St...
Category
20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Studies of the Head of a Young Girl by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Studies of the Head of a Young Girl by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Charcoal and colour crayon on paper
26.3 x 20.3 cm (10 ⅜ x 8 inches)
Signed lower right, manzana. Pissarro...
Category
1940s London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Color Pencil
Portrait of a Lady - Late 18th Century European Pastel
Located in London, GB
European School
Late 18th Century
Portrait of a Lady
Pastel on paper, mounted on canvas
Image size: 28 x 23 inches
Contemporary style frame
Provenance:
Ernst Museum Auction
This pastel portrait of a lady dates from the late eighteenth century. She is pictured in a white muslin dress...
Category
Late 18th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Laid Paper
Sketch from Life, 19th Century English Watercolour, Girl in Profile
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and dated '1870' lower left
Image size: 5 x 6 1/2 inches (13 x 16.5 cm)
Category
1870s London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Self Portrait, 20th Century English Artist, Graphite Drawing
By Frank Jameson
Located in London, GB
Frank Jameson
1899 - 1968
Self Portrait
Graphite on paper, signed lower right
Image size: 15 x 9 inches
Contemporary frame
Frank Jameson was born in London and later moved to Birmingham where he attended evening classes in drawing and painting at Birmingham Art School. By day he worked as an insurance salesman. During the First World War he became an officer in the Worcester Regiment and was in charge of building bridges and block houses. He returned to the Midlands but then travelled widely by rail, eventually discovering St Ives where he was inspired by the stunning scenery. He stayed and rented the Loft Studio. He also became a member of the St Ives Society of Artists and exhibited frequently with his fellow artists, especially John Park...
Category
20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
