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Item Ships From: London
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
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 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
Translucent Boy, 20th Century British Artist, Pastel Portrait
By Peter Gardner
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Image size: 6 x 7 inches (15.25 x 17.75 cm)
Mounted
Peter Gardner
Peter Gardner was born in London in 1921. He studied at the Hammersmith School of Art between 193...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The New Haircut, 20th Century portrait of a Young Girl, drawing
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 11 ¾ x 8 ½ inches (30 x 21.5 cm)
Original frame
This superbly-drawn portrait highlights the artist’s undeniable skill as a portrait artist, particularl...
Category
20th Century Modern London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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
Portrait Studies
By Edwin Longsden Long
Located in London, GB
Edwin Long
1829 - 1891
Portrait Studies
Graphite on paper
Image size: 4 x 8 inches (10 x 20.5 cm)
Framed
Edwin Longsden Long RA (1829-1891, British) wa...
Category
1850s Pre-Raphaelite London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Unknown Officer in Trench Cap, 20th Century English Artwork
By V. Ward
Located in London, GB
V Ward
Unknown Officer in Trench Cap
Watercolour and pencil
Signed and dated 1918, lower right
Image size: 12 x 10 inches
Category
20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, 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
Portrait of a Boy, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Portrait of a Boy
Graphite on paper
Image size: 18 x 14 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
Esther
By Kay Boyce
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Pencil on paper
Paper size: 16 x 10 inches
Framed size: 25.75 x 19.25 inches
Signed lower right
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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
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
Heading for War on Watch Chains
By Henry Mayo Bateman
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Black ink on paper
Paper size: 8.25 x 10.5 inches
Framed size: 20.75 x 21.75 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance: Private collection, Somerset
Category
20th Century Modern London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
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
Florentine Gent, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Florentine Gent
Graphite on paper, signed and inscriber '1931 Florence'
Image size: 24 x 18 inches
Framed
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
Officer in Trench Cap, 20th Century Signed Watercolour
By V. Ward
Located in London, GB
V Ward
Unknown Officer in Trench Cap
Watercolour and pencil
Signed and dated 1918, lower right
Image size: 12 x 10 inches
Category
20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Two Men Zwei Männer - Monogrammed India Ink Drawing German Expressionism
By Conrad Felixmuller
Located in London, GB
CONRAD FELIXMÜLLER 1897 - 1977
Dresden 1897 - 1977 Berlin (German)
Title: Two Men Zwei Männer, 1919
Technique: Monogrammed India Ink Drawing on thin JW Zanders Laid Paper
Paper ...
Category
1910s London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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
Woman picking Apples
By Joseph Csaky
Located in London, GB
JOSEPH CSAKY 1888-1971
(Hungarian/French)
Title: Woman picking Apples
Technique: Original Hand Signed Coloured Pencil drawing on Van Gelder Zonen paper
size: 42 x 25.2 cm...
Category
20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
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 of a Man
By William Dring
Located in London, GB
William Dring
1904-1990
Ink on paper
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...
Category
20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
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
Studies of a Woman Sitting, Red Chalk Drawing, Modern British Artist, Framed
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper
Image size: 21 x 14 1/2 inches (54 x 37 cm)
Gilt frame
James Stroudley
Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker, paid homage to Stroudley by including his work in the exhibition ‘Pupil & Masters’, held at Westgate House, Long Melford, Suffolk.
Stroudley married three times, and his wives included the fashion artist to the Sun newspaper...
Category
20th Century Modern London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
The Gaze, Signed Graphite 20th Century Portrait
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed bottom right
Image size: 13 x 8 3/4 inches (33 x 22.25 cm)
Original frame
Dora Thacher Clarke, later Dora Middleton, (1895–1989) was a British sculptor and wood carver who also wrote about, and promoted African art.
Clarke was born in Harrow in Middlesex. Her father, Joseph Thacher Clarke was an American architect. Clarke won a scholarship that allowed her to attend the Slade School of Fine Art. Aged fifteen, Clarke initially studied at the Slade on a part-time basis for three days each week throughout 1910 and 1911 but during 1915 and 1916 she studied sculpture there as a full-time student. Clarke first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1923 and continued to do so until 1959. In the early 1930s she was a regular exhibitor in group shows at the Goupil Gallery and in March 1937 had her first solo show at the French Gallery. She also exhibited at the Paris Salon and with the Royal Society of British Artists.
Clarke's works included bronze castings, memorials and wood sculptures, often of African heads. For example she was commissioned to sculpt the posthumous portrait bust of Sir Walter Morley Fletcher. The most notable of her memorials is the panel and medallion tribute to Joseph Conrad at Bishopsbourne in Kent, which was unveiled in 1927. Clarke also wrote about, and promoted African art and spent a year, between 1927 and 1928 in Kenya, where she made many drawings which when she returned to London she used as the basis for wood carvings and bronzes of tribal figures. Wood carving became her technique of choice, often working with hardwoods and, on occasion, sperm whale teeth.
Clarke married Admiral Gervase B Middleton in 1938 but rarely exhibited work under her married name. During World War II, Clarke was commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee to produce a portrait medallion depicting a serviceman who had been awarded the George Cross. This proved to be the only portrait medallion acquired for the WAAC collection.
Sculptures by Clarke are held in various museums, including the Ashmolean Museum which also holds a 1936 portrait of her by Orovida Camille Pissarro.
Category
Mid-20th Century English School London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Florentine Lady, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Florentine Lady
Graphite on paper, signed and inscriber '1932 Florence'
Image size: 24 x 19 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
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
Dance Step
By Kay Boyce
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Pencil on paper
Paper size: 13.5 x 10 inches
Framed size: 22.25 x 18.5 inches
Signed lower middle
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Woman with Long Hair
By Henryk Berlewi
Located in London, GB
HENRYK BERLEWI 1894-1964
Warsaw 1894-1964 Paris (Polish/French)
Title: Woman with Long Hair, 1955
Technique: Original Signed Colour Pencil drawing on pap...
Category
1950s Contemporary London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of a Girl
By Alexander Evgenevich Iacovleff
Located in London, GB
ALEXANDER EVGENEVICH IACOVLEFF (YAKOVLEV) 1887-1938
Saint Petersburg 1887-1938 Paris (Russian)
Title: Portrait of a Girl, 1934
Technique: Ori...
Category
1930s London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
The Foot Bath - French Spanish Portraiture
By Pablo Picasso
Located in London, GB
This ink drawing is dated 26.1.60.II in ink in the upper image.
Picasso created this work on Tuesday 26th January 1960.
Provenance:
Forum Fine Art, Zurich
Private Collection, Switz...
Category
1960s Modern London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Anne Hyde, Duchess of York; King James II
By Sir Peter Lely
Located in London, GB
After Sir Peter Lely
1618 - 1680
Anne Hyde, Duchess of York; King James II
Pencil, ink and white chalk on paper,
Image size: 10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20.5 cm)
Original frame
This work,...
Category
17th Century Old Masters London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Ink, Pencil
Fouta Djallon woman with crest headdress
Located in London, GB
Albert Charles Dequene
Fouta Djallon woman with crest headdress
Pastel on paper, signed lower right & dated '32'
Image size: 19 3/4 x 18 inches (50 x 46 cm)
Hand made ebonised and gi...
Category
20th Century London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Autoportrait au Petit Col Rond (Self-Portrait with a Small Round Neck), 1925
Located in London, GB
Suzanne Fabry
Autoportrait au Petit Col Rond (Self-Portrait with a Small Round Neck), c.1925
Charcoal on paper
22 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches
signed SUZANNE FABRY (lower right)
Brussels-bor...
Category
1920s London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Shades
By Klara Kristalova
Located in New York, NY
Kristalova is best known for her figurative ceramic sculptures that incorporate aspects of the human body and elements of nature. Across her oeuvre, she explores transition as a stag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Changing
By Klara Kristalova
Located in New York, NY
Kristalova is best known for her figurative ceramic sculptures that incorporate aspects of the human body and elements of nature. Across her oeuvre, she explores transition as a stag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Gouache
Smile
By Klara Kristalova
Located in New York, NY
Kristalova is best known for her figurative ceramic sculptures that incorporate aspects of the human body and elements of nature. Across her oeuvre, she explores transition as a stag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink
Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban, Early 19th Century Orientalist Watercolour
By William Henry Hunt
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper
Image size: 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (11.5 x 9 cm)
Mounted and framed
This is an arresting image featuring a head and shoulders portrait of a bearded man wearing a ...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian London - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
