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Item Ships From: United Kingdom
Set of Three Maritime Miniature Watercolors of Historic Bristol Ships
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Set of Three Maritime Miniature Watercolors of Historic Bristol Ships
by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist
Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed
Measurements (ea...
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20th Century English School United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
R. Mot - Double Sided Early 20th Century Watercolour, Vivid Still Life
Located in Corsham, GB
A sheet of woven boasts equally compelling watercolors on both sides. Both paintings' subjects focus on ceramic ware and are executed with beaming and vivid palettes.
Unsigned. On w...
Category
Early 20th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Flower in a Chalice
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
This is a unique pencil drawing by the artist Andy Warhol.
It was realised circa 1974.
It is stamped twice by the estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, verso. It is also initialed 'VF' by Vincent Fremont of the Andy Warhol Foundation and inscribed with the identification number"RO-28.13", verso.
Provenance: Estate of Andy Warhol.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York.
Susan Sheehan Gallery...
Category
1970s Pop Art United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Snow scene by Hughes Claude Pissarro, Cantepie, Sous la Neige
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Cantepie, Sous la Neige by Hughes Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
51 x 37 cm (20 ¹/₈ x 14 ⁵/₈ inches)
S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Late 19th Century pastel by Chantron of bathers by the side of a river
By Alexandre Jacques Chantron
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Alexandre Jacques Chantron
(French 1842 – 1918)
Baigneuses au bord de la riviere
Pastel
Signed 'AJ Chantron' (lower right)
24 x 18 in (61 x 45.7)
Category
19th Century Impressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Paysage de Rivière, Watercolour on Paper by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro, circa 1930
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Paysage de Rivière by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour on paper
28.5 x 38.6 cm (11 ¼ x 15 ¼ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower right Ludovic Rodo
Executed circa 1930...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Erotic Couple - Surrealism Argentinian French Erotic Couple
By Leonor Fini
Located in London, GB
This drawing by Leonor Fini is hand signed by the artist in brown ink "Leonor Fini" in the lower right image.
It was executed in 1977.
This work is from a sketchbook.
Condition: Ve...
Category
1970s Surrealist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Drawing of a captive woman
By Henry Fuseli
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Sir Thomas Lawrence, who acquired the contents of Fuseli’s studio;
Susan, Countess of Guilford, née Coutts (1771-1837), acquired from the Lawrence estate;
Susan, Baroness North (1797-1884), daughter of the above;
Mrs A. M. Jaffé, acquired in France, c. 1950 to 2016.
Black chalks, on buff-coloured paper
Stamped verso: ‘Baroness Norths Collection / of Drawings by H Fuseli Esq.’
Framed dimensions: 26.38 x 20.63 inches
This boldly drawn sheet depicting a seated figure was made by Fuseli at an important and highly productive moment in his career. The monumental drawing is closely related to another sheet by Fuseli in the British Museum which Schiff published as subject unknown. Both drawings were made when Fuseli was designing his most important sequence of historical works, including scenes from Shakespeare and Milton, The Nightmare and The Death of Dido which was exhibited at the Royal Academy to great critical acclaim in 1781. The present drawing does not relate directly to any of Fuseli’s finished historical paintings of the period, but evidently the image of a slightly menacing, seated and covered old woman was precisely the sort of motif he was playing with. It is notable that the same figure reappears later in Fuseli’s work as the witch from Ben Jonson’s Witch’s Song which Fuseli produced as both a painting and engraving in 1812.
Fuseli returned to London in 1779 from a highly creative and productive period in Rome and established himself as one of the leading history painters of the period. Fuseli re-established contact with his old mentor Sir Joshua Reynolds, becoming a regular guest at his dinner table and visitor to his studio. The earliest and most striking manifestation of this strategy was Fuseli's Death of Dido, exhibited in 1781 at the Royal Academy. Executed on the same scale as Reynolds's version (Royal Collection), Fuseli's vertically oriented picture was hung directly opposite Reynolds's with its horizontal orientation, inevitably inviting comparison between the two works and garnering Fuseli much publicity and favourable reviews in the newspapers.
The present, previously unpublished sheet, relates closely to a drawing now in the British Museum. That sheet shows the same seated old woman, drawn on a smaller scale and more schematic in design, seated next to an anatomical drawing of a man. The pose of this figure is related to the pose of Dido in his Death of Dido; the foreshortened torso, arrangement of head, oblique view of Dido’s features and arms all suggest that the study can be viewed as an initial thought for the composition. Fuseli may have initially thought of including the figure of the hunched and covered old woman. Drawn on identical paper to the British Museum sheet, our study is an enlarged depiction of the same figure, more elaborately delineated and developed. The presence of a chain to the right of the figure, suggests that the iconography was related in some way to a scene of imprisonment.
Fuseli had first explored the motif of the hooded old woman in an early Roman drawing, 'The Venus Seller'. The idea of a grotesque old woman, hooded and with angular nose and projecting chin seen in profile was most spectacularly used by Fuseli in his sequence of paintings depicting The Three Witches from Macbeth. Fuseli seems to have kept the present sheet and may have returned to it when preparing a painting of The Witch and the Mandrake from Ben Jonson’s Witch’s Song from his Masque of Queens in 1812. Here the same seated figure looks out from under her hood and picks a mandrake by moonlight. Jonson’s drama had been performed at the court of James I in 1609, inspired the subject. To throw the nobility of the queens into relief, the poet added a coven of witches, one of whom declares: ‘I last night lay all alone, On the ground, to hear the mandrake groan; And plucked him up, though he grew full low, And, as I had done, the cock did crow.’ The figure was reversed in the associated etching which was published in 1812. It seems likely that the present drawing remained as part of Fuseli’s working archive of figure studies.
The present drawing was presumably purchased with the bulk of Fuseli’s drawings after the artist’s death by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Lawrence’s large group of Fuseli drawings were then acquired by Susan, Countess of Guildford (1771-1837). Lady Guildford was the eldest daughter of the banker Thomas Coutts (1735-1822), who himself had supported Fuseli’s journey to Rome in the 1770s and had remained one of the artist’s key...
Category
18th Century Old Masters United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Horace Tuck (1876-1951) - Early 20th Century Watercolour, The Lake District
Located in Corsham, GB
Depicting the beautiful Lake District in Cumbria with its mountainous terrain and calm waters. Signed to the lower left. Well presented in a card mount. On wove laid to card.
Category
20th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Framed Contemporary Oil Pastel - Lemons in a Bowl
Located in Corsham, GB
Presented in a contemporary frame. Signed illegibly. On wove.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
1976 Pastel - Seductive Stare
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait in pastel showing a beautiful woman with a seductive gaze. The artist has initialed and dated in the lower right corner. The drawing has been presented in a contempor...
Category
20th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
By George Edwards
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Frederick A. Winkfield (fl. 1873-1920) - 1873 Watercolour, Castle View
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine and accomplished watercolour painting by the well-listed artist Frederick A. Winkfield. The scene depicts a river view with several boats and figures and a castle to the right...
Category
19th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1907 Pastel - Settling Dusk
Located in Corsham, GB
An atmospheric pastel landscape showing the glowing window of a cottage on the banks of a river, shining through the gathering dusk. The artist has signed indistinctly and dated to t...
Category
20th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Attrib. Alexander Coutts Fraser (1868-1939) - Watercolour, Cool Dawn
Located in Corsham, GB
A landscape beside a cottage on a cool morning. Two figures can be seen walking along a path in the background. Presented glazed in a cream mount and a distressed gilt-effect wooden ...
Category
19th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Place Vendôme by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel on card, Post-Impressionist
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Place Vendôme by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower right, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a certificate of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Untitled By Max Ernst
By Max Ernst
Located in London, GB
Untitled
By Max Ernst
Max Ernst was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, and one of the pioneers of the Dada movement and Surrealism. Born in 1891, Ernst’s innov...
Category
1970s Contemporary United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Figures Celebrating Life
By Bernard Labbe
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Figures
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on card
size: 19.5 x 13 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
By George Edwards
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Miniature Watercolor of Avon Gorge with Clifton Suspension Bridge and Ship
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Miniature Watercolor of Avon Gorge with Clifton Suspension Bridge and Ship
by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist
Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed
Measurement...
Category
20th Century English School United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Les Jardins de Monte-Carlo by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel, Post-Impressionist
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Les Jardins de Monte-Carlo by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower right, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a ce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Nude Seated and Kneeling Female Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Ladies Sketch
French School, circa 1960's
chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed
size: 18.75 x 12 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: private c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
Abstract Red Blue Yellow Flower Design on White by British Contemporary Artist
By Angela Wakefield
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of Abstract Red, Blue & Yellow Wild Flowers on a White Background by British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. This original is from the 'Spring Burst' Interior Design ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Impressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, B...
Black and white still life flower drawing of Mimosas by artist, Yvon Pissarro
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Mimosas by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Graphite on paper
65 x 50 cm (25 ⅝ x 19 ⅝ inches)
Signed and dated lower left Yvon Vey 2002
Provenance
Studio of the artist, Montpellier
Artist b...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
George Edwards, Engravings of Parrots, published by Seligmann.
By George Edwards
Located in Richmond, GB
PRICE IS FOR EACH FRAMED PRINT
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with origina...
Category
18th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
Historic Miniature Watercolor of Christ Church in Clifton
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Historic Miniature Watercolor of Christ Church in Clifton
by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist
Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed
Measurements: 4.25 inches (h...
Category
20th Century English School United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engravings of Fruit in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
Category
18th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
George Edwards, Engravings of Parrots, published by Seligmann.
By George Edwards
Located in Richmond, GB
PRICE IS FOR EACH FRAMED PRINT
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with origina...
Category
18th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
1930's French Portrait Sketch of a Lady, Listed French painter
By Leon Launay
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Portrait of a Lady"
by Leon Launay (French 1890-1956)
charcoal portrait drawing on paper, unframed
stamped verso
painting: 18.5 x 12 inches
Condition report:
The painting is in go...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
George Edwards: c18th Engravings of Birds in Decalcomania Frames
By George Edwards
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: "A History of Uncommon Birds", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural Histo...
Category
18th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
The Blitz: A Civil Defence Firefighter before St Paul's Cathedral, London 1940
Located in London, GB
To see our other World War Two art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller."
The Blitz: A Civil Defence Firefighter In Action before St Paul's Cathedral with Search Lights...
Category
1940s Realist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Oscar Andreae: Gardens drawing
By Oscar Andreae
Located in London, GB
This is from a series of Andreae's sketches of European tourist destinations from the 1860s, to see some others, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all...
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1860s Impressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Mid Century French Portrait of a Seated Maid Watercolour Sketch
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Portrait
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black charcoal and watercolour on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Size: 9.75...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Mid 20th Century French Post Impressionist Signed Painting Provence Chateau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) signed watercolour on paper, unframed
inscribed verso
painting: 9 x 11 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Original Parisian Vintage Jewelry Design Art by Van Cleef & Boucheron Designer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pair of Two Gold Rings with Diamond Pendants
Jewelry Design
circa mid 20th century
by Paul Touzet (French b. 1917)
original gouache painting, with pencil on tracing paper
unframed
l...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
'Towards Le Scathe Cove'. Contemporary Landscape, Rural, Sea, Ocean, Beach Blue
By Sophia Milligan
Located in Penzance, GB
'Towards Le Scathe Cove'. Contemporary mixed media landscape painting, Cornwall
Original Artwork, Unframed
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January morning, heavy swell and a strong southwester, rain imminent, sheltering beneath lichen furred granite outcrops.
A plein air painting from the series 'Holan ha Dor' (Meaning 'Salt and Earth in Cornish). West Cornwall is a harshly beautiful peninsula, jutting out into the wild tireless ocean, shaped and moulded by powerful salt laden Atlantic winds, and criss-crossed by ancient, tangled hedgerows. Drawn to the immediacy of moments, underpinned by enduring narratives, Sophia's fluid expressive paintings explores the flux and balance in the nature of all things: The freedom of the air and solidity of the soil; Of anchored stone and rhythmic water; Of human narratives written in the wild landscapes; In the sensual interplay of light and shadow. They capture an essence of the equilibrium between wild raw energy and serene stillness; chaos and harmony; and the enduring and the effervescent.
Mixed media on watercolour paper
Signed and inscribed
Unframed
23 x 30cm / 9 x 12 inches
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About The Artist
Sophia Milligan is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist, exploring discourses on permanence & evanescence; the eternal, cyclical absolutes of birth & death; motherhood & childhood; and ancient immutable connections. With resonating ripples of intuition and instinct Sophia illuminates the presence of the ordinary, creating moments of sublime present.
'Born among the wild cliffs and tempestuous seas of west Cornwall, I grew with the intimate details in the twisting lanes and the intense changing light throughout the turbulent seasons. I formed a primordial connection with a deep instinctual sense of being part of the natural narrative, and wherever in the world I may be, this connectivity underpins my practice. Like the wind sculpted hawthorns and sensual coves of weather worn granite, I have been shaped by the powerful energy entwined in this ancient raw environment.’
‘We are the stories of the journeys that came before. I weave into my work the tales of transitory circumstance; of struggle and survival; of forms and textures holding records of evolutionary millennia. I paint, I draw: with marks, mixtures, photography, words; the raw earth; the restless oceans; the whispered breeze. I work with time, and the immeasurable spaces of experience within, giving subtleties of existence a pause for contemplation. There is beauty in such poignant breaths. All moments are significant, every pebble of now forms the vast mountain of yesterday, and the great realm of tomorrow's possibilities'.
Sophia has a 1st class honours Bachelor of Arts Degree in Visual Arts and World History, and a Masters Degree in Contemporary Visual Arts. Her work is held in prestigious international private collections, and exhibitions of her interactive, immersive installation, photography and mixed media works include 'Tabula Rasa', London; 'Superlative', Plymouth; 'Transition', Newlyn; The Eden Project, Cornwall; The European Parliament, Brussels; Kew Gardens, London; and 'The Cameraless Film Festival', Chicago...
Category
2010s Contemporary United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Crayon, Wax, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Portrait of Elegant Young Society Lady In A Pink Blouse Exquisite Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elegant Lady
original watercolour painting on paper
by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below
piece of paper is 14 x 10 inches
I...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Pencil
Portrait of a Young Woman
By Sir Peter Lely
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper
Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (19 x 23.5 cm)
Contemporary frame
An enigmatic portrait of a young woman after Sir Peter Lely's drawing, currently shown in the B...
Category
Mid-17th Century Victorian United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Study of the Apollo Belvedere, Graphite Sketch, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 13 3/4 x 26 inches (35 x 66 cm)
This is most likely to be a drawing from an Academy student, executed as part of their academic training. The academic ...
Category
19th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
George Edwards, Engravings of Parrots, published by Seligmann.
By George Edwards
Located in Richmond, GB
PRICE IS FOR EACH FRAMED PRINT
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with origina...
Category
18th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
French Charcoal Portrait of an Elderly Man Smoking a Pipe Drawing
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Charcoal Portrait of an Elderly Man Smoking a Pipe
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black charcoal on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Siz...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Y Lliwedd
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Pencil and watercolour on paper
Paper size: 10 x 14 inches
Framed size: 20 x 23.75 inches
Initialled lower right
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Triptych: The Olympic Games, Modern British Drawing, Ancient Greek, Nude
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size of rectangular works: 33 x 43 inches (84 x 109 cm)
Image size of arched central work: 38 1/4 x 29 inches (97 x 73.5 cm)
Provenance
Private Collection of Seymour Stein, Vice President of Warner Bros Records
Sotheby's 'Modern British and Irish Art,' London, 19 May 2004, lot 92
The three impressive drawings are studies for Stroudley’s ‘Olympic Games in a Demi-Lune’. From left to right the studies depict groups of athletes practicing diving, a conversing crowd of oarsmen, hurdlers mid jump and a collection of javelin throwers. This study was created in 1930 when Stroudley practiced in the British School in Rome. There are few surviving works from Stroudley’s short stay in Rome, with the compositions from his Rome period being among the last wholly successful decorative cycles produced by a Rome Scholar prior to World War II. Indeed, as can be seen here, his drawings from this period are technically brilliant and even bear comparison with those of Eric Kennington.
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
1930s Modern United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Vase de fleurs by Paul Ranson, Pastel on paper, Still life, Drawing
By Paul Elie Ranson
Located in London, GB
Vase de fleurs by Paul Ranson (1864-1909)
Pastel on paper
46.5 x 41.5 cm (18 ¹/₄ x 16 ³/₈ inches)
Signed lower right, P. Ranson
Executed circa 1900
Proven...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Untitled (ID 1276)
By Fieroza Doorsen
Located in London, GB
Oil and pastel on paper - Unframed
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge when structure meets intui...
Category
2010s Abstract United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil
English School Early 19th Century Watercolour - Dark Haired Beauty
Located in Corsham, GB
This elegant oval portrait captures a young woman in 19th century attire, her dark curls framing a delicate face turned slightly towards the viewer. The subject's elegant gown and co...
Category
Early 19th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Paysage, Watercolour on Paper Painting by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro, circa 1920
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Paysage by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878 - 1952)
Watercolour on paper
28 x 36 cm (11 x 14 ⅛ inches)
Signed lower right, Ludovic Rodo
Executed circa 1920
This work is accompanied by a...
Category
1920s Impressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Set of Five Miniature Maritime Watercolors of Bristol Ships and Redcliffe
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Set of Five Miniature Maritime Watercolors of Bristol Ships and Redcliffe
by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist
Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed
Measurements...
Category
20th Century English School United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Yellow Flowers Gelbe Blüten - German Expressionism
By Erich Heckel
Located in London, GB
This watercolour is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Heckel 48" [1948] in the lower right image.
It is also hand titled in pencil “Gelbe Blüten” [Yellow Flowers] in th...
Category
1940s Expressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Watercolor, Laid Paper
Historic Miniature Watercolor of Quaker Meeting House in Frenchay
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Historic Miniature Watercolor of Quaker Meeting House in Frenchay
by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist
Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed
Measurements: 2.5 i...
Category
20th Century English School United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
By George Edwards
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Johann Seligmann: Engravings of Parrots After George Edwards, 1770, Framed
Located in Richmond, GB
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with original hand-colouring after the drawi...
Category
18th Century United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Moissonneurs à Blarimon by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Moissonneurs à Blarimon by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
26.4 x 37 cm (10 ³/₈ x 14 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, Ludovic Rodo.
Executed in 1931
Th...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Provence Watercolor of Stone Bridge and Village Houses in Sospel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Provence Watercolor of Stone Bridge and Village Houses in Sospel
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper
Size: 11.75 x ...
Category
Late 20th Century French School United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Row of Plane Trees In Winter - Maussane-les-Alpilles
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Row of Plane Trees In Winter - Maussane-les-Alpilles', Provence, watercolour and pencil on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1946). A line of Plane trees greets visitors to almost every vi...
Category
1940s Expressionist United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Set of Four Miniature Watercolors of Corn Street and Churches in Bristol
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Set of Four Miniature Watercolors of Corn Street and Churches in Bristol
by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist
Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed
Measurements ...
Category
20th Century English School United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
La Promenade by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing, Pastel, Charcoal, Landscape
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
La Promenade by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Charcoal and pastel on paper
49.5 x 63.5 cm (19 ⅜ x 25 inches)
Signed lower left, Manzana
Executed circa 1920
This work is accom...
Category
1920s Art Deco United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
Bernard, Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
English School
Bernard, Self Portrait
1950s
Pencil and sepia chalk on paper
Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (24 x 34.3 cm)
Handmade contemporary frame
This imaginative self-portra...
Category
1950s United Kingdom - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
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