Gertrude Braud

Fairy Tales 19th Century American Watercolour

Watercolour on paper, signed and dated '1870' lower left Image size: 5 x 6 1/2 inches (13 x 16.5 cm)

Alfred H. Taylor The Experiment Watercolour, signed and dated 1838 Image size: 9 ½ x 8 inches

NORMAN AULT 1880 – 1950 ANIGHT MY SHALLOP Pencil & watercolour on paer, signed & dated 1913 lower left Image size: 10 ¼ x 7 ½ inches (26 x 19 cm) Hand made giltwood frame This water...

Watercolour on paper, signed, titled & dated 1933 Image size: 11 ½ x 7 inches (29 x 18 cm) Mounted This work is initialled lower right 'CT' and inscribed lower left 'Bristol Savages...

A charming watercolour finished with graphic black hatching, showing a woman and three young girls resting on a style overlooking a beautiful valley. The woman and young girls are sm...

Fairy tales, Mixed media on paper, from the artist estate. unsigned. actual size 19"x23" framed 34"x39" Impressionistic style watercolor, drawing, pastel on paper, from the artist Estate. DeWitt Lockman began painting at the age of four in Brooklyn. By the age of seven, his family had moved to New York, where he worked with the animal painter James H. Beard. He later studied with Nelson Bickford and William Sartain. He was in Europe, principally in France, England, and Holland, from 1891 to 1892 and again from 1901 to 1902. In the years between the two European trips, Lockman painted little, suffering from ill-health. Resuming his artistic activities in the early years of the century, Lockman also served in the Office of Naval Intelligence from 1917 to 1918. He married Evelyn Walker in 1946. Although his oeuvre also includes still life and animal pictures, Lockman was most successful as a portraitist, painting over 500 works in that genre. President Calvin Coolidge, General of the Armies John J. Pershing, and Dr. Nicholas Murray...

A truly beautiful portrait of an older woman taking a quiet moment to read a book at her bureau. She is clearly a woman of high standing shown in her richly textured clothes: satin ribbons, lace shawl and a velvet bodice and skirts. Her tight ringletted hair was a style popular in the 1880s but as she is an older woman this is probably a style she carried through her life, dating the painting around 1880 instead. This painting captures the serene and intensely personal act of solitary reading with gentle aplomb using a watercolour brush...

Mon dieu, gardez-moi mon enfant is an original artwork realized by Paul Delhommeau, in 1868. Watercolor drawing on brown cardboard glued on on a white paper ...