Jean-Baptiste Grancher

French Pencil Drawing - The Tracker

Circa 1940

Lovely one-of-a-kind pencil and watercolor sketch of various figures and a work horse, circa 1850. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival pl...

Boldly lined pencil drawing of farm workers harvesting and bailing hay by French artist Jean Baptiste Grancher, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with ...

Playful one-of-a-kind pencil sketch of various 18th century figures going about their daily activities, circa 1850. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold bo...

Vintage Pencil sketch of two figures carrying large billowing fabric by C. Gassier, circa 1930. Signed lower left. Original artwork on paper dis...

Painter is a beautiful original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by an anonymous artist of XX century. An artist is portrayed from his shoulder and while he is painti...

"Studies" is an original pencil drawing on paper, realized by an Anonymous Artist of the XX Century . The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Sheet dimension: 22 x 29.5 cm. The artwork represents beautiful studies drawn in pencil. On the back of the work another red pencil drawing...

Soldiers is an original artwork realized by an Anonymous French artist in the first decades of the XX Century. Original pencil drawing. The sheet is drawed also on the back. Mint conditions. This work is a representation of several soldiers: a fresh and rapid sketch representing two male figures with the typical military clothes...

James Stroudley 1906 -1985 Portrait of a Hunter Graphite on paper Image size: 24 x 15 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...