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Period: Mid-19th Century
Jurassic Coast, Dorset
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on heavy gauge watercolor, 4 1/8 x 11 3/4 (105 x 299 mm), the full sheet. In good condition with scattered minor surface soiling, and light scattered foxing. Colors slight...
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English School Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Mount Willow
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and gouache on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 9 1/2 x 15 1/8 inches (242 x 385 mm), the full sheet. Titled in pencil on the verso. Scattered edge wear, and small losses at ...
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English School Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Coastline, Dorset / A plein air watercolor sketch of row boats beached along Eng
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and graphite on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 6 x 9 1/2 inches (152 x 241 mm), the full sheet. Scattered light foxing, otherwise in good condition.
Sophia Beale was born...
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English School Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Compelling 1951 Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Compelling, 1951 Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Artwork size: 12 x 9 1/2 inches. Artwork is unframed, matted/...
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American Modern Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Cliffs, Dorset
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on watercolor paper, 9 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches (248 x 311 mm), the full sheet. Scattered light toning, especially at the sheet edges. Minor, light area of clustered brown spot...
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English School Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cottages on the Yorkshire Dales
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor with white heightening through abrasion with the brush stick on watercolor paper, 7 x 9 7/8 inches (177 x 248 mm), the full sheet. In good condition with scattered light f...
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English School Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A heron fishing – Edo School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and watercolor on fibrous Japon paper laid down to period cream laid paper, 6 x 7 1/2 inches (155 x 190 mm). Minor toning and some insect damage on the mount, painting itself rem...
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Edo Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
La Contadina Peasant Girl Mid-19th Century Figure Study In A Renaissance Style
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
G. Vaccaro.
Italian ( 19th Century ).
La Contadina.
Pencil & Charcoal On Paper.
Signed & Dated (18)65 Lower Right.
Paper size 28.9 inches x 34.8 inches ( 73.5cm x 88.5cm ).
Frame siz...
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Renaissance Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
Louis DAVID (1798-1849) Le Moulin La Butte aux Cailles, Paris, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Alphonse DAVID (1798-1849)
Le Moulin de la Butte aux Cailles, Paris, (The Mill at la Butte aux Cailles)
signed lower left
Pencil and white chalk on paper
22,5 x 36 cm
Framed : 40,5 x 55 cm
Louis-Alphonse David is known for a relatively small body of work, including portraits and large compositions. In any case, in this work he shows a remarkable mastery of drawing, with particularly suggestive and subtle plays of light and shadow.
The Butte aux Cailles, now part of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, was a hill covered in meadows, vineyards and woods, built with several windmills and overlooking the river Bièvre. It was named after Pierre Caille...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Chalk
Louis Charles Auguste Couder (1789-1873) Portrait of a young man, signed pastel
By Louis Charles Auguste Couder
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Charles Auguste Couder (1789-1873)
Portrait of a young man
signed on the right border
Pastel on paper
28.5 x 21 cm
In good condition
In a modern frame : 48 x 40.5 cm
Augu...
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Academic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES
Located in Portland, ME
Michallet (attributed). ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES. Four Charcoal drawings, each on heavy wove paper, 19th Century. 24 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches (s...
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Academic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
By Queen Victoria
s Daughter Princess Alice Framed Royal Watercolor Painting
By HRH Princess Alice Maud Mary Hanover
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Queen Victoria’s Daughter, HRH Princess Alice Maud Mary, Of The House of Hanover.
The British Royal Family.
British ( b.1843 - d.1878 ).
Long Life And Happiness – June 11th 1860.
Wat...
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Victorian Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Auguste Legras (1817-1887) Portrait of a young man in profile, drawing signed
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste Legras (1817-1887)
Portrait of a young man in profile,
signed lower right
Charcoal, red and white chalks on paper
45 x 31.5 cm
Framed : 52 x 39 cm
This particularly evocati...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Jurassic Coast, Dorset
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper, 5 3/4 x 11 3/8 inches (147 x 290 mm), the full sheet. On the verso is an unfinished sketch in graphite which is titled "Gardens, 3 Kent T...
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English School Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Resting Dromedar, 1861
Located in Stockholm, SE
Egron Sellif Lundgren (1815–1875) Sweden
Resting Dromedar, 1861
watercolour heightened with white
unframed 21 x 29.2 cm (8 ¼ x 11 ½ in.)
framed 40 x 48 cm (15 ¾ x 18 ⅞ in.)
Provenance:
Sale, Stockholm, Bukowskis, 12 December 1894, lot 42;
Signe and Ernst Trygger (1857–1943), Villa Trygger, Stockholm. Ernst Trygger was Swedish Prime Minister (1923–24), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1928–30) and University Chancellor (1926–37); A Swedish private collection.
Literature:
Förteckning på oljemålningar, aquareller och handteckningar m.m. av Egron Lundgren utställda i Akademien för de fria konsterna, 1876, no. 259.
Karl Asplund, Egron Lundgren, Vol. II, 1940, p. 40, note 1, p. 166.
Exhibited:
The Royal Academy, Egron Lundgren, 10 April 1876, no. 259.
Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening, Memorial Exhibition, February 1915, no. 70, Hvilande kameler (owner Ernst Trygger).
The Royal Academy, Svenska Akvareller (Swedish Watercolor Exhibition), 1925, no. 224, Vilande kameler (owner Signe Trygger).
Essay:
This delicate watercolour, executed during Lundgren’s first journey to Egypt in the winter of 1861–62, depicts a resting dromedary in the shade at Giza. Painted in transparent washes with touches of white gouache, the work captures the intense desert light and atmosphere with a remarkable immediacy. The reclining animal dominates the composition, rendered in warm ochres and browns against a cool, shadowy background, while highlights on its saddle and coat give the scene a subtle radiance. The quiet stillness of the subject reflects Lundgren’s sensitivity to the everyday motifs of the Orient, which he observed and painted directly on site.
Lundgren travelled to Egypt in the company of two British artists, Frank Dillon (1823-1909) and George Price Boyce...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Portrait of an Italian Fencer, " John Frederick Kensett, Hudson River School
Located in New York, NY
John Frederick Kensett (1816 - 1872)
Portrait of an Italian Fencer, circa 1845-47
Watercolor on wove paper
13 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Signed with initials and inscribed lower right "J.F.K. Rome"
From October 1845 through the spring of 1847, Kensett lived in Rome. He attended classes where he sketched from live models, and he sketched in the countryside outside Rome and around Florence, Perugia, and Venice, places he visited with his artist friends. He fulfilled commissions for paintings from Americans in Italy, and by 1847 his career was well established.
Son of an English immigrant engraver, John Kensett lacked enthusiasm for that medium and became one of the most accomplished painters of the second generation of Hudson River School painters. His reputation is for Luminism, careful depiction of light, weather, and atmosphere as they affect color and texture of natural forms. He was particularly influenced by the painting of Asher Durand in that he focused on realism and detail rather than the highly dramatic views associated with Thomas Cole. Going to the western United States in the mid 1850s and the 1860s, he was the first of the Hudson River School painters to explore and paint the West.
Kensett was born and raised in Cheshire, Connecticut, and learned his engraving from his father, Thomas Kensett with whom he worked in New Haven, Connecticut until 1829. He continued working until 1840 as an engraver of labels, banknotes and maps and was employed part of that time by the American Bank Note Company in New York City. There he met Thomas Rossiter, John Casilear, and other artists who urged him to pursue painting. In 1840, he and Rossiter, Asher Durand, and Casilear went to Europe where Kensett stayed for seven years and supported himself by doing engraving but became accomplished in landscape painting.
Having sent canvases of Italian landscapes back to New York, he had a reputation for skillful painting that preceded him. When he returned to New York City in 1847, he was an "instant success" and very sought after by collectors. Two of his Italian landscapes had already been purchased by the American Art Union. By 1849, he was a full member of the National Academy of Design and was generally popular among his peers. His studio was a gathering place with travelers stopping by to see his canvases and to identify "precise locations in the Catskills or Newport or New England in the oil sketches and drawings that covered his walls." (Zellman 170). For the women, he was a popular bachelor, "romantic looking with high forehead and sensitive expression." (Samuels 262)
He was also sought after by many organizations. Among his activities were serving on the committee to oversee the decoration of the United States Capitol in Washington DC, and becoming one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
An inveterate traveler, Kensett spent summers on painting excursions away from New York City. One of these trips was a special painting excursion with fifteen other artists sponsored by the B & O Railroad from Baltimore, Maryland to Wheeling, West Virginia. Unlike many of the Hudson River painters...
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Hudson River School Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Auguste Mayer (1805-1890) A seascape with a boat, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste Mayer (1803-1890
A seascape with a boat
signed with the initials on the lower left
Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on paper
17.5 x 26 cm...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Carbon Pencil
British Chalk Pencil Sketch of Two Dapper Gentleman Fishing On The Riverbank
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
John Rabone Harvey ( 1966 - 1922)
graphic and chalk deep green artist paper , unframed
artist paper : 7 x 5.5 inches
Provenance: private collection
Condition: very good condition
Ha...
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Realist Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Graphite
British Chalk Pencil Sketch of A Young Boy In His Fishing Gear
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
John Rabone Harvey ( 1966 - 1922)
graphic and chalk deep green artist paper , unframed
artist paper : 7 x 5.5 inches
Provenance: private collection
Condition: very good condition
Ha...
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Realist Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Graphite
"The Sphynx is Weary, She Dreams o
er the World" John La Farge, American Artist
By John La Farge
Located in New York, NY
John La Farge
The Sphynx is Weary, She Dreams o'er the World, 1865
Initialed and dated lower right
Gouache, watercolor and black chalk on illustration board
10 1/4 x 12 3/8 inches
P...
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Symbolist Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Baldassarre Franceschini, Sleeping Cupid, Valentine
s Day Gift
Located in Harkstead, GB
A beautiful 19th century copy by Giuseppe Rocchi of Baldassarre Franceschini's Sleeping Cupid, presented in a very attractive gilt frame with hand carved mouldings. A very peaceful i...
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Old Masters Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,318 Sale Price
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British Chalk Pencil Sketch of a Farmer Shovelling In The Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
John Rabone Harvey ( 1966 - 1922)
graphic and chalk deep green artist paper , unframed
artist paper : 7 x 5.5 inches
Provenance: private collection
Condition: very good condition
Ha...
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Realist Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Graphite
Academic Study for the Head of an Apostle or Saint
Located in Firenze, IT
Study for the Head of an Apostle or Saint
Artist: Enrico Reffo (1831-1917)
Medium: Charcoal and white chalk on colored paper
Dimensions: [To be specified]
Date: Late 19th - Early 20...
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Academic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
$210 Sale Price
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Chesterfield Sent to Coventry, or A Display of Military Education
Located in Middletown, NY
A wonderful 1824 preparatory drawing for a published work satirizing the famously ill-mannered 10th Hussars.
1842. Pen and ink with watercolor on watermarked J Whatman 1824 paper, 9...
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English School Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
John Ridge, A Cherokee Indian
Interpreter Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
1838 John Ridge A Cherokee Indian and Interpreter Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
The lithograph depicts John Ridge, a Cherokee interpreter, by Charles Bird King (American, 1785 - 1862), published 1838. Compared to other indian portraits in tribal regalia, King's rendering of John Ridge appears to be different. King portrayed John Ridge in Anglo-American clothing, sitting at a desk with a document and pen in hand—hinting at Ridge’s education and career as tribal leader and politician. King was known for his realistic and sensitive renderings of his sitters, and his ability to capture their physical features and attire with dignity and attention to detail.
Condition: Good; tonal aging due to age; previous mat tonal aging marks
Presented in new conservation mat
Paper size: 19.75"H X 14"W
Image size: 15"H x 10"W
Mat size:24"H x 16"W
John Ridge received his education at Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut and served as clerk of the Cherokee National Council. When King painted...
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Hudson River School Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Lithograph
Antique Italian Painted Hand Fan in a Glass Case
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive 19th century Italian hand fan, remarkably preserved with silvered metal sticks and guards depicting ancient gods, palm trees and classical emblemes. The paper leaves are h...
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Rococo Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Silver
French 19th Century Romantic Period 1830s Paris Society Beauty Portrait
Located in Norwich, GB
A astounding portrait of a society beauty by Adele Grasset (active ca 1830-1850). With an open face and and lightly smiling lips, she is wearing a gown typical of the romantic period. Drawn in graphite and heightened with white, the drawing is dated 1836
As often with woman artists of the 18th and 19th century, there is little biographical information available on Adèle Grasset. We do know however, that she had studied with the highly prominent artist François Gérard (1770-1837) , known also as the Baron Gérard...
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Academic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
Henri Harpignies (1819-1916) A Barrier on the hedge, study, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Henri Harpignies (1819-1916)
A Barrier on the hedge, study
Signed lower left, annotation "branches séchées sur la barrière" (dried branches on the fence) on the upper right
Charcoal...
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Barbizon School Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Detailed European Landscape in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed European Landscape in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
This finely detailed watercolor painting captures a serene countryside setting with an old stone church, a rustic hous...
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French School Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Edward William Cooke RA (1811-1880) - Framed Watercolour, On the Cornish Coast
Located in Corsham, GB
An original mid-19th century watercolour by the listed British artist Edward William Cooke RA (1811-1880). Well presented in a gilt frame. Signed in the lower left and dated 1865. On...
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Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Wakechai (Crouching Eagle) A Saukie Chief Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
1842 Wakechai (Crouching Eagle) A Saukie Indian Chief Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
The lithograph depicts Wakechai, also known as Crouching Eagle, who was a member of the Sauk and Fox delegation. King renders Wakechai with exceptional detail. The Saukie Chief is adorned with fine accoutrements such as a white fur robe...
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Hudson River School Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Lithograph
Ruins of the Imperial Castle Outside Split in Croatia
Located in Stockholm, SE
Gustaf Wilhelm Palm (1810–1890) Sweden
Ruins of the Imperial Castle Outside Split in Croatia
pencil and watercolour
unframed: 23.6 x 29.2 cm (9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in)
framed: 40 x 45 cm...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Paul Gavarni (1804-1866) Portrait of a young man, signed drawing
By Paul Gavarni
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Gavarni (1804-1866)
Portrait of a young man leaning on a Chair
Signed lower right
Black pencil on paper
23.7 x 17.6 cm
In good condition
Framed : 40 x 34 cm
This fine portr...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
John Edmund Buckley (fl.1843-1861) - Framed Watercolour, Tudor Wedding Party
Located in Corsham, GB
A particularly fine watercolour scene of two noble families greeting each other outside a magnificent half-timber manor. Both families look nervous by the meeting, standing at a dist...
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Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
19th Century French School, Studies of horses and small scenes, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
19th Century French School,
Studies of horses and small scenes,
pencil on paper
14.5 x 21 cm
Framed : 25.5 x 32.7 cm
This study sheet, which brings together studies of horses and...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Study of a hand; preparatory work for the painting Jewish Bride in Morocco, 1867
By Alfred Dehodencq
Located in PARIS, FR
Alfred DEHODENCQ (1822-1982)
Study of a hand; preparatory to the painting Jewish Bride in Morocco, 1867
Pencil on paper
Dimensions of work: 15.5 x 17.5 cm
Frame size : 30 x 30 cm
A...
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Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
1840 Watercolour - Madonna and Child
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine watercolour depiction on the Madonna and Child with adoring Maji and a boar. Painted in Paris 1940. Inscribed to the lower left. Presented in a gilt frame with a foliate motif...
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Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$401 Sale Price
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19th Century Grand Tour Impressionist View of Santo Stephano, Liguria, Italy.
Located in Cotignac, FR
19th century Impressionist view, in pastel, chalk and crayon, in the style of Turner, of Santo Stephano, Imperia, Italy by British artist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon...
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Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
"West Point from the East Bank of the Hudson" Antique Drawing on Paper Watkinson
Located in Soquel, CA
"West Point from the East Bank of the Hudson" Antique Drawing on Paper
Delicate and detailed drawing by Hartford, Connecticut artist Edward Watkins Wells (1819-1898) The viewer looks out past a gate at the Hudson River, with its characteristic mountain banks. A shepherd is driving a flock of sheep towards the gate and viewer. The scene appears to have been copied from a drawing book published in 1827, based on the inscription at the bottom edge.
Presented in white archival mat
Mat size: 12"H x 12"W
Paper size: 7.5"H x 9.25"W
Notes of interest on Edward Watkinson Wells
Our most significant acquisition this year came from a dealer in Philadelphia. It is a 450-page diary written over 10 years (1841-1851) by Hartford artist and dilettante Edward Watkinson Wells (1819-1898), one of the many nephews of our founder, David Watkinson (1778-1857).
Edward was immersed in Hartford’s cultural life in the 1840s, exhibited his works at local fairs and gave lessons to the locals. He portrays an active involvement with with his large extended family, which often crossed and re-crossed the other prominent families of Hartford (i.e., Barnard, Channing, Dexter, Ely, Gallaudet, Gill, Goodrich, Hudson, Rockwell, Silsbee, Tappan, Terry, Tracy, Trumbull, Van Renselaer, and Wadsworth).
Edward describes dancing and costume parties, soirees, teas, dinners, and receptions in private homes and public venues. He meets Charles Dickens and his wife when they come through Hartford in 1842, and describes brushes with other luminaries, such as Col. Thomas L. McKenney (who lectures on American Indians), and the Unitarian clergyman Rev. Henry Giles, who gave a pro-Irish speech.
Other entertainments included a balloon ascension, exhibitions of mesmerism and hypnotism, parades, and performances by well-known groups. He also chronicles the progression of the construction of the Wadsworth Atheneum, and touches on his father’s far-reaching interests in the business world–canals, railroads, factories, and real estate.
The cost of this valuable document of mid-19thC Hartford was generously underwritten entirely by a member of the Watkinson Trustees.
Trinity College and the Watkinson Virtual Library has content on Edward Watkinson Wells.
Yale College also:
Edward Watkinson Wells also kept a diary, of which three volumes are preserved (folder 32). He describes a trip by steamboat to Florida, ca. 1855-1860, and the social life and customs he observed there. The other two volumes detail his daily life in Hartford during 1856-1860, and record the deaths of his father and David Watkinson in 1857.
Other items contained in the William Wells...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Pencil
J. G - Framed Mid 19th Century Watercolour, The Merchant of Shoreham
Located in Corsham, GB
Fine mid 19th century watercolour. Merchant ship in choppy waters. Presented in a heavy oak frame with card mount. Initialled J. G to the lower right and dated 1869. On watercolour p...
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Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$336 Sale Price
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The song bird
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Augustus Jules Bouvier (1827–1881) was a French-born English painter active in London. He exhibited at the British Institution and the Royal Academy. He is best known for oil paintin...
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Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Pair of 19th century English Antique watercolor portraits of a man and woman,
Located in Woodbury, CT
A pair pf 19th century English School watercolor portraits of a man and woman, possibly husband and wife.
Both are inscribed on the rever...
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Victorian Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Figures - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an Original Drawing in red Pencil realized by an anonymous artist in the Early 20th Century.
Mint Conditions.
The artwork is depicted throu...
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Modern Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Trompe l
oeil [Punch and Judy].
Located in New York, NY
Trompe l'oeil. [Punch and Judy].
Watercolor and drawing, undated, circa 1830. Paper size 10.25 x 14" (26.1 x 35.6 cm). On "J. Whatman" watermarked paper. Unidentified artist.
A 19th-century visual montage of Cruikshank's "Punch & Judy." The images are taken from the book "The Tragical Comedy, or Comical Tragedy of Punch and Judy." As told to John Payne Collier by Giovanni in 1827, illustrated by George Cruikshank and published by S. Prowlett, London 1828. The central circle illustrates a drawing showing two allegorical female figures with two putti. The text under this image: “E Musao Hugonis Howard Armig, from Guercino.” On top of that illustration is a handsome painting of a flintlock pistol. Trompe l’oeil is an art of illustration – the name translates to ‘Trick of the Eye.”
The puppet show of Pulcinella or Punch and Judy has a long and fascinating history. “A puppet play that would have featured a version of Punch was first recorded in England in May 1662 by the diarist Samuel Pepys. He noted seeing it in Covent Garden, London, performed by the Italian puppet showman Pietro Gimonde from Bologna, otherwise known as Signor Bologna.
The earliest script of a Punch and Judy show...
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Realist Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
![Trompe l
oeil [Punch and Judy].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_3312/1620315874402/Trompe_L_Oeil_Punch_87325_master.jpg?width=240 "trompe l
oeil art")
Framed Mid 19th Century Watercolour - Frenchmen in Conversation
Located in Corsham, GB
Gossip on the Street- This Mid 19th century watercolour depicts three boastful Frenchmen having a public natter in front of several french style houses. The artist has captured a dog...
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Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$268 Sale Price
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Study Of A Woman Holding A Bowl
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Isidore Pils (Paris, 1813 – Douarnenez, 1875)
Study of a Woman Holding a Bowl
Red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on buff paper
36.3 × 26.5 cm (14 ¼ × 10 ⅜ in.)
Unsigned
Prove...
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Academic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Chinese Erotic Album Leaf, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Despite its explicit content, this intimate scene conveys a sense of tenderness and romantic love characteristic of Chinese erotic art. Known as “sp...
Category
Qing Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Design of Furniture - Pen and Pencil on Paper - 1850
Located in Roma, IT
Design of Furniture is a drawing in pen and pencil on paper realized in about 1850 by anonymous artist of the 19th Century.
The State of preservation i...
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Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Pen
Notre-Dame de Paris. Paper, watercolor, 26.5x18 cm
By Edward Nevil
Located in Riga, LV
Edward Nevil ( 1813 – 1901 )
Notre-Dame de Paris. Paper, watercolor, 26.5x18 cm
Category
Realist Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$612 Sale Price
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French Drawing - Figure Study
Located in Houston, TX
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...
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Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Attributed to Eugène Lami (1800-1890) A Maid feeding rabbits, Watercolor
By Eugène Louis Lami
Located in Paris, FR
Attributed to Eugène Lami (1800-1890)
A maid feeding rabbits
Watercolor on paper
Bears a monogramm E L on the lower right
12.5 x 12.5 cm
In good condition, some foxings in the uppe...
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Academic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid 19th Century Watercolour - The Dispute
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine mid 19th Century watercolour scene with wonderful narrative. The scene is set inside a run down barn in which an old man and woman appear to b...
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Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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The actor Karl Seydelmann as soldier / - The expressiveness of a simple pose -
Located in Berlin, DE
Theodor Hosemann (1807 Brandenburg - 1875 Berlin), The actor Karl Seydelmann as soldier, around 1840. Watercolor in pencil, 22 cm (height) x 14.7 cm (width), signed “Th.[eodor] Hosem...
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Realist Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
French Romantic school, Portrait of a young man, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic school, circa 1840
Portrait of a young man,
charcoal on paper
22.5 x 17 cm
In good condition, however, there is a restoration of the paper in the upper right-hand qu...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Vigilant Fox - The psyche of the fox -
Located in Berlin, DE
Carl Friedrich Deiker (1838 Wetzlar - 1892 Düsseldorf). Vigilant fox. Pencil drawing on brown paper, 18 × 29.5 cm (inside measurement), 31.5 x 43.5 cm (mount), signed and dated "Deiker [18]54" at lower right.
- a little bit stained, with a light water stain at lower right
About the artwork
Carl Friedrich Deiker's consummate ability to depict animals is already evident in this early work. He brought a whole new psychological dimension to animal painting, so that one could literally speak of animal portraits.
The naturalistic appearance of the fox alone makes it seem alive. Every strand of muscle, even every hair, is captured, which requires an intensive artistic study of animal anatomy and physiology. But the fox's real liveliness comes not from its natural appearance, but from its internal movement: Stretched out, it has been brought out of rest. It turns around and, with its ears pricked up, looks intently in the direction from which it has seen something. His mouth is slightly open and his pointed teeth are bared, as if he were growling. Tension gradually takes hold of his whole body. While the hind legs were still in a relaxed position, closely observed by Deiker, one front leg was already raised, ready to begin a rising movement. The fox seems so alarmed with all its senses that one gets the impression that, at any moment, its tail will move jerkily and the animal will jump up.
While wild animals have traditionally been portrayed as beasts or anthropomorphised, often for caricatural purposes, Deiker explores their inherent nature by attempting to capture their psychic impulses. The wild animal is neither bestial nor human, but a creature in its own right, valued by Deiker for its own sake. In this way, he brought the dignity of the animal into representation and raised animal painting to a whole new artistic level.
About the artist
Carl Friedrich Deiker was the son of the drawing teacher Christian Friedrich Deiker and the younger brother of the animal painter Johannes Deiker. In addition to the family art lessons, Christian Friedrich shared a studio with his brother Johannes at Braunfels Castle, Deiker attended the drawing academy in Hanau, and from 1858 he was a student at the Karlsruhe Art Academy, where he studied under the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. Carl Friedrich Deiker was already in demand as an artist during his first year: Grand Duke Frederick I of Baden, Margrave Max of Baden and Grand Duke Michael of Russia bought hunting scenes by him.
In 1859 he went on a study trip to the Reinhardswald. Just as the Barbizon School had rediscovered the landscape, Deiker opened up the forest for animal painting.
From 1861-64 Deiker had his own studio in Karlsruhe, then moved to Düsseldorf, where his brother Johannes followed four years later. Deiker married a daughter of the landscape painter Karl Hilger and remained in Düsseldorf until his death.
In 1868 he finally achieved international fame with his painting 'Pursued Noble Deer' and was regarded as a virtuoso new founder of animal painting.
"Deiker brought for the first time a truly great artistic quality to animal painting [...]".
- Hans Vollmer
From 1870 he participated in the academic art exhibitions in Berlin, Dresden, Munich and Hanover. He was also very busy as an illustrator. He drew for the Gartenlaube, the Salon, the Universum, and produced many of the finely illustrated hunting and animal books of the period. He also worked as a printmaker, while his oil paintings circulated as reprints by Franz Dinger.
From 1865 to 1892 Deiker was a member of the artists' association Malkasten.
Carl Friedrich Deiker's life's work was honoured with a large posthumous memorial exhibition at the Düsseldorf Kunsthalle in 1892.
His son Carl Deiker, born in 1879, also became a painter.
Selection of art museums that own works by Carl Friedrich Deiker:
Hamburger Kunsthalle / Kunsthalle Karlsruhe / Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf / Wallraff Richartz Cologne.
Selected Bibliography
H. Schmidt: Johannes and...
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Naturalistic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Mid 19th Century Watercolour - A Game of Backgammon
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming scene depicting a group of people playing a game of backgammon in a luxurious interior. The figures are captured in a romantic style, with the women wearing fine gowns and...
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Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Achille Devéria (1800-1857) A galant scene Original Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Achille Devéria (1800-1857)
A galant scene
pencil on paper
Some stains (see photographs please)
Bears the stamp of the Achille Deveria Estate Sale o...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
France 19th century, The Bohème artist in his workshop, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
France circa 1850
The Bohème artist in his workshop
Watercolor on paper
15.5 x 21.5 cm
In good condition except a small tear (visible on the photographs) on the upper right border.
I...
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Romantic Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Capitol, Timgad, Algeria
Located in Middletown, NY
A luminous landscape of the Roman ruins at Timgad, with the Aurès mountains aglow in the background.
Watercolor on artist board, 9 7/8 x 7 inches (252 x 178 mm), the full sheet. Tit...
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English School Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
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Harpiste - Drawing by Henri de Groux - 1866
Located in Roma, IT
Pencil and charcoal drawing on paper realized in the earl 20th Century as preparatory drawing for the decorations at Théatre de l'Opéra de Marseille.
Not signed, matted.
Very good ...
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Modern Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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