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Period: Mid-19th Century
Monogrammist DC, France 19th Century, Different types of Workers, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Monogrammist DC, France circa 1850
Different types of workers, Studies
monogrammed DC on the lower right
Lead mine on paper
13 x 19.5
On its 19th century original mount (no frame) : 26 x 33 cm
Very original and lively depiction of different types of workers.
Perfect illustration of the realist french School close to Barbizon painters.
Category
Realist Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
French Romantic School, Le Baiser (The Kiss) Study, charcoal and Ink drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic School circa 1830
"Le Baiser"
The Kiss, A hunter and a girl flirting, study of the girl in the upper register
pencil, pen and black ink
19.5 x 13 cm (view)
Framed ...
Category
Romantic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink
"Scholars
Treasures, " Qing-Dynasty Ink Painting on Fabric
Located in Chicago, IL
A scroll and a small lantern depicted in this 19th-century painting suggest the romantic notion of a Chinese scholar painting in the evening hours. Re...
Category
Qing Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Silk, Ink, Pigment
George James Knox (1810-1897) - 1857 Watercolour, By the Windmill
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine 19th-century study by the English listed artist George James Knox (1810-1897). The scene depicts figures walking towards the coastline before an old windmill. Signed and dated...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mr. George Payne
Admiral Rous Turf Characters
Located in Bristol, CT
Charming watercolour, heightened w/ bodycolour and gum arabic by Richard Deighton (British 1795-1880) depicting Admiral the Hon. Jenry John Rous (1795-1877) who held the position of ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Giant
s Head Farm, Cerne Abbas - 1930s British drawing by Randolph Schwabe
Located in London, GB
RANDOLPH SCHWABE, RWS, NEAC
(1885-1948)
Giant’s Head Farm, Cerne Abbas
Signed with initials, inscribed Giant’s Head Farm, Cerne Abbas and dated 193...
Category
Realist Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Watercolour study of a resting infant, possibly the artist
s daughter
Located in Henley-on-Thames, England
William Henry Hunt OWS (1790-1864) (attrib.)
Study of a resting infant
Watercolour and graphite heightened with zinc oxide on paper
13.9 x 18.5 cm.; (within frame) 31.1 x 25.6 cm.
Un...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Chinese Mythical Immortal Screen Painting, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century, people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes - the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a roo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Pigment
19th century color portrait pencil pastel female subject realism
By Constance de Rothschild
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Lady Mary Stanhope" is an original pencil and pastel drawing by Constance de Rothschild. This piece depicts a woman facing to the right. The artist also cre...
Category
Impressionist Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Ancient Oak Trees in Lullingstone Park, Samuel Palmer Watercolour and Ink
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and pen and ink on paper, inscribed verso
Image size: 5 x 4 inches (13 x 10 cm)
Framed
This drawing most likely depicts a view in Lullingstone Park, near the village of ...
Category
English School Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
“Cottage”
Located in Southampton, NY
Graphite and watercolor on paper stock drawing by the Russian Federation artist, Carl Ivanovitch Kollmann. Circa 1830. Condition: Good. Actual drawing diameter is 6.5 inches. Impr...
Category
Academic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
$1,360 Sale Price
20% Off
Attrib. William Clarkson Stanfield (1793-1867) - Watercolour, Mother
Child
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate Victorian watercolour, titled Mother & Child. The unfinished study depicts a seated mother and her young son looking down at the ground. With provenance also written to th...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$320 Sale Price
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Mid 19th Century Watercolour - Children with Sheep
Located in Corsham, GB
Well presented in a washline mount and gilt effect frame. Unsigned. On paper.
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$252 Sale Price
20% Off
Figures of Men - Drawing by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux- Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures of Men is a Pencil Drawing realized by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux.
The little artwork is in good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (37.5x54.5 cm).
No Signature, Stamp signed on the back of the yellowed paper.
Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux (3 April 1815, Paris – 8 November 1884, Paris) was a French artist and illustrator, known primarily as a battle painter. He was born in Paris, France, studied art at the studio of Léon Cogniet...
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Chinese Folk Drawing of Mythical Qilin, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Beautifully detailed and masterfully painted, this painting dating from the turn of the 20th century centers its expressive composition upon a rondel of Chinese symbols. Representing...
Category
Qing Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Wood, Ink
$1,176 Sale Price
37% Off
Carriage - Original Drawing by Alexandre Bida - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Carriage is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Alexandre Bida (1823-1895).
Good conditions.
No signature.
F. Alexandre Bida (1813–1895) was a Fre...
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The Visit - Original Drawing by Joseph Mezzara - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Visit is an original artwork realized by Joseph Mezzara in the middle 19 th century. Pencil, Charcoal Drawing. Hand signed on the back.
Good Conditions.
Joseph Mezzara (1820-1901) was an American Sculptor. He took lessons from the painter Jean Pierre Granger, the sculptor Pierre Jean David d'Angers and the painter Ary Scheffer...
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
"A View of Nuremberg" 19th century English watercolor on paper
Located in New York, NY
Brown, grey and pink washes on beige paper
4 x 3 3/4 inches (10 x 9.5 cm)
Signed: In Nuremberg
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by Daniel Wadsworth Coit (1787 – 1876), and th...
Category
English School Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mid 19th Century Watercolour - Sisterly Affection
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$346 Sale Price
20% Off
Figure of a Woman - Original Drawing By F. Barrias - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of a Woman is an original China Ink Drawing realized by Félix Barrias (1822-1907) in 1844.
The artwork is in good condition on a brown paper.
Ha...
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Portrait - Original Drawing - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original China Ink Drawing realized by Félix Barrias.
Good condition, included a cream colored cardboard passpartout (30.5x37 cm).
Monog...
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Child at School - Original Drawing - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Child at School is an original China Ink Drawing realized by Félix Barrias.
Good condition, included a cream colored cardboard passpartout (38x26.5 cm)....
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pencil
View Over the Rhône to St. Maurice- Watercolor by F. Perlberg - Mid 19th Century
By Friedrich Perlberg
Located in Roma, IT
View over the Rhône to St. Maurice in Valais is an original artwork realized by the artist Friedrich Perlberg in the second half of 19th Century.
Watercolor over pencil.
Inscribed ...
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Haunting Dream - Drawing - 1860s
Located in Roma, IT
The Haunting Dream is an original pencil and oil pastel drawing realized by an artist of 19th century, in 1860s.
Good condition, no signature.
Included a cream colored cardboard pa...
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Oil
Study for a Scenography - Ink and Tempera - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Study for a Scenography is an originial artwork realized by an artist of the early 20th century.
Ink and tempera.
Good condition.
Not signed.
Category
Contemporary Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Ink
Costume Party - Original Pencil Drawing - 1836
Located in Roma, IT
Costume Party is an original drawing in pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by a French anonymous artist in 1836.
Includs a white passepartout: 49 x 34 cm.
Hand-signed at the bo...
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Couple in Hat Walking from Behind - Pencil by Wauquier - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Couple in hat walking from behind is an original drawing in pencil with gray tip on paper, realized by E. O. Wauquier.
Good conditions except for minor cosmetic wear.
Hand-signed WAUQUIER. French school of the XIXth century. Grid paper...
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
The General….Baron de Brielhe - Pencil by E. O. Wauquier - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The general ... Baron De Brielhe is an original drawing in pencil with gray point, unsigned, on paper, realized by E. O. Wauquier (1808-1869).
Good conditions except for minor cosme...
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Man Pants with Side Line - Original Pencil by E. O. Wauquier - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Man pants with side line is an original drawing in pencil point grisen on paper, realized by E.O. Wauquier (1808-1869).
Good conditions except for minor cos...
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
The Gymnaste - Original Pencil on Paper - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
The Gymnaste is an original modern artwork realized in the 19th Century in France.
Original pencil on paper.
Very good condition.
The Gymnaste is an excellent artwork on paper tha...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Characters - Original China Ink on Paper - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Characters is an modern artwork realized inmid-20th Century in France.
Original china ink on paper.
On the back of the work there is a second drawing.
Very good conditions.
Characters is an excellent modern artwork realized in France in the half of the XIX Century and it shows us several characters in a high room. On the background there is a window with an iron grate. The work depicts also a nude figure on the back of the sheet. The second drawing is realized in pencil and shows us a female reclining nude.
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
R.E. Hill - Mid 19th Century Watercolour, Lady in a Fur Trimmed Cloak
Located in Corsham, GB
Presented in an ornate gilt effect frame and washline mount. Signed. On watercolour paper.
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$428 Sale Price
20% Off
Costume of Bisaccia - Ink and Watercolor on Paper - 1830 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Costume of Bisaccia, from the province of Montefusco is an original drawing in watercolor on paper realized in 1830 ca. by an anonymous artist of the XIX century, it represents a fol...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Woman Figure - Pencil on Paper - 1853
By Edmound De Beaumont
Located in Roma, IT
"Woman Figure" 1853's is a drawing on paper, signed and dated by Edmond De Beaumont, on the back of the drawing.
In excellent conditions: as good as new...
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
$293 Sale Price
30% Off
Portrait - Original Drawing In Pen - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait 1850's is an original drawing in pen on paper, realized by an unwkown artist named Bruant (XIX-XX).
Sheet dimension: 29.4 x 22 cm.
The artwork represents beautiful quick ...
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Landscape - Original Ink on Paper - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in ink on paper applied on cardboard realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century.
The State of preservation is very good with some stain alon...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Scene from the Pavement of the Dome in Siena - Pencil Drawing - 1844
Located in Roma, IT
The Pavement of the Dome in Siena is an original drawing in pencil on paper, realized by Jean Aubert (1824-1906), in 1844, after the pavement of Siena Main Dome in Italy.
Sheet dime...
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Thoughtful Woman - Ink and Watercolor by A. Bigand - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Thoughtful Woman is an original artwork realized in the XIX century by Auguste Bigand.
Original black and white watercolor.
Hand-signed on the lower-left corner. Dedication on the back
This beautiful watercolor represents a portrait of a woman with thoughtful expression resting next to a column.
Auguste Bigand (Champlan 1803 - Versailles 1875) son of Pierre-Louis Bigand and Marie-Sophie d...
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Portrait of Teacher - Original Pencil Drawing by A.C.C. Rodet - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Teacher is an interesting pencil drawing on paper divided into millimeters realized by Anne Charlotte Claudine Rodet.
The drawing, presenting the initials “A.R.” on the ...
Category
Modern Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Women at the Source - Watercolor by an Italian School Artist of 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Women At The Source is a beautiful watercolor artwork realized by an Italian artist of the XIX century.
It represents a group of women, wearing ancient traditional Roman costumes, w...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
LePoittevin Eugene - Italianate Landscape with a woman - oil on canvas - signed
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Very good overall conditions, original canvas with no minor retouching, except on the dress 12mm ( as seen on picture under UV light). The signature is dated 1852 or 53....
Category
Realist Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
Framed Mid 19th Century Watercolour - The Land
s End, from the last mock
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine graphite study of a rocky landscape, heightened with watercolour wash. Inscribed to the lower left 'The Land's End, from the last mock. Looking inland in a N. W. gale, Oct. 3....
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
19th century ink drawing seated female figure with book sketch signed
By Hannah de Rothschild
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The New Year" is a pen and ink on paper portrait signed by Hannah de Rothschild. A girl sits quietly in a corner with a cap. Her focus is on a book in her lap, she is about to rip a...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Mid 19th Century Pastel - Two John Oddys, Father and Son
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming pastel study of two blacksmiths who are father and son, both of the name of John Oddys. The artist capture them both outside of the smithy forge. Unsigned. Presented in an...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
$420 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid 19th Century Watercolour - Fishing by the Abbey Ruins
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine mid 19th century watercolour study depicting two anglers on the grassy verge of a lake. Abbey ruins sit on the far side of the lake standing tall before rolling countryside. U...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$320 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Mythical Immortal Screen Painting, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century, people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes - the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a room. This 19th-century painting is delicately brushed of gouache and ink on fabric and was originally part of a set of eight backing a wooden screen in northern China.
The figure depicted is one of the mythical Eight Immortals of Taoism. Said to have attained immortality through their studies of the natural world, each of the Eight Immortals represents a different condition in life and together they impart a blessing of prosperity and longevity. Depicted here is immortal Lan Caihe, the patron saint of florists and gardeners. Standing atop a lotus leaf in open water, they hold a gardening hoe in one hand and a basket for flowers...
Category
Qing Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Pigment
Chinese Mythical Immortal Screen Painting, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century, people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes - the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a roo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Pigment
Richard Bond (1808-1886) - Framed 1861 Watercolour, On The Lledder
Located in Corsham, GB
An atmospheric Welsh landscape, painted by 19th century artist Richard Bond (1808-1886). The watercolour depicts two mischievous characters swinging from ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$404 Sale Price
20% Off
Attrib. Samuel Gillespie Prout (1822-1911) - Watercolour, The Busy Port
By Samuel Gillespie Prout
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour scene of ships moored inside a port with figures and buildings on the right-hand side. Unsigned. Well-presented in an elegant gilt frame with a new card mount....
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$307 Sale Price
20% Off
M. M. Masterman - Framed 1858 Watercolour, Jacobean Interior
Located in Corsham, GB
A particularly fine watercolour study of a Jacobean entranceway by Victorian artist M. M. Masterman. The craftsmanship in the cornice and carpentry in the room instantly grabs your a...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$384 Sale Price
20% Off
Nude Portrait "Waiting for Death"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Waiting for Death" is a haunting graphite drawing by American artist William Perkins Babcock, known for his symbolic and evocative works. In this powerful composition, Babcock explo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Mid 19th Century Charcoal Drawing - The Day
s Bag
Located in Corsham, GB
A charcoal and chalk drawing en grisaille depicting a man returning from a day of crane hunting with his bag slung over his shoulder. Drawn in fine detail using an excellent percepti...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
$488 Sale Price
20% Off
Lady with Hat and Fan
By William Lee
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed lower left
Category
Impressionist Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Philip Mitchell RI (1814-1896) - 1858 Watercolour, On the Torridge, Devon
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming landscape scene depicting two figures sat by a river looking out over rolling hills and grazing cattle. A stone cottage stands in the foreground painted in fine watercolou...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Man with Shovel
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This painting depicts a man standing confidently with a shovel. This is an American School, likely Hudson River School drawing from the 1860s or 1870s. This 19th century unsigned painting...
Category
Hudson River School Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Chinese Lunar New Year Painted Scroll
Located in Chicago, IL
In celebration of the lunar new year festival, it was traditional all over China to hang special decorations. In a city called Wuqiang, local artists made lacquer scroll paintings laden with symbolism. This framed and finely rendered 19th century folk painting from Wuqiang features an imperial court official and his family dressed in their best silks. The young boy is dressed in a wonderfully patterned yellow robe to offer Shou Xing...
Category
Qing Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Paper, Pigment
Portrait of a Slave Ship:
Le Negrito à l’ancre. Dans le port de la havanne
Located in Amsterdam, NL
FRANÇOIS MATHURIN ADALBERT, BARON DE COURCY (1805-1839)
'Le Negrito à l’ancre. Dans le port de la havanne'
Indistinctly signed lower left
Titled on the mount
Pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, on paper, 24.8 x 34.6 cm
Literature:
The present watercolour will be illustrated in:
- Prof. Manuel Garcia’s projected book on the disease and the slave trade provisionally titled “Fighting the Yellow Demon of Fever: The Struggle against Disease in the Illegal Slave Trade”.
- Prof. Micael Zeuske’s forthcoming Global history of slave trade.
Exhibited:
Mexico City, 1998, Palacio Virreinal, El Barón de Courcy, illustrationes de un viaje, 1831-1833, no. 108
Note:
Baron de Courcy was in the Caribbean in late 1832 and early 1833, following his tour of Mexico in 1832, on the last leg of his “Grand Voyage...
Category
Old Masters Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
"Love and Lotus Boys, " Ink on Linen Panels, 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Drawn with a fine line and fresh, sketched quality, this folk hanging unites two scenes of lucky hoho lotus boys circumscribed in frames punctuated with fruits such as pomegranate, symbolic of prosperity and good fortune. On top, the two explore the natural wonders of the world...
Category
Qing Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Linen, Wood, Ink
19th century watercolor of a street scene in Tewkesbury, England
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Framed in wood with museum glass to 9" x 11"
One of the watercolors says
Tweksbury, July (?) 1850
Framed by Commonwealth Print Conservation, Boston in 1988
Very nice watercolor. Par...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Conrad Martens, Charles Darwin in the Beagle’s Tender, Patagonia, Argentina wc
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
PROVENANCE: Christie’s South Kensington, England, June 10, 1986; Maynards Auction, Vancouver, Canada, December 6, 1994.
This 19th cent wc depicts Charles Darwin in the Beagle’s Tender, Coastal Patagonia, Argentina.
The son of an English mother and the Austrian Consul General in London, Conrad Martens pursued a career in painting following his father’s death in 1816. From the age of sixteen he studied under landscape watercolourist Copley Fielding, absorbing the traditions of the English watercolour school and Joshua Reynolds’ theories on painting. In 1833 Martens joined the HMS Beagle on a scientific survey expedition at Montevideo, South America, as ship’s artist, replacing the ailing Augustus Earle. He befriended the ship’s naturalist, Charles Darwin, whose empirical observation of landscape forms and climatic conditions would influence Martens’ practice.
Martens left the Beagle in Valparaiso in 1834 and travelled to Australia via New Zealand and Tahiti, settling in Sydney in 1835 and setting up a studio in Pitt Street. Patronised by the colonial elite, he fulfilled many commissions for watercolours of the local landscape and Sydney Harbour, including Elizabeth Bay c1838, which features the grand neoclassical edifice of Elizabeth Bay House, built for the former colonial secretary...
Category
Romantic Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
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