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Still Life with Fruit and Lantern - American Impressionist art oil painting
By William Samuel Horton
Located in Hagley, England
England, continuing to travel often to Europe, painting and sketching scenes in Switzerland, France and
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1920s American Impressionist Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil

18th Century by Richard Wilson Landscape Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
seems almost a sketch for a major work or a pictorial study in itself. The purpose of the painting is to
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18th Century Old Masters Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Baroque Italian painter - 17/18th century figure painting - Franciscan friar
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (17th-18th century) - Franciscan pilgrim friar sitting writing (preparatory sketch
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Late 17th Century Baroque Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil, Panel

Study of two collies
By Arthur Wardle
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
. Wardle’s deep understanding of animals came from close observation. He sketched extensively at London Zoo
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19th Century Victorian Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil

Antique Study of two collies
Study of two collies
$4,779 Sale Price
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Corney Grain, Vanity Fair caricature portrait, 1885
By Sir Leslie Ward
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
the piano. Corney Grain was a British barrister turned actor, entertainer, and musical sketch writer
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Early 20th Century Victorian Antique Sketch

Materials

Lithograph

Scandinavian Impressionist Landscape (1894)
Located in Stockholm, SE
likely that he drew upon sketches and impressions from such locales to compose this work. The expansive
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1890s Impressionist Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Early 19th Century sporting horse portrait oil painting of a horse groom
By Clifton Tomson
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
spend his time travelling around the country visiting the races to sketch horses and made his living
Category

Early 19th Century Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Modernist Cubist Painting Path to the Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
continued to paint and sketch right up to 2019 (some of his later work is dated). Mazeilie's gentle
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15th Century and Earlier Antique Sketch

Materials

Acrylic

French Modernist Cubist Painting Steps into the Town
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
late 1970s he returned to France and continued to paint and sketch right up to 2019 (some of his later
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15th Century and Earlier Antique Sketch

Materials

Acrylic

French Modernist Cubist Painting Storm Approaching Paris
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
continued to paint and sketch right up to 2019 (some of his later work is dated). Mazeilie's gentle
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15th Century and Earlier Antique Sketch

Materials

Acrylic

Antique Map of the Burmese Empire and Upper Indochina – by Dalrymple, c.1800
Located in Langweer, NL
Dalrymple” (“A Sketch of the Burmese Empire, according to a Map of India above the Ganges by Dalrymple”) is
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Early 19th Century English Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper

Roman School (circa 1590–1620) - Study Of An Executioner
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
features left only summarily indicated. The verso contains two light sketches of veiled female figures
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16th Century Old Masters Antique Sketch

Materials

Chalk, Laid Paper

Symbolist Renewal, Springtime after Wa: Blossoming Trees near a Ruined Abbey
Located in Norwich, GB
interned at the Salzwedel POW camp. He will spend five years there, sketching the camp, his Russian friends
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1910s Symbolist Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil, Board

Landscape with fishermen by a lake
By Reginald Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Art and spent his holidays in sketching. Once his artistic talents were properly recognised, he
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Sketch

Materials

Watercolor, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media

Galloping Horse and Rider Alessio Issupoff (1889 Russia-1957 Rome)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
sketch. It would seem, then, that the vivid subjectivity of the artist Issupoff prevails over the
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1920s Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Confirmation Day, dated 1892 by Albert Chevallier Tayler (1862-1925) Exhibited
By Albert Chevallier Tayler
Located in Blackwater, GB
August 1893 a reporter for The Sketch went in search of the Newlyn School. He was not the first to do so
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17th Century Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas, Oil

19th Century landscape oil painting of people boating at a lake in Arundel Park
By George Cole
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
1850’s he travelled around the country with his son George Vicat Cole to sketch and paint the river
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19th Century Victorian Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil, Canvas

English Vintage Oil Painting on Canvas, Spring Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
sketching clubs (the Birbeck, the Gilbert Garrett etc), but after many years of frail health he died at just
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Late 19th Century Antique Sketch

Materials

Acrylic

Feeding Time
By John Frederick Herring Sr.
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
. But even while painting the sides of carriages and driving mail coaches, he never stopped sketching
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19th Century Victorian Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil

Carmel by the Sea - Beach, California Coastline 1927 Oil on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
galleries of San Francisco and, with no formal training, he began sketching and painting in 1883 in the
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1920s American Realist Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil, Linen

Studies of Women: Cabaret Dancers, Horsewoman, and Female Profiles
By Giovanni Boldini
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
. Situated at the crossroads between sketch and finished work, this sheet stands as a rare and captivating
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Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Antique Sketch

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper

Beach and harbor of Banyuls on French Mediterranean cost
By Antoine Ponthus-Cinier
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
surroundings, and executed a considerable number of studies (painted sketches or pen and ink sketches) which he
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1850s French School Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil, Laid Paper

Windsor Castle - By Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Artist Alfred William Hunt
By Alfred William Hunt RWS
Located in London, GB
the collection of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and a related sketch in the collection of the
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1880s Pre-Raphaelite Antique Sketch

Materials

Watercolor

19th Century Pastel - Portrait of Lizzie Ornsby
Located in Corsham, GB
in the grounds of a grand house. She leans on a stone pillar as she sketches a flower. The artist
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19th Century Antique Sketch

Materials

Pastel

Charming 1920s Child Portrait "Peter" by Olive Snell – Dutch Lithograph
Located in Langweer, NL
publications, including Vanity Fair and The Sketch. This particular print was issued as part of the *Haagsche
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Early 20th Century European Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper

Flying Lizard and Flying Squirrel – Antique Engraving, Poulo Condore, c.1770
Located in Langweer, NL
naturalists collecting specimens from Southeast Asia. Such engravings were often based on field sketches or
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Late 18th Century French Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper

Ethnic Design-Pair Inuit Male Statues, Caribou bone-probably Nunivak, 20th C
Located in Leuven , BE
just started carving, without making any sketches first. He might indicate the basic outline with a few
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Early 19th Century Canadian Antique Sketch

Materials

Bone

Mandan Warriors and Chief – 19th Century Ethnographic Print of Indigenous Canada
Located in Langweer, NL
original sketches from the collection of Alexandre Vattemare, a French collector and cultural ambassador
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper

Pedro Cottage 1837, Stories Sketchbook Illustrated by Joseph Scoundrel Square
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Joseph nasty tally scoundrel square” 13 pages of texts & sketches Age related foxing and discolouration
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19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper

Ancient Inscriptions from Sinai and Egypt – Inscriptio Memnonis, c.1710 Engraved
Located in Langweer, NL
lines and small illustrations, such as the sketch of a rock carving at the bottom right of the right
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Early 18th Century Dutch Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper

New York, View of the East River , Paris, Metropolitan Museum, Smithsonian
By Max Pollak
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
. During World War I, he served as an artist for the Austrian Army, sketching in the field and returning to
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1920s Modern Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper, Etching

Boats off Concarneau, France, Early 20th Century Seascape, Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced
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1910s Antique Sketch

Materials

Watercolor

Mountain Views of Sinai and Horeb – Old Engraving of Biblical Landscapes, c.1776
Located in Langweer, NL
interpretations of the sacred topography, possibly based on sketches or accounts by early travelers or pilgrims
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Late 18th Century Dutch Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper

"East Hampton, New York" George Henry Smillie, Hudson River School, Long Island
By George Henry Smillie
Located in New York, NY
spent most of his career in New York City but sketched for several summers in New Hampshire, upstate New
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1880s Hudson River School Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Road to Nablous, West Bank: A 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by David Roberts
By David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
Louis Haghe from Robert’s sketches and watercolors. This publication was highly acclaimed and very
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1840s Realist Antique Sketch

Materials

Lithograph

Church of the Holy Sepulchre: A 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by David Roberts
By David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
Louis Haghe from Robert’s sketches and watercolors. This publication was highly acclaimed and very
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1840s Realist Antique Sketch

Materials

Lithograph

"Coastal Scene" George Henry Smillie, Hudson River School, Rocky Coast, Cloudy
By George Henry Smillie
Located in New York, NY
York City but sketched for several summers in New Hampshire, upstate New York, and Florida. In the
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1880s Hudson River School Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"An Autumn Landscape" Jasper F. Cropsey, Hudson River School, Fall Landscape
By Jasper Francis Cropsey
Located in New York, NY
learned how to sketch on his own while he was not in class. He drew landscapes and architectural sketches
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1890s Hudson River School Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix, Landscape With Watermill, Mother Child
Located in Cheltenham, GB
can imagine him sketching outdoors while exploring the ample countryside. For a number of years he
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1870s English School Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix, Landscape With Pub Signpost
Located in Cheltenham, GB
can imagine him sketching outdoors while exploring the ample countryside. For a number of years he
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1870s English School Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Chinese Funeral Procession with Palanquin – Engraving after Sonnerat, 1806
Located in Langweer, NL
significance of funerary rites in Chinese society. This engraving is based on sketches by French explorer
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Early 1800s French Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper

Antique Map of West and Central Africa – Stieler Atlas, Justus Perthes 1857
Located in Langweer, NL
interior remained unmapped by Western cartographers, which is clearly indicated by lightly sketched or
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Mid-19th Century German Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper

Women Gathering Garlands , Paris, Cooper Union, Metropolitan Museum, NAD, NG
By Frederick Ballard Williams
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
. Additionally, Williams often went on sketching trips along the Mystic River during the spring and fall with the
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Early 1900s Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Japanese 19th Century Kabuki Theater Gold Dance Costume Dragon And Phoenix
Located in South Burlington, VT
performed dances and light sketches in Kyoto. The art form later developed into its present all-male
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19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Sketch

Materials

Metallic Thread

Seated Woman Holding a Staff
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
sketches, and the application of biacca (white lead) in fine parallel strokes all correspond with Zuccaro’s
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16th Century Old Masters Antique Sketch

Materials

Ink

Signed Early 20th c. Bronze Dog Bookends by PAUL HERZEL c.1920
By Paul Herzel
Located in San Francisco, CA
. Fascinated with the herd of elk at the Forest Park Zoo in St. Louis, he made many sketches, paintings and
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Antique Sketch

Materials

Bronze

"Wer Liefert" Oskar Kokoschka, Satirical Expressionist Caricature, Red on White
By Oskar Kokoschka
Located in New York, NY
models, teaching his pupils to make quick sketches. He used the human figure as a decorative motif in the
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1910s Expressionist Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper, Chalk

Sundown - Sandvig - 1918 - Realist Landscape Oil Painting by Peder Mork Monsted
By Peder Mørk Mønsted
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
travelling throughout the Mediterranean His travels produced numerous sketches that became paintings he
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1910s Realist Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Antique Diamond and Enamel Snake Bracelet
Located in New York, NY
Macklowe Gallery Curator's Notes: Queen Victoria's double headed snake bracelet, immortalized in a sketch
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Mid-19th Century Antique Sketch

Materials

Diamond, Enamel

Rade de Saint-Milo - Post Impressionist Seascape Oil Painting by Gustave Cariot
By Gustave Camille Gaston Cariot
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
the arts. He spent his free time studying design and composition and sketching in the city and the
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1910s Post-Impressionist Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil, Panel

Caricatures Of Queen Victoria And Edward VII By Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (Spy)
Located in New Orleans, LA
sketches reveal a more critical yet playful point of view. Here, Ward abstractly sketches his subjects
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Early 20th Century Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Early 19th-Century Dutch Drawing – Woman with Children and Baskets, c.1805
Located in Langweer, NL
sketched hand in the background, suggesting this work may have been developed from life studies or intended
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Early 19th Century Dutch Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper

"Mending the Nets at Sunset" James Brade Sword, Atmospheric, Hudson River School
By James Brade Sword
Located in New York, NY
across the nation for sketching trips, visiting places such as the Green Mountains in Vermont, the
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1880s Hudson River School Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Procession during Holy Week in Seville, Spain
Located in Stockholm, SE
sketches, but the figures are from the pencil of Mr. Egron Lundgren, a Swedish artist now residing in
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1850s Antique Sketch

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Ramasseurs De Goemon En Bretagne Seaweed Gatherers Brittany Breton Oil Painting
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
watercoloured sketches. Between 1917 and 1924 he made repeated visits to the Arabian Peninsula, drawing
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sunset Surf
By Hayley Lever
Located in Milford, NH
surroundings, and summering in Gloucester, Mass, where he painted and taught sketching and painting classes at
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil, Panel

Valley View with Pines and Distant Peaks, Sierra Nevada (Possibly Yosemite)
By Carl Oscar Borg
Located in Stockholm, SE
in small studies like this one en plein air, producing many sketches in watercolor and gouache of
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper, Gouache

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Antique Sketch For Sale on 1stDibs

You are likely to find exactly the antique sketch you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. There are many Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary versions of these works for sale. Finding the perfect antique sketch may mean sifting through those created during different time periods — you can find an early version that dates to the 18th Century and a newer variation that were made as recently as the 20th Century. Adding an antique sketch to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — find a piece on 1stDibs that incorporates elements of gray, beige, brown, white and more. There have been many interesting antique sketch examples over the years, but those made by Henry George Moon, Gustav Klimt, Emile Cagniart, Gabriele Galantara and Jean Dreyfus-Stern are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. Frequently made by artists working in pencil, paint and oil paint, these artworks are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

How Much is a Antique Sketch?

The average selling price for an antique sketch we offer is $739, while they’re typically $42 on the low end and $232,869 for the highest priced.