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Painting Lesson Circle of Van Den Bossche Oil on Canvas Old Master 17/18th C.
By Balthasar van den Bossche
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
reporting the details on their sketchbooks, thanks to the advice of the master. One of them, the least
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil
Axel Schovelin, Dyrehaven, Copenhagen
Located in Cheltenham, GB
silver. Schovelin loved it here, returning time and time again, clutching pencils and sketchbooks
Category
1870s Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Caravan - Evening - 19th Century Oil, Figures on Camels in Landscape - Frere
By Theodore Frère
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
continued on to Syria, Palestine and Nubia, returning to France with a full sketchbook and laden down with
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Trees at the Cliff New Milford - PA" Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting
By William Merritt Post
Located in New York, NY
sketchbooks. He becomes fascinated with country streams and reflections on water, and concentrated on these
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Old Bridge New Milford - PA" Impressionist Landscape Painting Oil on Wood Panel
By William Merritt Post
Located in New York, NY
sketchbooks. He becomes fascinated with country streams and reflections on water, and concentrated on these
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
19th Century genre oil painting of a boy in an attic
By Pierre Edouard Frere
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
sketchbook and other works on paper. Hanging behind him on the wall is an artist’s board, whilst to his right
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Frank Moss Bennett, The Game Of Cards, Oil Painting
By Frank Moss Bennett
Located in Cheltenham, GB
Gloucestershire, and Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire.
His sketchbook was referenced when producing a detailed
Category
1920s English School Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Northern California Seascape by James Everett Stuart
By James Everett Stuart
Located in Soquel, CA
Peak, and filled his sketchbook for studio paintings. The following summer, Stuart returned, having
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Greenland Seal Catching
By Samuel Howitt
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
, notes in one sketchbook containing watercolours of apes and monkeys indicate that, while some there
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Aquatint
Hindoo Method of Taming Elephants
By Samuel Howitt
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
opportunity to pay the same attention to this branch of the art”. However, notes in one sketchbook containing
Category
1810s Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Aquatint, Engraving
Egyptians, Crocodile Hunting
By Samuel Howitt
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
”. However, notes in one sketchbook containing watercolours of apes and monkeys indicate that, while some
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Aquatint
Hindoo Elephant Trap
By Samuel Howitt
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
, notes in one sketchbook containing watercolours of apes and monkeys indicate that, while some there
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Aquatint
Sunset at Forest
s Edge
By William Merritt Post
Located in New Orleans, LA
in his sketchbooks. Perhaps more so than any other American artist, he was fascinated with country
Category
1920s Tonalist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil
Antique American Oil Painting Birds Nest Female Artist Framed Bright 1888
Located in Buffalo, NY
steno-pad sized sketchbooks of Jonathan Bradley Morse, pencil sketches. Black leather covers. Her mother
Category
1880s American Realist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th century oil capriccio of Rome
By Arthur Devis
Located in London, GB
by Hamlet Winstanley and contained in a sketchbook now in the Warrington Museum and Art Gallery
Category
18th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Early 20th Century Sierra Mountain
s Mt. Raymond, California Landscape
By Margaret E. Rogers
Located in Soquel, CA
as artists' tools, maquettes, sketchbooks, scrapbooks, and other ephemera.
The collection is
Category
1920s American Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Moonlit River
By Johan Barthold Jongkind
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
sketchbooks until they were removed and signed by the artist. Generous donations from Camondo and Moreau
Category
19th Century Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Patriarch
By Anna Walinska
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vashem.
Walinska's scrapbooks of the Guild Art Gallery (see below), along with sketchbooks and journals
Category
1850s Cubist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil, Panel
Old Tarrytown
By Reynolds Beal
Located in Fairlawn, OH
his sketchbook entitled Cruising Aboard U.S.S. School Ship St. Mary's (1901), He kept scrapbook pages
Category
1920s American Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Watercolor
Moonlit
By Johan Barthold Jongkind
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
to his sketchbooks until they were removed and signed by the artist. Generous donations from Camondo
Category
19th Century Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil, Panel
La Côte-Saint-André
By Johan Barthold Jongkind
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
producing numerous small masterpieces consigned to his sketchbooks until they were removed and signed by the
Category
19th Century Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Untitled (Standing Female Nude)
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Fairlawn, OH
)
Sheet size: 9 5/16 x 5 13/16 inches
From a sketchbook created while the artist was working in Paris
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art Deco Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
Jules Noel (1810-1881) View of a city under an arch, signed drawing
By Jules Noel
Located in Paris, FR
Nantes. During a visit from the Duke of Nemours, to whom he presented his sketchbooks, he received his
Category
1860s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Pencil
"Hackensack"
By Oscar Florianus Bluemner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
color and shading
Annotated verso: #64, referring to the folio number in the sketchbook
Provenance
Category
1910s American Modern Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
William John Wainwright RWS RBA, The Drunkard
Located in Cheltenham, GB
creative inspiration and it’s likely he filled his sketchbooks with impromptu studies of hungry patrons
Category
1880s Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (nude with arm raised over head)
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (nude with arm raised over head)
Graphite on sketchbook paper, 1925
Unsigned
Created while
Category
1920s Art Deco Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
Marseille - Coastal Landscape Impressionist Watercolor - Johan Barthold Jongkind
By Johan Barthold Jongkind
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
sketchbooks until they were removed and signed by the artist. Generous donations from Camondo and Moreau
Category
1870s Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bateaux sur le Canal - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Johan Barthold Jongkind
By Johan Barthold Jongkind
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
sketchbooks until they were removed and signed by the artist. Generous donations from Camondo and Moreau
Category
1870s Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
River Nile Feluccas and Camels. Egypt. American Orientalist Watercolor. Mosque.
By Edwin Lord Weeks
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
long trips to India, taking not only paints and sketchbooks but a camera with which he made one of the
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Busy Cairo Street with Traders
Travellers, Egypt. American Orientalist.
By Edwin Lord Weeks
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
. Between 1882 and 1893 he made three long trips to India, taking not only paints and sketchbooks but a
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Hasidic Student Palestine 30s Judaica Woodblock Woodcut Print Chicago WPA Artist
By Todros Geller
Located in Surfside, FL
career. The archive includes photographs, sketchbooks, original artwork, commissions for stained glass
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Jewish Market Peddler Judaica Woodblock Woodcut Print Chicago 1930s WPA Artist
By Todros Geller
Located in Surfside, FL
career. The archive includes photographs, sketchbooks, original artwork, commissions for stained glass
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
J. M. W. Turner, London, from Greenwich, Liber Studiorum (after)
By Joseph Mallord William Turner
Located in Southampton, NY
. He travelled around Europe from 1802, typically returning with voluminous sketchbooks.
Intensely
Category
1870s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
Dutch Canal Antique Landscape Painting by Charles Leickert, circa 1859
By Charles Henri Joseph Leickert
Located in Shippensburg, PA
utilize later in his work. Some 750 pencil sketches and several of his sketchbooks are today preserved in
Category
19th Century Dutch Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Ecce Homo Plate X
By Werner Drewes
Located in Fairlawn, OH
only made tolerable by his sketchbook, a copy of Goethe's Faust and a volume of Nietzsche.
For a
Category
1920s Bauhaus Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Woodcut
Two Sketchbook Sheets
By Nicholas André Monsiaux
Located in New York, NY
Vertical sheet: Head of Moliere, soldiers, dogs, little boys (signed: Monsiaux)
Horizontal sheet: Man in Turkish costume, woman with large hat and three soldiers
Pen and ink on ...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
18th c Drawing
Located in Natchez, MS
French drawing of foot from sketchbook
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
$750
French Drawing of Urns by Jacques-Louis David
Located in New York, NY
sketchbook. The style, handling and subject matter relate directly to the work of Jacques-Louis David, to
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Sketchbooks
Studies of Urns, Plinths and Helmets attributed to J-L David
Located in New York, NY
sketchbook. The style, handling and subject matter relate directly to the work of Jacques-Louis David, to
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Sketchbooks
Jean Hillemacher (1889-1914), Lot Of 43 Drawings
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Jean Hillemacher (1889-1914)
Second Grand Prix de Rome 1913
Lot of three sketchbooks: 43 drawings
Category
Early 20th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
Valenkamph Schooner Drawings
Located in Essex, MA
Theodore Victor Carl Valenkamph (1868, Sweden-1924, Gloucester, Massachusetts), from his sketchbook
Category
Early 20th Century American Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
A.J Strutt, Pair of Views of the Roman Landscapes, Oil on Canvas, 19th Century
By Arthur John Strutt
Located in Roma, IT
of the Roman hunt with king Umberto I. His sketchbooks are in the Huntington Library in San Marino
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas
Regency Rosewood Inlaid Drum Table circa 1815
Located in New York, NY
elegant pedestal tables in his Cabinet-Maker Sketchbook published in 1835. See The Pictorial Dictionary of
Category
19th Century English Regency Antique Sketchbooks
Rare Old Triptych of Watercolor Paintings Native Americans with Early Settlers
Located in London, GB
settlers.
A group of 3 watercolor paintings probably from a old note or sketchbook depicting Tribal Natives
Category
Early 19th Century North American Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
Little Bamboo Table with Lacquer, circa 1890
Located in Paris, FR
circulating throughout Europe, sketchbooks and the collections of early art lovers such as Emile Guimet and
Category
Late 19th Century French Japonisme Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Bamboo, Lacquer
Antique Oak Chest Coffer Trunk Blanket Box Carved Early 19th Century
Located in Longdon, Tewkesbury
what was then known as the Congo Free State, these sketchbooks provide an interesting account of the
Category
19th Century English Gothic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oak
William Tatton Winter (1855-1928) - A Rising Wind - Queen Victoria and Mary
By William Tatton Winter
Located in Pymble, AU
walking the countryside of southern England, armed with his sketchbook, noting the shapes of the trees and
Category
1890s Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Archibald Knox for Liberty
Co Pewter and Blue Enamel Cake Tray, 1902-1905
By Archibald Knox, Liberty
Co.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
sketchbook (circa 1902) on page 138, figs. 2.69, 2.69, and 2.70; Archibald Knox edited by Stephen A. Martin
Category
Early 20th Century British Art Nouveau Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Enamel, Pewter
Original Oil Painting of Fishing Boats on Rough Seas by Thomas Luny Dated 1832
By Thomas Luny
Located in Charlevoix, MI
Museum at Greenwich, which also has his sketchbooks in their collection and the Royal Albert Memorial
Category
1830s English Antique Sketchbooks
Flowers and Birds (matched pair)
By Matsumura Keibun
Located in Santa Fe, NM
of realism and decorative beauty exerted a major influence on him. Keibun’s numerous sketchbooks
Category
Early 19th Century Edo Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Mixed Media
Fine 18th Century Italian School Grand Tour Charcoal Study of Ganymede, Naples
Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire
, probably indicating this was drawn as part of a larger sketchbook and removed. Please view the photographs
Category
1790s Italian Neoclassical Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Parchment Paper
George N. Barnard Original Civil War Albumen Photograph
By George N. Barnard
Located in Gallatin, TN
Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War (1866) are the two greatest photographic monuments of the Civil War
Category
17th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Photographic Paper
Capriccio or Port with Villa Medici a 17th Century landscape
By (after) Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
Located in Lincoln, GB
saints, even though his abundant drawings and sketchbooks prove that he was more interested in
Category
17th Century Renaissance Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil
Nicholaes Berchem 17th c. Figural Landscape "Hirtin in Ruhe Am Wasserfall"
By Nicolaes Berchem
Located in Gallatin, TN
to soak up the romanticism of the country, bringing home sketchbooks full of drawings of classical
Category
17th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
George N. Barnard Original Civil War Albumen Photograph
By George N. Barnard
Located in Gallatin, TN
Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War (1866) are the two greatest photographic monuments of the Civil War
Category
19th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Civil War Albumen Photograph – Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, No. 3
By George N. Barnard
Located in Gallatin, TN
Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War (1866) are the two greatest photographic monuments of the Civil War
Category
19th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Photographic Paper
Civil War Albumen Photograph – The Potter House Atlanta – George N. Barnard
By George N. Barnard
Located in Gallatin, TN
Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War (1866) are the two greatest photographic monuments of the Civil War
Category
19th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Photographic Paper
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On 1stDibs, there are several options of antique sketchbooks available for sale. Browse a selection of Impressionist versions of these works for sale today — there are 2 Impressionist examples available. These items have been produced for many years, with earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. You can search the antique sketchbooks that we have for sale on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of beige, gray, orange and purple. These artworks have been a part of the life’s work for many artists, but the versions made by Artur Markowicz, Edgar Degas, Nicholas André Monsiaux and Theodore Robinson are consistently popular. The range of these distinct pieces — often created in pencil, paper and ink — can elevate any room of your home.
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