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View of Cornwall, Graphite Sketch, 20th Century English Female Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 5 1/4 x 8 inches (13 x 20.25 cm)
Mounted
Jane Ross
Little is known about Jane Ross apart from that she attended Heatherley's Art School. Here she met...
Category
20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Sir Rowland Cotton (1581 – 1634), Tudor Oil on Canvas, Life Size Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on original canvas
Image size: 78 1/4 x 44 inches (199 x 112 cm)
Contemporary style frame
Provenance
Sir Rowland Cotton, 1608
Family Descent
Private Collection
Sir Rowland Cot...
Category
17th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Cemetery, Graphite Sketch, 20th Century English Female Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 7 x 5 inches (17.75 x 12.75 cm)
Mounted
Jane Ross
Little is known about Jane Ross apart from that she attended Heatherley's Art School. Here she met ...
Category
20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Salamander, 20th Century British Artist, Abstract Painting
By Kenneth W. Hough
Located in London, GB
KENNETH W HOUGH
SALAMANDER
Watercolour
Image size: 10 ¾ x 14 inches
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Triptych: The Olympic Games, Modern British Drawing, Ancient Greek, Nude
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size of rectangular works: 33 x 43 inches (84 x 109 cm)
Image size of arched central work: 38 1/4 x 29 inches (97 x 73.5 cm)
Provenance
Private Collection of Seymour Stein, Vice President of Warner Bros Records
Sotheby's 'Modern British and Irish Art,' London, 19 May 2004, lot 92
The three impressive drawings are studies for Stroudley’s ‘Olympic Games in a Demi-Lune’. From left to right the studies depict groups of athletes practicing diving, a conversing crowd of oarsmen, hurdlers mid jump and a collection of javelin throwers. This study was created in 1930 when Stroudley practiced in the British School in Rome. There are few surviving works from Stroudley’s short stay in Rome, with the compositions from his Rome period being among the last wholly successful decorative cycles produced by a Rome Scholar prior to World War II. Indeed, as can be seen here, his drawings from this period are technically brilliant and even bear comparison with those of Eric Kennington.
James Stroudley
Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker, paid homage to Stroudley by including his work in the exhibition ‘Pupil & Masters’, held at Westgate House, Long Melford, Suffolk.
Stroudley married three times, and his wives included the fashion artist to the Sun newspaper...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
18th Century English Delftware Pottery, Glazed Bowl Inscribed
Success to Trade
Located in London, GB
Glazed Delft Pottery
Diameter: 8 1/2 inches (22cm)
Height: 3 3/4 inches 9.5cm
A small delftware bowl from 18th century England, painted in blue on the...
Category
18th Century English School More Art
Materials
Delft, Glaze
Portrait of a Young Woman with Vase, Oil on canvas, Early Dutch Genre Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.5 cm)
Period hand carved gilt frame
This 17th century Dutch genre painting depicts a young woman holding a jug with a landscape l...
Category
17th Century Dutch School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Fish and Large Copper Pot, Late 18th Century Spanish Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 24 x 28 1/2 inches (61 x 73 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
This is an incredibly carefully executed work. On what appears to be a wooden ledge we see a plate of freshwater fish, possibly a roach, a copper pot, a larger terracota pot...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of William Henry Kerr, Earl of Ancram, 4th Marquess of Lothian
Located in London, GB
James Fellowes
Flourished 1719 - 1750
Portrait of William Henry Kerr, Earl of Ancram, 4th Marquess of Lothian
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1747
Image size: 29 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (75 x 62 cm)
Original gilt wood frame
William Henry Kerr was born a member of the Scottish peerage to William, third Marquess of Lothian, and his first wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Nicholson of Kemnay, first Baronet. William was styled Master Jedburgh until 1722, when his father was elevated to a Marquessate, after which he was referred to as Lord Jedburgh until 1735. Following his father’s military footsteps, on 20 June 1735 Ancram was commissioned as a cornet to the regiment (11th Dragoons) of his grand-uncle, Lord Mark Kerr. Ancram married Lady Caroline...
Category
1740s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Summer Shower, Oil on Canvas, English School, Signed Landscape
By Robert Gemmell Hutchison
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed bottom left
Image size: 11 x 9 1/2 inches (28 x 24 cm)
Gilt frame
Provenance
Thos. Agnew & Sons
Pyms Gallery
Robert Gemmell Hutchinson
A native of Edinburgh, R. Gemmell Hutchison was born in 1855, and died on 22nd August 1936. After his school days he began work as a seal engraver, but soon left that occupation for painting and studied at the Art School of the Board of Manufactures.
He exhibited for the first time in the Royal Scottish Academy in 1878 and in the Royal Academy in 1881. A very early work was acquired by the Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland. An assiduous and prolific worker, Hutchison painted in oil, water, and pastel, and with varied subjects—figures, landscapes, the seashore, domestic interiors and occasionally portraits.
As indicated, his works from the first found a ready sale, and he is represented in the permanent collections of Oldham - Glasgow, Kelvingrove Gallery; Modern Arts Association, Edinburgh; Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery ; Bolton; Toronto, Canada; Fine Art Association, Canada ; Blackpool; Hamilton Trustees, Glasgow; Paisley...
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Self Portrait in a Mirror with Artist
s Tools, Oil on canvas, Signed, Polish
By Joseph Biel
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed bottom left
Image size: 24 x 20 inches (61 x 51 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
Joseph Biel
Joseph Biel was a painter and photographer who was born in ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of King Edward VI, Oil on panel with Gold Leaf, 18th Century English
Located in London, GB
Oil on oak panel
Image size: 25 1/2 x 19 inches (37.5 x 27 inches)
18th Century Auricular gilt frame
Provenance
New York private collection
This portrait of the King Edward VI depicts the boy-king standing in a black and gold embroidered doublet, wearing a jewelled cap. King Edward holds a staff with a globus cruciger set on the table beside him. No expense has been spared in the making of this piece, with gold leaf being applied in many areas to give the effect of the costume's gold embroidery, chain of office and other metal accessories.
As the precious male heir to the Tudor dynasty...
Category
Early 18th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Kimmeridge Bay, 20th Century English School Oil Landscape, Monogrammed
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, monogrammed bottom right, inscription and artist label on stretcher
Image size: 12 x 24 inches (30.5 x 61 cm)
Original frame
Provenance
Collection of Mrs Fairchild, L...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Young Boy Carrying a Fruit Basket, 18th Century Oil on Canvas
By Sir William Beechey
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 30 x 25 inches (76 x 63.5 cm)
Hand carved gilt frame
This is a charming 18th century portrait of a young boy, sporting a golden child's two-piece with a fl...
Category
18th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Ladder, 20th Century British Artist, Handmade White Gold Frame
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 9 3/4 x 8 inches (24.75 x 20.25 cm)
Hand made white gold frame
Gordon Scott
Gordon Scott was trained at the Royal College of Art (1934-38) under Gilb...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Oak and Marble 18th Century French Commode Jean Pierre Latz
Located in London, GB
Oak then lacquered with marble top
Carved/Stamped with the name "Latz" in the wood under the marble
Height: 55 inches (86.25 cm)
Width: 55 inches (140 cm)
Provenance
Château de Mareil Le Guyon
This commode is available to view at our gallery on Cecil Court.
Jean-Pierre Latz
Jean-Pierre Latz was one of the handful of truly outstanding cabinetmakers working in Paris in the mid 18th-century. Like several of his peers in the French capital, he was of German origin. His furniture is in a fully developed rococo style, employing boldly sculptural gilt-bronze mounts complementing marquetry motifs of flowers and leafy sprays, in figured tropical veneers like tulipwood, amarante, purpleheart and rosewood, often featuring the distinctive end-grain cuts. He also produced lacquered pieces, most famously the slant-front desk in the collection of Stavros Niarchos...
Category
18th Century French School More Art
Materials
Marble
Nude Study, Graphite on Paper, 20th Century British Artwork
By William Dring
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 22 x 26 inches (56 x 66 cm)
Mounted and framed
William Dring
Dring was born with the forenames Dennis William, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring. He married the painter Grace Elizabeth Rothwell...
Category
20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Paysage du Vivarais avec une Ferme, French Post-Impressionist, Signed Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed bottom right
Image size: 26 1/4 x 19 3/4 inches (41.5 x 50 cm)
Hand made gilt frame
Provenance
Artist's Estate
This work is sold with a certificate of authe...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Bathers, Woodcut on paper, Signed and dated 1912, Italian Artist
Located in London, GB
Woodcut on paper, signed and dated '1912' bottom right
Image size: 5 x 5 1/4 (12.75 x 13.5 cm)
Mounted
Here the artist's bold gouging of the material has created an evocative scene ...
Category
1910s Italian School Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Colliery Scene, Lancashire, 20th Century British Artist, Wood Engraving
Located in London, GB
Wood Engraving on paper, signed and entitled below artwork
Image size: 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches (16 x 11.5 cm)
Mounted and framed
This print depicts a scene of a colliery, that is of a ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
A Fine and Rare Early Barbers Pole, Early 18th Century, English School
Located in London, GB
A fine and rare early barbers pole in original polychrome paint finish. Turned in one piece.
A decorative and original piece of folk art. The white was for bandages, red for blood an...
Category
Mid-18th Century English School Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Les Cypres, French Post-Impressionist Landscape Painting, Signed
Located in London, GB
Robert Deborne
Les Cypres (The Cypresses)
1870 - 1944
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Image size: 30 x 41 1/3 inches (76 x 105 cm)
Contemporary style handmade frame
This work is d...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Rebecca Octavia Dorothy Nash, Victorian Graphite Drawings
By Joseph Nash
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, inscribed on original backing
Image size: 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (16.5 x 14 cm)
Mounted
This is a delightful graphite drawing by the artist Joseph Nash that depict...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Flower Gardens at Generalife, Granada
By Ernest Arthur Rowe
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed bottom left
Image size: 13 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (35 x 24 cm)
Mounted and framed
The Generalife was a summer palace and country estate of the Nasrid rulers...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Pale Green Gavotte, 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 35 3/4 x 35 3/4 inches (91 x 91 cm)
Entitled, monogrammed, dated 'November 1974' and inscribed on reverse
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a German Airman, Graphite on paper, 1919, Air Park Document Verso
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed and dated '13 Feb (19)19' bottom left
Image size: 13 x 8 1/4 inches (33 x 21 cm)
This is a portrait of a German airman that was done by the artist at the start of 1919. The artwork has been created on the reverse of a document from Adlershof, a German Air Park. This exact document is from the 'Airman Replacement Department' and is a request form for replacement parts for aircrafts - it asks the writer to specify the type and number of aircrafts, the type of engine and details of its propellers.
Adlershof is a place with a long and famous history. Germany's first motorised aircraft took off from here at the beginning of the 20th century and the Wright brothers moved their company to the airfield in 1909 shortly after it was opened. In 1912 German Experimental Institute for Aviation was established and made the location it's headquarters. Indeed, pre-war it was often known as 'The cradle of German Aviation'.
During the war the War ministry used the site for extensive military production and it is particularly well known for a series of competitions between various aviation firms' fighter aircraft designs that were held in 1918 and 1919. Even after the War had ended, work continued at Adlershof with the final flight competition being held between February and May 1919 (when this portrait was created). Eventually, the signing of the Versailles Treaty ended all military aircraft work for Germany and led to the dissolution of the Luffstreikrafte in May 1920.
Karl Ludwig Nagel...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
Portrait of a German Airman, Graphite on paper, 1919, Air Park Document Verso
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed and dated '13 Feb (19)19' bottom left
Image size: 13 x 8 1/4 inches (33 x 21 cm)
This is a portrait of a German airman that was done by the artist at the start of 1919. The artwork has been created on the reverse of a document from Adlershof, a German Air Park. This exact document is from the 'Airman Replacement Department' and is a request form for replacement parts for aircrafts - it asks the writer to specify the type and number of aircrafts, the type of engine and details of its propellers.
Adlershof is a place with a long and famous history. Germany's first motorised aircraft took off from here at the beginning of the 20th century and the Wright brothers moved their company to the airfield in 1909 shortly after it was opened. In 1912 German Experimental Institute for Aviation was established and made the location it's headquarters. Indeed, pre-war it was often known as 'The cradle of German Aviation'.
During the war the War ministry used the site for extensive military production and it is particularly well known for a series of competitions between various aviation firms' fighter aircraft designs that were held in 1918 and 1919. Even after the War had ended, work continued at Adlershof with the final flight competition being held between February and May 1919 (when this portrait was created). Eventually, the signing of the Versailles Treaty ended all military aircraft work for Germany and led to the dissolution of the Luffstreikrafte in May 1920.
Karl Ludwig Nagel...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
View of a Cathedral, 17th Century Dutch Ink and Wash Artwork, Mounted
Located in London, GB
Ink and wash on paper
Image size: 7 1/2 x 6 inches (19 x 15.25 cm)
Mounted
This drawing is of a Gothic style church in the Netherlands that is likely to have been built in the 15th ...
Category
17th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Boat Yard, 20th Century English Watercolour and Graphite Artwork
By William Dring
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and graphite on paper
Image size: 15 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (38.75 x 28.5 cm)
This wonderful 20th century watercolour painting depicts a small boat yard that is filled with fishing and pleasure vessels. It is possible that this work was created by Dring just after World War Two, when he travelled extensively around Britain and spent some time painting subjects in Portsmouth and the surrounding area.
William Dring
Dring was born with the forenames Dennis William, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring. He married the painter Grace Elizabeth...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Self Portrait, Charcoal on Paper, 20th Century British Drawing
By William Dring
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper
Image size: 4 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (11.5 x 10.75 cm)
Mounted with a contemporary style frame
This is a somewhat haunting self-portrait by William Dring, crafted in charcoal. Here, Dring presents himself through dark shadow and bright highlights, looking out directly at the viewer with a serious gaze.
Although the Dring has been economical in the use of his marks we are still given plenty of information and can identify the energy in which the strokes of charcoal must have been placed onto the surface.
William Dring
Dring was born with the forenames Dennis William, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring. He married the painter Grace Elizabeth...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Return from the Hunt, Pen and Ink 17th Century Artwork, Handmade Gilt Frame
Located in London, GB
Pen and ink, brown wash, heightened with white bodycolour
Image size: 9 x 10 1/2 inches (22.75 x 26.75 cm)
Mounted with hand made gilt frame
Lingelbach presents a scene from the end...
Category
17th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Portrait of a Young Man, 19th Century English, Charcoal, Signed and Dated
1888
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, signed and dated '1888' bottom right
Image size: 9 x 7 1/2 inches (22.75 x 19 cm)
Period frame
The half-length portrait depicts the subject sat, wearing a white s...
Category
1880s Victorian Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Self Portrait, Graphite Sketch 20th Century British Female Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 12 1/4 x 8 inches (31 x 20.25 cm)
Hand made contemporary style frame
This is a wonderful self portrait that captures the artist as she stares, unafraid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Study of a Woman, Graphite Sketch, 20th Century British Artist, Signed
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed lower right
Image size: 9 x 12 1/2 inches (23 x 32 cm)
Mounted and framed
Little is known about the artist Winifred Anne Rymer apart from that her career f...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Self Portrait, Oil on Oak Panel, English School, Handmade Frame
Located in London, GB
Oil on oak panel
Image size: 9 x 7 1/4 inches (23 x 18.5 cm)
Period style hand made frame
This is a self-portrait is most likely by a 17th century English...
Category
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oak, Oil
The Bedouin, European School Oil Painting on panel, Original Frame
Located in London, GB
Oil on panel
Image size: 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (31.75 x 23.5 cm)
Original frame
This is a captivating portrait of a young Bedouin. The painting has a sensitive and cohesive colour p...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Lambeth Plate, English Delftware, Blue and White Design c. 1750
Located in London, GB
English Delftware blue and white plate, painted with a flower and bird design
Diameter: 8 3/4 inches (22.25 cm)
Delftware is also known as Delft Blue, was originally a general term ...
Category
1750s Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Delft
L
eglise de Mézy-Moulins, Barbizon Figurative Landscape Pastel by Leon Lhermitte
By Léon Augustin Lhermitte
Located in London, GB
Léon Augustin Lhermitte
1844 - 1925
L’eglise de Mézy-Moulins
Pastel on mounted canvas, signed and dated '1921' lower right
Image size: 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)
Original gilt frame...
Category
1920s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Laid Paper
Woman at Rest, Signed Charcoal Sketch, 20th Century British
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, signed lower left
Image size: 15 3/4 x 21 inches (40 x 53.5 cm)
Contemporary frame
James Stroudley
Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker, paid homage to Stroudley by including his work in the exhibition ‘Pupil & Masters’, held at Westgate House, Long Melford, Suffolk.
Stroudley married three times, and his wives included the fashion artist to the Sun newspaper...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Self Portrait, Mid 20th Century, British Artist, Signed Etching
Located in London, GB
Etching, entitled bottom left and signed bottom right
Image size: 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (13.25 x 19 cm)
Contemporary frame with ArtGlass anti reflective
Plate No.17 August 1937
Hol...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Graphite Study of a Head, Monogrammed Victorian Sketch, Gilt Fame
By Henry Perronet Briggs
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, monogrammed lower left
Image size: 6 x 6 1/2 inches (15.25 x 16.5 cm)
Contemporary style handmade gilt frame
Henry Perronet Briggs
Henry Perronet Briggs RA wa...
Category
Early 19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The Jewellers, 19th Century Orientalist Graphite Sketch
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
Graphite on Paper
Image size: 21 x 13 3/4 inches (53.25 x 35 cm)
Carved gilt frame
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Carl Werner was born in Weimar in 1808, the son of a piano teacher...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
View of the Dome of the Rock, 19th Century Orientalist Sketch
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
Graphite on Paper
Image size: 14 x 20 inches (35.5 x 51 cm)
Acid free mount
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Carl Werner was born in Weimar in 1808, the son of a piano teacher and a ...
Category
Early 19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The Barbers, 19th Century Orientalist Graphite Sketch
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
Graphite on Paper
Image size: 12 ¼ x 19 ½ inches (36 x 50 cm)
Acid free mount
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Carl Werner was born in Weimar in 1808, the son of a piano teacher and ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Entrance to the Al-Azhar Mosque, 19th Century Orientalist Sketch
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
Graphite on Paper
Image size: 20 ¾ x 14 ¾ inches (53 x 37.5 cm)
Acid free mount
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Carl Werner was born in Weimar in 1808, the son of a piano teacher a...
Category
Mid-19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Saddler
s Workshop in Cairo, Graphite on Paper, 19th Century Orientalist
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
Graphite on Paper
Image size: 12 ½ x 16 ¼ inches (31.75 x 41 cm)
Acid free mount
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Carl Werner was born in Weimar in 1808, the son of a piano teacher ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Vaulted Interior, 19th Century Orientalist Sketch, Graphite on Paper
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
Graphite on Paper
Image size: 19 x 14 inches (48.25 x 35.5 cm)
Acid free mount
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Carl Werner was born in Weimar in 1808, the son of a piano teacher and...
Category
Mid-19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
At the Fountain, Graphite Orientalist sketch, Mid-19th Century
By Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Located in London, GB
Graphite on Paper
Image size: 15 x 19 ¼ inches (38 x 49 cm)
Acid free mount
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Carl Werner was born in Weimar in 1808, the son of a piano teacher and a...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Ink and Watercolour Sketches, Wigan School, 20th Century British
Located in London, GB
Ink and watercolour on paper
Image size: 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (26.75 x 26.75 cm)
Framed
Created in 1958 by the artist as evidence for study in their 'Examination in Art' at Wigan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Infighting, Ink Sketch, 20th Century British Artist, Framed
By Samuel Rabin
Located in London, GB
Ink on lined paper
Image size: 3 x 2 3/4 inches (8 x 7 cm)
Hand made frame
Sam Rabin
Samuel (Sam) Rabin, originally Samuel Rabinovitch, was an English sculptor, artist, teacher, singer, wrestler and Olympic bronze medallist. Rabin, who was Jewish, was born Samuel Rabinovitch on 20 June 1903 at Dewhurst Street, Cheetham, North Manchester. His parents were both Russian Jewish exiles from Vitebsk (now in Belarus).
During his childhood, the family moved to Salford where Rabin grew up and where his parents encouraged his talent for drawing. In 1914 Rabin won a scholarship to the Manchester Municipal School of Art making him, at the age of 11, the youngest pupil ever to attend the college. There he was taught drawing by French artist Adolphe Valette. In 1921 he moved to the Slade School of Fine Art in London where he continued his studies under Henry Tonks until 1924. After the Slade, Rabin studied in Paris where he met and was greatly impressed and influenced by sculptor Charles Despiau.
Rabin's own sculpture from this time is little known as he was a perfectionist and destroyed work that he considered unsatisfactory. In 1928, working under his full surname, he was commissioned by architect Charles Holden to carve West Wind, one of eight personifications of the four winds for the headquarters of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London at 55 Broadway. The sculpture was partly completed in-situ on the building. In 1930, he produced his only other public sculptures; two decorative winged masks, The Past and The Future, for the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. These were carved on the building directly from the scaffold.
Both commissions were well received at the time, but Rabin was unable to make a living as a sculptor and turned to another career – wrestling, for which he abbreviated his surname. Rabin was physically strong and had boxed and wrestled as an amateur to fund his art. He won a bronze medal in the middleweight division of the free-style wrestling at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Rabin turned professional in 1932 and fought as Rabin the Cat and Sam Radnor the Heb. Alexander Korda cast him as a wrestler in The Private Life of Henry VIII in 1933 and as Mendoza, a Jewish prize-fighter, in The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1934. Despite lacking any formal musical training, Rabin was a talented baritone and worked professionally during the 1940s singing with Stars in Battledress and sang operatic arias with the army's Classical Music Group. In 1946 he auditioned for La Scala's conductor, Victor de Sabata.
In 1949, Rabin began teaching drawing at Goldsmith's College of Art in New Cross, London. His disciplined teaching style including the production of demonstration works, followed that of his own teacher, Valette. His students included Mary Quant, Bridget Riley and Tom Keating...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Around the Camp Fire, 19th Century Oil Landscape Painting, Dated 1840
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed bottom right and dated '1840'
Image size: 22 x 30 inches (56 x 76.25 cm)
Albert Bierstadt
Recognized as the foremost painter of the American frontier during the nineteenth-century, Albert Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany, in 1830. At the age of two, he and his family emigrated to the United States, settling in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Nothing is known of his early art training; however, he might possibly have been influenced by local landscape painters. By the time he was twenty, he was supporting himself by teaching "monochromatic" painting and his work was beginning to attract the attention of New Bedford collectors.
In 1853, Bierstadt traveled to Düsseldorf in order to broaden his art education. It was there that he was associated with such American artists as Worthington Whittredge and Carl Wimar, all of whom frequently gathered in the studio of the German-American history painter, Emanuel Leutze...
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1840s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Feeding the Birds, Colourful 20th Century Oil Painting, Female Artist
By Lena Gurr
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed verso
Image size: 40 1/4 x 29 inches (102.25 x 73.5 cm)
Hand made contemporary style frame
Here we see a smartly dressed woman sat on a park bench, feeding a group of pigeons that surround her. Lena Gurr had a prolific career in which she painted landscape scenes and still lifes but her most noted works are ones such as these, showing everyday city scenes that were laced with social commentary. Indeed, Gurr noted that her artwork always aimed to show "the joys and sorrows of everyday life."
During the course of her career Gurr's compositions retained emotional content as they evolved from a naturalistic to a semi-abstract cubist style. Discussing this trend, she once told an interviewer that as her work tended toward increasing abstraction she believed it nonetheless "must have some kind of human depth to it."
Lena Gurr
Lena Gurr, born in Brooklyn in 1897, studied at the Brooklyn Training School for Teachers, the Educational Alliance Art School, the Arts Students League with John Sloan, and with Maurice Sterne in Paris as well as in Mentone and Nice, France.
Gurr was a member of the Artists League of America, the National Association of Women Artists, the New York Society of Women Artists, the Brooklyn Society of Artists, Audubon Artists and the American Artists Congress. She exhibited in numerous exhibitions held by these organizations as well as the Whitney Studio Club, National Academy of Design, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, and the 1939 World's Fair.
Her work is included in the collections of the Biro-Bidjan Museum, Russia and the Library of Congress, where she has been selected as a "Curator's Choice" in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. In addition to her career as a painter, lithographer and serigrapher, she also taught art in the New York City public school system. She had three solo exhibitions at the ACA Gallery in 1935, 1939 and 1945, and a retrospective in 1963.
Notable among Gurr's colleagues - many of them WPA artists - were Mary Cecil Allen...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Board
The Holy Family, 16th Century Venetian School, Oil on Canvas, Hand Carved Frame
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 26 x 37 inches (66 x 94 cm)
Period hand carved gilt frame
The pictorial arrangement of the Holy Family, with various saints in a landscape, was very popular in sixteenth-century Venice, following the prototype of Giovanni Bellini. Possibly intended for private devotion, this picture is a representative example of the compositional type known as the sacra conversazione...
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16th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of the Artist
s Assistant, Watercolour and Ink, 20th Century British
By Frank Dobson
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and ink on graphite, signed lower right
Image size: 22 x 17 1/2 inches (56 x 44.5 cm)
Original frame
POA
Inscribed on reverse 'Frank Dobson's Assistant - Celia Gills'
F...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Figurine, 20th Century Oil on Board Signed Painting, Contemporary Frame
Located in London, GB
Mayer
20th Century
Figurine
Oil on board, signed lower right
Image size: 16 x 13 inches
Contemporary frame
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bronze Head of a Young Boy, Early 20th Century English Sculpture
Located in London, GB
English School
Early 20th Century
Head of a Young Boy
Bronze with stone base
Height: 12 3/4 inches (32.5 cm)
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
The Cyclist, 20th Century English Graphite Sketch
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Pencil on Paper
Image size: 18 1/2 x 14 inches (45.75 x 35.5 cm)
White gold frame
Gordon Scott
Scott was trained at the Royal College of Art (1934-38) under Gilbert Spencer, Alan So...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Hornsley Rise, Graphite Sketch, 20th Century English Artist
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Pencil and wash on paper
Image size: 8 1/2 x 8 inches (22 x 20.25 cm)
Contemporary style frame
Gordon Scott
Gordon Scott was trained at the Royal College of Art (1934-38) under Gil...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Westminster Cathedral, 20th Century Graphite Sketch, English Artist
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 11 x 8 ½ inches (28 x 22 cm)
White gold frame
Gordon Scott
Gordon Scott was trained at the Royal College of Art (1934-38) under Gilbert Spencer, Alan ...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The Race, 20th Century Graphite Sketch, English Artist
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 11 3/4 x 16 inches (30 x 40.5 cm)
White gold frame
Gordon Scott
Gordon Scott was trained at the Royal College of Art (1934-38) under Gilbert Spencer, ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
