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Yellow Blocks, Three-Dimensional Mixed Media, 20th Century British
By Peter Manzaroli
Located in London, GB
Mixed media on board
Image size: 22 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (57 x 37 cm)
Original frame
A very fine three-dimensional original by the well listed British born artist, Peter Manzaroli (b...
Category
1970s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a Young Man, Charcoal 1800 French School, Romanticism
Located in London, GB
Charcoal and grey wash on paper
Image size: 14 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (37.5 x 36 cm)
Hand made gilt frame
Provenance
Private collection, Washington DC.
C.G. Sloan & Co., Sept. 1980.
T...
Category
Early 1800s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Portrait of a Nobleman in Armour, 17th Century Oil Painting
By Anthony van Dyck
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 30 x 35 inches (76.25 x 89 cm)
Carved gilt frame
A half-length portrait of a man turned slightly to the left, gazing at the spectator, standing, wearing st...
Category
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Standing Stone Wall, 20th Century English Signed, Oil Landscape
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed and dated '1948' bottom right
Image size: 10 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches (27.25 x 42 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
The Artist
Hugh Griffiths was a painter who was born in Karachi. Was educated at Canford School and the Dragon School, Oxford. Showed at RA, RBA and NEAC. Griffiths lived at Winchelsea and later St Leonards...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A View of Riseholme, 18th Century English Signed Watercolour Landscape
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and entitled bottom right
Image size: 12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.5 cm)
Category
18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Blitz, World War Two Landscape, 20th Century, British Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed bottom right
Image size: 8 x 10 1/4 inches (20.25 x 26 cm)
Mounted and framed
Charles Rebel Stanton served with the First Surrey Rifles in Northern France and Belgium during the First World War. Although Stanton was not an official war artist, his stirring watercolours document the devastation of towns and villages that he visited while on active military service
The Artist
Charles Rebel Stanton was born in Kentish Town, London, on 3 February 1887, the third of seven children of the book seller’s assistant, Charles Stanton, and his wife, Amelia (née Tate). At the time of the 1891 Census, the family was living at 22 Corinne Road, Islington. Nothing is known of Stanton’s education but, at the time of the 1901 Census, when he was 14 years old, he was working as a Science Assistant for the School Board of London, probably at a local school. By then, he and his family had moved to 121 South Street, Greenwich, and his father was working as a carpenter.
In The Art of the RMS Queen Mary (1994), Douglas M Hinkey describes Stanton as ‘a painter trained as an architect’.
While nothing is known of his architectural training, he is described as an ‘artist’ in the 1911 Census, which also records that he was still living with his family, which had moved to 53 Grosvenor Park SE, St Mary Newington. In the previous year, he had won second prize in the class for ‘pictorial art’ in a competition organised by the magazine, The Studio.
Charles Stanton began his career as a commercial artist, designing posters and postcards and illustrating books, and signing his work ‘Charles R Stanton’. Commissions included a poster for the Fine Art Society that was general enough in its design to have been used to advertise any number of exhibitions (though the example that has come to light promoted ‘Water Colours of Flower Time...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sketch from Life, 19th Century English Watercolour, Girl in Profile
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and dated '1870' lower left
Image size: 5 x 6 1/2 inches (13 x 16.5 cm)
Category
1870s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Arbre en Fleurs, Oil Landscape, French Post-Impressionist
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, mounted on panel, signed lower right
Image size: 19 x 23 (48 x 58 cm)
Contemporary style handmade frame
£10,000
Provenance
Artists Estate
The Artist
Robert Deborne...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Balaclava, Contemporary British Artist, 1978
By Graham Dean
Located in London, GB
Graham Dean
1978
Balaclava
Coloured pencil and gouache
Image size: 16 x 12 inches
Self-portrait of the artist.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Porter, Contemporary British Artist, 1984
By Graham Dean
Located in London, GB
Graham Dean
1984
Porter
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: 40 x 29 inches
The model in this painting is the same as the one in the painting Camouflage. The artist researched a lot about ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Signpost, Contemporary British Artist, 1977
By Graham Dean
Located in London, GB
Graham Dean
1977
Signpost
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: 78 x 50 inches
The painting depicts a time before electronic travel boards, when train times were chalked on blackboards. The...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of Stanley Bate, 20th Century Musician
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 24 x 29 inches (61 x 73.5 cm)
Contemporary style gilt frame
Provenance
From the estate of the artist, Clara Klinghoffer
This portrait is by an artist who propelled rapidly into the limelight after her first solo exhibition in 1920, at the age of 19, with the Daily Graphic naming her as the 'Girl Who Draws Like Raphael'. Yet today Clara Klinghoffer's name is little know.
Klinghoffer's early success resulted in numerous portrait commissions, including this one of the English composer Stanley Bate. The bold use of colour and naive execution of this portrait clearly reveals the modernist influence of fellow Jewish artists such as Bernard Meninsky, Jacob Kramer and Mark Gertler...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Richmond Bridge, Victorian Oil Painting, London Scene
By Horace Mann Livens
Located in London, GB
HORACE MANN LIVENS
1862 - 1936
RICHMOND BRIDGE II
Watercolour, signed lower right
Image size: 12 x 10 inches
Framed
Livens was born in Croydon in 1862...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Waiting for the Train - Mid 20th Century Pencil
Wash
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Gordon Noel Scott A.R.C.A
1914 - 2016
Waiting for the Train
Pencil and wash on Paper
Image size: 10 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches
Modern contemporary style fr...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Interior of the Great Temple of Aboo Simbel - Orientalist - David Roberts
By David Roberts
Located in London, GB
David Roberts R.A.
1796 - 1864
Interior of the Great Temple of Aboo Simbel
Subscription edition and First edition lithographs available
Full plate: 139
Acid free mount
With David ...
Category
19th Century Victorian Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of Marguerite Folin, Gerald Brockhurst
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in London, GB
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
1890 – 1978
Portrait of Marguerite Folin
Oil on panel, signed lower right
Image size: 18 x 14 inches (45.7 x 34.3 cm)
Original frame
The sitter for this po...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Musician
Located in London, GB
This head and shoulders portrait is an outstanding example of the breadth, force and beauty of this artist's pictorial manner and abilities. This captivating portrait features a musi...
Category
Late 17th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$15,438
Ramnagar Fort, India, Company School Late 18th Century Pen and Ink
Located in London, GB
Company School
18th Century
Ramnagar Fort, India
Pen & ink on paper
Inscribed and dated 1793
Acid free mount
This incredible detailed work would probably have been drawn by an En...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
St Paul
s Cathedral, North Transept Portico, 20th Century British London
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 24 x 17 3/4 inches (61 x 45 cm)
Contemporary frame
This is a scene displaying the North Transept of St Paul's Cathedral. St Paul's Cathedral, located at the highest point of the City of London, is one of the most famous and recognisable sights in the city. The religious monument is particularly known for its architecture that boasts Neoclassical English Baroque-style elements designed by Sir Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of London in 1666.
The Artist
Vivian Bewick...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishguard to Rosslare - 20th Century Oil
By John S. Smith
Located in London, GB
John S. Smith
1921 - 2010
Fishguard to Rosslare
Oil and gouache on board, signed lower left
Image size: 35 × 22 inches (89 × 56 cm)
Contemporary art deco style frame
This wonderfull...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache, Board
Three Men Without Their Boat, Signed 20th Century French Illustration
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and ink on paper, signed bottom right
Image size: 7 x 10 1/2 inches (17.75 x 26.5 cm)
Gilt frame
An original artwork by an early 20th Century French illustrator, this is...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Self Portrait, 20th Century Jewish Artist Oil Painting
By Carl Felkel
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed bottom right
Image size: 13 1/2 x 17 inches (34.25 x 43 cm)
Contemporary frame
The Artist
Painter Carl Friedrich Felkel was born in 1896, in Stockerau, near Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) and was probably of Jewish descent. He initially studied under Walter Thor...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
View Across the Valley, Late 18th Century English Moonlit Scene
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 14 1/4 x 18 inches (36 x 45.7 cm)
Period gilt frame
In this painting the bright moon, partially obscured by mounting dark clouds, dramatically lights the l...
Category
1780s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Chestnut Seller, Victorian Watercolour Genre Scene
Located in London, GB
Brown ink and watercolour, heightened with white, signed lower right
Image size: 18 x 14 1/4 inches (45.75 x 36 cm)
Gilt frame
Modern moral subjects were a special kind of genre that was invented by William Hogarth which satirised the manners and morals of the period in which the artist lived. They were particular in their frankness and often biting social satire. Genre painting became hugely popular in the Victorian age and towards the end of the nineteenth century a new focus for genre painting emerged.
The Artist
Joseph H Barnes...
Category
1860s Victorian Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sketch-book Page, Shoreham, Samuel Palmer, Late 19th Century
By Samuel Palmer (b.1805)
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, numerous pencil inscriptions
Image size: 5 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (14 x 55 cm)
Period style hand made gilt frame
Provenance
The collection of Ernest Pearce (1930-20...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Service Vehicles, 20th Century Art Deco Style Artwork
By Reginald Shuffrey
Located in London, GB
Coloured inks on paper
Image size: 18 x 14 inches (45.75 x 35.5 cm)
Modern handmade frame
Shuffrey was an important pre-war artist who did advertisements and worked for The Motor a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The Cattle Market, 20th Century Signed English Watercolour
By James Bateman
Located in London, GB
Watercolour, signed lower right
Image size: 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (31 x 31 cm)
Hand made frame and mount
James Bateman was an English painter and engraver specialising in agricultural topics, rural subjects and pastoral landscapes.
Bateman was born in Kendal, the son of a blacksmith. During World War One he served with the Northumberland Fusiliers, the Machine Gun Corps...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Tug Boat on the Thames, Early 20th Century Etching Print, London Landscape
Located in London, GB
Etching on paper, signed bottom left
Image size: 9 x 4 3/4 inches (22.75 x 12 cm)
Framed
Category
1910s Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Portrait Study, 20th Century Graphite Artwork, Female Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed bottom left
Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (19 x 25cm)
Contemporary frame
A characterful portrait of a woman in profile. The artist has captured much of ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
A Country House in the Seychelles. Landscapes, 20th Century British Artwork
Located in London, GB
Dorothy Carey Morgan
1886 - 1982
A Country House in the Seychelles
Pastel on paper
Image size: 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
Acid free mount
Dorothy Carey Morgan was born in Calcutta (n...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
Portrait of Thomas Cooper Gotch, 19th Century Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas on board
Image size: 7 x 5¼ inches (18 x 13.5 cm)
Framed
This portrait of Thomas Gotch is by his lifelong friend and confidante, Jane Ross, whom he met at Heatherley’s...
Category
1880s English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chelsea, Graphite Portrait, English School 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, initialled and dated 1960
Image size: 8 x 6 inches (20 x 15 cm)
Handmade frame
Category
1960s English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
The Overseas Daily Mail, Signed Original Advertisement Artwork, 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Gouache, signed and dated (19)14 lower right
Image size: 5 ¾ x 6 ½ inches (14.5 x 16.5 centimetres)
Original oak frame
The Daily Mail has long been noted for its foreign reporting a...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of a Young Duke, 19th Century French Chalk Drawing
Located in London, GB
Black chalk, white smudge and highlights, on paper
Image size: 10 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (27.25 x 14.5 cm)
A half-length portrait of a young Duke wearing a long wig...
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Study of the Apollo Belvedere, Graphite Sketch, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 13 3/4 x 26 inches (35 x 66 cm)
This is most likely to be a drawing from an Academy student, executed as part of their academic training. The academic ...
Category
19th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
The Journey, Late 18th English Oil Landscape
Located in London, GB
Oil on panel
Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 inches (14 x 2o cm)
Contemporary hand made frame
A charming scene of an English country lane, featuring a group of travellers resting on their journey. Two maids seem deep in discussion while they wait with a gentleman wearing a tricorn hat and fashionable maroon...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
At Twilight, Late 19th Century oil Landscape
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed bottom left
Image size: 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (16.5 x 23.5 cm)
Contemporary hand made frame
A painter in oils of both landscapes and the sea. Not a lot is known...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Adhesive, Oil, Board
The Old Quay, Barnstaple, 19th Century Oil Landscape
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed 'W.H. Jones' bottom right
Image size: 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (21.5 x 29.25 cm)
Framed
Inscribed on reverse 'The Old Quay, which ceased to exist after the coming ...
Category
1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Study of Thomas Cooper Gotch, 19th Century Graphite Sketch
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 5 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches (14 x 52 cm)
Framed
This sketch is a portrait of Thomas Gotch is by his lifelong friend and confidante, Jane Ross, whom he met at...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Open Seas, Late 19th Century
Located in London, GB
Oil on board
Image size: 14 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (37.5 x 30 cm)
Contemporary hand made frame
A dramatic, and highly colourful, depiction of the crashing waves of the open seas.
The ...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Self Portrait, 20th Century Female Artist Oil Painting
By Joan Fairfax Whiteside ARRC FMAA
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 17 3/4 x 13 inches (45 x 33 cm)
Contemporary hand made frame and oval mount
The Artist
Joan Fairfax Whiteside was a prodigious artist and illustrator. Bor...
Category
Mid-20th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Europa and the Bull, 20th Century British Graphite Drawing, Signed
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed with stamp
Image size: 9 x 6 ¾ inches
Acid free mount
Born in London, Moody studied at Battersea Polytechnic and at Royal College of Art under William Roth...
Category
20th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
A Frost, Bristol Savages CT, 20th Century Signed British Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed, titled & dated 1933
Image size: 11 ½ x 7 inches (29 x 18 cm)
Mounted
This work is initialled lower right 'CT' and inscribed lower left 'Bristol Savages...
Category
1930s English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
View Outside of Warlingham, 20th Century British Watercolour
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and graphite on paper
Image size: 9 1/2 x 12 inches (24 x 30.5 cm)
Acid free mount
This is a view just outside of the village of Warlingham, Surrey, where Scott had a house.
The Artist
Gordon Scott frst studied at Croydon School of Art and then was trained at the Royal College of Art between 1934-38 under Gilbert Spencer, Alan Sorrell and Charles Mahoney...
Category
20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
In Fashion, Sgrffito Signed Portrait, 20th Century British
Located in London, GB
Sgraffito on acrylic, signed below
Image size: 12 1/2 x 8 inches (32 x 20.5 cm)
Acid free mount
Mary A Brooks was a notable contributor to a vast array of children's publications from the early 1940s to the late 1980s. Brooks was the illustrator of Enid Blyton...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic
Island of Gibraltar, Oil 19th Century Landscape
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 8 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches (22 1/4 x 31 3/4 cm)
Gilt frame
This is a painting from the 19th Century depicts Gibraltar Island in Ohio, America, located within la...
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Doctor Carter, Scottish 19th Century Signed Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed, titled and dated '1858' on verso
Image size: 10 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (26.5 x 47 cm)
Gilt frame
This is a wonderful portrait that was painted by John Burr at a t...
Category
Late 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Summer on the Farmstead, 20th Century Oil Landscape Painting, New Zealand
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas on board
Image size: 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (19 x 14 cm)
Hand made contemporary style frame
This small-scale artwork depicts a working farmstead, in New Zealand. It is a textural work with lots of movement and life. Under blue skies luscious vegetation grows throughout this scene between the farm buildings.
There are signs of life everywhere in this scene - the fence at the rear has seemingly just been constructed as spare planks of wood rest just next to it. The farm carts...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Trepanning Surgeon, Early 17th Century Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on oak panel, inscribed top left ‘AETATIS SUAE 32’
Image size: 27 x 35 inches (68.5 x 89 cm)
Contemporary style handmade frame
This is a portrait of a medical figure from the ea...
Category
Early 17th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oak, Oil
The Awakening of Spring, Early 20th Century Signed Oil Landscape
By Margaret Dovaston
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1908 bottom left
Image size: 15 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches (39.5 x 50.5 cm)
Contemporary style handmade frame
Exhibitions
The Royal Academy, London, 1908
...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Prayer for Those in Peril at Sea, 19th Century English Oil Painting
By William Gale (British)
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, monogrammed lower left and inscribed on reverse
Image size: 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)
Original gilt frame
Provenance
Mrs. Georgina Gale (Artists Widow)
Bristol, Bristol Art Gallery, A collection of paintings by William Gale, January 1914, no. 12
Private collection
William Gale exhibited a number of charming genre scene's in the Pre-Raphaelite style, of which the present is an exquisite example.
This work has a strong nautical theme as suggested by the title. Through the small window at the back of this interior room we glimpse the sea, seemingly calm and peaceful. Despite its appearance, the threat of sea is reminded to us with the poster over the bed inscribed with the phrase 'Man Overboard'. This is cleverly echoed by the toy sail boat that lies at an angle, tipped to one side on the bedcovers. As we examine this image of boy and mother one can also identify a picture mounted on the wall of a man in a sailors uniform...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Man Wearing a Turban, 18th Century Pastel Drawing
By Thomas Frye
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Image size: 13 x 17 1/2 inches (33 x 44.5 cm)
Mounted and framed
This original pastel drawing by Thomas Frye is a half-length portrait of a man dressed in a turban. This drawing is the original sketch for one of the heads depicted in Frye's collection 'Twelve Mezzotint Prints' of 1760 and it can be assumed that this pastel work was created earlier of this same year.
Two versions of the print, created from this original work, are currently held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Frye's evocative figures, although presumably based on living models, exceed the conventions of portraiture, and also function as character studies. The man shown here - dressed in the fashionable 'Turkish' manner - turns with parted lips as if poised to speak, while raising the elegant fingers in one hand in a rhetorical gesture. His long eyelashes and smoothly rendered wrinkles and dimples are hallmarks of Frye's refined style.
The Artist
Thomas Frye (c. 1710 – 3 April 1762) was an Anglo-Irish artist, best known for his portraits in oil and pastel, including some miniatures and his early mezzotint engravings. He was also the patentee of the Bow porcelain factory, London, and claimed in his epitaph to be "the inventor and first manufacturer of porcelain in England," though his rivals at the Chelsea porcelain factory seem to have preceded him in bringing wares to market. The Bow porcelain works did not long survive Frye's death; their final auctions took place in May 1764.
Frye was born at Edenderry, County Offaly, Ireland, in 1710; in his youth he went to London to practice as an artist. His earliest works are a pair of pastel portraits of boys...
Category
1750s English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Portrait of a Gentleman, 18th Century Oil Painting
By Anton von Maron
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)
Period gilt frame
This is a half-length portrait of a gentleman wearing a emerald coat and intricately designed waistcoat, dat...
Category
1760s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Imperial Beauty, British School 20th Century Pastel Portrait
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper on canvas, initialled lower left "ND"
Image size: 13 ¾ x 22 ½ inches (35 x 57 cm)
Gilt frame
This fine Art Nouveau picture executed around 1900, depicts an auburn ha...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The Art Model, 20th Century Oil Painting, Nude
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 24 x 20 inches (61 x 51 cm)
Original silver frame
With her back turned to us, the viewer look across to a female artist facing us, whose gaze is fixed on t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ten Minute Rest, 20th Century Signed Nude Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed & dated lower right
Image size: 4 x 4 inches (10 x 10 cm)
Handmade frame
Category
Mid-20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Gaze, Signed Graphite 20th Century Portrait
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed bottom right
Image size: 13 x 8 3/4 inches (33 x 22.25 cm)
Original frame
Dora Thacher Clarke, later Dora Middleton, (1895–1989) was a British sculptor and wood carver who also wrote about, and promoted African art.
Clarke was born in Harrow in Middlesex. Her father, Joseph Thacher Clarke was an American architect. Clarke won a scholarship that allowed her to attend the Slade School of Fine Art. Aged fifteen, Clarke initially studied at the Slade on a part-time basis for three days each week throughout 1910 and 1911 but during 1915 and 1916 she studied sculpture there as a full-time student. Clarke first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1923 and continued to do so until 1959. In the early 1930s she was a regular exhibitor in group shows at the Goupil Gallery and in March 1937 had her first solo show at the French Gallery. She also exhibited at the Paris Salon and with the Royal Society of British Artists.
Clarke's works included bronze castings, memorials and wood sculptures, often of African heads. For example she was commissioned to sculpt the posthumous portrait bust of Sir Walter Morley Fletcher. The most notable of her memorials is the panel and medallion tribute to Joseph Conrad at Bishopsbourne in Kent, which was unveiled in 1927. Clarke also wrote about, and promoted African art and spent a year, between 1927 and 1928 in Kenya, where she made many drawings which when she returned to London she used as the basis for wood carvings and bronzes of tribal figures. Wood carving became her technique of choice, often working with hardwoods and, on occasion, sperm whale teeth.
Clarke married Admiral Gervase B Middleton in 1938 but rarely exhibited work under her married name. During World War II, Clarke was commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee to produce a portrait medallion depicting a serviceman who had been awarded the George Cross. This proved to be the only portrait medallion acquired for the WAAC collection.
Sculptures by Clarke are held in various museums, including the Ashmolean Museum which also holds a 1936 portrait of her by Orovida Camille Pissarro.
Category
Mid-20th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Ann Grant and her butler at 270 Fulham Road, Chelsea
By James Arden Grant
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29 x 24 inches
Contemporary frame
James Arden Grant RP was born in Liverpool in 1887 and studied at the School of Art there, where he also later taught. He...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The White Cross Inn, Richmond, New English Art Club Oil Painting
By William Henry Innes
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 20 x 24 inches
Framed
New English Art Club label to the back and his address for Herne Hill, London
Category
20th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Dance, 20th Century Oil Painting
By Francis Plummer
Located in London, GB
Oil on board
Image size: 30 ¼ x 23 ½ inches
Gilt frame
Plummer specialised in the medium of egg tempera, a technique little used since the frescos of the Renaissance, he often work...
Category
Mid-20th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
