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Item Ships From: England
19th century watercolour of a Girl at her Dressing Table
By William Henry Hunt
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Muir Hetherington;
Sir John and Lady Witt, acquired 1974;
By descent to 2015.
Literature:
Tom Jones (ed.), William Henry Hunt 1790-1864, exh. cat., 1981, no. 145 (Girl in a bedroom);
John Witt, William Henry Hunt (1790-1864) Life and Work, London, 1982, no. 553, p. 194, colour pl. 16.
Exhibited:
Wolverhampton, Central Art Gallery, Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery and Hastings, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, William Henry Hunt 1790-1864, 1981, no. 145 as Girl in a bedroom (Lent by Sir John & Lady Witt)
Framed dimensions: 20 x 20.75 inches
This unusually charming and well-preserved watercolour was painted by William Henry Hunt in around 1833. Almost certainly depicting his young wife, Sarah, possibly in the interior of her family home at Bramley in Hampshire. This work shows Hunt’s remarkable virtuosity as a watercolourist, Hunt, for example, articulates the profile of his young wife, by leaving a reserve of white paper to suggest the light modelling her features. Throughout the 1830s Hunt made a sequence of richly painted interior views of both domestic and agricultural spaces which pay scrupulous attention to detail.
Hunt was born in London, the son of a tin-plate worker and japanner. J. L. Roget recorded the observation of Hunt’s uncle: ‘nervy, little Billy Hunt… was always a poor cripple, and as he was fit for nothing, they made an artist of him.’ At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to the landscape painter John Varley for seven years, moving to live with Varley at 18 Broad Street, Golden Square, London. There he made close friends with both John Linnell and William Mulready. Hunt worked at the ‘Monro Academy’, at 8 Adelphi Terrace, London, the house of Dr Thomas Monro, an enthusiastic patron of landscape watercolourists. Through Monro, Hunt was introduced to the 5th Earl of Essex...
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19th Century Old Masters England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
The University Church of St Mary Oxford - Dutch 1920
s art watercolour painting
By Willem Leendert Bruckman
Located in Hagley, England
This beautiful exhibited watercolour painting is by Dutch listed artist Willem Leendert Bruckman. It depicts the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, South Porch. The Un...
Category
1920s Realist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Naive Early 19th Century Watercolour - Harbour Scene
Located in Corsham, GB
A watercolour of a picturesque harbour scene. A coach and horses can be seen in the water, delivering or collecting passengers from the ship. The figu...
Category
19th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$416 Sale Price
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Antique Victorian Watercolour of Whitby Harbour by 19th Century British Artist
By William Langley
Located in Preston, GB
Antique Victorian Watercolour of Whitby Harbour by 19th Century British Artist William Langley (1852–1922) dating back to Circa 1891
Art measures 19 x 10.5 inches
Frame measures 2...
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1890s Victorian England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Venus
By Richard Westall
Located in London, GB
Richard Westall, R.A. (1765-1836)
Venus
signed and dated ‘R. Westall 1794’ (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, with white heightening
image 11 ⅞ x 15 ¼ in. (30.2 x 38.7 cm.)
frame 22 ⅛ x 26 in. (56.3 x 66.1 cm.)
Provenance:
Private Collection, UK.
Venus (1794) was produced during a highly creative and defining period of Richard Westall’s career and artistic development, when from 1790-95 the ambitious young artist was sharing a house at 57 Greek Street, Soho, with his friend Sir Thomas Lawrence, the future President of the Royal Academy.
Whilst lodging together, Lawrence became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1791, Westall the following year, and both were elected full-members in 1794 – the year Lawrence was appointed Painter-in-Ordinary to His Majesty King George III. Westall was to become Queen Victoria’s first Drawing Master, before her ascension to the throne.
It was in this very year, 1794 - as the two young artists became Royal Academicians - that the present watercolour was executed, and it is exciting to speculate that Lawrence would have examined and given his thoughts on the work.
Highly comparable to The Wallace Collection’s Nymph and cupids (c.1793, cat. P757), acquired by Francis Seymour-Conway (1777-1842), 3rd Marquess of Hertford, (who hung it in his bedroom), the mid-1790s saw Westall exhibiting and returning to similar subject-matter on a number of occasions. Two works with titles that could be applied to the present picture were exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1794 (no. 341 Nymph and Cupids) and 1795 (no. 620, A Wood–nymph and Cupids). However, a print after the watercolour, engraved by F. Screen, entitles the piece Venus.
Westall is regarded as a great virtuoso watercolourist, and Venus is evidence of the young artist’s mastery of the medium. Indeed, it is unusual to find a watercolour of comparable age so well preserved, and retaining such vibrancy - the superb condition providing an insight into his exceptional brushwork and use of colour.
Venus languishes luxuriously on her woodland bed, the trunk of a tree resembling a curtain, while three winged putti play beside her, seeming to gesture to someone in the woods. Cupid draws back his bow and aims an arrow of love, perhaps about to pierce the heart of a hunting nobleman, or unsuspecting woodcutter. The striking contrast between the almost luminescent nymph, with the deep, rich, luxuriant forest, gives the glade an alluring sense of mystery – perhaps an allusion to the mysteries of the heart, a pre-occupation with Romanticism, central to the emerging thought of the time. Westall can be classified as one of the great Romantic artists, and even painted Lord Byron’s portrait...
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1790s Romantic England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
$25,451
Art Deco pastel drawings of ballerinas on point by French artist Charles Gir
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Charles Gir (French, 1883 – 1941)
Ballerinas on point
Pastel on paper
Signed ‘CH. Gir’ (lower left)
24 x 18.1/2 in. (61 x 46.8 cm.)
Charles Gir was born in Tours, France on November 1, 1883. He was a noted painter, watercolorist, pastellist, sculptor and illustrator.
Gir was married to the well-known actress, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, and attended the Paris Opera every night for 17 years. He made many sketches of dancers and caricatures, and at the end of his wife’s performance used to deliver them to the newspapers he worked for.
He knew Raoul Dufy, Frances Carco and Jehan Rictus.
He sculpted a bronze statue of Don Quixote that now stands near the Prefecture of Cergy-Pontoise; and he also illustrated several books, including Edmond Rostand...
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20th Century Art Deco England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engravings of Fruit in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
Category
18th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Watusi wall - Gabielle Pool - Whimsical ink drawing of African Watusi cattle
By Gabrielle Pool
Located in Coltishall, GB
A wall of Watusi cattle in Kenya.
The strength and drama of long-horned African cattle is captured in a mesmerizing interplay of delicate lines and abstract forms, creating a rhythm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink
Landscape watercolour by George Bissill
Located in London, GB
George Bissill (1896-1973)
Landscape
Watercolour
26 x 31 cm
Initialled to bottom right
Born in 1896, George Bissill was a British miner, painter and furniture designer. Raised in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
The Market Place Venice - British Victorian art watercolour painting Italy
By Thomas Ellison
Located in Hagley, England
A fine, large watercolour by British listed artist Thomas Ellison who exhibited at The Royal Academy and the British Art institutions. It is a busy scene depicting the market at Veni...
Category
19th Century Realist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Amos - Gabielle Pool - Whimsical drawing of African antelope. Childs bedroom
By Gabrielle Pool
Located in Coltishall, GB
Gabrielle Pool has created a minimalist and surreal depiction of an antelope. The animal is rendered with an elongated form and exaggerated slender legs, creating an ethereal, almost...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink
Ten Framed 19th Century Chinese Pith Paintings of Courtly Entertainment
Located in London, GB
Ten Framed 19th Century Chinese Pith Paintings of Courtly Entertainment
Chinese, 19th Century
Height 29cm, width 41cm, depth 2cm
This striking suite of ten Chinese watercolours is p...
Category
Early 19th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Rice Paper
Woodland Scene, 1956 circa - Gouache and Pastel Painting, Green Trees + Leaf
By Peter Potworowski
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Peter Potworowski 1898-1962
Woodland Scene, 1956, circa
gouache and pastel
25.1 x 28.2 cm
9 7/8 x 11 1/8 in
unsigned
Tadeusz Piotr (Peter) Potworowski was a Polish abstract and figu...
Category
20th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Male Torso
By John Koch
Located in London, GB
Pencil, coloured pencil and chalk on paper, titled (lower left), signed (lower right), 31cm x 46cm, (51cm x 68cm framed).
John Koch was an American painter and teacher, and an impo...
Category
1950s American Modern England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil, Color Pencil
$2,270
Back View
By Daniel Ludwig
Located in Deddington, GB
Daniel Ludwig is an American figurative artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Berkley. His original piece of artwork pictured above is called 'Back View' and this work of ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Eighteenth century Old Master drawing - Apollo destroying Niobe
s children
By John Hamilton Mortimer
Located in London, GB
Pen, ink and wash
Framed dimensions: 13 x 11 ¼ inches
Drawn c.1765
Verso: a study of a hanged man
Mortimer has filled this small sheet with action, depicting in the top right, Apollo and Artemis...
Category
18th Century Old Masters England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
Pen and ink, ink wash and pencil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 38cm x 29cm (65cm x 55cm framed).
This penetrating and wonderfully executed self-portrait, is all the mor...
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1910s Old Masters England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil, Ink
Village Market Woman Preparing Produce French Rural Modernist Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Village Market Woman Preparing Produce French Rural Modernist Watercolor
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on card, unframed
Size (H x W): 5.75 x 5.75 i...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor
Artist Sketching Seated Figure Study French Modernist Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Artist Sketching Seated Figure Study French Modernist Watercolor
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed
Size (H x W): 5.25 x 5.75 inches
C...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Jonas by Marc Chagall - School of Paris, Russian Artist
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
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Jonas by Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Indian ink on paper
35.6 x 26.9 cm (14 x 10 ⅝ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower ...
Category
1950s Modern England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
#2209H, David Jones, Original drawing, Minimalist Drawing, Nude art, Figurative
By David Jones, CH, CBE
Located in Deddington, GB
#2209H by David Jones [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Ink on Paper
Image size: H:40 cm x W:29 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:29 cm x D:0.1cm
Sold Unfra...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
20th Century German Expressionist drawing of figures in a dream by Carl Hofer
By Carl Hofer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Carl Hofer (German, 1875 – 1955)
Figures from a dream
Pencil and charcoal on paper
Signed with initial ‘CH’ (lower right)
17 x 13 in. (43.2 x 33 cm.)
Provenance: These works come fr...
Category
20th Century Expressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
Series 7 No 2, David Jones, Original Nude Drawing, Black And White
By David Jones, CH, CBE
Located in Deddington, GB
Nude drawing from Series 7 No.2
Original Minimalist Drawing
Black Ink on 300gsm White Paper
Image Size: H 36cm x W 26 cm x D 0.1cm
Sold without mount
Nude drawing from Series 7 No.2...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Emmanuel Meuris (1894-1969) - Early 20th Century Gouache, Faraglioni, Italy
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine landscape scene depicting the dramatic coastal scenery and rocky outcrops of Faraglioni, Italy. Figures can be seen in the foreground looking out to sea amongst intricately pa...
Category
20th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Eighteenth century Old Master drawing - St Jerome
By John Hamilton Mortimer
Located in London, GB
Pen, ink and wash
Framed dimensions: 9 ½ x 11 ¼ inches
Drawn c. 1763
This small, powerful study shows St Jerome contemplating the bible with a cross and sk...
Category
18th Century Old Masters England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Drawing of a captive woman
By Henry Fuseli
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Sir Thomas Lawrence, who acquired the contents of Fuseli’s studio;
Susan, Countess of Guilford, née Coutts (1771-1837), acquired from the Lawrence estate;
Susan, Baroness North (1797-1884), daughter of the above;
Mrs A. M. Jaffé, acquired in France, c. 1950 to 2016.
Black chalks, on buff-coloured paper
Stamped verso: ‘Baroness Norths Collection / of Drawings by H Fuseli Esq.’
Framed dimensions: 26.38 x 20.63 inches
This boldly drawn sheet depicting a seated figure was made by Fuseli at an important and highly productive moment in his career. The monumental drawing is closely related to another sheet by Fuseli in the British Museum which Schiff published as subject unknown. Both drawings were made when Fuseli was designing his most important sequence of historical works, including scenes from Shakespeare and Milton, The Nightmare and The Death of Dido which was exhibited at the Royal Academy to great critical acclaim in 1781. The present drawing does not relate directly to any of Fuseli’s finished historical paintings of the period, but evidently the image of a slightly menacing, seated and covered old woman was precisely the sort of motif he was playing with. It is notable that the same figure reappears later in Fuseli’s work as the witch from Ben Jonson’s Witch’s Song which Fuseli produced as both a painting and engraving in 1812.
Fuseli returned to London in 1779 from a highly creative and productive period in Rome and established himself as one of the leading history painters of the period. Fuseli re-established contact with his old mentor Sir Joshua Reynolds, becoming a regular guest at his dinner table and visitor to his studio. The earliest and most striking manifestation of this strategy was Fuseli's Death of Dido, exhibited in 1781 at the Royal Academy. Executed on the same scale as Reynolds's version (Royal Collection), Fuseli's vertically oriented picture was hung directly opposite Reynolds's with its horizontal orientation, inevitably inviting comparison between the two works and garnering Fuseli much publicity and favourable reviews in the newspapers.
The present, previously unpublished sheet, relates closely to a drawing now in the British Museum. That sheet shows the same seated old woman, drawn on a smaller scale and more schematic in design, seated next to an anatomical drawing of a man. The pose of this figure is related to the pose of Dido in his Death of Dido; the foreshortened torso, arrangement of head, oblique view of Dido’s features and arms all suggest that the study can be viewed as an initial thought for the composition. Fuseli may have initially thought of including the figure of the hunched and covered old woman. Drawn on identical paper to the British Museum sheet, our study is an enlarged depiction of the same figure, more elaborately delineated and developed. The presence of a chain to the right of the figure, suggests that the iconography was related in some way to a scene of imprisonment.
Fuseli had first explored the motif of the hooded old woman in an early Roman drawing, 'The Venus Seller'. The idea of a grotesque old woman, hooded and with angular nose and projecting chin seen in profile was most spectacularly used by Fuseli in his sequence of paintings depicting The Three Witches from Macbeth. Fuseli seems to have kept the present sheet and may have returned to it when preparing a painting of The Witch and the Mandrake from Ben Jonson’s Witch’s Song from his Masque of Queens in 1812. Here the same seated figure looks out from under her hood and picks a mandrake by moonlight. Jonson’s drama had been performed at the court of James I in 1609, inspired the subject. To throw the nobility of the queens into relief, the poet added a coven of witches, one of whom declares: ‘I last night lay all alone, On the ground, to hear the mandrake groan; And plucked him up, though he grew full low, And, as I had done, the cock did crow.’ The figure was reversed in the associated etching which was published in 1812. It seems likely that the present drawing remained as part of Fuseli’s working archive of figure studies.
The present drawing was presumably purchased with the bulk of Fuseli’s drawings after the artist’s death by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Lawrence’s large group of Fuseli drawings were then acquired by Susan, Countess of Guildford (1771-1837). Lady Guildford was the eldest daughter of the banker Thomas Coutts (1735-1822), who himself had supported Fuseli’s journey to Rome in the 1770s and had remained one of the artist’s key...
Category
18th Century Old Masters England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Mid 19th Century Watercolour - A Game of Backgammon
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming scene depicting a group of people playing a game of backgammon in a luxurious interior. The figures are captured in a romantic style, with the women wearing fine gowns and...
Category
Mid-19th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Young Man Reclining (Boris Snezhkovsky)
Located in London, GB
Konstantin Andreevich Somov (Russian 1869-1939), Young Man Reclining (Boris Snezhkovsky), 1931, Sanguine and pastel on paper, signed and dated (twice) (lower right), 32cm x 48cm, (46...
Category
1930s Art Deco England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pastel
Academic Study
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper
Signed by RA visitor Edwin Long and dated (lower right)
76cm × 57cm (88cm × 64cm framed)
Olivier studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1881. He exhibited exten...
Category
Late 19th Century English School England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
British Mid 20th Century Impressionist Painting Elegant Figures Gossiping
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
original gouache painting on board, unframed
size: 15 x 11 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for an unfram...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Johann Weinmann: c18th Botanical Engravings in Decalcomania Frames, Set of 6
Located in Richmond, GB
A group of mezzotint engravings of flowers from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-174...
Category
18th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
A Coachman - 18th Century British Figure watercolour drawing by Paul Sandby
By Paul Sandby
Located in London, GB
PAUL SANDBY
(1731-1809)
Study of a Coachman
Pencil and brown wash, shaped
Framed
16.5 by 9 cm., 6 ½ by 3 ½ in.
(frame size 32 by 22.5 cm., 12 ½ by 9 in.)
Provenance:
Iolo Williams;
Private collection.
Exhibited:
Sudbury, Gainsborough House, 1979.
Sandby was born in Nottingham and moved to London in 1745. He and his brother Thomas first worked in the military drawing department at the Tower of London, later working on a military survey of new roads and bridges in the Highlands. On leaving this post in 1751 he spent some time living with his brother who had been appointed Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park. There he assisted his brother, and made a series of drawings of the castle, town and neighbourhood. In 1760 he settled in London where he contributed to the first exhibition of the Society of Artists where he regularly exhibited until the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, becoming one of its founder members. In same year he was appointed chief drawing...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Artist
s Model, Seated Female Nude, Mysterious Young Woman Seen From Behind
Located in Norwich, GB
One of my favourite pieces at the moment - the subject, a mysterious young woman seated on a stool with her back towards us has such a strong presence that it feels as if she were ri...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal, Laid Paper
1950s British Fashion illustration by Eve Sheldon-Williams
Located in London, GB
EVE SHELDON-WILLIAMS
(1916-2001)
Fashion Illustration
White wash on black paper
Framed
30.5 by 15.5 cm., 12 by 6 in.
(frame size 50 by 34.5 cm., 19 ¾ by 13 ½ in.)
Provenance:
The artist’s family.
Eve Sheldon-Williams was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the younger daughter of artist Inglis and Ina Sheldon-Williams. She was governess educated until the age of ten, before settling with her parents on the Italian Riviera from 1926 to 1930. After finished her education in England she studied painting, illustration and design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts 1937-1941, under William Roberts, John Skeaping, Bernard Meninsky and John Farleigh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
20th Century British Theatre Costume Design by John Dronsfield
By John Dronsfield
Located in London, GB
JOHN DRONSFIELD
(1900-1951)
Costume Design
Signed l.l.: Dronsfield
Watercolour and pencil
Unframed
42 by 34 cm., 16 ½ by 13 ½ in.
(mount size 61.5 by 53 cm., 24 ¼ by 21 in.)
John...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Beautiful May, Boston, 1936: intimate art deco modernistportrait of young woman
By Mariette Lydis
Located in Norwich, GB
A rare and captivating original portrait drawing by Mariette Lydis, executed during her important 1936 journey to America.
This work showcases Lydis’s mastery of line, colour, and p...
Category
1930s Art Deco England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Watercolor, Graphite
Summer - Chalk Drawing Design for Minton charger by Herbert Wilson Foster
By Herbert Wilson Foster
Located in London, GB
HERBERT WILSON FOSTER
(1846-1929)
Summer
Inscribed with title beneath the mount
Chalk, circular
Framed
Diameter 42 cm., 16 ½ in.
(frame size 61 by 58 cm., 24 by 22 ¾ in.)
Herbert Wilson Foster was born in Endon, Staffordshire. He attended Hanley School of Art before continuing his studies in London, Belgium and France. His paintings of rural and domestic subjects were exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1873 and 1899. In 1893 he accepted a teaching position at the Nottingham School of Art, where his pupils included Laura Knight and Harold Knight. Works by him are in the collections of the Minton archives; the Wisbech & Fenland Museum; Leicester Art Gallery; Rushcliffe Council and Nottingham Castle Museum.
In addition to his work as a painter he worked as a porcelain painter, working at one point on the tile panels in the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is known to have worked at Mintons from 1872 where he specialized in portraits of contemporary personalities, including members of the Royal Family. This head of a girl was probably intended for a painted ceramic wall charger...
Category
1870s Realist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pencil
The Sportsmen - Early 20th Century British illustration
Located in London, GB
STEPHEN BAGHOT DE LA BERE
(1877-1927)
The Sportsmen
Signed
Watercolour and pencil
Framed
36 by 30.5 cm., 14 ¼ by 12 in.
(frame size 48.5 by 43 cm., 19 by 17 in.)
Baghot de la Ber...
Category
1890s Realist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engravings of Fruit in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
Category
18th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Standing Figure
By Keith Vaughan
Located in London, GB
Pencil on paper
Signed (lower right)
27.5cm × 20cm (46cm × 38cm framed)
Vaughan was a British artist, whose work is held in the collections of the Government Art Collection, Nationa...
Category
1950s England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Original Fashion Design Illustration Watercolor Painting Laura Ashley Designer
By Roz Jennings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Original Fashion Design Illustration
by Roz Jennings, British
watercolor and ink on card, unframed
size: 12 x 8.25 inches
condition: very good
A beautifully colorful and characterfu...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Johann Weinmann: 18th Century Engravings of Sunflowers, Set of 4, Framed
Located in Richmond, GB
A complete set of four hand-coloured mezzotint engravings of sunflowers from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in hand-made, parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frame...
Category
18th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engravings of Fruit in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
Category
18th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engravings of Fruit in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
Category
18th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Johann Weinmann: 18th Century Engravings of an aloe in a decorative pot.
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings of decorative urns with aloes and cacti from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand- made, parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania...
Category
18th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Going to Mass, Spain - 20th Century British drawing by Robert Sargent Austin
By Robert Sargent Austin, R.A., P.R.E., P.R.W.S.
Located in London, GB
ROBERT SARGENT AUSTIN, RA, PRWS, RE
(1895-1973)
Going to Mass, Spain
Black, brown and white chalks on grey paper
Framed
49 by 38 cm., 19 ¼ by 15 in.
(frame size 73 by 60.5 cm., 2...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Emile
s Tavern
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Emile's Tavern', gouache on paper (circa 1930s), by Lucien Génin. A tavern in French is called a 'guinguette'. With the rise in living standards from the 1860s along with the develo...
Category
1930s Expressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$1,637 Sale Price
30% Off
Standing Nude Male Figure Front View Expressive Contemporary Life Drawing
By Minty Ramsey
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Standing Nude Male Figure Front View Expressive Contemporary Life Drawing in Pencil
By Minty Ramsey
Signed verso
Size: 11.75 x 16.5 inches (height x width)
Medium: Pencil draw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Back View Nude Female Figure Sketch Expressive Contemporary Pencil Life Drawing
By Minty Ramsey
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Back View Nude Female Figure Sketch Expressive Contemporary Pencil Life Drawing
By Minty Ramsey
Size: 8.5 x 11.75 inches (height x width)
Medium: Pencil drawing on paper, unfr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Seated Nude Female Figure Holding Wine Glass Expressive Gestural Pencil Drawing
By Minty Ramsey
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seated Nude Female Figure Holding Wine Glass Expressive Gestural Pencil Drawing
By Minty Ramsey
Signed verso
Size: 11.75 x 16.5 inches (height x width)
Medium: Pencil drawing ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
John Howe - Framed 20th Century Watercolour, Stumpy Barges
Located in Corsham, GB
A serene watercolour scene of sailing barges beach to the side of an estuary at sun down. Signed by the artist to the lower right. Well-presented in a double card mount and gilt-effe...
Category
20th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$262 Sale Price
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Seated Back View Nude Female Figure Drawing Expressive Gestural Pencil Study
By Minty Ramsey
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seated Back View Nude Female Figure Drawing Expressive Gestural Pencil Study
By Minty Ramsey
Signed verso
Size: 11.75 x 16.5 inches (height x width)
Medium: Pencil drawing on ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Return of the Fishermen - Fishermen German Expressionism
By Max Pechstein
Located in London, GB
This chalk drawing is signed and dated in pencil by the artist "HMP 1931" in the lower right image.
Note: The drawing was created in the region of Pomerania, Northern Poland, near t...
Category
1930s Expressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Original Fashion Design Illustration Watercolor Painting Laura Ashley Designer
By Roz Jennings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Original Fashion Design Illustration
by Roz Jennings, British
watercolor and ink on card, unframed
size: 12 x 8.25 inches
condition: very good
A beautifully colorful and characterfu...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
The Magic Cove, Realist charcoal drawing of underwater swimmers and reflections
By Patsy McArthur
Located in Dallas, TX
The Magic Cove
Charcoal on paper
Artwork: 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 102 cm
Unframed
Can be framed at an extra cost.
This contemporary figurative charcoal drawing depicts swimmers suspen...
Category
2010s Realist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal
Bohemian Fantasy
, British, 20th Century original painting
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Circle of Austin Osman Spare (British, 1888 – 1956)
Bohemian Fantasy
Pen and gouache on paper
13.1/2 x 19.5/8 in. (34.3 x 50 cm.)
Category
20th Century Art Nouveau England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Pen
Johann Weinmann: 18th Century Engraving of an aloe in a decorative pot.
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings of decorative urns with aloes and cacti from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand- made, parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania...
Category
18th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Paris la Bourse
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Paris, la Bourse', gouache on paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). Created at the beginning of the 19th century by Napoleon, la Bourse, or the Stock Exchange, was intended to assert and encourage France’s prosperity in industry and trade. In 1826 the Stock Exchange was installed in the palace that the architect Brongniart had begun in 1808. Surrounded by a large peristyle of Corinthian columns, the rectangular structure reflects the official neo-classicism of the Empire Period. The artist, Génin, depicts a typically lively 1930s day in front of the building with cars of the period zooming by pedestrians on the walkway and others on the stairs leading to the entrance. He has an extremely charming, almost childlike style particularly the way he renders the people and the vehicles. The building, on the other hand, is accurate in its detail and more seriously presented. Our gallery has held and has sold over a dozen of Genin's paintings but this one stands out for its pure stylish appeal and ability to captivate while inducing a smile in the viewer. The artwork is in good overall condition - there are some minor blemishes not on the artwork itself but on the edges of the mount to which it is attached. The frame is in fair condition showing some nicks and scratches. Please enjoy the many photos accompanying the listing. Upon request a video can be provided. Signed by the artist in the lower right hand.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer...
Category
1930s England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$1,650 Sale Price
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Mid Century French Sketch of a Singing Figure with a Broad Brimmed Hat
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Portrait
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 25 (height) x 19 (width)
Stamped: Verso...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Lily - Botanical Flower Still Life, Watercolour, Pen and Ink, 1969
By John Nash
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Lily
Category
20th Century England - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
