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Period: Late 19th Century
Antique Gouache and Watercolor Figurative Landscape by the Sea
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3942 Antique gouache and watercolor on paper set in a period 19th century frame
Image size 10x5.5"
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
“The Musicians”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and gouache on archival paper of female musicians by the well known Italian artist, Giulio Rosati. Signed lower. Circa 1890. Condition is excellent. Original oak wood with incised design frame. Overall framed measurements are 28.5 by 22 inches. Provenance: A Brooklyn, New York collector.
Giulio Rosati was born in Rome in 1861 into a family of bankers and militarists. He did not follow his familys career and instead studied art at the Accademia di San Luca under Dario Querci and Francesco Podesti. He also studied with Luis Álvarez y Catalá (1836-1901), director of the Prado Museum, Madrid. He worked mainly in watercolor, and occasionally in oil, and focussed most of his entire painting career on Orientalist art. He devoted himself to themes of the Maghreb and his works emphasised the nobility of Muslim culture. His painting, Oriental Scene was exhibited at the Exposition di Belle Arte, in Rome in 1900.
He was part of a large group of painters, who at the time were depicting similar Middle Eastern subject matter. He became one of the most prolific Orientalist painters of the 19th century. Unlike other Orientalists, he never journeyed to the Middle East. He rarely participated in exhibitions, preferring to sell his works directly through art dealers.
His son, Alberto Rosati...
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Realist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Paris modernist scene mixed media drawimg
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Cardona Lladós (1877-1957) - Modernist Paris scene - Mixed media (charcoal and white wax).
Drawing measurements 40x29 cm.
Frame measurements 66x54 cm.
He was born in Barcelona on June 30, 1877, he was registered with the name of Juan Bautista José Pedro. His parents Josep Cardona i Farré (Sant Salvador, 1852-Barcelona, ?) and Maria Lladós i Vidal (Isona, 1855-Barcelona, 1935) came from Sant Salvador de Toló and Isona, respectively, two towns very close to Tremp, in the Pallars Jussà region, close to the Lleida Pyrenees. The Cardona Lladós family was of humble origins, linked to the rural and peasant world. José Cardona and María Lladós married around 1876, when they were twenty-five and twenty-one years old respectively. The couple decided to improve their precarious situation by moving to live in Barcelona.
In 1877 Joan Cardona was born in the family home, at 62 Mediana de San Pedro Street, in the Ribera neighborhood of Barcelona and very close to the Rec Comtal. Joan Cardona was the firstborn of three brothers. When he was six years old, his sister Consuelo was born (1883) and later his younger sister, María (1888), was born. Josep Cardona i Farré was a day laborer and lived at least until the birth of his third daughter, María, in 1888. Her death, for reasons unknown to us, would occur shortly after.
After the death of Josep Cardona, León Farré i Duró (Isona, 1867-Barcelona, 1932) became part of the family nucleus with his mother María Lladós, who took care of the child Cardona and his sisters Consuelo and María.
Farré learned to play the guitar and was the most extraordinary disciple of the composer and guitarist Francesc Tàrrega i Eixea (Vila-real, 1852-Barcelona, 1909). Joan Cardona had in her stepfather the man who instilled in her a special musical and artistic sensitivity. The young Cardona took classes at the Academia Baixas, inaugurated in 1892 by the painter Joan Baixas i Carreter and installed on Carrer del Pi, a private center where a good batch of leading Catalan Modernisme artists were trained.
Cardona married Clemencia Parade Cazabat at the beginning of the century. Daughter of Carles Parade and Amara Cazabat, she was born in 1870 in Bagnères de Bigorre...
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Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) L'étang à Mortefontaine, signed watercolor
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920)
L'étang à Mortefontaine, an autumn landscape
signed lower left
Watercolor on paper,
29,3 x 22.5 cm
In its original vintage frame : 46 x 39,5 cm
titled on t...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French 19th century Pen and Ink landscape, town and church from a sketch folder
Located in Woodbury, CT
Interesting and well-drawn French late 19th-century landscape sketch, in pen and ink and sepia color.
Emile Cagniart was born in Paris where he would remain for his sixty years. Lik...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Rough Weather at Blatchington Pulling in the Fishing Nets on the English Coast
Located in Soquel, CA
Drypoint etching rawing of a coastal scene with figures drawing a net or boat form the sea by Sir Francis (Frank) Job Short (British, 1857 - 1945)
Sir Frank Short, Royal Academy*, was a printmaker and teacher of printmaking. He revived the practices of mezzotint* and aquatint* engraving, and also wrote about printmaking to educate a wider public.
Signed "Frank Short" lower right with monogram in the print "S within a shield"
Titled lower left "Rough Weather at Blatchington"
Lower left "Trial Proof"
Image, 8.5"H x 10.88"W
Mat, 16"H x 20"W x 0.13
Professionally cleaned and ph nuetral washed by our paper conservator. (new images posting)
Francis Job Short was born on 19 June 1857 in Britain, at Stourbridge, Worcestershire. He was educated to be a civil engineer.
He was engaged on various works in the Midlands until 1881, when he came to London as assistant to Mr Baldwin Latham in connection with the Parliamentary Inquiry into the pollution of the river Thames. In 1883 he was elected an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Having worked at the Stourbridge School of Art in his early years he joined the South Kensington School of Art*, in 1883. He also worked at the life class under Professor Fred...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Drypoint, Etching, Gouache
Double sided crayon drawing in colors: Study for "The Shoe" (recto)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Double sided crayon drawing:
Front: Study for "The Shoe"
Reverse: Studies of Figures
Blue crayon, red and black crayons
Image size: 19.25 x 15.375 inches
Frame size: 30 x 25 1/2 inch...
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Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) A Flowerbed, signed watercolor
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920)
A Flowerbed
signed lower left
Watercolor on paper,
15.5 x 23.5 cm
Framed : 25.5 x 33 cm
This is a particularly original work by Paul Lecomte. It shows his ...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Watercolor The Garden at Sickelsjö, 1883
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are delighted to present a stunning watercolor by the Swedish artist Albert Theodor Gellerstedt. This artwork, titled "Sickelsjö Trädgård" was created on June 8, 1883. The paintin...
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Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Blanche et Noire
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
Blanche et Noire, de l'album «Toulouse-Lautrec, douze lithographies»
52,2 x 35,9 cm
Category
Naturalistic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
19th Century Italian Miniature Painting Christ Garden of Gethsemane Angels
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Italian School, late 19th century
Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane
miniature painting, framed
framed: 3.5 x 3 inches
image: 2.5 x 2 inches
provenance: private collection, Italy
con...
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Old Masters Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Gloucester Harbor Docking the Boat 1900 Two Masted Schooner
Located in Soquel, CA
Gloucester Harbor Docking the Boat 1900
Gloucester Harbor circa 1900 by C. Bailey Cora was a San Francisco artist in the 19th century. (American), 19th-20th C).
Image, 9.75"H x 14.5"...
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American Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Henri-Louis Dupray (1841-1909) Studies of military horsemen, two signed drawings
By Henry Louis Dupray
Located in Paris, FR
Henri-Louis Dupray (1841-1909)
Studies of military horsemen, two signed drawings
Pencil on paper
The first one figuring a partial study of two horsemen :
10.8 x 16.5 cm, bears a mo...
Category
Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Sunset Sailors is a Watercolor by Swedish Artist Carl L Lindqvist, Painted 1898
Located in Stockholm, SE
Discover this watercolor "Sunset Sailors" by Carl L. Lindqvist (1856-1941).
Step into the enchanting world of the Swedish artist Carl L. Lindqvist with his captivating watercolor pa...
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Realist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
M. A. Carter - Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour, Preparing Boats at Newlyn
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine late 19th century watercolour depicting fishing boats near the slip at Newlyn. Signed 'M. A. Carter' and dated 1881 to the lower left. Presented in an ornate gilt-effect frame...
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Abstract Expressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pilade aimait Hermioné
Located in Toronto, ON
1978 L'art D'Aimer
Lithography on Arches Paper
Museum Framed
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
NATIVE AMERICANS HUNTING - TWO DRAWINGS.
Located in Portland, ME
Adams, Cassilly (American 1843-1921). NATIVE AMERICANS HUNTING -
TWO DRAWINGS. Charcoal and watercolor, not dated. One signed
within the matrix of the drawing, lower right. Each about 7 x 10
inches. Both with a tack hole top and and bottom, center, and
with residue from an old mount, verso. One wih a 1/2 x 1/2 inch
loss at the top right corner. The images fresh. One shows two
hunters with grass head-dress disguises, crouched behind low
grasses,each with a rifle, a killed deer between them, and a herd
moving across the field on the far side of the grasses. The other
depicts two hunters wearing animal-skin disguises, each with a
rifle, crouched behind grasses, beyond which a small herd of
bison grazes. The Pair: $1750.00
The following is from American Western Art...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Charcoal
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912) An officer of the Gendarmerie Impériale, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
An officer of the Gendarmerie Impériale, viewed of the back
bears the monogram ED but it is not visible because it is hidden by the mounting of the frame...
Category
Academic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Ferdinand Heilbuth, Woman lying on the shore, watercolor and gouache on paper
Located in BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FR
Born German, Ferdinand Heilbuth (1826-1889) made most of his artistic career in France and specialized in outdoor genre scenes. This gouache watercolor depicts a young woman lying in...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Harvest Time The Hills of Mt Tamalpais near Lake Bon Tempe 1890s
Located in Soquel, CA
Harvest Time The Hills of Mt Tamalpais near Lake Bon Tempe 1890s
The Hills around San Rafael in the 19th century were a time of work and play as seen in this watercolor near Lake Bon...
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American Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Laid Paper
Nude Man - Original Drawing by Félix Barrias - Late-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Man is an original pencil Drawing realized by Félix Barrias (1822-1907).
The little artwork is in good condition on a brown paper.
No Signature, i...
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Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Félix Ziem (1821-1911) Studies of Landscapes and Seascapes, original Drawing
By Félix Ziem
Located in Paris, FR
Félix Ziem (1821-1911)
Studies of landscapes and seascapes
graphite on paper,
14 x 22 cm
Stamp of the Ziem Estate bottom left
Framed : 25 x 33 cm
A rare exemple of mutiple studies ...
Category
Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Frank Richards, Newlyn School, English Watercolor of figures on a Cornish beach
Located in Harkstead, GB
A wonderfully fluid watercolour capturing the end of the day on a Cornish beach, most probably Newlyn where Richards was painting from the 1890s onwards.
Frank Richards (1863-1935)
...
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Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French 19th century Pen and Ink landscapes from a sketch folder
Located in Woodbury, CT
Interesting and well-drawn French late 19th-century landscape sketch in pen and ink .
Emile Cagniart was born in Paris where he would remain for his sixty years. Like many young asp...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Fall Courtship
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Valencia, Spain in 1845, 19th century impressionist Vicente García de Paredes studied at the School of Fine Arts in Valencia, in Madr...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Siebe Johannes Ten Cate (1858-1908) A Dune Landscape, pastel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Siebe Johannes ten Cate (1858-1908)
A Dune Landscape
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
25.5 x 39.5 cm
in good condition, very fresh, traces of pinholes in the upper corners barely...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Rue de Thorigny, signed F. Feuilloy
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite and crayon in color with white heightening on cream wove paper, 13 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (343 x 310 mm) (sheet). In good condition with uniform toning, handling creases, and lightly dog-eared corners.
The building on the left is a hotel particulier in Paris' Marais neighborhood, the Hôtel Salé, which now houses the Musée Picasso.
Category
French School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Half-length portrait of a Pharisee - In the shadow of betrayal -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hermann Prell (1854 Leipzig - 1922 Dresden-Loschwitz). Half-length portrait of a Pharisee, 1885. Sketch for the right-hand figure in the painting Judas Iscariot, 1886. Pencil drawing heightened with opaque white and black chalk on beige-grey wove paper (papier vélin), 34 x 27.8 cm (visible size), 52 x 45 cm (mount), signed, dated and inscribed "H. PRELL 1885 zu 'Judas'".
Minor browning, collection stamp on the reverse.
- In the shadow of betrayal -
About the artwork
This painting is the sketch for the head of the Pharisee offering the coins to Judas in one of Herrmann Prell's major works, the painting Betrayal of Judas, completed in 1886. The painting belongs to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and is illustrated in Adolf Rosenberg: Prell, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1901, p. 21 (Fig. 19). It is especially highlighted in Thieme-Becker (vol. 27, p. 376).
Hermann Prell, Betrayal of Judas, 1886
The monumental head, which fills the picture and is distinguished by its ornamented robe, is almost a lost profile, which in the executed painting is justified by the Pharisee's turning towards Judas. Despite the fact that the sitter withdraws from the viewer by turning away, it was necessary to artistically elaborate the motivation for the purchase of one of Christ's disciples, which is why the drawing focuses on the expression of the face, while the 'accessories' are treated in a more summary manner.
In characterising the face, Hermann Prell performs a balancing act: since the Pharisee, despite his destructive actions, is an actor in the history of salvation, the head must show a dignity appropriate to the event, but at the same time the physiognomy must also bear witness to the scheming attitude that led to the betrayal. To solve this dilemma, Prell draws on the traditional depictions of the heads of the apostles, shading the face to indicate the obdurate darkness of the spirit and moving the base of the nose slightly upwards while the mouth falls away, thus giving a physiognomic expression to the motivation of the action. The fatal drama of the betrayal is expressed in the monumentalisation of the head and in the thunderous white highlights that contrast with the darkness of the chalk.
As a study, considered by the artist to be a work in itself, this drawing reveals the pictorial problems and brainstorming of monumental painting.
About the artist
In 1872 Prell, who was one of the most important exponents of monumental painting of his time, began studying painting with Theodor Grosse at the Dresden Academy of Art and continued with Carl Gussow at the Berlin Academy in 1876. Hans von Marées taught him in Rome in 1878. More influential on his work, however, were Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger, with whom Prell had been friends since his student days and with whom he worked together on several occasions.
Prell's first major work, which established his reputation as a monumental painter, were the frescoes in the banqueting hall of the Architektenhaus in Berlin in 1881/82, commissioned by the state and depicting the different periods of architecture. Prell then went to Italy for two years to study fresco painting. Other major commissions followed. These included monumental frescoes in the town halls of Worms (1884), Hildesheim (1882-92), Gdansk (1895) and Dresden, the staircase of the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Breslau (1893/94), the throne room of the German Embassy in Rome (1896-99) and the staircase of the Albertinum in Dresden (1900-1904).
From 1886 Prell taught at the academy of arts in Berlin and in 1892 he was appointed professor at the academy of arts in Dresden. His students included Osmar Schindler and Hans Unger...
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Realist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Nude of Woman - Original Pencil - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by Anonymous French Artist of the late 19th Century.
In very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 43.5 x ...
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Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
" Studio per Ritratto di Lady Anne Simms Reeve of Brancaster Hall " 1870 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Raro studio dell'artista Preraffaellita Frederick Sandys,Studio per l’opera
Portrait of a Lady,( Anne Simms Reeve of Brancaster Hall, Norfolk) proprie...
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Pre-Raphaelite Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Graphite
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912) Soldiers, a study, ink on wood
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
Soldiers, a study
Black ink on a wood panel
12.5 x 13 cm
Framed : 20 x 20.5 cm
On the back of the panel a label inscribed "Dessin à la plume par Detaill...
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Academic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait of an Old Lady, 1886
Located in Stockholm, SE
This small and delicate watercolor is believed to depict Madame Papillon, a subject also portrayed by Hanna Pauli in an oil painting dated 1886. The portrait was created during the s...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Rare 19th Century Watercolor and Platinotype -- Coming Home
By Edward Lamson Henry
Located in Soquel, CA
Rare 19th Century Watercolor and Platinotype -- Coming Home
Wonderful and rare 19th Century watercolor and platinotype (Watercolor over Platinum photograph) attributed to Edward Lamson Henry...
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Hudson River School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Paper, Platinum
French School circa 1880, Portrait of a boy holding a book, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French school circa 1880
Portrait of a boy holding a book
graphite and white gouache on paper
39.5 x 32 cm oval view
in good condition, slightly yellowed with age
In its original ova...
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Academic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Silhouette of a Young Girl
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York;
Samuel B. and Marion W. Lawrence Collection;
Christie's, Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, November 29, 2007, l...
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Aesthetic Movement Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
George H Hay, Spinning Wool, Watercolour
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century watercolour by Scottish artist George H Hay RSA (1831-1912) depicts four young ladies, wearing outfits synonymous with the 1820s, spinning wool within a simple...
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Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Symbolist Portrait of a Woman in an Interior, 'Before the Mirror'
Located in Cotignac, FR
Art Nouveau coloured drawing of a young lady beauty before a mirror by Edmon Aman-Jean. The work is signed in pencil bottom left and presented in a plain wood frame with mount, under glass.
A very charming early 20th century drawing capturing a young beauty admiring herself in front of a dressing mirror. n the background a fine interior with a louis XVI commode...
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Symbolist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Pencil, Color Pencil
Cloaked Shepherdess Pre-Raphaelite Arts & Crafts Aesthetics Original Watercolor
By Philip Richard Morris
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Philip Richard Morris.
English ( b.1836 - d.1902 ).
The Cloaked Shepherdess.
Watercolor.
Signed Lower Left.
Image size 14 inches x 9.3 inches ( 35.5cm x 23.5cm ).
Frame size 26.3 in...
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Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
India Naga Tribe Watercolour 19th Century Company School Painting Indian
Located in Norfolk, GB
Untitled - Rongmei Naga Tribe India
Watercolour on Paper
c 1860
Mounted Unframed: 38 x 45 cm
Image size: 24.5 x 31 cm
Provenance: Private UK Collection
This is a fabulous and rare 19th century watercolour from India in a style that is often referred to as Company School Painting...
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Other Art Style Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Chess Game (antique drawing by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance")
Located in New Orleans, LA
Despite the tears and repairs, this remains an absolutely wonderful drawing, by a famous Southern artist. Many of you clicking on this are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
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Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
19th C. Newspaper Illustration of Hiram H. Hobbs, Foreman of the Grand Jury 1898
Located in Soquel, CA
Historical late 19th century portrait of Hiram H. Hobbs, Foreman of the Grand Jury of San Francisco y Richard Langtry Partington (American, ...
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American Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Illustration Board
Misty Dunkeld Scotland Hills w. Sheep, Late 19th Century Scottish Landscape W/C
By H. L. Radford
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning late 19th century landscape of misty purple hills dotted with small sheep in the Scottish highlands near Dunkeld by Boston artist Miss H. L. Radford (19th Century). Signed a...
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American Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Woman with Red Sash
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
An influential critic, writer and teacher, Philip Leslie Hale was an American Impressionist with an experimental, avant-garde approach to painting. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of author Edward Everett Hale and the younger brother of artist Ellen Day Hale, Philip was raised in a lively intellectual atmosphere. He probably received his first artistic training from his paternal aunt Susan Hale, after which he entered the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School under Edmund Tarbell, an American Impressionist painter who greatly influenced Hale’s style. A year later in 1884, the young artist moved to New York City, where he enrolled at the Art Students League and studied under Kenyon Cox and J. Alden Weir. There, his fellow students included Theodore Butler and William Howard “Peggy” Hart.
In 1887, Hale traveled to Paris with Theodore Butler and Susan Hale, where he furthered his artistic training at Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian. During this first year, he studied with Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, Gustave Boulanger and Henri Lucien Doucet...
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Abstract Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Cloak and Dagger (Ellsworth Woodward Antique Figurative Graphite Drawing)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this drawing are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
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Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Basilica di Santa Maria from the Grand Canal, Venice
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and sepia wash on light wove paper, 5 1/8 x 4 inches (128 x 100 mm), signed in brown ink and dated in black ink below the image. Scattered light foxing and uniform toning. Adhered to nonarchival white cardstock, creating minor cockling, and obscuring the verso.
Alberto Prosdocimi (1852-1925) was an Italian watercolorist and celebrated mansucript illuminator known for his atmospheric cityscapes and interior views of Venice. His canal scences are simple yet masterful, filled with languid motion...
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Italian School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
"Arquebusiers En Manoeuvre", After Marchetti
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative landscape of four infantrymen in formation with their long arquebus guns by Adolphe Ancker (Dutch, 19th Century), after Marchetti. Signed and dated "Adolph Ancker 1888" lo...
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American Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Pencil
Battle Scene, Spanish American War
Located in Greenwich, CT
Francis Luis Mora was considered one of America's finest "sketchers". A collection of his Sketchbooks are at the Smithsonian and this work came out of one in the early 1990's from t...
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Ashcan School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Temple Official
Located in London, GB
'Temple Official', pencil and watercolour on paper by Robert Taylor Pritchett (1882). This is the artist's portrait of a financial official in a Cantonese temple in Guangzhou, China in the latter half of the 19th century. His garment is typical of that of a senior civil servant of the Chinese government. Clothes were designed to indicate rank and status, becoming so distinct that the wearer’s position could be ascertained at a glance. During his second career as an artist, Pritchett traveled widely in the Pacific region in the 1880s. This artwork has been professionally restored and cleaned to preserve it for decades to come and therefore in good overall condition. It has also been newly framed and glazed. The artist has written 'The Treasurer & Temple' and '5 Geni Temple, Canton Jan. 22 1882' on the lower left and right hands of the artwork. Upon request a video of the work may be provided.
About the Artist: Robert Taylor Pritchett (1823 - 1907), a gun maker and artist, was the son of Richard Ellis...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
19th Century Landscape -- Cape Ann, Gloucester Harbor
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th century delicate watercolor of the harbor at Cape Ann, Gloucester, Massachusetts depicting rocks in the calm water along with seagulls and sailboats in the distance, by 19th century artist and Reverend William George Puddefoot (American, 1842-1925). Signed "W.G. Puddefoot" lower left. Titled on verso, "Cape Ann Scenery / Near Gloucester, Sunset". Presented in a carved giltwood frame and off-white mat.
Reverend William George Puddefoot [1842-1925] (also known as W C Puddefoot) was an artist, traveler, lecturer and the field secretary for the American Home Missionary Society [1826-1893]. For his work, Puddefoot traveled all over the US, lecturing and doing missionary work, including: Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana Pennsylvania, California and Connecticut. He was known for being an extremely colorful character especially in his sermons and lectures. Puddefoot wrote the book Minute Man...
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American Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Siebe Johannes Ten Cate (1858-1908) Mill and sailboat in the moonlight, pastel
Located in Paris, FR
Siebe Johannes ten Cate (1858-1908)
Mill and sailboat in the moonlight,
Signed lower rigt
Pastel on paper
40 x 31 cm
Framed under glass : 52 x 44 cm
This landscape shows the out...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Late 19th Century Watercolour - Crashing Estuary Waves
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine late 19th century watercolour by an unknown hand, evocative of tidal waters and the coastline of the British Isles. Unsigned. Well presented in a cream card mount and antique ...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Persephone, 19th Century Classical French Academy Drawing, Chalk and Pencil.
Located in Cotignac, FR
19th Century French Academy drawing of a classical maiden, signed Xavier Rendeley bottom right, numbered and dated 2nd April 1883. Presented in ...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
Village Scene, Cornwall England - 19th Century, Impressionist Landscape Drawing
Located in Norwich, GB
A lovely and very fresh watercolour on paper by John Baragwanath KING (1864—1939)
This village scene is signed lower left, and measures 25 x 38 cm. It is presented in its original frame - the framed is 39 x 51cm
Born in Cornwall, the artist trained first as an engineer before turning to art, and exhibited in London, Manchester and Paris. He lived at 'Westbourne', St Austell...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
St Mark's Square, Venice - China Ink, Watercolor and Tempera by F. Zanin - 1877
Located in Roma, IT
St Mark's Square, Venice is an original drawing realized by Francesco Zanin in the 1877.
China ink, watercolor and tempera on cardboard. The art...
Category
Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Watercolor
GIRL WADING
Located in Portland, ME
Potthast, Edward H. GIRL WADING. Colored pencil drawing on paper, not dated. Signed recto, lower right "E. Potthast," lower right, and inscribed "Holiday Greetings" and signed "Edw. ...
Category
American Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
One Thousand And One Nights French Orientalism Art Nouveau Decorative Period
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
A. Lesueur
French 19ème siècle
Les Mille Et Une Nuits – One Thousand & One Nights, 1892
Charcoal on paper heightened with white.
Signed & dated 1892 lower right.
Image size 23.6 inc...
Category
Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Studies for a Female Nude - Original Pastel Drawing by P. Andrieu - Late 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Studies for a Female Nude is a fascinating drawing realized by the French artist Pierre Andrieu in the 19th century. The state of preservation is very good, except for two small rips of the paper on the lower and higher right margins.
Pierre Andrieu (1821-1892) was a pupil of the famous painter Eugène Delacroix from 1844 and his colleague until 1863. He worked with him at the town hall of Paris, at the Senate, at the Chamber of Deputies, at the Angels Chapel at the Saint-Sulpice Church, and they restored the ceiling of the Apollo Gallery at the Louvre. In 1868, he restored the paintings at the Senate library realized by Delacroix ruined by infiltrations.
In 1871, he opened his art studio and realized copies of Delacroix’s artworks, original paintings with genre scenes and animals (one is currently at the National Gallery in London) and a great number of orientalist drawings...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Study of an Angel by British Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir William Blake Richmond
Located in London, GB
SIR WILLIAM BLAKE RICHMOND, RA
(1842-1921)
Study of an Angel
Pencil on the artist’s writing paper for Beavor Lodge, Hammersmith
Unframed
22.5 by 17 cm., 9 by 6 ¾ in.
(mount size ...
Category
Pre-Raphaelite Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
