WALLESZ Rudolf (b.1894 Vienna / Naturalised 25th November 1946 / Became Rudolf Walles 20.10.1947)
‘Zwei Familienhaus’: Set of four Presentation Elevations .
Ink, gouache and crayon on tracing paper. Each inscribed, dated ‘8.8.1929, identified as ‘Nord Ansicht’, ‘Sud Ansicht’, ‘Est Ansicht’ and ‘West Ansicht’. Each stamped: ‘Architekt Z.V. / Rudolf Wallesz / Wien 1, Schottenring 22’.
Original black paper mounts.
8.25x10.25 inches.
WATTS George Frederick O.M. R.A. (1817-1904) Pen and ink study for ‘Charity’, an oil painting Watts never executed. Authenticated and dated circa 1840 verso of frame by Richard Jefferies (Curator of the Watts Museum 1985-2006), October 2004. Signed and inscribed: ‘48 Cambridge Street’. 5.75x6 inches. Framed: 13x12.5 inches.
WATERFORD, Louisa Marchioness of (1818-1891) ‘Benedict’, in ‘Much Ado about Nothing’. Watercolour and gouache on tan paper. Inscribed in pencil ‘Benedict’. Once believed to be of her future husband 3rd Marquis of Waterford (1811-1859) at the Eglinton Tournament, where they met, in 1839. Reputedly exhibited: Stone Gallery, Newcastle. 10x7 inches.
WILSON STEER Philip N.E.A.C. (1860-1942) ‘Low Tide, Shirehampton’. Oil on canvas. Lit: Cat.no.582, p.155, ‘Philip Wilson Steer’, Laughton. Provenance: Christies 1942.Exhibited: Fine Art Society, 1946. 14x18 inches. Framed: 18x22 inches. £2250.CLICK HERE to view framed.
WEIGHT Carel C.H. R.A. (1908-1997) ‘Rain in the Country’. Oil on canvas. Signed, indistinctly inscribed and dated, 1953, on stretcher. Label with typed inscription ’Looking at People Exhibition / USSR’. 12x20 inches. Framed: 15.5x23.5 inches. VIEW FRAMED
WOOD William Thomas V.P.R.W.S. (1877-1958)
‘Sunset, Beles Ridge and Struma from Balloon 4000 ft up’
The Struma River, Balkan Front, from an Observation Balloon.
Watercolour. 1917. Signed. Inscribed on the mount. The original exhibition details on mount. Exh: No.38, ‘The Salonika Front’, Leicester Galleries, June-July 1918.
Lit and ill: pp.76-77, ‘The Salonika Front’ A.J.Mann, A&C Black Publishers, 1920. ‘The present work is directly comparable to the right hand section of the second picture on pp76-77 (‘Junction of the Butko & Struma Valleys’ (IWM cat. No. Art.I WM ART 882. Not checked by A and H)
Wood was in the RFC and an Official War Artist.
6x9 inches.
WALCOT William (1874-1943) Etchings. CLICK HERE
WALES (Subject) ANON. Circa 1825. Welsh Interior. Watercolour. Pencil and watercolour. Circa 1825. Provenance: a folder of drawings believed by his family to be by Samuel Prout and given by them to the North Devon Athenaeum. They are not like anything else drawn by Prout and are too early to be by Samuel Gillespie Prout (b.1822) his son. Joseph Powell PNWS (1780-1834) has been considered a possible artist but we sell it as by an as yet un-confirmed hand. 10x16.75 inches.
WALKER Cordelia (fl.1860s) Self-portrait. Pencil and grey washes. A sketchbook, in which it was included, of 30 pages of figure subjects and compositions by this artist comes with this work. The sketchbook signed and dated, September 29th 1861. Portrait: 4x4 inches (roundel). Sketchbook: 4.5x7.5 inches.
WALT DISNEY (Studios). 1949. From ‘Slide, Donald Slide’ – Donald Duck discovers a baseball game in the radio listings. Crayons. 1949. Animation by Bob Carlson, Volus Jones, Bill Justice and Judge Whitaker. Story by Nick George and Bill Berg. Exhibited: For the Love of Drawing: Drawings from an Oxfordshire Private Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, June 2002. Each 5.5x8 inches. Mounted and framed together. Framed: 19.5x14.5 inches.
WARD John C.B.E. (1917-2007) CLICK HERE
WARD James R.A. (1769-1859) Three watercolours. Exh: Covent Garden Gallery. CLICK HERE TO VIEW
Charlotte WARD Paintings on wood. CLICK HERE
WURTTEMBERGERS ON SOMME 1914-1916 CLICK HERE
WILLIAMS Hugh William ‘Grecian’ (1773-1829) ‘Between Albano and Lariccia’ (sic). Pen and ink on blue paper. Inscribed and dated, 1st October 1817. Prov: 'The De La Hanty Album' of 120 drawings made by Williams on his 1816-1818 Continental Tour. Ex Coll: Probably William Douglas of Orchardton (?1784-1821) who paid for the Tour; ... ; Baron Dr. Cornelius Ver Heydon de Lancy (1889-1984) (m.Josephine De la Hanty before WWII); Stephen Somerville (the album broken up and exhibited 1988). See other examples of drawings from the album in the BM. 16.5x22 inches.
WILLIAMS Hugh William ‘Grecian’ (1773-1829) ‘Ruins of Tusculum’. Pen and ink on blue paper. Inscribed and dated, September 29th 1817. Prov: 'The De La Hanty Album' of 120 drawings made by Williams on his 1816-1818 Continental Tour. Ex Coll: Probably William Douglas of Orchardton (?1784-1821) who paid for the Tour; ... ; Baron Dr. Cornelius Ver Heydon de Lancy (1889-1984) (m.Josephine De la Hanty before WWII); Stephen Somerville (the album broken up and exhibited 1988). See other examples of drawings from the album in the BM. 16.75x21.75 inches.
WERNER Carl (1808-1894) CLICK HERE
WESTALL Richard R.A. (1765-1836) ‘Alashtar started back, before his eyes / The object of his search, the hidden serpent, lies! / Alashtar, Line 359’. Ink and watercolour. Signed. Inscribed on the original backing. Henry Gally Knight’s Alashtar, An Arabian Tale was published in 1817. 11.5x9.5 inches (image 9x7 inches).
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) Archive of watercolours drawings and prints. Click here
WHITE Ethelbert R.W.S. S.W.E (1891-1972) CLICK HERE
WILLIAM Hugh William ‘Grecian’ (1773-1829) ‘Ruins of Tusculum’. Pen, brush and ink on blue paper. 1817. Inscribed. Prov: 'The De La Hanty Album' of 120 drawings made by Williams on his 1816-1818 Continental Tour. Ex Coll: Probably William Douglas of Orchardton (?1784-1821) who paid for the Tour; ... ; Baron Dr. Cornelius Ver Heydon de Lancy (1889-1984) (m.Josephine De la Hanty before WWII); Stephen Somerville (the album broken up and exhibited 1988). See other examples of drawings from the album in the BM. 16x22 inches.
WILLIAMS Hugh William ‘Grecian’ (1773-1829) ‘Grotto of Pausilippo (sic) Naples’. Pen and ink. Inscribed. Drawn in 1817. Prov: 'The De La Hanty Album' of 120 drawings made by Williams on his 1816-1818 Continental Tour. Ex Coll: Probably William Douglas of Orchardton (?1784-1821) who paid for the Tour; ... ; Baron Dr. Cornelius Ver Heydon de Lancy (1889-1984) (m.Josephine De la Hanty before WWII); Stephen Somerville (the album broken up and exhibited 1988). See other examples of drawings from the album in the BM. 11.25x16.5 inches.
WILLIAMS Hugh William ‘Grecian’ (1773-1829) ‘Grotto of the Sibyl / at Cumae’. Pen and ink. Inscribed. Drawn in 1817. Prov: 'The De La Hanty Album' of 120 drawings made by Williams on his 1816-1818 Continental Tour. Ex Coll: Probably William Douglas of Orchardton (?1784-1821) who paid for the Tour; ... ; Baron Dr. Cornelius Ver Heydon de Lancy (1889-1984) (m.Josephine De la Hanty before WWII); Stephen Somerville (the album broken up and exhibited 1988). See other examples of drawings from the album in the BM. 11.25x17 inches.
WILSON STEER Philip O.M. (1860-1942) Monmouthshire. ‘The Bend in the River’, near Chepstow. Watercolour and gouache. Signed and dated, 1905. Exhibited: ‘Collection of the late Hugh Walpole’, Leicester Galleries, No.57. Ex. Collection: Mrs Gilbert Russell. 9.5x14.25 inches. Framed: 17.25x21.5 inches.
WILSON Richard R.A. (1714-1782) with repairs by Paul SANDBY R.A. (1731-1809) ‘Rich.d Wilson / a view at Tivoli / mounted for me by Paul Sandby’. Verso thus inscribed, signed and dated November (17)88 by Benjamin Booth. Also inscribed ‘Marianne Ford’ (Lady Ford, his daughter). Exhibited: No.81, ‘Richard Wilson’, Tate Gallery, 1925. 11x15.75 inches. Framed: 19.5x23.5 inches.
WOOD Christopher (1901-1930) L’Enfant Terrible: ‘Jean Bourgoint asleep’ Pencil. Circa 1926. Signed and dedicated ‘a Jean B. / un souvenir d’une belle soiree’. Also inscribed ‘From H. J. Ede’. Exhibited: The Redfern Gallery (5th April 1937 to Anthony Buckley). 9.5x12.25 inches. Framed: 17x18.5 inches.
WOODWARD George ‘Moutard’ (1760-1809) Recto: A robust seduction. Pencil. Verso: ‘A Doctor beginning Business!!’. Etching with hand colouring by Woodward, published by W. Holland, Dec.1st 1802. CLICK HERE. 13.5x10 inches.
WOOLLS Henry William (b.c.1860) ‘Souvenir of Fete at Bourne End, August 1st 1908’, at New York Lodge. Buckinghamshire. To celebrate the success of the 1908 Olympics American millionaire and philanthropist George Kessler (1863-1920) employed Woolls and other theatre scene painters to recreate ancient Athens at his Thames-side house and held a firework-lit regatta and fete. Gouache. Signed, dated and inscribed. 19x29 inches. Framed: 26x35 inches.
WILLIAM Hugh William ‘Grecian’ (1773-1829) ‘Tusculum – Amphitheatre dug out by L. Bonaparte’. Pen and ink on blue paper. 1817. Inscribed twice. Prov: 'The De La Hanty Album' of 120 drawings made by Williams on his 1816-1818 Continental Tour. Ex Coll: Probably William Douglas of Orchardton (?1784-1821) who paid for the Tour; ... ; Baron Dr. Cornelius Ver Heydon de Lancy (1889-1984) (m.Josephine De la Hanty before WWII); Stephen Somerville (the album broken up and exhibited 1988). See other examples of drawings from the album in the BM. 16.5x22 inches.
We are grateful to Dr Joe Rock for his help in cataloguing Nos.82-84.
WRIGHT Joseph (American 1756-1793) (Attributed to) Head of a Lady. Oil on canvas. Signed / inscribed on original label verso ‘Jo Wright Pinx / No.6 Titchfield Street / Oxford Market, London’. Indistinctly date ‘17?80’ on original stretcher. Wright was in England to study at the RA Schools from 1775-1781 when he and his mother, the American sculptress Patience Wright went to Paris before returning to America in 1782. 12.5x9.75 inches. Framed: 14.5x11.75 inches.
WESTALL William A.R.A. (1781-1850)
‘Approach of the Monsoon, Bombay Harbour’.
Watercolour. 1804. Aquatinted by Theodore Fielding as Plate 2 for Captain Robert Grindlay’s ‘Scenery, Costume and Architecture, chiefly on the Western Side of India’ (publ. Ackermann 1826-1830)
7.5x10.25 inches. Framed: 16x18.5 inches.