GORDON-CUMMING Constance Frederica (1837-1924) ‘Entrance to the Little Bitter Lake / Suez Canal’. Painted on her return from her second visit to India (1872-1874) Pencil and watercolour. Inscribed, signed and dated, 5th July 1874. Provenance: the artist to a cousin, Miss Constance Lee, and by descent. 23.75x5.25 inches. £675.
GURNEY Richenda (1782-1855) (Mrs Francis Cunningham) ‘Sketches by Richenda Cunningham at Torquay & its neighbourhood in April & May 1854, Vol.1.’ 37 drawings and watercolour including views of Torquay (10), Teignmouth (4), Babbicombe (2), Watcombe (5), Ansteys Cove (3) , Paignton (1), Cockington( 2) Chelstone, (2) and eight others all inscribed and dated. A daughter of the Norwich banker and Quaker John Gurney she was a sister of Elizabeth Fry, sister-in-law of the Abolitionist Thomas Fowell-Buxton (MP for Weymouth until 1839) and wife of George Borrow’s patron Rev. Francis Cunningham. She had drawing lessons from John Crome and Henry Bright and published ‘The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain’ at the age of 27. The Album 10.5x14.75 inches. £4750.CLICK HERE TO VIEW
CLARK John Cosmo R.A. (1897-1967) ‘A stokes gun class at Akaba’. Oil/canvas. Signed. Provenance: Works from the Studios of Jean Clark RWS and the late Cosmo Clark RWS, Bankside Gallery, 1983. no.100. Ill: T.E. Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert. Exhibited: T. E. Lawrence: Lawrence of Arabia, 1988. National Portrait Gallery. 19.5x15 inches. Framed: 18.75x23 inches. £5750.CLICK HERE to view framed.
CLEVELEY John Jnr (1747-1786) Portugal; Lisbon, the Placa do Comercio. Ink and watercolour. Signed. Prov: An album of watercolours and drawings executed during Cleveley’s voyage to Portugal in July-December 1775; Sothebys, November, 1983. Exh: John Cleveley Jnr’s Voyage to Portugal, 1775, A&H, Jan 1984. 11x19 inches. £2750
BERMAN Eugene (1899-1972) ‘Roma: Cortile notturno’. Ink, watercolour and gouache. Signed and dated, 1958. Inscribed verso by the artist. Ex. Collection: Charles B Moses, Rome. 8.25x6.5 inches. Original frame: 12.5x10 inches. £1100.CLICK HERE to view framed.
CLEVELEY JNR John (1847-1786) The Original Drawings for Twelve Views in Surry (sic) & Kent, Published by Carington Bowles, 1st October 1770. CLICK HERE
BRETT John A.R.A. (1830-1902) Cornwall, possibly Newtrain Bay. Oil on card. Inscribed with the brush handle ‘XIX Aug. 1897’. Payne/Brett: pp.240-1, ‘John Brett’ record that Brett was painting at ‘Cataclew Point, Trevone’, Cornwall on the 17th August, and detail five other paintings of Trevone painted during August, as well as two of Trevose Head and one of Newtrain Bay. 9.75x17 inches. Framed: 14x21.5 inches. £6000.
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(1907-1993) The R&R of an WWII RAF Aerial Photography Interpreter: Tunisia and Puglia, September 1943 – July 1944. CLICK HERE
FARNY Henry Francois (French/American 1847-1916)
Vesuvius from the Bay. Oil on canvas laid on card. Signed and indistinctly dated. Farny studied in Europe 1867-1870. Inscribed verso ‘Estate of Daniel Henry Farny / Stockton California 1987’. Daniel Henry Farny the artist’s son (1908-1981) lived at Stockton and his wife still lived there in 1986.
8.5x14.75 inches. £2750
FORAIN Jean-Louis (1852-1931) In Court. Oil on canvas. Circa 1905. Signed. 24x29 inches. Framed: 31x36 inches. £6750.VIEW FRAMED
ANON. Circa 1815. Far from home, alas. Oil on copper. 5x4 inches. Framed: 7.5x6.5 inches. £675.VIEW FRAMED
BIANCHINI FERIER Lyon’s silk weavers fl.1888 -c.1995. Anon. Design for a scarf for the International Sporting Club de Cannes. Ink and gouache. Signed and inscribed ‘Andre Ghekiere, Cannes’ Gouache. Attached label ‘Bianchini Ferier, 4 rue Vaucanson, Lyon Prov: Bianchini Ferrier Archive Sale, Christies S.K. 25/27 July 2001 31.5x31.5 inches. £675.
FANTIN-LATOUR Henri (1836-1904) ‘Study for the portrait of Mlle Dubourg’. Pencil on blue/grey paper. Dated ‘28 Mai -82’. Artist’s stamp. Exhibited: No.12 ‘Exhibition of works by H. Fantin-Latour’, Leicester Galleries, October, 1927, where bought by ‘Dr Tait’. The Exhibition was of drawings from the Estate of the artist’s widow (d.1926). A study related to the artist’s portrait of his sister-in-law Charlotte Dubourg (1850-1921), 1882, oil on canvas, Musee d’Orsay. Paper: 224x145 mm. Mount window: 218x137 mm. Framed: 475x380 mm £6750.CLICK HERE to view the Musee d'Orsay Painting
Anon. Possibly by an Italian Hand. Circa 1860.
Head of a Woman.
Oil on card.
5x5 inches (circular). Framed: 11.5x9.5 inches (circular).
£1875VIEW FRAMED
DODD Francis R.A. N.E.A.C. R.P. R.W.S. (1874-1949) Charles Hazlewood Shannon R.A. (1863-1937) Chalks on prepared paper. Signed and dated, 1905. A companion portrait of Shannon’s partner Charles Ricketts is in the British Museum (Acc.No. 1940,0210.7) (not illustrated) 11.5x8.5 inches. £3000.VIEW FRAMED
BROWN Professor Frederick N.E.A.C. (1851-1941) Still-life: a dining table. Watercolour. Signed and dated, 1919. 8.75x12.75 inches. Framed: 16.5x20 inches. £775.VIEW FRAMED
BURRA Edward (1905-1976) Painting the hull: three men. Compositional pencil study. Similar study verso. Estate Stamp in red. Provenance: Burra Estate (Lady Ritchie) Sale, Sotheby’s, 3.7.2002. 19x25 inches. Framed: 34.5x28 inches. £6750.VIEW FRAMED VIEW VERSO
Joseph Highmore (1692-1780) (Circle of) ‘Richard Puller’ (1747-1826). Oil on canvas. Prov: Major General Mark Bond (1922-2017) 14x12 inches. Framed: 18.5x16.5 inches. £2500Click here to view large framed photo.
BATTY Elizabeth Frances (1791-1875) A group of 44 original drawings for the engravings to illustrate Italian Scenery from Drawings made in 1817 by Miss Batty, Publ. 1820. CLICK HERE
BEERBOHM Sir Max (1872-1956) Rodin. (RHD.1242. p.117). Pencil, brush and wash. 1914. One of a series entitled ‘Simple lessons in the art of drawing M. Rodin’, Merton College, Oxford (ref: RHD 1241). Ex. Coll: Mrs Eva Reichmann, by descent from the artist, her brother-in-law. 12.5x8 inches. Framed: 21x15.5 inches. £2500.
BLAMEY Norman R.A. O.B.E. (1914-2000)
‘The Vice Chancellor’.
Pencil, watercolour and gouache. Exhibited: The Discerning Eye, 1997. The Fine Art Society, March 2003.
Study for the portrait of Sir Harry Pitt (1914-2005) Vice-Chancellor of Reading University (1964-1978), Reading University Collection.
£1250. Framed Photo
CHELSEA: The Royal Hospital. ‘J. Gordon’. 1808.
‘Court Martial upon General Whitelocke / Chelsea College, Jan.28th 1808’.
Ink and watercolour. Indistinctly ?signed verso.
The General Court Martial of Whitelocke (1757-1833) who had failed to seize Buenos Aires from the Spanish Empire, surrendered and also lost Montevideo in 1807. He was found guilty of all but one charge and cashiered.
7x10.75 inches.
£1250.
DARK Lieutenant Philip R.N.V.R. (1918-2008) ‘Oil of Ray Taylor painting’, POW Camp Marlag O, Westertimke, Lower Saxony. Oil and cotton sheeting (‘Sacking of a clothing parcel’, lit.p.42, Dark ‘Look Back This Once’) Lieutenant H Ray Taylor RNVR (c.1913-1954) was second-in-command of a motor gunboat sunk in the channel in mid 1942 and he taken to Marlag O. Before and after the War he was Art Master at Ermystead Grammar School, Skipton. 21.5x20.5 inches. £1500
‘E.W’ after DENHAM Major Dixon (1786-1828)
‘Lancer of the body guard of the Sultan / of Begharmi, Central Africa’.
Ink and watercolour. Inscribed and signed ‘E.W.’
After the etching by Edward Finden pl. 279, Denham, Clapperton and Oudney ‘Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in the years 1822,1823 and 1824’, oubl.1826
8.75x7 inches.
£675.