Below is a Summer selection of available works introduced to our stock since last September. It does not include works from our July List or our Spring Sale.
You can still view our List for July, and indeed all our Lists published since April 2021 via the menu above.
Abbott, Francis (1801 – 1893)Devon; the beach at ‘Dawlish’.Pen, ink and wash by the son of John White Abbott. Mongrammed, inscribed and dated, ‘Sep 1836’. Exhibited: Colnaghi, where provenance given as having come from a family album.6.75×9.5 inches.Framed: 14.5×17 inches.
£2,000
ANON (Eighteenth-Century)‘Black Monday or The Departure for School’.Pencil. Circa 1800. From the 1790 engraving by John Jones after Wiliam Redmore Bigg R.A. (1755-1828).13.5×19.5 inches.Framed: 21.25×26.5 inches.
£1,500
ANON (Nineteenth-Century)Brazil; Rio de Janeiro.Pencil. 1825. Inscribed to the old backing, ‘Taken in the Harbour at Rio de Janeiro. July 1825. Cocovado [sic] Mountains’.6×14 inches.Framed: 13×21 inches.
£875
ANON (Nineteenth-Century)Moonlight over a traveller’s encampment.Watercolour and gouache. c.1830.6×7.5 inches.Sold
Bawden C.B.E. R.A., Edward (1903 – 1989)‘Queluz’; the Sphinx in the Neptune Garden of the Royal Palace, Sintra, Portugal.Linocut. Signed and titled. Used as an end paper for Ruari McLean’s ‘MOTIF’, 1962 issue.13.5×8 inches.Framed: 21.5×15.25 inches.Sold
Blake, William (1757 – 1827)Three illustrations for Robert Thornton’s, ‘The Pastorals of Virgil’, 1821.Electrotypes made from Blake’s original woodblocks. From Gilchrist’s ‘Life of William Blake. With Selections from his Poems and Other Writings…’, First edition 1863, Second edition 1880. Exhibited: Robin Garton, 1988.5.75×3 inches.Sold
Boys, Thomas Shotter (1803 – 1874)France; Rue Bailleul, Paris.Pencil. Inscribed and dated, 1832. Further signed and dated, 1833.10×6.5 inches.Framed: 14.5×11 inches.Sold
Bratby R.A., John (1928 – 1992)‘Summer Wind’.Oil on canvas. 1961. Signed. Exhibited: Zwemmer Gallery.33.5×47.5 inches.Framed: 41.5×55.5 inches.
£9,750
Calvert, Charles (1785 – 1852)A Woman in Profile.Watercolour en grisaille. Circa 1810. Signed.4.75×4 inches.Framed: 10.75×9.75 inches.Sold
Chinnery, George (1774 – 1852)Three Children and their Dog.Pen and ink. c.1800. Exhibited: Andrew Wyld, 2011, Cat No.23.4.25×4.25 inches.Framed: 8×8 inches.
£1,750
Coverly-Price, Victor (1901 – 1988)Australia; the Rootes car factory, Melbourne.Pen, ink, watercolour and gouache. 1955. Signed. Built in the 1930s, during WWII this building in Port Melbourne was used by the Australian Department of Munitions and Department of Aircraft Productions. It was also associated with the Commonwealth government’s secret tank research and development program.9×14.75 inches.Sold
Cox O.W.S., David (1783 – 1859)Warwickshire; Guy’s Cliffe House.Watercolour. c.1820. Exhibited: Andrew Wyld. A view of Guy’s Cliffe by Cox was published in Beilby’s ‘Graphic Illustrations of Warwickshire’. The view is almost identical to the present work. But the architecture differs, works having taken place at the house9×11 inches.Framed: 18.5×20 inches.
Daniell R.A., William (1769 – 1837)A warship before the wind in a light breeze. Probably a 4th-rate naval two-decker of about 54 guns.Pencil and watercolour. Signed and dated, 1794. Ex. Collection: Cyril Fry.5.25×4.5 inches.Sold
Deakins, Tom (born 1957)‘Cedars and Seat’.Oil on board. 1998. Signed and dated, verso. Exhibited: Chappel Galleries.8×6 inches.Framed: 12.5×10.5 inches.Sold
Dighton, Robert (1752 – 1814)Figure studies: two sheets mounted as one. Scenes in a churchyard and figures promenading.Pen, ink and watercolour. Exhibited: Morton Morris & Co., where acquired by the previous owner.3×8 inches.Framed: 20.5×17.5 inches.
£1,750
Du Maurier, George (1834 – 1896)‘Tact’.Admiring friend: “What, another picture? Why, that’s the second you’ve finished this week!”. Pictor: “the Third, my boy, the Third!”. Admiring friend (wishing to be pleasant): “Ah! Wonderful! That’s what I always say when I hear people abuse your pictures! ‘They may be bad’, I always say; ‘but just look at the lot of them he turns out’!”. Pencil, pen and ink. 1879. Signed. For ‘Punch’.5×4 inches.
£575
Easton, Hugh (1906 – 1965)Flag dancer.Pencil and watercolour. Circa 1925. By the famous stained glass designer. Verso: A second drawing of a male figure and hand. Signed with the artist’s monogram and dedicated ‘To Rai / from Hugh’.5.5×3.5 inches.Sold
Etty R.A. (Attributed to), William (1787 – 1849)Drapery Study.Oil on paper. c.1810. Verso: part of a life study in red and white chalks.
Provenance: F. R. Meatyard c.1955; John Manning; Arnold Fellows.15.25×9.25 inches.Framed: 24.5×17.75 inches.Sold
Flaxman (After), John (1755 – 1826)‘Illustrazioni dell’ Opere d’Omero e Aeschilus’; an album of 54 drawings after Flaxman’s illustrations to Homer and Aeschylus.Pen and ink. c.1810. This volume is testament to the impact Flaxman’s line illustrations had on artists here, and on the continent. His illustrations to the Iliad were made in Rome, engraved by Piroli and first published in 1793. His illustrations to Aeschylus appeared in 1795 with many editions being printed throughout Europe. We are only showing a selection of images here. More can be sent. Dimensions given are for the album. The drawings match the size of Flaxman’s prints, roughly 8×11 inches.21.5×16 inches.
Freeth R.A., Peter (born 1938)‘Colossus (from Ozymandias)’.Lithograph. 1983. Signed.31×23.25 inches.Framed: 34.25×26.25 inches.
£575
Frost, George (1754 – 1821)Inn on a Suffolk road.Pencil. c.1800. Provenance:12.5×18.5 inches.Framed: 21×27.5 inches.Sold
Gabain, Ethel (1883 – 1950)WWII; ‘Lathe’ (HW339).Lithograph. 1945. From the ‘Williams & Williams Reliance Works’ Set.25×26.75 inches.Sold
Gahagen, Lucius (1773 – 1855)Queen Victoria.Terracotta roundel with painted patina. Inscribed recto ‘Victoria Regina, 1839’. Signed and dated, verso ‘l Gahagen / fecit May 24 / 1839’.Dia.6.5 inches.Sold
Graham, Fergus (1900 – 1968)Winter landscape and beacon.Pencil and watercolour. Signed with monogram.17.5×10.5 inches.Sold
Gross C.B.E. R.A., Anthony (1905 – 1984)France; ‘Georgette’ at Montgesty.Pen, ink and watecolor. c.1948. Signed. Inscribed verso. The figure in this watercolour was used for Gross’ etching ‘Shepherdess / Georgette (La Bergere Aux Rochers)’ (RH.4806).13×21 inches.
£1,250
Guys, Constantin (1802 – 1892)Out Walking.Pencil and wash. Exhibited: Roland, Browse and Delbanco.10.5×6 inches.Framed: 16.5×11.5 inches.Sold
Hamilton R.A., William (1751 – 1801)Wales; Caernarfon Castle.Pen, ink and monochrome wash. c.1774, whilst working under Antonio Zucchi. Ex. collection: Sir Robert Witt (1872-1952). His stamp (L.228b) verso.13.5×20.5 inches.Framed: 20.5×27.5 inches.Sold
Hearne, Thomas (1744 – 1817)Castle ruins.Pencil and watercolour. c.1790.5.75×8 inches.Framed: 12.25×13.5 inches.
£1,250
Highmore (Attributed to), Anthony (1718 – 1785)A study of promenading figures.Pencil and watercolour. c.1760. Exhibited: Fine Art Society, 1947; Maurice Dear and attributed by both to Paul Sandby, but we think Highmore is a much more likely hand.3.5×5.25 inches.
Houston, John Adam (1812 – 1884)Head of a girl.Oil on board. Inscribed verso in a nineteenth century hand, ‘Study by John A Houston’ and ‘by J A Houston’. Provenance: Edward Hargitt (1835-1895); his Studio Sale, Christie’s, 22-24 February 1896 (possibly lot 55 where attributed to Sir William Fettes Douglas).6.5×5 inches.Framed: 10.5×9 inches.
£1,500
Howis Senior, William (1804 – 1882)An Irish River.Pencil and sepia wash. A version of the watercolour in the National Gallery of Ireland.11×14.5 inches.Framed: 15×18.5 inches.Sold
Hunt O.W.S., William Henry (1790 – 1864)A fisherman standing for his portrait.Pencil. Circa 1830. Provenance: a large collection of works by the artist, Bonhams 22/4/210; A and H.9.75×6 inches.Framed: 17.75×13 inches.
£675
Ibbetson, Julius Caesar (1759 – 1817)‘Nice China Oranges’.Pen, ink and watercolour. c.1790. Titled under the mount. Exhibited: Morton Morris & Co.4.5×4 inches.Framed: 14×12 inches.Sold
Landseer R.A., Charles (1799 – 1879)Byron; ‘The Maid of Athens’ / ‘The Greek Girl’.Oil on board. 1845. Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1845, No.144.10×8 inches.Framed: 15.5×13.5 inches.Sold
Landseer R.A., Sir Edwin (1802 – 1873)Profile studies of the writer Emily Eden (1797-1869) and her brother, Lord Auckland (1784-1849), with whom she travelled to India in 1836 when he took up his appointment as Governor General there.Pen, brush and ink. Exhibited: Agnews, 100th Annual Exhibition of Watercolours & Drawings, 1973, No.221.8.5×6.5 inches.Framed: 14.25×12 inches.
£750
Lear, Edward (1812 – 1888)Italy; ‘Coast between Amalfi and Positano’.Chalk and white heightening. Signed, inscribed and dated, 1839.
Exhibited: Fine Art Society, April 1969, where provenance given as Robert Hornby (1805-1857). Hornby and his cousin the Earl of Derby supported Lear on his first trip to Italy.10.5×16.5 inches.Framed: 18×24 inches.
£9,750
Lely (After), Sir Peter (1618 – 1680)A Reduced Copy of Lely’s Portrait of Jane Long (lost).Pen, brush, ink and white heightening. c.1670. Inscribed recto: ‘Nell Gwynn / Sir Peter Lely / From Thane’s Sale’. Inscribed verso: ‘NovEnath181[3/5]’, the mark of the collector and dealer Thomas Thane (L.811). Provenance: Thomas Thane (1782-1846); probably his sale 19/6/1846 lot 105; to ‘Newton’, possibly Sir William John Newton (1785-1869).6×4.75 inches.Framed: 10.25×8.5 inches.Sold
Maillol, Aristide (1861 – 1944)‘Female Nude’.Pencil. Signed with monogram. Verso: pencil study of a seated nude. Ex. Collection: Gaby Schreiber (1916-1991). Exhibited: Tate Gallery, ‘Private views: works from the collections of twenty friends of the Tate Gallery’, 1963, Cat. No.172.9×6 inches.Framed: 18×14 inches.
£2,250
Mann, Alexander (1853 – 1908)The Young Reader.Oil on card. Signed and dated, 1881.8.75×5.25 inches.Framed: 12.75×9.25 inches.Sold
Morland, George (1763 – 1804)Cattle and woman in a barn interior.Pencil and oil on canvas. Provenance: with a, sadly partial, inscription on an old backing, written by a previous owner and documenting how the work had come into their possession, dated 1914 and initialled ‘HCH’.17.5×23.5 inches.Framed: 21.5×27.5 inches.Sold
Nasmyth, Patrick (1787 – 1831)Country cottage and distant landscape.Oil on canvas. Signed and dated, 1829.10"x11.5" inches.Framed: 17"x19" inches.
Nixon, John (1755 – 1818)Hampshire; ‘Warblington Castle’.Watercolour. Signed, indistinctly inscribed and dated, 1788.4.5×7 inches.Sold
Palmer, Samuel (1805 – 1881)‘The Early Ploughman’ or ‘The Morning Spread upon the Mountains’ (Lister E9).Etching. 1860/1861. State 5 of 8. This plate was re-bitten in 1880, it’s sixth state, when Palmer decided to return to it. Provenance: Craddock and Barnard c.1978. See our page of available stock for an impression of the final state, printed by Short, Hardie and Griggs in 1926.5.25×8 inches.Sold
Pearcey, Eilean (1901 – 1999)Nakamura Utaemon (1917-2001) the famous Kabuki performer playing Hannyo no Mae in a Noh Drama, Sadlers Wells, 1972.Charcoal. Signed. Exhibited: Rowley Gallery.14.5×11.5 inches.Framed: 18.5×15.5 inches.Sold
Porter, Sir Robert Ker (1777 – 1842)‘The Soldier Tired of War Alarms’ (Arne, ‘Artaxerxes’, 1762)Pencil and watercolour. Signed. Inscribed to the wash line mount in a later hand.7.5×5.5 inches.
£675
Pyne, George (1800 – 1884)Oxford; Brasenose, the Front Quad looking towards the Radcliffe Camera.Watercolour. c.1850.9×11 inches.Framed: 18×19 inches.
£1,250
Romney, George (1734 – 1802)A study for the ‘The Warren Family’ (1769).Pencil. c.1768. Provenance: Arnold Fellows.5.5×4.75 inches.
Rowlandson, Thomas (1756 – 1827)London; Smithfields Market.Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour. c.1800.6×9.25 inches.Framed: 12×15 inches.
£4,750
Rushbury R.A. R.E., Sir Henry (1889 – 1968)London; ‘St Martin-in-the-Fields’ and the National Gallery (JR82).Drypoint. 1944. Signed. Edition size unknown.11.5×10.5 inches.Sold
Sandby R.A., Paul (1731 – 1809)Tents, cannon and ships on the Thames, drawn at ‘Woolwich Warren’ (AKA Woolwich Arsenal).Pencil. Inscribed.6.5×9.5 inches.Sold
Shepherd, George (1784 – 1862)London; St John Horsleydown. The Hawksmoor / James collaboration bombed during the Blitz and no longer standing.Pencil and watercolour. Signed and dated, 1812.9.25×6.5 inches.
£975
Sherriff (Eighteenth Century), JamesShropshire; ‘A View of Kinlet the seat of William Childe Esqr. in the County of Salop’.Pen, ink and monochrome wash. Signed and dated, 1774. Inscribed. Exhibited: Martyn Gregory, April, 1988, No.105.10.25×19 inches.Framed: 20×28.5 inches.Sold
Simpson, Joseph (1879 – 1939)Edward VII.Woodcut. Woodcut with hand colouring. Signed to the old mount.12.75×10 inches.Sold
Sleigh, Bernard (1872 – 1954)Eve / The Tree of Temptation.Pastels and watercolour. Exhibited: Southgate Gallery, 1983 (where provenance given as a member of the artist’s family); Sarah Colegrave.6×4 inches.Framed: 13×11 inches.
£975
Smirke R.A., Robert (1752 – 1845)A sleeping child and her dog.Pencil, pen and ink. Signed with initials and dated, 1824. Exhibited: Covent Garden Gallery.5.5×7.5 inches.Framed: 12.5×14.25 inches.
Swanwick R.I. R.O.I., Harold (1866 – 1928)The Isle of Man; harvest field above the sea.Oil on canvas. Provenance: Swanwick Studio Sale, Gorringes 15.5.2013.7.5×10.5 inches.Framed: 8.5×11.5 inches.Sold
Thomas, Margaret (1916 – 2016)The Venetian Blind.Oil on board. Signed. Exhibited: Messum’s, 2001.29.5×17.25 inches.Framed: 35×23 inches.
Walker A.R.A. R.W.S., Frederick (1840 – 1875)Illustration for William Black’s ‘A Daughter of Heth’, 1871.A pair of watercolour and pencil composition studies. c.1870.4.75×6 inches.
£750
Ward R.A., James (1769 – 1859)Wales; The Summit of Cader Idris.Pencil and monochrome wash. September 1807. Signed and inscribed in short hand. Inscribed by the artist on the old backing paper ‘Top of Caderidris’ [sic]. Provenance: ‘Knowles’ of Hanwell by 1951; Prudence Summerhayes (Mrs Turner), descendant of the artist; by descent until 2008. Exhibited: Andrew Wyld, ‘James Ward’, 2009, Cat No.39.5×6.75 inches.Framed: 8×10 inches.Sold
Webb, Joseph (1908 – 1962)‘A Master’s House’ (G24).Etching. 1930. Signed, titled and dated. Exhibited: The Art Institute of Chicago, ‘Third Annual International Exhibition of Lithography an Wood Engraving’, 1931/32.7.25×14 inches.
£750
Welch, Denton (1915 – 1948)Life Study; a self portrait with idealised figure.Pencil. 1937. Signed. Inscribed verso by Gerald Leet; ‘Overleaf – Drawing by Denton Hadlow Road Summer 1937’. Provenance: Gerald Leete (1913-1998).15×10.5 inches.Sold
Wilkie R.A., Sir David (1785 – 1841)A Study for ‘Reading the Will’.Pencil, pen and ink. c.1819.
Provenance: Probably Wilkie’s Sale, Christie’s 20th-21st June 1860, Lot 18 (Part); Diana Peyton, acquired 1955; and by descent.4×5 inches.Framed: 8×9.25 inches.Sold
Wilson, Scottie (1888 – 1972)Bird Pattern.Pen, brush, ink and watercolour. Signed. Provenance: Bought directly from the artist by Tina Carlile and Pearl King.21.25×14.5 inches.
£2,750
Wolseley, John (born 1938)‘Cherry Tree’.Oil on board. Exhibited: Mayor Gallery, while in Brook Street (1960s?).10.5×13.5 inches.Framed: 12×15 inches.
£575
FORTHCOMING
It has been five long years since our last exhibition with Tor Falcon. But, boy has it been worth the wait! The drawings in this exibition are a study of our moon – how to get to grips with finding it, looking at it, drawing it, understanding it … and so much more … Tor has published a beautifully written journal documenting the project to accompany the exhibition.
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