Watercolours & Drawings

Impressionist river scene with bridge in the distance by Thurston Laidlaw Shoosmith (1865–1933), became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1919. He became the first President of the Town and Country Art Society; Exhibited in many British galleries. Framed size: 31cm x 38.5cm.

The Bull Fight watercolour (A.F.) by Joaquin Toro Caldentey Salaverri (1911-1996), Bullfighter, journalist and painter. signed and dated 1948. Image size: 24cm high x 30cm.

Touchstone (clown/Jester), Audrey, and William in Shakespeare's As You Like It, act V, scene 1. Watercolour by Frederick Holding (1817-1874) of Manchester, created illustrations for books including Southey's ‘Battle of Blenheim,’ in 1864. In his later years, he was a scenic artist at the Theatre Royal and the Prince's Theatre, Manchester. There are two illustrations of Shakespearean subjects in the Victoria and Albert Museum collection. Image size: 21.5cm high x 14.5cm.

High Tor Matlock Derbyshire watercolour and pencil, circa 1840. Framed size: 37cm high x 32.5cm.

Miss Annie Spread exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy. Pastel sketch of cottages beyond the trees, monogrammed. Framed size: 29cm high x 25cm.

Watercolour of a beautiful young lady by John Simmons (1823 – 1876). Simmons main output was portraiture. His Titania is in the collection of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and was included in the exhibition Victorian Fairy Painting at the Royal Academy in 1997-1998. Exhibited:- Chilterns, Amersham Common; Bucks; Goupil Gallery; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; New English Art Club; Royal Society of Portrait Painters; Royal Academy; Royal Society of British Artists: Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Frame size: 47cm high x 39.5cm

Pen and watercolour ‘Leah’ dated 1874 by William Edward Frost (1810-1877) was the most important follower of William Etty. Trained in the  Royal Academy Schools and exhibited at the Royal Academy. Frost won the patronage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Examples of his work can be found in: Russell-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth; Tate Gallery; Victoria and Albert Museum; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Nottingham Castle Museum; Fogg Art Gallery, America. Framed size: 32.5 cm high x 33.5cm.

The Poluski Brothers (Music hall Stars) by Frederick J Carter A.R.E. (1883-1967), watercolour and pencil, signed and inscribed under the mount ‘If I Were on the Boards’. Frederick Carter was a painter, illustrator and etcher. He showed at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, New English Art Club. His work is in the collections of the British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum. Framed size: 63cm high x 36.5cm.

Crowded walkway along the bank of a river watercolour by Roland Batchelor (1889-1990). He exhibited watercolours at the RA from 1937, Elected to the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours (ARWS 1957, RWS 1966), he was the subject of a retrospective at the Bankside Gallery in 1987.  Frame size: 30 cm high x 34 cm.

Watercolour and charcoal of the artist and his model by Harold Hope Read (1881-1959) exhibited at the New English Art Club, Alpine Gallery, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, National Society of Painters Sculptors and Gravers, The Pastel Society and the National Society of British Artists. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1927. Framed size: 50.5cm high x 48cm.

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821 – 1906) was an English artist, accomplished in Turner-manner watercolours. Brabazon's work is held in the permanent collections of many institutions world wide, including; British Museum, The Courtauld Gallery, Tate, and the V&A. Pencil sketch. Image size: 15 cm high x 19.5 cm. 

Miss Agnes Oakley (fl. 1854-1856, died 1866) from a family of painters this Derbyshire artist exhibited at Sussex Street and at the Society of Botanic Artists. Examples of her work can be found in the Derby Art Gallery. Watercolour, framed size: 46cm high x 52.5cm. 

Ploughing watercolour, signed by Henry Sykes (1855-1921) Exhibited at the following; Grosvenor Gallery; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Manchester City Art Gallery; Nottingham City Art Gallery; New Gallery; Royal Academy; Royal Society of British Artists; Royal Hibernian Academy; Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours; Royal Scottish Academy. Framed size: 46.5cm high x 56.5cm.

The Major Schamerlack (?) watercolour, monogrammed S.L.E.M and dated 1840. In a period frame, framed size: 37cm high x 26cm.

Cottage interior with men seated chatting and drinking with the lady of the house standing by the mantel. Naïve, primitive watercolour, signed Wood, circa 1845, in a period birds eye maple frame. Framed size: 27.5cm x 32.5cm. 

Watercolour by Oswald Garside (1879-1942) exhibited at the Royal Academy; the Royal Cambrian Academy; Birmingham City Art Gallery; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; London Salon; Manchester City Art Gallery; Royal Hibernian Academy; Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours; And the Paris Salon. His work is in several public collections. In a period frame. Framed size: 25cm high x 20cm.

Stylised watercolour and ink of children playing on stilts by Albert Wainwright (1898-1943) he went to Leeds College of Art from 1914 to 1916. From his school days he was a friend of Henry Moore. Wakefield Art Gallery now holds a large body of his work. Albert exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery 1920, the Goupil Gallery, Harrogate Art Gallery, and Wakefield Art Gallery. Framed size: 40cm high x 35.5cm.

Original artwork of a footballer in the manor of ‘Sherriffs’ (Robert Stewart Sherriffs 1906 – 1960), titled ‘STYLE’. Framed size: 33.5cm high x 29cm.

Fisherman and a horse and cart in a town watercolour (section stained), signed and dated 1808, by Peter La Cave (1769-1811) was a painter of rustic figures and landscapes in the Bergham tradition, who was probably a member of a family of French artists working in Holland. He was in England from at least 1789 till 1816 and painted many views of Worcestershire, Berkshire, Devonshire and the area around Wilton where he was in prison in 1811. In 1801 he is recorded as showing two works at the Royal Academy Examples of his work may be seen at the Museum of London. Framed size: 35cm high x 40cm.

lya Yefimovich Repin (1844 – 1930). Framed, signed, pencil sketch on paper, preparatory sketch of a hunchbacked boy on crutch, for Repin`s, `Krestny Khod (Religious Procession) in Kursk Gubernia`, 1880-1883, which resides in State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. There are several preparatory sketches of this figure, including a detail oil, titled `Hunchback`, 1881. The boy is leading the left side of the procession, which depicts the icon of `Our Lady of Kursk` being carried from Korennaya Monastery to the city of Kursk, followed by a diverse array of social classes and characters, 32.5cm x 24cm. Provenance: Sold with accompanying letter of authenticity from the Helsinki Atheneum Art Museum, dated 1945, signed Torsten Stjernschantz, Collections curator 1919-1952. 

Horace Mann Livens (1862–1936) Exhibited at the R.A. 1890–9, N.E.A.C. 1896–1904, Grosvenor Gallery and abroad. First one-man exhibition at the Goupil Gallery 1911. Foundation Associate and from 1907 member of the International Society. Illustrated E. V. Lucas's London Revisited 1916. Continued to exhibit untill 1929. Examples of his work can be found in the V & A London; Tate, London; North Kingston Center; National Museum of Wales; Oldham Gallery. Gouche, signed and dated 1909. Framed size: 54.5cm high x 64.5cm. 

Paul Signac (1863 – 1935) Many of Signac's paintings are of the French coast. He left the capital each summer, to stay in the south of France in the village of Collioure or at St. Tropez, where he bought a house and invited his friends. Pencil and watercolour, signed. Image size: 26.5cm high x 20cm.

Paul Signac (1863 – 1935) charcoal sketch of cottages beyond trees. Monogrammed: Image size: 24cm x 27cm.

Two men chatting on a path with mountains in the background, watercolour by Andreas Duncan Carse (1875/76–1938). He illustrated the Hans Christian Andersen Fairytales 1912 edition; and the Lucy M. Scott Dewdrops from Fairyland 1912. He exhibited with the British Council at the Biennale in 1912; the Royal Academy; Fine Art Society; the London Salon and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Framed size: 32.5cm high x 41cm.

View on the Rhine with the Castle of Ehrenbreitstein and Port of Coblentz, watercolour by Abraham Rademaker (1676/7 – 1735) was an 18th-century painter and printmaker from the Northern Netherlands. In a period frame. Framed size: 32cm high x 39.5cm.

Family resting on a path, watercolour by Andreas Duncan Carse (1875/76–1938). He illustrated the Hans Christian Andersen Fairytales 1912 edition; and the Lucy M. Scott Dewdrops from Fairyland 1912. He exhibited with the British Council at the Biennale in 1912; the Royal Academy; Fine Art Society; the London Salon and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Framed size: 32.5cm high x 41cm.

Pompei fresco gouache inscribed; “Pompei Amorini Dottfore e Farmalista”, signed  by Giovanni Gallo. Framed size: 20cm high x 26cm.

Shakespeare's As You Like It, scene, watercolour by Frederick Holding (1817-1874) of Manchester, created illustrations for books including Southey's ‘Battle of Blenheim,’ in 1864. In his later years, he was a scenic artist at the Theatre Royal and the Prince's Theatre, Manchester. There are two illustrations of Shakespearean subjects in the Victoria and Albert Museum collection. Image size: 21.5cm high x 14.5cm.

Liborio Prosperi ('Lib') a.k.a. Liberio Prosperi (1854 – 1928), was an Italian-born artist who belonged to a group of international artists producing caricatures for the British Vanity Fair magazine. He contributed 55 caricatures between 1885 and 1903, signed 'Lib'. His 1886 multi-portrait caricature The Lobby of the House of Commons is on view in the Victorian Gallery of the National Portrait Gallery in London. Watercolour signed ‘Lib’ and dated 1888. Image size: 29cm high x 19cm.

Constantin Guys, Ernest-Adolphe-Hyacinthe-Constantin, (1802 – 1892) was a Dutch-born Crimean War correspondent, water colour painter and illustrator for British and French newspapers. Watercolour, framed size: 30.5cm high x 36cm.

Charles Karl costume design; From 1885 to 1934, C. Karl was one of the most prolific designers of the time, as adept at designing historical productions for the great actor-managers as creating musical comedies. He worked at the costume makers Nathan’s, who provided costumes for a wide range of stage shows, notably musical comedies. These were on widely diverse subjects and called for dozens of lavish costumes, ranging from shop girls to royalty, gypsies to heiresses, street clothes and military uniforms. The Victoria and Albert Museum London who have an extensive collection of works by C. Karl). Watercolour signed in a period frame. Framed size: 46.5cm high x 37.5cm.

Watercolour and ink scene of a high street with crowds of people milling about outside the shops, in the fore ground are two men reading a news paper with a motorcar in the background. by Harold Hope Read (1881-1959) exhibited at the New English Art Club, Alpine Gallery, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, National Society of Painters Sculptors and Gravers, The Pastel Society and the National Society of British Artists. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1927. Framed size: 43cm high x 52cm.

Sir Frank William Brangwyn RA RWS RBA (12 May 1867 – 11 June 1956) was an Anglo-Welsh artist, painter, water colourist, virtuoso engraver, illustrator, and progressive designer. Gouache, of a man walking his dog passed moored boats, with the Pont Des Arts and the Paris skyline in the background, monogrammed FB. Framed size: 34cm high x 39cm.

John Naylor (b. 1960) is a noted wildlife artist and lives in Langtoff, Lincolnshire. He often draws inspiration from his interest in the countryside around his village home and garden studio. He has been a wildlife artist for over 30 years. John Naylor has won national acclaim for his paintings, and has exhibited at the National Exhibition of Wildlife Art, as well as many UK exhibitions. Pastel of Grouse and chicks, signed and dated 1995. Framed size: 55cm high x 46cm.

Hely Augustus Morton Smith RBA FRSA (1862–1941) Exhibited at the following:-Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham; Dudley Gallery; Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts; Walker Gallery, Liverpool; Royal Academe; Royal Society of British Artists, Ridley; Royal Institute of Oil Painters; Royal Scottish Academy; Walker Gallery, London; Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street; St Ives Society of Artists 1934, and thirty seven Touring Shows. Signed, watercolour view on the river Thames. Framed size: 37.5cm high x 45cm.

Creswick Boydell ARCamA (Exh. 1889 -1916) was a Liverpool landscape painter and watercolourist, nephew of John Boydell. He exhibited  at the; Royal Academy; Sussex Street; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Royal Society of Artists Birmingham; Royal Cambrian Academy. Signed watercolour of Liverpool scene from the River Mersey with a sail boat in the foreground. Framed size: 35cm high x 42cm.

Rowland Wright Alston (1895 – 1958) He exhibited at the Royal Academy and the New English Art Club. Examples of his work can be found at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Watts Gallery, Museum of Lincolnshire Life, Usher Gallery. Watercolour signed under the mount, of people swimming in a lake. Framed size: 37.5cm high x 37.5cm.

A. Binbeck; Coastal Landscape with sheep at the edge of the Cliffs, sea gulls and sailing boat in the background. Watercolour signed ‘A. Binbeck’ circa 1900. Framed size: 40.5cm high x 48.5cm.

Watercolour of a couple dancing with a fair ground in the background by Harold Hope Read (1881-1959) exhibited at the New English Art Club, Alpine Gallery, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, National Society of Painters Sculptors and Gravers, The Pastel Society and the National Society of British Artists. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1927. Framed size: 42cm high x 50.5cm.

Parrot resting on a branch, watercolour, surrounded with cut-out mount, circa 1830, in a period frame decorated with applied gilt Vine leaves. Framed size: 30cm high x 24cm.

Watercolour and ink scene of man seated with lady standing to his left. by Harold Hope Read (1881-1959) exhibited at the New English Art Club, Alpine Gallery, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, National Society of Painters Sculptors and Gravers, The Pastel Society and the National Society of British Artists. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1927. Framed size: 24 high x 21cm.

Estuary view with a fortified town overlooking the many different boats in the channel, in the foreground there are lots of people going about their daily business. 17th Century Gouache on paper laid on panel, in a period frame. Framed size: 28cm high x 33.5cm.

Venice Saint Mark's view from the lagoon with gondolas and sailing ships in the foreground. 20th Century watercolour, framed size: 43.5cm high x 49cm.

Stylised watercolour and ink of a Lady in clogs standing with a boat called ‘Ingen’ behind by Albert Wainwright (1898-1943) he went to Leeds College of Art from 1914 to 1916. From his school days he was a friend of Henry Moore. Wakefield Art Gallery now holds a large body of his work. Albert exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery 1920, the Goupil Gallery, Harrogate Art Gallery, and Wakefield Art Gallery. Framed size: 40cm high x 31.5cm.

River view with people fishing and unloading a boat of baskets, by Peter La Cave (1769-1811) was a painter of rustic figures and landscapes in the Bergham tradition, who was probably a member of a family of French artists working in Holland. He was in England from at least 1789 till 1816 and painted many views of Worcestershire, Berkshire, Devonshire and the area around Wilton where he was in prison in 1811. In 1801 he is recorded as showing two works at the Royal Academy Examples of his work may be seen at the Museum of London. Image size: 17.5cm high x 26.5cm

Paul Rieth (1871 – 1925) He was a painter and draftsman studied at the Munich Art Academy.  Rieth was a key employee of the Munich Art Magazine. Paul Rieth designed posters for the London Underground Group 1913-1916. Gouache of a ballet dancer signed. Image size: 21cm high x 20.5cm.

Charles Martin (1820–1906), British artist, son of John Martin (1789 –1854). From London and moved to America and worked in Charleston 1846-8. Charles Martin exhibited at the National Academy of Design, New York in 1851. A portrait of Turner by him is in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Exhibited; Royal academy; British Institute; Royal Hibernian Academy; Society of British Artists; New Water colour society. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Represented: Lang Art Gallery, Newcastle; National Portrait Gallery, London Tate, London; British Museum; Harvard Art Museums; Sir John Soane’s Museum; Guildhall Art Gallery; Royal Institute of British Artists; Royal Society; The Royal Institute of British Architects; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Charcoal and red chalk, signed, blindstamp of fleur de lis under the mount. Blindstamp: 18 [blindstamp of fleur de lis] 77 is often found on his work. (numbers in pencil). See: https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/308570?position=0.  Image size: 44.5cm high x 28cm.

Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky (1891 – 1970), also known as Rojan was a Russian émigré illustrator. He is well known both for children's book illustration and for erotic art. Lady on a bed making a fuss of a number of dogs, crayon, signed ‘Rojan’. Image size: 21cm high x 15cm.

David Lloyd George (1863-1945), Prime Minister; caricature pen, ink and wash by, Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humourist. Image size: 23 cm high x 12 cm.

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859 – 1923) frequently referred to as just Steinlen was a Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker. In the early 1890s, Steinlen's paintings of rural landscapes, flowers, and nudes were being shown at the Salon des Indépendants. Steinlen became a regular contributor to Le Rire and Gil Blas magazines plus numerous other publications including L'Assiette au Beurre and Les Humouristes, a short-lived magazine he and a dozen other artists jointly founded in 1911. Between 1883 and 1920, he produced hundreds of illustrations. Today, his works can be found at many museums around the world including at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., United States. Mother and babies studies, charcoal signed. Framed size: 60cm high x 46cm.