Poole & Sons’ Art and Antiques
British & Irish Artists
Poole & Sons' stock a variety of British and Irish Art.
Man and Woman in Conversation
George Cecil Wilmshurst (1873-1930) portrait painter and illustrator, active 1897-1917 born in Walton-on-the-Naze; Royal Academy Schools student from 25 July 1893 to July 1898. He worked in London from 136 Camden Road, and contributed pen and ink drawings to magazines. Exhibited RA. Ink and charcoal, image size: 65 cm high x 42cm.
Price: £175
Study for Stainforth in Ribblesdale
John Alfred Haggis (1897-1968), Portrait, landscape and figure painter in oil and watercolour. Born in London, Haggis studied art in Australia and at the Royal College of Art under Malcolm Osborne. He showed widely, including Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; the Royal Academy; Royal Cambrian Academy, Birmingham City Art Gallery, Royal Institute of Oil Painters; Royal Scottish Academy. His work is in Australian and British museums. Water colour with red crayon. Image size: 24 cm high x 35 cm.
Price: £165
A River Landscape, with Sail boat in the foreground, a Church in the background Signed watercolour.
John Laporte (March 1761 – 8 July 1839) was an English landscape painter, mostly in watercolour, and etcher, who worked in and around London. Exhibited Royal Academy and British Institution. Examples of his work can be found in the V&A, Tate, etc., Ex. Arnold Fellows collection. Image size: 14 cm high x 23 cm.
Price: £225
Bookshop
Francis Edward James, RWS RBA NEAC (1849-1920). His work is represented in numerous public collections, including the British Museum and the V&A; and Manchester Art Gallery. Signed; Image size 36 cm high x 22 cm.
Price: £250
A Mill by Watergates
A Mill by Watergates Watercolour. Signed and dated 1827.
Lady Charlotte Legge (12 February 1789 – 15 June 1877), daughter of George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth and Lady Frances Finch (second daughter of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford and Lady Charlotte Seymour. Lady Charlotte Legge married in 1816 Very Rev. Hon. George Neville-Grenville (Dean of Windsor). Collectors mark verso, Lugit L.4781. Provenance: Christie's January 14th 1975. Image size: 17 cm high x 25.5 cm.
Price: £250
Portrait of a Man with Glasses
William Dring (1904-1990) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1922 and 1925, where he won several prizes and scholarships. He taught drawing and painting at the Southampton School of Art until 1942. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Watercolour Society and at the Royal Academy. Pencil signed and dated 1928. Image size 10 cm high x 9 cm.
Price: £75
Hall Caine, "The Manx Man".
Henry Ospovat (1977 – 1909) In 1992, Ospovat was included in the exhibition of works on paper Beardsley to Bomberg held at the Tate Gallery. His work is represented in UK public collections including the Tate, Victoria and Albert Museum, British Museum and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. Reproduced in the Works of Ospovat. Ink and watercolour. Image size 24 cm high x 19 cm.
Price: £185
Traveller's by a river
John Inigo Richards (c. 1731 - 1810) (Attributed) was a British landscapist who became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768, and was secretary to the Academy from 1788 until his death. Gray wash. Image size 30 cm high x 42 cm.
Price: £150
English Civil War Soldier
George Cattermole RWS (1800 – 1868) (Attributed) Cattermole specialized in rendering scenes of chivalry, of medievalism, and generally of the romantic aspects of the past. Pencil sketch. Image size 22 cm high x 15 cm.
Price: £85
Venice after Turner
Henry Charles Brewer (1866–1950) was a British painter and etcher. He was well known in the first half of the 20th century for his watercolour landscapes and architectural paintings. Brewer exhibited at the Fine Art Society and the Royal Academy. The Victoria & Albert Museum, Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery hold his paintings. Watercolour, image size 20 cm high x 31 cm.
Price: £160
Stepping Stones Dovedale Derbyshire
Watercolour of the Stepping stones, Dovedale Derbyshire, monogramed HK and dated, August 21st 1875. Image size 20 cm high x 37 cm.
Price: £150
Travellers by the Roadside
May Forster (active 1840's) watercolour of travellers by the roadside, signed and dated 1849. Image size 15 cm high x 23 cm.
Price: £175
Continental Street Scene
William Bingham McGuinness RHA (1849 – 1928) Born in Dublin, William Bingham McGuinness was a landscape painter who began his career as an architect, exhibiting his drawings and designs at the RHA and the Royal Academy in London. He actively became involved in many artists groups including the Dublin Sketching Group and the Watercolour Society of Ireland. Watercolour signed, image size 26 cm high x 18 cm.
Price: £175
Cottage with Figures by a Roadside
Henry Bright (5 June 1810 – 21 September 1873), was a distinguished English landscape painter associated with the Norwich School of painters. Provenance, Arnold Fellows collection number 376. Watercolour image size 22 cm high x 32 cm.
Price: £250
On the Thames
Henry Charles Brewer (1866–1950) was a British painter and etcher. He was well known in the first half of the 20th century for his watercolour landscapes and architectural paintings. Brewer exhibited at the Fine Art Society and the Royal Academy. The Victoria & Albert Museum, Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery hold his paintings. Watercolour, image size 33 cm high x 44 cm.
Price: £250
Old Caen Calvados Normandy
Paul Marny (1829–1914) Charles Paul Marny, his real name was Charles Paul Godard, who was born in Paris about 1829. A porcelain decorator for the Sèvres factory before moving to Belfast to work with a French architect where he may have assumed the Irish name of Marny. In 1860, he was persuaded by photographer Olivier Francois Xavier Sarony (c.1820-1879) to move to Scarborough where he taught Albert Strange (1855-1917) and many other Scarborough artists and visited France from time to time, but remained living in Scarborough. His famous painting 'Scarborough from White Nabb' is in Scarborough Art Gallery and other works are in galleries in Birkenhead, Lincoln, Scarborough and Whitby. Watercolour signed and dated 1885. Image size 32 cm high x 46 cm.
Price: £250
Lady in a Bonnet
Joseph Milner Kite (1862 - 1945) Between 1886 and 1908 he exhibited widely at the RA, RBA, RBSA, Liverpool, Manchester and the Paris Salon amongst other places where he worked. The known venues where he worked included St Ives, Cornwall, Pont Aven, Concarneau, Grez-sur-Loing, Morocco, Spain and the USA. In the USA, like a number of Cornish painters, he exhibited at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (1905). Charcoal Sketch, signed, image size 43 cm high x 33 cm.
Price: £150
Dublin Door
Pete Hogan is a well-known visual artist, who specialises in paintings of Cityscape and Seascape. Born in Dublin, Ireland and educated in both Dublin and Vancouver, Canada. Pen, ink and wash, signed, framed size 13 cm high x 13 cm.
Price: £75
A Watermill
A Watermill. Watercolour. Inscribed A. Legge and dated 1823 verso
Lady Charlotte Legge (12 February 1789 – 15 June 1877), daughter of George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth and Lady Frances Finch (second daughter of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford and Lady Charlotte Seymour. Lady Charlotte Legge married in 1816 Very Rev. Hon. George Neville-Grenville (Dean of Windsor). Collectors mark verso, Lugit L.4781. Provenance: Christie's January 14th 1975. Image size: 14 cm high x 23 cm.
Price: £150
Doncaster Races
Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (1823–1906) English engraver known chiefly for his illustrations of the work of Charles Dickens. Watercolour Doncaster races dated 1867. Provenance Arnold Fellows Collection number 519. Image size 18 cm high x 18 cm.
Price: £150
Sheringham
F.S. Rands, pen, ink and watercolour; of boats and fishermen in a yard. signed and dated 1986, image size 23 cm high x 29 cm.
Price: £85
Cutting Hay in Valley
Thomas William Morley (1859 - 1925) A landscape and coastal painter who worked around the Channel, exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Institution and Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Watercolour signed and dated 18. Image size 26 cm high x 45 cm.
Price: £250
Travellers on the Road
Cecil Ross Burnett (1872- 1933) A member of the New Society of Watercolour Painters and in 1907 he joined the Langham Sketching Club and was also a member of the Pencil Society. Burnett was an exhibitor at the Ipswich Fine Art Society he also exhibited at the Royal Academy and at various other galleries. Signed watercolour, image size 29 cm high x 46 cm.
Price: £165
Young Lady
Joseph Milner Kite (1862 - 1945) Between 1886 and 1908 he exhibited widely at the RA, RBA, RBSA, Liverpool, Manchester and the Paris Salon amongst other places where he worked. The known venues where he worked included St Ives, Cornwall, Pont Aven, Concarneau, Grez-sur-Loing, Morocco, Spain and the USA. In the USA, like a number of Cornish painters, he exhibited at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (1905). Signed pencil sketch, image size 34 cm high x 24 cm.
Price: £65
Figures by a Cottage
John Varley, O.W.S. (1778 – 1842) Figures by a cottage with Conway Castle in the distance, North Wales. Signed and inscribed 'Varley 47 Edgware Road' (on verso) pencil and watercolour. Provenance: Christies sale lot 417, 8th December 2011. Image size 25 cm high x 34 cm.
Price: £1200
Cows and Sheep
Anna D. Close, 19th century watercolour of sheep and cows signed and dated 1839. Image size 32 cm high x 42 cm.
Price: £125
Balintore (Scotland)
William Collingwood Smith RWS (10 December 1815 Greenwich – 15 March 1887 Brixton Hill), was a British watercolourist. His first exhibition at the Royal Academy was in 1836 and his last in 1855, also exhibiting with the Royal Watercolour Society and at the Suffolk Street Galleries. Provenance: Arnold Fellows Collection, number 465. Watercolour Inscribed "Balentore from my window morning of August 12t 1864, image size 24 cm high x 42 cm.
Price: £250
Travelling Musician
James Hayllar (1829–1920) was born in Chichester in Sussex (now West Sussex), and received his training in art at Cary's Art Academy in London; he painted Cary's portrait in 1851. He went on to study at the Royal Academy. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and also showed work at the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists. Italian pipe player, watercolour signed, image size 29 cm high x 21 cm.
Price: £165
Beggar
George Tuckwell (1919-2000) Exhibited: Royal Society of British Artists; Royal Institute of Painters in Water colours; Royal Institute of Oil Painters; London Group, Royal Watercolour Society; National Society; Arts Council; Piccadilly Gallery; Gimpel Fils; Stone Gallery; Newcastle; John Hunt Gallery; Lewis Gallery; Weald Gallery Cranbrook. Pen and ink wash, signed with monogram, image size 32 cm high x 21 cm.
Price: £165
A couple Under Trees
John Baverstock Knight (1785 – 1859) exhibited at the Royal Academy. Knight’s works were favourably noticed by Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and other competent authorities. Examples of his work are in the Tate; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Victoria and Albert Museum, London and many others. Image size: 20.5 cm high x 25.5 cm.
Price: £175
Landscape with Cottages
Richard Sass (1774 – 7 September 1849) was an English landscape painter, etcher, and drawing master to royalty. He was the half-brother of Henry Sass, the founder of Sass's Academy in London.
Sass exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1791 to 1813. He was appointed teacher in drawing to the Princess Charlotte, and later landscape painter to the Prince Regent. In 1825 he removed to Paris, where he spent the remainder of his life, altering his surname to "Sasse. Watercolour, signed, image size 13 cm high x 18 cm.
Price: £250
Hamilton John Agmondesham Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart
James Kerr-Lawson (1865-1939) His work is in the British museum, London Transport Museum, National Portrait Museum, Ferens Art Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Scottish National Gallery and the Walker Art Gallery. Provenance: Arnold Fellows Collection Number 568. Pencil sketch, image size 37 cm high x 26 cm.
Price: £85
Warwick
David Cox (1783 –1859) Cox was born on 29 April 1783 in Deritend, Birmingham, the son of a blacksmith, who went on to become one of the most important figures in British Art during the so-called Golden Age of watercolour painting. He was considered by his contemporaries to be rivalled only by Constable in his portrayal of nature's moods and the British weather. Watercolour, Provenance: label to verso from W.J. Cross, Handsworth and Arnold Fellows Collection Number 370. Image size 16 cm high x 24 cm.
Price: £185
Totnes, Devon
Samuel Prout (17 September 1783 – 10 February 1852) was one of the masters of British watercolour architectural painting. Prout secured the position of Painter in Water-Colours in Ordinary to King George IV in 1829 and afterwards to Queen Victoria. Watercolour inscribed in pencil verso Totness Devon, Samuel Prout. Provenance: Arnold Fellows Collection number 67. Image size: 18 cm high x 26 cm.
Price: £250
Near Exeter
Lady Mary Ann (or Marianne) (1778-1842) Mordaunt, nee Holbech. Lady Mordaunt was the daughter of William Holbech of Farnborough (Warwickshire) and married Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bt, in 1807. She was clearly an accomplished amateur artist with some of her works being in the Royal Collection Trust and the British Museum. Lady Mordaunt travelled widely across the continent based on a Sotheby's sale in 1948 that included views of Switzerland, the Tyrol and Northern Italy. Watercolour dated 1844. Provenance Arnold Fellows Collection number 144. Image size 22 cm high x 16 cm.
Price: £185
Landscape with Haystacks
Gladys Emma Peto (1890–1977) was an English artist, fashion designer, illustrator and writer of children's books. Pen ink and watercolour, signed. Image size 21 cm high x 28 cm.
Price: £160
Dunwich with the Greyfriars Medieval Friary in the Distance
Martin Hardie (1875 - 1952) was elected to Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors and Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. He was also awarded the prestigious C.B.E. for his contribution to British art. Watercolour of Dunwich with the Greyfriars Medieval Friary in the distance, viewed from the beach with a Sunday school event and a Coconut shy. Signed with monogram and dated 1914. Image size 20 cm high x 33 cm.
Price: £250
Studies of a Cart
Claude Hayes (1852 – 1922) was a landscape and portrait painter, who was born in Dublin. In 1884 he first exhibited at the Royal Institute for Painters in Watercolour, of which he was elected a member in 1886. Hayes exhibited from 1876 at the Royal Academy also exhibiting at Suffolk Street, New Watercolour Society, Grosvenor Gallery and the New Gallery as well as at various other venues throughout the provinces. Watercolour of a four wheel harvest wagon/cart. Signed, image size 16 cm high x 25 cm.
Price: £150
Reigate Common
William Leighton Leitch (1804 – 1883) Exhibited: Royal Academy, British Institute, Suffolk Street, Old Water-Colour Society. Examples of his work can be found in:- Courtauld Institute of Art, London; Tyne & Wear Museums; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Government Art Collection, UK; The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA. Watercolour singed with monogram. Image size 12 cm high x 27 cm.
Price: £150
Rural Landscape with Two Ladies in a Boat.
Rural landscape with two ladies in a boat. Watercolour, signed.
Henry John Yeend King (1855–1924) was best known for his paintings of rustic English farms and young women strolling in the countryside. He was a frequent exhibitor at all the major exhibition halls and also exhibited paintings throughout Europe and the United States. Examples of his work can be found in many public galleries. Image size: 29 cm high x 39 cm.
Price: £275
Australian Dingo's
Ernest Henry Griset (1844 – 1907) Illustrator and comic draughtsman of animals. He was born at Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1844, and studied under Louis Gallait, presumably in Brussels. The latter had strong links with England and it may have been through him that Griset came to London in the mid 1860's. Although intending to become a serious watercolourist, he took delight in drawing animals and people and showing their basic similarities, not in caricature, but in behaviour. Exhibited in the Royal Society of British Artists in 1871-72 in Suffolk Street. He has collections in the British Museum and the Victorian and Albert Museum's. Pen and ink, signed, image size 16 cm high x 23 cm.
Price: £120
Landscape with Sheep
Edmund Morison Wimperis (6 February 1835, in Flocker's Brook, Chester – 25 December 1900, in Southbourne, Christchurch, Hampshire), was a British wood-engraver and watercolourist and member of the Arts Club. When aged about 38 he became a professional landscape watercolourist and member of the Society of British Artists. In 1874, he joined the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, and went on to become one of its foremost members, being elected vice-president in 1895. Watercolour signed with monogram, dated 1893, image size 9 cm high x 16 cm.
Price: £135
Castle gate with Figures
Moses Griffith (6 April 1747 – 11 November 1819) was a Welsh draughtsman, engraver and watercolourist. His work is to be found in National Museum of Wales, British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Watercolour signed and dated 1781. Image size 22 cm high x 33 cm.
Price: £250
Cheddar 1813
Cheddar 1813. Signed under mount, Lady Mordaunt 1813
Lady Mary Ann (or Marianne) Mordaunt, nee Holbech. Lady Mordaunt was the daughter of William Holbech of Farnborough (Warwickshire) and married Sir Charles Mordaunt, in 1807. Examples of her work can be found in the Royal Collection Trust and the British Museum. Lady Mordaunt travelled widely across the continent based on a Sotheby's sale in 1948 that included views of Switzerland, the Tyrol and Northern Italy. Image size: 24 cm high x 34 cm.
Price: £275
Landscape with lake and Hills Beyond
Edmund Morison Wimperis (6 February 1835, in Flocker's Brook, Chester – 25 December 1900, in Southbourne, Christchurch, Hampshire), was a British wood-engraver and watercolourist and member of the Arts Club. When aged about 38 he became a professional landscape watercolourist and member of the Society of British Artists. In 1874, he joined the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, and went on to become one of its foremost members, being elected vice-president in 1895. Watercolour signed with monogram, dated 98. Image size 10 cm high x 17 cm.
Price: £135
Bolton Castle
Bolton Castle. Pencil drawing, signed faintly ‘Bone’ under mount & inscribed Muirhead Bone, Bolton Castle verso. Ex. Fry Gallery.
Sir Muirhead Bone (23 March 1876 – 21 October 1953) was a Scottish etcher and watercolour artist. He became known for his depiction of industrial and architectural subjects and his work as a war artist in both the First and Second World Wars. Image size 17 cm high x 27 cm.
Price: £250
Near Arundel
Near Arundel, Signed pencil drawing.
Ronald Ossory Dunlop RA (28 June 1894 – 1973) was an Irish author and painter in oil of landscapes, seascapes, figure studies, portraits and still life. Dunlop's paintings can be seen at the Crawford Gallery in Cork, at the Tate Gallery in London, at the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, London. Image size: 18 cm high x 26 cm.
Price: £75
First Past the Finishing Post
Jeanne-Marie Barbey, also known as Louise Jeanne Marie Barbée (17 July 1876 - 13 August 1960) was a French artist, painter and photographer, whose work frequently concentrated on Brittany. Horse racing watercolour signed. Image size 20 cm high x 25 cm.
Price: £150
Snowdon, Wales
George Jones RA (6 January 1786 – 19 September 1869) was a British painter, and Keeper of the Royal Academy. Examples of his work can be found in : Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Brasenose College, University of Oxford; Cheshire Military Museum; Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (GMRC) ; Government Art Collection; Magdalen College, University of Oxford Museum; National Maritime Museum; National Museum Wales, National Museum Cardiff; ; National Portrait Gallery, London; National Trust, Hatchlands; National Trust, Petworth House; National Trust, Tyntesfield; Nottingham City Museums & Galleries; Parliamentary Art Collection; Royal Academy of Arts; Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture; Sir John Soane’s Museum; Tabley House; The Postal Museum. Provenance: illustrated in Collecting English Watercolours 2nd edition page 128. Watercolour, image size 26 cm high x 41 cm.
Price: £250
Landscape
Claude Hayes (1852 – 1922) was a landscape and portrait painter, who was born in Dublin. In 1884 he first exhibited at the Royal Institute for Painters in Watercolour, of which he was elected a member in 1886. Hayes exhibited from 1876 at the Royal Academy also exhibiting at Suffolk Street, New Watercolour Society, Grosvenor Gallery and the New Gallery as well as at various other venues throughout the provinces. Signed watercolour of a landscape with fields of heather. Image size 23 cm high x 33 cm.