19th Century Watercolour

De Wint exhibited a watercolour of this title at the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1812 (no.75), which was sold for 20 guineas. The diar...

Ref:21996 Cricket watercolour. A portrait of 2 boys (Arthur and Kenneth Deighton) with a cricket bat. Initialed and dated Ludovici 1851. Albert ...

As a child John Glover showed precocious artistic ability, and at nineteen he became a writing master and painter in watercolour. In 1794 he set u...

Young Girl standing on a beach at low tide,holding a shrimping net.

Robert (Roberto) Angelo Kittermaster Marshall was a landscape painter who was born in London in1849. He was the son of Charles Marshall (1806-1890)...

Peter De Wint began his artistic career in London in 1802 as an apprentice to the engraver John Raphael Smith. Soon afterwards he studied under Jo...

John Varley was born in Hackney and based in London throughout his life, residing near Oxford Street until 1825 and then in Bayswater until his dea...

St Benet’s Abbey was an Anglo-Saxon monastery that continued in use during the middle ages, but was largely demolished in the sixteenth century. ...

Verso: slight sketch of a dog’s head In 1801 Ward began a project to depict various different breeds of British livestock for the Board of Agr...

John C. Buckler was a London architectural painter & draughtsman, son of John Buckler, an architectural & antiquarian draughtsman. Buckler,...

A rapid watercolour sketch demonstrating De Wint’s mastery of luminous wet washes, applied freely but without loss of control; it was De Wint’s...

In 1832 Müller exhibited at the newly-formed Bristol Society of Artists, at which John Sell Cotman was a fellow-exhibitor. The present study make...

The heir to a brewing business, Thomas Lound was able to collect works by artists whom he admired, notably John Thirtle; he followed the example of...

The son of a schoolmaster, William Green embarked initially on a career as a surveyor, contributing to a survey of the County of Lancaster in 1778....

As a boy John Thirtle is said to have been sent from his native Norwich to London as a frame-maker’s apprentice. He was back in Norwich by 1805,...

Cox made a particular speciality of compositions such as this, in which travellers (mounted or on foot) appear on a rough track in an exposed and w...

Fine original illustration for a story titled "Hidden Gold", published on the 27th October 1881

An apparently unfinished watercolour, with the rocky foreground vigorously sketched in black chalk; the shadowed footbridge at the centre forms the...

Charles Spencelayh was the son of Henry Spencelayh, an engineer and iron and brass founder. Born in Rochester, Kent, Charles entered the National A...

The son of a Chelsea boat-builder, he and his brother Henry ferried Whistler on the Thames. Already an amateur artist and when he first met Whistl...

Louise Rayner was born in Matlock Bath in Derbyshire on 21 June 1832 to Samuel Rayner and his wife Ann. Samuel Rayner was a watercolour artist of s...

Paper laid on board inscribed, Peggy, and signed by the renowned portrait artist T.Alfred West. It is recorded that the portrait was exhibited at t...

Watercolour by Henry Stannard RBA. It depicts a country scene with a cottage, hollyhocks and other flowers and hens in the foreground.

Original illustration by Kate Greenaway for a Christmas card. c1876

Myles Birket Foster was a celebrated English watercolourist and illustrator. Born in North Shields, he moved to London as a child and became an app...

Transcript from The Illustrated London News, 1st January, 1859: ‘The First of November, 1858, will ever be memorable in the history of our India...

A member of an Edinburgh family of painters and decorators ad the great-great-grandson of the artist James Norie, he was a prolific and popular pai...

These six amusing watercolour portraits show eight fellow officers of the artist John McNeil from his regiment the Lancashire Fusiliers. McNeil was...

Original illustration for ‘Walter’s Tale of War and the Crusades’, possibly for The Studio magazine

Born in Geneva, Agasse studied in the studio of David in Paris in the mid-1780s. After a second sojourn in Paris in 1788-9 he moved in October 180...

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Drawing highlighted with colour. Set within landscaped grounds, believed to be on the Isle of Anglesey. Gilt Framed. British, circa 1840 - 1880 F...

Two Chinese export silk paintings of hanging baskets of flowers in old frames.

Still life - oil on canvas - fruit and table accoutrement.

A wonderful example of English naive painting, this large pair of watercolour "pigeon portraits" instantly engages the attention, with their vivid ...

A set of twelve late 19th century Japanese watercolour portraits of native indigenous hawks each shown in a different position resting on a ceremon...

A rare complete set of twelve Chinese Trade paintings, depicting the growing, harvesting and processing of tea. The gouaches depict the stages of t...