20th Century Watercolours

Set of six watercolour design pictures from the Lester Clothing Company Chicago for the China perade, in modern frames

Set of six watercolour design pictures from the Lester Clothing Company Chicago for the China perade, in modern frames

Watercolour painting of a maid doing the washing. Modern frame

Coniston Water in Cumbria is the third largest lake in the Lake District. Brantwood House, the home of John Ruskin is on the eastern shore and not...

The label on the reverse reads: Hampstead Heath looking over to Harrow on the Hill, Brent Reservoir, and painted in early Spring, from just by the...

Loudon Sainthill was born in Hobart, Tasmania. In 1932-33 he studied drawing and general design at the Applied Art School, Working Men’s College...

Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and studied in Vienna. She later moved to London in 1939 where she held her first one-man show at the Brod Gallery. ...

Wood was born in Dublin where he studied at the Metropolitan School of Art. He was greatly influenced the Irish stained glass designer and illustr...

Three Interesting Topographical Costume Studies Watercolour on paper, each one entitled beneath in ink: ‘A native of the Camira Mountains in A...

This watercolour is accompanied by four letters from the artist discussing the original 1969 commission and the subsequent loan of the picture to t...

Emanuel was born and lived in London where studied at the Slade under Alphonse Legros before further studies at the Academie Julian, Paris. From t...

Onions was drawn at Twyford, Dorset where the artist rented a house each year between 1932-1944.

Badmin was born in London and studied at Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art, which he left in 1928. Known for his details and a...

John Wilson Jowsey was born in Ashington, Northumberland, the son of a shipwright. He studied art in Edunburgh, Paris and Newlyn. Shortly before ...

Read had moved Brighton and by 1933 to Tunbridge Wells. His subject matter often featured the shoppers and shop fronts of Kensington and Tunbridge...

Shepard was born in St John’s Wood, the son of an architect and amateur painter and the grandson of the watercolour artist William Lee. He was e...

Mark Birley, founder of Annabel’s Club in London’s Berkeley Square, was a friend and patron of John Ward. From about 1975 Ward made a number o...

The present work illustrates the beginning of Act III in Romeo and Juliet. Mercutio, a friend of Romeo’s enters accompanied by their mutual frie...

Clifford was born in Bristol and studied at the Royal Academy. He painted and exhibited landscapes, portraits and historical subjects in oil and w...

Fred Stratton was born in Lincolnshire, the son of a farmer. It is not known where he studied but by the 1890s he had a studio in London. By 1900...

The brother of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. He was educated at Lancing College and at the Royal Academy Schools. For many years he worked as a...

Louis Fairfax Muckley was born in Worcestershire and studied at Birmingham School of Art. As a painter of genre and Symbolist works he exhibited ...

Adrian Keith Graham Hill was born in Charlton, London and educated at Dulwich College. He studied art at the St John’s Wood School of Art and at...

Born in Hillhead, Glasgow, the sister of the landscape artist Sir D. Y. Cameron. She studied at Glasgow School of Art under Fra Newbery and in Par...

Sims was born in Islington and studied at South Kensington, the Academie Julian, Paris and at the Royal Academy Schools. He first made his name at...