Romantic Interior Drawings and Watercolors

William Gawin Herdman (1805–1882) was one of the most accomplished British watercolourists of the nineteenth century, closely associated with the Liverpool School and celebrated for ...

Victorian English Watercolour, Romantic Historical Scene (King Lear?) by Cattermole Watercolour on paper 29 × 22 cm (without frame), 35 × 43 cm (with frame) Gilt frame from the mi...

A delicate and poetic floral study by Olle Hjortzberg, where the vivid red of the poppies contrasts beautifully with the soft whites and yellows of the daisies. With masterful lightn...

This late 19th-century watercolour by Scottish artist George H Hay RSA (1831-1912) depicts four young ladies, wearing outfits synonymous with the 1820s, spinning wool within a simple...

French school 19th century, Court scene in front of a palace watercolor on paper 16.4 x 13.3 cm In good condition, some foxings Framed : 30 x 26.5 cm This enigmatic yet charming s...

Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) "Au Salon", a mother and her children playing Black ink on paper 28 x 38 cm Signed lower right Framed : 42.7 x 52. 5 cm Eugène Devéria particularly exc...

A French watercolour interior view of geraniums in pots in front of a window by A Le Flour. Signed and dated bottom right. Presented in a painted gilt and hessian covered frame under...

Romantic school, France 19th Century Interior of a Temple, Brown ink, brown ink wash and heightenings of white gouache on paper 20.5 x 29.5 cm Framed : 33 x 42 cm This interior of...

A late 19th Century botanical watercolour and gouache of carnations growing in a pot by German born artist Kathi (Ketty) Gilsoul-Hoppe. The painting is signed and dated bottom left and presented under glass in gilded wood frame. A charming composition of carnations (dianthus) growing in a terracotta pot, straight from the greenhouse. Hoppe has managed to capture the floral abandon as the flowers reach for the sky and away from the confinement of their pot. Nice use of shade and a subtle colour palette. This type of botanical art was extremely popular with female artists of the late 19th century and Hoppe was one if it's well known exponents. Though born in Dusseldorf, Germany, from 1872 Hoppe spent most of her life and career in Belgium. Her father, was Édouard Hoppe, himself a former student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf and her sister Jenny was also an artist. Kathi learnt her artistic skills thanks to her father, who was also a noted engraver. Her later teachers were Henri Hendrickx, Édouard Tourteau, at the professional school of Brussels, and Jean-François Portaels. She married the Belgian Impressionist artist Victor Gilsoul...

Mid 20th Century French architectural watercolour on paper of the Cloiture de St Trophime, in Arles. South of France by Georges Chappuis. Signed bottom left, in plain wood frame. (We will remove the glass for shipping). A charming rendition of this Arles landmark, capturing the feeling of light and shade within the cloister on a sunny South of France day. Great perspective and lovely architectural detail contrasting against the green and colours of the garden. Chappuis lived near Saint Pierre d'Arene Nice, on the cote d'Azur, South of France. The buildings and views of Southern France were the inspiration for much of his work. He was also an illustrator of short stories for Henri Bosco and contributed to an avant-garde monthly artistic magazine called Mediterranea-Nice between 1926 and 1939. The Church of St. Trophime in Arles, France, is an important pilgrimage site and the starting point of the Via Tolosana to Santiago de Compostela. Constructed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries—a time of great prosperity in Arles—the church houses some of the world’s finest examples of Romanesque sculpture...

Luigi Del Buono (1800 -?) - The chariot of Love and joyful Love. 25 x 34.5 cm each. without frame, 26.5 x 36 cm each. with frame. Oil on cardboard, in gild...

Watercolour and gouache on paper of an elegant room 'a la Française' signed in Russian cyrilic, Копию выполния ю. Садков, bottom right. A charming and evocative view of an elegant room, decorated in the French taste, leading out through French doors to a garden with a swan swimming on a lake. A wonderful attention to the furnishing detail and objects. This type of genre painting was very characteristic of the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. One of its main exponents was the American Walter Gay. This work has much of the feeling of Gay's painting in style and subject matter. It is also similar in style to the later works of the French artist Paul Hugues. One of the main artists creating paintings of this style in Russia was Stanislav Zhukovsky. Zhukovsky was born in Yendrikhovtsy (Jędrzychowice), Grodno Province. He was a student of Isaac Levitan and a graduate of the Moscow School of Painting. Zhukovsky became a celebrated landscapist working in a unique style which projected impressionistic methods and skills as well as his interpretation of the tradition of the Russian realist school. He established his own art studio in Moscow where he mentored students, including later to become a celebrated avantgardist Liubov Popova...