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Turner and Thomas Girtin found patronage, along with other members including John Linnell, John Sell Cotman, Peter de Wint, William Henry Hunt, Joshua Cristall and John Varley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvenance: Alexander Monro and by descent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn black chalk heightened with white. On grey paper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52017257808201,"sku":"JT-711","price":58.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/jt-711_13.jpg?v=1743497721"},{"product_id":"r-j-blesard-maria-cosway-portrait-original-1832-chalk-drawing-ka-197","title":"R.J. Blesard, Maria Cosway Portrait – Original 1832 chalk drawing","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original 1832 chalk drawing, R.J. Blesard, Maria Cosway Portrait.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis coquettish portrait is described as being 'From the miniature of May 1828'. The look and the pose resemble the artist Maria Cosway (1760–1838) as painted and drawn by her husband, the celebrated miniaturist Richard Cosway RA (1742–1821).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn black and pink chalk with touches of red wash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe artist is believed to be Robert John Blesard (1809–1839) of Woodhouse, Leeds, son of a woollen merchant and descendent of the prominent Quaker Blesard family of Guiseley. [See also collection \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/artist-collections\/r-j-blesard-yorkshire-landscapes-1832-34\"\u003eR.J. 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Stylistically this is most probably by Dr Thomas Monro (1759–1833), who ran the informal 'Monro' academy, where the young J.M.W. Turner and Thomas Girtin found patronage, along with other members including John Linnell, John Sell Cotman, Peter de Wint, William Henry Hunt, Joshua Cristall and John Varley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvenance: Alexander Monro and by descent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn flecked buff-coloured paper. 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It is believed that they started using the monogram in watermarks shortly before 1750 (Henk Voorn, De papiermolens in de provincie Noord-Holland).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ear studies appear to be a copy after the French painter and physiognomist Charles Le Brun (1619–1690), who produced a drawing manual on human emotions that has been used for centuries by artists and students as a model for depicting facial expressions. 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In 1841–2 he worked in Rome as an assistant to the major neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. Steven's own work was strongly influenced by Italian High Renaissance style; this neoclassical frieze design features a winged putto, classical pedestals, scrolls and laurel wreath, along with ribbon festoons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExecuted in black chalk with black wash, the design is inscribed 'Black Panel[?]', suggesting that it is possibly the design for a cast iron fire surround or chimney piece; highlights in white bodycolour mimic the sheen on black cast iron. In 1850 Stevens became chief designer to a Sheffield firm, Messrs. Hoole and Robson, who specialised in metalwork and won renown for metalwork exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. He also did work for the Coalbrookdale Iron Company. The festoon ribbons in this design are similar to a cast iron fire surround designed by Stevens for Colebrookdale, now in Colebrookdale Museum of Iron. Stevens' most famous commissions include the chimneypiece for the dining room of Dorchester House in London, and the monument to the Duke of Wellington in St Paul's Cathedral. His work was highly influential to sculptors of the New Sculpture movement, Frederic Leighton, George Frederic Watts and Hamo Thornycroft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis design is perhaps particularly interesting as evidence of the artist's working process, given the fragmented, composite nature of the piece. The paper appears to have been repeatedly recomposed and extended, consisting of at least four separate segments, which have been laid down on a backing—apparently by the artist himself. The backing sheet has a further sculptural head sketch on the verso, along with the artist's signature. 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