{"title":"Political","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"possibly-charles-raymond-chabrillac-french-peasants-early-c19th-watercolour-jr-278","title":"Possibly Charles Raymond Chabrillac, French Peasants – Early C19th watercolour","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original early 19th-century watercolour painting, Possibly Charles Raymond Chabrillac, Peasants of the French Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sensitively drawn and thought-provoking image, possibly by the French artist Charles Raymond Chabrillac (b.1804). The narrative of the scene is ambiguous, but the figures are clearly members of the peasant class—the largest socio-economic group in France until the mid-20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Raymond Chabrillac was active in Paris from the 1820s onwards. He was a pupil of Guillaume Guillon Lethiere and attended the Salon de Paris for various periods between 1833 and 1842. His most well-known paintings are a series of portraits of some of the protagonists of the French Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst this is neither a scene of peasant revolt nor Napoleonic battle, there are overtones of both in this quiet composition. The peasant farmers, members of the Third Estate, played a major role in starting the French Revolution in 1789, having increasingly suffered under heavy taxation, rising food prices, poor harvests and unfairness of the feudal system. The male figure to the left is evidently a working man, who—significantly—wears the baggy long trousers of the \u003cem\u003esans-culottes\u003c\/em\u003e—the working class Revolutionaries who pitted themselves against the fashionable silk knee-breech-wearing nobility and bourgeoisie. The generally brown\/black palette of the drawing is accented with touches of bright blue and red bodycolour, colours of the Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mood of the painting is one of watching and waiting. The composition emphatically sets light against dark. The male figure looks out through the heavy stone archway to a vista of luminous sky: contemplating, perhaps, what is to come and what has been before. Whilst the Revolution brought abolition of the feudal system and fairer distribution of taxes, hardship continued for the peasant class in many ways. Mass conscription, the \u003cem\u003elevée en masse\u003c\/em\u003e, during the Napoleonic wars would result in the death of hundreds of thousands of their sons across Europe—battling to defend the new state that their revolution had created.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvenance: From the Collection of Dr E.M. Brett of Hampstead. 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French in origin, it is skilfully drawn in graphite and enlivened with fresh dabs of watercolour in soft blue, pink, yellow, ochre and black.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe drawing shows a British naval sailor and French soldier with arms extended in friendship across a globe marked 'Asie', 'Afrique' and 'Jamaica', reflecting that the nations had become post-Napoleonic political allies, as both began to turn their attentions to acquiring new territories beyond Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is one of three drawings that we have for sale with the same signature, one of which bears the address '39 rue St Louis (marais) Paris'. In the 19th century, the Ile Saint-Louis in Paris was an extremely artistic neighbourhood. The composer Chopin and the poet Charles Baudelaire both lived there. The Hôtel de Lauzun (at that time Hôtel Pimodan) became the unlikely meeting place for the ‘Club des Hashischins’ (Club of the Hashish-Eaters), where members included Baudelaire, Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier and Eugène Delacroix.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn graphite with watercolour wash.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52017268097353,"sku":"JT-746","price":138.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/jt-746.jpg?v=1743497748"},{"product_id":"handwritten-signed-letter-from-jules-ferry-french-prime-minister-1880s-jx-571","title":"Handwritten Signed Letter from Jules Ferry, French Prime Minister, 1880s","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original 1880s Letter from Jules Ferry, French Prime Minister.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn laid paper, tipped on to backing paper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52018281349449,"sku":"JX-571","price":68.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/jx-571.jpg?v=1743504998"},{"product_id":"attrib-daniel-maclise-lord-morpeth-addresses-the-electors-early-c19th-drawing-jz-320","title":"Attrib. Daniel Maclise, Lord Morpeth Addresses the Electors –early C19th drawing","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original early 19th-century graphite drawing, Attrib. Daniel Maclise, Lord Morpeth Addresses the Electors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fine miniature sketch attributed to the artist Daniel Maclise RA (1806–1870). This is one of a pair of miniature sketches attributed to Maclise that we have for sale, with the provenance: William Drummond (Covent Garden Gallery, London).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis sketch appears to show the early-Victorian Whig aristocrat and politician George Howard (1802–1864), Lord Morpeth, addressing the electors. George Howard was the eldest son of Francis Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle, whose family seat was Castle Howard in Yorkshire. On the death of his grandfather in September 1825 he was granted the courtesy title Lord Morpeth. In 1826, the Earl of Carlisle arranged for his son to be elected for the constituency of Morpeth, one of the boroughs under his control, a post that Howard then left to become the Whig candidate for Yorkshire. He went on to serve as MP for Yorkshire from 1830 to 1832, and then the West Riding from 1832 to 1841 and again from 1846 to 1848. He was a supporter of religious tolerance, Catholic emancipation and parliamentary reform. Lord Morpeth was immensely popular, so much so that 'the name of Morpeth … was associated in the most intimate connection with the prosperity and well-being of Yorkshire'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Maclise RA (1806–1870) was born in Cork, Ireland, into humble beginnings, but was determined to make a living as an artist. He moved to London in 1827 and exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1829. He went on to become a full member of the Academy in 1840. Painting historical and literary subjects, he also designed illustrations for several works by Dickens. in 1846 he was commissioned to paint murals in the House of Lords on such subjects as Justice and Chivalry. In 1858, Maclise commenced one of the two great monumental works of his life on the walls of Westminster Palace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvenance: William Drummond (Covent Garden Gallery, London).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease note the small size of this artwork. 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