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The artist has meticulously recorded details of the interior—including the ornate carved fireplace and decorative plasterwork ceiling—whilst also giving a sense of the room as a lived-in, breathing space—with fire burning and food set casually on the table. An inscription verso indicates the location of Elstree in Hertfordshire but we have been unable to identify the house—could it be the 16th-century Elstree Hall, demolished in 1881? 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The work was a preparatory sketch, dating from c.1503-4, for Leonardo's (now lost) mural painting of the Battle of Anghiari, in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. These studies focus especially on the frenzied heads of horses caught up in the battle, as well expressions of fury in a man and a lion. Leonardo's original study was drawn in pen and ink with wash and red chalk. This later drawing in pen and ink is on tracing paper, beautifully executed with great fluidity to exact actual size, but entirely in the reverse of Leonardo's drawing. It is unclear quite how the artist produced this copy—whether it was from access to and viewing of the original drawing itself, or a life-size reproduction. The Royal Palaces were increasingly open to the public from 1825, when the first official visitors' entrance was created, and in 1837 when Queen Victoria came to the throne and introduced tickets for visitors and specially staffed tours. 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Whilst Bowles is often overshadowed by her better-known husband, Poet Laureate Robert Southey, she was a poet of great merit in her own right and among the more influential women writers who produced their best work at the threshold of the Victorian era.This idyllic view, with flowers in bloom and white birds feeding on the lawn, communicates the great affection Bowles held for her childhood home, and the comfort it represented in a life marred by tragedy. Born at Buckland Manor, Caroline was the only child of Captain Charles Bowles and Anne Burrard, member of the important Burrard family of Lymington, Hampshire. Her melancholic father moved the family to the much smaller Buckland cottage when she was a child, and Caroline spent summers by the sea at Calshot Castle, home of her uncle, Sir Harry Burrard, 1st Baronet, of Walhampton. She showed artistic talent young, and was taught by artist William Gilpin (the local parson)—who is best known as one of the originators of the idea of the picturesque.Her mother's death in 1816 left the family destitute, leaving Caroline alone and only able to continue living in the family home due to an annuity from her father's adopted son, Colonel Bruce. Financial need drove her to contact the Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, who had a reputation for helping working-class and women poets. Southey encouraged her poetic talent and the two corresponded prolifically by letter. Following the death of Southey's first wife, in 1838, they were married in 1840, and Caroline went to live at Greta Hall in Keswick (where Southey lived along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his family). 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Pictured affectionately with her two dogs, this sensitive image is particularly resonant due to the poet's life being marred by tragedy—showing a young woman who was orphaned at an early age and who went on to care for her future husband, Poet Laureate Robert Southey, when he fell into ill health.The drawing comes with a fine mezzotint engraving of Robert Southey by E. Finden pasted onto a separate sheet, which was originates from the same album as the Bowles portrait, as shown.Born at Buckland Manor, Caroline was the only child of Captain Charles Bowles and Anne Burrard, member of the important Burrard family of Lymington, Hampshire. Her melancholic father moved the family to the much smaller Buckland cottage when she was a child, but Caroline spent summers by the sea at Calshot Castle, home of her uncle, Sir Harry Burrard, 1st Baronet, of Walhampton. She showed artistic talent young, and was taught by artist William Gilpin (the local parson)—who is best known as one of the originators of the idea of the picturesque.Her mother's death in 1816 left the family destitute, leaving Caroline alone and only able to continue living in the family home due to an annuity from her father's adopted son, Colonel Bruce. Financial need drove her to contact the Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, who had a reputation for helping working-class and women poets. Southey encouraged her poetic talent and the two corresponded prolifically by letter. Following the death of Southey's first wife, in 1838, they were married in 1840, and Caroline went to live at Greta Hall in Keswick (where Southey lived along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his family). 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The Townshends have brought a dog with them as ridiculously little as his Muftiship is formid-ably large, and this ridiculous dog walks out with them, as Mufti does with you.'This drawing comes from a collection of works relating to the Burrard family and is inscribed on the backing paper 'Caroline Bowles by herself. given me by Mrs Levett, L.B.'. This is Laura Burrard, (either Caroline's cousin, d.1880, or cousin's daughter b.1831\/3). 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On cream wove paper with partial J Whatman watermark. Boitard is known to have worked on both laid and wove paper (see drawings in the collection of the Yale Centre for British Art).Laid down on a card wash line mount with window cut verso, and presented in a wash line window mount. Paper remnants at the corners on the verso of the drawing indicate that it was once corner mounted in an album.Provenance: Christies Old Master \u0026amp; British Drawings \u0026amp; Watercolours 2016.This is one of a collection of seven similarly mounted Boitard drawings we have for sale (auctioned at Christies in 2016). 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Richard Wilson RA (1714–1782) was an influential Welsh landscape painter, who is considered the ’father’ of British landscape painting, and was a major influence on J.M.W. Turner and John Constable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Wilson is best known for his Italianate landscapes, influenced by the grand classical style of Poussin, Claude and Zuccarelli. Wilson was born in Penegoes, Montgomeryshire but moved to London in 1729 to train under Thomas Wright. In 1750 he left London for Rome where he remained until 1757, and it was this period in Italy which was to be most influential on Wilson’s developing landscape style. Drawing was important to Wilson, and his preferred medium was black chalk and stump on a grey paper. Many of Wilson’s landscape oil paintings were based on the large number of drawings that he made during his Italian sojourn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilson painted the subject of Cicero at his villa on three occasions, this drawing closest to the version now in the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. William Woollett (1735–1785) also published an engraving after Wilson of the subject in 1778. The drawing shows the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) conversing with his friend Quintus and his brother Atticus at Arpinum. The villa of Cicero's birth is visible in the distance, where Cicero goes for 'undisturbed meditation, or uninterrupted reading or writing'. The friends remark on how the serenity of the landscape inspires them with wisdom and creativity, and in turn, Cicero extrapolates his ideals for social order in Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis drawing, intriguingly, is accompanied by a heavier cream wove backing sheet inscribed ‘RWf. 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The drawing has been mounted onto a sheet of wove paper with window cut verso and ruled border, with additional brown paper strip border, as shown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is one of a small collection of works after Richard Wilson that we have for sale with the provenance: Covent Garden Gallery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51994486079817,"sku":"JK-915","price":895.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/jk-915.jpg?v=1743166451"},{"product_id":"attrib-sir-james-thornhill-allegorical-studies-18th-century-ink-drawing-jk-916","title":"Attrib. Sir James Thornhill, Allegorical Studies – 18th-century ink drawing","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original 18th-century pen \u0026amp; ink drawing, Attrib. Sir James Thornhill, Allegorical Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis profusive sheet of studies in ink and graphite is attributed to the masterful decorative painter Sir James Thornhill (1675\/6–1734), who worked in the Italian Baroque style at the beginning of the 18th century. We acquired the drawing with this attribution and with the provenance of William Drummond (Covent Garden Gallery, London), the renowned British drawings and watercolours dealer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir James Thornhill was the foremost decorative painter in England, earning him a knighthood and appointment as history painter-in-ordinary (1718) and sergeant-painter (1720) to the king. His great decorative schemes included the 'Painted Hall' at the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, the paintings on the inside of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, the chapel ceiling of Queen’s College Oxford, the hall of Blenheim Palace, and works at Chatsworth House and Wimpole Hall. Notably, Thornhill rose to eminence against the prevailing dominance of foreign decorative painters, who received almost all commissions for such work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThornhill's large-scale compositions comprised figures commonly shown in idealised and rhetorical postures. Narrative elements of classical allegory would be combined with topical events relevant to the patron; for example, his design for the ceiling of the Queen Anne room at Hampton Court shows Queen Anne surrounded by allegorical figures representing Providence, Virtues, Arts and Sciences, Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur sheet of drawings has the vigorous spontaneity of an imaginative, preliminary sketching process: the page jostles with nude figures alluding to various classical allegories such as The Three Graces, Atlas, Athena, bacchantes with drinking vessels and figures with lyres. The composition nevertheless achieves a sense of coherence and depth, anchored by obelisks and trees within the 'landscape'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe studies are quite possibly preliminary workings for an interior mural scheme, or they may have connection with design work that Thornhill did for the Chelsea Porcelain Factory. Intriguingly, the sheet bears a faint inscription within the graphite underdrawing at the upper left which reads 'Nollekens'—presumably a reference to Joseph Francis Nollekens, or ‘Old Nollekens’ (1702–1748), the Antwerp-born painter in London. Old Nollekens and Thornhill both did decorative work for the china manufactory in Chelsea, as recalled by his son, the sculptor Joseph Nollekens, in the 1895 publication 'Nollekens and his Times' by John Thomas Smith. The designs of Chelsea porcelain at this time drew much inspiration from the elaborate French decorative style of the Sèvres manufactory, which was born out of the luxurious demands of the Ancien Regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn laid paper with simple fleur-de-lis watermark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is an ink sketch of a face on the verso.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvenance: William Drummond (Covent Garden Gallery, London).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51994486145353,"sku":"JK-916","price":380.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/jk-916.jpg?v=1743166451"},{"product_id":"circle-of-henry-fuseli-ra-a-rampaging-giant-early-19th-century-ink-drawing-jk-971","title":"Circle of Henry Fuseli RA, A Rampaging Giant - Early 19th-century ink drawing","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original early 19th-century pen \u0026amp; ink drawing, Circle of Henry Fuseli RA, A Rampaging Giant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis dramatic ink and wash drawing shows the figure of a giant wielding a tree trunk held aloft, with two diminutive figures below. Possibly a representation of the biblical encounter between David and Goliath, the subject is of a type favoured by the Swiss-English artist Henry Fuseli RA (1741–1825), who had a taste for the supernatural.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFuseli's figures were described by his friend Johann Casper Lavater: 'Fury and force, an energy uniformly supported, and ever active—this is what distinguishes most of the figures and compositions of this masculine genius. Spectres, Demons, and madmen; fantoms, exterminating angels; murders and acts of violence—such are his favourite subject' (Essays on Physiognomy, 1789–98).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis drawing uses chiaroscuro—like Fuseli did—to effect a sense of dramatic tension: the dark vision punctuated with light, highlighting the giant's fordible physique, the figure of his diminutive combatant, and a hopeful suggestion of distant light behind the scene's looming foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn black ink with grey and red wash and touches of white bodycolour on wove paper. 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It is believed to have been painted by the Thwaites sisters of the Thwaites brewery family of Blackburn. The painting formed part of a collection apparently gifted to a 'Miss Jones' (see photograph of inscription).A sheet of studies this comprehensive and surviving in this condition is rare. The butterflies are individually inscribed with their Latin names, as shown.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51994508984649,"sku":"JK-988","price":795.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/jk-988.jpg?v=1743166546"},{"product_id":"louis-denizot-french-porcelain-bronze-bowl-design-1881-watercolour-painting-jl-350","title":"Louis Denizot, French Porcelain \u0026 Bronze Bowl Design-1881 watercolour painting","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original 1881 watercolour painting, Louis Denizot, French Porcelain \u0026amp; Gilt Bronze Bowl Design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis beautiful original design was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889. The porcelain and ornate bronze gilt style is typical of French 19th century ceramics, but the organic symmetrical fronds of the bowl's inner pattern show elements of early Art Nouveau style, as well as geometry reminiscent of Islamic patterns.On thin paper watermarked 'Lafuma Voiron'.Please note that this picture will ship rolled in a tube. 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An etching by Hastings of a similar naval subject (in the collection of Royal Museums Greenwich) is dated 1804 and shows a storm off the Cape of Good Hope. A slightly later watercolour, dating from November 1805, places Hastings at Sidmouth in Devon.This fine grisaille painting shares qualities with Hasting's Greenwich etching, which Marianne A. Yule (Hasting's brief biographer) describes thus: 'Sharp contrasts between dark and light accentuate the depth and height of the waves of the stormy sea, as they are about to engulf the dwarfed ship; numerous intermediate shades suggest overlapping layers in the water and clouds'.The verso of the painting is inscribed indistinctly, 'T. Barnett to H.L. Hunter (?)'. 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The sitters are Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796–1817), heiress to the British throne, and Leopold I, King of the Belgians (1831–1865), whom Charlotte married as Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg in 1816. Princess Charlotte was the only legitimate child of King George IV. After a year of marriage to Leopold she tragically died aged twenty-one following childbirth. Had she outlived her grandfather and father she would have become Queen of the United Kingdom. Charlotte's death set off tremendous mourning among the British public, who had seen her as a sign of hope in contrast to her unpopular father and grandfather. She was considered a 'well-set, young beautiful woman' and was painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence, Richard Cosway and her appointed miniaturist Charlotte Jones. Leopold I, King of the Belgians, was a German prince who fought in the Russian army. Following Belgium's independence from the Netherlands in 1830, he became the first King of the Belgians. Prince Leopold was known for his dashing good looks and after Princess Charlotte's death he continued to enjoy considerable status in Britain and was beloved amongst the public as her 'afflicted consort'. In 1840 Leopold arranged the marriage of his niece, Queen Victoria, to his nephew, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and he went on to act as an advisor to his niece for many years. Leopold was widely painted by artists, including Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir George Hayter, Alfred Edward Chalon and George Dawe.The present portraits are after paintings by English portraitist George Dawe RA, which were popularly reproduced as mezzotints in the day. The Princess Charlotte portrait is after a mezzotint by William Say after George Dawe, 1817, and the King Leopold painting is after a mezzotint by Henry Edward Dawe after George Dawe, circa 1817.George Dyer is listed as being a professional portrait miniature painter, active 1821-47 and local to the Sussex area, located at Brighton (1822) and Worthing (1826). The scale of this work is larger than a miniature, but the artist's skill as a miniaturist is greatly in evidence: in the particularly fine treatment of facial features and hair, the exquisite bodycolour detailing to Charlotte's lace neckline, and the overall intensity and focus of the compositions.Both paintings are in watercolour with touches of gum arabic and white bodycolour. On card. 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In his early years Brangwyn had joined the Royal Navy Reserve and began painting seascapes. Ships would regularly feature in his prolific output; here Brangwyn's composition depicts a ship, viewed dramatically—as was often the case—from the bow. A collection of figures, young and old, dressed variously in bathing suits, shorts and boater hats, populates the foreground.The Welsh art writer Walter Shaw Sparrow noted about Brangwyn: 'In his best work he knows when to stop; and often he stops at a point which a great many onlookers find \"unfinished,\" or \"too sketchy.\"'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOil and graphite on Windsor and Newton canvas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvenance: Liss LLewellyn Fine Art. 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