Water Colours Art

Watercolour

Attributed to Francis Nicholson, late 18th century watercolour, mountainous scene with farm figures, unsigned 15.5" x 20".

Thomas Sydney Watercolour

Thomas Sydney 1923. Watercolour Llanfairfechan. 19cm x 44cm. Signed, dated and titled lower left.

Watercolour of St Brelades Bay , Jersey

19th century Watercolour by E E West St Brelades Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands. Frame size 51 inches wide, 38 inches high. Painting size 38 inches wide, 25 inches high.

Watercolour of Loch Lomond

Watercolour of Loch Lomond Signed F H Henshaw Frederick Henry Henshaw (1807-1891) was a Birmingham based landscape painter, pupil of J V Barber, and influenced by Turner. 23.25 inches wide, 19.25 inches high

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Paul Sandby R.A. (1725-1809) Classical Landscape C1780

A fine Classical landscape by the father of English watercolour landscape painting Paul Sandby R.A. (1725-1809) . He was an English map-maker turned landscape painter and also a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. Also in this year he was appointed chief drawing master at the Royal Military Schools , Woolwich . He was the first English watercolour painter to go beyond mere topographical depiction to add mood, atmosphere and light . Presented in the original glazed frame with losses to the gesso 18"x14" , Painting 11"x 7,1/2". Viewing by appointment . Shipping available.

Hablot Knight-Brown (1815-1882) River Landscape with Cattle

A fine watercolour on paper by Hablot Knight-Brown (1815-1882) . He was famous under the name Phiz and was the illustrator for the original editions of books by Charles Dickens. He was also a fine landscape painter and draughtsman and this is a good example of his work very much in the English tradition . Signed . The painting is in good condition with minor yellowing to the paper present. It is mounted and presented in a glazed frame . Painting 17"x12" , frame 25"x20" . Viewing by appointment . Shipping availble.

Miniature Portrait of Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692), Poet Laurette and Lithographer to King William III and Queen Mary , Circle of Sir Godfrey Kneller 1646-1723

watercolour and bodycolour 2 x 2 in. English playwright and miscellaneous writer, was born about 1642, at Santon Hall, Norfolk, according to his son's account. He was educated at Bury St Edmund's School, and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he was entered in 1656. He left the university without a degree, and joined the Middle Temple. In 1668 he produced a prose comedy, The Sullen Lovers, or the Impertinents, based on a play of Moliere, and written in avowed imitation of Ben Jonson. His best plays are Epsom Wells (1672), for which Sir Charles Sedley wrote a prologue, and the Squire of Alsatia (1688). Alsatia was the cant name for Whitefriars, then a kind of sanctuary for persons liable to arrest, and the play represents, in dialogue full of the argot of the place, the adventures of a young heir who falls into the hand of the sharpers there. For fourteen years from the production of his first comedy to his memorable encounter with Dryden, Shadwell produced a play nearly every year. These productions display a genuine hatred of shams, and a rough but honest moral purpose. They are disfigured by indecencies, but present a vivid picture of contemporary manners. Shadwell is chiefly remembered as the unfortunate Mac Flecknoe of Dryden's satire, the "last great prophet of tautology," and the literary son and heir of Richard Flecknoe: - "The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." Dryden had furnished Shadwell with a prologue to his True Widow (1679), and in spite of momentary differences, the two had been apparently on friendly terms. But when. Dryden joined the court party, and produced Absalom and Achitopizel and The Medal, Shadwell became the champion of the true-blue Protestants, and made a scurrilous attack on the poet in The Medal of John Bayes: a Satire against Folly and Knavery (1682). Dryden immediately retorted in MacFlecknoe, or a Satire on the True Blue Protestant Poet, T.S. (1682), in which Shadwell's personalities were returned with interest. A month later he contributed to Nahum Tate's continuation of Absalom and Achitopizel satirical portraits of Elkanah Settle as Doeg and of Shadwell as 0g. In 1687 Shadwell attempted to answer these attacks in a version of the tenth satire of Juvenal. At the Whig triumph in 1688 he superseded his enemy as poet laureate and historiographer royal. He died at Chelsea on the I9th of November 1692. His son, Charles, was the author of The Fair Quaker of Deal and other plays, collected and published in 1720. A complete edition of Shadwell's works was published by his son Sir John Shadwell in 1720. His other dramatic works are - The Royal Shepherdess (1669), an adaptation of John Fountain's Rewards of Virtue; The Humorist (1671); The Miser (1672), adapted from Moliere; Psyche (1675); The Libertine (I676); The Virtuoso (1676); The history of Timon of Athens the Man-hater (I678), - on this Shakespearian adaptation see 0. Beber, Shadwell's Bearbeitung des. - - Timon of Athens (Rostock, 1897); A True Widow (1679); The Woman Captain (1680), revived in 1744 as The Prodigal; The Lancashire Witches and Teague O'Divelly, the Irish Priest (1682); Bury Fair (1689); The Amorous Bigot, with the second part of Teague O'Divelly (1690); The Scowerers (1691); and The Volunteers, or Stockjobbers, published posthumously (1693). [Adapted from Encyclopedia Britannica (1911)]

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