Watercolors
Stunning Watercolors, Animal, Landscape & Portraits
Louis William Wain. 1860 -1939
Wain was born on 5th August 1860. His father was a traveller for a textile firm: his mother, of French emigre descent, designed church embroideries and carpets. He studied at the West London School of Art, and began his career as an art journalist, drawing many different subjects. However, it was for his pictures of cats that he eventually became famous. From the 1880’s until the outbreak of the first world war, the ‘Louis Wain cat’ was hugely popular. Appearing in vast quantities in prints, books, magazines, postcards and annuals, Wain’s cats are to be found engaging in every form of human activity – from playing cricket, digging up roads, and riding bicycles, to parading the latest fashions at Ascot and making pompous after-dinner speeches at the club. In 1930 Louis Wain was transferred to Napsbury Hospital, near St. Albans. He continued drawing until near the end of his life, and exhibitions of his work were held in London in 1931 and 1937, as well as a memorial exhibition shortly after his death. He died at Napsbury on 4th July 1939. A beautiful watercolour of a dog. Signed by the artist twice and inscribed “Beg For It” – the dog has a sugar lump resting on his nose! Wain is best known for his cat watercolours but also often painted dogs. This piece is a good size and in very nice condition with fresh colours – still on its original paper and not laid down.measures 13 x 11 inches
Medium, Watercolor, 12 x 9 inches.
Price, £000.00
Arthur Wardle. 1860–1949.
Arthur Wardle. 1860–1949
Aged just sixteen Wardle had a piece displayed at the Royal Academy. His first exhibit was a study of cattle by the River Thames, leading to a lifelong interest in painting animals. In 1880 Wardle lived in Oakley Square, Camden, but artistic success enabled him to move to the more upmarket 34 Alma Square in St John’s Wood by 1892. Wardle was prolific; until 1936 he exhibited more than 100 works at the Royal Academy as well as the Society of British Artists at Suffolk Street.
He remains one of the widely known dog painters of the 19th and 20th Centuries, and he is particularly known for his paintings of terriers. Wardle painted what is probably the best known painting of the fox terrier in its modern form, The Totteridge XI (1897). The painting was commissioned by famed smooth fox terrier breeder Francis Redmond; Wardle painted a number of Redmond’s dogs. The original is in the gallery of The Kennel Club in London.
Arthur Wardle died on July 16, 1949.
Medium, Chalk On Paper, 12 x 9 inches.
Price, £000.00
George James Rankin. 1864 – 1937.
Barn Owl.
George James Rankin was a Scottish Artist. This watercolor is the original image that was used in his British book of birds.
Medium, Watercolor, 12 x 9 inches.
Price, £000.00
George James Rankin. 1864 – 1937.
Tree Creeper.
George James Rankin was a Scottish Artist. This watercolor is the original image that was used in his British book of birds.
Medium, Watercolor, 12 x 9 inches.
Price, £000.00
George James Rankin. 1864 – 1937.
Rock Pipit.
George James Rankin was a Scottish Artist. This watercolor is the original image that was used in his British book of birds.
Medium, Watercolor On Paper, 12 x 9 inches.
Price, £000.00
George James Rankin. 1864 – 1937.
Tree Pipit.
George James Rankin was a Scottish Artist. This watercolor is the original image that was used in his British book of birds.
Medium, Watercolor, 12 x 9 inches.
Price, £000.00
George James Rankin. 1864 – 1937.
Great Crested Grebe.
George James Rankin was a Scottish Artist. This watercolor is the original image that was used in his British book of birds.
Medium, Watercolor, 12 x 9 inches.
Price, £000.00
Arthur Wardle. 1860–1949.
Arthur Wardle. 1860–1949
Aged just sixteen Wardle had a piece displayed at the Royal Academy. His first exhibit was a study of cattle by the River Thames, leading to a lifelong interest in painting animals. In 1880 Wardle lived in Oakley Square, Camden, but artistic success enabled him to move to the more upmarket 34 Alma Square in St John’s Wood by 1892. Wardle was prolific; until 1936 he exhibited more than 100 works at the Royal Academy as well as the Society of British Artists at Suffolk Street.
He remains one of the widely known dog painters of the 19th and 20th Centuries, and he is particularly known for his paintings of terriers. Wardle painted what is probably the best known painting of the fox terrier in its modern form, The Totteridge XI (1897). The painting was commissioned by famed smooth fox terrier breeder Francis Redmond; Wardle painted a number of Redmond’s dogs. The original is in the gallery of The Kennel Club in London.
Arthur Wardle died on July 16, 1949.
Pencil & Chalk. Prov, Christies.