ONE HUNDRED DRAWINGS & WATERCOLOURS STEPHEN ONGPIN GUY PEPPIATT PEPPIATT GUY ONGPIN STEPHEN WATERCOLOURS & DRAWINGS HUNDRED ONE 2016-2017 ONE HUNDRED DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS Stephen Ongpin Fine Art Ltd. Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Ltd. Riverwide House 6 Mason’s Yard Duke Street, St James’s London SW1Y 6BU GUY PEPPIATT FINE ART STEPHEN ONGPIN FINE ART ONE HUNDRED DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS dating from the 16th Century to the 20th Century WINTER CATALOGUE 2016–2017 to be exhibited at Riverwide House 6 Mason’s Yard Duke Street, St. James’s London SW1Y 6BU Stephen Ongpin Fine Art Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Tel.+44 (0) 20 7930 8813 Tel.+44 (0) 20 7930 3839 or + 44 (0)7710 328 627 or +44 (0)7956 968 284 [email protected] [email protected] www.stephenongpin.com www.peppiattfineart.co.uk 1 We are delighted to present our ninth annual Winter catalogue of One Hundred Drawings and Watercolours, which will, as usual, be accompanied by an exhibition in our London gallery. This catalogue includes a wide range of British and European drawings and watercolours, placed more or less in chronological order, ranging in date from the 16th century to the first half of the 20th century. Although the areas of Old Master drawings, early British drawings and watercolours, and 19th and 20th Century drawings have long been regarded as disparate fields, each with their own enthusiasts, part of the purpose of this annual catalogue is to blur the distinction between these collecting areas. The works we have selected for this catalogue will show that a fine drawing or watercolour – whoever the artist and whatever the date - is always worthy of note. As the enclosed price list shows, the prices of the drawings are equally broad in scope – from well under £1,000 to around £15,000 – with most of the works at the lower end of this range. The catalogue aims to show that drawings and watercolours by well-established artists can be affordable, and interesting works by lesser-known artists especially so. We believe that there is much here for the novice collector, as well as for the more experienced connoisseur or curator. Indeed, we are very pleased that a significant number of British, European and American museums have acquired works from these annual Winter catalogues over the past eight years. Our respective individual catalogues of more significant drawings will be issued in January and May 2017, accompanied by exhibitions in New York and London. In the meantime, we are delighted to present this Winter catalogue of more moderately priced works. We hope you find something in it to interest you, and look forward to greeting you at our gallery over the coming months. Guy Peppiatt Stephen Ongpin The following catalogue contains drawings and watercolours from the stock of Stephen Ongpin Fine Art (SOFA) and Guy Peppiatt Fine Art (GPFA). Those of the former are marked SOFA and the latter GPFA in red at the top of each page; please direct any enquiries as appropriate. For reasons of space, only a brief account of each drawing is given in the catalogue. Further information, artist’s biographies and references, as well as high-resolution digital images of each of the works, are available on request. The drawings are available for viewing from receipt of the catalogue. A price list is included. Most, but not all, of the works are sold framed. 2 SOFA 1 flowers of the Marchigian region, and became one of the GHERARDO CIBO foremost botanists of his day. A gifted artist, despite his lack Genoa or Rome 1512-1600 Rocca Contrada of any formal training, he produced a large number of colourful and scientifically accurate botanical illustrations. As Landscape with a Farmhouse on a Hillside an amateur landscape draughtsman, Cibo worked mainly in the provinces of Ancona, Pesaro, Macerata and Perugia. His Pen and brown ink and brown wash landscape drawings can be divided into two distinct types; 1 1 129 x 210 mm., 5 /8 x 8 /4 in. views of actual sites in the Marches and purely imaginary landscapes. The drawings made on the spot are often Provenance: inscribed with the location depicted and with astrological Cardinal Gaspari(?) symbols to denote the specific day of the week. While Cibo Rafael Valls, London sent some of his drawings to family members and fellow P. & D. Colnaghi, London, in 1969 botanists, most seem to have been done for his own Private collection, New York pleasure. Born into the Genoese nobility, Gherardo Cibo studied in The present sheet was part of a group of twelve landscape Rome and Bologna, receiving a fine humanist education, drawings from a now-dismembered sketchbook that and showed a talent for drawing from an early age. He appeared on the London art market in 1971. The flyleaf of became a soldier and diplomat attached to the papal court the sketchbook was dated 24 October 1567, while some in Rome. In 1540, aged just twenty-eight, Cibo retired from of the drawings are dated 1567 or 1568. A long inscription his papal duties and settled in the small town of Rocca in the sketchbook noted that the drawings contained in it Contrada in the Apennines. He dedicated the rest of his life were made by Cibo during walks in the countryside. to the study, collection and illustration of the plants and 3 SOFA actual size 2 HENDRICK GOUDT Goudt is thought to have travelled to Italy in 1604, and by The Hague c.1583-1648 Utrecht 1607 is recorded as living in the house of the German painter Adam Elsheimer in Rome, although it remains Three Orientals in Conversation unclear whether he was formally a pupil of the elder artist. Goudt made a handful of superb prints after Elsheimer’s paintings which served to spread the posthumous Pen and brown ink on buff paper, laid down reputation of the German painter and, by extension, his Irregularly trimmed and made up at the left edge and own. Following Elsheimer’s death in 1610, Goudt returned upper left corner to the Netherlands and by 1611 had settled in Utrecht. A small made up section at the lower right However, he seems to have stopped working after the last 5 3 91 x 60 mm., 3 /8 x 2 /8 in. of his prints after Elsheimer was published, in 1613. Around 1620 Goudt became severely mentally ill, and by 1625 had Provenance: been declared legally incompetent. He died in 1648, Iohan Quirijn van Regteren Altena, Amsterdam (Lugt 4617) suffering from mental derangement. Thence by descent As a draughtsman, Goudt worked primarily in pen and ink, Literature producing figural groups, landscapes and Biblical subjects. Hans Möhle, Die Zeichnungen Adam Elsheimers. Das Werk He also made a number of highly detailed pen and ink des Meisters und der Problemkreis Elsheimer – Goudt, Berlin, drawings on vellum for collectors. His drawings are difficult 1966, p.56, illustrated pl.9, no.G16 to accurately date, however, since only one sheet is dated. While Goudt’s early drawings show the influence of Jacques Little is known of Hendrick Goudt’s artistic training, but it is de Gheyn II, his mature draughtsmanship is indebted to the thought that he studied calligraphy and engraving with Jan manner of Elsheimer; indeed, the figure drawings of the two van de Velde the Elder, and printmaking with Simon Frisius. artists have long been confused. 4 SOFA actual size 3 STEFANO DELLA BELLA This drawing was once part of a sketchbook used by Stefano Florence 1610-1664 Florence della Bella on a trip to the Low Countries between 1647 and 1650. The drawing shares much of its provenance with The Heads of Two Women from Aalkmar a similar and slightly larger sheet from the same sketchbook, depicting what seems to be the same woman and showing Pen and brown ink and grey wash, over a pencil more of her costume, on which the artist further noted that the drawing was made in Aalkmar on the 6th of May 1647. underdrawing This would suggest that the present sheet was drawn at the Inscribed Anabatiste d’ hollanda at the top same time and place. The Italian inscription at the top of the 3 1 94 x 130 mm., 3 /4 x 5 /8 in. present sheet describes the subjects as Anabaptists from Holland. Another drawing from the same period and quite Provenance: possibly part of the same sketchbook, showing two Dutch Possibly Giuseppe Vallardi, Milan or Flemish women wearing distinctive headpieces, was part Possibly William Mayor, London of an important album of drawings by Stefano della Bella P. & D. Colnaghi, London assembled by the 18th century English calligrapher Thomas Sir Bruce Ingram, Chesham (Lugt 1405a) Tomkins, and dispersed at auction in 1975. Other drawings Carl Winter, Cambridge by the artist from this Dutch period are in the British Private collection, London Museum, the Louvre and the Istituto Nazionale per la Trinity Fine Art, London, in 1990 Grafica in Rome. Monica Streiff, Switzerland 5 SOFA 4 LUDOLF BAKHUIZEN had also taken up painting, and was soon established as one Emden 1631-1708 Amsterdam of the leading marine painters in the city, receiving numerous commissons and enjoying the patronage of several important patrons. After 1672, when Bakhuizen’s Coastal Scene with Shipping main competitors as marine artists, Willem van de Velde the Elder and Willem van de Velde the Younger, moved to Pen and brown ink and grey wash England, his output increased significantly. Laid down on a 17th century mount Signed L: B: Fecit at the lower left of the mount Prolific as a draughtsman, Bakhuizen produced, in the 5 5 118 x 169 mm., 4 /8 x 6 /8 in.