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24885_100 drawings 2012 31/10/2012 09:00 Page 1 GUY PEPPIATT FINE ART STEPHEN ONGPIN FINE ART ONE HUNDRED DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS dating from the 16th century to the present day WINTER CATALOGUE 2012 –2013 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 24885_100 drawings 2012 31/10/2012 09:00 Page 2 We are delighted to present our fifth annual Winter catalogue of One Hundred Drawings and Watercolours, to be accompanied by a Christmas exhibition in our gallery in London. The areas of Old Master drawings, early British drawings and watercolours, and 19th and 20th century drawings, have long been regarded as separate fields, each with their own enthusiasts and collectors, auctions and exhibitions. Part of the purpose of this catalogue, and indeed the aim of our shared gallery, is to blur the distinction between these collecting areas. A glance at the works included in this catalogue will, we hope, show that a good drawing or watercolour is always worthy of attention, whoever the artist and whatever the date. This catalogue includes a wide range of British and European drawings, watercolours and oil sketches, placed more or less in chronological order, ranging in date from the early 17th century to the present day. As a glance at the enclosed price list will show, the prices of the drawings are equally broad in scope - from under £1,000 to around £10,000 – with a large number of interesting works at the lower end of this range. The catalogue aims to show that drawings and watercolours by well- established artists can be very affordable, and interesting works by minor or lesser-known artists especially so. There is, we believe, much in this catalogue for the novice collector, as well as for the more experienced connoisseur or curator. Our respective individual catalogues of more significant drawings will be issued in January and May 2013, and will be accompanied by exhibitions at our gallery. 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 the gallery over the coming year. Guy Peppiatt Stephen Ongpin Lara Smith-Bosanquet The following catalogue contains a combination of 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 at the top of each page; please therefore direct any enquiries as appropriate. Only a brief account of each drawing is given in the catalogue. Further information 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. Most of the works are sold framed. A price list is included. 2 24885_100 drawings 2012 31/10/2012 09:00 Page 3 SOFA 1 BOLOGNESE SCHOOL Formerly attributed to Annibale Carracci, this drawing would 17th Century certainly appear to be Bolognese in origin. The small sketch of a struggling man at the upper left may be a study for the figure of Antaeus in a painting or fresco of Hercules and Studies of a Reclining Male Nude, Seen from Behind Antaeus. with One Arm Raised, and a Man Grimacing in Pain The drawing bears the distinctive collector’s mark of the Red chalk, with stumping classical archaeologist, scholar and collector Ludwig Pollak 7 326 x 218 mm., 12 /8 x 8 ½ in. (1868-c.1943), who lived and worked in Rome for the most of his career. Pollak was deported from Rome by the Gestapo Provenance: in October 1943 and is presumed to have died in a Dr. Ludwig Pollak, Rome (Lugt 788b) concentration camp. His collection of drawings, now widely dispersed, numbered around three thousand sheets. 3 24885_100 drawings 2012 31/10/2012 09:01 Page 4 SOFA 2 LOUIS DE CAULLERY the Flemish town of Caulery, on the Scheldt river, he was Caulery c.1580-1621 Antwerp trained in the studio of Joos de Momper. By 1602 he is recorded as a master at the Antwerp painter’s guild. He died in 1621, at the age of thirty-seven. While De Caullery is best Elegant Couples in a Landscape known for his paintings, which are characterized by multifigural compositions and set in elaborate architectural Pen and point of the brush and blue ink, with blue surroundings, his draughtsmanship has remained less studied wash until rece ntly. His drawings have often been confused with 7 1 176 x 281 mm., 6 /8 x 11 /8 in. those of the so-called ‘Master of the Hermitage Sketchbook’, an as-yet unidentified artist who may have worked in Provenance: Antwerp at the same time. Prof. Einar Perman, Stockholm The present sheet may be added to a group of three closely Exhibited: comparable drawings in blue ink and blue wash by Louis de Laren, Singer Museum, Oude Tekeningen uit de Caullery, also from the collection of the Swedish physician Nederlanden: Verzameling Prof E. Perman, Stockholm , 1962, Einar Perman (1893-1976), which were sold at auction in no.69 Amsterdam in 1975 with an attribution to the ‘Master of the Hermitage Sketchbook’. De Caullery has recently been Active for a relatively brief career of less than twenty years, identified as the artist responsible for the four drawings Louis de Caullery remains relatively little known among formerly in the Perman collection, as well as a number of Flemish painters of the 17th century. Born around 1580 in other stylistically related sheets. 4 24885_100 drawings 2012 31/10/2012 09:01 Page 5 GPFA 3 SIR JAMES THORNHILL, R.A. Melcombe Regis, Dorset 1675-1734 Thornhill, Dorset Study of a Family Group Pen and brown ink and wash Image 69 x 55 mm., 2 ¾ x 2 in. Thornhill was the most important decorative painter of the early eighteenth century. His most famous works are the interior of the dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral and the Great Hall at Greenwich. He also worked on interior decoration at Blenheim, Moor Park, Hampton Court, Easton Neston and Wimpole. The present drawing is likely to relate to one of his decorative schemes. The distinctive use of crosses in the place of faces is typical of his pen and ink preparatory drawings. 5 24885_100 drawings 2012 31/10/2012 09:01 Page 6 SOFA 4 CONTINENTAL SCHOOL Two other versions of this view, also dated 1772, are in the Circa 1700 Lambert collection at Barbican House, Lewes. Studies of Plums, Strawberries, Cherries, Raspberries b. Lewes Castle from the south-west, Sussex and Gooseberries Signed lower left: Ja.s Lambert junr Lewes 1792 Oil on paper Pen and grey ink and watercolour with original wash 1 1 283 x 386 mm., 11 /8 x 15 /8 in border . 329 x 453 mm., 13 x 17 ¾ in. Lambert Junior was the nephew and pupil of the landscape 5 artist and musician James Lambert Senior (1735-1788). His JAMES LAMBERT, JNR. trade card described himself as a ‘Coach and Sign Painter’ but Lewes, Sussex 1742-1799 he also produced landscape watercolours and oils of Sussex and many of Lewes, where he lived. a. Castle Gateway from the South, Lewes, Sussex Signed lower left: DRAWN/1772/Jas Lambert junr/Lewes Delt Watercolour on laid paper, oval 437 x 361 mm., 17 ¼ x 14 ¼ in. 6 24885_100 drawings 2012 31/10/2012 09:01 Page 7 GPFA a. b. 7 24885_100 drawings 2012 31/10/2012 09:01 Page 8 GPFA 6 PAUL SANDBY, R.A. This is a view of the boatmen of the River Thames known Nottingham 1731-1809 London as Watermen ferrying their passengers and goods across the river in a small boat called a wherry or skiff. They were an essential part of early London, transporting people and goods A Wherry unloading at Westminster Stairs on the across the river via a series of public steps or stairs that gave Thames, London access to the river. These public stairs became common in the 16th century when much of the Thames foreshore Grey washes over pencil became enclosed behind private walls. These passengers are 135 x 191 mm., 5 ¼ x 7 ½ in. alighting at the Westminster Stairs, situated near Old Westminster Bridge which can be seen in the background. It was constructed in 1750, only the second permanent bridge to be built across the Thames. 8 24885_100 drawings 2012 31/10/2012 09:01 Page 9 GPFA 7 JOHN AUGUSTUS ATKINSON Provenance: London 1775-c.1833 Anonymous sale, Christie’s, 14th June 1977, lot 78 With Thos Agnew & Sons, London Private Collection until 2012 Soldiers on the March Atkinson went to St Petersburg with his uncle aged nine Pen and brown ink and watercolour where he studied the paintings in the Hermitage and gained 208 x 264 mm., 8 x 10 ¼ in. the patronage of the Empress Catherine. Aged 21, he returned to London and specialised in Russian views and battle scenes. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere and a number of his Peninsular War battle scenes were bought by the Duke of Wellington. 9 24885_100 drawings 2012 31/10/2012 09:01 Page 10 GPFA 8 9 ANTHONY DEVIS JOHN CLAUDE NATTES Preston 1729-1817 Albury c.1765-1839 Dover A Distant view of London a.