20634 GP & SO Catalogue_v5 03/11/2011 13:01 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 2011–2012 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 20634 GP & SO Catalogue_v5 03/11/2011 13:01 Page 2 We are delighted to present our fourth annual Winter catalogue of One Hundred Drawings and Watercolours. By tradition the areas of Old Master drawings, early British drawings and watercolours, and 19th and 20th century drawings, have been regarded as separate fields, each with their own enthusiasts and collectors, as well as 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 and watercolours, placed more or less in chronological order, ranging in date from the early 16th 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. Drawings and watercolours by well-established artists can be very affordable, and interesting works by minor or little-known artists especially so. There is 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 March and May 2012, and will each 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 months. Guy Peppiatt Stephen Ongpin Lara Smith-Bosanquet The following catalogue contains a combination of drawings 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 direct any enquiries as appropriate. Only a brief account of each drawing is given in the catalogue. Further information on most of the drawings, as well as more complete biographical information on the artists, is available on request. The drawings are available for viewing from receipt of the catalogue. A price list is included. 2 20634 GP & SO Catalogue_v5 03/11/2011 13:01 Page 3 SOFA 1 Attributed to FEDERICO ZUCCARO recorded in the inventory of Zuccaro’s studio after his Sant’Angelo in Vado 1543–1609 Ancona death. The contents of these albums comprised, for the most part, copies after the work of earlier artists that Two Studies of a Baby Zuccaro saw on his extensive travels throughout Italy. The albums also included, however, a number of other types of drawings – landscapes, studies of animals, genre subjects, Red and black chalk head studies and informal portraits – all in red and black 7 5 175 x 119 mm., 6 /8 x 4 /8 in. chalk and usually of small dimensions. Most of these drawings cannot be specifically related to finished paintings This charming drawing is close in style to a handful of by the artist, and seem to have been done for his own intimate studies of babies and young children, drawn in pleasure. both black and red chalk, by Federico Zuccaro. These studies may in turn be grouped with a large number of Attributions to Francesco Vanni (1563–1610) and drawings, generally executed in a combination of black and Cristofano Allori (1577–1621) have also been suggested for red chalks, which were pasted into albums and are the present sheet. 3 20634 GP & SO Catalogue_v5 03/11/2011 13:02 Page 4 SOFA 2 Attributed to STEFANO DELLA BELLA seems to have often worked outdoors, and his lively Florence 1610–1664 Florence drawings display a keen observation of country life and pursuits. The artist filled several sketchbooks with scenes of Landscape with the Ruins of the Grotto of Egeria, Rome people, buildings and landscapes; all drawn on the spot and used as a stock of images and motifs for both his etchings and more finished drawings. Pen and brown ink and grey wash, laid down and mounted onto a large album page, with a grey wash Under the patronage of the Medici, Della Bella was sent to border Rome in 1633. The young artist was to spend a total of six A sketch of a fountain in front of two arches and years living and working in the city, living in the Medici palace with temples beyond in pen and brown ink on the and making drawings after antiquities and Renaissance verso masters, as well as numerous landscapes, vedute and scenes Inscribed Fontaine de la Nymphe Egerie. at the upper of everyday life and festivities. left and numbered 49 on the album sheet This is a view of the so-called grotto of the nymph Egeria (in Further inscribed Bartolomeus on the verso 3 1 actual fact part of the estate of the suburban villa of Herodus 138 x 185 mm., 5 /8 x 7 /4 in. Atticus), near the Via Appia to the southeast of Rome. The natural grotto was developed into a man-made arched A talented and prolific printmaker and draughtsman, Stefano interior, with a statue of Egeria set in a niche in the apse, della Bella produced countless works of considerable and the walls faced with mosaics and marble. energy and inventiveness, with an oeuvre numbering over a thousand etchings, and many times more drawings. He 4 20634 GP & SO Catalogue_v5 03/11/2011 13:02 Page 5 SOFA 3 JACOB VAN DER ULFT Houbraken states definitively that he did not, and claims that Gorkum (Gorinchem) 1627–1689 Noordwijk his Roman views were based on the work of other artists. Certainly, van der Ulft was profoundly influenced by the Figures in an Italianate Landscape work of another amateur artist, Jan de Bisschop (1628- 1671), whose drawings approach his own in both style and handling. An album of forty-three landscape drawings by Pen and brown ink and brown wash, within a both Jacob van der Ulft and Jan de Bisschop, mostly views drawn circle in or around Rome, is in the collection of the Dukes of Signed and dated Jac: vander Ulft Fe: 1686. in the Devonshire at Chatsworth. Another album of Roman views lower left and lower right margins by van der Ulft is in the Institut Néerlandais in Paris. 3 5 172 x 170 mm., 6 /4 x 6 /8 in. The present sheet belongs with a small and distinctive group Much of Jacob van der Ulft’s surviving painted and drawn of circular landscape drawings by Jacob van der Ulft, all of oeuvre is made up of Italianate landscapes, or antique approximately the same dimensions. Examples are in the Roman cityscapes and port scenes crowded with figures. collections of the British Museum, the Musées Royaux des He seems to have been an amateur artist and was quite Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the possibly self-taught, as no guild membership is recorded. Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, MA, and elsewhere. With Although there are many quite specific views of Rome its fluid, bold use of brown wash punctuated by white by the hand of the artist, many of which are inscribed highlights where the paper has been left to show through, and dated, it remains unclear whether van der Ulft ever the drawing displays the strong influence of Jan de Bisschop actually visited Italy. The contemporary biographer Arnold on van der Ulft. 5 20634 GP & SO Catalogue_v5 03/11/2011 13:02 Page 6 GPFA 4 WILLIAM HOARE OF BATH, R.A. Provenance: Eye, Suffolk 1707–1792 Bath Sir Henry Duff Gordon (1866–1953) a. Study of a Woman writing Hoare was a portrait painter in oil and pastel who was in Bath by 1739 and was the first fashionable and successful portrait painter to settle there. He produced a number of Black chalk on laid paper with a Pro Patria these chalk portrait drawings, which are mainly of his family watermark and friends. 3 1 150 x 163 mm., 5 /4 x 6 /4 in. 6 20634 GP & SO Catalogue_v5 03/11/2011 13:02 Page 7 GPFA b. Study of a Woman seated in a Chair Black and white chalk on buff paper 1 3 Maximum size 267 x 225 mm., 10 /2 x 8 /4 in. Provenance: Sir Henry Duff Gordon (1866–1953) 7 20634 GP & SO Catalogue_v5 03/11/2011 13:02 Page 8 GPFA 5 RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. Provenance: Oakford, Devon 1740–1821 Edgware Maria Cosway (1760–1838), Lodi, Italy By descent until bought by an Italian dealer, his sale, Cupid unmasking False Love Christie’s, 1st June 1896, sold for £10.10s Private Collection, France Signed on original washline mount: Rich.d Cosway Literature: R.A.