Albert Joseph Moore (1841 - 1893)

England Albert Joseph Moore was the son of the artist William Moore Snr and brother of the artists Henry, William, Edwin and John Collingham Moore. After a brief period of Pre-Raphaelitism, from 1860 he began to exhibit carefully studied aesthetic compositions, combining the influences of Classical Greece with that of Japan. His later work consists almost entirely of single Grecian figures, or groups of figures, carefully posed in an elaborate design, his prime interest being not subject matter, but of design of composition and harmony of colour. In 1865 a close friendship developed between Moore and Whistler; Moore introducing Whistler to purely pictorial arrangements of colour and form and Whistler introducing Moore to the art of Japan. Their friendship lasted until the former’s death in 1893. As a monogram Moore used the Greek anthemion, which could be incorporated into the design of his pictures. This may well have given Whistler the idea of using his butterfly monogram. Like Leighton, Moore made careful studies and drawing for every figure in his pictures, first nude, then draped. He also made several colour sketches for each picture, and would sometimes complete these later, which accounts for the existence of several versions of the same composition. Moore was rather reclusive by nature and seldom mixed with his fellow artists or in Victorian society. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Watercolour Society and elsewhere and his works are in many public and major private collections.

Albert Joseph Moore

ALBERT JOSEPH MOORE, ARWS
(1841-1893)

Study for Battledore & Shuttlecock

Signed with anthemion
Chalk on brown paper

27 by 13 cm., 10 ½ by 5 in.
(frame size 49 by 34.5 cm., 19 ¼ by 13 ½ in.)

Provenance:
Julian Hartnoll, London;
private collection, UK.

Albert Joseph Moore was born in York, the son of the artist William Moore of York and brother of the artists Henry, William, Edwin and John Collingham Moore. After a brief period of Pre-Raphaelitism, from 1860 he began to exhibit carefully studied aesthetic compositions, combining the influences of Classical Greece with that of Japan. His later work consists almost entirely of single Grecian figures, or groups of figures, carefully posed in an elaborate design, his prime interest being not subject matter, but of design of composition and harmony of colour. In 1865 a close friendship developed between Moore and Whistler; Moore introducing Whistler to purely pictorial arrangements of colour and form and Whistler introducing Moore to the art of Japan. Their friendship lasted until the former’s death in 1893. As a monogram Moore used the Greek anthemion, which could be incorporated into the design of his pictures. This may well have given Whistler the idea of using his butterfly monogram. Like Leighton, Moore made careful studies and drawing for every figure in his pictures, first nude, then draped. He also made several colour sketches for each picture, and would sometimes complete these later, which accounts for the existence of several versions of the same composition. Moore was rather reclusive by nature and seldom mixed with his fellow artists or in Victorian society. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Watercolour Society and elsewhere and his works are in many public and major private collections.

The two paintings, Battledore and Shuttlecock, were commissioned by James Leathart of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1869 and were completed in September 1870. In 1871-2 Moore became engaged upon a single larger composition, Battledore and Shuttlecock known by a large study now in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. The present whereabouts of the finished painting is unknown and it is possible it was never completed. Moore made many studies for these paintings; both nude and draped chalk compositional drawings and small oil sketches experimenting in colour themes. In his intention to show the players paused between periods of play he set his models to play battledore and shuttlecock in his studio so that he could make authentic studies of their poses.


Albert Joseph Moore, Study for Battledore & Shuttlecock

Sir Hubert Von Herkomer (1849 - 1914)

Herkomer was born in Waal, Bavaria, the son of a wood carver.  His family moved to Southampton in 1857 and he entered the South Kensington Schools in 1866 where he studied under Luke Fildes.  From 1869 he began working as an illustrator for The Graphic and sent his first works for exhibition at the Royal Academy.  Thereafter he was to be a regular exhibitor both there and elsewhere becoming a highly successful painting of social realism, portraits, landscapes and historical subjects.  Herkomer was very much a polymath, composing music and writing operas, involved in stage design, an actor involved in the beginning of cinema and a keen motorist.  He founded and directed the Bushey School of Art and was Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford.  Works by him are in many public collections including the Tate Gallery.

Sir Hubert Von Herkomer

SIR HUBERT VON HERKOMER, RA, RWS (1849-1914) 

17 by 22 cm., 6 ¾ by 8 ¾ in.
(frame size 42 by 49.5 cm., 16 ½ by 19 ½ in.)


: Charles Waithman; His sale, Christie’s London, 27 November 1922, lot 20 (bt Sampson, 15gs) 

Herkomer was born in Waal, Bavaria, the son of a wood carver. His family moved to Southampton in 1857 and he entered the South Kensington Schools in 1866 where he studied under Luke Fildes. From 1869 he began working as an illustrator for The Graphic and sent his first works for exhibition at the Royal Academy. Thereafter he was to be a regular exhibitor both there and elsewhere becoming a highly successful painting of social realism, portraits, landscapes and historical subjects. Herkomer was very much a polymath, composing music and writing operas, involved in stage design, an actor involved in the beginning of cinema and a keen motorist. He founded and directed the Bushey School of Art and was Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford. Works by him are in many public collections including the Tate Gallery.

Sir Hubert von Herkomer - The Pipe's of Pan

Robert Walker Macbeth (1848 - 1910)

Robert Walker Macbeth

ROBERT WALKER MACBETH
(British 1848-1910)
After GEORGE FREDERIC WATTS
(British 1817-1904)

A Greek Idyll

Proof etching
Signed in pencil by both the artist l.l. and engraver l.r.
Framed

Plate size 42 by 54 cm., 16 ½ by 21 ¼ in.
(frame size 72.5 by 85 cm., 28 ½ by 33 ½ in.)

After Watt’s 1894 painting in the collection of Manchester City Art Gallery. The scene depicts the shepherd Acis and the sea-nymph Galatea.

The engraving was published by H Virtue & Co. in 1903.

Robert Walker Macbeth was born in Glasgow, the son of the Scottish portrait painter Norman Macbeth, RSA. He first studied at the Royal Scottish Academy, before moving to London in 1870 to join the staff of The Graphic. On his arrival in London he first exhibiting at the Dudley Gallery. He soon became acquainted with Hubert von Herkomer, Fred Walker, George Pinwell and George Heming Mason who together would loosely form a group known as the Idyllists who tended to paint rustic and realist scenes, often including depictions of rural poverty. In addition to his paintings, he was a fine print maker working for Burne-Jones, Watts, Heming Mason and others.

Watts was born in London and where he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1835, exhibiting his first painting at the Royal Academy, The Wounded Heron, in 1837. In 1843 his Caractacus won a £300 prize in the Westminster Hall Competition which enabled him to travel to Italy, returning to London in 1847. Working as a painter and sculptor of portraits and historical and allegorical subjects he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, Grosvenor Gallery and elsewhere. In the 1880s he was considered one of Britain’s most eminent artists, refusing a baronetcy on two occasions. He was not a member of any particularly artistic group or movement but followed his own individual style. Limnerslease, his house and studio near Godalming, Surrey, is now the Watts Museum and is devoted to his work.


Robert Walker MacBeth after George Frederick Watts - A Greek Idyll

Charles Sims (1873 - 1928)

Charles Sims

Nude Figure Study for the Royal Academy Arts & Crafts Mural

23 by 14 cm., 9 by 5 in. (frame size 39 by 30 cm., 15 by 11 in.) 

: Rosalie Emslie, the artist’s assistant c.1916. 

Sims was born in Islington and studied at South Kensington, the Academie Julian, Paris and at the Royal Academy Schools. He first made his name at a one-man show at the Leicester Galleries in 1906 and he was elected ARA in the following year. In 1908 The Fountain was bought by the Chantrey Bequest and other works are now in public collections in this country and overseas. In 1918 he was appointed a war artist and sent to France. On his return he was made Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools, 1920-1926. Sims exhibited widely during his lifetime, sending a total of 116 works at the Royal Academy alone, however, he never recovered for the loss of his son in the First World War and took his own life in 1928. The present drawing is a study for the artist’s mural “Crafts” made for the Civics Room in the Royal Academy’s Arts and Crafts exhibition of 1916. Believed the have been lost, Sims’ vast mural canvas (30 ft wide) was recently found rolled up in the basement of the Academy. Sims was aided in the painting by a group of female students from the Royal Academy Schools: Rosalie Emslie, Florence Asher, Margaret Brown and Veronica Martindale. The current work comes from the collection of Rosalie Emslie.

Nude Figure Study by Charles Sims

Harold Speed (1872 - 1957)

Harold Speed


HAROLD SPEED
(1872-1957)

Study for Love from “Love Leaving Psyche”

Signed l.l.: HAROLD SPEED
Black chalk
Framed

41.5 by 27 cm., 16 ¼ by 10 ¾ in.
(frame size 64 by 51 cm., 25 ¼ by 20 in.)

The present drawing is a study for Love Leaving Psyche, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1907, no. 341 (present whereabout unknown).

The son of an architect, Harold Speed initially studied architecture at the Royal College of Art, but changed to painting, winning a gold medal for life studies in 1890. He went on to study at the Royal Academy Schools, 1891-6, again winning a gold medal. He painted mythological subjects, landscapes and portraits and exhibited at the Royal Academy for 40 years from 1893 and at many other venues, including the Fine Art Society, Leicester Galleries and Royal Society of British Artists. He was Master of the Art Workers’ Guild for nine years from 1916 and wrote The Science and Practice of Drawing (1913) and The Science and Practice of Painting (1924). Examples of his work are in many public collections including the Tate Gallery and National Portrait Gallery.


Harold Speed - Study for Love

Marcel Delmotte (1901 - 1984)

Marcel Delmotte

33 by 20 cm., 13 by 8 in. (frame size 53 by 39 cm., 21 by 15 in.) 

The son of a glass blower, Marcel Delmotte spent his entire career in the mining and steel manufacturing Belgian town of Charleroi. He trained at the Universite de Travail in Charleroi from 1914-1919 and first started working as an interior decorator before becoming a full-time artist. He became a successful figure painter with later Symbolist and Surrealist influences. He held exhibitions in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe.

Nude - Drawing by Marcel Delmotte

Richard Louis Garbe (1876 - 1957)

Richard Louis Garbe

Garbe was born in Dalston, London, the son of Gustave Garbe, a carver of ivory and manufacturer of tortoiseshell fancy goods, to whom he was apprenticed. He later studied at the Central School of Art and at the Royal Academy Schools. He began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1908. He taught sculpture at the Central School 1901-29 and was Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, 1929-46. He was elected an Academician at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1929 and full Academician in 1936. In 1929 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, while in 1938 he was elected as a Master of the Art Workers’ Guild. He is represented in many major public collections including the Tate Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum.

A large bronze version of this piece was sold by the Fine Art Society in 2015

Helios, the Greek god of the sun is depicted rising into the sky with his radiant crown about is head. He is leaving his lover, the goddess Rhodos, after whom the island of Rhodes is named.

Helios by Richard Garbe

William Shackleton (1872 - 1933)

William Shackleton was born in Bradford, the son of a paper manufacturer and merchant.  He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and then studied art at Bradford Technical College.  In 1893 he won a scholarship to the National Art Training School (later to become the Royal College of Art), where he gained a British Institute Scholarship in 1896.  This enabled him to study in Paris and Italy.  On returning to London, he took a studio in Chelsea, sharing it with Philip Connard and Oliver Onions.  He would spend many of the summer months West Sussex, joining Edward Stott and his artistic community based around the South Downs village of Amberley.  After 1914 he moved to a cottage close to Gordale Scar, near Malham, in the Yorkshire Dales.  There the dramatic landscape would feature in many of his later paintings.  

Greatly influenced by Turner and George Frederic Watts in his colouring, atmosphere and impressionist handling, Shackleton developed a personal vision of the spirituality of nature which was reflected in his symbolist paintings which often depicted the mysticism of life and destiny via the myths and legends of antiquity.  He described his own work as “conscientious symbolism”.

Shackleton exhibited widely sending being a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and many other major venues both in London and regionally.  He also represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1910 and again in 1922.  He held solo shows at the Goupil Gallery in 1913 and at the Twenty-One Gallery in 1910 and 1922.  In 1933 a memorial exhibition was held at the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford.  Works by him are in many public collections


William Shackleton

WILLIAM SHACKLETON, NEAC
(1872-1933)

Rescued from the Waves

Oil on canvas
Framed

36 by 40.5 cm., 14 ¼ by 16 in.
(frame size 53 by 57 cm., 20 ¾ by 22 ½ in.)

Provenance:
The artist’s studio sale.

William Shackleton was born in Bradford, the son of a paper manufacturer and merchant. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and then studied art at Bradford Technical College. In 1893 he won a scholarship to the National Art Training School (later to become the Royal College of Art), where he gained a British Institute Scholarship in 1896. This enabled him to study in Paris and Italy. On returning to London, he took a studio in Chelsea, sharing it with Philip Connard and Oliver Onions. He would spend many of the summer months West Sussex, joining Edward Stott and his artistic community based around the South Downs village of Amberley. After 1914 he moved to a cottage close to Gordale Scar, near Malham, in the Yorkshire Dales. There the dramatic landscape would feature in many of his later paintings.

Greatly influenced by Turner and George Frederic Watts in his colouring, atmosphere and impressionist handling, Shackleton developed a personal vision of the spirituality of nature which was reflected in his symbolist paintings which often depicted the mysticism of life and destiny via the myths and legends of antiquity. He described his own work as “conscientious symbolism”.

Shackleton exhibited widely sending being a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and many other major venues both in London and regionally. He also represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1910 and again in 1922. He held solo shows at the Goupil Gallery in 1913 and at the Twenty-One Gallery in 1910 and 1922. In 1933 a memorial exhibition was held at the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford. Works by him are in many public collections.


William Shackleton - Rescued from the Waves

Randolph Schwabe (1885 - 1948)

Randolph Schwabe was born in Eccles, Manchester, the son of a German born cotton merchant.  He initially studied at the Royal College of Art but after a short time transferred to the Slade.  In 1904 he won the Slade Scholarship and in 1905 won the college Summer Competition.  In 1906, a Slade scholarship allowed him to study at the Academie Julian, Paris before travelling to Italy.  Unable to enlist due to poor health he was an official War Artist during World War I.  After the war he initially worked as a theatrical designer and book illustrator he began teaching at Camberwell and Westminster Schools of Art.  He was then drawing master at the Royal College of Art before succeeding Henry Tonks as Slade Professor and head of the Slade School of Art in 1930.  In 1941 he joined the committee of the War Artists’ Advisory Committee.  Schwabe was a prolific exhibitor at the New English Art Club and Goupil Gallery, also showing at Carfax Gallery, Fine Art Society, Leicester Galleries and Royal Watercolour Society.  Examples of his work are in the collections of the Tate Gallery, Imperial War Museum and elsewhere.

Randolph Schwabe

RANDOLPH SCHWABE, RWS, NEAC
(1885-1948)




Signed l.l.: R Schwabe
Watercolour over pencil, arched top
Framed



51.5 by 25 cm., 20 ¼ by 9 ¾ in.
(frame size 72 by 45 cm., 28 ¼ by 17 ¾ in.)



Randolph Schwabe was born in Eccles, Manchester, the son of a German born cotton merchant. He initially studied at the Royal College of Art but after a short time transferred to the Slade. In 1904 he won the Slade Scholarship and in 1905 won the college Summer Competition. In 1906, a Slade scholarship allowed hi to study at the Academie Julian, Paris before travelling to Italy.

Unable to enlist due to poor health he was an official War Artist during World War I. After the war he initially worked as a theatrical designer and book illustrator he began teaching at Camberwell and Westminster Schools of Art. He was then drawing master at the Royal College of Art before succeeding Henry Tonks as Slade Professor and head of the Slade School of Art in 1930. In 1941 he joined the committee of the War Artists’ Advisory Committee.

A prolific exhibitor at the 

Carfax Gallery, Fine Art Society, Leicester Galleries

. Examples of his work are in the collections of the 

The Lamb by Randolph Schwabe


WILLIAM SHACKLETON, NEAC
(1872-1933)

Sunrise; Noon; Sunset

A set of three
All oil on canvas

Two 22.5 by 17.5 cm., 9 by 7 in.; One 25 by 21 cm., 10 by 8 ¼ in.
(frame sizes: Two 41 by 36 cm., 16 by 14 ¼ in.; One 43 by 39 cm., 17 by 15 ¼ in.)

Provenance:
The artist’s studio sale.

Shackleton was born in Bradford, the son of a paper manufacturer and merchant. He attended Bradford Grammar School and then studied art at Bradford Technical College. He won a Royal Exhibition to study at the Royal College of Art in 1893. He travelled to France and Italy on a British Institute Scholarship and spent a time in Paris where he studied at the Academie Julian. On his return to Britain he initialled settled in Sussex where he worked with his friend Edward Stott and the small artistic group that gathered around him in the South Downs village of Amberley. In 1905 he moved to Fulham, London where he shared a studios with Philip Connard and Oliver Onions, although he still spent his summers with Stott in Sussex.

He exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1895-1919, the New English Art Club, 1901-33 and at many other venues. His first one-man show was held at the Goupil Gallery in 1910, a retrospective exhibition was held at the Leicester Galleries in 1922 and a memorial exhibition was held at Cartwright Hall, Bradford in 1933. Works by him are in the collection of the Tate Gallery, York, Bradford, Manchester and elsewhere.


Sunrise; Noon; Sunset, a trio by William Shackleton

Harold James Youngman (1886 - 1968)

Harold James Youngman

 Signed on the reverse: H YOUNGMAN  Bronzed plaster on faux marble base

 Harold James Youngman was born in Bradford and studied at Plymouth School of Art, the Royal College of Art, completing his training in 1911 to 1912 and winning the Travelling Scholarship, and lastly at the Royal Academy Schools. He worked as chief assistant to William Goscombe John and taught at Hornsey School of Arts and Crafts. In 1914 he married Dorothy Wainwright who studied embroidery at the Royal School of Art Needlework and won gold medals for her work. During the First World War, Youngman served in the Honourable Artillery Company. He exhibited at the Royal Society of British Sculptors, Royal Academy, Royal Scottish Academy and Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. He published Modern British Sculptors in 1939.

 The artist exhibited a bronze version of Flying Fish at the Aberdeen Artists’ Society Exhibition in 1929. A forty inch high (97 cm) lead figure of the same design was sold at Summers Place Auctions, October 2008.

Flying Fish

WILLIAM SHACKLETON, NEAC
(1872-1933)

The Sirens

Oil and watercolour on paper, circular

Diameter 31.5 cm., 12 ¼ in.
(frame size 56.5 by 56.5 cm., 22 ¼ by 22 ¼ in.)

Provenance:
The artist’s studio sale.

William Shackleton was born in Bradford, the son of a paper manufacturer and merchant. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and then studied art at Bradford Technical College. In 1893 he won a scholarship to the National Art Training School (later to become the Royal College of Art), where he gained a British Institute Scholarship in 1896. This enabled him to study in Paris and Italy. On returning to London, he took a studio in Chelsea, sharing it with Philip Connard and Oliver Onions. He would spend many of the summer months West Sussex, joining Edward Stott and his artistic community based around the South Downs village of Amberley. After 1914 he moved to a cottage close to Gordale Scar, near Malham, in the Yorkshire Dales. There the dramatic landscape would feature in many of his later paintings.

Greatly influenced by Turner and George Frederic Watts in his colouring, atmosphere and impressionist handling, Shackleton developed a personal vision of the spirituality of nature which was reflected in his symbolist paintings which often depicted the mysticism of life and destiny via the myths and legends of antiquity. He described his own work as “conscientious symbolism”.

Shackleton exhibited widely sending being a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and many other major venues both in London and regionally. He also represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1910 and again in 1922. He held solo shows at the Goupil Gallery in 1913 and at the Twenty-One Gallery in 1910 and 1922. In 1933 a memorial exhibition was held at the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford. Works by him are in many public collections


William Shackleton - The Sirens

 Signed and dated on the reverse: Richard Garbe, ARA / 1932  Patinated plaster

 A photograph of The Falconer is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, ex collection of William Kineton Parkes.

 Garbe was born in Dalston, London, the son of Gustave Garbe, a carver of ivory and manufacturer of tortoiseshell fancy goods, to whom he was apprenticed. He later studied at the Central School of Art and at the Royal Academy Schools. He began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1908. He taught sculpture at the Central School 1901-29 and was Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, 1929-46. He was elected an Academician at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1929 and full Academician in 1936. In 1929 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, while in 1938 he was elected as a Master of the Art Workers’ Guild. He is represented in many major public collections including the Tate Gallery and Victoria &; Albert Museum.

The Falconer - Patinated Plaster Figure by Richard Garbe

Harry Carleton Attwood (1907-1985)

Attwood was born in Swindon and studied wood carving from 1924-1930 at Swindon College.   Between 1933-1936 Stephen and Virginia Courtauld employed the architects Seeley & Paget to build a modernist Art Deco mansion adjoining the medieval Great Hall of Eltham Palace.  Their decadent, cutting edge house was to provide a suitable backdrop to their lavish entertaining and included all the latest technology.  Attwood was commissioned to produce several pieces for the palace including the relief which still remains over the front door.  Unusual for Attwood the present work appears to be a mural design rather than sculpture and seems to be part of an unrealised scheme for Eltham Palace.

Harry Carleton Attwood

21 by 13 cm., 8 ¼ by 5 in.
(frame size 39.5 by 31.5 cm., 15 ½ by 12 ½ in.)



Attwood was born in Swindon and studied wood carving from 1924-1930 at Swindon College. Between 1933-1936 Stephen and Virginia Cortauld employed the architects Seeley & Paget to build a modernist Art Deco mansion adjoining the medieval Great Hall of Eltham Palace. Their decadent, cutting edge house was to provide a suitable backdrop to their lavish entertaining and included all the latest technology. Attwood was commissioned to produce several pieces for the palace including the relief which still remains over the front door. Unusual for Attwood the present work appears to be a mural design rather than sculpture and seems to be part of an unrealised scheme for Eltham Palace.


The Model - Design for Eltham Palace by Harry Carleton Attwood

Frank Dobson (1886 - 1963)

A sculptor, draughtsman and painter in oil and watercolour.  Born in London, Dobson first studied at Leyton School of Art and later at the City and Guilds School, Kennington. During World War I he enlisted in the Artists’ Rifles and continued working - his large oil The Balloon Apron was acquired by the Imperial War Museum.  After the war Dobson met Wyndham Lewis and exhibited with Group X in 1920 and he held his first one-man show as a sculptor at the Leicester Galleries in 1921.  During the interwar Dobson consolidated his reputation as a sculptor and together with Epstein was call “a keeper of tradition” – bridging classical and modern sculpture. In 1946 Dobson was appointed professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. 

He is represented in many public galleries including the Tate Gallery.


Frank Dobson


Signed l.l.: Frank Dobson
Pen and ink, black chalk and watercolour
Framed



50 by 35 cm., 19 ¾ by 13 ¾ in.
(frame size 79 by 62.5 cm., 31 by 24 ½ in.)


The artist’s estate/studio;
Abbott & Holder;
Court Gallery

A sculptor, draughtsman and painter in oil and watercolour. Born in London, Dobson first studied at Leyton School of Art and later at the City and Guilds School, Kennington. His early paintings were much influenced by Roger Fry’s Post-Impressionist exhibitions. His first carvings date from 1913 and his first one man show, at the Chenil Gallery, was in 1914. During World War I he enlisted in the Artists’ Rifles and continued working - his large oil The Balloon Apron was acquired by the Imperial War Museum. After the war Dobson met Wyndham Lewis and exhibited with Group X in 1920 and he held his first one-man show as a sculptor at the Leicester Galleries in 1921. During the interwar Dobson consolidated his reputation as a sculptor and together with Epstein was called “a keeper of tradition” – bridging classical and modern sculpture. In 1946 Dobson was appointed professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art.

He is represented in many public galleries including the Tate Gallery.


Standing Nude by Frank Dobson


Signed l.l.: Frank Dobson
Red chalk
Framed



35.5 by 25.5 cm., 14 by 10 in.
(frame size 62 by 51 cm., 24 ½ by 20 in.)

Collection of Peter Ward-Jackson, curator of the V&A.

A sculptor, draughtsman and painter in oil and watercolour. Born in London, Dobson first studied at Leyton School of Art and later at the City and Guilds School, Kennington. During World War I he enlisted in the Artists’ Rifles and continued working - his large oil The Balloon Apron was acquired by the Imperial War Museum. After the war Dobson met Wyndham Lewis and exhibited with Group X in 1920 and he held his first one-man show as a sculptor at the Leicester Galleries in 1921. During the interwar Dobson consolidated his reputation as a sculptor and together with Epstein was call “a keeper of tradition” – bridging classical and modern sculpture. In 1946 Dobson was appointed professor of Sculpture at the 


He is represented in many public galleries including the T

Nude by Frank Dobson

John Sergeant (1937 - 2010)

John Sergeant

35 by 20.5 cm., 13 by 8 in. (mount size 52 by 36 cm., 20 by 14 in.) 

Sergeant was born in London, the son of a civil servant. His family soon moved to Faversham in Kent after they were bombed during World War II. He studied at Canterbury College of Art from 1954-57, during which period he met John Ward, who was to become a lifelong friend and supporter. In 1959 he entered the Royal Academy Schools, where he won a Drawing Prize in 1961. In 1962 he married a fellow student, Carolyn Cann. After graduating from the RA he taught part-time at art schools in Kent and worked on commissions including book jacket designs and illustrations and series of ”˜room-portraits’ of interiors. He moved to near Builth Wells, Wales in 1983. In 1989 the Prince of Wales asked Sergeant to contribute drawings to his book Vision of Britain; two years later he accompanied the prince on an official visit to Prague. A superb draughtsman, he was a great exponent of the teaching of drawing in art school: “If you can draw you can paint. All you need to know as Whistler used to say, is which end of the brush to put in your mouth”. In his 2006 Colnaghi exhibition he described himself as a “serious serial draughtsman who explores, scrutinizes the same subject back, front, sideways, this way and that. It is all part of trying to understand”. He held one-man exhibitions in London at the Maas Gallery, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox and Colnaghi.

Life Class by John Sergeant

Carolyn Sergeant (1937 - 2018)

Carolyn Sergeant

Signed A M C Cann on the reverse and inscribed Finals 

49.5 by 34 cm., 19 by 13 in. (mount size 66 by 49.5 cm., 26 by 19 in.) 

Carolyn Cann studied at Wimbledon School of Art (1955-59) and at the Royal Academy Schools (1959-62) where she was a Silver Medallist. At the Royal Academy Schools she met and later married her fellow student, John Sergeant. She had several one-man exhibitions in London, at the Fine Art Society, Colnaghi, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, the Waterhouse Gallery and Waterman Gallery. She also showed at the Leicester Galleries, Roland, Browse and Delbanco and elsewhere. In 1983 John and Carolyn bought an old run down farmhouse near Builth Wells in Powys, mid Wales. The house needed such extensive renovation that it took many years to complete. After their two sons had grown and left home she was able to devote more of her time to her painting, often specializing in beautifully studied still life studies.

Standing Nude by Carolyn Sergeant

54.5 by 35.5 cm., 21 by 14 in. (mount size 71 by 51 cm., 28 by 20 in.) 

Male Model by John Sergeant

Austin Taylor (1908 - 1992)

Austin Taylor was born in Bolton, Lancashire.   The family emigrated to Winnipeg in Canada in 1912, and in 1917 his father, who had joined the Canadian Army, was killed in France.  At the age of fourteen Austin was obliged to leave school and work to support his family.  During this time he took evening classes at the Winnipeg School of Art where he was taught by “Group of Seven” artist Lemoine Fitzgerald.  He was able to use his drawing skills working as an illustrator for Bridgens, the outfitters, making drawings for their mail-order catalogues.  In 1943 he was called up but never served outside Canada.  Following the war he studied in the USA, joining the Art Students’ League in New York.  He emigrated to England in 1948 and set himself up as an artist.  He married Winifred, who supported him on her teacher’s salary and also posed as his model in the evenings.  He exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, Redfern Gallery and St George’s Gallery.  In 1980 he entered for the Greater London Council’s Spirit of London art competition, winning second prize for a painting of the London Underground.  The following year he entered the competition again and won first prize.  A posthumous retrospective exhibition of his work was held at Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London.  Works by him are in the collections of the Canadian War Museum, London Transport Museum and Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow.

Austin Taylor



Signed and dated l.l.: Austin ‘48
Pencil
Framed



30 by 23 cm., 11 ¾ by 9 in.
(frame size 53 by 44.5 cm., 21 by 17 ½ in.)



Austin Taylor was born in Bolton, Lancashire. The family emigrated to Winnipeg in Canada in 1912, and in 1917 his father, who had joined the Canadian Army, was killed in France. At the age of fourteen Austin was obliged to leave school and work to support his family. During this time he took evening classes at the Winnipeg School of Art where he was taught by “Group of Seven” artist Lemoine Fitzgerald. He was able to use his drawing skills working as an illustrator for Bridgens, the outfitters, making drawings for their mail-order catalogues. In 1943 he was called up but never served outside Canada. Following the war he studied in the USA, joining the Art Students’ League in New York. He emigrated to England in 1948 and set himself up as an artist. He married Winifred, who supported him on her teacher’s salary and also posed as his model in the evenings. He exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, Redfern Gallery and St George’s Gallery. In 1980 he entered for the Greater London Council’s Spirit of London art competition, winning second prize for a painting of the London Underground. The following year he entered the competition again and won first prize. A posthumous retrospective exhibition of his work was held at Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London. Works by him are in the collections of the Canadian War Museum, London Transport Museum and Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow.

Nude



Signed l.r.: Austin
Watercolour on grey paper
Unframed



37 by 26.5 cm., 14 ½ by 10 ½ in.
(mount size 56 by 44.5 cm., 22 by 17 ½ in.)

Austin Taylor - Nude Reading

44 by 28 cm., 17 ¼ by 11 in.
(mount size 63 by 46 cm., 24 ¾ by 18 in.)

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Viewing is possible by appointment in London or Oxfordshire.

Nudes

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Albert Joseph Moore

Sir Hubert Von Herkomer

Robert Walker Macbeth

Charles Sims

Harold Speed

Marcel Delmotte

Richard Louis Garbe

William Shackleton

Randolph Schwabe

William Shackleton

Harold James Youngman

William Shackleton

Richard Louis Garbe

Harry Carleton Attwood

Frank Dobson

Frank Dobson

John Sergeant

Carolyn Sergeant

John Sergeant

Austin Taylor

Austin Taylor

Austin Taylor