Peter Deakin

Peter Deakin (1830-1899) - 1887 Watercolour, Beautiful England

1887

A charming watercolour scene depicting figures enjoying an city park in summer. Signed and dated to the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame with foliate ornamentation to the corne...

An impressive large English School watercolour depicting figures outside a water mill, with some body colour, scratched highlights and gum Arabic. Presented in a gild frame...

A fine and delicate watercolour painting by John Wilson Hepple (1886-1939), depicting a rocky river scene with mountains in the distance. Signed and dated within the composition. Ele...

A charming 19th Century view of Nideck, Alsace in France. The artist has wonderfully captured the complex architecture and bustling nature of the town. The artist has signed to the l...

Watercolour, gouache and pastel are combined to create an incredibly intricate depiction of an early morning in Abbeville, France. Signed and inscribed. Well presented in a highly or...

A fine rural watercolour showing men hard at work in a clearing, preparing to turn heavy trunks into timber for raw material. The painting is signed by the artist to the lower right....

At over 11 feet in length, Broadbent’s “Andromeda” galaxy watercolor painting captures the spectacle and wonder one feels when looking at the stars in the night sky. In this large sc...

87"x149" multi-panel installation. This watercolor painting installation is created on 36 paper panels and is inspired by a view of the moon. The dee...

New Mexico Mountain Scene by Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953) Watercolor on paper 15 ¾ x 19 ½ inches unframed (40.005 x 49.53 cm) 23 x 26 ¾ inches framed...

Estate stamp lower right

"Three Pyramids + Blue Ball" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right, "Calder 73”. Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alexander Calder started his artistic career as an abstract painter, preferring to use gouache. What is gouache? Gouache is a water-soluble paint – a type of opaque watercolor. As Calder returned to gouache painting towards the end of his life, he was now armed with a lifetime of experience as a sculptor. He explored the three-dimensional vocabulary of sculptural forms he had developed onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper. Certain shapes and colors recur throughout his gouaches and sculptures. Circles, ovals, and other geometric forms dominate the space. There is the same sense of energy and fluidity. The shapes do not sit on the surface but vibrate giving a feeling of movement in contrast to the static nature of painting. Like his sculpture, Calder’s gouache...

FRANÇOIS MATHURIN ADALBERT, BARON DE COURCY (1805-1839) 'Le Negrito à l’ancre. Dans le port de la havanne' Indistinctly signed lower left Titled on the mount Pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, on paper, 24.8 x 34.6 cm Literature: The present watercolour will be illustrated in: - Prof. Manuel Garcia’s projected book on the disease and the slave trade provisionally titled “Fighting the Yellow Demon of Fever: The Struggle against Disease in the Illegal Slave Trade”. - Prof. Micael Zeuske’s forthcoming Global history of slave trade. Exhibited: Mexico City, 1998, Palacio Virreinal, El Barón de Courcy, illustrationes de un viaje, 1831-1833, no. 108 Note: Baron de Courcy was in the Caribbean in late 1832 and early 1833, following his tour of Mexico in 1832, on the last leg of his “Grand Voyage...