John Cooper

Wharfedale after the rain.

1932

Rose Louise Henriques 1889-1972, Lady Henriques, was a British artist and charity worker from the East End of London. This painting is of an East London church, St. Johns, Wapping, w...

Robert Buhler R.A. 1916-1989, was an English landscape and portrait painter born to Swiss parents, he lived in London and painted a large number of urban landscapes from upstairs wi...

Frederick John Pym Gore R.A. 1913-2009, British/English Painter, Chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition Committee, his father Spencer Gore was the President of the Camden Town...

Claude Muncaster, oil on canvas, landscape, view of Well Digger Lane, Guildford, Surrey, signed and dated 1952, Exhibition label to reverse.

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon 1821-1906 was an English watercolour artist. He studied in England and Switzerland, painted in the manner of Joseph Mallord William Turner and he travelled...

David Muirhead 1867-1930 was born in Edinburgh and was an Associate Member of Royal Academy. He was a landscape and portrait painter, lived in London. This picture is painted in a si...

Enamel, oil and graphite on board, measuring 49 x 49 x 4 cm.

Oil and graphite over canvas, measuring 50 x 50 x 3,5 cm.

This is an original colored pencil drawing layered over an original archival pigment print using alternative process photography. Image measures 14" x 20" on 16.5" x 22" Hahnemühle German Etching 100% rag paper. Ava Blitz...

Natasha Gana has created a series of artworks portraying trees, with this being one of the smaller pieces, created with pencils on paper which is then placed on a wooden panel. Certi...

This painting explores the graphic simplification of the wild coastline around the Hartland Point lighthouse in North Devon, England. The point marks th...

This study presents a typical Roman countryside landscape: an ancient mausoleum in front of which a cart is passing by followed by two peasants. If the technique (a pen drawing on graphite lines, completed with a wash of brown and grey inks) and the signature inevitably evoke the art of Lorrain, we find on the verso of this drawing additional evidences that lead us to consider this unpublished drawing as a work by the master. The motif of the mausoleum has been taken up in pen on the verso in a technique that can be found in several other drawings by Lorrain. There is also a study of three characters, which can be considered as preparatory to Lorrain’s painting entitled The Port of Ostia with the Embarkation of Saint Paula, leading us to claim this attribution with a dating of around 1629. 1. Claude Lorrain or the perfection of classical landscape in Rome in the 17th century Claude Gellée was born in 1600 in Chamagne in Lorraine. Orphaned at the age of twelve, he spent a year with his brother in Freiburg, where the latter was a woodcarver. Claude Gellée then probably arrived in Rome in 1613, where he joined the workshop of Agostino Tassi (1580 - 1644) in 1617. Between 1619 and 1620 he studied for two years in Naples in the workshop of Goffredi Wals (who was himself a former pupil of Tassi). In 1625 he returned to Lorraine for two years where he worked alongside Claude Deruet. He then returned to Rome, a city he never left for the rest of his life (except for short trips to the surrounding countryside). From 1627 to 1650 he lived in Via Margutta. From 1635 onwards he became a renowned painter and commissions started to pour in. Considered during his lifetime as the most accomplished of the classical landscape painters, his reputation never faded. Between 1629 and 1635 Le Lorrain often went to the Roman countryside to draw with his friend Joachim von Sandrart (1606 - 1686). He became a member of the Academy of Saint Luke in 1633, while being closely acquainted with the Bentvueghels, this guild which brought together the young Nordic painters active in Rome. In 1643 he joined the Congregation of the Virtuosi. In 1650 he moved to Via Paolina where he lived until his death. Little is known of his intimate life. He seems to have had a daughter, Agnes, from an ancillary love affair. In 1657/ 1658 she moved in with him. Stricken with gout in 1663, he died in 1682. 2. Description of the drawing; the technique of nature studies Two peasants are walking behind a horse-drawn cart on a road that winds through ancient tombs. While a rectangular tomb with a columned facade can be seen in the distance, the cart passes an important ancient building. It has a circular shape and its partially ruined façade is decorated with columns. The start of a second floor can...