Category Archives: Drawings and Sketches

Francois Boucher a French Master

Posted on 20/03/2026 by ronald972

Recently, I purchased a piece from an auction house. It was purportedly a print according to the sale catalogue. I was not completely convinced of this, but the image shown was not good enough to say otherwise. It was in … Continue reading →

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An Expression of Sorrow

Posted on 13/03/2026 by ronald972

We consider, today, two empty chairs. The first is seen in an ink drawing by #HEWalker (no information found regarding this artist). Here, we see a young lady overwhelmed with grief, standing beside an empty chair – husband, father, brother … Continue reading →

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Hubert John Williams artist

Posted on 03/03/2026 by ronald972

We are hitting the road this week to travel south to a village called #Poynings and back in time to 1940, Eastertime also. Which would have been late March then. Poynings lies within the South Downs National Park. Here, we … Continue reading →

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Roman Ivanovich Liapin artist

Posted on 14/02/2026 by ronald972

We look at an artist, #RomanIvanovichLiapin, who was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in 1966. His talent was recognised early on, and he went on to study at the Mukhina Leningrad Higher School of Art and Indistry and the Academy … Continue reading →

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William Daniell artist

Posted on 19/12/2025 by ronald972

Recently, I came across a small watercolour sketch framed under glass with a label on the back. The image looked like a temple, but dating it was optimistic since the sketch was not signed or dated, and the paper looked … Continue reading →

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Tower of the Scipios

Posted on 12/12/2025 by ronald972

I thought we would travel to Spain and the city of Tarragona to visit a Unesco World Heritage Site. The city, originally named Tarraco, was built by the Romans on the road ‘Via Augusta’ that ran from the Pyrenees to … Continue reading →

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Carl von Dombrowski artist

Posted on 19/09/2025 by ronald972

Today, we look at a German artist who specialised in animal and hunting scenes. #CarlvonDombrowski (1872-1951) studied at the art Institutes in both Vienna and Munich. Many of his works were produced as woodcuts for Die Gartenlaube (The Garden Arbor … Continue reading →

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Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg artist

Posted on 31/08/2025 by ronald972

I acquired a watercolour recently, which might be the study for an oil painting by artist #Philippe-JacqueLoutherbourg (1740-1812). This watercolour is the same size (465mm x 640mm) as the aquatint, which was created in 1787 by #MarieCatherinePrestel (1747-1794). Loutherbourg was … Continue reading →

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The Artist’s Muse

Posted on 05/04/2025 by ronald972

We often see an artist or group of artists being inspired by an individual model. Today, we look at one such muse that inspired a group of artists called the #NazareneMovement. The movement was a group of artists based in … Continue reading →

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Jan van Eyck a beginning

Posted on 09/03/2025 by ronald972

As I was writing the previous chapter, I discovered that the drawing was of a painting by #JanVanEyck. Van Eyck is considered the creator, or almost so, of oil painting. There are about 20 paintings that exist today of his. … Continue reading →

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