{"title":"Ink","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"seated-nude","title":"Seated Nude","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMortimer Luddington Menpes, 1855-1938, was an Australian born English painter, printmaker, illustrator and author. Menpes left Australia in his early twenties with his family and came to London where he studied at the Royal Academy and other art institutions. In the 1880's he travelled to France where he met and befriended James McNeil Whistler and fell under his influence of Japanese art and motifs, following his travels to Japan he returned to London where he had his first one man exhibition. It was a great commercial success and it inspired him to travel further afield where he visited , India, Burma, China, Italy, Spain, and many other countries, and during the Boer War he travelled to South Africa as a war artist. Menpes was an efficient anecdotalist and attended and hosted many fashionable parties in London, where he mixed with all the high society personages of the time and he was also Godfather to Oscar Wilde's son Vyvyan. This picture of a seated nude is monogrammed MM and this is identical in all the Artist Signature and Monogram books that we have where we searched to identify the artist. However having concluded that this is most likely his own identification mark we are bound to offer this drawing as his own work but with the reserved position of attribution. During the period when Menpes was most prolific he would have been aware of the post impressionist painters in France, it is therefore assumed that this drawing is possibly influenced by his trips to Japan and also Amadeo Modigliani which to those familiar with his work should be able to see the similarity. The frame is modern and sufficient but as personal taste in frames is a difficult subject to breach we have left this frame in place and we have adjusted the price of the picture, as is, accordingly.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Attributed to: Mortimer Menpes (1855 - 1938, Australian)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57174678929753,"sku":null,"price":3750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0969\/9957\/1801\/files\/1_2f3a1c88-4b59-4eba-a693-7159b78d68b1.png?v=1771426907"},{"product_id":"seated-nude-2","title":"Seated Nude","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMortimer Luddington Menpes, 1855-1938, was an Australian born English painter, printmaker, illustrator and author. Menpes left Australia in his early twenties with his family and came to London where he studied at the Royal Academy and other art institutions. In the 1880's he travelled to France where he met and befriended James McNeil Whistler and fell under his influence of Japanese art and motifs, following his travels to Japan he returned to London where he had his first one man exhibition. It was a great commercial success and it inspired him to travel further afield where he visited , India, Burma, China, Italy, Spain, and many other countries, and during the Boer War he travelled to South Africa as a war artist. Menpes was an efficient anecdotalist and attended and hosted many fashionable parties in London, where he mixed with all the high society personages of the time and he was also Godfather to Oscar Wilde's son Vyvyan. This picture of a seated nude is monogrammed MM and this is identical in all the Artist Signature and Monogram books that we have where we searched to identify the artist. However having concluded that this is most likely his own identification mark we are bound to offer this drawing as his own work but with the reserved position of attribution. During the period when Menpes was most prolific he would have been aware of the post impressionist painters in France, it is therefore assumed that this drawing is possibly influenced by his trips to Japan and also Amadeo Modigliani which to those familiar with his work should be able to see the similarity. The frame is modern and sufficient but as personal taste in frames is a difficult subject to breach we have left this frame in place and we have adjusted the price of the picture, as is, accordingly.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Attributed to: Mortimer Menpes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57541104566617,"sku":null,"price":3750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0969\/9957\/1801\/files\/1740929421672_master.jpg?v=1776860807"},{"product_id":"view-of-a-dutch-harbour-possibly","title":"View of a Dutch Harbour, possibly imaginary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe picture is in ink and watercolour and displays the view of a Harbour with a distant town in the background which at this point is still unknown despite many hours research of our staff searching. This picture has been the property of a well known and important London gallery, we acquired the picture on the assumption of discovering the painter, which we now believe to be Richard Dadd 1817-1886, due to the picture being subject to having been painted with obsessive detail, and the date, which due to the images highlighted within the additional depictions there is a date of 1838, it is worth noting that Dadd would have only been around the age of or 21-22 when this picture was painted and although Dadd was admitted to the Royal Academy Art Schools at the age of 20 he was considered to be among the leading Victorian artists of the day. In 1842 he was chosen to travel through Europe on his way to the middle East including, Greece, Turkey , Syria , Jerusalem , Jorden and Egypt. Dadd had a vivid imagination and he could well have imagined this picture without actually visiting the scene, it is after all a strange position to hold of the view , consequently this maybe the reason for our failure to discover the scene. The painter, according to the level of the eye would have to have been sitting in a crows nest on a ship, which is highly unlikely due stillness required for the detail, or the whole composition is imaginary, which we now think highly probable. Dad was of unsound mind and admitted to a psychiatric Hospital where he remained for the rest of his life, however he was encouraged to continue to paint and this is where he produced some of his best pictures, there are exhibits of his works in the Tate Gallery , the British Museum, Yale and the Louvre among many others. I have included a further extensive biography of Dadd which you may find of interest. Richard Dadd (1817–1886) was a singular figure in Victorian art whose career was tragically and definitively bisected by mental illness. Originally a rising star of the London art scene, Dadd is today recognized for his technical precision and a visionary style that flourished during more than four decades of institutional confinement. Born in Chatham, Kent, Dadd was a precociously talented student at the Royal Academy Schools, where he became a founding member of \"The Clique,\" a group of artists who challenged academic conventions. He gained early acclaim for his delicate \"fairy paintings,\" a popular Victorian genre he imbued with unusual psychological depth. In 1842, Dadd accompanied Sir Thomas Phillips on a ten-month \"Grand Tour\" of Europe and the Middle East to document the journey. The grueling trip, particularly the exposure to the sun and intense environments of Egypt and Syria, is often cited as the catalyst for his mental collapse. During this time, he began to experience religious delusions, believing himself to be under the influence of the Egyptian god Osiris. Upon his return to England in 1843, Dadd’s condition deteriorated into what modern scholars identify as a form of schizophrenia. In August of that year, acting on a perceived divine command, he murdered his father in Cobham Park, Kent. After fleeing to France and attempting further violence, he was apprehended and subsequently committed to the \"criminal lunatic\" department of Bethlem Royal Hospital (Bedlam) in 1844. He was later transferred to the newly opened Broadmoor Hospital in 1864, where he remained until his death in 1886. Despite his incarceration, Dadd was encouraged by enlightened physicians to continue painting. His asylum works are characterized by: His technique involved an \"obsessive\" and \"painstaking\" application of paint, often utilizing a stippling method derived from miniature painting. Barred from the natural world, Dadd relied on his extraordinary visual memory of his Middle Eastern travels to create complex landscapes and genre scenes. His most celebrated masterpieces, The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke (Tate Britain) and Contradiction: Oberon and Titania, were both produced during his confinement. He produced a notable series titled Sketches to Illustrate the Passions, which explored human emotions through a cryptic, often disturbing lens. Long forgotten after his death, Dadd’s work was rediscovered in the 1960s and 70s, leading to a major retrospective at the Tate in 1974. Today, he is studied not merely as a clinical curiosity, but as a sophisticated artist who successfully translated an inner \"terra incognita\" into some of the most compelling imagery of the 19th century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vaughan Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57541267718489,"sku":null,"price":4850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0969\/9957\/1801\/files\/1_531abce1-8ae4-4854-824d-91cb2edeabd6.png?v=1787600949"},{"product_id":"a-view-on-the-highgate-road-and-the-birmingham-tally-ho-coach","title":"A View on the Highgate Road \u0026 The Birmingham Tally Ho Coach","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJames Pollard 1892-1867, was an English painter, watercolourist and engraver whose artistic talents were the depiction of coaching, hunting, fishing and horse racing scenes. He is famously remembered for his pictures of coaching scenes on the Highgate and North Islington Roads and the documentation of such which represented a past history of travel in a bygone age where the public saw the demise of the coach and the onset of railway travel. James was trained by his father who was a painter, engraver and print publisher, initially he worked in the family business as a draughtsman and engraver. James lived within the Highgate Road, Islington, North London, area and knew the coaching routes moved within the immediate area travelling to Birmingham and the North of England, the coaches would stop for refreshments which would create to a young man an addictive interesting atmosphere of a busy staging post. In 1821 the Kings print seller commissioned James Pollard to paint an Inn Signboard which included a coach and horses and passengers, the signboard was placed in a Bond Street window and a large number of commissions followed which established Pollards reputation. James Pollard also worked with Frederick Herring Senior on various horse racing pictures. This lot is 2 pictures a compliment of coaching scenes showing the activity of travel in the early 19th Century, they are hand coloured prints known as aquatints, they are 'A View of the Highgate Road' and 'The Birmingham Tally Ho'. They are held in old and tired original Hogarth frames and have been left in place for authenticity, and have been on my own home wall for the last 45 years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"After: James Polllard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57598431232345,"sku":null,"price":950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0969\/9957\/1801\/files\/2_3123e53b-d3d4-42da-9c7d-5714ff5f41f3.png?v=1776882213"},{"product_id":"collection-of-8-pencil-signed-etchings-of-various-locations","title":"Collection of 8 pencil signed etchings of various locations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWilliam Walcot 1874 - 1943, was one of the most celebrated architectural draughtsmen and printmakers working in England between the two World Wars. Known as \"the architects' etcher,\" his unique style combined exact perspective geometry with a vibrant, impressionistic touch that perfectly captured the grandeur of historic and contemporary cities. Walcot was born at Lustdorf, near Odessa (now Ukraine), to a mixed Scottish-Russian family. He grew up travelling throughout Western Europe and South Africa before returning to Russia at age 17. He studied architecture under Leon Benois at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg and completed further training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Before establishing himself in the UK, Walcot spent several years practicing as an architect in Moscow. He became a notable practitioner of the Russian Art Nouveau style (Style Moderne), famously designing the historic Hotel Metropol (completed in 1905). In 1906, Walcot emigrated to England and settled in London. While he rarely returned to actual construction—designing only one London building at 61 St James's Street—he became the most sought-after architectural illustrator of his era. Master architects like Sir Edwin Lutyens, Herbert Baker, and Aston Webb routinely commissioned Walcot to create evocative presentation drawings of their designs. He was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1913, the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1920, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1922. Walcot developed a highly innovative printmaking technique influenced heavily by his mentor and close friend, Frank Brangwyn. Defying traditional British etching customs, Walcot preferred oversized zinc plates over copper and occasionally applied nitric acid directly to the plate to produce dramatic, textured tones. His printmaking fell into two main categories:Classical Antiquity: He was famous for imagined, archeologically informed reconstructions of ancient Rome, Greece, Babylon, and Egypt. He captured the sweeping energy of global hubs, publishing a famous folio titled Architectural Watercolours and Etchings of William Walcot in 1919. London was Walcot’s greatest muse, and his works serve as a vital visual record of the city's changing face leading up to World War II. His London plates are defined by soaring monumental buildings contrasted against blurry, ghostly crowds and early motor cars. Famous examples include: The Strand and Trafalgar Square: Portraying the buzzing movement and architectural layers of the West End. Ludgate Hill (1921): A masterpiece of drypoint and aquatint depicting a bustling street scene with the massive dome of St Paul's Cathedral faintly materialising in the background. Westminster Bridge \u0026amp; Parliament: Highlighting the dramatic gothic silhouettes of the political heart of the empire. The Reconstruction of Piccadilly: Documenting the real-time urban transitions of the 1920s. The modern print market crash following the 1929 Wall Street financial collapse severely damaged Walcot's primary source of income. Though he maintained some business through private patrons, the outbreak of World War II completely devastated his remaining architectural practice. Suffering from poor health and deep depression, Walcot tragically died by suicide after falling from a nursing home window in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, on 21 May 1943. Today, his works are heavily collected, and his legacy is honored by institutions globally, with his original painting palette preserved at RIBA in London. 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