Charles Arthur Hannafor

Charles Arthur Hannaford RBA (1887-1972) - British Watercolour, Dartmoor Tor

Early 20th Century

An early 20th century English watercolour painting with body colour, by the talented English watercolourist Thomas William Morley. Painted on artist's board. Signed to the lower right.

A fine gouache and watercolour painting by the British artist Sonia Robinson, depicting a street scene in the French town of Pont-Croix. Signed to the lower right-hand corner. There ...

A picturesque scene in the Scottish Highlands. Presented glazed in a wash line mount and a distressed gilt-effect wooden frame. Signed to the lower-right edge. The date and name of t...

A captivating watercolour painting by Leo Gibbons Smith, depicting a view in Fife, Scotland. Monogrammed to the lower right-hand corner. There is a label on the reverse inscribed wit...

A very fine and detailed watercolour painting with gouache details, depicting a rural landscape scene with a cottage, two figures and chickens nearby. Signed to the lower left-hand c...

A wonderful architectural study by British artist Benjamin J. M. Donne (1831-1928), depicting the magnificent theatre of Marcellus with peasant gathere...

A large late 19th century watercolour depicting a sailing ship 'The Gowanbank' at sea. Signed JW Holmes. The gilt paper mount inscribed: Ship "Gowanbank...

A very finely observed pair of marine watercolours. The artist has meticulously depicted the rigging of the vessels, suggesting a working knowledge of the maritime world. Richmond M...

William Crouch (active 1817-1850) A view of a country estate in the mountains Watercolour 3 x 4½ 8¼ x 9¼ inches with frame William Crouch was a prolif...

A very atmospheric snapshot of a sailing vessel in a stiff wind just off a jetty. The artist has captured the sense of drama, with both sails straining against an off shore breeze an...

A very attractive rural scene of a fisherman and his dog on a riverbank, in very good colour and an appealing composition. Claude Hayes (1852-1922) A fisherman and his dog by a riverbank Signed Watercolour with touches of pencil 6½ x 10 inches, image only 13 x 16 inches with the frame Claude Hayes was a Dublin born painter who to avoid his father's wish to make a businessman of him ran away to sea and served on the Golden Fleece, one of the transports used in the Abyssinian expedition of 1867-68, and also spent a year in the United States. Returning to London, he studied art at Heatherley's and the Royal Academy Schools, and then in Antwerp, under Charles Verlat. He worked in Hampshire with James Aumonier and also in Surrey with William Charles Estall, whose sister he married. Hayes exhibited widely in London and provincial centres, and was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1886, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1883, and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, 1902. He also showed at the RA, RBSA, Brook Street Art Gallery, Dudley Gallery, FAS, GI, Grosvenor Gallery, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, MAFA, RBA, RHA, Ridley Art Club, RSW and Walker's Gallery, London. In 1912, Claude Hayes represented England at the Venice Biennale. His work is in various public collections in England and Ireland including the Ulster Museum, Museums Sheffield, Torre Abbey Museum and the Leeds City Art Gallery. His father was the artist Edwin Hayes.

Two delightful watercolours, with wonderful details by the highly collectable Charles Robertson. They depict two different aspects of Victorian life, the first captures two boys fis...