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Here we have an Original colored engraving signed and titled «Cockington Lane, Devon» by listed artist. H. Bartlett. This show the landscape through Devon on Cockington Lane with thatched roofs, hay truck, and a youthful resident. Similar pictures of Cockington Lane, today match this mid 19th century colorized engraving. 13″ x 17″ viewable and 19″ x 22 3/4″ framed . William Henry Bartlett, a prolific illustrator, made four visits to the United States between 1836 and 1852. Based on the earlier of these visits, he created a series of views that were published around 1840. They were titled American Scenery, with a text by Nathaniel P. Willis. American Scenery contains a number of views of the mountains, lakes, and waterfalls of the White Mountains. Bartlett made sepia wash drawings the exact size to be used in engravings. His engraved views were widely copied by artists, but no signed oil painting by his hand is known. Bartlett died on board a French ship returning from a voyage to the Orient. Engravings based on Bartlett’s views were later used in his posthumous History of the United States of North America, continued by B. B. Woodward and published c. 1856. Source: Askart from Groce and Wallace, Dictionary of Artists. From Butler Institute: English draughtsman William Henry Bartlett was active in the Near East, Continental Europe and North America. He was a prolific artist and an intrepid traveler. His work became widely known through numerous engravings after his drawings published in his own and other writers’ topographical books. His primary concern was to extract the picturesque aspects of a place and by means of established pictorial conventions to render ‘lively impressions of actual sights’, as he wrote in the preface to The Nile Boat (London, 1849). I am not an art expert and welcome input from EBAYers who are. If you are familiar with the artist, method, or scene, please let me know. THANK YOU! This is part of a larger Southern California fine art collection that has been intact for 45 years. Feel Free To Make An Offer At Any Time and for Any Amount if you are interested for any and all of my items. Ask any questions and look at pictures before bidding. I will pack this safely and ship priority in US and first class for international unless winning bidder requests upgrade. Thank You and Good Luck! If you win this item, please leave all fives on positive feedback. Anything less, even 4, hurts the seller. Thank You Again.
ARTIST: William Henry Bartlett (Ireland, 1858 – 1932) NAME: By the Seaside MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Some flaking (mostly in bottom part – see pictures carefully). Five small patches. Some craquelure. Few very minor scattered inpaintings. SIGHT SIZE: 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed SIGNATURE: lower right SIMILAR ARTISTS: William Ashford, Robert Ballagh, John Luke, Frank McKelvey, Mainie Mary Harriet Jellett, Hughie O’Donoghue, Sean Keating, Patrick Hennessy, Harry Clarke, Louis Le Brocquy, Norman Garstin, William John Leech, Letitia Marion LMH Hamilton, James Arthur O’Connor, William Crozier, Basil BlackshawCATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 117122 BIOGRAPHY:Bartlett’s principal focus was landscape painting. During the 1890s, he passed several summers in Connemara, County Galway drawing inspiration from the local inhabitants and rugged scenery. He completed a large number of paintings on Irish rural life and its landscape. Some of these artworks were published in The Art Journal.Bartlett painted in watercolours and exhibited at numerous Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) exhibitions. However, few records remain of any solo shows apart from an undated «Irish Landscape Exhibition» and one at the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. He was also an accomplished draughtsman, drawing in pencil, pen and ink and chalks. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists.Public collections of Bartlett’s paintings are rare, as are sales of his paintings. He can be seen in Ireland at the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery in Cork.Information about the above William Henry Bartlett is extremely hard to come by, owing in part to the existence of the more famous English painter and illustrator William Henry Bartlett (1800-1854), who also sketched and painted in Ireland and America, although only six of his paintings were exhibited at London galleries during his lifetime. Most of the latter’s drawings were engraved and used as book illustrations. CLICK HERE TO ADD ME TO YOUR FAVOURITE SELLERS LIST.Our prices are based on the value of the artwork by itself. Frames are free and any frame imperfections, damages and condition overall is not a reason for discounts, refunds or returns.If an item is listed like USED it can be dirty.All measurements are given approximately. We pack everything very professionally . Bid with confidence.We DO combine shipping if it possible.If you won multiple items please wait for a combined invoice.Insurance is included in shipping cost.Shipping price is actual only for 48 states. All other bidders have to wait invoice. We are shipping WorldWide.You can choose between two shipment options: We can ship items directly to you or using a Global Shipping Program.Items purchased with Global Shipping Program CAN NOT be combined. If you want to combine them please ask us to list them together BEFORE buying.If item is too fragile or too large for an international shipping We have the right to cancel the bid and refund your payment.Your customs form will include accurate information. Do not ask to falsify the customs form.Imports duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost. It is solely Buyers responsibility to check with your country’s customs office to determine what these additional costs, taxes, or charges are.
Very special watercolour painting by this British/ American artist, who became famous for his woodblock prints. Executed in 1886; it is therefore a very early piece by his hand, of the time that he was still a student in art. Bartlett studied in London (age 23) and Paris (age 26). This work is after a work by the French artist Charles Landelle (1821-1908), called The Beatitudes. This known work is a religious painting, executed in oil paint, with the subject of the people listening to Jesus while he is preaching on the Mount of Beatitudes. This episode of the Biblical story is told by the evangelist Matthew, from chapter 5 until 7. The painting by Landelle is visible in picture number 11 (left page). In picture number 12 a preliminary sketch by Landelle is shown, sold at Christies for $3,750 in 2009. It is remarkable that this work by Bartlett is based on this sketch (or maybe on an unknown finished work in oil paint based on this sketch). This work by Bartlett is not based on the known oil painting by Landelle, looking at the third woman from the left. The signature C.W. Bartlett corresponds with other signatures on his early works, for example the work ‘Captives in Rome’, painted in 1888 (sold at Christies, 1999) and ‘View on Venice’, painted in 1892 (Sold at Bonhams, London, 2004). This watercolour might actually be the first known work by his hand.The work is in excellent condition, signed bottom right corner ‘C.W. Bartlett’ and dated ‘1886’ underneath. The signature and date are faded due to its age, but still clearly recognizable, h. 423 mm. – w. 281 mm./ h. 16.65 inch.- w. 11.06 inch. The frame is in total h. 58 – 42,2 cm./ h. 22.83 inch – w. 16.61 inch. Behind original passepartout and glass and framed in its original oakwood frame. Some minor foxing in the paper, but unobtrusive. A small repair in the margin on the back side. The back of the artwork is preserved with new acid free materials. Because of the use of archival materials it is preserved for future generations. With a shipment we will put painterstape on the glass to strenghten the glass and to protect the artwork; this can easily be removed. We discovered this special piece of art in the Netherlands, Europe. The provenance is a private collection in the town of Hilversum. Charles William Bartlett (1860 in Bridport, Dorsetshire, England – 1940 in Hawaii) is a British painter. At 23 he enrolled at the Royal Academy in London, where he studied painting and etching. After three years of apprenticeship in the British capital, he entered a private course at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he perfected his art with Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911) and Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888). This watercolour painting must have been executed in the beginning of this period in France. In 1889 he returned to England. Bartlett then traveled to Europe, spending several years rich in various paintings in Holland, Brittany, Venice, with his friend and colleague in painting Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956). It is believed that it was Brangwyn who interested Bartlett in Japanese woodcuts, the technique of which consists of engraving the stamp of the print on wood and then, after stamping, coloring the print in watercolor. Bartlett painted some of his greatest works on the European continent, in particular several colorful studies of peasant life. He was invited to join the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1897. The following year he returned to England and remarried there to Kate Main. He then returned to the mainland with his wife. In 1908, he helped found the Société de la peinture à l’eau de Paris. Several European museums bought his watercolors during the Parisian exhibitions of this Water Painting Society; this is why it is represented almost everywhere in Europe. In 1913, with the financial help of the in-laws, the Bartlett family traveled to Pakistan, India, Ceylon, Indonesia, China and finally arrived in Japan in 1915. There Charles met the publisher of wooden prints Watanabe Shozaburo, one of the figures of Shin Hanga, the new artistic wave of Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1916 Watanabe published 21 woodblock prints signed Bartlett. In 1917, the Bartlett’s left Japan to return to England, but they never made it, preferring to stop in Hawaii. After a last stay in Japan in 1919 and a new series of blocks for Watanabe, Bartlett helped found the Honolulu Printmakers in 1928 with Alexander Samuel MacLeod, John Melville Kelly, and Huc-Mazelet Luquiens.Charles William Bartlett was both a prolific painter and printmaker. He exhibited works in the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. He travelled extensively, painting views in Venice, Holland and France as well as India and China. By 1917 Bartlett arrived in Hawaii where he painted surfers and fishermen. This work ‘The Beatitudes’ was painted before Bartlett undertook such extensive travel and reflects a more traditional subject for the artist.The Bradford Museums and Galleries (West Yorkshire, UK), the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery (Bristol, England), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Library of Congress (Washington, D. C.), and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (University of Oregon) are among the public collections holding work by Charles W. Bartlett. Import fees may apply. We ship with Canada Post or UPS, both reliable shippers. We pack thoroughly. When the actual shipping costs are less, we will reimburse the customer. The normal retail price of this artpiece would be between 4000-5000 US$.
Attributed to William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854). A coastal landscape near Sidmouth. Inscribed verso ‘where his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent expired’. About Sulis Fine Art. Need to know. Includes a Certificate of Authenticity.