Sketch for a portrait of Frank Brangwyn

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Date: c.1911
Dimensions: 27 x 21
Object Type: watercolour
Material: pencil and watercolour on paper
Catalogue number: W155
Artist: Brangwyn, Frank, Sir (1867 - 1956)
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1961

The mounted figure in this watercolour by Frank Brangwyn is very close to a similar figure (in reverse) in the centre of a procession in the print ‘Return from a Raid’ (Retour d’un Razzia), etching on copper 12 x 13 3/4 in. 30.4 x 35 cm. executed in 1910 (Gaunt: Etchings of Brangwyn. 170). According to Gaunt the plate was etched from a group of Nativity figures set up on a balcony at Mola (Italy) arranged against the background hills. However, the inscription below this watercolour specifically refers to Taormina, Sicily, where it is known that Brangwyn made at least two watercolours of the same title in 1911. One of these, illustrated in Frank Brangwyn – His Work (2 illustrative folios published by E. d’Alignan and P. Turpin) pl. 37, shows a procession of mounted figures and foot men but differently arranged from W155 and from the etching.

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Date: 1899
Dimensions: 25 x 37
Object Type: watercolour
Material: pencil and watercolour on paper
Catalogue number: BrW30
Artist: Fletcher, Hanslip, 1875, 1955
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1936

This is one of a series of sketches of Kelmscott Manor by the artist Hanslip Fletcher, during a visit to Kelmscott on 7th August 1899. Morris had died three years earlier in 1896, and the house was occupied by Jane Morris, who later bought it in 1913. The watercolour shows William Morris’s bedroom, with its four poster bed hung with embroideries executed by Jane and May Morris.

Fletcher was an etcher, illustrator and painter specialising in architectural studies of London and elsewhere. He was born and lived in London and was a member of the Art Workers’ Guild.

Material: pencil and watercolour on paper

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