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Lot 250
Clarice Cliff - Spring Crocus - A shallow circular Bon Jour preserve pot circa 1950 hand painted with crocus sprays in pastel shades with pale green and tan banding, gilt Royal Staffordshire mark, painted by Ethel Barrow, together with a small Windsor shape cream jug also in Spring Crocus, height 7cm. (2)
Lot 679
Alec Fraser, Scottish, Handcoloured Etching 'The Small Sok, Modador, Morroco' signed in pencil to the margin together with Unframed Pastel of a Young Girl, Framed and Glazed Print of Allied Military Formations 1939-45, Unframed Still Life Painting 'Jug and Fruit', Unframed 19th century Print of a Schooner, Antique Frame and Glass, Framed Indian Hand Painted Design and another Scroll
Lot 350
§ Gloria Jarvis (British, b. 1925) A sketchbook; sketch of a Ballerina, signed lower left "Gloria Jarvis", watercolour, 18 x 14cm; Certificate from the Italian Academy for Gloria Jarvis, 1980, and a wooden portable easel (4) Gloria Jarvis trained at St. Martin's School of Art in London and later at the University of Florence. She later became a lecturer of historic costume and an instructor of costume drawing. However, her real love was for painting. When she married, she moved to Brussels with her husband and much of her work is in permanent collections in Belgium, a variety of oils, water colour, pastel, ink and gouache. She had a very successful career, painting Paolo of Liege and Margaret Thatcher. In her later life, Gloria returned home to England and turned more and more to writing. Ballerina sketch - signature is a little smudged, some foxing to the edges.
Lot 362
§ William Dring, RA, RWS, RP (British, 1904-1990) Head of a Girl, signed lower right "Dring", pastel, 26 x 22cm; and Small boy resting on a striped rug, signed lower right "William Dring", pencil and watercolour on buff paper, 22 x 30 cm (2), William Dring studied at the Slade under Henry Tonks where he won several scholarships. Known for his fine draughtsmanship and portraits, he became an official war artist and his work is in the Imperial War Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. He had a number of Royal commissions including painting the christening of HRH Prince Charles the Prince of Wales. In 1990 Agnew's held a major retrospective exhibition of his work which unfortunately he was unable to attend due to illness. One small foxing spot to the background of the Boy.
Lot 374
§ Gloria Jarvis (British, b. 1925) Harrow schoolboys on the steps of the Chapel at Harrow signed lower right "Gloria Jarvis" watercolour 27 x 37cm (11 x 14in) Exhibited: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (old label refers). Gloria Patricia Henrietta Smith (née Jarvis) was born on 17 March 1925, in London. Her maternal forebears were Italian: her grandfather was from Emilia, a craftsman who came to London to work with the great Malatesta on the mosaics in Westminster Cathedral. Her English father, Rupert Jarvis, was a well-known graphics artist and illustrator. Spurred on by his example, Gloria trained at St Martin's School of Art, in London (under James Bateman), and later at the University of Florence. She graduated with Honours and later became a lecturer on historic costume, and an instructor in costume drawing at the Polytechnic in Regent Street, London. Her parental home was in Harrow-on-the-Hill and some of her most interesting paintings are of Winston Churchill and his involvement with the school there. She lived for many years in Brussels, and worked and exhibited in oils, watercolour, pastel, ink and gouache. She particularly enjoyed creating historic scenes and a couple of such paintings of Brussels have been bequeathed to the Musée international du Carnaval et du Masque, in Binche, Belgium. Paintings inspired under James Bateman have now joined the collection of his work at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Bateman's hometown, while others have been acquired by the Beaney Art Museum, in Canterbury, where she lived in later life. A painting commissioned to hang in the offices of Royal Decree Sherry in St James's, entitled 'Unloading the Sherry, 1950' now is exhibited at the Museum of Docklands, London. Gloria died in Cambridge on 15 November 2014. Condition is fine.
Lot 472
Vee Wallace (British, 20th Century) Printemps signed lower right with initials "VW" oil pastel 36 x 49cm (14 x 19in) Provenance: The Old Fire Engine House Gallery, Ely, Cambridgeshire, Vee Wallace and Pam Clocksin Exhibition. Vee Wallace now paints with the Outside Edge group and exhibits with Open Studios. Condition is fine.
Lot 535
§ Steven Spurrier, RA (British, 1878-1961) Girl in a green dress and black coat signed upper left "Spurrier" oil on canvas, unframed 36 x 31cm (14 x 12in) Steven Spurrier was born in London in 1878, and studied at Heatherley School of Art. Initially he concentrated on theatrical subjects including music and the theatre. In 1900 he began work as a freelance illustrator contributing to various periodicals. He exhibited at leading London societies including the Royal Academy from 1906; the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and the Royal Society of Painters in Oils, becoming a member in 1912. In 1919 he began to work for the Illustrated London News as their special artist. Spurrier was a wonderful draughtsman and the primacy of drawing informed not only his work as an illustrator but his entire versatile output. To Spurrier illustration was "the most living of the pictorial arts" With the outbreak of the First World War, Spurrier enlisted in the Artists' Rifles. However due to heart problems he was exempted from active service. He was seconded to work for Military Intelligence with the Dock Police in Hull, and he subsequently became Dazzle Officer with the Royal Navy on the Clyde. He was responsible for camouflaging HMS Argus, the world's first aircraft carrier, prior to her launch in 1918. In the 1930s he became friendly with Dame Laura Knight, and the two friends travelled with Bertram Mills Circus, painting and sketching. Both loved to paint and draw the circus, the ballet and the theatre. In 1939 he extended his repertoire to teaching at his old college of Heatherley. He taught his students that the skill of draughtsmanship must constantly be practised. - whilst out and about, when at home and to concentrate on the detail and beauty of the ordinary and the commonplace.. He used charcoal for his compositional sketches, then often following up with a completed design in pencil. In 1933 he was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists; the National Society of Sculptors, Painters and Engravers; the Pastel Society, and as a Royal Academician in 1952 (ARA 1943). He had a keen interest in wildlife and was made a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. He had a major exhibition at the Hazlitt Gallery in 1946. Unframed and stuck to board.
Lot 493
A Chinese blue and white snuff bottle 1800-1850 of rouleau cylindrical form, decorated with two five claw dragons above waves against a background of scattered flames and clouds, the latter repeated on the shoulder, with coral glass stopper, and a Chinese Canton pastel coloured enamel snuff bottle of flattened oviform shape, decorated panels framed by stylised bats showing mountain landscapes with village and figure views on a ground of Indian lotus and foliated scroll work, seal mark in Zhuanshu characters and with ormolu stopper
Lot 533
A Chinese ivory screen Republican period modelled as an open book, the two pages carved, undercut and highlighted in pastel colours with the Eight Daoist Immortals spread around the pavilions and gardens of a Daoist paradise, the reverse emulating the cover and back page of a book with a title label and description of the scenes, 23cm x 24cm
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