Compared to oils which are built up and mixed slowly and methodically on the canvas or board, watercolours offer a quick impression of the sitter or scene to brush on before the water contained within dries. It is an approach often painted live in situ rather than a studio and creates images rich in light and movement. Colours can be premixed or placed as distinct layers on the paper, and every stroke needs to be intentional and planned to prevent mistakes which can’t be undone. It is the spontaneity of watercolours which make antique and vintage examples so appealing. These are often humble moments from the past, captured in time and never to return. They have been kept out of the sun by owners who cherished them too much to see them fade, and their smaller size makes them feel more personal.
The 19th and 20th Centuries were the hiatus for watercolours and at LoveAntiques we have a large and fine selection for any space on your wall you wish to fill.
Graham Reed Fine Art
Thomas Mackay Watercolour - The Goose Girl
£ 1,350
Graham Reed Fine Art
Thomas Mackay Watercolour - The Trysting Place
£ 795
Graham Reed Fine Art
E.Vitale Pair of Watercolours - Boy Playing Flute & Man Smoking
£ 395
£ 45
Chinese Watercolour & Ink Signed Painting, Perched Bird - Framed & Glazed
£ 45
The Flock of Arts
Graham Reed Fine Art
George Hamilton Constantine Watercolour - Gathering Seaweed on the Beach
£ 850
George Hamilton Constantine Watercolour - Gathering Seaweed on the Beach
£ 850
Graham Reed Fine Art
Graham Reed Fine Art
Thomas Mackay Watercolour - The Kingfisher’s Haunt
£ 950
Graham Reed Fine Art
Henry J.Kinnaird Watercolour - Harvest Time by the River
£ 1,250
Wick Antiques Ltd
Thomas Bush Hardy: In Distress off Staithes, York 1896
£ 2,850
Graham Reed Fine Art
John Dobby Walker Watercolour - The Avenue, Caton, Lancs
£ 350
Neville Platt Antiques
William Minshall Birchall - Fair Winds Off Falmouth
£ 178
Graham Reed Fine Art
Thomas Mackay Watercolour - The Quiet Stream
£ 1,395
Celia Rose Antiques
18th Century Watercolour Cattle in Stream
£ 265
Millers Antiques
Painting Newport St Mary Isle of Man
£ 375
Marlborough Antiques & Interiors
William Knox - Fine Watercolour of Grand Canal Venice
£ 795
Penrose Antiques Ltd
In Deepdale Westmoreland - James Burrell Smith 1867
£ 450
Graham Reed Fine Art
Walter Schroder Watercolour - Herding Sheep at Dusk
£ 795
.JPG "Heathland with Sheep & Windmill by Claude Hayes")
Neville Platt Antiques
Heathland with Sheep & Windmill by Claude Hayes
£ 250
Salisbury Antiques Centre
John Strickland Goodall - "An Edwardian Season"
£ 1,500
Graham Reed Fine Art
Thomas Hunn Watercolour - River Landscape with Mill
£ 395
Graham Reed Fine Art
Thomas Clavering Alder Watercolour - Harbour Scene
£ 395
Prometheus Antiques
Pair of Watercolours of Flowers by Valentine Bartholomew 1799-1879
£ 295
Graham Reed Fine Art
Thomas Clavering Alder Watercolour - A Timber Ship Upper Harbour Whitby
£ 425
Thomas Clavering Alder Watercolour - A Timber Ship Upper Harbour Whitby
£ 425
Graham Reed Fine Art
Kernow Furniture
Dorothy Alicia Lawrenson - River Landscape
£ 295
Millers Antiques
David Muirhead Painting Cambridgeshire
£ 475
The Sitting Room & Heydays Antiques
Lois Wilton Listed Artist c.1930
£ 250
Graham Reed Fine Art
Mary Duffield Rosenberg Watercolour ‘Summer Spoils’
£ 595
Marlborough Antiques & Interiors
Charles Eyres Simmons- Le Grand Chateau, Port Aven - Watercolour
£ 845
Charles Eyres Simmons- Le Grand Chateau, Port Aven - Watercolour
£ 845
Marlborough Antiques & Interiors
Wick Antiques Ltd
Montague Dawson: A Moonlight Scrap
£ 12,500
£ 3,850
Joseph Newington Carter: The Loss of the Scarborough Lifeboat Amelia, 1865
£ 3,850
Wick Antiques Ltd
£ 3,800
Wick Antiques Ltd
Attributed to Thomas Sewell Robins: The Schooner Yacht America, 1851
£ 3,450
Attributed to Thomas Sewell Robins: The Schooner Yacht America, 1851
£ 3,450
Wick Antiques Ltd
The Chelsea Bijouterie
Herbert Menzies Marshall Rye Harbour Watercolour Signed 1907 Framed by Chapman Bros London
£ 2,600
Herbert Menzies Marshall Rye Harbour Watercolour Signed 1907 Framed by Chapman Bros London
£ 2,600
The Chelsea Bijouterie
Millers Antiques
Painting by John Atkinson Dated 1905
£ 375
The Chelsea Bijouterie
Herbert Menzies Marshall Watercolour Signed 1879 Framed Cottage by River and Woodland
£ 1,400
Herbert Menzies Marshall Watercolour Signed 1879 Framed Cottage by River and Woodland
£ 1,400
The Chelsea Bijouterie
£ 165
Watercolour Children Picking Bluebells - Listed Artist Dorothy Fitchew 1920s
£ 165
Trade Antiques
Antiques et Cetera
Watercolour - The Cottage by the River
£ 75
€ 450
€ 35,000
M.A. Zichy - Watercolour of Horse Hunting of Alexander II near St. Petersburg
€ 35,000
Antiqon
€ 420
€ 750