Brian Sewell

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Frank Brangwyn, Head of an Old Man, c. 1908, black and white chalk on gray flecked cardboard, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009.70.60

Head of an Old Man

Frank Brangwyn · c. 1908 · black and white chalk on gray flecked cardboard ·  Accession ID  2009.70.60

Gustave Doré, A Dramatic Scene with a Fainting Woman, graphite with gray wash, heightened with white gouache (partially oxidized) on blue wove paper, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009.70.108

A Dramatic Scene with a Fainting Woman

Gustave Doré · · graphite with gray wash, heightened with white gouache (partially oxidized) on blue wove paper ·  Accession ID  2009.70.108

Mortimer Menpes, A Letter From Iris Court with a Portrait of John L. Toole, graphite with watercolor on wove paper [Iris Court letterhead], Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009.70.166

A Letter From Iris Court with a Portrait of John L. Toole

Mortimer Menpes · · graphite with watercolor on wove paper [Iris Court letterhead] ·  Accession ID  2009.70.166

Bertel Thorvaldsen, A Heroic Male Nude, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009.70.236

A Heroic Male Nude

Bertel Thorvaldsen · · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2009.70.236

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, Palaces on the Grand Canal in Venice, watercolor and gouache with white heightening over graphite on wove paper, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009.70.53

Palaces on the Grand Canal in Venice

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon · · watercolor and gouache with white heightening over graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2009.70.53

William Stanley Haseltine, Santa Maria a Cetrella, Anacapri, c. 1892, watercolor and gouache over graphite, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009.70.136

Santa Maria a Cetrella, Anacapri

William Stanley Haseltine · c. 1892 · watercolor and gouache over graphite ·  Accession ID  2009.70.136

The head, shoulders, and chest of a pale-skinned man with gray hair and deep wrinkles creasing his face fill this vertical portrait painting. His shoulders angle slightly to our right, and he looks up and off in that direction. Light comes from our upper left, so the far side of his craggy face is in deep shadow. His brown eyes are deep-set sockets under a furrowed brow. He has a straight, prominent nose, and his thin lips are surrounded by wrinkles at the corners with more lines on his knob-like chin and between his nose and upper lip. Tendons and wrinkles stand out on his thick neck. Unruly locks of ash-gray hair stand up from his head over a pink-edged ear. His upper chest is bare within the gaping opening of his nickel-gray shirt, which is under a barn-red garment. The background is earth brown.
Abraham Bloemaert, Head of an Old Man, 1625/1628, oil on panel, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2010.93.41

Head of an Old Man

Abraham Bloemaert · 1625/1628 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  2010.93.41

Thomas Rowlandson, The Fall of Phaeton, pen and brown and gray ink with gray wash over graphite, corrected in white gouache, on wove paper, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009.70.208

The Fall of Phaeton

Thomas Rowlandson · · pen and brown and gray ink with gray wash over graphite, corrected in white gouache, on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2009.70.208

Mortimer Menpes, A Letter from Iris Court with Sketches of Henry Irving, graphite on wove paper [Iris Court letterhead], Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009.70.165

A Letter from Iris Court with Sketches of Henry Irving

Mortimer Menpes · · graphite on wove paper [Iris Court letterhead] ·  Accession ID  2009.70.165

Jan de Bisschop, The Death of Sapphira, brush and brown wash with black and red chalk on laid paper, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009.70.44

The Death of Sapphira

Jan de Bisschop · · brush and brown wash with black and red chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2009.70.44