£500 - £800
WILLIAM STEPHEN COLEMAN, 1829 - 1904, ENGLISH PAINTER AND BOOK ILLUSTRATOR, A PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY AESTHETIC MOVEMENT OVAL WATERCOLOUR AND PASTEL STUDIES
Of small semi clad dancing children in mythological Oriental settings, painted with subtle flesh tones, both signed bottom right ‘W.S. Coleman’, in original period gilded frames, later repainted with untouched verso, Circa 1860 - 1870.
(29cm x 20.5cm)
N.B. William Stephen Coleman, Director of Minton Art Pottery at Kensington Gore, leading artist factory survived only 3 years before being burned down in 1873, its possible to suggest that watercolours were designed by Artist for Kensington Gore Pottery Production, based on artistic ground
Condition: good overall, in accordance with age
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