Helen Allingham

Helen Allingham RWS (1848 - 1926) 'Winter Landscape with Lady Gathering Wood for Kindling' Watercolour on paper, signed lower right, 13.5 x 22.5cm Footnote: Helen Allingham was a celebrated Victorian artist whose work is often delicately painted and features scenes of rural life in England. She was one of the first women to train at the Royal Academy and the first woman member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours.

Helen Allingham 1848 - 1926 Helen Allingham (1848 - 1926) watercolour, rural cottage scene with figures titled 'A Gloucestershire Cottage Under The Cotswold Hills', signed lower right hand corner, 13.75" x 11.5" (35cm x 29cm) Colours faded, some surface marks and stains, some surface scratches. Glass missing, heavy losses to moulded gilding on frame. Please note:Due to the size and vulnerability of the items in our Antiques & Fine Art auctions we are unable to post out these items "in house". We do, however recommend a selection of packaging and shipping companies. For national and international deliveries, we suggest: IJK Couriers07917 500522 Email: info@ijkcouriers. co. uk www. ijkcouriers. co. uk Alban Shipping01582 493 099 Email: info@albanshipping. co. uk www. albanshipping. co. uk

Helen Allingham, R.W.S. (1848-1926) Outside a country cottage, near Witley, Surrey signed 'H. Allingham' (lower left) pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and with scratching out on paper 11¼ x 8¾ in. (28.5 x 22.3 cm.) Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 26-27 April 1989, lot 457. R. Nevill, Old Cottage and Domestic Architecture in South West Surrey, Guildford, 1891, p. 64. A. Watts, Helen Allingham's Cottage Homes Revisited, Godalming, 2002, p. 64 Many of the timber-framed cottages inhabited by Allingham's neighbours around Sandhills became subjects of her watercolours, and she painted many of them several times, all slightly different; the building in the present watercolour is unmistakable, such was her attention to architectural detail. There are two other known paintings featuring this cottage, which was home to a family of eight by the name of Gale when Helen Allingham knew it. We are grateful to Annabel Watts for her help in preparing this catalogue entry.

Helen Allingham, R.W.S. (1848-1926) Study for 'The Convalescent' signed 'H. Allingham' (lower right) pencil and watercolour 3¼ x 2¾ in. (8.3 x 7 cm.) with Laurence Oxley, Alresford, Hampshire. A charming study for a larger watercolour 'The Convalescent', illustrated in Marcus Huish's Happy England, this work creates a sense of intimacy whilst promoting the idea of the restorative powers of sleep. The adult model may have been Mrs Stewart, who along with her husband sat for Allingham for several years, and who also posed for 'The Clothes Line' in the same year as this, 1879.

Helen Mary Elizabeth Allingham, R.W.S. (1848-1926) 'Cottage at Bothenhampton, Dorset' signed 'H.Allingham' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed 'Water . Colour/Helen Allingham (M r s . W. Allingham)/Eldon House, Lyndhurst Road/Hampstead, London/NW./Cottage at Bothenhampton, Dorset' (on an exhibition label attached to the reverse) watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out 10¼ x 9 1/8 in. (26 x 23.2 cm.) Exhibited London, Latin-British Exhibition, 1912, no. 6450.