For much of his life, Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821 - 1906) pleased himself as a gentleman traveller, producing luminous, loosely handled watercolours of favourite paintings and places (including India, which he visited in 1870, 1875 and 1876). Admired by John Ruskin as an heir to J M W Turner, he joined the eminent critic on a sketching tour to northern France in 1880. Yet his startling modernity was probably recognised only in the 1890s, by a younger generation of artists, which included John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert and Philip Wilson Steer. Through their enthusiasm, he was elected a member of the New English Art Club in 1891, and held the first of a series of solo shows at the Goupil Gallery in the following year.
For more information on Hercules Brabazon Brabazon see part 1, and for other works, see parts 1 - 6 also.
This is part 7 of 7 on the works of Hercules Brabazon Brabazon:
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n.d. The Sphinx
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour 22.9 x 29.8 cm |
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n.d. Tivoli
pastel on tinted paper 19.7 x 24.8 cm |
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n.d. Tivoli
watercolour 11.4 x 15.6 cm
The British Museum, London |
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n.d. Tivoli
watercolour 25.4 x 17.5 cm
The British Museum, London |
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n.d. Tivoli
watercolour, gouache and chalk 14.3 x 16.8 cm
Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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n.d. Tivoli, after J.M.W. Turner
watercolour 19.1 x 32.5 cm
The British Museum, London
( see below ) |
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View of Tivoli from the Valley, with the Cascatelli and the Santuario di Ercole Vincitore by J.M.W. Turner 1819
pencil and watercolour on wove paper 25.3 x 40.5 cm
Tate, London |
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n.d. Tivoli: View of the Valley from the Hillside
watercolour 21.3 x 32.6 cm
The British Museum, London |
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n.d. Toulon: View from Shore out to Sea
pencil and watercolour 14 x 24.7 cm
The British Museum, London |
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n.d. Trees by a Lake
pencil and watercolour 24.8 x 15.2 cm |
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n.d. Tunis
pastel with touches of watercolour 16 x 22 cm |
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n.d. Tunis
pencil 17.5 x 28 cm
Private Collection |
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n.d. Tunis
watercolour on blue tinted paper 15.2 x 22.9 cm |
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n.d. Two Figures
pencil, watercolour and gouache 21.6 x 31.8 cm
Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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n.d. Venetian Capriccio with a Campanile
watercolour and gouache over pencil on grey wove paper
13 x 22.1 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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n.d. Venetian Scene, after J.M.W. Turner
watercolour 16 x 25.5 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
( Turner reference not found ) |
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n.d. Venetian Street Scene
watercolour 17.3 x 21.7 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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n.d. Venice
13.9 x 17.9 cm
Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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n.d. Venice Canal Scene
watercolour 23.1 x 31.4 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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n.d. Venice
charcoal and pastel on tinted paper |
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n.d. Venice from the Lagoon
pencil and watercolour 15.2 cm high
Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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n.d. Venice Skyline
pastel 12.7 x 19 cm |
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n.d. Venice
watercolour and gouache 9 x 14 cm |
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n.d. Venice
watercolour ( and pastel? ) 13 x 20.1 cm
The British Museum, London |
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n.d. Venice
watercolour 15.2 x 22.5 cm
Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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n.d. Venice
watercolour 18.2 x 23.8 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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n.d. Venice
watercolour 24.5 x 34 cm
Private Collection |
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n.d. Venice
watercolour |
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n.d. Venice, after J.M.W.Turner
watercolour 15.2 x 22 cm
The British Museum, London
( see below ) |
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Venice from the Giudecca by J.M.W. Turner 1840
oil on canvas 61 x 91.4 cm
Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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n.d. Venice, after J.M.W.Turner
watercolour 21.9 x 29.6 cm
The British Museum, London |
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n.d. Venice
pastel |
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n.d. Venice
pastel |
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n.d. Venice: Shipping Moored off the Riva degli Schiavoni,
a Souvenir of J.M.W. Turner
watercolour on paper
( see below ) |
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Venice: Shipping Moored off the Riva degli Schiavoni
by J.M.W. Turner 1840
watercolour and gouache on paper 24.6 x 30.5 cm
Tate, London |
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n.d. Venice, the Doge’s Palace and the Campanile
watercolour and pastel |
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n.d. Venice, the Doge’s Palace and the Campanile
watercolour and pastel |
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n.d. Venice, the View Towards Fusina
pencil, watercolour and gouache 19 x 29 cm |
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n.d. Venice: The Salute, Campanile and Doge’s Palace
from the Giudecca
watercolour and gouache on paper 17.8 x 23.5 cm
Tate, London |
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n.d. Vesuvius
watercolour 14.6 x 22.4 cm
The British Museum, London |
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n.d. View at Oaklands
pastel 15.2 x 23.5 cm
Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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n.d. View from the Quayside of Sailing Boats at Furio Ischia
watercolour 22.2 x 29.6 cm
The British Museum, London |
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n.d. View in Rome, after William James Müller
watercolour 13 x 23 cm
The British Museum, London
( Müller reference not found ) |
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n.d. View in Switzerland
watercolour 14.5 x 22.8 cm
The British Museum, London |
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n.d. View of a Citadel
watercolour 14 x 18.5 cm
Private Collection |
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n.d. View of a River
pastel 8 x 14 cm |
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n.d. View of Hills near Bristol
watercolour 24.3 x 34.3 cm
The British Museum, London |
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n.d. View of Nice
watercolour 21/3 x 26 cm
Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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n.d. View of Rome
watercolour 15 x 22 cm
Private Collection |
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n.d. Villa Arson
pastel on tinted paper 15.2 x 20.9 cm |
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n.d. Villa Arson, Nice
pastel 35.6 x 50.8 cm |
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n.d. Villa Arson, Nice
pencil, watercolour and pastel on grey paper 20.9 x 25.4 cm |
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n.d. Walls of a North African City
watercolour over pencil on laid paper 11.2 x 18.6 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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n.d. Wooded Moonlight
black and white chalk on tinted paper 15.2 x 22.9 cm |
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n.d. Xochimilco Church, Mexico
watercolour and gouache on tinted paper 19 x 24.2 cm |
