19thC.  British School

        James McNeill Whistler.              Mortimer Luddington Menpes           

Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1855-1938)

Australian-born British artist was a student and protégée of James McNeill Whistler. An inveterate traveller, he created images of people and places from around the world. He was also very popular as a portraitist in London where some of the most famous and powerful figures of the age sat for him. Menpes was one of the foremost figures in British Japonisme and one of the first Western painters to travel to Japan to study Japanese art seriously. He went first in 1887 and again in 1896.

Although he also worked well in oil and watercolour, Menpes excelled at etching. Constantly experimenting, and a master of technique, he always printed his works himself, often varying each image through his choice of ink and paper and by exquisitely subtle wiping. Menpes became one of the most popular and widely exhibited artists of his generation.

 
 


FOUNTAINS OF VERSAILLES - 1893

18,5 by 23,4 cm on plate border,25,5 x 28,5 cm for the sheet

Original etching and dry point in black,Signed by the artist in Pencil
Menpes Inventory number written in his own hand in pencil: 364
From the famous Sotheby's sale 25/10/1995 Lot 290
This print is sold
 


WARWICK: CHURCH OF ST JAMES

25,1 by 29,1cm on plate border
28 x 47,5 cm for the sheet

Original etching and dry point in black
on laid paper, signed by the artist in pencil
Menpes Inventory number written in his own hand in pencil: 236 - Atlas 28698
From the famous Sotheby's sale 25/10/1995 Lot 397


This print is sold
 

WARWICK CASTLE: CHURCH OF ST JAMES

15 by 16,5 cm on plate border
17,8 x 23 cm for the sheet

Original etching in black
Signed by the artist in pencil
Menpes Inventory number written in his own hand in pencil: 216
From the famous Sotheby's sale 25/10/1995 Lot 400

Price: 160 EURO

 


COUNTRY INN COURTYARD - 1914

19,8 by 15 cm on plate border
22,8 x 18 cm for the sheet

Original etching and dry point in black
Signed by the artist in pencil
Menpes Inventory number written in his own hand in pencil: 223
From the famous Sotheby's sale 25/10/1995 Lot 378

This print is sold
 


HATFIELD: OLD COURTYARD - 1914

14 by 17,7 cm on plate border
23,5 x 28,8 cm for the sheet

Original etching and dry point in black
Signed by the artist in pencil and in the plate
Menpes Inventory number written in his own hand in pencil: 297
From the famous Sotheby's sale 25/10/1995 Lot 357

Price: 180 EURO


STREET SCENE MEXICO - 1890

20,2 by 25,2 cm on plate border
25 x 32,7 cm for the sheet

Original etching and dry point in black and brown
Unsigned, on heavy ad | Co watermarked paper

From the famous Sotheby's sale 25/10/1995 Lot 305
This print is sold
 


VILLAGE SCENE

20,2 by 25,3 cm on plate border
25 x 32,7 cm for the sheet

Original etching and dry point in black
Signed by the artist in Pencil
Menpes Inventory number written in his own hand in pencil: 226

Price: 400 EURO

 

 

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