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Miniature watercolour after Titian's 'Bacchus and Ariadne'
c. 1830
Undated miniature watercolour after Titian's 'Bacchus and Ariadne' by Edward Petre Novello. The original painting had been purchased for the National Gallery in 1826, so it is likely that Edward encou...
Paintings
c. 1830
Two undated oil paintings, one portrait of Emma Aloysia Novello by (John) Henry Sass and one untitled portrait after James Northcote by Emma Aloysia Novello.
untitled oil sketch [portrait after James Northcote]
c. 1830
Undated oil sketch on canvas after James Northcote (1746-1831) depicting the head and shoulders of a person with long brown hair. On the reverse of the stretcher is a fragment of a paper label, inscri...
untitled oil sketch [portrait of Emma Aloysia Novello by Henry Sass]
c. 1830
Undated portrait of Emma Aloysia Novello by (John) Henry Sass. An inscription on the reverse reads: 'Oil sketch of Emma Aloysia Novello Painted by Mr. Sass when she was a pupil at his Academy of Desig...
Drawings
1831-1853
Pencil drawings and sketches by Emma Aloysia Novello, the majority of which are after the antique and most likely copied from plaster casts as part of her artistic training. It is possible that they d...
untitled watercolour [biblical scene]
c. 1850
Untitled and undated watercolour on paper, likely of a biblical scene, possibly of Jesus in his cave tomb surrounded by three figures, with figure studies in pencil on the reverse, by Emma Aloysia Nov...
Drawing titled 'La curiosité'
c. 1850
Undated mounted pencil on paper drawing titled 'La curiosité', with a figure revealing a canvas on an easel and a copy of the Venus de Milo on the right, by Emma Aloysia Novello. The drawing appears ...
untitled oil sketch [grisaille figures]
c. 1830
Undated grisaille oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, of two figures in the foreground who appear to be holding something together (perhaps the head of Samson or Goliath) with two figures in the backg...
untitled oil sketch [figures in a bedroom]
c. 1830
Undated oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, of figures surrounding a person in bed, who appears to be attended to by a standing figure in the background and several seated figures in the foreground, o...
untitled oil sketch [figures under a tree]
c. 1830
Undated oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, of a scene with eleven seated and standing figures around a large tree. The central figure is bearded and wearing a red cape, holding a small stringed instr...
untitled oil sketch [bacchante with two cupids]
c. 1830
Undated oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, of a recumbent nude bacchante figure in a rural landscape with two cupids. Inscribed on the reverse: 'Sketch a Bachante'.
Portraits of
1820-1850
Portraits of Mary Sabilla Novello in watercolour, reverse silhouette, glass negatives, newspaper cuttings and oil paintings.