The latter were a detailed ink and watercolour labelled Conversation with Smaug and a rough coloured pencil and ink sketch entitled Death of Smaug.

The sketch, made during a visit to the castle in 1809, provided the starting point for a later watercolour.

Training in art was considered a useful skill in the military for sketch maps and plans, and many British officers made the first Western images, often in watercolour, of scenes and places around the world.

Also dating from the 1850s are the thirty-three watercolour drawings titled Sketches to Illustrate the Passions, which include Grief or Sorrow, Love, and Jealousy, as well as Agony-Raving Madness and Murder.

HMS Beagle ( centre ), watercolour by Owen Stanley ( 1841 ) In 1830, Captain Robert FitzRoy, at the command of the first expedition of the famous Beagle, took a group of hostages from the Fuegian indigenous people after one of his boats was stolen.

This led to the creation of an imaginary world: the African kingdom of " Angria " which was illustrated with maps and watercolour renderings.

Although she was provided with private art lessons, Potter preferred to develop her own style, particularly favouring watercolour.

Her friend the geologist Henry De la Beche assisted her by commissioning Georg Scharf to make a lithographic print based on De la Beche's watercolour painting, Duria Antiquior, portraying life in prehistoric Dorset that was largely based on fossils Anning had found.

He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered to be one of the great oil painting and watercolour painters of the 20th century.

His House for an Art Lover was finally built in Glasgow's Bellahouston Park in 1996, and the University of Glasgow ( which owns the majority of his watercolour work ) rebuilt the interiors of a terraced house Mackintosh had designed, and furnished it with his and Margaret's work ( it is part of the University's Hunterian Museum ).

Barker was equally proficient in watercolour, pen and ink, oils, and pastels.

* Ink and wash painting, in Chinese Shui-mo or ( 水墨 ) also loosely termed watercolour or brush painting, and also known as " literati painting ", as it was one of the " Four Arts " of the Chinese Scholar-official class.

Denizard was directed to clean the picture without solvent, and to lightly touch up several scratches to the painting with watercolour.

After the second 1956 attack, restorer Jean-Gabriel Goulinat was directed to touch up the damage to Mona Lisas left elbow with watercolour.

A View of the Archbishop's Palace, Lambeth – this watercolour was Turner's first to be accepted for the Royal Academy's annual exhibition in April 1790, the month he turned fifteen.

His first watercolour A View of the Archbishop's Palace, Lambeth was accepted for the Summer Exhibition of 1790 when Turner was only 15.

His true master was Dr Monro ; to the practical teaching of that first patron and the wise simplicity of method of watercolour study, in which he was disciplined by him and companioned by Giston, the healthy and constant development of the greater power is primarily to be attributed ; the greatness of the power itself, it is impossible to over-estimate.

William Blake was inspired by Dante's description in his pencil, ink and watercolour " The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides " ( Tate Gallery, London ).

The staircase, shown in a watercolour perspective prepared by Axel Haig, was long thought never to have been built but recent research has shown that it was in fact constructed, only to be torn out in the 1930s.

Amongst his apprentices was Edmund Morison Wimperis, who became a notable watercolour landscape painter.

Although Lennon once said of the song that he " wasn't proud of that " and " I was just going through the motions ," in 1980 he described it as " pure, like a painting, a pure watercolour.

However, this was preceded by a watercolour of East Grinstead dated Sept 8th 1795.

He was unable to enter the Royal Academy Schools, but mastered watercolour, oils, and other media.

Samuel Prout ( September 17, 1783-February 10, 1852 ) was one of the masters of British watercolour architectural painting.

A small watercolour nearby records the appearance, as it was.

* Ink and wash painting, in Chinese Shui-mo or ( 水墨 ) also loosely termed watercolour or brush painting, and also known as " literati painting ", as it was one of the " Four Arts " of the Chinese Scholar-official class.

He also painted biblical and mythological subjects, displayed outstanding facility as a draftsman, and was an important innovator in watercolour and etching.

Sterne painted in Watercolor painting | watercolour by French artist Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, ca.

The geologist Henry De la Beche painted the influential watercolour Duria Antiquior in 1830 based largely on fossils found by Anning.

File: North carolina algonkin-dorf. jpg | watercolour painted by John White

File: North carolina algonkin-essen. jpg | Engraving by Theodor de Bry after a watercolour painted by John White

File: North carolina algonkin-fischen. jpg | Engraving by Theodor de Bry after a watercolour painted by John White

This is, unusually for a de luxe manuscript, on paper, and painted in watercolour.

In Grez, Larsson painted some of his most important works, now in watercolour and very different from the oil painting technique he had previously employed.

J. M. W. Turner painted a watercolour of " The Palace of the Fair Gabrielle " at Bougival ( private collection, U. S. A .).

Two large ancestor portraits of a husband and wife painted in watercolour on silk date from the 18th century.

A viewing of the paintings of John Constable and the watercolour sketches and art of Richard Parkes Bonnington prompted Delacroix to make extensive, freely painted changes to the sky and distant landscape.

There he drew with colored pencil ( a technique he developed in Scotland ), and painted many local landscape views in watercolour.

Beginning in 1853, with his watercolour, The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice, Rossetti painted Siddal in many works.

In 1985, Stonehouse painted a poignant watercolour of the four women from memory which now hangs in the Special Forces Club in London.

In 1985, SOE agent and painter Brian Stonehouse, who saw Andrée Borrel and the three other female SOE agents at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp just before their deaths, painted a poignant watercolour of the four women which now hangs in the Special Forces Club in London, England.

While there, Garling painted a watercolour landscape view showing the entrance to the river on the opposite side of Melville Water.

In 1985, SOE agent and painter Brian Stonehouse, who saw Rowden and the other female SOE agents at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp just before their deaths, painted a watercolour of the four women which now hangs in the Special Forces Club in London.

In 1736 only four houses remained in the village but St Peter's was still in use in 1927 and John Piper painted a watercolour of it in about 1940.

Over the years, he painted many pictures of the majestic sailing ships, mainly in watercolour, that were common until the 1930s.

This is, unusually for a de luxe manuscript, on paper, and painted in watercolour.

Most significantly, the ceiling was restored to its former Bodlian watercolour design, the original having been painted over in the 1960s due to deterioration.

J. M. W. Turner painted a watercolour view of Gledhow Hall in about 1816.

In the 18th century, miniatures were painted with watercolour on ivory.

Artist William Armstrong painted a watercolour painting of Old City Hall prior to its completion.