White (Peter Robert Russell 1921-1985). An album of watercolour sketches drawn by White whilst on a motorbike camping trip to western France in July 1954, showing examples of people of all ages and their dress, vehicles, shops and buildings and everyday objects and utensils, many with neat ink notes identifying details and their significance, drawn on 56 leaves and back to back throughout, including six double-page watercolour views, 32 single-page watercolour views, two single-page pen and ink views, the remaining leaves with half-page and smaller composite illustrations, mostly in pen, ink and watercolour, 11 pages of studies of arms, hands and legs, Peter White's ownership detail to front pastedown, original boards, worn and lacking half of lower board, upper board cracked and soiled, crude linen reback, oblong 8vo (12 x 16cm), together with a second sketchbook of White's from a visit to Stokesby, Norfolk, July 1951, containing 20 rough mostly fibre pen sketches of human figures, a few rough vignettes of horses, a watercolour and pencil head-and-shoulders portrait, drawn on rectos and versos of 12 stiff card leaves, one further pen and ink sketch of three figures on blue paper loosely inserted, a few of White's pencil notes on grounds and gesso at rear, remaining leaves blank, contemporary cloth with frayed tie, rubbed and soiled, oblong 8vo (15 x 20.5cm) (Qty: 2) Peter White studied at Camberwell College of Arts and at the Royal Academy School, graduating in 1951. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers in the Second World War and an archive of his including an illustrated diary, 1938-1944, and a typescript of his memoir of wartime service was sold by Christies, London, 6 June 2007, lot 120 (£30,000); now held by the National Library of Scotland, Acc.12886. The account with some of his drawings were reproduced in With the Jocks (Sutton, 2001). After the war White toured Europe, either by motorbike or by car towing a caravan, making his living by writing, painting, illustrating geography textbooks and teaching English and French. On his return to England in 1966 he set up in business painting commissions of portraits and landscapes, with customers on both sides of the Atlantic. After his marriage to Elizabeth Colchester in 1972 they lived in Aldborough, Suffolk, where he kept his studio until his death from a heart attack in 1985.
White (Peter Robert Russell 1921-1985). An album of watercolour sketches drawn by White whilst on a motorbike camping trip to western France in July 1954, showing examples of people of all ages and their dress, vehicles, shops and buildings and everyday objects and utensils, many with neat ink notes identifying details and their significance, drawn on 56 leaves and back to back throughout, including six double-page watercolour views, 32 single-page watercolour views, two single-page pen and ink views, the remaining leaves with half-page and smaller composite illustrations, mostly in pen, ink and watercolour, 11 pages of studies of arms, hands and legs, Peter White's ownership detail to front pastedown, original boards, worn and lacking half of lower board, upper board cracked and soiled, crude linen reback, oblong 8vo (12 x 16cm), together with a second sketchbook of White's from a visit to Stokesby, Norfolk, July 1951, containing 20 rough mostly fibre pen sketches of human figures, a few rough vignettes of horses, a watercolour and pencil head-and-shoulders portrait, drawn on rectos and versos of 12 stiff card leaves, one further pen and ink sketch of three figures on blue paper loosely inserted, a few of White's pencil notes on grounds and gesso at rear, remaining leaves blank, contemporary cloth with frayed tie, rubbed and soiled, oblong 8vo (15 x 20.5cm) (Qty: 2) Peter White studied at Camberwell College of Arts and at the Royal Academy School, graduating in 1951. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers in the Second World War and an archive of his including an illustrated diary, 1938-1944, and a typescript of his memoir of wartime service was sold by Christies, London, 6 June 2007, lot 120 (£30,000); now held by the National Library of Scotland, Acc.12886. The account with some of his drawings were reproduced in With the Jocks (Sutton, 2001). After the war White toured Europe, either by motorbike or by car towing a caravan, making his living by writing, painting, illustrating geography textbooks and teaching English and French. On his return to England in 1966 he set up in business painting commissions of portraits and landscapes, with customers on both sides of the Atlantic. After his marriage to Elizabeth Colchester in 1972 they lived in Aldborough, Suffolk, where he kept his studio until his death from a heart attack in 1985.
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