Arts and Crafts movement.- Strang (William) Three silverpoint portraits, one of Laurence W. Hodson (of Compton Hall, 1864-1933), and two of his son, William, silverpoints on prepared paper, each signed and dated ''96', each image approx. 250 x 170 mm (9 3/4 x 6 3/4 in), under glass, uniformly framed in modern box frames, 1896; together with two fine watercolours by Ernest Albert Chadwick (1876–1955) of the house and garden of Laurence W. Hodson at Bradbourne Hall, watercolours on card, each signed, both 265 x 370 mm (10 1/2 x 14 1/2 in), under glass in uniform white box frames, [early to mid-19th century] (5)

Provenance:
Commissioned by Laurence W. Hodson (1864-1933);
Thence by descent.

⁂ Exceptionally fine metalpoint drawings; a traditional drawing technique in which a thin metal stylus, usually of silver, is used with paper that has been prepared with an abrasive coating traditionally made from powdered bone and gum-water. As the point is drawn along the surface, tiny traces of metal are left behind creating a delicate and very precise line. Strang was trained in the use of this highly disciplined drawing medium, by his teacher Alphons Legros, who was one of the chief exponents of this resurgence in the second half of the 19th century.

Laurence W. Hodson (1864-1933) was an art collector and patron of William Morris and other leading artists of the Arts and Crafts movement.