Percy Frederick Seaton Spence, Australian 1868-1933- Going for the Doctor; Merrylegs; He looked me all over; each watercolour and bodycolour heightened with white on paper, each signed 'lower right', each titled and numbered (in the lower margin), the first and second titled and numbered (on the reverse), each 24 x 17 cm., three (3), (unframed). Provenance: Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 December 2019, lot 253. Note: Three of the original watercolour designs for the plates in ‘Black Beauty’ by Anna Sewell (published by A&C Black Ltd in 1932, illustrated by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence). Born in Sydney, and spending his youth in Fiji, Spence then gained employment an illustrator to the Sydney Daily Telegraph, Illustrated Sydney News, and The Bulletin, and exhibited at the Royal Art Society. In 1893, he made two drawings of Robert Louis Stevenson in Sydney: one is now in the National Portrait Gallery, London [NPG1184]. In 1894, he moved to England, and worked as illustrator for Punch, Black and White, and the Graphic. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1899-1902 inclusive. In 1905 Spence was back in Sydney and held a one-man show of his work. He was a prolific watercolourist.Please refer to department for condition report