Autumn Fine Art

daughter of Sir Alexander Gibson of Durie, "Lady Touchadam", wearing a pearl necklace and earrings, bust-length, oval, inscribed, oil on canvas, 75cm x 62cm, apparently retaining the original carved giltwood frame, bearing a label inscribed "Anna Gibson married John Murray 1693".

Provenance: The Murray family at Polmaise Castle, Cambusbarron, Scotland, and thence by descent.

wife of John Hamilton of Barns, 1751, bust-length, oval, oil on canvas,
75cm x 64cm, and the companion portrait of a gentleman, presumably her husband, John Hamilton (2)

Provenance: The Murray family at Polmaise Castle, Cambusbarron, Scotland, and thence by descent.

seated in an interior gazing upwards, inscribed on a label on the reverse identifying the sitter and the artist as "Sir Joshua Reynolds" and with the date 1773, oil on canvas, 127cm x 102cm

Provenance: The Murray family at Polmaise Castle, Cambusbarron, Scotland, and thence by descent.

This powerful portrait was traditionally identified as a work by Sir Joshua Reynolds as indicated by the old label on the frame. Current opinion is that a full attribution to David Martin is more tenable.

oil on canvas, 59cm x 44cm, and the companion portrait of an old woman, in fine 18th century carved giltwood frames (2)

Provenance: The Brymer family at Ilsington House, Puddletown, Dorset and thence by descent.

The reverse of each of the paintings with various inscriptions in pencil, chalk and on labels.

identified on the reverse as "The Scoundrel" wearing a blue cloak and a white undershirt, the reverse with an inscription suggesting the painting is possibly a "Newton" and stating that it was previously hung in "Corfe Cottage, Somerset", oil on canvas, 68cm x 56cm, in a contemporary carved giltwood frame

wearing a blue dress with a red lining, half-length, in a feigned oval, oil on canvas, 74cm x 62cm, in a carved giltwood and gesso frame of late 17th century design

wearing armour, bust-length, in a feigned oval, oil on canvas, 73cm x 63cm, in a later moulded and beaded giltwood frame.

traditionally identified as the actress Harriet Powell as Leonora Carrington in "The Padlock", oil on canvas, 60cm x 45cm, in an associated Kentian giltwood frame with projecting ears containing stylised flowerheads and a "sanded" ground within gadrooned and "egg and dart" borders

Provenance: From the Estate of the late Rufus Eyre, Esq.

The Royal Party, probably depicting Charles II flanked by James, Duke of York and Henry, Duke of Gloucester in a barge, oil on canvas, 40cm x 35cm

Provenance: The Jeffree Will Trust Settlement

circa 1600, indistinctly signed, oil on canvas, 75cm x 87cm

oils on canvas, 32.5cm x 47.5cm, in Florentine carved giltwood frames with a gadrooned inner moulding (2)

with figures on horseback beside an avenue of trees, with a classical temple beside a lake beyond, oil on canvas, 28.5cm x 37.5cm, in a later burrwood and parcel-gilt frame.

Provenance: Private collection, Sussex

an infant in a wicker walker and her parents in an interior, signed lower right, oil on panel, 57cm x 71cm

oil on board, 39.5cm by 52cm; together with a portrait miniature of the artist, watercolour on card, 9.5cm by 7cm (2)

Peter Swan was a soldier and amateur artist enlisted in the “Royal Scots Greys” 18th October 1805.

Provenance: by descent in the family of the artist.

two views framed as a pair, oils, one on canvas and one on panel, 26cm x 37cm

oil on board, 26.5cm x 44cm

Provenance: The Allhusen family

signed lower left, oil on canvas, 75cm x 126cm

Provenance: The Estate of the late Rufus Eyre

signed and dated '84 lower left, oil on canvas, 44cm x 74cm

Provenance: The Estate of the late Rufus Eyre

monogrammed lower left, oil on canvas, 17cm x 24.5cm

Provenance: The Estate of the late Rufus Eyre

with a tall ship to the distance, oil on canvas, 15cm x 30cm; together with the companion view of a serene beach at sunrise, oil on canvas, 14.5cm x 29cm (2)

Provenance: The Estate of the late Rufus Eyre

with a figure walking along the coast to the foreground, monogrammed lower left, oil on canvas, 30cm x 50cm

Provenance: The Estate of the late Rufus Eyre

the sitter depicted half-length seated in an interior, wearing a lace bonnet and collar over black mourning dress, an ivory fan in her left hand, c. 1850, oil on canvas, 90cm x 70cm

Lady Parsons (nee Charlotte Worgan, 1761-1853) was the wife of Sir William Parsons, composer and musician and Master of the King's Musick between 1786-1817.

Provenance: The Estate of the Late Rufus Eyre

signed lower right, oil on canvas, tondo, 41cm x 41cm

Provenance: Bought by Charles Norman Rippingale (1906-1984) in the 1960's and by descent.

signed and dated '81 lower right, oil on canvas, 18cm x 22cm

Provenance: The Main House, Glanvilles Wootton, sold in Dorchester, 30th June 1920 (5 ½ guineas) to Mrs Holford (according to a label on the reverse)