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Wednesday 5th April at 10.30am
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Head of Sale:
| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 |
A 19TH CENTURY PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN
with inscription to the reverse, in an unmarked yellow metal mount, 8.5cm high
Provenance: A private Dorset collection of miniatures. |
£50 - £100 | £180 | View |
| 50 |
A REGENCY PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF ‘CHARLOTTE PAGER’
early 19th century, inscribed to the reverse, in an unmarked yellow metal mount, 7.5cm high
Provenance: A private Dorset collection of miniatures. |
£200 - £400 | £320 | View |
| 51 |
A REGENCY PORTRAIT MINIATURE SIGNED ‘J GILLIS’
early 19th century, depicting a gentleman in a double breasted coat, label to the reverse for ‘Burlington Fine Arts Club’, 7cm high
Provenance: A private Dorset collection of miniatures. |
£100 - £200 | £120 | View |
| 52 |
A GEORGE III PORTRAIT MINIATURE
Late 18th/early 19th century, depicting a young gentleman, in an unmarked yellow metal mount, with tooled and silvered reverse, 6cm high
Provenance: A private Dorset collection of miniatures. |
£200 - £400 | £110 | View |
| 53 |
AN 18TH CENTURY PORTRAIT MINIATURE
of a finely dressed gentleman, in an unmarked yellow metal locket, the opposing side of the locket contains a tied lock of hair, 3.2cm high
Provenance: A private Dorset collection of miniatures. |
£150 - £250 | £750 | View |
| 54 |
SPARE LOT
SPARE LOT
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£80 - £150 | - | View |
| 55 |
MANNER OF NICOLAS de LARMESSIN II (1634-1694) ‘Les Costumes Grotesques Et Les Metiers’
a suite of eight drawings, each showing a stylised character, usually itinerant workers, merchants or street vendors, in the manner of Arcimboldo, the figure is portrayed in the accoutrement of his…
|
£5,000 - £8,000 | - | View |
| 56 |
ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCIS COTES (1726-1770) A portrait of a lady
wearing gold hoop earrings and a blue sash, bust length, pastel on paper laid on canvas, 60cm high x 45.5cm wide
|
£500 - £1,000 | £550 | View |
| 57 |
ENGLISH SCHOOL, 18th century
A portrait of a lady in Van Dyck dress, her hair worn déshabillé, said to be Susannah Crespigny, married Richard Sutton, Esq. and died in 1767, inscribed on the backboard with the identity of the…
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£300 - £500 | £450 | View |
| 58 |
HENRY ASHTON (1801-1872) ‘View at Fonthill, 1827’
watercolour, inscribed on a label on the reverse 29cm x 41cm
Provenance: The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London W1, June 1953. |
£500 - £1,000 | - | View |
| 59 |
AGNES BOUVIER (1842-c.1892) A portrait of a young girl
watercolour on paper, signed lower left, 41cm high x 33cm wide, oval, in a giltwood and composition frame
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£100 - £200 | £230 | View |
| 60 |
ARCHIBALD THORBURN (1860-1935) A Ptarmigan in mid plume
signed lower left, watercolour, 20cm high x 26.5cm wide
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£3,000 - £5,000 | £3,200 | View |
| 61 |
ARCHIBALD THORBURN (1860-1935) A grouse in a landscape
signed and dated 1907 lower right, watercolour, 26cm high x 18cm wide
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£3,000 - £5,000 | £5,000 | View |
| 62 |
AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520) The vision of Ezekiel
early 18th century, inscribed verso indistinctly ‘Simon Dequoy 1707’ (possibly Pierre-Simon Dequoy 1698-1764), oil on copper, 48cm x 38cm, in later gilt swept frame
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£500 - £1,000 | £1,200 | View |
| 63 |
MANNER OF ANNIBALE CARRACCI (1560-1609) Christ and the Samaritan woman
oil on canvas, 72cm x 62cm, in a 17th style century stripped frame, the reverse with a red seal on the stretcher
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£500 - £1,000 | £700 | View |
| 64 |
AFTER ANTHONY VAN DYCK (1599-1641) A portrait of Henrietta Maria
17th century, oil on canvas, 71.5cm high x 60cm wide
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£500 - £1,000 | £1,400 | View |
| 65 |
ASCRIBED TO CLAUDE-JOSEPH VERNET (1714-1789) ‘Sunrise: The Fishermens Departure’
oil on canvas, 93cm x 101cm
Provenance: With Leonard Ferdinand Koetser, London Purchased at Christie’s, 8th March 1946, lot 98 Sold by Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, 31st May 1948, as Vernet The… |
£5,000 - £10,000 | £5,000 | View |
| 66 |
GUILLAUME DUBOIS (1620-1680) A wooded landscape with figures and horses on a path
oil on panel, 37cm high x 54.5cm wide
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£1,000 - £2,000 | - | View |
| 67 |
AFTER ABRAHAM RAGUINEAU (1623-c.1681) 'Portrait of a Young Man in Grey'
inscribed to the reverse "copied by Muriel C. Hartirdge, 1902", oil on canvas, 68cm high x 56cm wide
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£300 - £500 | £550 | View |
| 68 |
AFTER DAVID III TENIERS (Belgian 1638-1685) 'The Musicians'
oil on cradled panel, 26cm high x 20cm wide
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£300 - £500 | £700 | View |
| 69 |
ENGLISH SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY A pair of portraits of a gentleman and a lady
c. 1770, thought to be Abraham Desormeaux and his wife or sister, oils on canvas, each 32cm x 25cm (oval)
Note: Louis Desormeaux was a Huguenot originally from Rouen, who settled in Spitalfields c… |
£200 - £300 | £300 | View |
| 70 |
ATTRIBUTED TO MICHAEL DAHL (1656/59-1743) A portrait of Catherine Plumer with her child
seated three-quarter length, oil on canvas, 127cm high x 101.5cm wide
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£4,000 - £6,000 | - | View |
| 71 |
ATTRIBUTED TO JONATHAN RICHARDSON (1665-1745) A portrait of John Plumer
standing three-quarter length, before an arch, oil on canvas, 193cm x 152.5cm
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£8,000 - £15,000 | - | View |
| 72 |
JOHN VANDERBANK (1694-1739) A portrait of Walter Plumer, Esq.,
three-quarter length wearing a red coat, signed and dated 1733, oil on canvas, 127cm high x 101.5cm wide
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£4,000 - £6,000 | - | View |
| 73 |
JOHN VANDERBANK (1694-1739) A portrait of Catherine, daughter of John Plumer, holding her baby
oil on canvas, 127cm high x 101.5cm wide
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£4,000 - £6,000 | - | View |
| 74 |
ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN VANDERBANK (1694-1739) A portrait of William Plumer
seated, three-quarter length wearing a brown coat, oil on canvas, 127cm high x 101.5cm wide
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£3,000 - £5,000 | - | View |
| 75 |
FOLLOWER OF JOHN VANDERBANK (1694-1739) A portrait of Anne Pleydell (née Luttrell of Dunster Castle)
half-length, oil on canvas, 74.5cm high x 62cm wide
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£500 - £1,000 | £700 | View |
| 76 |
JOHN VANDERBANK (1694-1739) A portrait of Thomas Lennard Barrett, XVI Lord Dacre (1717-1786)
circa 1730, 74cm x 62cm
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£2,000 - £4,000 | - | View |
| 77 |
FOLLOWER OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS PRA (1723-1792) A portrait of Mrs Lloyd inscribing her name on a tree
half-length, oil on canvas, 73cm high x 61cm wide
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£1,000 - £2,000 | £1,200 | View |
| 78 |
CHARLES BROOKING (1723-1759) 'The Morning Gun'
oil on canvas laid on panel, 47.5cm high x 64cm wide
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£4,500 - £7,500 | £4,500 | View |
| 79 |
CHARLES MARTIN POWELL (1775-1824) Shipping in a calm sea
oil on panel, 45cm x 59cm
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£3,000 - £5,000 | £3,000 | View |
| 80 |
ASCRIBED TO JOHN CROME (1768-1821) A river landscape
with figures fishing to the foreground, in a 19th century carved giltwood and gesso frame, 125cm high x 100cm wide
Provenance: A private Hampshire estate. |
£500 - £1,000 | £500 | View |
| 81 |
JOHN SKINNER CLIFTON (1822-1889) 'A Merrie Conceited Jest' or 'Childe Roland and the Queen's Dwarf '
a Shakesperean scene depicting a young man laughing at the Queen's dwarf and monkey standing before him as the group take rest at a well, a tower looming through the trees to the distance, signed in…
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£1,000 - £2,000 | £1,800 | View |
| 82 |
JANE VIVIAN (act.1869-1877) A pair of Venetian scenes
signed lower left, oil on canvas, 43.5cm high x 79cm wide, in carved giltwood and composition frames (2)
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£1,000 - £2,000 | £7,000 | View |
| 83 |
GEORGE SHALDERS (1826-1873) Cattle Watering
signed and dated ‘56, oil on canvas, 61cm x 106cm
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£300 - £400 | £480 | View |
| 84 |
AFTER WILLIAM FREDERICK YEAMES (1835-1918) 'And When Did You Last See Your Father?'
oil on canvas, 81cm high x 166cm wide, in a moulded giltwod and composition frame
Note: the original work is in the Walker Art gallery, Liverpool, accession number WAG 2679. |
£800 - £1,500 | £2,800 | View |
| 85 |
C.U. WARD AFTER GRIESBACH, ‘An Audience for Lord Chesterfield’
inscribed to stretcher in ink ‘Griesbach’ and dated 1885, oil on canvas 36cm x 48cm
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£300 - £400 | - | View |
| 86 |
GEORGINA LARA (act.1840-1880) A pair of countryside scenes
both depicting farmhouses with figures and horses to the foreground, oils on canvas, each 48cm high x 74cm wide (2)
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£400 - £600 | £650 | View |
| 87 |
JOSEPH BAILE (1862-1921) A portrait of a gentlemen seated composing at a piano
traditionally identified as Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934), signed and dated 1915 lower left, oil on canvas, 58cm x 72cm, in a painted Art Deco style frame with a metal label inscribed “Edward Elgar”
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£1,000 - £2,000 | - | View |
| 88 |
WALTER HUTCHESON (1869-1910) ‘The Packman’
figures in a cottage interior, signed lower left, further signed and titled verso, oil on canvas, 59cm x 51cm
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£400 - £600 | - | View |
| 89 |
MILLSON HUNT (FL. 1875-1900) Shipwreck scene
signed and dated 1883, oil on canvas 45cm x 81cm
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£200 - £300 | £400 | View |
| 90 |
JD KINNERSLEY (?), ROCKING THE BABY TO SLEEP
oil on canvas, 34cm x 43cm
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£300 - £400 | £240 | View |
| 91 |
GEORGE HERING (1884-1936) A lake view in summer
possibly Windermere, signed and dated 1911, oil on canvas, 51cm x 75cm
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£150 - £200 | £50 | View |
| 92 |
FRANCIS E. JAMIESON (1895-1950) 'Loch Etive'
Aberdeenshire landscape, signed, oil on canvas, 40cm x 60cm
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£200 - £300 | £350 | View |
| 93 |
FRANCIS E. JAMIESON (1895-1950) ‘Loch Katrine’
Perthshire landscape, signed, oil on canvas, 41cm x 60cm
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£200 - £300 | £190 | View |
| 94 |
A MARBLE GROUP OF VENUS INSTRUCTING CUPID
the young god seated on a pedestal reading, whilst Venus looks on, 108cm high
Note: A similar French 18th century example is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number 14.40.671. |
£1,000 - £2,000 | £3,400 | View |
| 95 |
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, A MARBLE BUST OF PLAUTILLA
18th/19th century, 49cm high
Note: The original 2nd century AD Roman bust is currently held in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, inventory number 1914 n. 218. |
£500 - £1,000 | £400 | View |
| 96 |
A WHITE MARBLE BUST OF A YOUTH
carved with face downcast and tied hair, 43cm high
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£300 - £500 | £550 | View |
