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Wednesday 5th April at 10.30am

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Head of Sale:

Guy Schwinge

Lot 49 Sold

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.

Hammer price: £180

Estimate: £50 - £100

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Lot 50 Sold

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.

Hammer price: £320

Estimate: £200 - £400

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Lot 51 Sold

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.

Hammer price: £120

Estimate: £100 - £200

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Lot 52 Sold

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.

Hammer price: £110

Estimate: £200 - £400

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Lot 53 Sold

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.

Hammer price: £750

Estimate: £150 - £250

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Lot 54 Unsold

SPARE LOT

Estimate: £80 - £150

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Lot 55 Unsold

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 particular trade or occupation, with the clothing, hats, etc. constructed out of the tools from his trade, ink on Islamic polished or burnished paper, some with Persian or Hindi/Devanagari script visible within the paper, each 33.5cm x 23.8cm (8)

Nicolas de Larmessin II was a seventeenth-century artist and engraver. The son of a bookseller, he…

Estimate: £5,000 - £8,000

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Lot 56 Sold

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

Hammer price: £550

Estimate: £500 - £1,000

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Lot 57 Sold

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 sitter and the date, pastel on paper, 59cm high x 46cm wide

Hammer price: £450

Estimate: £300 - £500

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Lot 58 Unsold

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.

Estimate: £500 - £1,000

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Lot 59 Sold

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

Hammer price: £230

Estimate: £100 - £200

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Lot 60 Sold

ARCHIBALD THORBURN (1860-1935) A Ptarmigan in mid plume

signed lower left, watercolour, 20cm high x 26.5cm wide

Hammer price: £3,200

Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000

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Lot 61 Sold

ARCHIBALD THORBURN (1860-1935) A grouse in a landscape

signed and dated 1907 lower right, watercolour, 26cm high x 18cm wide

Hammer price: £5,000

Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000

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Lot 62 Sold

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

Hammer price: £1,200

Estimate: £500 - £1,000

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Lot 63 Sold

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

Hammer price: £700

Estimate: £500 - £1,000

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Lot 64 Sold

AFTER ANTHONY VAN DYCK (1599-1641) A portrait of Henrietta Maria

17th century, oil on canvas, 71.5cm high x 60cm wide

Hammer price: £1,400

Estimate: £500 - £1,000

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Lot 65 Sold

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 collection of Lord Plunket
Sold by Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, 29th June 1956, as Vernet
Private Collection, East Sussex

Hammer price: £5,000

Estimate: £5,000 - £10,000

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Lot 66 Unsold

GUILLAUME DUBOIS (1620-1680) A wooded landscape with figures and horses on a path

oil on panel, 37cm high x 54.5cm wide

Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000

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Lot 67 Sold

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

Hammer price: £550

Estimate: £300 - £500

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Lot 68 Sold

AFTER DAVID III TENIERS (Belgian 1638-1685) 'The Musicians'

oil on cradled panel, 26cm high x 20cm wide

Hammer price: £700

Estimate: £300 - £500

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Lot 69 Sold

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.1680.

Hammer price: £300

Estimate: £200 - £300

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Lot 70 Unsold

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

Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000

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Lot 71 Unsold

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

Estimate: £8,000 - £15,000

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Lot 72 Unsold

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

Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000

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