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Auction date Wednesday 5 April 2023 10:30 - 17:30 BST

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Head of Sale:

Guy Schwinge

Page:

of 9

Lots per page:

Total lots: 206

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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
Lot 54 Unsold
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Estimate: £80 - £150
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023
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
5 April 2023
5 April 2023

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