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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 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
£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…
£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
£100 - £200 £230 View
60 ARCHIBALD THORBURN (1860-1935) A Ptarmigan in mid plume
signed lower left, watercolour, 20cm high x 26.5cm wide
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£300 - £500 £550 View
68 AFTER DAVID III TENIERS (Belgian 1638-1685) 'The Musicians'
oil on cradled panel, 26cm high x 20cm wide
£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
£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
£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
£4,000 - £6,000 - View

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