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Helen Abraham & Michael Roberts
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Thursday 1st August at 10.30am
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Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
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1 |
ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS ARROWSMITH (c. 1772-1839) A portrait of a gentleman
possibly a self-portrait, the sitter depicted bust-length, oil on canvas laid on board, 25cm x 20cm
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£100 - £200 | £160 | View |
2 |
JOHAN DANIËL KOELMAN (1831-1857) ‘Summer landscape with cattle grazing’
signed and dated 1853 lower left, oil on canvas, 97cm x 147cm
Provenance: 19th century European Art, Christie’s, London, 20th March 2003, Lot 160. The collection of the late Mervyn Stewkesbury. |
£1,000 - £2,000 | £1,000 | View |
3 |
MILDRED ANNE BUTLER (1858-1941) Recumbent cattle in a Summer meadow
monogrammed M.A.B to left and right bottom corners, watercolour, paper laid on board, 22.5cm x 31.5cm
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£200 - £400 | £240 | View |
4 |
MILLSON HUNT (fl.1875-1900) A lakeside scene
with fisherman to the foreground and mountains to the distance, signed lower right, oil on canvas, 60cm x 105cm
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£300 - £500 | £300 | View |
5 |
LELAND R. GUSTAVSON (1894-1966) A golfer swinging from the rough
signed lower left, watercolour, 53cm x 74cm
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£100 - £200 | - | View |
6 |
ENGLISH SCHOOL, LATE 19TH CENTURY A portrait of a lady in Georgian dress
oil on canvas, 44cm x 34cm, mounted in an oval frame
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£100 - £200 | £100 | View |
7 |
RALPH RICHARD ANGUS BRENT (1903-2002) 'Crickhowell Bridge, Wales'
signed and dated lower left, oil on canvas, 53cm x 75cm
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£50 - £100 | £90 | View |
8 |
JOHN JOWITT (1904-1996), Still life with violin and skull
signed in full upper left, oil painting, panel 61cm x 49cm, gilt moulded frame
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£150 - £200 | £100 | View |
9 |
BEN MAILE (1922-2017) Fishing boats at shore
signed lower right, oil on canvas, 69.5cm x 90cm
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£200 - £400 | £150 | View |
10 |
BEN MAILE (1922-2017) A London river scene
with Big Ben to the distance, signed lower right, oil on canvas, 69.5cm x 90cm
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£200 - £400 | £150 | View |
11 |
BEN MAILE (1922-2017) Fishing boats at anchor
signed lower right, oil on canvas, 60cm x 49.5cm
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£80 - £150 | £70 | View |
12 |
WAJIH NAHLÉ (1932-2017) Bedouins in the desert at night
signed lower left, oil on board, 31.5cm x 33.5cm
Provenance: Purchased from the artist's exhibition in Dubai in the 1990s. Note: Wajih Nahlé was a Lebanese post-war and contemporary master painter… |
£100 - £200 | £260 | View |
13 |
WAJIH NAHLÉ (1932-2017) A mother and child dancing in the desert
signed lower right, oil on board, 50cm x 34cm
Provenance: Purchased from the artist's exhibition in Dubai in the 1990s. Note: Wajih Nahlé was a Lebanese post-war and contemporary master painter,… |
£100 - £200 | £140 | View |
14 |
WAJIH NAHLÉ (1932-2017) Fishing boats at anchor, with a cityscape beyond
signed lower right, oil on canvas, 85cm x 55cm
Provenance: Purchased from the artist's exhibition in Dubai in the 1990s. Note: Wajih Nahlé was a Lebanese post-war and contemporary master painter,… |
£100 - £200 | £100 | View |
15 |
MICHAEL BOWMAN (B. 1943), Yachting scene
signed and dated '85, oil painting, canvas 41cm x 50cm, gilt frame
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£100 - £200 | £70 | View |
16 |
MICHAEL BOWMAN (B. 1943), River landscape
signed and dated '86 lower right, oil painting, canvas 51cm x 66cm, gilt frame
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£100 - £200 | - | View |
17 |
DES KILFEATHER (b.1949) 'Floating with Equality'
unsigned, mixed media, doubled-sided and mounted in a double-sided frame, 82cm x 57cm
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£80 - £150 | - | View |
18 |
A. BARRETT (20TH CENTURY) A portrait of a horse and rider
a spaniel following, signed lower right, oil on canvas, 123cm x 171cm
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£400 - £600 | - | View |
19 |
NORAH NIMMO CRAWFORD (20TH CENTURY) A still life with a violin
signed and dated lower right, oil on board, 74cm x 61cm
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
20 |
ANNE GILLESPIE SMITH (20TH CENTURY) 'Still Life'
study of fruits and vegetables, titled verso, oil on board, 30cm x 53cm
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£100 - £200 | £250 | View |
21 |
JOHN MARHSALL (20TH CENTURY) Portrait of a seated lady
wearing a green dress, signed in full lower right, oil painting on panel, 88cm x 63cm, white painted frame
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
22 |
RICHARDS (20TH CENTURY), Study of a Cessna 1172 flying above the coast
red and white livery, registration G-AZDW, signed in capitals lower right, oil painting, canvas 51cm x 76cm, in a gilt frame
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£100 - £200 | - | View |
23 |
PAULA HUMPHRIS (20TH CENTURY) A sleeping cat
signed, pastel, 47cm x 64cm, in pine frame and glazed
Provenance: The Richard Hoppé Collection. |
£40 - £60 | £130 | View |
24 |
J. A. MAY (ENGLISH, 20TH CENTURY) 'Bird Man'
oil on board, 76cm x 91.5cm
Note: A label verso for the Amateur Painters in Greater London Exhibition, 1970. |
£50 - £100 | £70 | View |
25 |
FRANCISCO MOLES (20TH CENTURY) Wine tasting
signed lower right, oil on panel, 27.5cm x 23.75cm
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£50 - £80 | - | View |
26 |
A FRAMED THEATRE BACKDROP OR LARGE PAINTING OF ITALIANATE RUINS
20th century or later, a monochrome palette on stretched canvas, 193cm high x 95cm wide
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£100 - £200 | £380 | View |
27 |
J.C. BOSWELL? Man in lederhosen walking in autumnal landscape
signature to the bottom left, oil on canvas, 38cm high x 27.5 cm wide
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
28 |
JOHANN WILHELM WEINMANN (1683-1741) A set of twelve botanical studies from 'Phytanthoza Iconographia'
mezzotints printed in colour and finished by hand, each presented in a hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frame, each 35cm x 23cm (12)
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£5,000 - £10,000 | £4,000 | View |
29 |
CHARLES REUBEN RYLEY (1752-1798) 'Daniel Mendoza and Richard Humphreys'
print after the engraving by Joseph Grozer and published by William Richardson, 26cm x 36cm
Provenance: The Old Vicarage, Chideock. |
£40 - £80 | £60 | View |
30 |
JAMES SOWERBY (1756/57-1822) A set of twelve botanical studies
coloured engravings, published by W. Curtis, Botanic Garden, Lambeth, March 1786, each 20cm x 12cm, mounted within three gilt frames (3)
Provenance: The Old Rectory, Ickham, nr Canterbury, Kent. |
£100 - £200 | £60 | View |
31 |
RAIMBACK AFTER DAVID WILKIE (1785-1841), ‘The Errand Boy’
engraving, 29cm x 38cm, in Hogarth style frame and glazed, label verso listing historic exhibitions and with ink annotations
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£70 - £100 | - | View |
32 |
AFTER SÉBASTIEN COEURE (1788-1831) ‘Buonaparte Captif des Anglois’
depicting Napoleon I standing on the deck of the Bellerophon, aquatint, 32cm x 28cm, in grained box frame with gilt inner slip
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
33 |
HENRY CONSTANTINE RICHTER (1821-1902) AFTER JOHN GOULD (1804-1881) 'Casuaris Uniappendiculatus'
(Northern Cassowary), (Blyth 1860), from Gould’s Birds of Australia (supplement), lithograph, 51cm x 33.5cm
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
34 |
EDWIN THOMAS DOLBY (1824-1902) 'The Iron Steam Yacht Alexandria'
lithograph, 29cm x 44.5cm
Note: The ship was built for H.I.M. the Emperor of Russia by C. I. Mare & Co of Blackwall, designed by Mr Waterman Junr and fitted with engines of 140 horse power by… |
£50 - £100 | - | View |
35 |
HENRY ROBERT ROBERTSON (1839-1921) A young girl and her kitten studying an array of dead crickets in an interior
monogrammed upper right, watercolour, 18.5cm x 30cm; together with a small profile portrait of a young girl with red hair, monogrammed lower left, watercolour, 15cm x 15cm (2)
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£100 - £200 | £160 | View |
36 |
RICHARD PETER RICHARDS (1840-1877) 'Who'll Buy?'
a vendor seated with his produce of vegetables and rabbits, calling for trade with dog at foot, signed lower right and dated 1860, watercolour, 30cm x 42cm
Provenance: The Old Rectory, Ickham, nr… |
£100 - £200 | - | View |
37 |
ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS BUSH HARDY (1842-1897) A Shoreham landscape study
with annotated inscriptions, signed lower right, pencil sketch on paper, 23.5cm x 36cm
Provenance: The Old Vicarage, Chideock. |
£40 - £80 | - | View |
38 |
RANDOLPH SCHWABE (1845-1948) A study of a seated woman
signed and dated 1923 lower right, pencil, 41cm x 24.5cm
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£200 - £400 | - | View |
39 |
*SIR FRANK BRANGWYN (1867-1956) 'Church of St. Walburgh, Furnes'
1908, signed in pencil to the margin, etching, the image 35cm x 25cm
Literature: Gaunt, William, 'The Etchings of Frank Brangwyn', plate 124. |
£70 - £100 | - | View |
40 |
*SIR FRANK BRANGWYN (1867-1956) 'The Brewery at Bruges, No. 2'
1906, signed in pencil to the margin, etching, the image 25cm x 20cm
Literature: Gaunt, William, 'The Etchings of Frank Brangwyn', plate 67. |
£50 - £100 | - | View |
41 |
*SIR FRANK BRANGWYN (1867-1956) 'The Farmyard'
1907, signed in pencil to the margin, etching, the image 22cm x 31.5cm
Literature: Gaunt, William, 'The Etchings of Frank Brangwyn', plate 91. |
£50 - £100 | £30 | View |
42 |
*WALTER JAMES, 3RD BARON NORTHBOURNE (1869-1932) 'Tuscan Landscape'
initialled lower right, watercolour, 23.5cm x 36cm
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
43 |
AFTER AUBREY BEARDSLEY (1872-1898) A set of eight illustrations from 'Lysistrata'
'The Toilet of Lampito', Lysistrata shielding her Coynte', 'The Lacedaemonian Ambassadors', 'The Examination of the Herald', 'Lysistrata defending the Acropolis', 'Cinesias entreating Myrrhina to…
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£100 - £200 | £160 | View |
44 |
*CHARLES WILLIAM TAYLOR (1878-1960) 'Northleach, Oxfordshire'
monogrammed in plate lower right, signed and numbered 8/55 in pencil to the margin, engraving, the plate 18.5cm x 14.5cm
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£50 - £100 | £70 | View |
45 |
*CHARLES WILLIAM TAYLOR (1878-1960) 'Ornamental Lake'
monogrammed in plate, signed and numbered 8/50 in pencil to the margin, woodcut engraving, the image 17.5cm x 24cm; together with another similar work by the same artist 'Landscape with Cart',…
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£80 - £120 | £40 | View |
46 |
*JAMES ROBERT GRANVILLE EXLEY (1878-1967) 'Rearing the Flying Corps'
a study of pigeons, titled and inscribed in plate lower right, signed in pencil to the margin, etching, the image 19cm x 22.75cm; together with a small quantity of further prints: 'The Swans' by…
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£80 - £150 | £30 | View |
47 |
*STEPHEN WALTER (1878-1974) Four botanical studies
circa 1940s, each monogrammed, watercolours, the largest 40cm x 30cm (4)
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£100 - £200 | £80 | View |
48 |
MANNER OF FRANK DOBSON (1888-1963) Nude study
mixed media on blue paper, 26cm x 33cm
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£50 - £100 | - | View |