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λ WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT (SCOTTISH 1880-1969)
CHARACTERS IN 'BLESS THE BRIDE'
Oil on canvas
Signed (lower right); further signed, titled, and dated '1948' (to stretcher, verso)
42 x 74cm (16½ x 29 in.)
Provenance:
The Fine Art Society Ltd, London, April 1962
Mrs. J. Hutchison Cottrell, and thence by descent
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1948, No. 3
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Sir William Russell Flint Exhibition, 1962 No. 153
Bless the Bride was a popular musical staring Lizbeth Webb and Georges Guétary that premiered at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1947 and ran for three years. The production was notable for its highly stylised scenery by Tanya Moiseiwitsch. It tells the story of an English girl who elopes with a debonair French actor, but they are separated when he enlists to serve in the Franco-Prussian War. They are later reunited and the wedding scene at the climax of the musical is accompanied by the song `This Is My Lovely Day", which became one of the BBC's most requested songs of all time and it's popularity was increased by its association with the wedding in 1947 of Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten. Russell-Flint exhibited his homage to the play at The Royal Academy the following year.
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SIR DAVID MURRAY (BRITISH 1849-1933)
THE GOLDEN BAY, LULWORTH
Oil on canvas laid to board
Signed and dated '1910' (lower left); further signed, titled and numbered (verso)
122 x 183cm (48 x 72 in.)
Provenance:
Sale, Sotheby's London, Scottish and Sporting Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours , 28 August 1990, lot 814
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1910, No. 171
Born in Glasgow in 1849, Sir David Murray R.A. spent the first eleven years of his career working as a mercantile clerk. During this time, he attended evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art and embarked on painting trips outside of the city. Aged twenty-four, Murray decided to focus exclusively on his art and left Glasgow for the Isle of Skye, living in a rude shelter on Loch Coruisk. He moved to London in 1882, where he resided in Millais' old studio at 1 Langham Chambers until his death in 1933. A devotee of painting en plein air, Murray's landscapes were initially drawn from the Scottish isles and highlands. He spent a period painting in France and Italy, while the Thames, East Anglia and the South of England provided inspiration in his mature years.
Despite the delayed start, Murray's success came quickly. He was regularly exhibiting at the Royal Academy by 1877, was elected an Associate in 1891 and a full Academician in 1905. Marion Hepworth Dixon (1856-1936), a writer and art critic, explained that Murray's artistic skill lay in "his boldness to see, to attack the world as it is, and while making no mere transcript of nature, to seek neither to bedeck nor adorn it." His paintings capture the flux of nature and the prosaic beauty of the world around him.
In the present work, Murray depicts a peaceful evening at Lulworth Cove in Dorset. Gulls swoop and bob along the waves, which roll gently into the shore. A warm sunset glow illuminates the canvas; iridescent colour dapples the sea and cliffs to brilliant effect. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1910, the painting was declared his best entry of the year and a display of "natural strength", with critics praising his confident handling of colour and light.
1 For Murray's early life, please see Marion Hepworth Dixon, 'The Art of David Murray, R.A.', The Ladies Realm , 1905 vol. 5.
2 Marion Hepworth Dixon, 'David Murray A.R.A.', The Art Journal , 1892, p.147.
3 The Art Journal , 1910, pp. 168, 170. See also The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News , May 7 1910, p.386 and The Edinburgh Evening News , May 7 1910, p.6
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GRAHAM GLEN (SCOTTISH 1878-1951)
MEDITATION
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Signed and dated `1908' (upper right)
50 x 40cm (19½ x 15½ in.)
This picture is possibly the prime version of a less finished, but slightly larger work in The City Art Centre, Edinburgh. Glen was suggested to both the Ministry of Information and the Imperial War Museum as a possible official artist. He painted Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935) and has several works in The Imperial War Museum and Gragside, the home of Baron Armstrong,
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FREDERIC YATES (BRITISH 1854-1919)
THE JAPANESE GIRL, YOKOHAMA
Oil on board
Signed, inscribed and dated `Yokohama/1899' (lower right)
31 x 22cm (12 x 8½ in.)
Yates lived at Rydal in Westmorland and was a founder member of the Lake Artists' Society. He painted portraits and landscapes exhbited at the Royal Academy. Like artists before him, such as George Henry and E. A. Hornel, he travelled and painted in Japan. His picture entitled Japanese Shrine is in The Lang Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne. He also painted in San Francisco and Hawaii.
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FREDERIC YATES (BRITISH 1854-1919)
PORTRAIT OF A LADY IN RED CLOAK AND PLUMED HAT
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated `1901' (lower right)
59 x 45cm (23 x 17½ in.)
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λ ALICE MARY BURTON (BRITISH 1893 -1968)
STILL LIFE OF ROSES (RECTO); STUDY FOR A PORTRAIT (VERSO)
Oil on canvas
Signed and indistinctly dated '19[?][?]' (lower left)
52 x 61cm (20¼ x 24 in.)
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THE HON. JOHN COLLIER (BRITISH 1850-1934)
PORTRAIT OF A LADY IN A BLUE AND WHITE LACE DRESS
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated `1897' (lower left)
60.5 x 50.5cm (23¾ x 19¾ in.)
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λ HERMENEGILDO ANGLADA CAMARASA (SPANISH 1871-1959)
SOLA EN EL PALCO - 'ALONE IN THE BOX'
Oil on panel
Signed 'H. Anglada Camarasa' (lower right)
32 x 34cm (12½ x 13¼ in.)
Painted in 1911- circa 1952.
Provenance:
Mir Amorós, Barcelona (by 1981)
with Galeria Manel Mayoral, Barcelona
where purchased by the present owner in 1997
Literature:
F. Fontbona and F. Miralles, Anglada-Camarasa, Barcelona, 1981, p. 298, no. G12 as Proyecto para un retrato
Exhibitions:
Barcelona, La Pinoteca, H. Anglada Camarasa, June 1952, as Proyecto para un retrato
After training in Barcelona, the Catalan painter Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa, moved to Paris in 1894 where he attended the Académie Julian. He painted numerous pictures of Parisian night-life, concentrating on pallet and light effects. His paintings were visibly influenced by Toulouse Lautrec, Gustav Klimt and Kees van Dongen. A significant turning point in his style came in 1909, with the arrival in Paris of impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, featuring Vaslav Nijinski and Anna Pavlova. They became a social and artistic sensation that revolutionised both tastes and customs. Camarasa was deeply moved by the sets and costumes of vibrant oranges, purples and greens, to the extent that from then on the pale shades in his female portraits were replaced by brilliant multicolours. His influence also reached young artists like Pablo Picasso, ten years younger than him and with whom he was in contact during his stay in Montmartre, or María Blanchard, who was his student between 1908 and 1913.
The present lot is accompanied by a certificate from F. Fontbona and F. Miralles dated 24 February 1998, no. 403.
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λ SIR FRANK BRANGWYN (BRITISH 1867-1956)
THE JAPANESE KIMONO: PORTRAIT OF LUCY RAY
Oil on canvas
Signed with initials and dated '93' (upper right)
100 x 95cm (39¼ x 37¼ in.)
Provenance:
The Fine Art Society, London
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 19 May 1982, lot 19
The collection of Mr and Mrs Tim Rice
Literature:
The Decorative Arts Society , Journal 26, 2002, Horner, 'Brangwyn and the Japanese Connection', reference O3237
Young woman sits behind dark table facing left, wearing kimono and seated in white Chinese looking chair. Pink cherry blossom in bowl foreground, pale chrysanthemum patterned panel behind her left and plain peacock blue panel right.
Very Whistlerian and obviously Japanese in 'quotation' mode. Unusual for Brangwyn, not only because he painted few portraits, but also because the lady is quite beautiful and the painting sympathetic to the female figure. The work was initially known as Lady in a Kimono until The Fine Art Society suggested that it was a portrait of Lucy Ray, Brangwyn's wife.
Lucy Ray was born in 1870 in Stantonbury, Buckinghamshire so she would have been 23 in 1893 which accords with the sitter. She married Brangwyn on the 28 th January 1896 at the Registry Office, St George's, Hanover Square, London, when she was 26 and Brangwyn was 29. The marriage certificate described her as a nurse. Unfortunately there are very few close up photographs of Lucy - one was taken in Longpré, France in 1896 and the other is undated.
Very little is known about Lucy. Much was written about Brangwyn and his work during his lifetime, most of it 'purple prose', but very little biographical, except Philip Macer-Wright's book Brangwyn. A Study of Genius at Close Quarters . published in 1940. The reliability of the book is debateable, but he does quote Brangwyn as stating that 'sheer laziness had prevented him from making portraits of his wife'. Laziness was not one of Brangwyn's characteristics but one would have thought he'd recall painting her before they were married.
Comparing the known photographs of Lucy with the portrait Horner argues that the sitter is unlikely to be Lucy, who had a much longer face, a wide mouth with thin lips and different shaped eyebrows. Whether we will ever know for sure who the sitter is remains a mystery.
We are grateful to Dr Libby Horner for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.
Condition Report:
The canvas has been lined. Craquelure throughout. Rubbing and abrasions to the framing edges. The canvas perhaps a little loose. Inspection under UV reveals some scattered light retouching and infilling throughout.
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λ HAROLD WYLLIE (BRITISH 1880-1973)
THREE SHIPPING SCENES
Pencil and watercolour, a set of three
Each signed (lower right)
The largest 20 x 29cm (7¾ x 11¼ in.) and smaller (3)
Condition Report:
The colours are a little down, especially to the larger work. Some slight sports of surface dirt throughout and some very minor discolouration to the sky areas and along the framing edges.
Unexamined out of glazed frames.
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SIR OSWALD WALTERS BRIERLY (BRITISH 1817 - 1894)
THE QUEEN RETURNING FROM CHERBOURG, AUG 1858
Watercolour and pencil, with white heightening
Signed and dated 1885 (lower left)
50 x 134cm (19½ x 52¾ in.)
Provenance:
The Collection of The Hon. Mrs Aileen Plunket
Sale, Sotheby's, London, Fine Victorian Seascapes , 12 July 1977, lot 5
Where purchased by the late owner
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CHARLES NAPIER HEMY (BRITISH 1841-1917)
AN EASTERLY WIND
Watercolour and bodycolour
Signed with initials and dated '1914' (lower left)
48 x 66cm (18¾ x 25 in.)
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FOLLOWER OF SAMUEL WALTERS
A SET OF FOUR MARITIME SCENES
Oil on board
Each 22 x 29cm (8½ x 11¼ in.) (4)
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CIRLCE OF THOMAS BUTTERSWORTH (BRITISH 1768-1842)
A BRITISH MAN-O-WAR IN CHOPPY SEAS
Oil on canvas
43.5 x 65cm (17 x 25½ in.)
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THOMAS LUNY (BRITISH 1759-1837)
SHIPS BELOW OLD LONDON BRIDGE, WITH THE CHURCH OF ST. MAGNUS THE MARTYR AND WREN'S 'MONUMENT'
Oil on canvas
Signed (lower right)
55 x 85cm (21½ x 33¼ in.)
Provenance:
Arthur Ackermann & Sons Ltd, London
A bigger version of this painting was auctioned at Christie's, London, Old Master Paintings and Sculpture: Online , 25 November 2022 - 9 December 2022, lot 199 (unsold)
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WILLIAM ANDERSON (BRITISH 1757-1837)
SHIPPING OFF-SHORE WITH FIGURE ON A JETTY AND AN OPEN BOAT
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated '1831' (lower right)
56 x 71cm (22 x 27¾ in.)
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GEORGE VINCENT (BRITISH 1796-1836)
FISHERFOLK AND DUTCH VESSELS ON YARMOUTH BEACH, BENEATH THE NORFOLK NELSON MONUMENT
Oil on canvas
Signed with monogram and dated `1829' (lower left)
101.6 x 127cm (40 x 50 in.)
Provenance:
Dalham Hall, Newmarket, Suffolk
Private collection, UK
'I am a Norfolk man and glory in being so', Admiral Nelson declared after landing at Yarmouth
in 1800 as the Hero of the Nile. The Norfolk Nelson Monument, designed by William Wilkins and crowned by a figure of Britannia, was erected in 1819, twenty-four years before Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. On the landward side an inscription reads: 'This great man Norfolk boasts her own....in talents, manners and mind'.
George Vincent emphasizes the classical grandeur of the monument by bathing it in a shaft of light from a parting cloudscape. The dramatic, swift-moving coastal clouds, the crystalline clarity of his style and the sharp recession of the line of fishing boats all contribute to a sense of dynamism in this painting. The Dutch flags on the boats are a reminder of the long association between East Anglia and The Netherlands.
Vincent also used the Nelson Monument as a focus in Dutch fair on Yarmouth beach, Norfolk, 1821 (Great Yarmouth Museum). He made a number of paintings of the Yarmouth shoreline and its lively fish markets, including Fish auction, Yarmouth beach, 1828 (Norwich Castle Museum)
The son of a weaver and shawl manufacturer, George Vincent may well have embarked on his career as an artist through the encouragement of the Starks, a family whom his father knew in the dyeing trade. The Starks' son James was training to be an artist. After completing his education at Norwich Grammar School, Vincent joined Stark as a pupil of John Crome (1768-1821). He first exhibited with the Norwich Society of Artists in 1812.
In January 1816, after the final defeat of Napoleon, Vincent travelled to France in the company of John Berney Crome, often known as 'Moonlight Crome' (1794-1842), and the surgeon Steele, who married Crome's daughter. On his return, Vincent travelled throughout the south-east, painting views of Essex and Windsor. The friendship with James Stark remained very close and the two young artists lived next door to each other in Newman Street when they moved to London and began their studies at the British Institution Schools in Pall Mall. When Stark was forced to return to Norwich due to ill-health, Vincent embarked upon a tour of Scotland in 1819.
George Vincent returned to London, having attended the funeral of his friend and Master Crome in Norwich in 1821, gaining considerable patronage. In 1822 he married the daughter of Dr Cugnoni - whom he erroneously thought to be an heiress - and purchased a house in Camden Town somewhat beyond his means. In 1824, they moved to a smaller house and studio in Bedford Square. However, Vincent was never to learn to spend his money temperately and in December 1824 he ended up in the Third Gallery of the debtors' prison in Fleet Street, from which he was discharged in February 1827. He was able to paint in the Fleet, but only small works. Works by Vincent were shown at the Society of British Artists in 1832, the year that he died.
The work of George Vincent in represented in the Norwich Castle Museum; the British Museum and the V&A, London; Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery; Manchester City Art Gallery and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
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WILLAM ANSLOW THORNLEY (BRITISH ACTIVE 1858-1898)
A PAIR OF MARINE SCENES
Oil on panel, a pair
Both signed (lower right and left)
Each 14 x 18.5cm (5½ x 7¼ in.) (2)
Provenance:
Omell Galleries, London
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ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS LUNY (BRITISH 1759-1837)
SHIPPING IN A HARBOUR, FIGURES WITH A DONLEY IN THE FOREGROUND
Oil on canvas
22.9 x 33cm (9 x 12 in.)
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THOMAS LUNY (BRITISH 1759-1837)
A FISHING COVE WITH OTTOMAN FIGURES
Oil on canvas
22.9 x 33cm (9 x 12 in.)
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WILLIAM CLARKSON STANFIELD (BRITISH 1793-1867)
FERRY ON THE CLYDE
Oil on canvas
Inscribed with title and dated `Sept 1840' (lower right)
23 x 32cm (9 x 12½ in.)
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BENJAMIN KILLINGBECK (BRITISH FL. 1769-1783)
HORSE HELD BY HIS RIDER ON NEWMARKET HEATH
Oil on canvas
101.5 x 127cm (39¾ x 50 in.)
Provenance:
Dickinson, London
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FRANCIS SARTORIUS (BRITISH 1734-1804)
A CHESTNUT HORSE AND A GROOM
Oil on canvas
Signed (lower right)
49.5 x 60cm (19¼ x 23½ in.)
Provenance:
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 March 1986, lot 109
Sale, Christie's, London, Sporting and Wildlife Art , 5 June 2013, lot 46
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DANIEL CLOWES (BRITISH 1774-1829)
A HORSE WITH A HOUND IN A WOODED LANDSCAPE
Oil on canvas
Signed (lower right)
44.5 x 60.6cm (17½ x 23¾ in.)
Provenance:
Sale, Christie's, London, The Brian Juhos Collection , 1 May 2013, lot 453, where purchased by the present private collector
Condition Report:
The canvas has been lined. Stretcher marks and craquelure throughout. One or two spots of brown surface dirt to the background areas. The paint is wearing thin in some places, most noticeably the green of the trees' leaves. There is a small area of possible repair above the horse's head in the sky (approx. 3cm diameter) and this can be seen in natural light. Inspection under UV light reveals scattered retouching and infilling throughout, together with the aforementioned area of repair.
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CHARLES TOWNE (BRITISH 1763-1840)
A GREY HUNTER WITH A DOG OUTSIDE A STABLE
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated '1798' (lower right)
91 x 122cm (35¾ x 48 in.)
Provenance:
Sale, possibly Christie's, 15 April 1988, lot unknown
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CHARLES TOWNE (BRITISH 1763-1840)
THOMAS WORTHINGTON WITH HIS SADDLED HUNTER AND A GROOM IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE, MAKING PLACE HALL, RIPPONDEN
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated '1794' (lower right)
97 x 120cm (38 x 47 in.)
Provenance:
Sale, possibly Christie's, 15 April 1988, lot 23 [?]
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RAMSAY RICHARD REINAGLE (BRTISH 1775-1862)
A HUNTING DOG HOLDING A CAT AT A BAY IN A WOODLAND, 1793
Oil on canvas
Signed, dated, and inscribed 'R. R. Reinagle 1793 AE: sui 18' (centre left)
150 x 120cm (59 x 47 in.)
Provenance:
Sale, Christie's, London, 19 November 1982, lot 8
Sale, James Adam & Sons, Townley Hall, 10 October 2017, lot 422.
Private collection, UK, acquired at the above sale
Exhibited:
(Probably) London, Royal Academy, 1793, n. 282, as 'Portrait of a favourite dog'
Son of the painter Philipp Reinagle (1749 - 1833), Ramsay Richard executed this picture at the precocious age of 18 and had begun exhibiting at the Royal Academy five years earlier. The sure handling of composition and chiaroscuro belies the artist's youth. Taught by his father, Ramsay Richard was strongly influenced by 17th century Dutch painters of nature such as Ruisdael, Potter and Wouwerman, and he occasionally reproduced their works. Reinagle was an adept painter of animals, hunting scenes and landscapes, and the influence of these earlier artists is often detectable in his paintings during a period when earlier Dutch art was highly collectable in Britain. Adapting these modes to appeal to a contemporary audience, Reinagle made sure to depict subjects and themes which could appeal to the English country gentleman and often portrayed hunting scenes prominently featuring English breeds of dog. In this composition a water spaniel has cornered a wild cat up an oak tree and a standoff has ensued. The scene has been caught with a theatrical spotlight effect using the backdrop of a large sandstone boulder. The spaniel has chased the cat away from its prize of a dead bird which now lies before the spaniel's front paws, its feathers littering the ground. The spaniel, however, appears to be less interested in stealing the cat's kill than in enjoying having cornered the furious feline, which scrabbles and hisses angrily on a tree branch. Beneath them both the broken body of the bird lies suspended by foliage over a pool of water which separates the viewer from the battle. One might read this scene as a metaphor for the struggle between civilisation and wilderness: the well-groomed, domesticated spaniel tackling a savage, leering cat. A feather of the innocent bird dangles from the cat's claws, evidence of its crime.
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CHARLES COOPER HENDERSON (BRITISH 1803-1877)
A MAIL COACH SETTING OFF: ON THE ROAD; ARRIVING AT THE INN; AND CHANGING HORSES
Oil on canvas, a set of four
Each 42 x 66cm (16½ x 25 in.) (4)
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ENGLISH SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY)
TWO GENTLEMEN WITH THEIR TANDEM IN A WOODED LANDSCAPE
Oil on canvas
64 x 89cm (25 x 35 in.)
Circa 1850
Provenance:
Iona Antiques, London
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SAMUEL HENRY ALKEN (BRITISH 1810-1894)
THE YORK TO LONDON MAIL COACH IN THE SNOW
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Signed (lower left)
37 x 75.5cm (14½ x 29½ in.)
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JOHN FREDERICK HERRING SENIOR (BRITISH 1795-1865)
THE NEWCASTLE TO YORK COACH; AND CHANGING HORSES
Oil on canvas, a pair
Both signed and dated '1835' and '1841' [?] (both lower left)
Each 55 x 67cm (21½ x 26¼ in.) (2)
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JOHN FERNELEY JUNIOR (BRITISH 1815-1862)
A GROOM WITH A DARK BAY
Oil on canvas
Signed with monogram and dated '1847' (lower right)
32 x 44cm (12½ x 17¼ in.)
Provenance:
Ackermann & Johnson Ltd., London
Sale, Christie's, Sporting and Wildlife Art , 5 June 2013, lot 56, where purchased by the present private collector
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FOLLOWER OF THOMAS CRESWICK
THE CARTER'S YARD
Oil on canvas, in a painted circle
49 x 49cm (19¼ x 19¼ in.)
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SAMUEL ALKEN JUNIOR (BRITISH 1784 - 1825)
THE HUNT - BREAKING COVER
Oil on canvas
Signed (lower right)
61.5 x 92cm (24 x 36 in.)
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JOHN FERNELEY JNR (BRITISH C.1815-1862)
THE 5TH (PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES'S) DRAGOON GUARDS, THE KAFFIR WARS
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated `1859' (lower right)
49.3 x 74.2cm (19¼ x 29 in.)
Provenance :
Col. or Mrs C.I. Scott (according to a label on the reverse)
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A. ROLAND KNIGHT (BRITISH ACTIVE CIRCA 1810-1840)
BROWN TROUT RISING; BROWN TROUT ON RIVER BANK
Oil on canvas, a pair
The first signed (lower right), the second (lower left) respectively
Each 51 x 69cm (20 x 27 in.) (2)
Provenance:
The Tryon Gallery Ltd, London
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GEORGE MORLAND (BRITISH 1762/3-1804)
PIGS IN A STY
Oil on canvas
Signed (lower left); also with later signature and date (lower left); signed and dated '1796' (verso)
46 x 58cm (18 x 22¾ in.)
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AFTER JAMES POLLARD
TROLLING FOR PIKE ON THE RIVER LEE; FLY FISHING ON THE RIVER LEE, NEAR THE FERRY BOAT INN
Oil on canvas, a pair
Each 36.2 x 46.2cm (14¼ x 18 in.) (2)
After the original works painted in 1832, which are now in the collection at Tate Britain, London.
Provenance:
Sale, Christie's London, A Town House in Mayfair , 20 November 2008, lot 511
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CIRCLE OF JOHN ARNOLD WHEELER (BRITISH 1821-1903)
STILL LIFE OF GAME INCLUDING A HARE AND GAME BIRDS
Oil on canvas
77 x 64cm (30¼ x 25 in.)
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WILLIAM HUGGINS (BRITISH 1820-1884)
A TERRIER BY A CHINESE VASE
Pencil and coloured chalks on buff paper
Signed and dated `1868' (lower right)
54 x 43.3cm (21¼ x 17 in.)
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DUTCH SCHOOL (18TH CENTURY)
A GERMAN POINTER WITH HUNTING EQUIPMENT
Oil on canvas
104 x 86cm (40¾ x 33¾ in.)
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HARRY HALL (BRITISH 1814-1882)
SATIRIST HELD BY A GROOM, WITH A JOCKEY UP
Oil on canvas
Signed (lower left) and inscribed with the horse's name (lower centre and on the relined reverse)
53.5 x 71cm (21 x 27¾ in.)
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HARRY HALL (BRITISH 1814-1882)
A RACEHORSE WITH A JOCKEY UP
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated `1861' (lower right)
48 x 60cm (18¾ x 23½ in.)
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JAMES WARD (BRITISH 1759-1859)
A LIVERY STABLE
Oil on canvas
69 x 90cm (27 x 35¼ in.)
Provenance:
Sale, Sotheby's New York, 21 May 1998, lot 189, where purchased by the present private collector
Condition Report:
The canvas has been lined. Craquelure throughout. Stretcher marks partially visible. Rubbing and abrasions to the framing edges. Inspection under UV light reveals scattered retouching and infilling throughout, including along the stretcher lines.
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λ PETER BIEGEL (BRITISH 1913-1988)
FRONTIER GODDESS
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated '69 (lower left)
49.5 x 60cm (19¼ x 23½ in.)
Frontier Goddess was trained by Peter Walwyn (1933-2017) to finish second to Sleeping Partner in the Epsom Oaks in 1969. The present picture was painted at Seven Barrows, Lambourn, the stables where Walwyn trained 1965-1992
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λ FRANCES MABLE HOLLAMS (BRITISH 1877-1963)
PORTRAIT OF A BLACK HORSE INFRONT OF AN IVY COVERED WALL
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated '98' (lower left)
75 x 94cm (29½ x 37 in.)
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λ ADELA STOBART (BRITISH 1875-1961)
THE BEDALE HUNT
Oil on canvas
Signed (lower right)
90.5 x 183cm (35½ x 72 in.)
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JAMES LYNWOOD PALMER (BRITISH 1868-1941)
A BAY HORSE IN A WOODED LANDSCAPE
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated `1915' (lower right)
70 x 75cm (27½ x 29½ in.)
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ENGLISH PROVINCIAL SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY)
TERRIER IN A LANDSCAPE
Oil on canvas
44 x 60cm (17¼ x 23½ in.)
Provenance:
The Pantechnicon, Heathfield Terrace
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HENRY S. COTTRELL (BRITISH ACTIVE 1840 - 1860)
'FLOSS'
Oil on canvas
Inscribed 'FLOSS A FAVOURITE SPANIEL - THE PROPERTY OF MR POTTER' (lower centre), signed (lower right)
58.5 x 77cm (23 x 30¼ in.)
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PIETER FREDERICK VAN OS (DUTCH 1808-1892)
A GREYHOUND IN A LANDSCAPE
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 'P. F: Van Os. f 1825' (lower left)
114 x 97cm (44¾ x 38 in.)
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CIRCLE OF JAMES WALSHAM BALDOCK (BRITISH 1822-1898)
A GENTLEMAN WITH HIS HORSE, IN AN EXTENSIVE LANDSCAPE WITH A HUNT BEYOND
Oil on canvas
68 x 88cm (26¾ x 34½ in.)
Provenance:
Sale, Christie's, London, Sporting and Wildlife Art , 5 June 2013, lot 100, where purchased by the present private collector
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ATTRIBUTED TO HENRY BERNARD CHALON (BRITISH 1770-1849)
A HORSE WITH GROOM AND OWNER
Oil on canvas
Indistinctly initialled (lower right)
62 x 79cm (24¼ x 31 in.)
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ATTRIBUTED TO HENRY GEORGE LAPORTE (BRITISH 1799 -1873)
GONE TO GROUND, A HUNTSMAN ON HORSEBACK WITH HOUNDS
Oil on canvas
68 x 94cm (26¾ x 37 in.)
Provenance:
Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd, London
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BENJAMIN HERRING SENIOR (BRITISH 1806-1832)
A CHESTNUT HORSE IN A LANDSCAPE
Oil on canvas
With signature and date `F Herring 1828' (lower left)
29.5 x 39.2cm (11½ x 15¼ in.)
Provenance:
W.H. Patterson, London
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JOHN FREDERICK HERRING JUNIOR (BRITISH 1815-1907)
HORSES IN THE SNOW
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated '1842' (lower right)
73 x 96cm (28½ x 37¾ in.)
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JOHN FREDERICK HERRING SENIOR (BRITISH 1795-1865)
A GREY MARE WITH HER FOAL IN A FARMYARD
Oil on panel
Signed and dated `1853' (lower left)
24 x 30cm (9¼ x 11¾ in.)
Provenance:
Richard Green, London
Copgrove Hall, Yorkshire
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ARCHIBALD THORBURN (BRITISH 1860 - 1935)
SIX WILDLIFE SKETCHES; EAGLE SOARING; HIND, FAWN, AND EAGLE; BLACKGAME; EAGLE IN FLIGHT; SHOOTING OVER DOGS; PTARMIGAN
Pencil, framed as one
Overall framed measurements: 43 x 68cm (16¾ x 26¾ in.)
Provenance:
The Glenbow Museum Calgary, Canada
Holland & Holland, London
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