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Sale date:

Antiques & Works of Art Sale on Thursday 28th & Friday 29th February 2008

Lot numbers:

644-673 of 970

Lot

Description & Estimate

Condition Report

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Hammer Price £

644

Follower of William Pether PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN AS A SYBIL with contemporary inscription verso For Margaret Ellen Beven at her particular request, en grisaille, pastel, oval, 32 x 28cm, contemporary giltwood gadrooned frame £200-300 Faint water stain over the lowest 1.5inches of the composition, otherwise fine and entirely undisturbed original condition

Nil

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200
645 F Lindsay, 1847 HERNE BAY signed and dated, signed again and indistinctly inscribed with the artist's address on a label on the frame, pencil and watercolour heightened with white, 34 x 60cm £100-200 In good condition with some light vertical time stains, in the original ornate giltwood and composition frame with small losses through damp

Nil

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100
646 Munro School PICTURESQUE LANDSCAPE WITH A STONE BRIDGE pencil and watercolour, oval, 13.5 x 18.5cm, verre eglomisé mount and contemporary giltwood frame; an early 19th century lithograph of Woodland Castle Swansea Bay and a mezzotint of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart by Faber after Hudson (3) £60-100 Watercolour - somewhat stained and with flaking of the black paint to the vers englomise mount. Woodland Castle printed - surface dust and grime. Mezzotint - in poor condition but in contemporary ebonised pair of frames

Nil

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647 Alfred Edward Parkman (1852-1930) VIEW OF SWANSEA signed and dated 1885, pencil and watercolour heightened with white, 60 x 90cm £300-400 In fine condition, some slight foxing. Undisturbed in the original giltwood and composition frame with losses to the mouldings.

Nil

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900
648 Dame Laura Knight, DBE, RA (1877-1970) STUDY OF A WOMAN HOLDING A PLUMED HAT signed, charcoal, 32 x 23.5cm £200-400 In fine condition

Nil

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480
649 French School, 19th century AERONAUTICAL INCIDENTS WITH BALLOONS a set of four pencil and watercolour 22 x 30cm (4) £100-200 In fine condition

Nil

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300
650 Maria Gianni (fl early 20th century) THE CLOISTERS AMALFI signed, gouache, 12.5 x 31.5cm £100-150 In fine condition, undisturbed in the original frame, with on the reverse the trade label of Henry Whitley Scarborough

Nil

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120
651 John H Cole (fl 1870-1892) AUTUMN signed, pencil and watercolour heightened with white, 50 x 40.5cm £100-150 In fine condition, the colours fresh and well preserved

Nil

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652 Newcastle School, 19th century TYNEMOUTH PRIORY AND CASTLE, bears initials, pencil and watercolour with scratching out, 29.5 x 48cm £100-200 Slightly faded and with the odd minor spot of time staining or foxing but still quite attractive

Nil

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130
653 Sir Terry Frost, RA (1915-2003) ST IVES RED signed, gouache, 37 x 25.5cm Painted in the early 1950s. £800-1200 In fine condition with on the backboards the labels of The Porthmeor Gallery St Ives and Fosse Gallery John Lindsey Fine Art Ltd Stow on the Wold

Nil

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2500
654 Follower of Thomas Cooper Gotch WASHING DAY pencil and watercolour, 29 x 45cm £100-150 An attractive realist watercolour in the Newlyn style and of the period. In fine condition

Nil

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180
655 Ernest Herman Ehlers (1858-1943) A COTTAGE GARDEN signed and dated 1906, signed again and inscribed by the artist on a label preserved on the backboard, pencil and watercolour with bodycolour, 24.5 x 33cm £100-150 In fine condition, bright and colourful

Nil

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656 Follower of William Shayer WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURE ON A BRIDGE OVER A STREAM 49 x 59cm £150-200 Cleaned and relined with some localised restoration in extreme upper and left corners, the colours a little dark but in overall presentable condition, in what could be the original ornate Victorian giltwood and composition frame with small loss

Nil

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480
657 Cesare Auguste Detti (1847-1914) THE FALCONERS signed, dated '76 and inscribed Roma, panel, 40 x 30cm £2500-3500 In fine condition the varnish yellowed by tobacco smoke over many years. Free from warping, splits, damage or repairs in 18th c style giltwood and composition frame. In the present local private family's ownership for two generations. Bought very likely from Frost & Reed in the 1950s or early 60s

Nil

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7000
658 Cesare Auguste Detti (1847-1914) THE WELCOME signed and dated 80, panel, 28 x 45cm £2500-3500 In exactly the same condition and of the same provenance as the preceding lot. This work retaining the label of Frost & Reed from whom the picture was bought by the vendor's family in the late 1950s or early 1960s with that firm's stock number 8750

Nil

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6500
659 James McIntosh Patrick, RSA, ROI (1907-1998) THE WHITE HOUSE LUNAN BAY ON THE COAST OF ANGUS signed, 49.5 x 59cm Provenance: The Fine Art Society Ltd, London, April 1959. £6000-8000 In finely preserved untouched original condition, the canvas not cleaned, damaged, repaired or relined, undisturbed in the original giltwood and composition frame with on the reverse the original Fine Art Society label inscribed with the title and date

Nil

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11000
660 French School, early-mid 19th century STILL LIFE WITH ROSES AND OTHER FLOWERS IN A GLASS VASE oil on paper (?) laid on canvas 43 x 30cm £500-700 Relined and with some peripheral overpainting where the original paint surface has been lost through chafing with the frame but most attractive and reminiscent of L-L Boilly's few flower-pieces in ornate 19th c giltwood and composition frame which requires some cleaning/restoration

Nil

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2200
661 Follower of Claude Gellée, called Le Lorrain CLASSICAL HARBOUR SCENE 59 x 74cm, unframed £300-500 An 18th or early 19th Grand Tour work, relined in presumably the later 19th or early 20th c and with some localised, mainly marginal touching in, the colours bright and attractive

Nil

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1100
662 Frederick Henry Henshaw (1807-1891) THE FOREST OF ARDEN 70 x 120cm Provenance: Henshaw Collection Sale, May 12th 1892, lot 117. £1000-1500 Relined and restored with some areas of overpainting and localised instability of the paint surface

Nil

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663 After Sir Joshua Reynolds, PRA PORTRAIT OF 'ELIZABETH JOHNSON' 74 x 61cm £200-300 Relined and restored with some slight instability of the paint surface and a solitary spot of flaking extreme lower margin

Nil

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150
664 Bernard Benedict Hemy (1844-1910) SUNSET OVER A BAY WITH SHIPPING signed, 49 x 74.5cm £500-700 In a fine state of preservation entirely undisturbed beneath glass in the original frame. The canvas has not been repaired or relined. In need of a light clean, the frame in need of some cleaning/cosmetic conservation

Nil

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500
665 B B Clibborn TWO RACING YACHTS AND A PADDLE STEAMER OFF THE COAST signed, 50 x 75cm £400-600 The varnish yellowed slightly and now requiring a clean, otherwise fine condition. On the original stretchers and in the original carved giltwood and composition bolection moulded frame

Nil

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600
666 James Edwards (fl 1865-1909) A WINTER SCENE signed, 59 x 50cm £200-300 The varnish heavily yellowed but in otherwise good condition, free from restoration. On the original stretchers in grey painted 18th c style carved and composition frame

Nil

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667 English School, 19th century SHIPPING SCENES eleven, board, c7.5 x 10cm or the reverse format, framed together £100-200 An attractive group in good condition, in modern frame

Nil

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200
668 Arthur Joseph Meadows (1843-1907) A CONTINENTAL RIVERSIDE TOWN signed, 58.5 x 89cm £1500-2000 In good condition, cleaned and relined but seemingly without any restoration although not verified under UV light

Nil

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1400
669 Manner of Sir Peter Paul Rubens THE HEAD OF A MALE SAINT 67 x 54cm £800-1200 Some localised instability of the paint surface, not relined and on the original 19th c stretchers, some possible localised restoration, in 19th c giltwood and composition frame which has been re-gilt in a bronzing paint

Nil

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670 Michele Ricci (fl late 19th century) GOING TO MARKET signed, panel, 31 x 18.5cm £500-700 In fine condition and painted in a typical bright palette, in contemporary gilt frame

Nil

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671 English School, 19th century AN ITALIAN GOATHERD AT REST IN A LANDSCAPE signed with the initials WW, artist's board, 24 x 36.5cm £300-500 Minor scratch extreme upper left but in otherwise good condition beneath glass in cream painted composition frame

Nil

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500
672 Charles Thomas Bale (fl 1866-1890) STILL LIFE WITH PLUMS GRAPES A MELON AND OTHER FRUIT ON A GILT SALVER WITH A ROEMER AND STONEWARE FLAGON signed and dated 1888, 70 x 90cm £800-1200 Minor bruise extreme upper right causing the loss of one or two square mms of the paint surface in an unimportant part of the composition, the canvas has not been relined and is on the original stretchers in need of a light clean and retaining the gilt inner slip (only) of the original Victorian giltwood frame

Nil

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1500

 673

English School, early 19th century PORTRAIT OF A LADY bust length, seated in a sprigged white gown, with inscription on the stretcher Mrs William Turner Coraber nee Jane Helen Castleman, 25 x 22cm; and a portrait of a young woman by a follower of Lawrence, bust length in a black dress before a red drapery (2) £200-300 First portrait general light craquelure and some discolouration of the varnish but not relined and on the original stretchers, in contemporary giltwood and composition cavetto frame. The portrait by a follower of Laurence cleaned and relined, in 18th c style giltwood frame, in attractive 'gallery' condition.

Nil

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700

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