Past Sales - Parker Fine Art Auctions

PLEASE CLICK ON AN IMAGE FOR A FULL-SIZE REPRODUCTION

8th July sale

18th Century Dutch School

Adoration of the Magi

Oil and Mother of Pearl on Panel

23.5″ x 31″ (59.7 x 78.8)

Sold for £17000

Pavel Fedorovich Tchelitchew (1898-1957) Russian/American

Anatomical Head

Ink and Wash

Signed, Numbered 29 and Dated ’48

19.5” x 14.5” (49.5 x 36.8cm)

Provenance: M.Knoedler & Co. Inc, New York

Sold for £3000

Gustave Emile Couder (1845-1903)

A Still Life with a Profusion of Flowers on a Stone Ledge on a Terrace

Oil on Canvas

Signed and Dated 1874

60” x 45” (152.5 x 114.3cm)

Sold for £6500

Benjamin Williams Leader (1831-1923)

A Fine Summer’s Day near Whittington, Worcestershire

Oil on Board

Signed and Dated 1863

14” x 18” (35.5 x 45.7cm)

Sold for £1900

Antonio de Simone (1851-c.1915)

Sy Valhalla, Steam and Sail in Choppy Waters

Gouache

Signed, Inscribed and Dated 1911

17.25” x 25.25” (43.7 x 64.2cm)

Sold for £650

Sandra Blow (1925-2006)

Transparency, 2004

Silkscreen with Collaged Hessian

Signed, Numbered 75/130 in Pencil

20” x 20.75” (50.8 x 52.8cm)

Sold for £500

Marie (Mizzie) Wunsch (1862-1898)

Bust Portrait of an Auburn Haired Girl

Oil on Canvas

Signed

12.25” x 10.25” (31.2 x 26cm)

Sold for £2200

Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993)

The Grey Rider

Lithograph

Unframed, 23” x 31” (58.4 x 78.7cm)

Sold for £300

Malcolm Horton (born 1949)

The Penguin Parade, Summerland Beach, Phillip Island, Australia

Oil on Canvas

Signed and Dated 1992

36” x 48” (91.5 x 122cm)

Provenance: Christie’s London ‘Wildlife Art’, July 1995

Sold for £750

Duncan Grant (1885-1978) British

Standing Woman

Lithograph

Signed and Numbered 114/350 in Pencil

Unframed, 29.25” x 16.5” (72.4 x 52cm)

Sold for £280

10th JUne sale

16th Century Umbrian School

Pentecost

Oil on Panel, in a Temple Frame

17” x 25.75” (43 x 65.5cm)

SOLD for £3,400

John Lowrie Morrison ‘Jolomo’ (b 1948)

Study of a Cottage, with a Coastal Scene beyond

Oil on Board, Signed and Dated 2000, and Signed and Dated 2000, also Numbered ‘5792000’ verso

12” x 12” (30.5 x 30.5cm)

Sold for £1,400

William Turner of Oxford (1789-1862)

Before Sunrise, Loch Torridon

Watercolour, Signed, and Inscribed and Dated 1856 verso

17.5” x 35” (44.5 x 89cm)

Sold for £10,000

Samuel John Lamorna Birch (1869-1955)

Clear Deep Pools of Spean, Inverness-shire

Oil on Canvas, Signed and Dated 1939, and Inscribed on a plaque

20” x 25.25” (50.8 x 64.2cm)

Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1940

Sold for £3,200

Helen Allingham (1848-1926)

A Country Cottage

Watercolour, Signed

12” x 9.75” (30.5 x 24.7cm)

Sold for £7,000

Manner of Alessandro di Cristofano Allori (1535-1607)

A Nun at her Devotion

Oil on Canvas

Unframed 49.5” x 39” (125.7 x 99cm)

Sold for £2,800

Alfred Charles Stanley Anderson (1884-1966)

“Gleaners”

Line Engraving, Signed and Inscribed ‘Ed=60’ in Pencil

Mounted, Unframed 7.25” x 6.5” (18.5 x 16.5cm)

Sold for £650

Timothy Easton (b 1943)

“Towards the Gateway, Bedfield Hall”

Oil on Canvas, Signed and Dated 1995, and Signed, Inscribed and Dated verso

12” x 10.25” (30.5 x 25.7cm)

Provenance: The Bourne Gallery, 1997

Sold for £300

Eric Gill (1882-1940)

Nude

Woodcut, Signed with Monogram (under the mount), and Inscribed verso

7.5” x 4.5” (19 x 11.3cm)

Sold for £170

Peter G Power (b 1939)

USS Constitution Captures HMS Guerriere, August 1812

Oil on Canvas, Signed and Dated 1982

23.75” x 36” (60.3 x 91.5cm)

Sold for £320

13th May sale

John Speed (1552-1629)

The Kingdome of Great Britain

Sold for £1,000

Alexandre Jean Couder (1808-1879)

Still Life of Flowers

Oil on Canvas

Signed

22” x 18” (55.8 x 45.7cm)

Sold for £400

Rene Charles Edmond His (1877-1960)

Reflets du Paysage

Oil on Canvas

Signed, and Inscribed on a label verso

20” x 26” (50.8 x 66cm)

Sold for £2,800

Harold Knight (1874-1961)

The Lady

Oil on Canvas

Signed, and Inscribed on the plaque

30” x 25” (76.2 x 63.5cm)

Sold for £8,000

Kyffin Williams (1918-2006)

A Cattle Herder in Patagonia

Ink and Wash

Signed with Initials

6.5” x 9.5” (16.5 x 24.2cm)

Sold for £3,200

Wilfred Gabriel de Glehn (1870-1951)

Portrait of a Young Girl

Oil on Canvas

Signed

28.5″ x 22.5″ (72 x 57cm)

Sold for 7,600

A selection of over 200 frames of all sizes from various periods

100% of frames sold

Prices from £40 to £11,000

Pierre de Clausade (1910-1976)

San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Oil on Canvas

Signed, in an elegant gilt and painted frame

15” x 18” (38 x 45.7cm)

Sold for £2,800

Kyffin Williams (1918-2006)

Capel Soar

Oil on Canvas

Signed with Initials and Inscribed verso

20″ x 44″ (50.8 x 111.7cm)

Sold for £32,000

Circle of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)

Study of a Man on a Rearing Horse

Oil on Panel

13.75″ x 9.75″ (35 x 24.7cm)

Sold for £58,000

15th April sale

Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)

A Sketch of a Rocky Landscape with a Figure

Watercolour

Indistinctly Inscribed and Dated ’21 Aout 1843’, with Artist’s Stamp

Unframed, 8.75” x 11” (22.2 x 28cm)

Sold for £11,000

Attributed to George Chinnery (1774-1852)

A Half Length Portrait of an Indian Army Officer seated in an Interior

Oil on Canvas

Unframed, 35.75” x 28.75” (90.8 x 70.5cm)

Sold for £1,500

Robin Tanner (1904-1988)

“Wren and Primroses”

Etching

Signed in Pencil

3.5” x 4.35” (9.5 x 11cm)

Sold for £700

Simeon Stafford (1956- )

“St Michael’s Mount”

Oil on Canvas

Signed, and Signed and Indistinctly Inscribed on reverse

Unframed, 31.5” x 31.5” (80 x 80cm)

Sold for £1,100

After Charles Martin (1562-1646)

Maria de Medes France Regina (Marie de Medici, Queen of France)

Oil on Canvas

Inscribed

29.25” x 23” (74.3 x 58.5cm)

sOLD FOR £5,600

Christopher E Barrow (b.1974)

In the Pub

Oil on Board

Signed with Initials, and Signed and Inscribed on reverse

20” x 28” (50.8 x 71.2cm)

Sold for £380

Charles Sillem Lidderdale (1831-1895)

‘Hesitation’

Oil on Canvas

Signed with monogram and Dated ’79

26” x 16” (66 x 40.8cm)

Sold for £3,600

Alfred Pollentine (1836-1890)

A Scene on the Grand Canal, Venice

Oil on Canvas

Signed and Dated 1872

in a Fine Gilt Composition Frame, 24” x 42” (61 x 106.7cm)

Sold for £4,000

Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935)

A Grey Partridge

Watercolour

Signed and Dated 1904

6.75” x 8.75” (17.2 x 19.7cm)

Sold for £3,800

Bernard Ninnes (1899-1971)

“The Antique Shop, Saint Ives, Cornwall”

Oil on Canvas

Signed, and Inscribed and Dated ‘Aug 1931’ on a label on reverse

12” x 16” (30.5 x 40.8cm)

Sold for £280

18 & 19TH mARCH SALE

Click the button (left) to read a report on our recent extraordinary sales in the Antiques Trade Gazette

Francois Bonvin (1817-1887) French

Le Serrurier (The Locksmith)

Black and Brown Chalk

Signed and dated 1858, and Inscribed on labels on reverse,

16.15″ x 12″ (41 x 30.5cm)

Sold for £32,000 – Estimate £3,000-£5,000

John Piper (1903-1992) British

Mendham (Suffolk)

Watercolour

Signed and Inscribed ‘Mendham 27 X 65’

14” x 21” (35.5 x 53.3cm)

Sold for £6,500 – Estimate £2,000-£3,000

Dorothy Nesbitt (1895-1971) British

Primroses

Oil on Canvas laid down

Inscribed on a label on the reverse

12.25” x 15.25” (31 x 38.7cm)

Sold for £2,200 – Estimate £300-£500

Paul Ayshford Methuen (1886-1974) British

Pays des Bastides, Dordogne 1954

Oil on board

Signed and Inscribed on reverse, and Inscribed on a label on reverse

18″ x 25″ (45.7 x 63.5cm)

Sold for £1,600 – Estimate £700-£1,000

17th Century English School

Portrait of Mrs Pemberton

Oil on canvas

Inscribed on a label on the reverse

24” x 20” (61 x 50.8cm)

Sold for £3,000 – Estimate £3,000-£4,000

Orlando Norie (1832-1901) British

The 15th Hussars

Watercolour

Signed, and Inscribed on the mount

12.5″ x 18″ (31.7 x 45.7cm)

Sold for £1,700 – Estimate £500-£700

Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957) British

Cape Grass Finches

Watercolour

Signed with Initials, and Indistinctly Dated, and Inscribed on labels on reverse

13.5” x 7.35” (34.3 x 18.7cm)

Sold for £1,900 – Estimate £500-£700

THURSDAY 18TH FEBRUARY

RAGS TO RICHES RUSSIAN ARTIST

Cupid’s arrow pierced the heart of several bidders who competed for this beautiful portrait of a Young Girl by Alexei Harlamoff, selling for £6,000 against an estimate of £2,000-£3,000.

Harlamoff was born into serfdom in Russia in 1840 but found fame and fortune in Paris painting portraits, where he became a prominent and influential member of the international art scene.

ITALIAN HOLIDAYS

Lockdown nostalgia may have been responsible for driving prices higher than expected for this sunny view of Portofino which sold for £1,100…

TENNIS

… and who wouldn’t love to get outside and play tennis? A Tennis Match, Circle of John Lavery, oil on board, sold for £1,200

Country Life

Romantic dreams of escaping to the country may also have fuelled desire for this charming 19^th century painting by Edmund Bristow (1787-1876), which sold well above estimate for £3,000.

John Stanton Ward (1917-2007)

The Redcurrants

Sold for £850

Sidney Richard Percy (1821-1886)

Landscape and Cornfield

Sold for £7,500

Sir Terry Frost (1915-2003)

Black, Red and White Circles

Sold for £900

Thursday 21st January

Going, going, all gone…

All 314 lots of frames sold in this sale, most of them at prices way beyond their estimates. The highest was for this 19^th century frame – a work of art in its own right – which made £1,500.

A new record auction price for a watercolour by Basil Ede

Nearly 60 bids were taken from phone bidders, absentee bidders and online bidders, with the hammer finally falling at £5,500 for this watercolour of a green woodpecker. A companion piece sold for £3,400.

This stylish painting of Arab Greys by John Alexander Harrington Bird was purchased for £5,500

– on behalf of Shirley Watts, wife of Charlie Watts. Shirley has a successful Arab Stud in Devon.

Good breeding

This portrait of Caroline Lennox by Allan Ramsay sold for £9,000

A dramatic oil painting of Schevinengen Harbour

by Cornelius Krieghoff sold for £4,400 – an encouraging result as we will be offering one of his Canadian scenes, ‘The Pioneers’, for sale in our next auction on 18th February