Past Sales
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 19th century frame – a work of art in its own right – which made £1,500.
This sale set a new record auction price for a watercolour by Basil Ede (1931-2016). Nearly 60 bids were taken from phone bidders, absentee bidders and online bidders, with the hammer finally falling at £5,500 for the 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 of a different kind was also popular; this portrait of Caroline Lennox by Allan Ramsay sold for £9,000.
The 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 auction next month.
THURSDAY 17TH DECEMBER
Walter Hugh Paton (1828-1895)
Dalmally
Sold for £600
John Minton (1917-1957)
The Matador
Sold for £1000
Oliver Clare (1853-1927)
Study of Primroses, Violets and Hellebores, and another
Sold for £1100
Robert Wraith (1952- )
Six O’Clock
Sold for £600
Konstantin Razumov (1974- )
Sunny Day at Sea
Sold for £3000
Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) and Yoshijiro Urushibara (1888-1953)
Bruges at Dawn
Sold for £1400
Herbert Edward Butler (1861-1931)
Polperro, a Street Scene at Dusk
Sold for £3600
Allen Tucker (1866-1939)
Sea and Rocks, View of Baker’s Island, Salem, Massachusetts
Sold for £6000
William Anslow Thornley (1857-1935)
Sunrise at Margate
Sold for £1,100
Attributed to Cornelius Johnson (1593-1661)
Bust Portrait of a Gentleman, originally thought to be Sir Walter Raleigh
Sold for £7000
Thursday 26th November
Fred Cuming (1930-)
A Moonlit Coastal Scene
Sold for £1,100
18th Century Italian School
A Carved Giltwood Florentine Frame
Sold for £300
John Frederick Herring (1815-1907)
A River Landscape with Horses Watering
Sold for £4,600
19th Century English School
Study of a Bird with Nest Full of Eggs
Sold for £1,400
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
“Sketch for Proposed Interior at Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibition House’
Sold for £3,400
Philip Kelly (1950-)
“La Faena”
Sold for £1,900
Maria Pixell (act. 1783-1811)
‘A Vale in Berkshire’
Sold for £1,700
Cyril Lavenstein (1891-1986)
“Tarring the Boat”
Sold for £750
THURSDAY 29th october 2020
18th Century Chinese School
A Chinese Wallpaper Design
Sold for £550
After Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669)
An Extensive Landscape with Haarlem in the distance
Sold for £8,000
William Thornley (1857-1935)
A Seascape with St Michael’s Mount and Figures Fishing in the Foreground
Sold for £2,400
Circle of Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)
An Etruscan Style Coastal Scene
Sold for £1,900
THURSDAY 1ST OCTOBER 2020
Late 17th Century Italian School
The Madonna and Child, with Attendants
Sold for £3,600
Attributed to Alfred James Munnings (1878-1959) British
A Venetian Backwater, with Figures in Gondolas
Sold for £13,000
E Hausmann (20th Century) European
Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Hat
Sold for £750
Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) British
Carrick Roads Anchorage, Falmouth
Sold for £1,400
John Bratby (1928-1992) British
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 1966
Sold for £300
H… M… (19th Century) European
Fishermen Below a Rocky Promontory
Sold for £950
Algernon Cecil Newton (1880-1968) British
A Country Path
Sold for £10,000
Sarah Jane Szikora (1971- ) British
Go Back to Bed Muriel
Sold for £700
Richard Ansdell (1815-1885) British
Early Morning Shower
Estimate £3,000 – £4,000
Sold for £3,000
THURSDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER 2020
Giacomo Guardi (1764-1835) Italian
A Scene on the Grand Canal, Venice
Sold for £3,600
Herbert William Weekes (act. 1856-1904) British
The Head of an English Mastiff
Sold for £1,300
William Gear (1915-1997) British
Sculpture in Landscape, 1952
Sold for £8,000
Konstantin Razumov (1974- ) Russian
On the Sea Shore
Sold for £4,000
18th Century English School
A Carved Giltwood Frame, with swept and pierced centres and corners, 50″ x 40″
Sold for £620
Cecil Kennedy (1905-1997) British
White Roses in a Silver Urn, with the Reflection of the Artist
Sold for £1,800
Antonio Pedro Urbano Veiga de Macedo (1955- ) Portuguese
A Grecian beauty at a Water Fountain
Sold for £1,500
Louis Bosworth Hurt (1856-1929) British
Moorland at Clachaig, Glencoe, a Highland Scene with Cattle
Sold for £5,000
Philip Eustace Stretton (1865-1919) British
A Picardy Orchard, with a Young Girl and Sheep under a Blossom Tree
