Past Sales
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6th january SALE
John Frederick Herring Jnr (1815-1907)
A Farm Scene with a Hunt in Full Flight
Oil on Canvas
Signed, 28″ x 36″ (71.1 x 91.5cm
Provenance: Omell Galleries, London
Sold for £3,600
Frederick Sandys (1829-1904)
Red Cap
Portrait of the Artist’s Daughter Gertrude (1886-1920)
Miniature
Oval, 2.5″ x 2.1″ (6.4 x 5.2cm)
Notes: Two versions of “Red Cap” are mentioned in Betty Elzea: Frederick Sandys 1829-1904, a Catalogue Raisonne (no. 5.42 and 5.57)
Sold for £1,400
Early 20th Century English School
Piccadilly Circus
Oil on canvas
Indistinctly signed
16″ x 12″ (40.6 x 30.5cm)
Sold for £950
19th Century French School
A Gilt Composition Barbizon Frame
Rebate 50″ x 30″ (127 x 76.2cm)
Sold for £480
Early 20th Century English School
Study of a Seated Lady in Costume
Oil on canvas
20″ x 16″ (50.8 x 40.6cm)
Sold for £1,600
Beryl Cook (1926-2008)
Escargot Pour Trois
Lithograph
Signed and Numbered 163/650 in Pencil
18″ x 16″ (45.7 x 40.6cm)
Sold for £110
William Wynne Ryland (1732-1783)
L’Ecole d’Armes
Engraved by Charles Hall, later hand coloured
9.1″ x 13.85″ (23.1 x 35.4cm) and three companion pieces, a set of four.
Notes: From Domenico Angelo’s handbook on Fencing
Sold for £280
Late 18th Century Spanish School
Still Life of Fruit on a Ledge
Oil on canvas
Unframed 16″ x 21.5″ (40.6 x 54.6cm)
Sold for £1,500
James Le Jeune (1910-1983)
A Street Scene with Figures
Watercolour
Signed and Dated 1944
9.25″ x 7.5″ (23.5 x 19cm)
Sold for £280
Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993)
Osprey (1969)
Watercolour
Signed and dated ’69
29″ x 39.5″ (73.7 x 100.3cm)
Provenance: The Everard Read Gallery, South Africa
Sold for £2,200
2nd December SALE
Roderic O’Conor (1860-1940)
Sea and Red Rocks
Oil on Panel
Signed and Dated ’92, and Inscribed on a label verso
9.5″ x 11″ (24.2 x 28cm)
Provenance: Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London.
Sold for £26,000
Peter Markham Scott (1909-1989)
Geese in Flight
Oil on Canvas
Signed and Dated 1981
20″ x 30″ (50.8 x 76.2cm)
Sold for £8,000
Jose Escofet (1930- )
Auricula V 1989
Gouache
Signed and Inscribed, and Inscribed on a label verso
17.25″ x 13.25″ (43.8 x 33.7cm)
and a companion piece Auricula VIII 1989, a pair (2)
Provenance: Coe Kerr Gallery Inc, New York, October – November 1989
Sold for £1,400
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976)
Street Scene
Print in Colours, with Printer’s Guild Stamp
Signed in Pencil
10″ x 8″ (25.4 x 20.2cm)
Provenance: Alexander Gallery, Bristol
Sold for £2,800
Louis Turpin (1947- ) British
Day Lilies and Delphiniums – John Mortimer 111
Oil on Canvas
Signed and Dated ’06, and Inscribed on labels verso
12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5cm)
Provenance: Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames 2006
Sold for £5,000
Jane Vivian (act.1869-1877)
Scuola Grande di San Marco, Venice
Oil on Canvas
Signed
24″ x 36″ (61 x 91.5cm)
Sold for £5,000
Kyffin Williams (1918-2006)
Cottages in a Welsh Landscape
Watercolour and Ink
Signed with Initials in Pencil, with a Watercolour Sketch verso
Mounted, Unframed 6.5″ x 9.75″ (16.5 x 24.7cm)
Sold for £1,400
Harold Speed (1872-1957)
Study for April
Red Chalk
Signed and Inscribed, and Inscribed verso
14.5″ x 10.5″ (35.5 x 26.7cm)
Notes: Preparatory Study for lithograph of ‘April’ published in the Studio Magazine 1899
Sold for £1,300
Late 18th Century French School
A Carved Giltwood Louis Frame
With swept and pierced centres and corners, made oval
Rebate 25.25″ x 20.75″ (64.1 x 52.7cm)
Sold for £400
Georg Emmanuel Opiz (1775-1841)
The Unhappy Wife
Watercolour
Signed and Inscribed
11.6″ x 13.6″ (29.4 x 34.5cm)
Sold for £900
4TH NOVEMBER SALE
Christopher Saxton (act.c.1540-1610)
Cornwall
Map, amended by P Lea
14.75″ x 19.25″ (37.4 x 48.8cm)
Sold for £1,200
Alfred de Breanski (1852-1928)
Between the Showers
Oil on Canvas
Signed, and Inscribed on a label verso
12″ x 14″ (30.5 x 35.5cm)
and the companion piece, The Evening Glow, a pair (2)
Sold for £7,500
Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899)
Surrey Lane
Watercolour and Bodycolour
Signed with Monogram, and Inscribed on a label verso
8.4″ x 13.15″ (21.2 x 33.5cm)
Provenance: Michael Bryan, London
Sold for £3,600
After Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760-1803)
Admiral Lord Nelson
Oil on Canvas
Inscribed on a label verso
27.5″ x 23.5″ (70 x 59.7cm)
Sold for £5,500
Henry Redmore (1820-1887)
Shipping in a Light Breeze on the North Sea
Oil on Canvas
Signed and Dated 1857, and Inscribed on a label verso
14″ x 21″ (35.5 x 53.3cm)
Provenance: Frost & Reed
Sold for £4,000
Antony Gormley (1950- )
“Sexual Field-Asexual Field, 2001”
Lithograph in Colours
Signed and Numbered 69/200 in Pencil
12.25″ x 16.25″ (31 x 41.2cm)
Sold for £460
Allan Ramsay (1713-1784)
Portrait of Miss Mitchell standing full length, wearing White Satin with her left Arm resting on a Pedestal
Oil on Canvas
Signed and Dated 1742
In a Fine Carved Giltwood Frame with Lely Panels
49″ x 37.5″ (124.5 x 95.2cm)
Provenance: Glennie Sale, Sotheby’s, 18th July 1928 (137), bt. Soames; Joseph Hayward, Chiltern House Wiltshire; Christie’s, 23rd November 1973 (163), (as unknown sitter), bt. Lacy. Notes: Identified in 1928 sale catalogue as “believed to be Miss Mitchell, grand-daughter of Sir Thomas Willys, Bart” i.e. Sir Thomas Willys (1612-1701), 1st Bt, of Fen Ditton.
Literature: Alastair Smart: “Allan Ramsay a Complete Catalogue of his Paintings”, Cat. No. 367 (illus pl.116)
Sold for £10,000
Joan Gillchrest (1918-2008)
Still Life of a Jug
Oil on Board
Signed with Motif
8″ x 5.25″ (20.2 x 13.3cm
Provenance: The Wren Gallery, Oxfordshire
Sold for £750
After James Gillray (1756-1815)
“The Gout”
Hand Coloured Etching, Published by Hannah Humphrey, 1799
9.5″ x 12.75″ (24.2 x 32.3cm)
Sold for £190
John Alfred Wheeler (1821-1903)
Head of a Fox Hound
Oil on Board
Signed with Initials
Unframed 4.5″ x 5.15″ (11.4 x 13.2cm)
sOLD FOR £600
7th october sale
Ken Howard (1932- )
Roses on a Windowsill
Oil on board
Signed
7.5″ x 5.5″ (19.3 x 14.3cm)
Provenance: Island Fine Arts, Bembridge
Sold for £1,300
Dorothea Sharp (1874-1955)
A Beach Scene with Children
Oil on Canvas
Signed
15″ x 18″ (38.2 x 45.7cm)
Sold for £24,000
Circle of Francis Cotes (1726-1770)
Bust Portrait of a Lady, Dressed in Green and White and adorned with Pearls,
possibly Rhoda Delaval, Lady Astley, Artist (1725-1757)
Oil on Canvas
Painted Oval, in an Ornate Papier-Mache Frame
30′ x 25′ (76.2 x 63.5cm)
Sold for £3,800
William Elmes (act.1804-1816)
“Little Bony Sneaking into Paris, with a White Feathe [sic] in his Tail”
Hand Coloured Etching, Published by Thomas Tegg, January 12 1813
8.5″ x 12.85″ (21.6 x 33.8cm)
Sold for £70
Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803-1902)
Sheep and Cows in a River Landscape
Oil on Canvas
Signed and Inscribed R.A.
20″ x 30″ (50.8 x 76,2cm).
Provenance: Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
Sold for £8,500
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976)
“Market Scene, Northern Town (1939)”
Print
Signed in Pencil
18″ x 23.75″ (45.7 x 60.3cm)
Provenance: Miss S.A. Vatcher, May ’74
Sold for £4,200
Terence Parkes ‘Larry’ (1927-2003)
“Mr Donald McGill Copying a Monet – Tate Gallery, 1952”
Watercolour and Ink
Signed, and Inscribed on a label verso
10.75″ x 14″ (27.3 x 35.5cm)
Provenance: Chris Beetles Limited, London, April 1995
Sold for £90
Thierry Poncelet (1946- )
Portrait of a Collie Lady
Oil on Canvas
Signed and Dated 1994
24″ x 20″ (61 x 50.8cm)
Sold for £1,300
Sheree Valentine Daines (1959- )
“Café on the River”
Oil on Board
Signed with Initials, and Inscribed on a label verso
24″ x 19″ (61 x 48.2cm)
Provenance: Henley Royal Regatta, 26th June 2001 – Thompson’s Aldeburgh, Suffolk
Sold for £8,200
9th September sale
Peter Markham Scott (1909-1989) British
Ducks in Flight
Oil on Canvas
Signed, 24″ x 36″ (61 x 91.5cm)
Provenance: A.W. Harvey Brown, London
Sold for £4,600
Ken Moroney (1949-2018)
Figures in a Street Market
Oil on Board
Signed
11″ x 14″ (28 x 35.5cm)
Sold for £420
17th Century German School
Head of a Madonna
Oil on Panel, in a Temple Frame with simulated tortoiseshell and fabric outer edge
13″ x 10″ (33 x 25.4cm)
Sold for £1,600
John S Sanderson Wells (1872-1955)
The Master of the Hounds Cantering with the Pack
Watercolour
Signed
14″ x 11.75″ (35.5 x 29.8cm)
Sold for £400
Early 19th Century English School
Study of a Seated Cat by a Ledger and Inkwell
Oil on Canvas in a Maple Frame
25″ x 20″ (63.5 x 50.8cm)
Sold for £4,800
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976)
“Britain at Play”
Offset Lithograph in Colours
Signed in Pencil with Printers Guild Stamp
17.5″ x 23.5″ (44.4 x 59.7cm)
Sold for £4,600
David Emil Joseph de Noter (1825-1887)
Still Life of Fruit on a Bank
Watercolour
Signed
8″ x 11.25″ (20.2 x 28.5cm)
Sold for £360
18th Century Italian School
Head of a Madonna
Oil on Panel
In a Fine Gilt Composition Frame
9.75″ x 8″ (24.7 x 20.2cm)
Sold for £950
Gilbert William Gaul (1855-1919)
“A Boy’s Sport”
Oil on Canvas laid down
Signed, and Inscribed verso
12″ x 16″ (30.5 x 40.6cm)
Sold for £3,800
William Joseph Shayer (1811-1891)
“Orlando, Winner of the Derby 1844”
Oil on Canvas
Signed, Inscribed and Dated 1844, and Inscribed on labels verso
In a Maple Frame
17″ x 21″ (43.2 x 53.3cm)
Provenance: D. Coopers Sale, Christies, May ’93 (1893)
Notes: Jockey Nat Flatman, Trainer W Cooper, Owner Jonathan Peel
Sold for £2,200
5th August sale
Attributed to Arthur Melville (1855-1904)
“Amanda”, Study of a Lady on a Camel with a Guide
Watercolour
Signed and Dated ’81, and Inscribed ‘Amanda’ by her hand
14.5” x 10.5” (36.8 x 26.7cm)
SOLD FOR £3,800
Manner of Thomas Beach (1738-1806) British
“Silvestra Monypenny (1766-1835)” c.1779, in an interior wearing a rose embellished headpiece
Oil on Canvas
Later Inscribed verso
In a Carved Giltwood Frame
30″ x 26.25″ (76.2 x 66.7cm)
SOLD FOR £4,000
Paul Cesar Helleu (1859-1927)
Bust Portrait of a Young Girl wearing a Bonnet
Drypoint Etching, Signed in Pencil
23.25″ x 13.25″ (59 x 33.7cm)
SOLD FOR £700
Keith Shackleton (1923-2015)
“The Fish Pass, Frigate Birds at Cosmoledo Atoll”
Oil on Board, Signed and Dated ’72, and Inscribed on label verso
23” x 18” (58.4 x 45.7cm)
sOLD FOR £1,600
Beryl Cook (1926-2008)
“Joggers on the Hoe”
Lithograph in Colours with Printers Guild Stamp, Signed in Pencil, and Inscribed on label verso
17” x 14” (43.2 x 35.5cm).
Provenance: A.R. Whibley & Son, Worthing
SOLD FOR £140
Jean Jacques Henner (1829-1905) French
Naked Figures on a Terrace
Oil on Board
Signed
9” x 15.5” (22.8 x 39.3cm)
sOLD FOR £7,500
Tessa Newcomb (1955- )
“Primula Veris Gold Lace”
Oil on Board
Signed with Initials, and Dated 2002, and Inscribed verso
20.25″ x 19″ (51.4 x 48.2cm)
Notes: Tessa is the daughter of Mary Newcomb
SOLD FOR £360
Circle of Sir John Lavery (1856-1941)
“Oval”, ‘1926 V Test England vs Australia’, a Cricket match
Oil on Canvas, Inscribed and Dated 1926, and Inscribed on a label verso
9″ x 19″ (22.8 x 48.2cm)
sOLD FOR £480
Peter Blake (1932- )
“Bentley (2016)”
Screenprint, Signed and Numbered 9/150 in Pencil
12.25” x 9.5” (31.2 x 24.2cm)
SOLD FOR £300
19th Century English School
A Carved Giltwood and Painted Frame
Rebate 48.5” x 30.25” (123.2 x 77.8cm)
sOLD FOR £600
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
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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 19th 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 19th 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
George Large (1936- )
“Mechanics”
Sold for £800
Tom Greenshields (1915-1994)
Study of a Naked Young Lady leaning on her Elbows
Sold for £600
Arthur John Strutt (1819-1888)
The Falls of Tivoli
Sold for £3,400
Attributed to William Rothenstein (1872-1945)
Study of Alice and John Rothenstein
Sold for £900
Lawrence Gowing (1918-1991)
Lanes Above Tilton
Sold for £1,500
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
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
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
