Past Sales - Parker Fine Art Auctions

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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 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