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Augustus John O.M. R.A. (1878-1961) David John (1902-1974), the artist’s son. Oil on canvas. c.1920. SOLD during London Art Week
PART I
(Issued 5pm Tuesday 6th July)
1. ANON (Eighteenth-Century)Portrait of Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)Chalks. Inscribed ‘Lavater’ verso.6.5×4.5 inches.Framed: 11.25×9 inches.
4. Austin R.A. R.E., Robert Sargent (1895 – 1973)‘Before Mass’ (CD64).Engraving. 1926. Edition of 60. Provenance: the artist’s daughter, Rachel c.1990. Prints from the edition remained in the artist’s collection unsigned until they were sold.5×4.5 inches.●
5. Barrett Snr R.A., George (1732 – 1784)A landscape with travellers, possibly the Lake District.Monochrome wash. c.1775. Provenance: Cornish Torbock, his sale Sotheby’s 14/4/1994, to A and H.14×18 inches.Framed: 22.5×26 inches.●
6. Baynes, Anthony (1921 – 2003)Mediterranean still life.Oil on card. Signed and dated, 1977.9.5×6.5 inches.Framed: 12.5×9.5 inches.●
7. Beresford-Williams, Mary (born 1931)Devon; ‘Autumn Landscape. The River Dart’, presumably near Brixham.Oil on canvas. Signed. Signed verso and titled to the artist’s label.22.25×46.5 inches.Framed: 27×51 inches.
9. Callow R.W.S., William (1812 – 1908)Italy; Venice, The Grand Canal.Pencil. Signed with monogram and dated, ‘1st Sept 1840’.10.25×14.5 inches.Framed: 18×22 inches.●
10. Cope R.A., Charles West (1811 – 1890)‘Mama & Emily’.Pencil. Inscribed and dated, ‘Feb 12 / 1840’. Provenance: A large collection of drawings by Cope bought at Sotheby’s 2/7/2003.7.5×5.5 inches.●
11. Cruikshank, George (1792 – 1878)Self study in profile.Pencil. Signed and inscribed ‘Self’. Verso: further self studies in profile.6×3.25 inches.Framed: 14.5×11 inches.●
12. Clarke Hall, Edna (1879 – 1979)Cathy at the hearth; a study for Wuthering Heights.Pen and ink. c.1902. Provenance: Dennis Clarke Hall.11.75×9.5 inches.Framed: 20×17.25 inches.
14. Douglas M.P. F.R.S.E. (1784?-1821), WilliamItaly; Rome, the Temple of Hercules Victor (AKA The Temple of Vesta) and the Piazza Bocca della Verità.Pen, ink and watercolour. c.1816-1818. Douglas funded and accompanied Hugh William ‘Grecian’ Williams F.R.S.E. (1773-1829) on his tour of the continent. The figure seated sketching to the left of the fountain is likely Williams. Provenance: The ‘De la Hanty Album’. Exhibited: Stephen Somerville (as Hugh William ‘Grecian’ Williams). I would like to thank Dr Joe Rock for his generous help is cataloguing this picture.10×17.25 inches.Framed: 20.5×26.5 inches.●
15. Dighton, Robert (1752 – 1814)Self Portrait; a frontispiece for the artist’s ‘Book of Heads’.Etching and engraving, from a self portrait drawing now in the NPG (NPG 2815). Carington Bowles engraved and published Dighton’s self portrait, in 1787. It was reprinted as the frontispiece to the ‘Book of Heads’, also published by Bowles, in 1795.6×4.5 inches.●
19. Hesse, Henri Joseph (1781 – 1849)A French Student.Chalks. Signed. Inscribed on the verso of the frame, in a modern hand, ‘Jeune Etudiant Purtant une Fouragere’ (sic. Pourtant une Fouragere). Exhibited: Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, ‘Nineteenth Century French Drawings’, 1978, No.9.11×9.5 inches.Framed: 18.5×16.5 inches.●
20. Guys, Constantin (1802 – 1892)French Carriage Footmen.Pen, ink and watercolour. Exhibited: Matthiesen, June 1948; Hazlitt,
Gooden & Fox, ‘Nineteenth Century Drawings and some Sculpture’, 1996, No.10.5.25×6.25 inches.Framed: 9.25×10 inches.●
21. Green (Twentieth Century), David‘Figure Study’.Gouache. Label verso ‘Kenn Group, Exeter’ giving the artist’s address as 8 Willow Road London NW3 and price 3 gns.4.75×2.25 inches.Framed: 13×9 inches.●
22. Howitt, Samuel (1756 – 1822)River bank.Pen, ink and watercolour. c.1800. Exhibited: Albany Gallery; A and H.3.5×5 inches.Framed: 10.5×11.5 inches.
£475
23. Hilder OBE, Rowland (1905 – 1993)Summer Bouquet.Gouache. In collaboration with his wife Edith (1904-1992). Signed by Edith and Rowland Hilder.20.25×19 inches.Framed: 28×26.5 inches.●
24. Landells, Ebenezer (1808 – 1860)London; a ‘Distant view of Kingston’.Pencil. Inscribed. Provenance: An album of drawings by Landells.5.5×9 inches.●
25. Larcher, Dorothy (1882 – 1952)‘Anemones and Hyacinths’.Oil on board. Signed and dated, 1945. Titled on artist’s label verso.12×16 inches.Framed: 17.5×21.5 inches.
£2,750
26. Lear, Edward (1812 – 1888)Greece; Corfu, the view ‘from Spartera’.Pencil, pen and ink. Inscribed and dated, 12th May 1862, the artist’s 50th Birthday.12×19.5 inches.
28. MacKinnon, Sine (1901 – 1996)Italy; ‘Isola di Capri’.Watercolour. Signed. Provenance: The Redfern Gallery, July 1946.12.25×18.75 inches.Framed: 20.5×25.5 inches.●
29. Mears R.G.A. B.E.F., Gunner F. J. (1890 – 1929)Western Front, WWI; ‘Rouge Hill’.Ink, pencil, watercolour and silver paint. Signed. Titled verso and inscribed: “God in thy mercy never let / me hear anyone speak of / the Glory of War” (Ralph Scott).6×9.75 inches.Framed: 15.75×19 inches.●
31. Minton, John (1917 – 1957)South Downs garden landscape.Pen, ink, watercolour and gouache. Signed and dated, 1956.10.5×14.5 inches.Framed: 17.25×20.75 inches.●
36. Serres, John Thomas (1759 – 1825)Italy; figure studies.Pen, ink and wash. Signed and dated, 1790. Exhibited: A and H, ‘An Italian Journey 1790-1792; Studi di figuri Italiani by J T Serres’, No.126.10.5×6.5 inches.Framed: 19×14 inches.●
37. Sandby R.A., Paul (1725 – 1809)Castle, possibly Isle of Mull.Etching with hand colouring. From Sandby’s group of four views of castles, one of which is inscribed ‘Duart C in Mull’. This is a rare print. The only other known impressions from the series are the uncoloured set in the BM (1904,819.611-614), and a coloured set sold at Sotheby’s, 6 June 2007 (Lot 217). Literature: Ann V. Gunn, ‘The Prints of Paul Sandby (1731-1809)’, 2015, cat. no. 376, p.321.4×5.5 inches.Framed: 10.5×13 inches.●
38. Sergeant, John (1937 – 2010)‘Hand, book and cyclamen’.Chalks. Signed and dated, 1983. A study for a portrait of HM The Queen Mother, painted for Wye College, Kent. Exhibited: Maas Gallery.13×10.5 inches.Framed: 22×18.25 inches.●
40. Sickert N.E.A.C., Walter Richard (1860 – 1940)London; The Thames from Chiswick Mall / ‘The River at Hammersmith’.Pen and ink. c.1910. Signed. Provenance: Thomas James Cobden Sanderson (1840-1922), brother-in-law of Sickert’s first wife, Ellen Cobden; by descent and still in the family in 1959. Exhibited: Leicester Galleries. I would like to thank Dr Wendy Baron for her help in cataloguing this drawing.6.25×4.5 inches.Framed: 11.75×9.5 inches.●
41. Steer O.M., Philip Wilson (1860 – 1942)Shropshire; ‘The Bridge, Bridgnorth’.Oil on canvas. 1901. Signed. Exhibited: French Gallery, 1937; London Group, 1945; Adams Gallery, 1949; Plymouth Art Gallery, 1960. Provenance: Charles Goy; Sir Hugh Walpole; Capt. R. A. Peto; Mrs Rosemary Peto; Christies, 3rd June 1969, lot. 84; Clarges Gallery. Literature: Bruce Laughton, ‘Philip Wilson Steer’, Oxford 1971, Cat No. 287, p.141.17×23.5 inches.Framed: 22×28.5 inches.●
42. Sunderland, Thomas (1744 – 1828)Italy; ‘Entrance to the Mausoleum of the Scipios, one mile east of Rome’.Pencil, pen, ink and wash.10×6.5 inches.●
43. Tindle R.A., David (born 1932)‘Arezzo / The Standing Egg / Blue Shell and Silver Neckless’.Egg tempera on gesso’d panel. Signed, titled and dated 1997 verso.10×11.75 inches.Framed: 13×15 inches.●
45. Varley O.W.S., John (1778 – 1842)Sky and distant mountains; probably Wales.Watercolour. Provenance: A large collection of Varley studies exhibited with John Phillips, Summer 1987, no.24.2.75×4.75 inches.Framed: 11.75×13 inches.●
46. Walcot R.E., William (1874 – 1943)Italy; Venice, the Doge’s Palace courtyard with the Chapel and the Scala dei Giganti.Watercolour. Signed.11.5×10 inches.Framed: 22×20.5 inches.●
47. Wood, Christopher (1901 – 1930)Bathers, South of France (traditionally titled ‘Nice’).Pencil. Probably 1927. Signed with initials? Provenance: Mrs Dalzeil Smith, the artist’s sister; Stanhope Shelton, from who acquired by the previous owner’s parents in 1975.12×7.5 inches.Framed: 20×14.5 inches.●
48. Vellacott, Elizabeth (1905 – 2002)Scotland; Abderdeenshire, ‘Cairn Vaich’.Pencil and chalks. Signed, titled and dated 1972 verso.18.25×22.75 inches.Framed: 20.5×25.25 inches.
£2,250
49. Yarrow-Jones, Ernest (1872 – 1951)France; Hyeres, the HarbourWatercolour. Circa 1910. Signed. Provenance: Yarrow Jones Studio Sale, Bonhams, 3.3.1993.8.75×11.25 inches.●
50. Wilczynski, Katerina (1894 – 1978)Ghosts of antiquity.Ink and watercolour. Signed and dated, 1952. Indistinctly inscribed.14.75×17.75 inches.Framed: 23×25.5 inches.
£575
Original Sketches
with some elucidatory extracts from a Journal made during an Excursion from Naples thro’
53. ANON (Nineteenth-Century)Lake District; Leathes Water (now part of Thirlmere).Pen, ink and sepia wash. Inscribed. c.1810.8.25×13 inches.●
54. Booth, Raymond (1929 – 2015)‘Double Snowdrops Growing Through Tangled Undergrowth’.Oil on paper. Signed. Exhibited: Fine Art Society.9×7 inches.Framed: 15.5×13.5 inches.●
55. ANON (Nineteenth-Century)St Paul Preaching at Athens.Pencil and sepia wash. c.1810.9.25×12 inches.Framed: 15.5×18 inches.
57. Bright, Henry (1814 – 1873)Mountain landscape, probably Wales.Pencil. Signed and dated, 1851. Provenance: The Lorna and Gordon Turner Collection.8×14 inches.●
58. Bratby R.A., John (1928 – 1992)‘Self portrait’.Pencil. Signed, titled and dated, ‘June 19 ’61’.13×17.5 inches.Framed: 22.5×26.5 inches.●
59. Caro O.M., Sir Anthony (1924 – 2013)Life Drawing.Charcoal on a sketchbook page. Signed and dated, 1986. Exhibited: Contemporary Art Society Market (label verso).10×14.25 inches.Framed: 17×20 inches.●
60. Church, Katherine (1910 – 1999)Dorset; ‘Walled Garden, Tarrant Hinton’.Monotype with hand colouring. Signed, titled and dated, 1949.15×21.75 inches.●
61. Bree, Rev. William (1753 – 1822)Norfolk; ‘Castle Rising’.Pencil and monochrome wash. 1794. Inscribed and dated verso. Provenance: Michael Ingram (his stamp verso). Exhibited: Colnaghi 1955 (where acquied by Ingram); Harry Moore Gwyn, 2014.9×10 inches.●
62. Cobbe, Alec (born 1945)Essex; Nazeing Park through trees.Oil on board. Signed.8.75×11.75 inches.Framed: 12×15.5 inches.
£775
63. Crotch, Dr William (1775 – 1847)Oxford; Punting on the Cherwell.Signed and dated, 27th May 1799. Exhibited: Sanders of Oxford, 1975.4.25×6.75 inches.
£875
64. Fraser, Robert Winter (1848 – 1906)Berkshire; Medmenham from the Thames.Watercolour. Signed, inscribed and dated 1886.5.25×7 inches.Framed: 7×8.5 inches.●
65. Fyla (Nineteenth Century), S. H.A flotilla of Venetian fishing boats with an architectural capriccio.Oil on canvas. c.1850. Signed.13×20.5 inches.Framed: 15.5×23.25 inches.●
71. Harding (Circle of), James Duffield (1798 – 1863)Italy; a view over the bay of Naples from near Capodimonte, the Sorrentine Peninsula on the horizon.Watercolour. c.1830. Provenance: Albany Gallery.11×16 inches.Framed: 19.5×24 inches.●
72. Hare, Augustus (1834 – 1903)Italy; Bologna, The Fountain of Neptune and San Petronio.Watercolour. June 7th 1870.10×7 inches.●
74. Jones R.A., Allen (born 1937)High Heel / ‘Shocking’.Enamelled aluminium. Stamped signature. Editioned 6409 / 6666. The design used for ‘Les Beaux Arts’, Jones’s 1993 perfume bottle.6.5x3xD2.75 inches.●
75. Nixon, John (1755 – 1818)Profile; wig and high collar.Pencil. Exhibited: William Drummond ‘Nixoniana, Original Drawings & Sketches, Physiognomical Portraits by John Nixon’.4.25×3.25 inches.Framed: 10×8.75 inches.●
78. Nash, Paul (1889 – 1946)‘Raider on the Moors’ (Postan L21).Lithograph. 1940. Signed in the plate. Published by the National Gallery for the Ministry of Information, London.15.25×22.75 inches.●
79. Leitch, William Leighton (1804 – 1883)FIgures and a coastal landscape.Pencil. Provenance: A group of drawings by Leitch bought at Christies 13.09.89.1.75×3 inches.●
80. Lewin R.W.S., Angie (born 1963)Scotland: Harris, ‘Black Island’.Pen, ink, watercolour and collage. Signed. A study for the artist’s lino-cut.9.5×13.5 inches.Framed: 16×19.5 inches.●
81. Lewis (Nineteenth-Century), J. F.Gibraltar; the Rock.Watercolour. Initialled. Exhibited: Appleby Bros., ‘Autumn Exhibition, 1964’.6.75×10 inches.●
84. Rowbotham (Nineteenth Century), ThomasItaly: Bay of Naples.In all likelihood by Thomas Leeson Scrase Rowbotham (1782-1853) rather than his son, Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham (1823-1875). Gouache. Signed.11.5×17 inches.Framed: 20.5×25 inches.●
85. Poynter P.R.A., Sir Edward (1836 – 1919)Italy; Venice, on the Lagoon.Pencil. Dated ‘Sept 30 (18)79’. Provenance: An album of drawings by the artist from the collection of his nephew, Earl Baldwin (Christies 21.11.2007).7×10 inches.Framed: 11.5×14 inches.●
86. Rowlandson, Thomas (1756 – 1827)London; The Library of the Royal Institution.Pen, ink and watercolour. Circa 1808. For Ackermann’s ‘Microcosm of London’. Literature: J. Grego, ‘Rowlandson the Caricaturist II’, 1880, p.127, no.68; reproduced in ‘Connoisseur’, December 1927. Exhibited: Angews. Provenance: Gardner Collection 1923; Captain Desmond Coke (his label verso); Sotheby’s 21st July 1931, Lot 101 (bought Rosenbach & Co.); Widener; Parke-Bernet 29 November 1944, Lot 341.7.75×10.75 inches.Framed: 15.5×18 inches.●
87. Sandby R.A., Thomas (1721 – 1798)Tree Study.Pencil and watercolour. Possibly made at Virginia Water. Provenance: a Sandby Family album; Andrew Wyld, 1986.8×6.75 inches.Framed: 18.25×16.5 inches.●
88. Sant C.V.O. R.A., James (1820 – 1916)London; Kensington Palace.Oil on board. Signed with monogram. Verso: A study, possibly made in Kensington Gardens.4.33×6.7 inches.Framed: 6.7×9.06 inches.
£1,250
89. Thornton, Valerie (1931 – 1991)Norfolk; St Ethelbert’s Gate, Norwich.Etching and aquatint. Signed, titled, editioned 45/90 and dated 1987.15.75×11.5 inches.●
91. Underwood, Leon (1890 – 1975)The Tulip Girl.Etching. State before the addition of the Tulips. Signed and dated 1921.6.75×5 inches.Framed: 17×13 inches.●
97. White (Nineteenth Century), Charles YeirKent; ‘St Margaret’s Bay’.Watercolour. Circa 1842. Inscribed beneath the mount. Provenance: an album of watercolours by White, some dated 1842, with A and H in 1994.7.75×11.5 inches.Framed: 16.25×19.25 inches.●
99. Wichelo, John Mayle (1784 – 1865)Windsor Castle from the Forest.Watercolour. Signed and dated, 1825 (or 9). A version of the picture by Wichelo engraved by Thomas Milton (1743-1827) and published by ‘S Jones’ in 1815.19×25 inches.Framed: 27×32.75 inches.●
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