FIRST DAY’S SALE

TUESDAY 14th July 2015

OIL PAINTINGS, WATERCOLOURS, DRAWINGS AND MINIATURES

Commencing not before 2.30pm Pictures will be on view on: Friday 10th July 9.00am to 5.15pm Saturday 11th July 9.00am to 1.00pm Sunday 12th July 2.00pm to 4.00pm Monday 13th July 9.00am to 5.15pm Limited viewing on sale day

Enquiries: Martin Scadgell Enquiries: Daniel Goddard Tel: 01392 413100 Tel: 01392 413100 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 261 Attributed to Michelangelo Maestri [19th Century Italian] Ora Notte bodycolour and watercolour possibly over an engraved base 37 x 31cm overall £400 - 600

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262 263 Attributed to Michelangelo Maestri Attributed to Michelangelo Maestri [19th Century Italian] [19th Century Italian] Apollo with a Muse Classical figure with laurel branch and orb bodycolour and watercolour possibly over bodycolour and watercolour possibly over an engraved base an engraved base 37 x 31cm overall 37 x 26cm overall £500 - 700 £300 - 500

66 264 Circle of Michelangelo Maestri [18/19th Century Italian] Grecian women with young Cupid attendants, after The Antique gouache 30 x 41cm. £400 - 600

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265 Attributed to Michelangelo Maestri [19th Century Italian] Nymphs two, bodycolour and watercolour possibly over an engraved base each 37 x 26cm overall [2] £500 - 700

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266 German School 19th Century Miniature portrait of a young man, head and shoulders, with curling fair hair, wearing a brown overcoat with fur collar and leather gloves on ivory, oval 9cm. £70 - 100 267 English School mid 19th Century Miniature portrait of a gentleman, head and shoulders with 268 short grey hair, wearing a black coat and a brown spotty neck tie oval, 7cm, in a moulded ebonised wood frame. £100 - 150 268 European School 19th Century Miniature portrait of an elder, head and shoulders with long grey beard, wearing a green beret and red coat, on copper, oval 6.2cm, together with a similar miniature of a young lady wearing a white feather hat. [2] £80 - 120

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269 German School 19th Century Miniature portrait of a young man, head and shoulders, with short dark wavy hair, wearing a black coat with blue waistcoat and black bow tie; together with a miniature portrait of a lady a pair, on ivory, ovals each 7.2cm. [2] £200 - 300 270 German School mid 19th Century A tortoiseshell and horn snuff box, the lid inset with a miniature portrait of a lady, bust-length, with long dark hair plaited and tied high, wearing drop earrings and a black dress with lace collar indistinctly signed bottom right, on ivory, oval miniature 5.3cm, the box 9.5cm. £80 - 120 270 68 271 Circle of George Chinnery [1774-1852] Miniature portrait of Sir William Pennyman Bart, circa 1815 head and shoulders wearing a brown jacket and white linen cravat oval, 5.6cm, in an inscribed gold frame and red leather case. £500 - 700

272 Attributed to Giovanni Migliara [1785-1837] Service in a chapel interior reverse glass miniature 8cm diameter. £800 - 1200 273. No Lot. 270 69 274 275

274 • Mike Gorman [Contemporary] Comedian signed, inscribed and dated ‘92 on the reverse oil on board 48 x 38cm cm. £200 - 300 275 • Mike Gorman [Contemporary] Jester signed, inscribed and dated ‘95 on the reverse oil on canvas 43 x 32cm. £200 - 300 276 • Paul Hedley [20th Century] 276 ‘Judith’, a lady recumbent on a sofa signed bottom right bodycolour 25.5 x 35cm £100 - 200 Biography. Paul Hedley was born in 1947. He attended the Medway School of Art and Manchester College of Art. His ability is to describe the figurative form in exciting and colourful compositions. He exhibits at the R.S.B.A., the R.O.I., and The New England Art Club.

277 London School 20th Century ‘Club Night’, an interior with figures oil on canvas 50.5 x 60.5cm. £200 - 300

277 70 278 Edith Sprague [fl.1883-1933] Summer flowers in a Bohemian glass goblet signed and dated 1890 bottom left oil on canvas 44.5 x 33.5cm £1200 - 1800

279 • Ruskin Spear [1911-1990] Portrait of a lady, half-length, seated in an interior with short bobbed hair, wearing a colourful Summer dress signed and inscribed ‘Ruskin Spear, 20 Rivercourt’ on a label attached to the reverse oil on board 95.5 x 67cm. £500 - 700 Provenance. The artist’s studio sale. Christie’s South Kensington, 27 November 1997, lot 117.

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71 281 • Robert van Cleef [b.1914] Brunette with red ribbon signed oil on canvas 34 x 26cm £150 - 250 282 • Robert van Cleef [b.1914] Blonde with hair tied high signed oil on canvas 34 x 26cm £150 - 250

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283 • Robert van Cleef [b.1914] The Flower Arrangement signed oil on canvas 63 x 52cm. £200 - 300

283 283A French School 20th Century ‘Reflections’ indistinctly signed bottom right L...A...T oil on canvas 69 x 99cm. £500 - 700

283A 72 284 • David Cheepen [b.1946] Thomas in The City signed and dated 28.8.1981 oil on board 11.5 x 11.5cm. £200 - 300

285 • James Boswell [b.1906] Angry Cat signed and dated ‘56 bottom right coloured wax crayon drawing 52.5 x 40.5cm £250 - 350

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286 • Sir Terry Frost [1915-2003] Spirals [2003] screen print and collage signed and numbered 109/125 in pencil in the bottom margin sight size 43 x 55cm. £600 - 800 287 • After Joan Miro [1893-1983] Maravillas con Variaciones Acrosticas en el Jardin de Miro (XVI) plate-signed lithograph from the edition of 1500 sheet size 50 x 36cm. £200 - 300 288 • After Joan Miro [1893-1983] Maravillas con Variaciones Acrosticas en el Jardin de Miro (VIII) plate-signed lithograph from the 287 288 edition of 1500 sheet size 50 x 36cm. £200 - 300 289 • Georges Csato [1910-1983 Hungarian] Untitled composition 291 screenprint signed in pencil bottom right inscribed and numbered E.A. XXIV/XXV bottom left sheet size 52 x 68cm. £80 - 120

289 74 290 290 • John Plumb [1927-2008] Untitled [a version of Lemon Drop 1992, sold in these rooms 28 October 2014, Lot 231] signed on the reverse acrylic on linen canvas 181 x 240cm. £1000 - 1500

291 • John Plumb [1927-2008] Untitled signed and dated 2001 on the reverse acrylic and aerosol on linen canvas 120 x 120cm. £1000 - 1500

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Biography. Plumb was born in Luton and studied at the Byan Shaw School and The Central School of Art & Design. His teachers included Victor Pasmore, Keith Vaughan and William Turnbull. Plumb was an abstract painter, and considered Jackson Pollock ‘the greatest abstract painter’ [Studio Magazine, December 1963, interview with Mervyn Levy]. Regularly using vinyl, cloth and electrical tape in his pictures, in the late 1970s he moved to more figurative painting, alongside his continued pursuit of abstract expression. By the late 1960s he had exhibited widely and taught in America before returning to the Central College to teach. The Tate Gallery holds his work.

75 292 292 • Dame Elizabeth Frink [1930-1993] Chanticleer and The Fox; Chanticleer and The Pertelote two soft ground etchings each signed and number 15/70 sheet sizes 40 x 59cm each. (2). £250 - 350

293 • Dame Elizabeth Frink [1930-1993] The Reeves Tale soft ground etching signed, inscribed and numbered 7/70 sheet size 40 x 59cm. £200 - 300 294 • Leslie Charles Worth [1923-2009] A misty day signed and dated ‘79 watercolour 26.5 x 35.5cm £100 - 150 295 • Anthony Gross [1905-1984] ‘La Soupe’, interior with a woman seated in a parlour etching, signed and dated 1925 in pencil bottom right inscribed with title bottom left images 21.5 x 31.5cm. £200 - 300 293

295 294 76 296 • Anita Klein [b.1960] School Holiday Swim signed with initials and dated 93 bottom right charcoal and wash on paper 73 x 55cm. £200 - 300 Provenance. Contemporary Art Society, 1993.

297 • David Blackburn [b.1939] Trees with Path and Stones signed and dated 1985 on the mount bottom right further signed, inscribed and dated on a label attached to the backboard pastel drawing 59.5 x 50.5cm. £150 - 250

298 • Hussein Shariffe [1934-2005] Head signed and dated Shariffe 87 bottom right oil on canvas 49 x 60cm. £400 - 600

77 299 For Sandersons Centenary [1960s] after a design by John Piper [1903-1992] Northern Cathedral screen print on fabric 49 x 118cm. £200 - 300

Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd, now known as Sandersons. The company was founded in 1860 in Islington, London by Arthur Sanderson (1829-1882) who began by importing French wallpapers. Sanderson established a factory of his own in Chiswick in 1879 which was destroyed in a fire in 1928. After Arthur Sanderson’s death, the business was taken over by his three sons, John, Arthur Bengough and Harold. In 1919 Sanderson & Sons opened a new factory in Uxbridge to manufacture fabrics and in 1924 Arthur Bengough Sanderson received a Royal Warrant as Purveyor of Wallpapers & Paints to George V.

detail detail 300 301 For Sandersons Centenary [1960s] For Sandersons Centenary [1960s] after a design by John Piper [1903-1992] after a design by John Piper [1903-1992] a pair of Arundel design curtains a pair of Stones of Bath design curtains, screen printed on fabric, each approx 122 x 206cm screen printed on fabric, each approx 240 x 230cm £300 - 500 £300 - 500

78 302 • John Piper [1903-1992] Study for Holkham Gate signed and dated ‘76 watercolour and bodycolour 36 x 38cm.

The Triumphal Arch, on the southern edge of the 3000 acre park at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, was designed by William Kent in 1739 and completed in 1752 for Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester [1697-1759]. £1500 - 2500 303. No Lot.

79 304 N Giordani [Italian 19/20th century] Figures in a sunlit and shady back street signed oil on canvas 51.5 x 75cm. £600 - 900

305 Biography. Born in Northhamptonshire, his family moved to London in 1936 when • Ben Maile [b 1922] Ben was fourteen. He joined the RAF, becoming a wireless operator in Bomber Admiralty Arch, London Command. He moved to Newquay shortly after 1945 and, self-taught, began signed bottom left painting and exhibiting throughout the West Country. His work was popularised oil on canvas through coloured reproduction prints. Over time his reputation grew and by 1989 91 x 137cm. he had an agent in the USA. He continues painting today and spends his time £2500 - 3500 between his Turkish home and the West Country.

306. No Lot.

80 307 • Pierre Bittar [b.1934] Avenue a Croissy, Automne signed bottom right oil on canvas 99 x 80cm. £1500 - 2000 Exhibited. 35th Jersey Exhibition of Fine Paintings 1992 with Mandell’s Gallery of Jersey.

Illustrated. Front cover of the 35th Jersey Exhibition of Fine Paintings 1992 catalogue.

Biography. Pierre Bittar was born in France in 1934. His father was a musician and his mother a descendant of the House of Savoie. As a child his parents encouraged him to draw and colour and from the 1940s he visited museums and painted, studying techniques of the great masters. Among his most influential artists were Rembrandt, the Impressionist painters and Monet in particular. He continued his studies at the Academie Leonard de Vinci until 1956. He painted plein-air in the company of his professor and began to paint portraits using himself and his mother as subjects. In 1963 he had the first of many international exhibitions at the Potterat Gallery in Lausanne, Switzerland.

308 • Mike Gorman [Contemporary] Garden of Earthly Delights signed, inscribed and dated ‘91 on the reverse oil on canvas 73 x 88cm. £500 - 700

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309 • Alan Cotton [b.1936] Piemonte - Burnished Vines in Hazy Light signed bottom left oil on canvas 50.5 x 50.5cm. £800 - 1200 310 • Alan Cotton [b.1936] Snowdonia IV signed and dated ‘75 bottom right further signed, inscribed and dated 1975 on the reverse oil on board 24 x 34cm. 311 £200 - 300 311 Percy French [1854-1920] A croft on the coast signed P French bottom left oil on board 20.5 x 28.5cm. £500 - 700 312 Attributed to Edward Seago [1910-1974] Sketch for a gun siting, a landscape inscribed on reverse in another hand, dating the sketch circa 1943 pen, ink and watercolour 312 9.5 x 14.5cm £150 - 250 313 • Stuart Maxwell Armfield [1916-2000] Fin, Fur & Feathers signed bottom right inscribed with title and artist’s address at 1666 House Studio, Looe, Cornwall on a label attached to the reverse tempera on board 50 x 75cm. £400 - 600

313 82 314 Guy Cambier [c.1923-] The Fairground signed bottom left oil on board 21 x 26cm. £200 - 300

315 A Moulton Foweraker [1873-1942] A farm at Chiseldon, near Swindon, figure in the foreground signed bottom left watercolour 22.5 x 26.5cm £250 - 350

316 • Arthur White [1865-1953] The New Inn Clovelly signed oil on board 35 x 19cm. £250 - 350 317. No Lot.

83 318 Alfred Leyman [1856-1933] Exeter High Street and Guildhall after a shower of rain signed watercolour 42 x 67cm. £250 - 350

319 • Eric Richard Sturgeon [1920-1999] A Somerset Church signed watercolour 45 x 65cm. £250 - 350

320 • James Frederick Adams [1914-1984] Kingswear on The Dart signed watercolour 37 x 62cm. £200 - 300

321 John Shapland [1865-1929] Exmouth signed watercolour 49 x 75cm £250 - 350

84 322 Fred Milner [1863-1939] Waves breaking on a rocky coast indistinctly signed bottom left oil on board 31 x 41cm, unframed, £120 - 180

323 • Charles Knight [1901-1990] Elbury Cove signed watercolour 30.5 x 49cm. £250 - 300

324 Herbert E. Butler [1861-1931] Polperro Harbour; The Coast at Polperro; The Old Bridge Polperro; a group of three pastel and mixed media drawings all signed each 18 x 26cm. [3] £300 - 400 325. No Lot.

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326 James P Barraclough [1891-1942] Landscape with Farm; Birch Trees two, both signed and dated 1928 oils on board each 29 x 40cm. [2] £300 - 500 327 Frederick R FitzGerald [c1897-1938] The Norwegian Coast at Grotsund signed and dated 1910 watercolour 28 x 44.5cm. £150 - 250 327 328 Stephen G. Williams Roscoe [b.1852] A tranquil river scene with a boy fishing by beached river barges signed and dated ‘19 bottom left watercolour 24 x 35cm £400 - 600

328 329 Arthur Henry Enock [fl.1869-1912] Worcester Cathedral on the river Severn, an extensive view signed and dated 1885 bottom left, monogrammed bottom right watercolour 48 x 73cm £500 - 700

329 86 330 Sidney Goodwin [1867-1944] Bristol Docks- signed and dated 19..? bottom right watercolour 36 x 61cm. £250 - 350

331 332 Rev John Swete [1752-1821] Rev John Swete [1752-1821] Clifton, seat of Sir Gervais Clifton In the garden of a cottage at Lynmouth inscribed as titled and dated 1806 inscribed on the reverse watercolour watercolour 16.5 x 23cm. 19 x 27cm. £50 - 70 £50 - 70

333 Attributed to Benjamin Williams Leader [1831-1923] An upland river landscape, figures and a cottage in the distance bears a signature B W Leader oil on canvas 39 x 60cm. £400 - 600

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334 David W. Haddon [c.1884-1911] A Cornish Fisherman signed bottom left oil on board 22.5 x 17cm £200 - 300 335 George Perfect Harding [1775-1853] A nobleman, standing three-quarter length, holding a halberd and wearing a suit of gold brocade, a coat of arms to one side signed and dated 1808 bottom right gouache 18.5 x 14cm £400 - 600 336 • Lena L Duncan Alexander [1899-1983] Portrait of a boy, head and shoulders signed and dated 1941 pastel drawing 43 x 30cm. £100 - 200

335 88 337 Attributed to John Varley [1778-1842] An extensive Neapolitan panorama, possibly the Royal Palace, Naples from Saint Lucia- watercolour heightened with white 20 x 30cm. £300 - 500

338 John MacWhirter [1839-1911] The Entrance to The Grand Canal, Venice signed MacW bottom left oil on canvas 48 x 72.5cm. £400 - 600

339 • Maurice Den Donker [Belgian, 20th Century] Still life of a jug of flowers signed and dated 1941 oil on board 45 x 37cm. £100 – 150 340. No Lot.

89 341 • Maurice Den Donker [Belgian, 20th Century] Coxyde signed, inscribed and dated 1953 bottom left oil on canvas 44 x 64cm.

* Notes. Coxyde [Koksijde] is a town, with a Military Cemetery, in Belgium on the North Sea coast in the province of West Flanders. £200 - 300

342 • Maurice Den Donker [Belgian, 20th Century] Village in Luxembourg signed oil on board 37 x 45cm. £200 - 300

343 • Rene Marie Dujardin [1913-2002] ‘On the deck of the trawler’ signed watercolour 46 x 54cm. £100 - 200

90 344 • Maurice Den Donker [Belgian, 20th Century] The Viaduct in Anderlecht signed, further signed, inscribed and dated 1948 on the stretcher oil on canvas 38 x 49cm. £200 - 300

345 • Maurice Den Donker [Belgian, 20th Century] The Postman signed and dated 58 oil on board 23 x 29cm. £80 - 120

346 • Maurice Den Donker [Belgian, 20th Century] Le Moulin , Croxyde signed, further signed inscribed and dated 1958 on the reverse oil on board 24 x 30cm, together with two other small oils by the same hand. [3] £100 - 150

91 347 Flora Stark [19/20th Century] Asolo, Veneto, Northern Italy, buildings in the foreground, view to a mountain pass beyond oil on board, 34 x 23.5cm, together with two other paintings of the local area. [3] £250 - 350

At the age of 18 Flora Stark married Robert Stark. They were a Bohemian couple and the parents of the adventurer and explorer Freya Madeleine Stark [1893-1993], who became Dame. The Starks lived on Dartmoor and later in the mountain town of Asolo ‘the pearl of the province of Treviso’ in Italy.

Provenance. Lots 347-349. Maria Stark, related to Flora Stark, and thence by family descent.

348 Flora Stark [19/20th Century] A North Italian town, possibly Ventimiglia or Asolo; A North Italian market, possibly Grimaldi oils on board two, each 28.5 x 19.5cm. [2] £300 - 500

349 Flora Stark [19/20th Century] An Italian market, possibly Grimaldi oil on board 19.5 x 28.5cm. £200 - 300

92 350 • Fernand Houget [1883-1961, Belgian] A lowland waterway, windmill in the distance; Landscape with arched bridge in distance two, both signed oils on panel each 21 x 16cm. [2] £200 - 300

351 • Fernand Houget [1883-1961, Belgian] Sunlight in a pine forest signed bottom right, inscribed and dated Oct 1908 on the reverse oil on panel 31 x 40cm. £100 - 150

352 • Fernand Houget [1883-1961, Belgian] The Grand canal, Venice signed oil on board 25 x 33cm. £250 - 350 353. No Lot.

93 354 Edouard Vienot [b.1804] Portrait of a young lady, head and shoulders, wearing a white dress adorned with a rose signed bottom right oil on canvas oval, 71 x 57cm £1000 - 1500

94 355 Alois Binder [1857-1933] ‘A roll of the dice’, figures in a cellar signed bottom right oil on panel 35 x 25.5cm £300 - 500

356 357 European School 19th Century British School 19th century Children and an artist on a grand stone doorstep; ‘A proposition at the stile’ said to be ‘Albrecht Durer watching Children’ oil on board watercolour heightened with gum Arabic 25 x 19.5cm. 33.5 x 27.5cm. £200 - 300 £200 - 300 358. No Lot.

95 359 360 • Frank Brangwyn [1867-1956] • Frank Brangwyn [1867-1956] Musician Labourer signed with a monogram centre top signed with a monogram bottom centre charcoal and red chalk drawing charcoal and chalk drawing 36.5 x 27cm. 26.5 x 38cm £250 - 350 £250 - 350

361 • Beatrice Parsons [1870-1955] The Blue Fairy signed, watercolour 13 x 8cm. £80 - 120

362 • Carlton Alfred Smith [1853-1946] A young woman, bust-length, wearing a white cap and a wide ruff signed with initials and dated 1888 watercolour heightened with white 32 x 23.5cm £600 - 800 363. No Lot.

96 364 Henri Jaques Bource [1826-1899] The New Kitten signed and dated 1877 top left oil on canvas 68 x 49cm. £600 - 900

97 365 Vincent Clare [1855-1930] Still life of cherries, strawberries and gooseberries on a mossy bank signed bottom right watercolour heightened with bodycolour 21.5 x 30cm £250 - 350

366 Mary Elizabeth Duffield [1819-1914] Still life with flowers, blossom and a bird’s nest signed bottom left watercolour 25.5 x 37.5cm £400 - 600

367 William Henry Hunt [1790-1864] Still life of grapes and a peach on a bank signed bottom left watercolour 17 x 22cm £300 - 500

368 Valentine Bartholomew [1799-1879] Still life of roses and foliage signed and dated 1862 bottom right watercolour over pencil 23.5 x 32cm £250 - 350

98 369 John Atkinson Grimshaw [1836-1893] Still life with blossom and bird’s nest on a mossy bank signed bottom right oil on board 19 x 29cm £3000 - 5000 370 Ellen Ladell [fl.1886-1898] ‘Nature’s Beauty’, still life of flowers, a bird’s nest and birds under a glass dome signed bottom left oil on canvas 46 x 35.5cm £1800 - 2500 Biography. Ellen Ladell was the wife of, and worked closely with, the still life painter Edward Ladell [1821-1886]. They lived in Colchester, Essex, and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1856.

99 371 English School 19th century Mother and daughter in a neo-classical capriccio oil on panel 59 x 41.5cm, in a gilded and acanthus carved wood frame. £1500 - 2000

372 Alexander Leggett [1828-1884] ‘After Many Years’, interior scene with a son returning to his family signed and dated 1889 further signed, inscribed with title and artist’s address at ‘3 Kings Place, Leeth Walk’ on the stretcher oil on canvas 74 x 62cm. £400 - 600

100 373 William Dommersen [1850-1927, Dutch] Dutch street scene with people going about their work; and a companion piece a pair both signed and dated 1880 bottom right oils on canvas each 24 x 29cm. [2] £2000 - 3000

374 374A Follower of Sebastien Bourdon After Raphael, Italian School th th [17 /18 Century] [19/20th Century] The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth The Archimedes Group from The and Saint John in an Arcadian School of Athens Fresco landscape oil on canvas oil on canvas 49.5 x 61.5cm. 53.5 x 65cm, unframed £250 - 350 £300 - 500

The Scuola Di Atene is one of the most famous frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1511 as a part of Raphael’s commission to decorate the rooms now known as Staanza Di Raffaello in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The ‘School of Athens’ fresco represents Philosophy.

101 376 Follower of Thomas Hand [19th Century] Rural scene with farm in the foreground oil on canvas 42 x 33.5cm. £200 - 300

375 English School 19th Century Travellers and farmers in a landscape oil on canvas 74 x 62cm. £400 - 600

377 D Muller [19/20th Century] Cattle watering in a lowland landscape signed bottom right oil on canvas 34 x 59.5cm. £250 - 350 378 E S England [19th/early 20th Century] Chickens in a farmyard a pair, both signed oils on canvas each 25 x 39cm. [2] £200 - 300 379 William Cruickshank [1848-1922] Bird’s nest on a mossy bank; Mallard duck in a larder two, both signed watercolours on ivory, 5.5 x 8.5cm & 6.5 x 8cm. [2] £200 - 300

102 380 William Collins [1788-1847] ‘The Young Harvesters’; ‘A rest in the dunes’ a pair, both signed oils on canvas each 24 x 29cm. [2] £300 - 500

381 Arthur David McCormick [1860-1943] Wandering Minstrels signed bottom right watercolour 54 x 77cm £600 - 800

382 Arnold Helcke [c.1865 - 1898] Unloading the Catch signed and dated 1892 bottom left further signed and inscribed ‘Langham Chambers, Portland Place’ on the reverse oil on canvas 50 x 100cm. £500 - 700

103 383 Nicholas Condy [1793-1857] Figures in a country cottage kitchen a woman preparing fish, seated man and dog at the fireside signed and dated 1845 bottom right oil on panel 29 x 39.5cm. £2000 - 3000

104 384 Frank Moss Bennett [1874-1933] ‘Their Valued Opinion’; gentlemen in a salon interior, critically engaging a portrait painting- signed F.M. Bennett bottom right oil on canvas 56 x 86cm. £8000 - 12000

Biography. Frank Moss Bennett was born in Liverpool. He studied at St. John’s Wood Art School, The Slade and The Royal Academy Schools, where he won a gold medal and a travelling scholarship. He is best known for his ‘out of period’ Elizabethan costume subjects most of which were reproduced and reached a very wide public audience. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1898-1928.

385-386 No Lot

105 387 Edward Bird [1772-1819] ‘The Departure for London’, interior scene with figures preparing for a son’s departure signed E. Bird R.A. bottom left of centre oil on panel 61 x 90cm £6000 - 8000

Provenance. Exhibited at The Royal Academy in 1815, No.51. With the Fine Art Society, London. Private Devon Collection.

Biography. An English genre artist, who spent most of his working life in Bristol, where the Bristol School of artists formed around him. He enjoyed a period of popularity in London, rivalling the dominance of David Wilkie in the field of genre painting, before moving to historical and battle scenes. He was born in Wolverhampton, the son of a carpenter. He had no formal art training, but developed his skills through apprenticeship as a japanning artist painting tea trays. Bird had a naturalistic style and his use of fresh colours, especially in his genre paintings, drew a large number of artists to his School, amongst them Rippingille and Francis Danby. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1809. Both the Prince Regent and Princess Charlotte were patrons of the artist.

106 388 Victor Bachereau Reverchon [French 1842-1885] ‘Off Duty’; soldiers off duty in a grand hall interior signed V. Reverchon bottom right oil on panel 56 x 72cm. £4000 - 6000

Biography. Victor Reverchon was born in Les Batignolles, Paris. He studied under G. Deville and painted and exhibited a major series of still life and genre paintings between 1863 and 1885. His scene from the 1870 war Wounded Prussian soldiers treated in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, was shown at the Berlin Exhibition in 1871.

107 389 George Turner [1843-1910] A highland scene, cattle watering in the foreground signed and dated Geo Turner ‘82 bottom right oil on canvas 57 x 75cm. £250 - 350

390 Dutch School 19/20th Century Frozen canal scene oil on panel 44 x 71cm £250 - 350

391 Joseph Thors [c.1863-1900] Forest of Fountainebleau signed bottom left, inscribed on the reverse oil on board 21.5 x 39.5cm. £200 - 300

392.No Lot.

108 393 Attributed to Samuel Prout [1782-1852] The Doges Palace and the Grand Canal, Venice; The Bridge of Sighs; together with four other topographical scenes- watercolour drawings small sizes ranging 5.5 x 3.5cm to 5.25 x 7cm. [6] £250 - 350

109 394 Johann Christian Vollerdt [1708-1769] A Rheineland landscape with cottage and figures beside a mountain stream signed and dated 1752 bottom left oil on panel 39 x 53cm £2000 - 3000

395 Attributed to Edward H. Niemann [19th Century] An upland rocky gorge, figure in the foreground, river valley below signed bottom left “NIEMANN” oil on canvas 48 x 72.5cm £1200 - 1800

110 396 Johannes Jansen [1729-1784, Dutch School] An upland river landscape, cattle and sheep with a figure resting in the foreground, mountains beyond signed and dated 1767 bottom right oil on panel 43.5 x 55.5cm £4000 - 6000 397-400. No Lots.

111 397 Johann Bernard De Hoog [1867-1943] ‘Peeling Vegetables’; a cottage interior scene with a mother and a child in a cot signed bottom right oil on canvas 30.5 x 41cm £1200 - 1800

398 Alexander Rosell [1859-1922] A dining room interior; grandparents, a maid and child at a candlelit table signed oil on canvas 52 x 73cm £250 - 350

112 John Constable, R.A. [1776-1837] Ponies and donkey in a forest clearing

oil on canvas 24 x 36cm.

Family Provenance

To be included in our Fine Picture Sale on 6th October 2015.

For further information about this painting or to enquire about including paintings in this sale, please refer to Dan Goddard and Martin Scadgell in the Picture Department.

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ARTIST Lot Nos. ARTIST Lot Nos. Adams (J. F.) 320 Haddon (D. W.) 334 Armfield (S. M.) 313 Harding (G. P.) 335 ARTIST Lot Nos. Hedley (P.) 276 Barraclough (J. P.) 326 Helcke (A.) 382 Bartholomew (V.) 368 Hoog, De (J. B.) 397 Bennett (F. M.) 384 Hougot (F.) 350, 351, 352 Binder (A.) 355 Hunt (W. H.) 367 Bird (E.) 387 Jansen (J.) 396 Bittar (P.) 307 Klein (A.) 296 Blackburn (D.) 297 Knight (C.) 323 Boswell (J.) 285 Ladell (E.) 370 Bource (H. J.) 364 Leggett (A.) 372 Brangwyn (F.) 359, 360 Leyman (A.) 318 Butler (H. E.) 324 MacWhirter (J.) 338 Cambier (G.) 314 Maile (B.) 305 Cheepen (D.) 284 McCormick (A. D.) 381 Clare (V.) 365 Milner (F.) 322 Collins (W.) 380 Muller (D.) 377 Condy (N.) 383 Parsons (B.) 361 Cotton (A.) 309, 310 Piper (J.) 302 Cruickshank (W) 379 Plumb (J.) 290, 291 Csato (G.) 289 Reverchon (V. B.) 388 Dommersen (W.) 373 Rosell (A.) 398 Donker (M. D.) 339, 341, 342, 344, Shapland (J.) 321 345, 346 Shariffe (H.) 298 Duffield (M. E.) 366 Smith (C. A.) 362 Dujardin (R. M.) 343 Spear (R.) 279 Duncan Alexander (L. L.) 336 Sprague (E.) 278 England (E. S.) 378 Stark (F.) 347, 348, 349 Enock (A. H.) 329 Sturgeon (E.) 319 Fitzgerald (F. R.) 327 Swete (Rev. J.) 331, 332 Foweraker (A. M.) 315 Thors (J.) 391 French (P.) 311 Turner (G.) 389 Frink, Dame (E.) 292, 293 Van Cleef (R.) 281, 282, 283 Frost, Sir (T) 286 Vienot (E.) 354 Giordani (N.) 304 Vollerdt (J. C.) 394 Goodwin (S.) 330 White (A.) 316 Gorman (M.) 274, 275, 308 Williams Roscoe (S. G.) 328 Grimshaw (J. A.) 369 Worth (L. C.) 293, 294 Gross (A.) 295

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