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The Scottish Sale The Scottish Sale The Scottish I Edinburgh I Wednesday 14 October 2020 Edinburgh I Wednesday Bonhams 22 Queen Street Edinburgh, EH2 1JX 26039 +44 (0) 131 225 2266 bonhams.com The Scottish Sale AUCTIONEERS SINCE 1793 Edinburgh | 14 October 2020 The Scottish Sale - Part One - Pictures Wednesday 14 October 2020 | 22 Queen Street, Edinburgh at 11am BONHAMS SALE NUMBER ENQUIRIES ILLUSTRATIONS 22 Queen Street 26039 Pictures Front cover: Lot 73 Edinburgh EH2 1JX May Matthews Back cover: Lot 26 +44 (0) 131 225 2266 CATALOGUE +44 0131 240 2632 Inside front cover: Lot 5 [email protected] +44 (0) 131 220 2547 (fax) Inside back cover: Lot 115 £10.00 www.bonhams.com/scottishart London IMPORTANT INFORMATION VIEWING BIDS Chris Dawson +44 (0) 20 7468 8296 The United States Government In light of the current government +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 [email protected] has banned the import of ivory guidelines and relaxed measures +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax into the USA. Lots containing we are delighted to welcome [email protected] CUSTOMER SERVICES ivory are indicated by the viewing, strictly by appointment. symbol printed beside the We will ensure social Monday to Friday 8.30am Ф Please note that bids should be lot number in this catalogue. distancing measures are in place, submitted no later than 4pm on to 6.00pm with gloves and sanitiser available +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 the day prior to the sale. New REGISTRATION for clients wishing to handle Please see page 2 for bidder bidders must also provide proof IMPORTANT NOTICE objects. We also require masks to of identity when submitting bids. information including after-sale be worn at all times unless Failure to do this may result in collection and shipment Please note that all customers, exempt under Scottish your bid not being processed. irrespective of any previous government guidance. Bidding by telephone will only be activity with Bonhams, are accepted on a lot with the lower required to complete the Bidder Please email estimate of £500. Registration Form in advance [email protected] with of the sale. The form can be your preferred date and time and Attendance at the auction is found at the back of every number in your party or call +44 strictly by pre-booked seat for the catalogue and on our website at (0) 131 225 2266 to book an section of sale you are bidding on. www.bonhams.com and should appointment. Please note your Spaces are limited and the same be returned by email or post to details will be retained for contact safety measures apply as for the specialist department or tracing purposes for a period of viewings. To request a seat please to the bids department at 21 days. contact us using the details [email protected] above. Internet, telephone and Sunday 11 October 2020 commission bidding is available To bid live online and / or leave 1 to 4pm as usual. internet bids please go to Monday 12 October 2020 www.bonhams.com/ 10am to 4pm Live online bidding is available auctions/26039 and click on Tuesday 13 October 2020 for this sale the Register to bid link at the 10am to 4pm Please email bids@bonhams. top left of the page. com with ‘live bidding’ in the subject line 48 hours before the auction to register for this service Bonhams 1793 Limited Registered No. 4326560 Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Sale Information Edinburgh Salerooms Managing Director Pictures Furniture, Clocks, Oriental 22 Queen Street, EH2 1JX Charles Graham-Campbell May Matthews Carpets, Works of Art & +44 (0) 131 225 2266 Chris Dawson (London) Scientific Instruments +44 (0) 131 220 2547 fax Valuations, Trusts & Estates Kenneth Naples Charles Graham-Campbell Jewellery Glasgow Office Grant MacDougall Emma McMillan Whisky Kirkhill House, Broom Road East Gordon McFarlan Martin Green Newton Mearns Belinda Treble Silver, Ceramics & Glass Georgina Porteous Glasgow G77 5LL Hamish Wilson Gordon McFarlan +44 (0) 141 223 8866 +44 (0) 141 223 8868 fax Arms & Armour Kenneth Naples London 101 New Bond Street, W1S 1SR +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 +44 (0) 20 7447 7400 fax BUYERS COLLECTION & STORAGE AFTER SALE BOOKS MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS To help maintain social distancing and to reduce delays collections are For explanation of any asterisked symbols that may appear in by appointment only. catalogues, please see the notice entitled VAT at the end of the A booking email or phone call is required in advance to ensure lots catalogue. are ready at time of collection. Photographic ID will be required at time of collection. If a third party is collecting on your behalf, written Please note that lots comprising printed books, unframed maps and authorisation is required in advance from you and photographic ID of the bound manuscripts are not liable to VAT on the Buyers Premium. third party is requested at the time of collection. If you are successful in your purchase we can provide suggestions of third party removers or Lots are sold with all faults, imperfections and errors of description, but if details for obtaining a quote for transfer to one of our other Bonhams on collation any described printed book in this catalogue is found to lack UK offices. text or illustrations, the same may be returned to Bonhams within 20 days of the sale; the unstated defect to be detailed in writing. Please email [email protected] or call +44 (0) 131 225 2266 to arrange collection. This shall not apply in the case of un-named items, blacks, half-titles or advertisements, nor to damage to bindings, stains, tears or other defects unless these result in loss to text or illustration. Atlases, maps and prints are sold not subject to return, as are items sold as collections, association and extra-illustrated copies, or as bindings. © Bonhams Scotland All rights reserved. Reproduction of catalogue and photographs, in whole or in part is prohibited without acknowledgement to Bonhams Scotland 2 1 1 2 BRITISH SCHOOL (EARLY 19TH CENTURY) BRITISH SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY) Portrait, possibly Mary Queen of Scots Portrait of a Gentleman in a black bonnet, purported to be Simon oil on canvas, laid on panel Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat 35.5 x 29 cm. (14 x 11 7/16 in.) bears inscription to label ‘Head of a Highland Gentleman called Lord Lovat’ (verso) £400 - 600 oil on canvas 72.5 x 50 cm. (28 9/16 x 19 11/16 in.) £400 - 600 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE SCOTTISH SALE | 3 3 3 FOLLOWER OF JOHN MICHAEL WRIGHT (LONDON 1617-1694) A full length portrait of Lord Mungo Murray Son of 1st Marquess of Atholl, dressed for hunting oil on canvas 89.5 x 62 cm (35 1/4 x 24 7/16 in.) This appears to be a copy after the original, owned by National Galleries of Scotland, another version has recently been acquired by Glasgow Museums £10,000 - 15,000 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 4 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 4 4 * SIR HENRY RAEBURN RA (1756-1823) Sir Andrew Agnew, 7th Bart. oil on canvas, bears inscription on stretcher 76 x 63 cm. (29 15/16 x 24 13/16 in.) £10,000 - 15,000 Provenance Sale; Christie’s East, March 23, 1984, lot 159 Literature Relates to picture listed in W Armstrong, Sir Henry Raeburn, London, 1901, p.95 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE SCOTTISH SALE | 5 THE FOLLOWING 3 LOTS ARE THE PROPERTY OF THE MACTAGGART FAMILY, EX TAYMOUTH CASTLE 5 JOHN SANGER (ACTIVE 1756-1773) Taymouth from the South oil on canvas 104 x 200 cm. (40 15/16 x 78 3/4 in.) painted in 1757 £80,000 - 120,000 Provenance John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (1752 – 1782) by descent to Sir Gavin Campbell, 1st Marquess of Breadalbane (1871 – 1922) 1922 - 2020 Taymouth Castle Hotel Company, the Mactaggart family and by descent. Exhibited Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, The Discovery of Scotland - The Appreciation of Scottish Scenery through Two Centuries of Painting, 1978 Literature J Holloway and L Errington, The Discovery of Scotland - The Appreciation of Scottish Scenery through Two Centuries of Painting, National Gallery of Scotland, 1978, illustrated p17 Taymouth Castle lies on the south bank of the River Tay about a mile from Loch Tay in the central Highlands of Scotland. It stands on the site of the much older Balloch Castle, which was built in 1552. There are two other known examples of 18th Century large scale depictions of the landscape surrounding the Castle. In 1720 John Campbell, the 2nd Earl of Breadalbane, started the alterations to the Castle and designing landscapes as was fashionable at that time. William Adam was commissioned to produce a plan showing the grand new design for the gardens. This layout appears in the 1733 painting Taymouth Castle (View of Taymouth Castle from the south) by James Norrie, now in the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland. (Norrie was a friend of William Adam). The picture was updated in 1739 by another artist, John Griffier II, who repainted parts of it to reflect later alterations to the landscape.
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