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THE NELSON DOUBLEDAY, JR. COLLECTION Wednesday, January 11, 2017 NEW YORK THE COLLECTION AUCTION Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 10am EXHIBITION Friday, January 6, 10am – 5pm Saturday, January 7, 10am – 5pm Sunday, January 8, Noon – 5pm Monday, January 9, 10am – 6pm ?? ????????? ??????????????????????????????? LOCATION Doyle New York 175 East 87th Street New York City 212-427-2730 www.Doyle.com wwwwww.Doyle.com/BidLive.DoyleNewYork.com/BidLive Catalogue: $35 CONTENTS Paintings, Watercolor & Sculpture 1-140 Jewelry & Memoribilia 41-58 The Library of Nelson Doubleday, Jr. 59-139 Furniture & Decorations 140-158 Silver & Silver Plate 159-179 Furniture & Decorations 180-271 Carpets 272-273 Glossary I Conditions of Sale II Terms of Guarantee IV Information on Sales & Use Tax V Absentee Bid Form XII The publishing house was known for bringing the living A fixture in the owner's box, Nelson Doubleday, Jr. stood by masters of English literature to America, and Nelson the team through thick and thin in subsequent years, and Doubleday, Jr.'s library contains many of the special New York City was electrified again by the Mets vs. Yankees presentation copies of the books his grandfather published Subway Series of 2000, represented in this collection by the under the family imprint. Those authors became personal owner's National League Championship Series gold ring. friends and were a frequent presence in both the publishing house in Garden City and at the family estate in Oyster Bay. Nelson Doubleday, Jr. was an avid yachtsmen and the owner Nelson Doubleday, Jr. (1933-2015) lived for much of his life in Oyster Bay Doubleday Publishing brought the World War I poetry of of an important world class yacht, the 125-foot Palmer and Locust Valley on Long Island’s storied North Shore. He was educated at Rudyard Kipling, the sea-faring novels of Joseph Conrad, Johnson pilothouse schooner Mandalay. His love of sailing Deerfield Academy and Princeton University, and enlisted in the Air Force the musings of W. Somerset Maugham, and the desert is evidenced by the splendid collection of nautical paintings wandering of T.E. Lawrence into the American consciousness that adorned his estate in Locust Valley. Among the highlights in 1955, before returning home to join the family publishing empire, by then are five extremely fine works by the Anglo-American painter known as Doubleday and Company, of which he became president and chief James Buttersworth, one capturing the drama of a regatta off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, the competing yachts unfurling executive in 1978. Focusing on other endeavors, he sold the company in 1986, their sails in a stiff breeze. Another smaller Buttersworth a year that would prove fortuitous for many reasons. gem depicts a vibrant scene in New York Harbor, with “It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” - Somerset Maugham Castle Clinton in the background and the Dispatch, the pilot ship of the New York Herald rushing to shore with the latest news. The pursuit and capture of the American schooner John and William are featured in two impressive paintings by the marine specialist Robert Salmon. Finally, Montague Dawson, regarded as the finest sea painter of the twentieth century, is represented by eight superb examples, including the dramatic Two Clippers – Nocturne, showing two sailing vessels plying rough waters, guided by the light of a silver moon. Dawson’s intimate knowledge of the sea and ships, gained as a naval officer during the First World War, permitted in that heady period between the Wars. His son carried him to render races between clipper ships as well as memorable the company forward printing important post-War works, naval engagements with remarkable accuracy as well as such as Dwight Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe, issued painterly skill. with a signed copy of the D-Day Order inserted into the deluxe edition. The most prosperous publishing house Like many of the grand estates on Long Island’s North of its day, Doubleday was recognized worldwide and was Shore, the Doubleday home was graciously appointed particularly beloved in its home city of New York. with Georgian furniture, decorations and silver, which Doubleday Publishing was founded in 1897 by Nelson, Jr.’s Company in 1900 for his meaningful partnership with conveyed the air of an English country house. Of note grandfather, Frank Nelson Doubleday, affectionately known Walter Hines Page, the well-respected editor of After selling the company in 1986, Nelson Doubleday, Jr. are a pair of George II giltwood pier mirrors similar to as "Effendi" among his literary coterie, a play on his initials The Atlantic Monthly. At this time, the company made the became majority owner of the New York Mets, his family having designs by John Linnell and Thomas Chippendale and as well as a Near Eastern title of respect for an erudite man. bold move to leave Manhattan and build a state-of-the-art acquired their initial stake in the last place team in 1980 from a collection of early 19th century English and Chinese F.N. Doubleday began his illustrious and lengthy career facility in Garden City, Long Island. After Page's death in the family of Joan Whitney Payson, the team’s original owner. export porcelains. working at Charles Scribner’s Sons at the age of 14. His first 1918, the company was again renamed, this time Doubleday, The World Series-winning 1986 New York Mets team is one of publishing venture, named the Doubleday and McClure Doran for its acquisition of that major New York publishing the games' most storied, with scrappy play, scrappier players, As W. Somerset Maugham wrote, "It's a funny thing about Company for his early merger with the magazine magnate house in 1927. Ultimately, after the War, the imprint settled and a game six miracle win against the favored Boston Red life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you Samuel Sidney McClure, was renamed Doubleday, Page & on its final name: Doubleday and Company. Sox that ignited the entire city of New York. very often get it." PAINTINGS, WATERCOLORS & SCULPTURE KATHLEEN M. DOYLE CHAIRMAN/CEO CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO A COCKTAIL RECEPTION AND PREVIEW EXHIBITION OF THE COLLECTION THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2017 5 – 7PM DOYLE 175 EAST 87TH STREET RSVP BY JANUARY 3 212-427-4141, EXT 600 OR [email protected] Lot 18 2 1 1 2 Dominic Serres Robert Dodd British, 1722-1793 British, 1748-1816 English Naval Fleet at Sea Departure from the Harbor, 1787 Oil on canvas Signed R. Dodd and dated 1787 (ll) 39 3/8 x 49 1/2 inches Oil on canvas C The Nelson Doubleday, Jr. Collection 30 x 49 inches $20,000-35,000 Provenance: See Illustration Lane Fine Art Limited, London C The Nelson Doubleday, Jr. Collection $15,000-30,000 See Illustration 10 DOYLE • JANUARY 11, 2017 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 11 4 3 3 4 5 6 7 Thomas Yates British School British School Manner of the Luzzo Jacob Spin British, 1765-1796 18th/19th Century 19th Century Family Dutch, 1806-1875 Naval Engagement Greenwich Shipyard Sailboat in a Gale Offshore 19th Century Dunedin, 1869 Oil on canvas Signed Willm Pratt Pinx and and Ship in a Storm with The Schooner Fling, Brixham, Signed J. Spin and 29 x 41 1/2 inches dated 1750 White Cliffs Beyond: Two in Venetian Waters, John P. dated and inscribed 1869/ C The Nelson Doubleday, Jr. Collection Greenwich (lr) Each with remnants of a Swaffin Commander, 1867 Amsterdam (lr); inscribed $18,000-38,000 Oil on canvas signature G. Sart... (?) (ll); Inscribed along the along the bottom Dunedin See Illustration 47 x 74 inches one inscribed Sartorius on bottom Schooner Brixham — Glasgow — Thos. M. Provenance: an old label affixed to the John P. Swaffin Commander Millan. Commander. Lane Fine Art Limited, reverse 1867 Commen in Texel. 1869 London (possibly) Each oil on canvas Watercolor and ink on paper Watercolor on paper C The Nelson Doubleday, Jr. Each approximately Sight 17 x 25 1/2 inches Sight 19 1/6 x 27 1/4 inches Collection 15 1/2 x 22 3/8 inches C The Nelson Doubleday, Jr. C The Nelson Doubleday, Jr. $3,000-6,000 Provenance: Collection Collection See Illustration Elizabeth Billhardt, Ltd., $600-900 $1,200-1,800 Locust Valley, NY C The Nelson Doubleday, Jr. Collection $2,000-4,000 12 DOYLE • JANUARY 11, 2017 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 13 10 Henry Alken British, 1785-1851 Going to the Derby Signed H. Alken (lr) Oil on canvas 20 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches Provenance: Frost & Reed, London C The Nelson Doubleday, Jr. Collection $6,000-11,000 See Illustration 10 8 8 11 John E. Ferneley Samuel Henry British, 1782-1860 Gordon Alken Horse in a Stable, 1857 British, 1810-1894 Signed J. Ferneley and inscribed The Road from and dated Melton Mowbray 1857 (lr) Tottenham Corner, Oil on canvas The Epsom Derby 33 3/4 x 44 inches Signed H. Alken and C The Nelson Doubleday, Jr. dated indistinctly Collection 18..9 (ll); inscribed $10,000-16,000 indistinctly on an old label See Illustration affixed to the stretcher Oil on canvas 9 20 1/8 x 30 inches Harry Hall C The Nelson Doubleday, Jr. British, 1814-1882 Collection Hunter on his Horse $6,000-11,000 Oil on canvas See Illustration 23 x 30 1/8 inches C The Nelson Doubleday, Jr. Collection $5,000-8,000 See Illustration 9 11 14 DOYLE • JANUARY 11, 2017 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 15 16 Robert Salmon American/Scottish, 1775-1844 (i) Castle Edwin Capturing the American Schooner John & William, 1822 Signed with the artist’s initials R.S.