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Old Master Paintings Wednesday 30 October 2013 at 1pm Knightsbridge, London Old Master Paintings Wednesday 30 October 2013 at 1pm Knightsbridge, London Bonhams Enquiries Customer Services Montpelier Street [email protected] Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm Knightsbridge +44 (0) 20 7468 8307 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 London SW7 1HH www.bonhams.com Specialists Please see back of catalogue Head of Sale: for important notice to bidders Viewing Carlotta Mascherpa Sunday 27 October +44 (0) 20 7468 8307 [email protected] Illustrations 11am to 3pm Front cover: Lot 206 (detail) Monday 28 October Back cover: Lot 241 (detail) 9am to 4.30pm Andrew McKenzie Tuesday 29 October +44 (0) 20 7468 8261 [email protected] Live online bidding is 9am to 4.30pm available for this sale Wednesday 30 October Caroline Oliphant Please email [email protected] 9am to 11am +44 (0) 20 7468 8271 with “Live bidding” in the subject [email protected] line 48 hours before the auction Bids to register for this service. +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 David Dallas +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax +44 (0) 20 7468 8336 To bid via the internet please visit [email protected] www.bonhams.com Lisa Greaves Please provide details of the lots +44 (0) 20 7468 8325 on which you wish to place bids at [email protected] least 24 hours prior to the sale. New bidders must also provide Poppy Harvey-Jones proof of identity when submitting +44 (0) 20 7468 8308 bids. Failure to do this may result [email protected] in your bids not being processed. Consultant Sale Number: 20613 Brian Koetser Catalogue: £18 Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Chairman, Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Antony Bennett, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Group Managing Director, Matthew Bradbury, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Veronique Scorer, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Matthew Girling CEO UK and Europe, Andrew Currie, David Dallas, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Shahin Virani, David Williams, Michael Wynell-Mayow. 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Lots not collected by then Shipping will be transferred to Bonhams Buyers from outside the EU: For information and estimates Park Royal warehouse on Handling & storage VAT is payable at the prevailing on domestic and international Wednesday 20 November 2013. payment rate on both Hammer Price and All charges due Bonhams must shipping as well as export licenses Transfer and storage charges Buyer’s Premium. If a Buyer, be paid by the time of collection please contact Bonhams Shipping will commence Thursday 21 having registered under a non-EU from Bonhams’ warehouse. Department on: November 2013. address, decides that the item is +44 (0) 20 8963 2849 not to be exported from the EU, +44 (0) 20 8963 2850 Payment in advance then he should advise Bonhams Bonhams Warehouse Tel: +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 to +44 (0) 20 7629 9673 fax Address: immediately. [email protected] ascertain amount due by: cash, Unit 1, Sovereign Park cheque with banker’s card, Coronation Road credit card, bank draft or Park Royal, London NW10 7QP traveller’s cheque. Tel: +44 (0) 87 0811 3867 Hours of opening 9.30am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday Payment at time of collection By credit card / debit card 1 1 1 Florentine School, circa 1580 The Stoning of Saint Peter; and The Gathering of the Manna a pair, oil on panel 9.5 x 21cm (3 3/4 x 8 1/4in). (2) £7,000 - 10,000 €8,300 - 12,000 Old Master Paintings | 3 2 3 2 Circle of Francesco de’ Rossi, called il Salviati (Florence 1510-1563) Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length, in a black embroidered tunic oil on panel 116 x 87.1cm (45 11/16 x 34 5/16in). £3,000 - 5,000 €3,600 - 5,900 3 Florentine School, 16th Century The Angel Annunciate oil on panel 75.5 x 54.5cm (29 3/4 x 21 7/16in). unframed £1,500 - 2,000 €1,800 - 2,400 4 Italian School, 17th Century Portrait of Michelangelo Buonarroti, bust-length, seated before a sculpture inscribed ‘Michel angelis bona/rotus patritius floren/tinus.an.agens 73’ (on the piece of paper, lower right) oil on canvas 42.1 x 37.1cm (16 9/16 x 14 5/8in). £1,000 - 1,500 €1,200 - 1,800 4 4 | Bonhams 5 6 5 After Fra’ Angelico, circa 1450 The Flight into Egypt inscribed ‘ELONGAVI FVGIENS 7 MANSI INSOLITVDINE PS. XXXXXV.C’ (upper edge) and ‘SVRGE ACCIPE PVERVM 7 MATREM EP 7 FVGE IN EGIPTVM MACEI.II.C’ (lower edge) oil on panel 37.5 x 36.5cm (14 3/4 x 14 3/8in). £2,000 - 3,000 €2,400 - 3,600 PROVENANCE The Collection of Lord Northwick, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham (possibly inv. no. 1639) From whom purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps Bart., Middle Hill, 1859 (all according to a label on the reverse) LITERATURE Possibly J.R. Northwick, Catalogue of the Late Lord Northwick’s Extensive and Magnificent Collection of Ancient and Modern Pictures, Cabinet of Miniatures and Enamels (1859), p.85, cat. no. 1639 The present composition is after Fra’ Angelico’s original composition, part of a series for the Armadio degli Argenti door, now in the Museo di San Marco, Florence, and originally commissioned by Piero de’ Medici for the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata in the same city. 6 School of Ferrara, 16th Century Portrait of a young gentleman, bust-length, in a black tunic and hat oil on panel 43.5 x 36cm (17 1/8 x 14 3/16in). £1,000 - 1,500 €1,200 - 1,800 7* Milanese School, circa 1800 7 Portrait of a nobleman, half-length, in profile, in red robes and hat oil on panel 17.5 x 12.2cm (6 7/8 x 4 13/16in). £2,000 - 3,000 €2,400 - 3,600 Old Master Paintings | 5 8 (recto) 8 (verso) 8 German School, circa 1500 The Mocking of Christ; and Saint John the Baptist with Saint John the Evangelist double-sided, oil on panel 96 x 69cm (37 13/16 x 27 3/16in).