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Old Master Paintings New Bond Street, London | 4 December 2019 Old Master Paintings New Bond Street, London | 4 December 2019 Specialists for this auction Europe Andrew McKenzie Director, Head of Department, London Caroline Oliphant Group Head of Pictures, London Lisa Greaves Department Director and Head of Sale, London Poppy Harvey-Jones Specialist, London Bun Boisseau Cataloguer, London Brian Koetser Consultant, London North America Madalina Lazen Senior Specialist, European Paintings, New York Rocco Rich Specialist, Los Angeles 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 Old Master Paintings New Bond Street, London | Wednesday 4 December 2019 at 3pm VIEWING ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES REGISTRATION Saturday 30 November Specialists Monday to Friday IMPORTANT NOTICE 12pm to 5pm Andrew McKenzie 8.30am to 6pm Please note that all customers, Sunday 1 December +44 (0) 20 7468 8261 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 irrespective of any previous 11am to 5pm [email protected] activity with Bonhams, are Monday 2 December Please see back of catalogue required to complete the Bidder 9am to 4:30pm Caroline Oliphant for important notice to bidders Registration Form in advance of Tuesday 3 December +44 (0) 20 7468 8271 the sale. 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For information and estimates December 2019. on domestic and international All other sold lots will remain in the shipping as well as export licenses Collections room at Bonhams New Please note that Alban Shipping please contact Alban Bond Street without charge until will be clsoed from 12pm Shipping on +44 (0) 1582 493 099 5.30pm Wednesday 18 December Tuesday 24 December 2019 [email protected] 2019 Lots not collected by this time will be returned to the department. untill 8:30am Thursday 2 January Storage charges may apply. 2020 for the Holiday period. 1* DUTCH SCHOOL, EARLY 17TH CENTURY Portrait of a girl, half-length, in a lilac embroidered dress, with a lace ruff and headdress oil on panel 56.9 x 43.8cm (22 3/8 x 17 1/4in). £5,000 - 7,000 €5,800 - 8,100 US$6,500 - 9,100 Provenance Private Collection, USA 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. OLD MASTER PAINTINGS | 5 2 MONOGRAMMIST F.B. (AUSTRIA, ACTIVE EARLY 18TH CENTURY) A forest floor with a snake and frog amongst thistles and wild strawberries; and A forest floor with a lizard, frog and dragonfly amongst roses and mushrooms the former signed with initials ‘FB’ (on stone ledge, lower left) and the latter signed with initials ‘F.B.’ (lower right) a pair, oil on panel 19.4 x 27.7cm (7 5/8 x 10 7/8in). (2) £8,000 - 12,000 €9,300 - 14,000 US$10,000 - 16,000 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 6 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 3 GASPAR DE WITTE (ANTWERP 1624-1681) Spring: elegant figures on a boating lake, others dancing around a Maypole; and Autumn: figures harvesting apples a pair, oil on copper 40.4 x 51.2cm (15 7/8 x 20 3/16in). (2) £15,000 - 20,000 €17,000 - 23,000 US$19,000 - 26,000 A Wooded landscape with a hawking party in the foreground, shepherds shearing their flock beside an ornamental fountain and farmers harvesting a hayfield beyond of the same dimensions as the present pair was offered at Phillips, London, 4 July 1995, lot 31. This latter work could depict Summer, suggesting that the three together formed part of a series of the Four Seasons or the Months of the Year.
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