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Old Master Paintings Master Old Wednesday 25 April 2018 Wednesday Knightsbridge, London OLD MASTER PAINTINGS OLD MASTER PAINTINGS | Knightsbridge, London | Wednesday 25 April 2018 24648 OLD MASTER PAINTINGS Wednesday 25 April 2018 at 10.30am Knightsbridge, London BONHAMS BIDS ENQUIRIES Please see back of catalogue Montpelier Street +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 [email protected] for important notice to bidders Knightsbridge +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax +44 (0) 20 7468 8307 London SW7 1HH [email protected] ILLUSTRATIONS www.bonhams.com To bid via the internet please visit SPECIALISTS Front cover: Lot 87 (detail) www.bonhams.com Andrew McKenzie Back cover: Lot 99 (detail) VIEWING +44 (0) 20 7468 8261 Sunday 22 April TELEPHONE BIDDING [email protected] IMPORTANT INFORMATION 11am – 3pm Bidding by telephone will only be The United States Government Monday 23 April Accepted on lots with a low Caroline Oliphant has banned the import of ivory 9am – 4.30pm Estimate in excess of £500. +44 (0) 20 7468 8271 into the USA. Lots containing Tuesday 24 April Condition reports are available [email protected] ivory are indicated by the symbol 9am – 4.30pm on lots with a lower estimate in Ф printed beside the lot number excess of £2000. Lisa Greaves in this catalogue. SALE NUMBER +44 (0) 20 7468 8325 24648 Please note that bids should be [email protected] submitted no later than 4pm on CATALOGUE the day prior to the sale. New Poppy Harvey-Jones £18 bidders must also provide proof +44 (0) 20 7468 8308 of identity when submitting bids. [email protected] Failure to do this may result in your bid not being processed. Department Administrator Bun Boisseau Live online bidding is available +44 (0) 20 7468 8307 for this sale [email protected] Please email [email protected] with ‘live bidding’ in the subject PRESS ENQUIRIES line 48 hours before the auction [email protected] to register for this service. CUSTOMER SERVICES Monday to Friday 8.30am – 6pm +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams International Board Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Gordon McFarlan, Andrew McKenzie, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Harvey Cammell Deputy Chairman, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Mike Neill, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, India Phillips, Matthew Girling CEO, Lucinda Bredin, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Peter Rees, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Jean Ghika, Charles Graham-Campbell, Veronique Scorer, Robert Smith, James Stratton, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Jon Baddeley, Rupert Banner, Geoffrey Davies, Matthew Haley, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Ralph Taylor, Charlie Thomas, David Williams, Jonathan Fairhurst, Asaph Hyman, James Knight, David Johnson, Charles Lanning, Grant Macdougall Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Caroline Oliphant, Shahin Virani, Edward Wilkinson, Leslie Wright. Central SALE Middlesex Acton Ln Hospital Park Royal INFORMATION Acton Ln Cadogan Tate Coronation Road W e d s P a te a o r r n R k A v e R e s A o 40 a y h a Park l C Royal iWestern Ave A40 R o Station a 0 d 0 Acton 0 North 4 Cemetery A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V BIDS BUYERS COLLECTION & STORAGE AND HANDLING The following symbol is used +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 STORAGE AFTER SALE West ActonCHARGES ON SOLD LOTS to denoteHorn Lane that VAT is due on Station +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax LOTS MARKED TP RETURNED TO CADOGAN TATE the hammer price and buyer’s [email protected] All sold lots marked TP will be premium To bid via the internet please visit removed to Cadogan Tate, 241 Storage www.bonhams.com Acton Lane, London, NW10 7NP Storage will be free of charge for † VAT 20% on hammer price from 9am Thursday 26 April 2018 the first 14 calendar days from & and buyer’s premium PAYMENTS and will be available for collection including the sale date Wednesday * VAT on imported items at a Buyers from 12pm Friday 27 April 2018 25 April 2018. preferential rate of 5% on hammer +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 and then every working day between price and the prevailing rate on +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax 9am and 4.30pm. Charges will apply from 9am buyer’s premium. Wednesday 9 May 2018. Sellers Collections are by appointment only Large Paintings: £5.70 per day +VAT Y These lots are subject to CITES Payment of sale proceeds & a booking email or phone call All other Paintings: £2.85 per day regulations, please read the +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 are required in advance to ensure +VAT information in the back of +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax lots are ready at time of collection, the catalogue. photographic id will be required at (Please note: Charges apply every VALUATIONS, TAXATION time of collection & if a third party is day including weekends and Public Payment & HERITAGE collecting written authorisation from Holidays). All charges due to Cadogan +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 the successful buyer is required in Tate may be paid to them in advance +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax advance. Photographic id of the third Handling or at the time of collection from their [email protected] party will be requested at the time of After the first 14 calendar days warehouse. Payment may be made collection. following the sale, the following by cash, cheque with banker’s card, CATALOGUE SUBSCRIPTIONS handling charges apply per Lot: credit, or debit card (Please note: To obtain any Bonhams catalogue To arrange a collection time Large Paintings £42.00+ VAT Amex is not accepted). or to take out an annual please send a booking email to: All other Paintings £21.00+ VAT Information on charges subscription: [email protected] or due is available by email at Subscriptions Department telephone call to +44 (0)800 988 Loss and Damage [email protected] or +44 (0) 1666 502200 6100 to ensure lots are ready at time Extended Liability cover for the value telephone on +44 (0)800 988 6100 +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax of collection. of the Hammer Price will be charged [email protected] at 0.6% but will not exceed the total Payment in Advance All other sold lots will remain in the value of all other transfer and storage (Telephone to ascertain amount due) SHIPPING Collections room at Knightsbridge charges. by: cash, cheque with banker’s card, For information and estimates Without charge until 5.30pm credit, or debit card. on domestic and international Wednesday 9 May 2018 lots not VAT shipping as well as export collected by this time will be removed Will be applied at the current rate Payment at time of collection by: licenses please contact Alban to the warehouse of Cadogan Tate on all above charges. cash, cheque with banker’s card, Shipping on +44 (0) 1582 493 099 and will be available for collection credit, or debit card. [email protected] from 12pm Friday 11 May 2018 where charges will apply. Please note that Bonhams, Cadogan Tate And Alban Shipping will be closed Monday 7 May 2018 for the May Bank Holiday. 1 1 FOLLOWER OF PIETER COECKE VAN AELST (AELST 1502-1550 BRUSSELS) A Triptych: the central panel: The Adoration of the Magi; the left wing: The Annunciation; and the right wing: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt oil on panel, shaped tops central panel: 70.6 x 73.2cm (21.2 x 28 13/16in). and wings: 73.2 x 21.2cm (28 13/16 x 8 3/8in). £5,000 - 7,000 €5,600 - 7,900 US$6,900 - 9,700 A very similar triptych of the same subject matter was offered at Fischer, Lucerne, 19 May 1994, lot 2024 (as Augsburg School, circa 1525). 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 | 3 2 2 CIRCLE OF WOLFGANG HEIMBACH (OVELGÖNNE CIRCA 1613-CIRCA 1678 OLDENBURG) An elegant interior with figures eating and drinking, a sleeping man being woken by a maid beyond bears signature and date ‘Pdehooch fecit 16*0’ (on chair, lower right) oil on canvas 61.1 x 80.1cm (24 1/16 x 31 9/16in). £5,000 - 7,000 €5,600 - 7,900 US$6,900 - 9,700 Provenance The Collection of J.O.Flatter (as Wolfgang Heimbach, according to a Witt Library mount) 3 TP PETER SNYERS (ANTWERP 1681-1752) An old woman with a basket of eggs, holding a dead fox oil on canvas 143.5 x 104.1cm (56 1/2 x 41in). £3,000 - 5,000 €3,400 - 5,600 US$4,100 - 6,900 Provenance Sale, Langford, London, 1 June 1759, lot 64 Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 8 July 1987, lot 325 3 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 JAN JOSEF HOREMANS THE ELDER (ANTWERP 1682-1759) Portrait of a family group in a park landscape signed ‘JHorem**’ (on wall, lower right) oil on canvas 70 x 82.7cm (27 9/16 x 32 9/16in). £6,000 - 8,000 €6,700 - 9,000 US$8,300 - 11,000 Provenance With Meninas, S.A., Barcelona, 1975 Sale, Bonhams, London, 4 July 2007, lot 57, where purchased by the present owner 5 JAN BAPTIST LAMBRECHTS (ANTWERP 1680-CIRCA 1731) Elegant company drinking tea in the garden of a country house oil on canvas 86.2 x 69.2cm (33 15/16 x 27 1/4in).
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