Mallams 1788 THE PICTURE SALE - 5TH JULY 2017 - OXFORD THE PICTURE SALE - 5TH JULY The Picture Sale Wednesday 5th July 2017 OXFORD www.mallams.co.uk Jewellery & Silver Entries Invited The Art & Music Sale October 2017 A late 19th/early 20th Wednesday 23 August century sapphire and Oxford diamond brooch Sold for £23,000 (hammer price) in March 2017 Illustrated: Pito Entries invited (French 20th century) Closing date: Friday 28 July Orchestre a St Jean de Luz (detail) £200-300 For more information or to arrange a free valuation please For more information or to arrange a free verbal valuation contact: Louise Dennis FGA DGA please contact Rupert Fogden on 01865 241358 or E: [email protected] or T: 01865 241358 [email protected] Mallams Auctioneers Bocardo House St Michael’s Street Mallams Mallams Auctioneers / Bocardo House / St Michael’s Street Mallams Oxford OX1 2EB www.mallams.co.uk 1788 Oxford OX1 2EB www.mallams.co.uk 1788 Oxford Picture Sale 5th July.qxp_Layout 1 27/06/2017 16:59 Page 1 Connect with us Oxford Saleroom Welcome Bocardo House 24a St. Michael’s Street Welcome aboard the Mallams Summer Picture Sale. Oxford OX1 2EB As luck would have it, with the recent record-breaking temperatures, there is plenty on offer in the marine Opening hours section to remind us all of the joy of the cool sea and Monday to Friday coastal breezes. 9am - 5.30pm Lot 103 is particularly fascinating as it depicts a sailing craft in full sail close to two lighthouses T: 01865 241358 off the notoriously dangerous Eddystone rocks, F: 01865 725483 thirteen miles south west of Plymouth. So why two E: [email protected] lighthouses? Well, since the 17th Century no less than www.mallams.co.uk four lighthouses have been built on this site. This www.the-saleroom.com view depicts the transition between John Smeaton’s red and white tower and the fourth and current Follow us on Twitter lighthouse designed by James Douglass which was in @Mallams1788 operation by 1882. Smeaton’s lighthouse was so well respected and loved that the upper section was then dismantled and re-erected on Plymouth Hoe. Sporting art is also well represented (see lots 250- 268). Lot 255 depicts the Heythrop Hounds in 1921 by Henry Frederick Lucas-Lucas. Of fair size the work For image requests/ is full of vibrancy and with the added bonus that the condition reports names of the hounds are each beautifully inscribed E: [email protected] verso. Viewing An interesting selection of ten watercolours depicting Saturday 1st July 9am to 1pm traditional agriculture and British country craft by the Monday 3rd July 9am to 5pm enigmatic Second World War artist Thomas Hennell Tuesday 4th July 9am to 5pm are also included in the sale (Lots 187-196). Collected And the morning of the sale over the last twenty years and consigned by a private from 8.30am collector these works serve as a pleasant reminder of Sale commences at 11am the British countryside of days gone by. Whatever your taste we hope that with the volume and diversity on offer something of interest will be Front Cover Image Lot 104 Back cover Lot 186 found. Rupert Fogden IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING FRAMES As a general rule works are sold as framed unless the term ‘unframed’ appears in the catalogue description. Some pictures have been photographed to show the frame, but the majority are not. The absence of a frame in the photograph does not necessarily indicate that the work is unframed. To avoid any possible confusion prospective buyers are respectfully requested to check and satisfy themselves with regards to this matter prior to bidding. Oxford Picture Sale 5th July.qxp_Layout 1 27/06/2017 16:59 Page 2 Mallams 1788 Order of Sale The Picture Sale 5th July 2017 at 11am Prints, Miniatures, Maps and Frames 1-69 Marine Art and Scale Models 70-150 The Property of A Lady 151-175 Oils and Watercolours 176-465 Condition Reports and Images: [email protected] Important notice: Buyer’s premium 24% inclusive of VAT on each lot. Lots purchased via saleroom.com will incur an additional charge of 3% plus VAT. Credit card fees where applicable are 2.28% inclusive of VAT Please note that condition reports are not printed in the catalogue or on our website however, we are happy to provide them when requested subject to our terms and conditions of sale. The absence of any reference to condition in any description does not imply the lot is without fault. Oxford Picture Sale 5th July.qxp_Layout 1 27/06/2017 16:59 Page 3 Droite de Suite Important Notices: and in addition to the buyer’s premium. The Changes to the Droite de Suite or Artist’s Artist’s Resale right is not subject to VAT. The Resale Rights charge for Works of Art sold at or above 1000 Euros and below 50,000 Euros is 4%. Pictures produced by European Artists can For items selling above this figure the fee is be subject to the Droite de Suite or Artist’s calculated on a sliding scale. These charges Resale Right which took effect in the United are paid to the Design and Artist’s Copyright Kingdom on the 14th February 2006. Under Society (DACS). No additional fees or handling this legislation Mallams is required to collect costs are retained by Mallams. a royalty payment for works by living artists For more information visit www.dacs.org.uk. which sell for more than 1000 Euros. This now also applies to works by artists who have died Please be aware of this extra charge and within the last seventy years. It is calculated on especially the recent changes if you intend the Rate of Exchange at the European Central to bid for any works which might fall into the Bank on the date of sale. It is charged to the above category. buyer as a percentage of the hammer price Explanation of Picture Cataloguing Terms ‘Follower of ’ … in our opinion the work is A work catalogued with the full name of the executed in the named artist’s style. artist in our opinion, is or is probably a work ‘Manner of ’ … in our opinion the work is by that artist, however intending buyers executed in the named artist’s style but is of a are respectfully reminded to fully satisfy considerably later date. themselves prior to bidding as the catalogue ‘School (together with place or country and description does NOT represent a certificate of date)’ … in our opinion the work was executed authenticity. in that location at that time. Other wise the following terms are used: ‘After’ … in our opinion the work is a copy of a ‘Attributed to’ … in our opinion the work is known painting by the named artist. probably by the artist named in whole or in ‘Signed’ … in our opinion the signature is by the part. hand of the artist stated. ‘Circle of ’ … in our opinion the work is by an ‘Bears signature’ … in our opinion there is an artist influenced by the named artist and of the element of doubt over the signature or it has period. been added by another hand. Oxford Picture Sale 5th July.qxp_Layout 1 27/06/2017 16:59 Page 4 Prints, Miniatures, Maps and Frames Lots 1-69 Oxford Picture Sale 5th July.qxp_Layout 1 27/06/2017 16:59 Page 5 THERE IS A PREMIUM OF 20% OF THE HAMMER PRICE ON ALL SALES THIS IS SUBJECT TO V.A.T. 1. NORMAN THOMAS JANES (1892-1980) 2. AFTER ALBERT TAYLER 3. SIR DAVID MUIRHEAD BONE (1876-1953) ‘Liverpool Street’, wood engraving, pencil signed in the Lord Hawke batting in cricket attire, chromo-lithograph Building ships: a shipyard seen from a big crane, margin and numbered 19/40, 18 x 22.5cm printed by the Fine Art Society, 36 x 23cm; and five lithograph from the Great War: Britain’s efforts and £100-150 further similar (6) ideals, pencil signed in the margin, 46 x 36cm £50-80 £200-300 4. AFTER MARY FEDDEN 5. S & J FULLER (pubs) 6. BLAIR HUGHES-STANTON (1902-1981) ‘Chiswick’, lithograph in colours, 50 x 34cm ‘Chairs to Mend’, engraving, hand-coloured, 14 x 13cm; Helen, signed and dated ‘32 in pencil to the margin, £40-60 and five further similar; together with 20th Century artist’s proof woodcut, 19.5 x 12cm; and Priapus, no. English School - ‘Loweswater and Hudson Place’, 12/12, signed and dated ‘33 in pencil to the margin, etching in colours, indistinctly signed, dated ‘98, titled 23.5 x 14cm (2) and numbered 36/100, 14.5 x 19cm (7) £100-150 £30-50 7. HENRY EVANS (1918-1990) 8. CAREL WEIGHT (1907-1997) 9. CHARLES HOLROYD (1861-1917) Fritillary, signed, dated 1967 and numbered 41/50 in The Day of Doom, signed in pencil and numbered ‘Monte Oliveto Maggiore - 13 etchings by Charles pencil, lino cut, 45.5 x 30.5cm; Columbine, signed and 146/250 to the margin, 99 x 69cm Holroyd’, each pencil signed in the margin, varying dated 1966, numbered 7/104; and one other botanical £50-100 sizes, all mounted but unframed in cloth bound green lino cut by the same hand (3) folio £30-50 £200-300 For details of fees that apply to successful bids, please see pages 2 and 3 5 Page Oxford Picture Sale 5th July.qxp_Layout 1 27/06/2017 16:59 Page 6 10. STEPHEN BARTLETT (b.1942) 11.