To print, your print settings should be ‘fit to page size’ or ‘fit to printable area’ or similar. Problems? See our guide:https://atg.news/2zaGmwp 7 1 -2 0 2 1 9 1 ISSUE 2505 | antiquestradegazette.com | 21 August 2021 | UK £4.99 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 S E E R 50years D koopman rare art V A I R N T antiques trade G T H E KOOPMAN (see Client Templates for issue versions) THE ART M ARKET WEEKLY 12 Dover Street, W1S 4LL [email protected] | www.koopman.art | +44 (0)20 7242 7624 Wales joins contest for Dyer archive by Roland Arkell The National Library of Wales was among the successful bidders when an archive relating to the poet and painter John Dyer (1699-1757) emerged for sale in Yorkshire this month. Today John Dyer is little known, but in the 18th and 19th centuries he was feted as a pioneer of Romanticism. William Wordsworth himself penned a sonnet to the ‘Bard of the Fleece’ – a reference to Dyer’s four-book genre poem The Fleece that championed the noble pastime of tending sheep in the British landscape. Poet, painter, parson Above: a 17th century ebony and pietra Much of what is known of Dyer’s life comes dura table casket – £60,000 at Claydon from the book Poet, Painter and Parson, the life Auctioneers on August 4. of John Dyer written by Ralph M Williams and published in 1956. Born and raised in Carmarthenshire (the family home was Aberglasney in Llangathen), he was Bids tabled for £60,000 educated at Westminster, apprenticed to the London portrait painter Jonathan Richardson and from 1724-26 continued his Prague pietra dura casket studies in Italy. Continued on page 6 Eight phone bidders competed for this splendid 15½in and son gem cutters Cosimo and Giovanni Castrucci who (39cm) wide ebony and pietra dura table casket offered by accepted an invitation from Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to Claydon Auctioneers in Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, on establish a workshop creating so-called commesso di pietre August 4. It came for sale from a local source with an dure works of art in Prague. Although the atelier closed in estimate of £3000-5000. 1624, the Castrucci style was emulated by subsequent Although catalogued as a 19th century Grand Tour piece, generations of Bohemian artists. Right: detail of a it was quickly recognised by bidders as a 17th century object The casket, which required some careful restoration, sold portrait of the 18th with the pictorial panels displaying the sort of lapidary work to a European buyer at £60,000 (plus 19.5% buyer’s century Welsh poet often associated with courtly Prague. premium). and painter John This particular style was pioneered by Florentine father Roland Arkell Dyer (1699-1757) – £6000 at Hawleys. 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Sign up today for FREE and stay one step ahead antiquestradegazette.com/morningbriefing 2 | 21 August 2021 antiquestradegazette.com PAGE 002 2505.indd 1 13/08/2021 13:52:28 AUCTION TUESDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER 2021 HOMAN POTTERTON FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND A LIFETIME OF COLLECTING 1 2 3 4 1. Attributed to Francesco Trevisani (1656-1746), Selene and the Sleeping Endymion € 10,000 - 15,000 2. Attributed to Laurent de la Hyre (1606-1656), Artemisia at the Mausoleum of Her Husband € 15,000 - 20,000 3. After Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), The Choice of Hercules € 12,000 - 15,000 4. Attributed to Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807), Fame Decorating Shakespeare’s Tomb € 8,000 - 12,000 26 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2. Ireland +353 1 676 0261 [email protected] | www.adams.ie PAGE 003 2504.indd 1 12/08/2021 14:49:38 News Stanley Gibbons upbeat despite tough 2020 year will be a busy one.” granted a waiver of the defaults by Laura Chesters The group highlighted a on loans to the group. number of steps that it hoped Stanley Gibbons Group Stamp and coins dealership would improve its performance said Phoenix is “a long-term Stanley Gibbons Group is in the coming year. investor” and has given “no pinning its recovery on a Its central London shop in indication that it would revamped shop and the the Strand reopened in April withdraw its support before relaunch of Baldwin’s auctions and it hopes “visitor numbers March 2023 when the loan in the autumn. [will] jump particularly once facility is repayable”. The group reported its full- tourist travel becomes easier”. Among the group’s ongoing year results had been impacted Stanley Gibbons also has issues is a cost relating to a by the pandemic with sales high hopes for its purchase of property in New York falling 18% to £10.8m in the the British Guiana 1c Magenta (previously occupied by year ending March 31, 2021, which it bought at auction in dealership Mallett) where the compared with the previous June (reported in ATG No sub tenant has not been paying year (£13.2m). The firm’s full its 103rd, will be held at the start of the year and I believe 2497) and will offer fractional rent. In turn, Stanley Gibbons’ year pre-tax loss widened to group’s headquarters at 399 that they are experiencing ownership of the stamp in due subsidiary has not paid rent to £4.1m (from £2.5m). Strand – the recently improved levels of service; course. the landlord of the building. Following the split from its refurbished shop and saleroom. however, financially, we have of The stock market-listed Stanley Gibbons said joint venture with St James’ Graham Shircore, chief course been bloodied by recent company is 58% owned by “discussions continue to try to Auctions earlier this year (see executive officer, was upbeat events. My own view is that investment firm Phoenix. reach an agreement with the ATG No 2488), Baldwin’s for the year ahead. He said: Covid and its impacts have Phoenix provided £6.5m for landlord. The remaining lease Auctions will relaunch with a “We have more active been a short-term negative. the purchase of the British liability, including the £1m sale on October 6. The auction, customers than we did at the Already I know that the current Guiana 1c Magenta and has owed, is £4.5m.” Hardie among a Celtic quartet of single-owner sales Left: among the most notable also some furniture, ceramics where Barns-Graham spent by Alex Capon exhibitions organised by William and books.