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Payment at time of collection by: cash, cheque with banker’s card, credit, or debit card, or travellers cheque. 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN, VICTORIAN AND BRITISH IMPRESSIONIST ART Lots 1 - 109 1 AR EDOUARD HENRI LEON CORTÈS (FRENCH, 1882-1969) City of light, Paris signed ‘EDOUARD CORTÈS’ (lower right) oil on canvas 33 x 45.5cm (13 x 17 15/16in). £6,000 - 8,000 US$7,900 - 11,000 €7,100 - 9,500 6 | BONHAMS 2 AR EDOUARD HENRI LEON CORTÈS (FRENCH, 1882-1969) Boulevard Beaumarchais with the July Column in the distance signed ‘EDOUARD CORTÈS.’ (lower left) oil on canvas 33 x 46cm (13 x 18 1/8in). £8,000 - 12,000 US$11,000 - 16,000 €9,500 - 14,000 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN, VICTORIAN AND BRITISH IMPRESSIONIST ART | 7 3 * FERDINAND JOSEPH GUELDRY (FRENCH, 1858-1945) A founder of the Société Nautique de Marne at Joinville-le-Pont and The boat race a keen rower, he set up his studio in Bry-sur-Marne, in the eastern signed ‘F Gueldry’ (lower right) suburbs of Paris about eight miles from the city centre, where he oil on canvas painted numerous scenes of rowing and regattas during the 1880s 51.5 x 65cm (20 1/4 x 25 9/16in). and 1890s. The rowers depicted here in blue and white shirts are probably members of his club, shown in a tight race with several other crews, as the crowd rushes along the bank shouting encouragement £8,000 - 12,000 and the various flags of the different teams flutter in the breeze. US$11,000 - 16,000 €9,500 - 14,000 By the end of the nineteenth century the passion for boating both for pleasure and sport had increased dramatically. Gueldry, an artist with Ferdinand Joseph Gueldry was born in Paris in 1858. He enrolled at a keen sense of line and an innate understanding of colour, was able the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1876 at the age of 18 where he was a to capture this unique period in Parisian history as the bourgeoisie pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904).