Modern British, Irish and East Anglian Art Tuesday 19 November 2013 at 1pm Knightsbridge, London Modern British, Irish and East Anglian Art Tuesday 19 November 2013 at 1pm Knightsbridge Bonhams Bids Enquiries Please see page 2 for bidder Montpelier Street +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Modern British & Irish Art information including after-sale Knightsbridge +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Emma Corke collection and shipment London SW7 1HH To bid via the internet please visit +44 (0) 20 7393 3949 www.bonhams.com www.bonhams.com [email protected] Please see back of catalogue for important notice to bidders Viewings Please note that bids should be Shayn Speed submitted no later than 24 hours +44 (0) 20 7393 3909 Illustration [email protected] East Anglian Pictures only before the sale. Front cover: Lot 91 The Guildhall Back cover: Lot 216 East Anglian Pictures Guildhall Street New bidders must also provide Inside front: Lot 46 Daniel Wright Bury St Edmunds proof of identity when submitting Inside back: Lot 215 +44 (0) 1284 716195 Suffolk, IP33 1PS bids. Failure to do this may result [email protected] in your bids not being processed. Tuesday 5 November 9am to 7pm Bidding by telephone will only be Customer Services Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm Wednesday 6 November accepted on a lot with a lower +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 9am to 4pm estimate in excess of £400. ----------- St Michael’s Hall Sale Number: 20779 Church Street Live online bidding is Reepham available for this sale Catalogue: £12 Norfolk, NR10 4JW Please email [email protected] with “Live bidding” in the subject Tuesday 12 November line 48 hours before the auction 9am to 7pm to register for this service. Wednesday 13 November 9am to 4pm Modern British, Irish & East Anglian Art Bonhams Montpelier Street Knightsbridge London SW7 1HH Sunday 17 November 11am to 3pm Monday 18 November 9am to 4.30pm Tuesday 19 November 9am to 11am Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Malcolm Barber Group Managing Director, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Peter Rees, Julian Roup, Iain Rushbrook, Matthew Girling CEO UK and Europe, David Dallas, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, James Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, Veronique Scorer, James Stratton, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Knight, Patrick Meade, Caroline Oliphant, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Roger Tappin, Shahin Virani, David Williams, Hugh Watchorn. Charles Lanning, Camilla Lombardi, Michael Wynell-Mayow. Fergus Lyons, Paul Maudsley, Gordon McFarlan, Central Sale Information Middlesex Hospital Park Royal Coronation Road W Bonhams, e d s P t Park Royal a e a rn r o A k R v e R e s A4 o 0 a y Park a h l C Royal Western Ave A40 R o 0 Station a 0 d Acton 0 4 Cemetery North A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V Bids Collection and ShipmentWest Acton Handling and storage HandlingHorn Lane and storage +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Sold lots marked with a specialStation charges payment +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax symbol W will be only retained Please Note All charges due Bonhams must be To bid via the internet please visit at Bonhams, Knightsbridge until For sold lots removed to paid by the time of collection from www.bonhams.com 10am on Wednesday 20 November Bonhams warehouse there Bonhams’ warehouse. 2013. 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The third party must All other paintings and frames premium subscription: present a photographic form of ID Subscriptions Department when collecting. Transfer per lot £10.00 † VAT 20% on hammer price +44 (0) 1666 502200 Daily storage per lot £1.70 and buyer’s premium +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax Lots not market W will only be [email protected] held free of charge at Bonhams All the above charges are * VAT on imported items at Knightsbridge until Tuesday 10 exclusive of VAT a preferential rate of 5% on Shipping December 2013. Storage charges hammer price and the prevailing For information and estimates will commence on Wednesday 11 rate on buyer’s premium on domestic and international December 2013. Please contact the shipping as well as export licenses department. W These lots will be removed to please contact Bonhams Shipping Bonhams Park Royal Warehouse Department on: Bonhams Warehouse Address: after the sale. Please read the sale +44 (0) 20 8963 2849 Unit 1, Sovereign Park information page for more details. +44 (0) 20 8963 2850 Coronation Road +44 (0) 20 7629 9673 fax Park Royal, London NW10 7QP Y These lots are subject to CITES [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 87 0811 3867 regulations, please read the Hours of opening information in the back of the 9.30am to 4.30pm catalogue. Monday to Friday East Anglian Pictures 1 1 English School, circa 1622 Sir Thomas Jermyn (1573-1645) was Comptroller of the Royal Household Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified with Sir Thomas Jermyn from 1639-1641 and Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk in 1640. He represented of Rushbrooke, Suffolk, three-quarter-length, holding a staff Bury St. Edmunds as Member of Parliament in 1614, 1621, 1623, 1626, inscribed ‘Aeta: Suae: 66 Anno: Dni. 1622’ (upper right) 1628, 1640. His eldest son also became M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds. The oil on canvas arms depicted are that of Jermyn (a crescent between two mullets in 116 x 100cm (45 11/16 x 39 3/8in). pale), there is no other obvious Jermyn family member of this date, and Within a contemporary or near contemporary ebonised and gilt this identification is further supported by a drawing in the Sutherland heightened frame. Extra-Illustrated Clarendon in the Ashmolean captioned ‘from an original £4,000 - 6,000 picture at Rushbrooke, New Bury, Suffolk’. However the inscription is an €4,700 - 7,100 anomoly, giving the age of 66 for the sitter in 1622. PROVENANCE: Christie’s, London, 23 Jan 1970. Lot 9 Identified as Sir Thomas Jermyn. 4 | Bonhams 2 2 After Michel Angelo Rooker Chequers Square, Bury St Edmunds, Circa 1795 oil on canvas laid down onto panel 36 x 46cm (14 3/16 x 18 1/8in). £1,000 - 1,500 €1,200 - 1,800 This appears to be closely related to a watercolour of the same subject by Michael Angelo Rooker in the Victoria and Albert Museums Collection. Several other Bury St Edmunds subjects by the same artist of circa 1795 are known, including views of the market square, Abbey gardens and Abbot’s Bridge. A sepia version of the same subject titled ‘St James’s Church, Bury St Edmunds’ was sold Sotherbys, London July 4, 2002, lot 209 for £10,500. A watercolour by the same artist ‘Market square, Bury St Edmunds with cattle, dogs and figures’ was sold Christie’s, London February 22, 1966, Lot 166 for £260. Another Bury St Edmunds view sold Christies, London March 29, 1983, Lot 10 for £6,000. 3 English School, circa 1660 Half length portrait of a Gentleman, believed to be a member of the Broke family of Broke Hall, Suffolk, possibly Brt. Robert Broke of Nacton (1622-1694) oil on canvas 88 x 74cm (34 5/8 x 29 1/8in). £1,000 - 1,500 €1,200 - 1,800 PROVENANCE: Purchased Broke Hall Sale, Bannister & Co, R J Girling, 26th and 27th June, 1946, Lot 250 for £1. Thence by family descent. The lot is sold together with the original sale catalogue 3 East Anglian Pictures | 5 4 4 Circle of Robert Ladbrooke (British, 1769-1842) Norwich Market with the Castle beyond, circa 1810 watercolour 41 x 70cm (16 1/8 x 27 9/16in).