Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Henry Herbert La Thangue - A Sussex hayfield at Graffham




1912
oil on canvas
26 3/4 x 30 3/4"

was for sale @ £95,000
http://www.richard-green.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=19&tabindex=18

China through the lens of John Thomson



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/7079331/China-through-the-lens-of-John-Thomson.html?image=1

Philip Alexius de Laszlo




[Portrait of Mrs. Francis Lindley Gull, later Mrs Morgan-Grenville, neƩ Elizabeth(Betty) Renshaw]
signed 'Laszlo/1917 IV' (lower right)
oil on canvas
26½ x 35½ in.
Price Realized £44,450
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=5&intObjectID=5275388&sid=6ee873a5-dc23-4c92-9e6b-d9bf5527fbdd

http://www.delaszloarchivetrust.com/

http://jssgallery.org/other_artists/philip_alexius_de_laszlo/Philip_Alexius_de_Laszlo.htm

George Spencer Watson - 'Four Loves I found, a Woman, a Child, a Horse and a Hound'




signed and dated 'G. Spencer Watson/1922' (lower left) and inscribed 'G. Spencer Watson/20 Holland Park Rd/W14' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
56 x 77 in.
Price Realized £151,250
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=2&intObjectID=5275385&sid=6ee873a5-dc23-4c92-9e6b-d9bf5527fbdd

Henry Herbert La Thangue - In the Orchards, Haylands, Graffham




signed 'H.H. LA THANGUE' (lower right), and inscribed by the artist 'H.H. La Thangue' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
40 x 35 in.
Price Realized £385,250

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=5&intObjectID=5275378&sid=6ee873a5-dc23-4c92-9e6b-d9bf5527fbdd

Alfred James Munning - Polperro




signed 'A.J. Munnings' (lower left)
oil on canvas
15 x 18¼ in.
Price Realized £48,050
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5275377&sid=6ee873a5-dc23-4c92-9e6b-d9bf5527fbdd

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

New York's Fenimore Museum Unveils Sargent's Women



[Lady Eden]



Dame Laura Knight









[Le Carnival]
signed 'Laura Knight' (lower left)
oil on canvas
30 x 40 in.
Price Realized £25,000

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=2&intObjectID=5275364&sid=6ee873a5-dc23-4c92-9e6b-d9bf5527fbdd

[The Morning Ride]
signed 'Laura Knight' (lower left)
Pencil and Watercolour with scratching out on paper
49 3/4 x 39 3/8 in.

[Storm over our town, Malvern]
signed 'Laura Knight' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30¼ x 40 in.
Price Realized £49,250
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=3&intObjectID=5275366&sid=6ee873a5-dc23-4c92-9e6b-d9bf5527fbdd

Alfred James Munning - Horses and gypsy caravans




signed and dated 'A J Munnings/1911' (lower left)
oil on canvas
16 x 20 in.
Price Realized £301,250

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=5&intObjectID=5275368&sid=6ee873a5-dc23-4c92-9e6b-d9bf5527fbdd

Dame Laura Knight - Gypsies at Epsom




signed 'Laura Knight' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in.
Price Realized £79,250
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=4&intObjectID=5275367&sid=6ee873a5-dc23-4c92-9e6b-d9bf5527fbdd

Harold Knight - Alfred Munnings reading

Victorian & British Impressionist Pictures Including Drawings and Watercolours
16 December 2009
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/searchresults.aspx?intSaleID=22255#action=refine&intSaleID=22255&sid=6ee873a5-dc23-4c92-9e6b-d9bf5527fbdd




oil on canvas
40 x 30 in.
Price Realized £115,250
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5275363&sid=6ee873a5-dc23-4c92-9e6b-d9bf5527fbdd



Monday, March 29, 2010

Parlour Maid

Myles Birket Foster - A Lifeboat: the return from a wreck



signed with monogram (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 x 60 in.
Price Realized £11,750

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=10&intObjectID=3823161&sid=555a8a0c-6101-4b57-ba24-c36cc5a09d28

David James - Atlantic rollers




signed and dated 'D. James 98' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 x 50 in.
Price Realized £35,250

James Webb - Near Cowes, the Isle of Wight




signed 'James Webb' (lower right) and signed, inscribed and dated 'Near Cowes, Isle of Wight/Painted by James Webb/1874.5./Painted for A. Tooth Esq.' 'JW' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
14 x 22¾ in.
Price Realized £8,225

John Atkinson Grimshaw - Prince's Dock, Hull



signed and dated 'Atkinson Grimshaw 1882+' (lower left)
oil on board
11¾ x 20 in.
Price Realized £71,950

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=6&intObjectID=3823152&sid=555a8a0c-6101-4b57-ba24-c36cc5a09d28

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Turner's Masterpiece Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino to Be Offered For Sale



[J.M.W. Turner RA, "Modern Rome: Campo Vaccino". Oil on canvas, estimate: £12-18 million, (90.2 by 122 cm), 35.5 by 48 inches. Photo: Sotheby's]


http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37071

Camel Ride

John Frederick Herring Jnr






[Berkshire saddlebacks with pigs and piglets in a farmyard]
signed 'J.F. Herring' (lower left)
oil on panel, feigned oval
8 x 8 in.
Price Realized £11,163


[Horses, pigs and chickens in a farmyard; and Startled horses and pigs beside a pond]

both signed 'J F Herring' (lower left)
oil on canvas
12¼ x 18½ in. (31.3 x 47 cm.); and slightly smaller
a pair (2)
Price Realized £16,450

Benjamin Williams Leader





[Burrows Cross, Shere, Surrey]
signed and dated 'B.W. LEADER. 1897.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
11 7/8 x 17¾ in.

Price Realized £6,345

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=1&intObjectID=3823142&sid=555a8a0c-6101-4b57-ba24-c36cc5a09d28

[A quiet pool on the river Llugy, near Capel Curig]
signed and dated 'B. W. Leader. 1872.' (lower right) and signed and inscribed 'A Quiet pool on the river Llugy near Capel Curig/B.W Leader.' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
20 x 30 in.
Price Realized £7,638
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=2&intObjectID=3823143&sid=555a8a0c-6101-4b57-ba24-c36cc5a09d28


[On the Lledr]
signed and dated 'B.W.LEADER.1874.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
24 x 36 in.
Price Realized £17,625

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=3&intObjectID=3823144&sid=555a8a0c-6101-4b57-ba24-c36cc5a09d28

Joseph Paul Pettitt - The College Chapel, Eton, from the Thames




signed and dated 'J P Pettitt 1858' (lower right)
oil on canvas
23½ x 35 5/8 in.
Price Realized £3,290

Willian Lionel Wyllie




[Medway with Reapers]
signed and dated 'W.L.Wyllie/1889' (lower right)
oil on canvas
22 x 40 in.
Price Realized £18,800

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=3823139&sid=555a8a0c-6101-4b57-ba24-c36cc5a09d28


http://www.art-gallery.co.uk/

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Puppet Booth


Henry John Yeend King - The farm pond



signed 'Yeend King' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 36 in.
Price Realized £9,988
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=8&intObjectID=3823138&sid=555a8a0c-6101-4b57-ba24-c36cc5a09d28

Ernest Albert Waterlow - An upland pool



signed 'E A Waterlow' (lower left)
oil on canvas
48 x 34 in.
Price Realized £8,813

Alfred de Breanski - The close of day, Quarry Wood on the Thames




signed 'Alfred. de Breanski' (lower right) and inscribed '"The close of day/Quarry Wood on the Thames/Alfred. de Breanski' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
23¾ x 36 in.
Price Realized £8,460

James Sant






[The pet bullfinch]
oil on canvas
30¼ x 25¼ in.
Price Realized £10,575
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=5&intObjectID=3823129&sid=555a8a0c-6101-4b57-ba24-c36cc5a09d28


[An English Rose]
signed with monogram (lower right)
oil on canvas
61¾ x 43 in.
Price Realized £6,815

Friday, March 26, 2010

Fashion History of The Aesthetic Dress Movement (article)




[Dress from a 1905 Liberty catalogue]

http://www.fashion-era.com/aesthetics.htm



[James McNeill Whistler: Symphony in White, No.1: The White Girl, 1862]



[Arrangementin Black No. 5: Lady Meux, 1881]
http://www.honoluluacademy.org/cmshaa/academy/index.aspx?id=984

Frank Dicksee - Portrait of Margaret, daughter of J.C. imThurn Esq.



signed and dated 'FRANK DICKSEE/1904' (lower right) and with inscription 'Frank Dicksee Esq RA/3 Greville Place/St Johns Wood' (on an old label on the reverse)
oil on canvas
36 x 28 in.
Price Realized £14,100
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=3&intObjectID=3823126&sid=555a8a0c-6101-4b57-ba24-c36cc5a09d28

Richard Ansdell - A collie and puppies



oil on board
7¼ x 10 in.
Price Realized £4,700

Charles Hunt - Children playing soldiers




signed and dated 'CH. Hunt 1861' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21¾ x 29¾ in.
Price Realized £12,338

Charles West Cope - The Inquisition




signed with monogram and indistinctly dated '1880' (lower centre)
oil on canvas
29½ x 24½ in.
Price Realized £8,225
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=3823120&sid=555a8a0c-6101-4b57-ba24-c36cc5a09d28

Thursday, March 25, 2010

W. G. Grace



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._G._Grace

Advance Notice: The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement in Britain 1860-1900



April - July 2011
V&A
http://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/future_exhibs/aestheticism/index.html

Charles Hunt - The wounded soldiers




signed and dated 'C. Hunt 87.' (lower left) and signed, inscribed and dated '"The wounded soldiers"/Charles Hunt July 1887' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
24 x 39 in.
Price Realized £17,625

Frederick Morgan - Grandfer's Birthday



signed 'Fred Morgan.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
23¼ x 16¼ in.
Price Realized £32,900
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=8&intObjectID=3823118&sid=555a8a0c-6101-4b57-ba24-c36cc5a09d28

John Wainwright - Crown Imperial ...



[Crown Imperial (Fritillaria imperialis), Poppy Oriental, Tulip, Hyacinth, Primula (Auricula), Rose, Glory of the Sun (LeucocornƩ ixiodes), Geum (Rosaceae), Daffodil (Narcissus), Astrantia and Gentian, in a terracotta vase on a marble ledge in a landscape]
signed and dated 'J Wainwright 1860' (lower left)
oil on canvas
36½ x 26 in.
Price Realized £21,150

John Frederick Herring Jnr - A horse, pigs, ducks and cattle in a farmyard




signed 'JF Herring' (lower left)
oil on canvas
15 x 16 in.
Price Realized £8,225

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Victoria and Abdul




Victoria & Abdul: The 24-year-old Indian servant the widowed Queen called 'dearest Munshi' and the society scandal that drove him out of Britain

By Annabel Venning
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259290/Victoria--Abdul-The-24-year-old-Indian-servant-widowed-Queen-called-dearest-Munshi-scandal-drove-Britain.html#ixzz0itH3tVAu

Maria Brooks




[Cat's Cradle]
oil on canvas
50.1 x 40¼ in.
Price Realized £32,900
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=2&intObjectID=3823108&sid=555a8a0c-6101-4b57-ba24-c36cc5a09d28


http://www.artnet.com/artist/613174/maria-brooks.html

Ernest Crofts - Near the Belle Alliance at dawn, June 18th, 1815



signed and dated 'E. Crofts 1906' (lower right)
oil on canvas
19½ x 29½
Price Realized £12,338

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=3&intObjectID=3823109&sid=555a8a0c-6101-4b57-ba24-c36cc5a09d28

Eloise Harriet Stannard - pair



[Raspberries in a wicker basket with pears and redcurrants; and black grapes in a glass bowl with peaches and whitecurrants]
both signed and dated 'E.H. Stannard/1890' (lower centre)
oil on board
16 x 16 in.

Price Realized £12,925