100 |
CARLO PERUGINI A portrait of Sophie Gray, monogrammed according to a label on the reverse, oil on canvas, 10.25" x 8.75". See illustration. Provenance: Kerrison Preston, Esq. and thence by descent to the late Jean Fiora Preston. This painting was previously attributed to Millais and was lent by Kerrison Preston, Esq. to the Millais Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1967 (no. 88). Carlo Perugini married Kate Dickens, the daughter of Charles Dickens. Sophie Gray was presumably the sister of Effy Gray, who married Sir John Everett Millais. £1000-2000 | Nil |
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6500 |
| 101 | JAN ABRAHAM BEERSTRATEN (?) An Italianate Capriccio with an old watch tower, numerous figures and sailing vessels, monogrammed "JB", oil on canvas, 13" x 14.5". See illustration. Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire. £3000-5000 | Nil |
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8500 |
| 102 | MANNER OF BARENT VAN ORLEY St. Jerome pointing at a skull beneath an inscription "Memorare movissima tva tin aete nvm non. p cabis", oil on panel, 26.25" x 20.75", in an ebonised frame. Provenance: J.T. Duke, Esq. The Mill, Bishops Waltham, Hampshire. | Nil |
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650 |
| 103 | ASCRIBED TO MICHIEL JANS VAN MIEREVELT A portrait of Maurice de Nassau, Prince of Orange, oil on panel, 24" x 19.5" £3000-5000 | Nil |
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2600 |
| 104 | ASCRIBED TO DAVID TENIERS Ducks on a waterway with rushes beyond, inscribed on the reverse and apparently bearing an old inventory number 115B, oil on canvas, 15" x 22.25". See illustration | Nil |
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| 105 | TUSCAN SCHOOL, 15th century (?) St. Julian holding a palmette with an extensive landscape beyond, tempera on a poplar panel, 28.5" x 15" (unframed). See illustration £2000-4000 | Nil |
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14000 |
| 106 | FLEMISH SCHOOL, 17th century Christ on the Cross, oil on copper panel, 8.5" x 6.5". See illustration £1000-2000 | Nil |
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1200 |
| 107 | Spare Lot | Nil |
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| 108 | DUTCH SCHOOL, 17th century The Card Sharp, oil on canvas, 28" x 23.75". See illustration. Provenance: Curtis Brady, Esq. Yorkshire and thence by descent. £1000-2000 | Nil |
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1150 |
| 109 | MANNER OF GUIDO RENI "Aurora", oil on canvas, 19.5" x 39.25" in a carved and pierced giltwood frame. See illustration. Provenance: According to an old typed label on the reverse the Jacob family, Brookmans Park. £1000-2000 | Nil |
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1000 |
| 110 | DALMATION SCHOOL (?) The Madonna and Child, oval, oil on panel, 6.5" x 5". See illustration. Provenance: The Estate of the late Jean Fiora Preston. £300-500 | Nil |
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800 |
| 111 | FRENCH SCHOOL, 18th century A young gentleman in an arcadian landscape with ruins and trees, in a rococo border of scrolls and floral garlands, oil on canvas, 23.5" x 38.75" and the companion painting of a young lady in a landscape (2). See illustration. Provenance: Private Collection, Dorset. £1500-3000 | Nil |
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| 112 | ENGLISH SCHOOL, circa 1740 A portrait of Mrs Malachi Blake (nee Sarah Briscoe) wearing diamond earrings and an ivory silk gown, in a feigned oval, oil on canvas, 29.5" x 24.75", in a carved giltwood Kentian frame with projecting corners applied with stylised flowerheads, and the companion painting of the Reverend Malachi Blake (2). See illustration Provenance: Private Collection, Dorset. £2000-4000 | Nil |
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2800 |
| 113 | SPANISH SCHOOL, 17th century Figs and other fruit in a glass bowl and on a metal platter, oil on canvas, indistinctly signed (?) "De Camp ...", oil on canvas, 14" x 18". See illustration. Provenance: The collection of the late Miss Pinches, London. Private Collection, Dorset. £1000-2000 | Nil |
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1200 |
| 114 | ITALO-FLEMISH SCHOO, 18th century A view of the Bay of Naples with numerous figures and Vesuvius in the distance, oil on canvas, 30.25" x 21.25". See illustration | Nil |
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5500 |
| 115 | LUCCA CARA ..... "The Gondolier's Race", indistinctly signed, oil on canvas, 16.25" x 21.5", in a carved and giltwood frame with sanded panels. See illustration. Provenance: Acquired in the 1930's by Frank Bellville, Esq. for Tyne Hall, Bembridge, Isle of Wight and thence by descent. £2500-4500 | Nil |
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9000 |
| 116 | EUGENE BABOULENE "L'Eglise du Castelli", signed, and the reverse inscribed with the title and the artist's name, oil on canvas, 9" x 12.5". See illustration. Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire. £500-800 | Nil |
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950 |
| 117 | BRAKE BALDWIN "Kensington Gore", signed and dated 1915, oil on canvas, 20" x 24". See illustration. Provenance: The Michael Parkin Gallery, 11 Motcomb Street, London SW1. Private Collection, West Country. £3000-5000 | Nil |
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3500 |
| 118 | DUNCAN GRANT "Lucca", signed and the reverse inscribed on a label, oil on canvas, 19.5" x 25.75". See illustration Provenance: The Bloomsbury Workshop, 12 Gaylen Place, London WC1 Private Collection, West Country. £5000-8000 | Nil |
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10000 |
| 119 | EUSTON ROAD SCHOOL "The Farmyard", indistinctly monogrammed "JC(?)", oil on canvas, 15.5" x 21". See illustration. Provenance: David Ker Fine Art (J180). Private Collection, West Country. £400-600 | Nil |
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| 120 | ATTILIO PRATELLA A busy quayside with a bay and mountains beyond, signed, oil on canvas, 11.5" x 19.25". See illustration. Provenance: Private Collection, Dorset. £3000-6000 | Nil |
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9500 |
| 121 | VANESSA BELL "Pond from a Window", signed and dated 1944 and the reverse with a label, oil on canvas, 10" x 13.75". See illustration. The three heads depicted in the foreground of this charming work are almost certainly the artist's three children, Julien, Quentin and Angelica. Their inclusion gazing out across the pond at Charleston gives the work an added sense of intimacy. Provenance: The Collection of Raymond Sherrard, Esq. of South Lodge, Dorchester, a friend of the artist. Vanessa Bell's son, Quentin, married Raymond Sherrard's daughter. Purchased from the International Galleries, 161 Strand WC2 on 13th June 1949 for £15. Thence by descent. Exhibited: The Redfern Gallery as "Pond from a Window" as from the Abbott Collection. £5000-10000 | Nil |
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5000 |
| 122 | THEODORE ROUSSEAU Oaks by a woodland pool at sunset, signed, oil on canvas, 10" x 15.5". Provenance: Private Collection, Dorset. £5000-10000 | Nil |
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7500 |
| 150 | THE SAN MARCO PANELS Guido di Pietro, called Fra Angelico. St. Vincent Ferrer (?) and an unidentified Dominican Saint, tempera on a gold ground, 15.5" x 5" and 15.4" x 5" respectively. Estimate: in excess of £1 million A pair of panels from the High Altarpiece of the artist's own church, executed between 1438-1440 under the patronage of Cosimo de Medici. Provenance: The San Marco Altarpiece was dismantled before 1810 and the elements dispersed. According to the recollection of the late Jean Preston, inherited by Mrs Hilda Brown, Switzerland, circa 1924/1925 from her husband. Apparently bequeathed by Mrs Hilda Brown to Mrs Maria Teweles of Twentynine Palms, California in 1964. Sold privately to Kerrison Preston, Esq. a noted connoisseur and collector, in April 1965 as "Panel paintings of Dominican Saints, 15th Century, Italian". The invoice dated 6th April 1965. Bequeathed by Kerrison Preston, Esq. to his daughter Jean Preston, in 1974, who was then living in the U.S.A. Shortly before Jean Preston's death in 2006 the panels were identified by Michael Liversidge as missing elements from the San Marco Altarpiece. | Nil |
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1700000 |
