- Lot 1
Attributed to Girolamo da Treviso il giovane (Treviso c . 1498-1544 Boulogne-sur-Mer)
A parade shield: Diana and her Nymphs (on the recto ); and Diana Surprised by Actaeon and The Death of Actaeon (on the verso )
EstimateGBP 150,000 - 250,000Price RealisedGBP 361,250 - Lot 2
Lorenzo di Niccolò (active 1392-1412)
The Madonna and Child Enthroned
EstimateGBP 300,000 - 500,000Price RealisedGBP 541,250 - Lot 3
Pietro Lorenzetti (active Siena c . 1306-1345)
Saint Anthony Abbot
EstimateGBP 300,000 - 500,000Price RealisedGBP 421,250 - Lot 4
Workshop of Alessandro Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli (Florence 1444/5-1510)
Saint John the Baptist - a fragment
EstimateGBP 200,000 - 300,000Price RealisedGBP 337,250 - Lot 5
Jacob Claesz. van Utrecht (?Utrecht, c. 1480-after 1530 ?Lübeck)
A triptych: central panel: The Annunciation; wings: Portrait of Herman Plönnies, Ratsherr of Lübeck, with Saint Matthew; and Portrait of his wife, Ida Greverade, with Saint Catherine of Alexandria; outer faces: Saint Christopher carrying the Christ Child; and Saint Anthony Abbot
EstimateGBP 100,000 - 150,000Price RealisedGBP 769,250 - Lot 6
Circle of Hans Holbein II (Augsburg 1497/8-1543 London)
Portrait of King Henry VIII (1491-1547), three-quarter-length, in a fur-lined, gold-brocade cloak and doublet
EstimateGBP 300,000 - 500,000Price RealisedGBP 657,250 - Lot 7
Marcus Gheeraerts II (Bruges 1561/2-1636 London)
Portrait of Frances Howard, Countess of Hertford, later Duchess of Lennox and Richmond, full-length, in a masquerade dress, with a wreath of pansies in her hair
EstimateGBP 1,000,000 - 1,500,000Price RealisedGBP 1,721,250 - Lot 9
English School, circa 1630
Triple portrait of a lady, thought to be Elizabeth, wife of Sir William Pope (1596-1624), with her children, full-length, in an interior
EstimateGBP 200,000 - 300,000Price RealisedGBP 145,250 - Lot 10
Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)
Portrait of Mrs. William Villebois, full-length, in masquerade dress, with a blue gown and a lace-edged satin skirt, holding a diaphanous wrap, beside a pilaster
EstimateGBP 4,000,000 - 6,000,000Price RealisedGBP 6,537,250 - Lot 11
Sir William Beechey, R.A. (Burford, Oxforshire 1753-1839 London)
Portrait of George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton, K.T. (1761-1827), full-length, holding a bow, in the dress of the Royal Company of Archers, holding a longbow and a black-plumed white cockaded cap, in Holyrood Park, with Duddingston Loch and Edinburgh Castle beyond
EstimateGBP 500,000 - 800,000Price RealisedGBP 481,250 - Lot 12
George Stubbs, A.R.A. (Liverpool 1724-1806 London)
Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, with a trainer, a jockey and a stable lad
EstimateGBP 20,000,000 - 30,000,000Price RealisedGBP 22,441,250 - Lot 13
Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)
The Cascade in the Gardens of the Teatro dell' Acqua behind the Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati
EstimateGBP 120,000 - 180,000Price RealisedGBP 361,250 - Lot 14
Claude-Joseph Vernet (Avignon 1714-1789 Paris)
A shipwreck with figures coming ashore
EstimateGBP 150,000 - 200,000Price RealisedGBP 145,250 - Lot 15
Charles-François Grenier de La Croix, called Lacroix de Marseille (Marseilles? c.1700-1782 Berlin?)
A coastal landscape with fishermen unloading boats, a capriccio of the Arch of Titus
EstimateGBP 100,000 - 150,000Price RealisedGBP 181,250 - Lot 16
Jean-Marc Nattier (Paris 1685-1766)
Portrait of Marguerite-Françoise-Bernard de Reims, Madame Dupleix de Bacquencourt
EstimateGBP 350,000 - 450,000Price RealisedGBP 623,650 - Lot 18
François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770)
Putti making music
EstimateGBP 150,000 - 200,000Price RealisedGBP 157,250 - Lot 19
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)
The Abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots
EstimateGBP 80,000 - 120,000Price RealisedGBP 229,250 - Lot 20
Louis-Léopold Boilly (La Bassée 1761-1845 Paris)
A trompe-l'oeil of an ivory and wood crucifix hanging on a wall
EstimateGBP 250,000 - 350,000Price RealisedGBP 481,250 - Lot 21
Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Geneva 1767-1849 London)
Dash, a setter in a wooded landscape
EstimateGBP 400,000 - 600,000Price RealisedGBP 825,250 - Lot 22
Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Geneva 1767-1849 London)
George Irving with his black hunter beneath a blasted oak, hounds being put into a covert beyond
EstimateGBP 250,000 - 350,000Price RealisedGBP 241,250 - Lot 24
Richard Roper (active 1749-1765)
The Knox Sporting Screen A six panel folding screen comprising on the front twelve paintings of hunting subjects, and on the reverse eighteen portraits of celebrated racehorses with riders and grooms, all thirty paintings in trompe l'oeil frames arranged in an architectural format of olive-green and old gold on the front and Chinese red and gold on the reverse
EstimateGBP 250,000 - 400,000Price RealisedGBP 241,250 - Lot 25
George Stubbs, A.R.A. (Liverpool 1724-1806 London)
A dark bay hunter beside a tree in an extensive landscape
EstimateGBP 100,000 - 150,000Price RealisedGBP 97,250 - Lot 27
Joseph Wright of Derby, A.R.A (Derby 1734-1797)
Portrait of John Whetham (1731-1781), of Kirklington, three-quarter-length, in a bottle-green fur-lined jacket, yellow waistcoat and fur hat, a spear in his left hand, in a rocky landscape
EstimateGBP 300,000 - 500,000Price RealisedGBP 361,250 - Lot 32
Jan Brueghel I (Brussels 1568-1625 Antwerp)
A wooded landscape with a hermit monk
EstimateGBP 120,000 - 180,000Price RealisedGBP 265,250 - Lot 33
Jan van Kessel I (Antwerp 1626-1679)
Grapes, peaches, cranberries, flowers and butterflies, in a porcelain bowl on a wooden ledge; and Grapes, blackberries, cherries, butterflies and a walnut in a porcelain bowl on a wooden ledge
EstimateGBP 120,000 - 180,000Price RealisedGBP 253,250 - Lot 35
Willem Claesz. Heda (Haarlem 1594-1680)
A blackberry pie, an upturned nautilus cup, a salt-cellar, a façon- de-Venise flute of wine, a silver ewer, an upturned roemer , hazelnuts, a silver knife and a knife-case, on a partly-draped table with pewter plates
EstimateGBP 400,000 - 600,000Price RealisedGBP 847,650 - Lot 36
Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem 1619-1668)
The Return from the Hunt
EstimateGBP 300,000 - 500,000Price RealisedGBP 337,250 - Lot 37
Simon Jacobsz. de Vlieger (Rotterdam 1600/1-1653 Weesp)
Dutch frigates exchanging salutes in a calm, with yachts, a rowing boat, a sloop carrying personnel, and fishermen on the shore
EstimateGBP 400,000 - 600,000Price RealisedGBP 1,553,250 - Lot 39
Salomon van Ruysdael (Naarden ?1600/3-1670 Haarlem)
An extensive landscape with the Road to Emmaus
EstimateGBP 250,000 - 350,000Price RealisedGBP 301,250 - Lot 44
John Wootton (Snitterfield, Warwicks. c. 1682-1764 London)
Lord Harley's Bloody Shouldered Arabian
EstimateGBP 150,000 - 200,000Price RealisedGBP 193,250 - Lot 46
Pedro de Camprobín (Almagro 1605-1674 Seville)
Roses, carnations, a tulip and other flowers in a sculpted alabaster urn, with a carnation in a glass vase, on a wooden table; and Roses, lilies, iris and other flowers in a sculpted alabaster urn and other flowers in a glass vase, on a wooden table
EstimateGBP 250,000 - 350,000Price RealisedGBP 313,250 - Lot 47
Pedro Núñez de Villavicencio (Seville 1640-?1695-8)
Two young peasants in a landscape
EstimateGBP 70,000 - 100,000Price RealisedGBP 67,250 - Lot 49
Giuseppe Recco (Naples 1634-1695 Alicante)
Fish, shells and coral on a rocky shore
EstimateGBP 100,000 - 150,000Price RealisedGBP 157,250 - Lot 50
Gaspar Butler (active Naples c.1718)
View of Naples with the Riviera di Chiaia from the strada di Posillipo, with Vesuvius beyond
EstimateGBP 200,000 - 300,000Price RealisedGBP 229,250 - Lot 51
Gaspar Butler (active Naples c.1718)
View of Naples with the English Fleet from the sea
EstimateGBP 200,000 - 300,000Price RealisedGBP 217,250 - Lot 53
Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (Plympton, Devon 1723-1792 London)
Portrait of Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765), three-quarter-length, as a Ranger of Windsor Great Park, with the star and sash of the Order of the Garter, the tower of Fort Belvedere, Windsor Great Park, beyond
EstimateGBP 600,000 - 800,000Price RealisedGBP 657,250 - Lot 56
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guido, Lo Scheggia (San Giovanni Valdarno 1406-1486 Florence)
A battle scene: a cassone front
EstimateGBP 200,000 - 300,000Price RealisedGBP 313,250 - Lot 57EstimateGBP 300,000 - 400,000Price RealisedGBP 713,250
- Lot 58
Bernardo Daddi (active c. 1318-1348)
The Madonna and Child enthroned with Saints Francis and Mary Magdalen and a female donor
EstimateGBP 400,000 - 600,000Price RealisedGBP 385,250 - Lot 59
Taddeo Gaddi (Florence active ?mid-1320s-1366)
A triptych: central panel: The Madonna and Child enthroned with Saints; wings: The Nativity with the Angel of the Annunciation; and The Crucifixion with Virgin Annunciate
EstimateGBP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000Price RealisedGBP 1,329,250 - Lot 60
Vincenzo Catena (?Venice c. 1470/80-1531)
The Madonna and Child with a Female Saint
EstimateGBP 150,000 - 250,000Price RealisedGBP 241,250 - Lot 63
Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese 1475-1564 Rome)
A male nude, seen from behind ( recto ); Studies of male nudes ( verso )
EstimateGBP 3,000,000 - 5,000,000Price RealisedGBP 3,177,250
Event Date5 JUL 2011 | Live auction 7980
Old Master & British Paintings - Evening Sale
Sale Total GBP 49,911,300
Estimates do not include buyer’s premium. Sales totals are hammer price plus buyer’s premium and are reported net of applicable fees.
5 JUL 2011
Old Master & British Paintings - Evening Sale
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