Not much changes really - except the hats!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Charles Haigh Wood
[A New Poem]
signed and dated 'C.HAIGH WOOD.90.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
22½ x 25¾ in.
Price Realized £6,000
http://www.artnet.com/artist/658856/charles-haigh-wood.html
including works currently for sale
http://www.fada.com/browse_by_artist.html?gallery_no=28&artist=4673&bio=1
Haynes King - The love letter
signed and dated 'HKing 1878' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 5/8 x 16½ in.
Price Realized £16,800
William Clarke Wontner - Valeria
signed 'W.Wontner' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 x 21 in.
Price Realized £84,000
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=1&intObjectID=4827018&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
William Clarke Wontner was a portrait and classical subject painter, whose ideal heads embody the neo-classical tradition that he and fellow artist John William Godward (1861-1881) reconfigured for late 19th and early 20th Century tastes. Taking inspiration from artistic progenitors Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Frederic, Lord Leighton, they dispensed with dense detail, and instead set their models against simple marble backgrounds, alluding to contemporary ideals of style whilst upholding classical precepts of beauty
Robert Fowler - The Dance of Salome
signed with monogram and dated '1885' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed ''Dance of Salome'/by Robert Fowler' (on an old label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas
48 5/8 x 72¾ in.
Price Realized £45,600
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=4827017&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Harry Mitton Wilson
[The Girl in the Pink Dress (The Artist's Wife), on Hastings Beach]
1877-1923
signed 'H M WILSON' (lower right) and further inscribed 'HASTINGS BEACH/1905/The girl in the pink dress/(The Artist's Wife)'
oil on canvas
10 x 16 in.
http://www.artnet.com/artist/554844/harry-mitton-wilson.html
http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Harry-Mitten-Wilson/An-Afternoon-Nap.html
George Hillyard Swinstead - Playing in the waves
signed and dated 'Geo.Swinstead/1879' (lower left)
oil on canvas
28 1/8 x 41 in.
Price Realized £11,400
Alfred Stannard - A coastal scene with fisherfolk in the foreground
signed and dated 'A Stannard/1856' (lower right) and with inscription 'A. Stannard 1856./Bought at Brightwells Sale/1869' (on an old label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
10 1/8 x 13 1/8 in.
Price Realized £8,400
Alfred Stannard's painting of the Yarmouth coast includes a view of Yarmouth jetty with Nelson's Column visible in the distance. Stannard has foreshortened the view to show the Column on the South Denes. It was erected in 1819, as a monument to Norfolk born Admiral Lord Nelson, and pre-dates the column in Trafalgar Square by twenty-four years.
The Yarmouth coast was frequently depicted by the artists of the Norwich School and Stannard's son, Alfred George Stannard is known to have painted almost exactly the same subject.
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=3&intObjectID=4827007&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
William Lee-Hankey - Portrait of a girl
oil on canvas
14 x 10 in.
Price Realized £2,400
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=1&intObjectID=4827004&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
David James - A flowing sea
signed and dated 'D. James 96' (lower right) and signed, inscribed and dated 'A Flowing Sea. D. James 96' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
25 x 50 in.
Price Realized £25,200
Edwin Harris - Portrait of an old man
signed 'Edwin Harris' (lower left)
oil on panel
8 1/8 x 6 1/8 in.
Price Realized £9,000
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=5&intObjectID=4826993&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Henry Scott Tuke
[The Sun-bather]
signed and dated 'Tuke.1911.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
18 1/2 x 26 in.
Price Realized £57,600
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=3&intObjectID=4826989&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
[Portrait of Johnny Jackett]
oil on canvas
15 1/8 x 12 in.
Price Realized £19,200
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=4&intObjectID=4826990&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch - Harvesting
signed and dated 'L.Kemp-Welch/1919' (lower left)
oil on canvas
16 1/8 x 20 1/8 in.
Price Realized £12,000
Lucy Kemp-Welch was the most prominent pupil of Hubert von Herkomer at his art school in Bushey. The school closed in 1904 but was subsequently reconfigured as The Kemp Welch School of Animal Painting. Kemp-Welch became the first president of the Society of Animal Painters.
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=9&intObjectID=4827001&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
(Sir) Alfred Gilbert - An Offering to Hymen
bronze, dark-brown patina, on turned circular ebonised socle
The bronze: 11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) high
Price Realized £3,000
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=5&intObjectID=4826957&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
(Sir) John Alfred Arnesby Brown - four paintings
[Sheep and pine trees]
signed 'ARNESBY BROWN.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 x 35 7/8 in.
Price Realized £10,800
[The Cross Roads]
signed 'Arnesby Brown.' (lower left) and further signed 'Arnesby Brown' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
24 7/8 x 30 1/8 in.
Price Realized £27,600
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=7&intObjectID=4826979&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
[Cows grazing on a marsh]
signed 'Arnesby Brown.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
14 x 17 7/8 in.
Price Realized £13,200
[A herd of cows crossing a marsh]
signed 'Arnesby Brown.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
14¼ x 17 in.
Price Realized £5,880
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=5&intObjectID=4826977&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Terrick John Williams
[On the beach, St. Ives, Cornwall]
signed and dated 'Terrick Williams 1904.' (lower right) and further signed, inscribed and dated 'On the beach. St Ives Cornwall, by Terrick Williams/Art Club Studios/Blackheath/London SE./1904' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
18 x 24 in.
Price Realized £16,800
Terrick Williams studied both in Antwerp with Verlat and at the Academie Julian in Paris. Many of his early subjects were of the coastal harbours of northern France, but by the 1890s Williams was a regular visitor to St Ives. Until 1902 he was the drawing master at the Royal Military Academy in Woolich, after which time he devoted himself totally to his painting and travelled extensively. He was elected president of the Royal Institute in 1933.
Phillip Wilson Steer - Figures in a courtyard, Montreuil-sur-Mer
signed and dated 'P.W. Steer 1907' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 x 28 in.
Price Realized £36,000
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=4&intObjectID=4826974&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Henry Herbert La Thangue - Packing grapes
signed 'H.H.LA THANGUE.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
31¾ x 28 in.
Price Realized £78,000
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=3&intObjectID=4826972&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Sidney Richard Percy - Loch Tay, Perthshire
signed and dated 'S R Percy.74' (lower left)
oil on canvas
9 1/8 x 15 in.
Price Realized £12,000
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=1&intObjectID=4826968&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Sidney Richard Percy Williams, known as Sidney Richard Percy, was the second-youngest son of the landscape artist Edward Williams (1781-1855) and one of six brothers, all of whom were accomplished and successful painters
Monday, April 26, 2010
En plein air
[Going to School - Jules Bastien Lepage 1882]
http://nicepaintings.org/works/87664
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums
En plein air is a French expression which means "in the open air", and is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors.
Before 1830 this was a difficult physical process. The artist had to carry their easel, stool, paints, pots and solvents which before the introduction of the paint in a tube, had to be mixed outdoors. Previously, each painter made their own paints by grinding and mixing dry pigment powders with linseed oil.
It was during this period that the "Box Easel", typically known as the French Box Easel, was invented. It is uncertain who developed it first, but these highly portable easels, with telescopic legs and built-in paint box and palette.
http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=a&a=i&ID=980
Oliver Rhys - A Venetian Fruit Seller
signed and dated 'Oliver Rhys./1889.' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed 'A.VENETIAN.FRUIT.SELLER./O.RHYS.' (on an old label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas
30 3/8 x 20½ in.
Price Realized £15,600
Frank Moss Bennett - A Good Vintage
signed and dated 'F.M.Bennett/1930' (lower left)
oil on canvas
20 x 15 in.
Price Realized £12,000
Frederick Daniel Hardy - The Tinder Box
signed 'F D Hardy' (lower right)
oil on canvas
9¾ x 12¾ in.
Price Realized £4,800
William Hughes - Flowers, fruit, a bullfinch and its nest
1842-1901
signed and dated 'WH[in monogram]ughes 1868'
oil on panel
30 x 24¾ in.
Price Realized £20,400
William Hughes was a still life painter. He was a pupil of George Lance and W.H. Hunt and lived in London and Brighton, England. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, the Society of British Artists at Suffolk Street and the Grosvenor Gallery. Best known for his nature scenes, he was commissioned to paint a set of five large bird pictures for the hall of Lord Calthorpe's house in Grosvenor Square.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
William Orpen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Orpen
_Orpen.jpg)
[Summer Afternoon (Artist in his Studio with a Model)
about 1913]
http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=33311&coll_keywords=&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=Orpen&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=Paintings&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=1&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1
Rex Whistler
1905-1944
signed 'Rex Whistler' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed '"The Elders."/Rex Whistler./20 Fitzroy Street./W.1.' (on an old label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas board, in the original hand painted frame
8 5/8 x 16 in.
Price Realized £5,760
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=6&intObjectID=4826958&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
William J. Webbe - The Reaper and the Lily
signed with initials (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'No. 1 The Reaper and the Lily/W.J.Webbe./Niton, Isle of Wight.' (on an old label attached to the reverse) and signed and inscribed 'W.J Webb Niton/Isle of Wight (on the reverse of the panel)
oil on panel
14 x 7½ in.
Price Realized £12,000
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=9&intObjectID=4826951&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Edmund Blair Leighton - The Footstep
signed with initials 'E.B.L.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 x 21 in.
Price Realized £36,000
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=7&intObjectID=4826949&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Arthur John Elsley - The Faithful Guardian
signed and dated 'Arthur J. Elsley 1911' (lower right)
oil on canvas
39½ x 29½ in.
Price Realized £187,200
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=4826942&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Saturday, April 24, 2010
19th Century Paintings auction at Bonhams
[Terrick John Williams, ‘Evening – Concarneau’ sold for £144,000 - more than six times the previous world record for the artist at auction. Photo: Bonhams]
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=4503392&iSaleNo=17820&iSaleSectionNo=1
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37629
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=HeadlineDetails&iHeadlineNo=4792
William Henry Gore -
[In Disgrace]
signed 'W. HENRY GORE' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'No.2 In Disgrace W Henry Gore 30 Gt Russell St London WC' (on a label adhered to the reverse)
oil on canvas
30 x 20 in.
Price Realized £42,000
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=3&intObjectID=4826941&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
John Callcott Horsley - Showing a Preference
signed and dated 'J.C.Horsley./1860' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'J.C.Horsley.A.R.A/No. 1' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
36 x 28 in.
Price Realized £299,200
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=2&intObjectID=4826939&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
George Percy Jacomb-Hood - The Drawing Room at No. 26 Tite Street, Chelsea: A Portrait of the artist's wife and sister-in-law
signed and dated 'G.P.Jacomb Hood 1902' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30¼ x 24 1/8 in.
Price Realized £24,000
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=1&intObjectID=4826938&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Leonard Campbell Taylor - Looking into the pantry
signed 'L.Campbell Taylor' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'L Campbell Taylor Esq ARA/63 Belsize Park Road' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
36 x 22 in.
Price Realized £12,000
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=10&intObjectID=4826937&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
George Vicat Cole - Great Marlow
signed with monogram and dated '91' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed 'Gt. Marlow on Thames/Vicat Cole' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
20 x 30 in.
A similar subject, Great Marlow on Thames, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886, no. 1052.
Price Realized £5,400
Friday, April 23, 2010
Philip Alexius de Laszlo - Portrait of Mrs Virginia Heckscher McFadden
signed and dated 'de László NY. 1932 II' (lower right)
oil on canvas
41½ x 31¾ in.
Price Realized £38,400
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=8&intObjectID=4826933&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Arthur Grimshaw - The Clapham Omnibus
signed and dated 'Arthur K Grimshaw.1898.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
11¼ x 18 in.
Price Realized £62,400