IMPORTANT BRITISH ART
Catalog Information: 31 lots with images
Lot 1: Laura, Lady Alma-Tadema (1852-1909)
At the Doorway signed and inscribed 'Alma Tadema opus XCI' (upper right) oil on panel 18 x 8 7/8 in. (45.7 x 22.6 cm.) NOTES 'In the details of domestic life, Dutch habits, Dutch furniture, and Dutch dress of the gentler and more courtly sort in the [...more]
Lot 2: Frederic, Lord Leighton, P.R.A. (1830-1896)
The Interior of St Mark's, Venice oil on canvas, laid down on board 12 x 19 in. (30.5 x 48.3 cm.) PROVENANCE The artist's studio sale; Christie's, London, 11 and 13 July, 1896, lot 23, (70 gns. to Agnew). Alfred Waterhouse, R.A. Anon sale; Sotheby's, [...more]
Lot 3: Philip Reinagle, R.A. (1749-1833)
Exotic birds in a panoramic river landscape oil on canvas 38 x 501/4 in. (96.5 x 127.6 cm.) in an 18th century carved and gilded frame PROVENANCE Purchased from Leggatt Bros. London, by the present vendor's mother, 1990. EXHIBITION Traditionally beli [...more]
Lot 4: Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (1727-1788)
A wooded landscape with sheep grazing by a winding track with inscriptions in ink by Esdaile '50 x Gainsborough WE' (on the mount) and '1833 WE 50 x Dr Monro's sale Gainsborough' (on the reverse of the mount) black chalk, stump and watercolour, heigh [...more]
Lot 5: Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (1775-1851)
The Unpaid Bill, or The Dentist reproving his Son's Prodigality oil on panel 23 3/8 x 311/2 in. (59.4 x 80 cm.) PROVENANCE Painted for Richard Payne Knight (1750-1824), circa 1808. By descent to D.P.H. Lennox for whom sold by Agnews, London, to the p [...more]
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