IMPORTANT BRITISH AND IRISH ART
Catalogue Information: 44 lots with images
Lot 1: Sir David Wilkie, R.A. (1785-1841)
The Village Festival: A finished sketch signed with initials and dated 'DW. 1809' (lower right, on a trough) oil on mahogany panel 131/2 x 181/4 in. (34.4 x 46.5 cm.) PROVENANCE Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave (1755-1831), acquired from the artist [...more]
Lot 2: Hugh Douglas Hamilton, R.H.A., 1736-1801
Portrait of Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire (1753-1801), full-length, in a yellow frock coat and breeches his left arm resting on his cane, with a coach and four beyond, in a classical landscape pastel 371/2 x 251/4 in. (95.2 x 64.2 cm.) PROVE [...more]
Lot 3: John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837)
The White Horse: A sketch oil on canvas 24 x 201/2 in. (61 x 52 cm.) PROVENANCE Possibly Lionel Bicknell Constable. Possibly his sale, Christie's, London, 2 March 1874, no. 167, as 'The White Horse. A sketch for the picture'. with Arthur Tooth and So [...more]
Lot 4: John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837)
A storm off the coast with inscription 'Painted by/John Constable, R.A./given to Alice Fenwick by/Isabel Constable' (on the reverse) oil on paper, laid down on card 101/8 x 143/8 in. (25.7 x 36.5 cm.) PROVENANCE Isabel Constable, by whom given to Ali [...more]
Lot 5: Samuel Palmer (1805-1881)
Landscape, Twilight signed and inscribed 'N o. 6- Landscape,Twilight Samuel Palmer No 4 Grove Street Lisson Grove Marylebone' (on an old label attached to the reverse) oil and tempera on panel 9 x 11 in. (23 x 28 cm.) In an 18th Century carved and gi [...more]
