16th Nov, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1012
Thomas Miles Richardson Jnr. RWS (1813-1890)
Gateway to the village
Signed and dated 1887, watercolour hightened with white, 43.5cm by 64cm
Sold for £250
Estimated at £150 - £250
Paper flat and even. Tiny nick lower left edge. A series of four 1cm creases/tears along bottom edge, with a few further tiny nicks, one retouched. A feint crease across the bottom right corner through the signature. A 1.5cm scrape, retouched, in the brown leaves at the top edge, and a larger compound scrape approx 3 x 2cm centre top to the right of the central tree, retouched. Microflaking in the central figures in the glossy, medium rich paint (see images). Series of tiny black dots top right corner in the sky. Some light timestaining/oxidisation to the paper, darker around the edges where in contact with the mount. Some fading/muting/change to colours, particuarly in the greens, for example the grass bottom left is now purely blue. Curious diagonal brushstrokes representing sharfts of light appear to be contemporaneous to the painting, but perhaps have become more prominent due to changes in pigments with age?
Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 16th Nov, 2024
The Autumn British, European and Sporting Art Sale will include a sun-drenched work by British Impressionist painter Dorothea Sharp, two works by Louis H Grimshaw consigned from a private collection, and notable genre pieces by the likes of Giovanni Battista Torriglia and Charles Spencelayh.
A good offering of figural works include a male figure attributed to York-born artist William Etty, and 17th and 18th century portraits, and amongst the Sporting art are examples of the work of Robert Nightingale and Wright Barker.
The sale will go on view to the public from Sunday 10th November, alongside The Selected Contents of Bell Hall, Naburn, York, which will also offer a broad range of traditional and contemporary paintings.
Please note the following lots have been withdrawn from sale: 1080, 1086, 1093, 1094
Viewing
Sunday 10 November to Friday 15 November 11am-4pm and morning of the sale from 8am
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