13th Jul, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1020
John Lamont Brodie (c.1824/1827-1898)
Young girl and child at rest in a landscape
Signed and dated 1858, mixed media, 74.5cm by 62cm
According to an historical label, the sitters depicted include Anne Gertrude Beard (1849-1903) and her sister Marion Edith Beard (1854-1915), daughters of Joseph and Elizabeth Beard. Anne married Henry Hooper in 1870 and Marion Edith married Septimus Penny in 1886. This is the "Portrait of myself and sister Annie" which M E Penny referred to in her will.
Sold for £800
Estimated at £250 - £400
Lined. All keys present. Slighly lacking in tension. A little losse in the frame. Incipient brittle age craquelure in places in the background; cracks not visible but very slighly raised in raking light. All stable and no flaking. A few minor fresh scuffs and scratches, including to top left edge, through the hand on the back of the littler child, bottom right corner and afew further minor scuffs. There are a series of larger retouched scratches/damages in the rock below the seated child - one horizontal approx 4inches, and one diagonal below this of the same sort of size. A smaller one to the left of these. A few further minor scattered small retouchings. The painted flesh of the children has a slighly mottled/patchy appearance. It is not clear what has caused this but possibly broken up old varnish? An even surface gloss, with the varnish not appreciably discoloured. A few minor surface accretions. Glazed.
Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 13th Jul, 2024
Sir Alfred Munnings is rightly celebrated as the master of equine art; his lifelong affinity with the horse is reflected in his insightful and vital equine portraits that capture the grace and power of the animals, and his “Lord Astor on Shooting Stick with Horses” will be sold in the British, European and Sporting Art Sale on 13th July. The painting is a sketch for “A Summer Evening at Cliveden, Waldorf Astor, Second Viscount Astor (1879-1952), seated”, which is held in the Cliveden Estate Collection in Buckinghamshire, now managed by the National Trust. From the same private collection is a watercolour by Munnings; “In the Woods Near Noyon 1918 Attack. Our Retreat” was executed whilst the artist was serving in the First World War with the Canadian Cavalry.
An engaging portrait sketch by the renowned George Romney, which has been in the same family collection since it was painted, will also be offered. The sketch depicts Caesar Hawkins and is thought to have been executed in preparation for a full-length portrait of Caesar, his sister Louisa Anne, and their mother Emma Hawkins (née Adair), which was once in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Four works by one of the leading Victorian equestrian artists, Heywood Hardy are also on offer, hailing from two private collections.
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