16th Jul, 2022 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European and Sporting Art
1031
Charles Towne (1763-1840)
Landscape with figure tending sheep and cattle
Signed and inscribed, oil on panel, 16.5cm by 21.5cm
Sold for £480
Estimated at £300 - £500
Covered in a layer of dirt and discoloured varnish. Fine stable cracquelure mostly throughout, likley old clean, possibly slightly abraded surface in parts. Very slight convex bow to panel which is not presenting any immediate risk of splits or any associated concerns. Minor rubbing to extremities, evidence of fine relatively consistent retouching to part of the sky. Otherwise in a broadly good and stable state of preservation.
Auction: British, European and Sporting Art, 16th Jul, 2022
'In a Ligurian Garden', an important lost work by Henry Herbert La Thangue, is to be sold in the British, European and Sporting Art Sale on 16th July with an estimate of £70,000-100,000 plus buyer's premium. The painting was recently rediscovered in Yorkshire, having been passed down through the family of Sir William Prince-Smith (1898-1964) and his wife Marjorie, manufacturers of textile machinery from Keighley, West Yorkshire. View lot
Henry Herbert La Thangue RA (1859-1929) was one of the leading exponents of British Impressionism, who had become enamoured with painting 'en plein air' on a youthful painting trip to Brittany in 1881 with friend and fellow artist Stanhope Forbes, one of the founders of the Newlyn School of Painters. On his return to England he settled in Sussex, painting farm labourers in idyllic, rustic surroundings, recording a way of English rural life that was fast being lost to increasing industrialisation.
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Sunday 10 July 11am-4pm, Monday 11 July to Friday 15 July 10am-4pm and morning of sale from 8am. Viewing is open to the public, there is no need to make an appointment.
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