16th Nov, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1056
Continental School (18th Century)
The Battle of Lepanto (historically known as)
Oil on canvas, 85cm by 177.5cm
Sold for £1,000
Estimated at £1,200 - £1,800
Lined, all keys present, a little slack. Qty of dirt, paint and mould on reverse. Canvas delaminating from the lining at the left side, bulging slighly particularly at the top corner. Small shallow dent bottom left corner. Brittle age and impact craquelure throughout, most noticably in the thicker, lighter passages. Slightly elevated. Patches of active lifting and flaking (see images in normal and raking light). Likely history of flaking. Numerous small unrestored associated losses, mostly across the lower portion of the picture. Extensive overpaint in the sky, some of which is discoloured and paler than surrounding paint. Further passages of overpaint in the rest of the picture, both to isolated losses and to abrasion. Abrasion evident throughout the darker passages (see images). Remnants of an older degraded varnish. Likely successive campaigns of retouching. Fairly uneven surface gloss, some old ingrained dirt and varnish, scattered minor surface accretions.
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Please note the following lots have been withdrawn from sale: 1080, 1086, 1093, 1094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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