13th Jul, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1059
Heywood Hardy ARWS, RPE (1842-1933)
Huntsman, hounds, and members of the field before a castle
Signed, oil on canvas, 69.5cm by 90cm
Provenance: A Private Estate, North Yorkshire
Sold for £7,500
Estimated at £8,000 - £12,000
Unlined, slightly slack, three keys missing. Two keys are stuck behind bottom stretcher, one at either corner, causing slight distortions to the canvas. A futher slight distortion top left from lack of tension.
There are a few tight, wrinkled cracks in the sky including a long, curved impact crack visible in reflected light. Fine brittle age craquelure in the darker passages. All stable with no history of flaking. There are some passages of slightly opened up cracks, e.g. in the lead horse, hounds, red jacket. One small very minor damage/hole in the top right corner. Possibly some very minor abrasion. Ingrained old varnish, very yellowed. Slighly patchy surface gloss, and light surface dirt.
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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Sunday 7th July to Friday 12th July 11am-4pm and morning of sale from 8am
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