16th Jul, 2022 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European and Sporting Art
1083
Edmund John Niemann (1813-1876)
"Richmond, Yorks"
Signed and inscribed, oil on canvas, 69.5cm by 117cm
Sold for £900
Estimated at £500 - £800
In fully restored condition, fairly stiffly relined, cleaned and revarnished. The surface of the canvas is slightly flattened and the paint is thin in places as a result of the restoration process. Retouching and strengthening throughout the darker tones and definition of the left-hand side branches and trunks of trees in addition to a good amount of dark brown pigment or shadows etc, predominately on the left-hand side of the picture including parts of the masonry, the large rocks, left-hand side centre, the darker tones and pigments within the vegetation, lower left-hand corner with some more inconsistent and sporadic elements within right-hand side landscape below horizon. The signature is probably strengthened. Some light surface dirt and discoloured varnish now in evidence. Area of fairly widely spaced cracquelure within biturmen immediately below the turret of the castle within lower reaches of the vegetation approx 4cm diameter etc.
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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