16th Nov, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1089
British School (Late 17th/Early 18th Century)
"Susannah Littleton, Wife of Edward Littleton Esquire and Daughter of Sir Theophilus Biddulph, Bart" (sic) Head and shoulders in a feigned oval
"Mary 2nd Daughter of Edward Littleton Esquire and Wife of Edward Ardlaster Esq." (sic) Head and shoulders in a feigned oval
"Anne Littleton, Daughter of Edward Littleton Esq." (sic) Head and shoulders in a feigned oval
Each inscribed in ink to upper stretcher verso, oil on canvas, 34cm by 29cm, 35cm by 29.5cm and 35cm by 29.5cm respectively (3)
Redbridge Museum, Ilford hold what would seem to be versions of "Susannah Littleton" & "Anne Littleton", with provenance of Rodbaston Hall, Staffordshire and ancestor of Clement Mansfield Ingleby (1823-1886), who lived at Valentine Mansion, Ilford. For further information see ArtUK website.
Sold for £1,100
Estimated at £1,200 - £1,800
The top corner of the frame is broken and the canvas is loose in the frame. Lined. Two keys missing but fair tension. Old dirt and debris trapped behind bottom stretcher. Paper visible at edges. Finescale brittle age craquelure and impact cracks throughout, most noticably in the blue draper and stretcher bars. Not noticably raised and all appear stable. Some abrasion in passages, such as to the yellow drapery, blue drapery, the side of the cheek. Remnants of an ochre overpaint bottom centre. Minor touches of overpaint to the face. Possibly further old overpaint in the background obscured by degraded old varnish.
Minor losses and rubbing at the edges, and larger patches of rubbing to the varnish bottom right and bottom left corners. Scattered minor losses, and several horizontal dents/retouched losses (see images). Old ingrained dirt and remnants of an older degraded varnish in darker areas. A fairly matt upper varnish, light splashes and surface accretions inplaces.
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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