16th Jul, 2022 9:30 GMT/BST

British, European and Sporting Art

 
Lot 1091
 

1091

Attributed to Benjamin Williams Leader RA (1831-1923)
Evening on the Severn
Signed and dated 1904, oil on canvas, 49cm by 75cm

Sold for £1,700
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,500


 

Relined. The dog, dungarees of the left-hand side figure, trousers and hat of the central figure and other minor definition points of that group have been strengthened or overpainted in addition to the figure in the rowing boat and darker tones and definition in and around the boat itself. More sporadic retouches to describe the darker tones within the vegetation lower left-hand corner. The hedge/wall running across the central part of the painting in addition to the lower reaches of the two left-hand side thatch buildings, general outline here and much of the roofs and general construction of the arrangement of buildings across the horizon all show signs of strengthening and overpainting as do parts of the second figure group in front of the timber-framed building. The vegetation to the lower right-hand corner has minor and sporadic retouches within but broadly the right-hand side 40% and sky in totality is mostly unaffected. The painting retains a good level of original brushwork and impasto in many parts. There is a mostly vertical narrow band of fine cracquelure running just right of the right-hand side figure in front of the timber-framed buildings, approx 8-10cm in length and maybe on the cusp of flaking. There are other small and fairly isolated similar areas e.g. immediately above the head of the far left-hand side figure of the left-hand side figure group and within the vegetation thereabouts. One or two other further areas of a similar condition including one small lifting corner towards the outer reaches of the marshland vegetation, lower right-hand side foreground. The right-hand side of the sky shows more widely spaced and stable cracquelure. Odd minor imperfection to edges/corners. Light surface dirt and discoloured varnish. The signature is posisbly strenthened / added.

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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