16th Nov, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1091
Cosmo Alexander (1724-1772) Scottish
Portrait of Alexander and Mary Bayne-Meldrum
With extensive (mostly indistinct) hand-written labels to stretcher verso, oil on canvas, 61.5cm by 74cm
Provenance: Alexander Bayne, Mary Bayne-Dalgleish-Willhelmina Barnes-Graham Collection, Balmungo
Balmungo, near St Andrews, was the 1866 home of the Bayne-Meldrum family. The mother of the Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barnes-Graham (1912-2004) was Wilhelmina Menzies-Bayne-Meldrum.
Sold for £1,500
Estimated at £1,200 - £1,800
Lined, all keys present, good tension. Original tacking margins removed, as can be seen at top edge where canvas has slipped in the frame. Network of old brittle age craquelure, stable and flat. Fairly widespread old restored losses, some possibly tears given their size. Extensive old abrasion and thinning of paint layers, much of which has been suppressed by a fairly extensive campaign of retouching (see images in ultraviolet light). Some of the overpaint is discoloured. Newer unrestored scratches in two patches, top left and bottom right. Futher minor scuffs and scratches. A fairly even varnish, not appreciably discoloured. Old ingrained dirt and varnish. Light surface dirt.
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Please note the following lots have been withdrawn from sale: 1080, 1086, 1093, 1094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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