16th Mar, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
Jan Jacob Spohler (1811-1866) Dutch
Figures loading a horse drawn box sleigh on a frozen river
Signed, oil on panel, 41.5cm by 44.5cm
Provenance: Richard Green, London
Private Collection, North Yorkshire
The panel is chamfered on two sides at the back, and there are very minor old knocks to the edges at the reverse from previous framing. No evidence of splits or movement.
A very minor fine network of drying cracks in the dark paint at the bottom. No elevation and all secure. There is one small unrefilled and unretouched loss to the trees at the right edge and a small scratch above the right pinacle on the roof. A very tiny scuff to top right of sky. One small white nick to the surface middle left edge.
Possible minor thinning of paint to the delicate layers in smoke above chimney and in the outer brances of trees on horizon.
No retouching is visible under ultraviolet light.
A good, even glossy varnish and a thin layer of surface dust and debris. In good condition.
Examined in frame
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Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 16th Mar, 2024
Coming up for auction this Spring are three notable works by Adolphe Valette (1876-1942), a French Impressionist artist who spent the majority of his career in the North of England. Whilst he is best remembered today as being the highly influential tutor to L.S. Lowry, Valette created a significant body of work in oils, watercolours and drawing media. All three works are sold with provenance from The Perera Collection, the largest collection of works by Valette to have been assembled in private hands.
Further notable works in the sale include an exquisitely detailed still life of a peach, black grapes and cobnuts on a marble shelf by Emilie Preyer (1849-1930), and a work by historical genre painter Edward Matthew Ward (1816-1879) that depicts the hero of a popular comic ballad, John Gilpin.
The sale will also see the final part of the Raymond Booth Studio, comprising 19 works. Raymond Booth (1929-2015) was perhaps the greatest botanical artist and illustrator of his generation, and his passion for the natural world shines through in his highly detailed oil studies of flora and fauna.
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