15th Jul, 2023 11:00 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1139
Thomas Matthew Rooke RWS (1842-1942)
"Autumn Leaves" (after J.E.Millais)
Watercolour, 35.5cm by 24.5cm
Provenance: Mrs Celia Rooke, daughter in law of the artist, The Stone Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Estate of the Late Ian Stephenson of Laithes, Penrith, Cumbria
Rooke is known to have been a one-time assistant of Edward Burne-Jones
Sold for £1,700
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500
In a broadly bright and good state of preservation. Colour depth is seemingly mostly intact. Likely cluster of small-sized foxing spots to the upper right corner within the sky. As opposed to being dirt to reverse of glass. No evidence of cockling, not examined out of the frame.
Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 15th Jul, 2023
The British, European and Sporting Art Sale at Tennants Auctioneers will see a fine equestrian portrait of ‘Lady Caroline Held by a Groom, Newmarket’ attributed to Thomas Spencer (1700-1763) go under the hammer. It will be joined by notable lots from the Estate of Martin & Felicity Mackintosh of Harrogate, including a rich and plentiful still life of game, fruit and flowers by Hendrik Reekers (1815-1854), and further works by the likes of Ford Madox Brown and William Holman Hunt from the Estate of the late Ian Stephenson of Laithes, Penrith, Cumbria. Other notable lots include Montague Dawson's “HMS Amethyst running the Yangtse Gauntlet, 30th July 1949”.
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