15th Jul, 2023 11:00 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1175
After Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA FRS FRSA (1723-1792)
Portrait of Christiana Nickson, 1st Baroness Donoughmore (1731-1783)
Oil on canvas, 125cm by 100cm
Sold for £2,200
Estimated at £700 - £1,000
On original canvas, general surface dirt and discoloured varnish now in evidence. Frame rubbing to edges, most notable to upper left corner with some associated paint losses. There are several patches of fine stable cracquelure, to upper left corner, sitters decolletage and more broadly across the lower third of the picture. There are several horizontal lines/creases running across the entire length of the canvas. The horizontal cracking across the sitters body may require prompt intervention. Visible stretcher shadow. The sitter's face and hands have been extensively and roughly overpainted. Areas of her dress similarly have been crudely overpainted. Most of the background has been retouched, infilled and inexpertly overpainted. For more information please contact the department.
Framed dimensions: 150cm height by 126cm width
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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