15th Jul, 2023 11:00 GMT/BST

British, European & Sporting Art

 
Lot 1185
 

1185

Robert W. Wright (fl.1871-1889)

In disgrace - a young boy apprehensively returning home

Signed and dated 1881, oil on panel, 18cm by 24cm

Provenance: Possibly anonymous sale 12 August 1992 & 24th September 1992

Sold for £220
Estimated at £200 - £300


 

In an overall good and highly presentable state of preservation including the frame. Cleaned and revarnished. Paint is possibly slightly thin in places such as the background but equally the artist has probably applied diluted pigments. Patch of delicate retouching across the floor tile in the furthest lower left-hand corner and along lower left-hand corner edge. There is little else to easily discern under a UV light by way of later paint or restoration but may not entirely preclude the possibility of further minor intervention.

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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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