15th Jul, 2023 11:00 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1208
Horatio Henry Couldery (1832–1918)
The Best of Friends
Signed, oil on canvas, 27.5cm by 39cm
Sold for £1,000
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500
In fully restored condition. Fairly stiffly relined, cleaned and re-varnished. Retains a degree of surface within the brushwork of the coat of the dog and the hay for example. Some light surface dirt and discoloured varnish. There is likely a patch of restoration within the hay immediately beneath the stomach of the recumbent puppy and another running across and through the hay below the puppy's left-hand leg or certainly an irregularity to the original paint/surface, see images. Otherwise in a stable and presentable state of preservation.
Provenance: Private collection
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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