17th May, 2025 9:30 GMT/BST

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Lot 514
 


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514

British School (19th Century)
Portrait of Sir William Boothby, 9th Bart, half-length, wearing formal attire and a fur-trimmed cloak
Oil on canvas, 89.5cm by 69cm

Provenance: The property of Sir Brooke Boothby ex Fonmon Castle

Sold for £450
Estimated at £250 - £400


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Lined. All keys present but a little lacking in tension. Drying cracks and brittle age cracks. Some bituminous alligatoring to the darker passages of paint, broken up and scattering the light. Patches of active flaking and lifting with associated unrestored losses, including top right of hair and in the face. Further scattered minor restored losses, and some retouching to the wider drying cracks. Broken up varnish scattering the light - difficutle to see if there is further overpaint in the background and darks.


Surface dirt and debris. Scuffs at the edges where the canvas has moved in the frame.


 


Frame: Composition cracked throughout with missing sections, and some later gold paint. See images.

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Auction: Country House Sale, 17th May, 2025

The Country House Sale at Tennants Auctioneers will see a host of good traditional art, antiques and furnishing items come under the hammer in a two-day sale on 16th and 17th May. The first day will comprise “The Selected Contents of Scorborough Lodge from the estate of Stephen Thornley- Wilson”, a traditional mixed estate of nearly 200 lots.

A good mix of traditional and sporting art include works by Thomas Rowlandson, John Trickett, David Shepherd, Franz Xaver Petter and an interesting 18th century English School Naval Figures Before a Coastline and Landscape with Castle, with provenance from the Estate of the Late Lord Lloyd of Berwick (1929-2024).

Along with a good selection of clocks and rare rugs are good seated furniture including a Pair of Prince of Wales Investiture Chairs designed by Lord Snowdon for the Investiture at Caernarfon Castle on 1st July 1966. There is also a good offering of garden furniture and ornaments.

The sale will also include a range of quirky country house items such as 17th/18th Century Trenchers, and an Early 20th Century Cast Iron Duck Decoy.

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Wednesday 14th May - Thursday 15th May 10am-4pm, Friday 16th May 8am-4pm and the morning of the sale from 8am. 

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