17th May, 2025 9:30 GMT/BST
Country House Sale
590
Follower of Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA, FRS (1769-1830)
Portrait of Miss Catherine Hill-Rennie, three-quarter length, seated, wearing a red dress trimmed with white lace at the décolletage
Oil on panel, 30cm dia. (oval)
Provenance: The vendor is a descendant of the sitter
Sold for £320
Estimated at £120 - £180
Moved in frame. Panel slightly distored - bottom right corner when viewed from the reverse protrudes backwards. The upper portion of the panel is held under tension with nails across the grain. There is a wooden block between the picture and the frame rebate at the bottom to compensate for the curvature of the panel. Minor knocks to the reverse of the panel. No splits visible. Drying cracks throughout - some tight and raised wrinkled type cracks, and some broad and open. All stable. A few old scattered retouched losses, e.g. top right of hair. Possibly some further overpaint in the background, but difficult to see due to obscuring dirt and varnish. A little thinning of the paint in places, e.g. shadows of nose and chin (retouched) and to the chest. In the chest there are remnants of what looks to be an over paint layer. Partially cleaned in the past. Thick old degraded and discoloured varnish in the background, and an upper varnish. Thick durface dirt layer with scuffs and accretions including white flecks to the chin and chest.
Frame: damaged old composition frame with large sections missing (see pictures), and other sections cracked.
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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.
Viewing
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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