17th Jul, 2009 10:00 GMT/BST

Summer Catalogue Sale

 
Lot 960
 

960

John Haynes Williams (1836-1908) "Spanish Musicians", a young girl holding a tambourine, a man...

John Haynes Williams (1836-1908)
"Spanish Musicians", a young girl holding a tambourine, a man playing a guitar nearby
Signed and dated 1873 on a fragment of the original canvas now attached to the stretcher verso, inscribed on a plaque attached to the frame, oil on canvas laid down, circular, 72cm diameter

The artist exhibited at the Royal Academy 1863-189, also the British Institute, Suffolk Street, the New Watercolour Society, the Grosvenor Gallery and the New Gallery.

Sold for £900
Estimated at £1,200 - £1,800


 

The picture may have been an oblong/square painting and has now been made into a circular work and has been laid down onto plywood provably in the 1960/70's. It appears to be in good order with thick impasto in places. There is lots of engrained dirt and discoloured varnish across most of the surface and it is contained within its original Victorian elaborately decorated plaster and wooden frame with highly decorated gilt circular spandrel, under glass.

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Auction: Summer Catalogue Sale, 17th Jul, 2009

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