13th Nov, 2021 9:30 GMT/BST

British, European & Sporting Art

 
  Lot 1016
 

1016

Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding POWS (1787-1855)
Portsmouth from Spithead
Watercolour with scratching out, 49.5cm by 75cm



Provenance: Vickers Bros Ltd

Elemen Lines Ltd, from the Captain and Officers, City of Port Elizabeth, December 1952



See illustration

Presented to Lady Redshaw by the Directors of the Vickers shipbuilding group on the occasion of Sir Leonard Redshaw's retirement as Chairman June 17th, 1976 (according to loose plaque)

Sold for £350
Estimated at £400 - £600


 

Relatively pronounced time staining across sheet. The colour depth of the green used to denote the sea, in particular, is showing as somewhat faded and on the washed out and grey side. Sporadic foxing spots throughout. There is an amount of quite closely positioned vertical discoloured lines within the sky mostly evident to the right-hand side 50%. Small circular white coloured incongruous looking spot just above sea level and approximately 3-4cm to the right-hand-side ship no more than 0.5cm across, possible restoration. There ate further sporadic pale sized spots elsewhere in the sky, less prominent. No evidence of cockling, not examined out of the frame.

 


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Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 13th Nov, 2021

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