16th Jul, 2022 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European and Sporting Art
1030
Johann Bernard Klombeck (1815-1893) Dutch and Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven (1798-1881) Belgian
Cattle, Sheep and herdswoman on a country track before a distant tower, in an Italianate landscape
Signed, oil on canvas, 90.5cm by 123cm
In fully restored condition. Fairly stiffly relined, cleaned and revarnished. Some surface dirt and discoloured varnish now in evidence. There are approx. 6-8 small and varying shaped areas of retouching and infilling within the sky to upper right corner. Further less visible under UV sporadic, small sized retouches to sky of upper left corner. Possibly some general strengthening to the lower areas of sky left hand side. Fairly sporadic retouches and strengthening to darker tones and shadows of foliage in lower left hand corner, parts of the canopy of trees, below the castle and further retouches to presumably old flaked paint across the body of the cow. The herdswoman and other animals would appear to be mostly without intervention and there is a similar degree of infilling/retouches to shadows and definition within the foliage of the lower right hand corner to that scene in the lower left. Any retouches to the foliage of the large upright trees is more sporadic. Some general retouching to edges (mostly lower edge, lower outline of the rocks to centre of foreground and odd retouch elsewere) etc... Some slight flattening to the surface as a result of the restoration process. The canvas is slightly adrift of the frame and slip to lower edge. For more information please contact the department.
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Auction: British, European and Sporting Art, 16th Jul, 2022
'In a Ligurian Garden', an important lost work by Henry Herbert La Thangue, is to be sold in the British, European and Sporting Art Sale on 16th July with an estimate of £70,000-100,000 plus buyer's premium. The painting was recently rediscovered in Yorkshire, having been passed down through the family of Sir William Prince-Smith (1898-1964) and his wife Marjorie, manufacturers of textile machinery from Keighley, West Yorkshire. View lot
Henry Herbert La Thangue RA (1859-1929) was one of the leading exponents of British Impressionism, who had become enamoured with painting 'en plein air' on a youthful painting trip to Brittany in 1881 with friend and fellow artist Stanhope Forbes, one of the founders of the Newlyn School of Painters. On his return to England he settled in Sussex, painting farm labourers in idyllic, rustic surroundings, recording a way of English rural life that was fast being lost to increasing industrialisation.
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