16th Nov, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST

British, European & Sporting Art

 
  Lot 1035
 

1035

William Mellor (1851-1931)
''Bow Ghyll, Near Ilkley, Yorkshire'
Signed, inscribed verso, oil on canvas, 50cm by 65cm

Sold for £1,100
Estimated at £800 - £1,200


 

Unlined. Thick yellow paint around turnover margins at reverse. One key missing, good tension. Brittle age, impact and drying cracks throughout, as well as associated with the stretcherbars (see images in raking light). These are lifting and pulling the canvas slightly, with some areas of slight flaking and associated loss. A line of flaking and loss at the top edge in places. Some of the drying cracks are fairly open. A little ingraied old dirt. A very lean, matt surface. Minor surface dirt and accretions.

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Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 16th Nov, 2024

The Autumn British, European and Sporting Art Sale will include a sun-drenched work by British Impressionist painter Dorothea Sharp, two works by Louis H Grimshaw consigned from a private collection, and notable genre pieces by the likes of Giovanni Battista Torriglia and Charles Spencelayh.

A good offering of figural works include a male figure attributed to York-born artist William Etty, and 17th and 18th century portraits, and amongst the Sporting art are examples of the work of Robert Nightingale and Wright Barker.

The sale will go on view to the public from Sunday 10th November, alongside The Selected Contents of Bell Hall, Naburn, York, which will also offer a broad range of traditional and contemporary paintings.

Please note the following lots have been withdrawn from sale: 1080, 1086, 1093, 1094

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