16th Jul, 2022 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European and Sporting Art
1036
Attributed to John Frederick Herring Snr. (1795-1865)
"The Flying Dutchman"
Indistinctly signed and dated 1849, oil on canvas laid onto panel, 65cm by 83cm
Provenance: Tennants, Summer Fine Art Sale, The Property of the Lady Clarissa Colin, 25th July 2014, Lot 568
The Flying Dutchman (Bred 1846) winner of the Derby at Epsom and the St Leger at Doncaster 1849. Rider - G Marlow, trained by J. Fobert. In 1850 won the Emperor of Russia's Cap at Ascot
Sold for £7,000
Estimated at £2,500 - £4,000
Repaired horizontal split just below centre secured with three wooden staples (see images). Covered in a thick layer of dirt and discoloured varnish. Vertical dark abrasion/scuff approx 0.5-1cm away from left-hand side edge mostly contained to lower 50%. Areas of fine stable cracquelure. Vertical narrow patch of slightly abraded paint approx 1.5cm in length (images can be supplied). Due to having been laid onto a panel the surface does have a tendency towards exaggerated flatness. Small loss to upper left-hand corner including panel, some general retouching to edges slightly more consistently to lower left-hand corner, possible strengthening to the outline, nose, mouth, horses head and neck. Sporadic and fine retouching through old cracquelure within horses left shoulder, some likely over painting within the upper clouds approx 15cm from upper right-hand corner and no more than 8cm by 5cm overall approx.
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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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