16th Jul, 2022 9:30 GMT/BST

British, European and Sporting Art

 
  Lot 1051
 

1051

Attributed to Paul Fordyce Maitland (1863-1909)
Harbour on an estuary at dusk
One signed and possibly indistinctly dated under the slip, oil on card together with a companion possibly by the same hand, depicting an angler on a river, 22.5cm by 29cm (2)

Sold for £480
Estimated at £250 - £400


 

Example depicting estuary; cleaned and revarnished. Please note there is possibly a likely date under the slip, lower right-hand corner. Signature possibly strengthened, likely fairly consistent retouching and strengthening through the blues of the sky and further retouching and strengthing through parts of the water and foreground. Odd tiny loss to upper right and left-hand corner with slight buckle to card at stated positions. Slight crease/abrasion lower left-hand corner. Odd very isolated area of cracquelure. The second example; evidence of much more isolated retouching and strengthening to centre foreground. Cleaned and revarnished. Areas of fine stable craquelure, sold as found.

 


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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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