16th Jul, 2022 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European and Sporting Art
1114
Circle of Sir William Beechey RA (1753-1839)
Portrait of a young lady, half length, standing in a wooded landscape, wearing a white empire style dress with red wrap and her hair in a chignon
Oil on canvas, 75.5cm by 62.5cm
Sold for £500
Estimated at £400 - £600
Relined, cleaned and revarnished. Now covered in a layer of dirt and discoloured varnish. Evidence of over painting consistently within the upper left hand 20% of the background and less consistently within the background immediately beside her hair upper right and to a lesser extent above her left shoulder. Further patch of retouching / strengthening above the horizon left-hand side which is approx 7cm by 3cm overall with less consistent strengthening to the outline and definition of the tree against the lower left-hand side edge. Further restoration and retouching, some old widely spaced cracquelure across the sitters face and reenforcement to the colour of her cheeks. Further retouch/strengthening to some of the folds of her red shawl particularly at her right arm inner elbow point. Minor abrasions and rubbing to edges especially top edge which is slightly adrift of the frame. Retains reasonable surface with some impasto remaining particularly through the white of her dree. Pronounced essentially widely spaced cracquelure mostly throughout, with more deep crazing within the dark background immediately above her head possibly a result of bitumen to the artist's pigment.
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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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