16th Jul, 2022 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European and Sporting Art
1115
Attributed to James Northcote RA (1746-1831)
Portrait of Richard Leech, half length, wearing a white stock, black jacket and holding a document
Indistinctly signed and dated 1814, oil on canvas, 74.5cm by 61.5cm
The document which the sitter holds reads "List of Improvements which I have made in the Longparish Estate R Leech"
Richard Leach also known as Leech lived at Longparish, Hampshire. The Gentleman's Magazine of April 1834 records his death as Richard Leech, at Longparish House on the 13th March 1834 in his 80th year. It is understood that the sitter worked for the Longparish Estate, which belonged to the Hawker family.
Exhibited: Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Loan Collection of Works by Early Devon Painters, 1932, no.154
Provenance: Sotheby’s Bond Street, 22nd May 1985
Literature: S.Gwynn, Memorials of an Eighteenth-Century Painter, James Northcote, 1898, p.283, no.558
Sold for £750
Estimated at £500 - £800
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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Sunday 10 July 11am-4pm, Monday 11 July to Friday 15 July 10am-4pm and morning of sale from 8am. Viewing is open to the public, there is no need to make an appointment.
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