13th Sep, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
Attributed to Sir David Wilkie RA (1785-1841)
"The Contention" - Sketch for "The Village Festival"
Pencil and watercolour, together with a further initialled example by the same hand also depicting a sketch for The Village Festival series "The Inn Keeper's Daughter", 27.5cm by 38cm and 19cm by 22.5cm respectively (2)
Professor Hamish Miles suggested that this drawing is a copy after the picture in the National Gallery of Scotland. It was originally part of series of eight drawings based on that composition.
Exhibited: Yorkshire Fine Art Exhibition, York, May 1879
City of Bradford Corporation Art Gallery, Cartwright Memorial Hall "Coming of Age Exhibition" 1925
Provenance: Charles Hargitt, Liverpool
Christie's sale, 18th March 1881, lot 720
Christie's sale, 27th April 1971, lot 194
Sold for £220
Estimated at £300 - £500
Auction: The Swinton Sale, 13th Sep, 2024
THE SELECTED CONTENTS OF DYKES HILL HOUSE, MASHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE, FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF THE 2nd EARL AND COUNTESS OF SWINTON AND SOLD ON THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE 4th EARL AND FAMILY AND THE TRUSTEES OF THE LORD SWINTON WILL TRUST
The Swinton Sale, will include a selection of fine English and Continental Furniture, Paintings, Sculpture, Chinese Works of Art, Silver, Meissen, Sèvres, Books and Objets d’Art from one of Yorkshire’s most important landed estates.
The Swinton Estate which spans approximately 20,000 acres encompasses some of the most beautiful landscape in North Yorkshire and has been in the ownership of the Cunliffe-Lister family since the 1880s. Dykes Hill House, close to Swinton Park, became the family seat and home to the 2nd Earl and Lady Masham following a life changing injury when she was thrown from her horse shortly before their wedding in 1959, causing her to be paralysed from the waist down.
The 2nd Earl died in 2006 and his widow Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Countess of Swinton, Baroness Masham of Ilton, DL, continued to lead a full life as a British crossbench member of the House of Lords. Amongst her many achievements, she was a former Paralympic athlete and was also the founder and lifelong President of the Spinal Injuries Association. She died on 12th March 2023.
Whilst a number of the chattels have been retained by the family, the remaining contents of Dykes Hill House provide a rare glimpse of what epitomises the quintessential taste of the English aristocracy.
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