18th May, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
Country House Sale
658
John Lucas (1807-1874)
Portrait of Mrs Harvey, three quarter length, standing before a landscape, leaning on a balustrade and holding a book and a stylus
Oil on canvas, 100cm by 85cm
Sold for £600
Estimated at £600 - £900
A mid-late 20th century lining and associated stretcher, fair tension and all keys present. Original tacking margins removed, visible from front at top and right where the canvas has dropped in frame. Some minor abrasion to the surface associated with this movement.
A fine network of brittle age and impact cracks throughout, with less over the stretcher bars. Mostly stable, with some old minor losses associated with the cracking/old flaking. A few patches of more recent lifting and flaking to the top right (see images), where there are also larger losses and network of smaller losses all unfilled but retouched. Some minor drying cracks which have, like the brittle cracks been slightly widened during cleaning - evident in cuff and sash (see images). There is an old tear, one inch and L-shaped in the middle background to the left of the forehead. Elevated but appears stuck, partially retouched (see images). A partially retouched 1 inch loss unfilled to the top left and small, minor losses and abrasions scattered across the picture. Some discoloured brown blotches to the bottom of the dress.
Some newer minor white scuffs top right corner and above the head. An old discoloured varnish with remnants of an older more yellow varnish in the troughs of the painting, leaving the painting patchy.
In fair, mostly stable condition, with the face better preserved.
Examined in frame
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Auction: Country House Sale, 18th May, 2024
The Country House Sales offer an appealing mix of traditional antiques and curiosities, good furnishing pieces and specialist collectors’ items. The sales incorporate the contents of important properties and private collections as well as individually consigned lots redolent of the English Country House.
Included in the sale will be an extraordinary collection of Treen and Metalware, put together over many years by David and Hilary Hide. The Hides, who lived in the North of England, had a fascination for British vernacular objects and developed a deep knowledge of their subject. The extensive collection will be sold in fifty lots. Highlights of the collection include an 18th Century Treen Lignum Vitae Mortar with similar hardwood pestle (estimate: £300-500 all figures exclude buyer’s premium), a Pair of George III Carved and Turned Mahogany Candlesticks sold with a Pair of Olive Wood Brighton Bun Travelling Candlesticks (estimate: £150-250), and a group of three George III Mahogany Cats or plate stands (estimate: £100-150). Also of interest are a group of three Mid-19th Century Toleware Spice Boxes (Estimate: £80-120), and a group of Lignum Vitae Treen String Boxes from the 19th Century (estimate: £100-150).
The sale will also include rugs from the Collection of the Late Nicola Pyne. Nicola Pyne was born in 1948 in South-West London. Her early years were spent at the family house in Strawberry Hill, which backed onto the Thames. She was academically able, attending Lady Eleanor Holles School before obtaining a BSc in Physics from Birmingham University. She had a lifelong love of studying and also completed a degree in Biology from Birkbeck. Nicola worked for many years with IBM before leaving to pursue a teaching career specialising in Physics, Chemistry and Biology. She loved to travel and visited many countries in Central Asia, the Middle East and India, developing a love of different cultures and filling her house with artefacts from around the globe. Her travels led to an interest in ethnic items including jewellery, wood carving and of course tribal rugs and related weavings. The items in this collection will be denoted throughout the catalogue with a ~ symbol.
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Wednesday 15 May - Friday 17 May 10am-4pm and morning of sale from 8am
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