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A GEORGE III PORTRAIT MINIATURE, AND A 19TH CENTURY CHINESE IVORY CARVING OF A FISHERMAN

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'COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY LONDON' and a further collection of books on art

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MAX LIEBERMANN: Self Portrait, Berlin 1923, etching, publ Erich Hancke

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A 19TH CENTURY OIL ON BOARD portrait of an elderly gentleman leaning on a stick, framed as a roundel in a gilt frame

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BERYL NEWMAN (TRIST): Four animal studies, including a tiger, pencil study mounted in one frame, with a pencil portrait by the same artist

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A Royal Doulton 'Mephistopheles' Double Portrait Character Jug, 13cm High 

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A CASED PAIR OF LATE 20TH CENTURY LIMITED EDITION GOBLETS made to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II, with a gilded interior, certificates & applied portrait, by Toye, Kenning & Spencer, Birmingham 1977; 5.5" (14 cms) high; 9.8 oz weighable silver

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A GEORGE I MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL SNUFF BOX of rectangular outline with a stand-away hinge & a reeded border, the cover inset with a later medal depicting a classical portrait bust of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the box unmarked, c.1720; 3.2" (8 cms) long *The medal by John Kirk is dated 1773, the year Reynolds was elected Mayor of Plymouth, the reverse depicting the personification of Art, at an easel, painting a portrait within the legend "President of the Royal Academy".

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AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL CIGARETTE CASE rectangular with rounded corners, enamelled on the cover with the portrait of a gun dog holding a game bird in its mouth, gilt interior, marked only "800", 1910-1920; 3.1" (8 cms) long; 3.1 oz

Los 404

A VICTORIAN VESTA CASE of rounded rectangular form, enamelled on the cover with the portrait of black horse with a star on its forehead, by C.H. Cheshire, Birmingham 1891, (lacking internal spring) ; 2" (5 cms) long; 0.6 oz

Los 406

A SMALL VICTORIAN VESTA CASE of rounded rectangular form with a suspensory ring, enamelled on the front with the portrait of an attentive terrier in polychrome, by John Milward Banks, Birmingham 1890; 1.5" (4 cms) long; 0.4 oz

Los 432A

CONTINENTAL SCHOOL 20TH CENTURY Miniature portrait of a gentleman, signed Buttberg 1940 and another dated 1939, on ivory, 7 x 5 cms and a pair of portraits, each of a lady; 7 x 5.5 cms (4)

Los 463

ENGLISH SCHOOL c.1838 Miniature portrait of a lady, believed to be a Mrs Phoebe Falconer, standing wearing a white dress in an interior; 17 x 12.5 cms, papier mache frame

Los 464

ITALIAN SCHOOL 18TH C. Miniature portrait of the Virgin & Child, oil probably on copper; 7.25 x 5.75 cms, in baroque gilt copper frame

Los 471

SIR WILLIAM JOHN NEWTON (1785-1869)* Miniature portrait of Lady Martins standing in an interior holding her son on the arm of a sofa, on ivory, signed and inscribed on reverse, dated 1839; 17.5 x 13 cms, together with a companion portrait, presumably of her husband, three quarter length, pair in black wood frames *Appointed Miniature Painter in Ordinary to the King and Queen in 1833.

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ENGLISH SCHOOL EARLY 19th C. Miniature portrait of a lady wearing lace bonnet and seated in a chair,on ivory; 19.5-8.5 cms and of a young lady wearing a pendant and reading, on ivory; 9 x 7.5 cms

Los 242A

An envelope signed by Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, addressed to a recipient in Earlham, Norwich and post marked for 2nd February 1834, together with a reproduced portrait of Wellington and medal ribbons of the same type that he was awarded, 28.5cm x 40cm, framed as one

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Seymour Luca s (British, 18 th century) STUDY PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN Signed l.l., oil on canvas Feigned oval 27 x 21cm Provenance: The Betty and Barry Power Collection

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Gerald Goddard Jackson (1878-1941) PORTRAIT OF EDWARD NATHANIEL DRURY-LOWE IN UNIFORM signed and dated `G. Goddard Jackson, 1916' and inscribed `The Hague' oil on canvas 68 cm x 42 cm Note - Edward Nathaniel Drury-Lowe fought for the 3rd Notts Battalion and The Derby Regiment

Los 184

Two hand painted portrait miniature paintings of young ladies

Los 154

A quantity of 19th Century and later oil paintings and watercolour studies to include a portrait etc.

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A large gilt picture frame; together with a modern oil on canvas portrait study of a lady; another of a boating scene etc.

Los 343

A quantity of various picture frames and two portrait prints

Los 422

A quantity of various pictures, prints, photographic portrait etc.

Los 294

A pastel portrait of a nude lady, indistinctly signed, titled 'K. Maunder' and dated 95, in glazed giltwood frame, 31 x 22cm

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19th century Indian Jaipur school, 'Kanwar Narain Singh of Kanota', c.1850, portrait, watercolour and pencil, in glazed giltwood frame, 22 x 17cm

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A framed and glazed large, pastel portrait of a lady, unsigned, 46 x 60cm

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A 19th century Iranian portrait of a Qajar prince, watercolour and gilt painted, framed and glazed, 10 x 4.5cm

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A late 19th/early 20th century Continental portrait, oil on canvas, in gilt wood frame, 45 x 36cm

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Early 20th century school, Portrait of a Gentleman, oil on canvas, in glazed giltwood frame, 56 x 45cm

Los 274

A Victorian photograph album and contents of monochrome portrait photographs.

Los 367

K. Ivanov (Russian) gilt framed oil on canvas, portrait of a lady, signed 60cm x 50cm.

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TIMOTHY EASTEN, SIGNED AND DATED 1969, CHALK DRAWING, HEAD AND SHOULDERS PORTRAIT OF A HOODED MAN

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Ronald Benham oil on canvas, Self Portrait with Owl, signed, Mall Galleries label verso, 30 x 25cm.

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Rudolf Haybrook (1898-1965)oil on boardPortrait of an Iberian woman,signed34 x 28cm.

Los 476

Kuniyoshi, woodblock print, Memorial portrait of The actor Hanshiro V (died 1836), 36 x 25cm

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A George IV plaster portrait plaque of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) by Del Vecchio, dated 1824Provenance - The Pestalozzi International Foundation collection of Tibetan thangkas, Buddhist figures and ritual objects. In 1947, the British Pestalozzi Children's Village association was founded by Dr Henry Alexander - a German, Jewish, refugee who moved to the UK before the Second World War - and Mrs Mary Buchanan - a British sociologist. In 1959 the organisation opened a 170 acre property in Sedlescombe, East Sussex to house and educate children from displaced persons camps in Europe at the end of World War II.In 1963, twenty-two Tibetan students, along with their house parents, arrived at the village. In 1967/68 saw the last of the European students at Pestalozzi and from that point students from Tibet, India and Nepal - amongst other countries - began to arrive. The Tibetan children and their house parents rescued Buddhist thangkas (paintings) and relics from the local temples during the upheavals of the 1960s which are included in this sale. The collection also includes Buddhist figures of deities from China, Burma and Thailand. The funds raised will help Pestalozzi to continue to offer educational scholarships to children from under-privileged countries.

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Leonard Tshehla Mohapi Matsoso (South African 1949 - ) PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN signed and dated '88 crayon on paper 31,5 by 24cmMatsoso, born in Pimville (1949) is a South African artist with an enigmatic presence. He is a painter and graphic artist known best for his monochromatic paintings of the early 1970’s. Matsoso has exhibited across South Africa, Brazil, Greece, Australia and most notably at the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1973 and 1979. Portrait of a Woman (dated 1988) forms part of his later work and is imbued with various colours. By combining different archetypal elements Matsoso creates lines and form that overlap to create a hybrid image of a woman. The work is almost architectural, with traditional dress draping over the woman to create an abstract incarnation of the human form. - Jamie Lee Money

Los 335

Carl Adolph Büchner (South African 1921-2003) BLUE PORTRAIT signed oil on board 58 by 41,5cm

Los 344

18th-19th Century Dutch/Flemish Artist ( -) PORTRAIT OF A BEARDED GENTLEMAN Darter Bros & Co. label adhered on the reverse oil on board 29,5 by 21,5cm

Los 345

*** Robertson (Continental School -) LINDSEY FAMILY PORTRAIT inscribed with the artist and subject's names on the frame gouache on porcelain 13 by 14cm

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Continental School ( 19th/20th Century-) PORTRAIT OF A GIRL oil on canvas 30,5 by 25cm

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Sue (Susan Mary) Williamson (South African 1941-) MIRIAM MAKEBA, from A FEW SOUTH AFRICANS signed, dated and editioned 23/35 in pencil in the margin photoetching, silkscreen and collage on paper sheet size: 80 by 61cm Sue Williamson is a renowned figure in the South African and international art scene, and has exhibited in multiple institutions, biennales and solo shows across the world. Her work, spanning across many media, has most recently been featured at the Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, USA, and the Kochi Biennale, India1. ‘A Few South Africans’ (1983-88) is a series which the artist notes, “attempted to make visible the history of women involved in the struggle for freedom [against apartheid]... The work asks questions about civic (and representational) duty and memorialisation.†Wiliamson continues, “An important part of the history of this series is that they were printed as postcards, in order to make the images widely accessible to the general public.â€2 This lot features a portrait of Mariam Makeba. The Johannesburg songstress was banned from South Africa in 1960 and her passport withdrawn when she provided the United Nations with evidence against the oppression occurring in South Africa3. Annie Salinga, whose portrait by Williamson is featured in an additional lot, is accompanied by a poster-size autobiographical text. The statement frames Salinga as a staunch activist who vowed never to use an apartheid-issued identity pass (or ‘dompas’) which would dictate where she could live and work. The central portrait is a photo-etching, alongside other techniques such as aquatint and hardground. Some of the imagery on the printed frames is derived from African textiles with additional smaller images added. 1 Goodman Gallery, “Sue Williamson.†2 Goodman Gallery, “Sue Williamson (A Few South Africans artist statement).†3 Sue-Williamson.com, “Miriam Makeba – A Few South Africans.- LD

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Lady Anne Barnard (British 1750-1825) KHOI WOMAN provenance and artist's name inscribed on the reverse watercolour on paper 20,5 by 16,5cmIt is with great pride that Stephan Welz & Co debuts two important and exquisitely executed water colours by Lady Anne Barnard from her momentous visit to the Cape of Good Hope during the First British Occupation (1795-1801). Rarely on the market, these works are accompanied by unique documentary provenance and have been in the possession of the descendants of Lady Anne Barnard from 1966. They are offered for the first time with a handwritten letter from Lady Anne Barnard to Henry Dundas in 1801.The two watercolours give us a rare glimpse into the lives of individual women from the underclasses of the Cape Colony at the end of the 18thcentury. In ground-breaking new research, historian Tracey Randle has traced the origins and possible identities of the subjects depicted in Lots  505 and 506. Her article is included in this special focus on Lady Anne Barnard.The aristocratic Anne Lindsay was a leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the most prolific letter writer, diarist and recorder of any woman of the age. Well connected and witty she was sought after as a sparkling presence in the salons of Georgian society. Her circle included the illustrious presence of The Prince of Wales, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Henry Dundas, Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough among others. Her independence was considered scandalous at the time, and eventually in her early forties she capitulated by marrying beneath her in both age and class. Twelve years her junior, her new husband Andrew Barnard – whom she lovingly nurtured and encouraged – secured a prestigious post as Colonial Secretary of the Cape of Good Hope in 1797. Acting as the first lady of the Cape Colony, Lady Anne Barnard’s African adventures and achievements became legendry. Almost two centuries after her death her legacy continues to make an impact.Anne was raised by a noble and free thinking father, The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres in a secluded castle on the coast of Fife, Scotland. James Lindsay married a woman forty years his junior, and at the advanced age of sixty, welcomed Anne into the world as the first of eleven children. Sadly, Anne found her mother to be remote – worn down by the burden of child bearing – yet it was her affectionate and bookish father who encouraged her intellectual curiosity and creative gifts.  Favoured with beautiful looks, the youthful Anne rejected at least twelve proposals of marriage and the continuous – and unsolicited – advances of older predatory men. It has been suggested [1]that Anne may not have been able to bear children as the result of a sexually transmitted disease, incurable at the time. However, this did not deter her maternal feelings, and possibly motivated her empathetic and compassionate concerns, an attitude generally absent from other contemporary accounts of life at the Cape of Good Hope at the turn of the 19thcentury.Lady Anne was a prolific recorder of life at the Cape – in letters (one of which is on [i]sale), diaries and of course her acclaimed visual record of sketches, drawings and watercolours as well as a few rare oils. She differed from contemporary colonial male artists, in that her work was produced without future publication or official sanction in mind. Her drawings were personal and intimate capturing scenes from the domestic and social life was part of at the time. Drawings were quickly sketched at the dinner table, from her quarters at the Castle, in a carriage oren plein air. She was unusually curious about the wellbeing and origins of the servants and slaves around her. In this way her watercolours of people reveal an empathy absent from the work of other recorders – such as her neighbour at the Castle, Samuel Daniel.The famous image of the so-called Black Madonnaexists in two very similar preparatory sketched versions[ii] of the completed coloured watercolour  on offer. The identity of the young Indian slave recorded as Theresaby the artist, is depicted in a maternal scene nursing her master van Reenen’s lastborn child. Tracey Randall in her article, has identified the child as the baby of the van Reenen family of Ganzekraal farm, near Darling, Cape.  The tenderness of this portrait is underscored by the artist’s comments that she was able to capture the sleeping infant and young nurse in a leisurely manner as they dozed off [2]The second maternal portrait Mother and childdepicts a self-confident and smiling mother gazing directly at the viewer. Dressed in the regal sheep skin cloak and beaded adornment of a Khoi chieftainess, she was sketched at Ganzekraal on the same day in 1799 asBlack Madonna. This was recorded by Lady Anne in her diaries and subsequently highlighted by Tracey Randall.[iii]The full-length miniature vignettedepicts a joyful infant on the shoulders of her mother reaching for a dried gourd rattle, set against a distant landscape, reminiscent of the West Cape coast.These exquisite renderings now take their place amongst a small groups of works on paper selected for a local South African[iv]audience from Lady Anne Barnard’s profuse archive.  Originally part of the Bibliotheca Lindesianaheld by the Earls of Crawford and Balcarres in their stately home, the archive has recently been transferred to the National Library of Edinburgh in Scotland.The arresting watercolours of life at the Cape and her adventurous journeys to the interior have never been published nor publicly exhibited in compliance with Lady Anne Barnard’s express wishes.  The significance and value of these exceptionally rare and re-discovered images is invaluable to a new reading of the South African past.CAROL KAUFMANN[1]TAYLOR, STEPHEN, DEFIANCE THE LIFE AND CHOICES OF LADY ANNE BARNARD.2016.FABER &FABER, LONDON.[2]SEE BARKER, NICOLAS. LADY ANNE BARNARD’S WATERCOLOURS AND SKETCHES: GLIMPSES OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. FERNWOOD PRESS. 2009.[I]ONE SMALL OIL PAINTING IN PARTICULAR STANDS OUT AS IT IS A SELF-PORTRAIT OF HER BATHING AU NATURELAT HER BELOVED PARADISE, PRESENTLY HOUSED IN THE WILLIAM FEHR COLLECTION AT THE CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE IN CAPE TOWN.[II]IN THE IZIKO SOCIAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS AND THE BALCARRES COLLECTION[III]WE ARE MOST GRATEFUL TO TRACEY RANDALL (PHD CANDIDATE) FOR ALLOWING US TO PUBLISH HER GROUND- BREAKING RESEARCH IN THIS CATALOGUE.[IV]SEVEN PORTRAITS ANNOTATED WITH THE NAMES OF LOCAL INDIVIDUALS WERE PRESENTED IN 1972 TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN CULTURAL HISTORY MUSEUM (NOW THE IZIKO SOCIAL HISTORY COLLECTION).PROVENANCEBy descent. A letter gifting the works accompanies the watercolour of The Black Madonna.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSOur gratitude is due to Tracey Randall ( PHD Candidate), Ariadne Petoussis  (The Vineyard) , Esther Esmyol (iziko Social History Collections), Melanie Geustyn ( Special Collections, South African Library)  and others for  their inspirational information, ideas  and assistance with the presentation of Lady Anne Barnard’s  watercolours.

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Lady Anne Barnard (British 1750-1825) BLACK MADONNA provenance and artist's name inscribed on the reverse watercolour on paper 18 by 14cm It is with great pride that Stephan Welz & Co debuts two important and exquisitely executed water colours by Lady Anne Barnard from her momentous visit to the Cape of Good Hope during the First British Occupation (1795-1801). Rarely on the market, these works are accompanied by unique documentary provenance and have been in the possession of the descendants of Lady Anne Barnard from 1966. They are offered for the first time with a handwritten letter from Lady Anne Barnard to Henry Dundas in 1801.The two watercolours give us a rare glimpse into the lives of individual women from the underclasses of the Cape Colony at the end of the 18thcentury. In ground-breaking new research, historian Tracey Randle has traced the origins and possible identities of the subjects depicted in Lots  505 and 506. Her article is included in this special focus on Lady Anne Barnard.The aristocratic Anne Lindsay was a leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the most prolific letter writer, diarist and recorder of any woman of the age. Well connected and witty she was sought after as a sparkling presence in the salons of Georgian society. Her circle included the illustrious presence of The Prince of Wales, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Henry Dundas, Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough among others. Her independence was considered scandalous at the time, and eventually in her early forties she capitulated by marrying beneath her in both age and class. Twelve years her junior, her new husband Andrew Barnard – whom she lovingly nurtured and encouraged – secured a prestigious post as Colonial Secretary of the Cape of Good Hope in 1797. Acting as the first lady of the Cape Colony, Lady Anne Barnard’s African adventures and achievements became legendry. Almost two centuries after her death her legacy continues to make an impact.Anne was raised by a noble and free thinking father, The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres in a secluded castle on the coast of Fife, Scotland. James Lindsay married a woman forty years his junior, and at the advanced age of sixty, welcomed Anne into the world as the first of eleven children. Sadly, Anne found her mother to be remote – worn down by the burden of child bearing – yet it was her affectionate and bookish father who encouraged her intellectual curiosity and creative gifts.  Favoured with beautiful looks, the youthful Anne rejected at least twelve proposals of marriage and the continuous – and unsolicited – advances of older predatory men. It has been suggested [1]that Anne may not have been able to bear children as the result of a sexually transmitted disease, incurable at the time. However, this did not deter her maternal feelings, and possibly motivated her empathetic and compassionate concerns, an attitude generally absent from other contemporary accounts of life at the Cape of Good Hope at the turn of the 19thcentury.Lady Anne was a prolific recorder of life at the Cape – in letters (one of which is on [i]sale), diaries and of course her acclaimed visual record of sketches, drawings and watercolours as well as a few rare oils. She differed from contemporary colonial male artists, in that her work was produced without future publication or official sanction in mind. Her drawings were personal and intimate capturing scenes from the domestic and social life was part of at the time. Drawings were quickly sketched at the dinner table, from her quarters at the Castle, in a carriage oren plein air. She was unusually curious about the wellbeing and origins of the servants and slaves around her. In this way her watercolours of people reveal an empathy absent from the work of other recorders – such as her neighbour at the Castle, Samuel Daniel.The famous image of the so-called Black Madonnaexists in two very similar preparatory sketched versions[ii] of the completed coloured watercolour  on offer. The identity of the young Indian slave recorded as Theresaby the artist, is depicted in a maternal scene nursing her master van Reenen’s lastborn child. Tracey Randall in her article, has identified the child as the baby of the van Reenen family of Ganzekraal farm, near Darling, Cape.  The tenderness of this portrait is underscored by the artist’s comments that she was able to capture the sleeping infant and young nurse in a leisurely manner as they dozed off [2]The second maternal portrait Mother and childdepicts a self-confident and smiling mother gazing directly at the viewer. Dressed in the regal sheep skin cloak and beaded adornment of a Khoi chieftainess, she was sketched at Ganzekraal on the same day in 1799 asBlack Madonna. This was recorded by Lady Anne in her diaries and subsequently highlighted by Tracey Randall.[iii]The full-length miniature vignettedepicts a joyful infant on the shoulders of her mother reaching for a dried gourd rattle, set against a distant landscape, reminiscent of the West Cape coast.These exquisite renderings now take their place amongst a small groups of works on paper selected for a local South African[iv]audience from Lady Anne Barnard’s profuse archive.  Originally part of the Bibliotheca Lindesianaheld by the Earls of Crawford and Balcarres in their stately home, the archive has recently been transferred to the National Library of Edinburgh in Scotland.The arresting watercolours of life at the Cape and her adventurous journeys to the interior have never been published nor publicly exhibited in compliance with Lady Anne Barnard’s express wishes.  The significance and value of these exceptionally rare and re-discovered images is invaluable to a new reading of the South African past.CAROL KAUFMANN[1]TAYLOR, STEPHEN, DEFIANCE THE LIFE AND CHOICES OF LADY ANNE BARNARD.2016.FABER &FABER, LONDON.[2]SEE BARKER, NICOLAS. LADY ANNE BARNARD’S WATERCOLOURS AND SKETCHES: GLIMPSES OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. FERNWOOD PRESS. 2009.[I]ONE SMALL OIL PAINTING IN PARTICULAR STANDS OUT AS IT IS A SELF-PORTRAIT OF HER BATHING AU NATURELAT HER BELOVED PARADISE, PRESENTLY HOUSED IN THE WILLIAM FEHR COLLECTION AT THE CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE IN CAPE TOWN.[II]IN THE IZIKO SOCIAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS AND THE BALCARRES COLLECTION[III]WE ARE MOST GRATEFUL TO TRACEY RANDALL (PHD CANDIDATE) FOR ALLOWING US TO PUBLISH HER GROUND- BREAKING RESEARCH IN THIS CATALOGUE.[IV]SEVEN PORTRAITS ANNOTATED WITH THE NAMES OF LOCAL INDIVIDUALS WERE PRESENTED IN 1972 TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN CULTURAL HISTORY MUSEUM (NOW THE IZIKO SOCIAL HISTORY COLLECTION).PROVENANCEBy descent. A letter gifting the works accompanies the watercolour of The Black Madonna.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSOur gratitude is due to Tracey Randall ( PHD Candidate), Ariadne Petoussis  (The Vineyard) , Esther Esmyol (iziko Social History Collections), Melanie Geustyn ( Special Collections, South African Library)  and others for  their inspirational information, ideas  and assistance with the presentation of Lady Anne Barnard’s  watercolours.

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A PRINCE OF WALES AND LADY DIANA 18CT GOLD OFFICIAL PORTRAIT weighing 27g, in a fitted case

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Gerard Sekoto (South African 1913-1993) HEAD OF AN AFRICAN WOMAN signed and dated 68; label adhered to the reverse inscribed with the title and 'Maximum Fund Trust' oil on canvas laid down on board 59 by 48cm In 1947, Sekoto travelled to Paris to further his studies, he remained in exile for many years, mainly living in Paris. Sekoto attended the Académie Populaire d’Arts Plastiques in Paris from 1963 – 1965. Many of Sekoto’s works from his time in Paris evidence a concern with formal elements, influenced by his fellow students, who were exhibiting their work in Paris at the time. During his time in South Africa, Sekoto tended towards simplifying the facial features of his subjects, positioning them in stances where their faces were streamlined almost to the point of abstraction. This inclination increased during his time away from South Africa. This preference altered from 1963 to the mid-1970’s, when Sekoto repeatedly painted what became known as his ‘blue heads’, a series of busts primarily of women, most frequently with the use of a blue palette. Unlike his previous portrait studies, these busts did not rely on the direct observation of a sitter. In all of the blue head paintings, Sekoto loaded his brush and applied the paint in broad, flat strokes. Mostly, the composition is cropped just above the subject’s head and just below the collar bone, the neck elongated. Unlike his more typical busts, Head of an African Woman contains fewer contrasting colours and highlights. Rather than the white, beige and occasionally yellow highlights found on other busts, the highlights in Head of an African Woman, are subtler, and the artist has incorporated softer blues. The red umber and burnt sienna that Sekoto seemingly used straight out of the paint tube in other blue head paintings, are almost entirely absent here apart from a few select strokes on the headdress. Most of his busts share the same pose, where the subject faces the viewer directly, their eyes either directly connecting with the viewer, or cast downwards Many of the blue heads were produced around 1963, while Head of an African Woman is signed 1968. The subject in this painting wears a headscarf which adds height to her head. The headscarf is undetailed, painted with expressive brushstrokes, giving it the appearance of a headdress. She wears hanging earrings and her eyes connect directly with the viewer, although the slight hoods of her eyes give her otherwise confrontational expression, a demure quality. The vertical brushstrokes of navy paint emphasise her strength, and form a pleasing geometry with the triangular sloping of her elegant neck and sharp collarbones. Head of an African Woman portrays a regal quality in the sitter that other blue busts do not possess. In 1960, before he began painting his first blue heads, Sekoto produced a ballpoint pen on paper sketch of Miriam Makeba which he inscribed with the title Inspiration - Miriam Makeba. Makeba was known at the time as the ‘Queen of African song’ due to the inspiration she drew from the music of South Africa and other African countries. The songstress went into exile in 1959 and was accepted as an African icon by both those living in South Africa and those also in exile. In 1960, when the drawing was created, Makeba had just arrived in New York to much acclaim and photographs of her had featured on the cover of Time magazine. The pen drawing of Miriam Makeba features the same composition as Sekoto’s blue heads, with the singer directly facing outwards, the head cropped closely to the frame. It is possible that Sekoto’s pen drawing of Miriam Makeba, produced in 1960, may have been the inspiration for his blue head paintings of African women, which he began painting around 1963. It must be noted that some of the blue heads also resembled portraits that the artist made of his mother. Sekoto wrote of his practice of painting the blue heads that he wanted to express the beauty of the women of his own race, as opposed to the white female beauties that he felt were so abundantly portrayed by artists throughout history. Lindop, B. Sekoto: The Art of Gerard Sekoto. Great Britain: 1995. Johannesburg Art Gallery: Gerard Sekoto: Unsevered Ties. Johannesburg: 1989 -SD

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A VICTORIAN TURQUOISE AND SEED PEARL LOCKET PENDANT Oval, the hinged cover applied with a navette-shaped motif embellished with circular turquoise cabochons and seed pearls, the reverse vacant, opening to reveal two glazed portrait compartments, acid tested as 14ct gold, approximately 46mm in length

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A VICTORIAN SEED PEARL AND PERIDOT PORTRAIT PENDANT Designed as a wreath of shamrocks and scrolls and centred with a circular glazed frame enclosing a portrait of a young child, in 15ct gold, approximately 53mm in length

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* AUGUSTUS JOHN OM RA (BRITISH 1878 - 1961), THE PORTRAIT OF SUNITA oil on canvas, signed 53.5cm x 43cm Framed and under glass. Note: This lot is accompanied by a hand written letter of authentication (dated 4th March 2019) from Rebecca John, artist, grand-daughter of Augustus John and the leading authority on the work of her grandfather. Inscribed on canvas verso: "Property of Sophie Fedorovitch, 22 Bury Walk, Chelsea SW3, London". Sophie Fedorovitch was a Russian born theatrical designer who worked with ballet choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton from his first choreographed ballet in 1926 until her accidental death in 1953. Fedorovitch died in a gas explosion at her home (known as "the Gothic Box") at 22 Bury Walk on 25th January 1953. Two old printed labels verso, one explaining the background to the portrait and the other stating the picture to be "Property of Mary Smeaton or Scott". Augustus John became acquainted with Jacob Epstein at the New English Art Club after Epstein moved from Paris to London. He produced several drawings of Epstein and two etchings. Epstein later modelled a bronze head of John’s son Romily, which is part of the Garman Ryan Collection followed by a stone version and a Bronze head of Augustus in 1916. Although the two artists encouraged each other, they had a prickly friendship which animated their portraits of each other. This was probably further exacerbated by John’s reputation of having a fiery and rebellious temperament, prone to violent mood swings. Augustus John lead a notoriously promiscuous lifestyle and "fathered numerous children with nearly as many different mothers". "Sunita" was originally from Kashmir, a Muslim who married Ahmed Peerbhoy, a millionaire of Bombay, but sometime in the early 1920s she came to England with her son Enver and younger sister Anita Patel. The sisters joined a troupe of magicians known as the Maysculine Brothers. Sunita developed a persona as an Indian mystic and fortune teller and became widely known as Princess Sunita. Jacob Epstein may have met Sunita at the British Empire Exhibition, where the exotic foreign displays intrigued him, or possibly through his friend Matthew Smith (1879 - 1959). In 1925 Epstein invited Sunita, Enver and Anita to live at his home at Guilford Street in London with the full agreement of his wife Margaret. Mrs Epstein was trying to end her husband's affair with Kathleen Garman by encouraging him into affairs with other women. Sunita had become Epstein's favourite model and she posed, often alone but sometimes with her son, for numerous drawings and sculptures by Epstein until 1931. Jacob Epstein was apparently furious that John had encouraged "Sunita" to sit for a portrait and when John told him that he wanted Sunita to sit for him again, Epstein refused to allow it. "Augustus was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching. His work was favourably compared in London with that of Gauguin and Matisse. He then developed a style of portraiture that was imaginative and often extravagant, catching an instantaneous attitude in his subjects."

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* SOFIA MARTINS DESOZA (PORTUGUESE 1870 - 1960), RIVER LANDSCAPE oil on canvas laid on board, signed and dated 1925 53cm x 37cm Unframed Note: Portrait studies verso

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MODERN EUROPEAN SCHOOL, PORTRAIT OF GENTLEMAN oil on canvas 72cm x 62cm Unframed

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HENRI MATISSE 'Portrait of Colette', original lithograph, signed in the plate, from an edition of 3000 with original justification page verso, 21.5cm x 16cm, framed and glazed. (Subject to ARR - please see Buyers conditions)

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17th CENTURY SCHOOL 'Portrait of a Lady Holding an Urn', oil on board, 12.5cm x 11cm, framed.

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A CONTINENTAL PAINTED PORCELAIN PLAQUE, of oval shape, decorated with a portrait of a young woman in costume, against a gilded background and contained in a cast and pierced frame. 60 x 42cm overall

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MANNER OF F. BUCK (c.1820)Miniature portrait of a man in a blue coat Watercolour on ivory, 6 x 5cmWith plated hair and seed pearls verso ** Please note that this lot contains ivory and is subject to CITES regulations when exporting outside of the EU. The United States Government has banned the import of ivory into the USA.**

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MANNER OF F. BUCK (c.1820)Miniature portrait of a young man in grey coat Watercolour on ivory, 6 x 5cmWith plaited hair on reverse ** Please note that this lot contains ivory and is subject to CITES regulations when exporting outside of the EU. The United States Government has banned the import of ivory into the USA.**

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Good 19thC pressed tortoiseshell frame with miniature portrait

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Wedgwood to include a Prince Charles Portrait Medallion and a pair of Jasper pill boxes collectors society. Boxed and mint.

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