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Ovid - The Epistles of Ovid: With his Amours, contemporary calf, gilt, joints split, 1776 § [Wolcot (John)] The Works of Peter Pindar, 4 vol., engraved frontispiece portrait, contemporary half calf, joints split and several covers detached, worn, 1797 1802 § Hereford (Charles John Ann) The history of France, from the first establishment of that monarchy, brought down to, and including a complete narrative of the late revolution, 3 vol., new edition, contemporary calf, spines with modern morocco labels, joints split and covers loose, [c.1791]; and 15 others, English Literature, v.s. (23)
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A Collection of Theological Tracts , 6 vol (Richard, Bishop of Landaff ) A Collection of Theological Tracts , 6 vol., engraved map frontispiece, bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary half calf, Cambridge, 1785 § Huntington (William) The Select Works of the Late Rev. William Huntington, 6 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, ink inscription to front free endpaper, hinges split and a couple of gatherings loose, contemporary half calf, 1837, some foxing and browning, extremities rubbed ; and a quantity of others, English Literature and Religion, v.s. (5 boxes)
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, 2 vol., first edition The Life of Samuel Johnson, 2 vol., first edition, engraved frontisportrait of Johnson and 2 facsimile plates, with the "gve" reading on p. 135 of vol. I, vol. I portrait stained in corner, 2L3 small hole in lower margin, 2X3 small piece torn away from lower margin, some foxing and browning, with the "Principal Corrections" from the 1793 edition bound at end of vol. II, later endpapers, 19th century half blind stamped calf, gilt, rubbed, labels on spines, [Courtney & Smith pp. 172-3; Rothschild 463; Grolier, English 131], 4to, Charles Dilly, 1791.
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Boswell (James) - The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 3 vol., second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 2 folding plates of facsimiles, offsetting, spotted, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, by Henry Baldwin, 1793 § Johnson (Samuel) Works, engraved portrait frontispiece, offsetting, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary polished calf, rerbacked, corners worn, rubbed, 1810; and a small quantity of others, 19th century Literary sets and 20th century editions of 19th century works, v.s. (Sm.Qty.)
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Gaskell (Elizabeth Cleghorn) - The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 2 vol., first edition , half-titles, engraved portrait and frontispiece (lightly foxed), Belper bookplate, contemnprary calf, gilt, by Hayday, spines gilt with red and green roan labels, spines a little faded, 1857 § Wise (T.J.) & J.A.Symington, editors . The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, 4 vol., one of 750 sets, frontispieces, original cloth, uncut, Oxford, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1932, 8vo (6)
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King (Lord) - The Life of John Locke With Extracts From his Correspondence Journals, and Common-Place Books, portrait frontispiece, foxed, contemporary calf, rubbed, Henry Colburn, 1829 § Moore (Thomas) Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: with Notices of his Life, 2 vols., frontispiece to vol. 2, foxed, contemporary half calf, rubbed, joints cracked, lacks letter piece to spine of vol. 1, John Murray, 1830, plus 4 other vol., 4to (7)
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Johnson (George W.) - Memoirs of John Selden and Notices of the Political Contest During his Time, portrait frontispiece, foxed, original cloth backed boards, rubbed, Orr and Smith, 1835 § Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 16 vol., 1897-1912, original cloth, plus a quantity of other vol., v.s. (qty)
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Trollope (Anthony) - The Last Chronicle of Barset, 2 vol., wood-engraved plates, without advertisement leaf at end of vol.2, 1867 § Disraeli (Benjamin) Sybil: or, The Two Nations, 3 vol., ?later edition (erased on titles), half-titles, name stamped at head of titles and on half-titles, no advertisements, modern calf, 1845; Endymion, 3 vol., half-titles, contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., 1880 § Ainsworth (W.H.) Old Saint Paul's, 3 vol., engraved plates, contemporary calf, gilt, 1841 § § [Marryat ( Capt .)] Mr. Midshipman Easy, 3 vol., 1836 § Stowe (Harriet Beecher) Uncle Tom's Cabin, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, 1853; A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, engraved portrait, 1853 § Borrow (George) The Bible in Spain, 3 vol., lacking half-titles, 1843; Lavengro, 3 vol., half-titles, engraved portrait, lacking advertisements at end, 1851; Wild Wales, 3 vol., half-titles, lacking advertisements, 1862, all but the second first editions , some spotting, all but the second and third contemporary half or full calf, gilt, a little rubbed, the first and fifth with slightly faded spines, the last two rebacked preserving old gilt spines ; and 4 others, Marryat, 8vo ( 29)
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[Hughes (Thomas)] - Tom Brown's School Days, first illustrated edition, engraved portrait and title-vignette, wood-engraved plates and illustrations by Arthur Hughes, with tipped-in T.L.s. from Thomas Arnold, Headmaster of Rugby School , dated April 13th 1842 concerning the availability of places at the school, modern half morocco, spine gilt with red labels, g.e., spine slightly faded, 1869 § Rugboeana, by an Old Rugboean, errata leaf at end, illustrations, signature of J.Ruskin on front free endpaper, original cloth, rubbed, spine browned, Lichfield , [c.1875] § Neill (A.S.) That Dreadful School, first edition , original cloth, 1937; and 10 others, education, including 4 of A.S.Neill's 5 Dominie novels, 8vo (13)
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Johnson (Samuel) - The Lives of the English Poets, 4 vol., first edition , some staining to lower margins, Dublin, 1779; Prayers and Meditations, edited by George Strahan, third edition, later morocco-backed boards, 1796; The Rambler, 4 vol., 1823 § Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson, 4 vol., half-titles, engraved portrait and 2 folding facsimiles (lightly foxed), 1822, occasional spotting, all but the second contemporary calf, gilt, the third with gilt arms, the last diced, spines gilt with roan labels, most a little rubbed, the first with wear to boards ; and 3 others, Johnson & Boswell, 8vo (14)
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Wilde (Oscar).- Sherard (R.H.) - Oscar Wilde: The Story of An Unhappy Friendship, first edition , later calf, gilt, faded, privately printed, Hermes Press, 1902 § [Millard (Christopher)], "Stuart Mason". Bibliography of Oscar Wilde, frontispiece portrait by Aubrey Beardsley, modern half green morocco, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine gilt with vellum labels, t.e.g., spine slightly soiled, n.d. § Holland (Vyvyan) Time Remembered after Père Lachaise, 1966 § Wratislaw (Theodore) Oscar Wilde: A Memoir, out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 500, 1979 § Ellmann (R.) Oscar Wilde, 1987 § Wilde (Oscar) The Letters, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962 § Harris (Frank) Oscar Wilde, second edition, 1938, plates and illustrations, all but the first two original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the sixth with faded spine, the last rubbed and frayed at edges ; and 14 others by or about Wilde and the 1890s, 4to & 8vo (21)
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Stanbrook Abbey Press.- Maritain (Raissa) - Patriarch Tree, number 460 of 550 copies, text in French and English, tipped-in portrait, original morocco-backed patterned-paper boards, t.e.g., slip-case, 1965 § Sassoon (Siegfried) Something About Myself, printed in turquoise, brown and black, illustrations by Margaret Adams, original wrappers, gilt, uncut, preserved in cloth portfolio with ties, 1966 § Belloc (Hilaire) A Remaining Christmas, number XLI of 65 copies from an edition limited to 400, illustrations by Phillida Gili, original morocco-backed boards, t.e.g., others uncut, transparent wrapper, slip-case , 1976, Worcester, Stanbrook Abbey Press ; and another from the Press, 8vo & 4to (4)
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McArdell (James) - Lady Middleton, three-quarter length portrait after Sir Peter Lely, mezzotint, 505 x 350mm., mounted at corners to support sheet, slight surface dirt, mostly marginal, Edward Fisher, also Ryland and Bryer, [c.1760] § Fisher (Edward) Lady Elizabeth Keppel, full length portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds, mezzotint, 590 x 365mm., third state of six, three tears to upper left corner, by the engraver, [1762] § Dixon (John) [Mrs Blake depicted as Juno], full length portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds, mezzotint, 620 x 405mm., second state of three, indistinctly inscribed in ink along the lower edge, thread margins, by the engraver, 1771; [Portrait of Miss Emma and Miss Elizabeth Crewe], scratch-letter proof before title, double portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds, mezzotint, 510 x 360mm., pale even browning, slight surface dust, [John Boydell], [1782] (4)
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Hassell (J.) - Memoirs of the Life of the late George Morland, engraved portrait, additional pictorial title, 7 plates and tail-piece, some foxing, contemporary half roan, rubbed, rebacked, new endpapers, Albion Press, 1806 § Dawe (George) The Life of George Morland, first edition , engraved portrait, vignette title and 3 plates, all foxed, contemporary calf, worn, covers detached, 1807 § Gilbey ( Sir Walter) George Morland: His Life and Works, one of 250 deluxe copies signed by the author, occasional spotting, original decorated cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, soiled, 1907 § Williamson (George C.) John Russell, R.A., one of 100 large paper copies , original cloth, new endpapers, 1904; Life and Works of Ozias Humphry, R.A., one of 400 copies, original vellum-backed boards, 1918 § Dodgson (Campbell) Old French Colour-Prints, limited edition, prospectus loosely inserted, original parchment-backed cloth, 1924 § Burgess (Anthony) Coaching Days of England, original cloth, 1966 § plates and illustrations, some colour, most rubbed ; and c.40 others, similar, v.s. (c.50)
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Wilde (Oscar) - Salome, decorative title and 15 plates by Aubrey Beardsley on Japon, plus a duplicate of one plate, long inscription to Ernest Thesiger (1879-1961, stage and film actor) on front free endpaper, original decorated green cloth, gilt, after Beardsley, t.e.g., others uncut, very slight soiling, lower corners bumped, [Mason 527], 1912 § The Portrait of Mr W.H., first enlarged version, number 741 of 1000 copies, frontispiece, with loosely inserted A.L.S. from the bookseller Eric Blair to Tom Driberg MP offering him the book, original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, spine very slightly soiled, slip-case worn and defective at foot of spine, New York, 1921, 4to & 8vo (2)
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Drinkwater (John) - Abraham Lincoln, A Play, first edition, signed and inscribed by the author on half-title, also by J.William J.Rea who played the lead role in the play beneath a tipped-in portrait and a quotation by Lincoln "You can't do the right thing the wrong way"on facing leaf, book-label of John Henry v.Schröder, original boards, a little rubbed, spine faded, 1918; The Collected Poems, number 295 of 530 copies, signed and inscribed by the author with verse on limitation leaf, original cloth, dust-jacket, soiled, slightly defective at foot of spine, 1923; The Collected Poems, 3 vol., vol.1 & 2 number 90 of 230 copies signed by the author at end of Preface, original cream buckram, vol.3 red buckram and slightly smaller, 1923-37; The Collected Plays, 2 vol., number 198 of 230 copies signed by the author at end of Preface, original cream buckram, 1925; Inheritance [and] Discovery Autobiography, together 2 vol., vol.1 with tipped-in T.L.s. from the author to William McCready, vol.2 with A.L.s. from Eddie Marsh to Drinkwater thanking him for his congratulations on his knighthood "Thank you so much. I never wanted to be a 'K' before, but now it makes a good Finale - Allegro", both original cloth, dust-jackets, 1931-32, some plates, most spines slightly faded or browned ; and 4 others by Drinkwater, one signed, 8vo & small 4to (13) Abraham Lincoln was Drinkwater's first big success in the theatre, Lincoln's concerns with the American Civil War striking a chord with Britain's post-war feeling. First performed in Birmingham in 1918, it was brought to London the following year and, after a slow start, became a hit when the playwright himself stepped into the part for one night when Rea was indisposed.
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Leicestershire.- Burton (William) - The Description of Leicester Shire Containing Matters of Antiquitye, Historye, Armorye, and Genealogy, portrait frontispiece, engraved title, folding map, annotations to end papers and text, some marginal repairs, later half morocco, John White, 1622 § Hill (John Harwood) The History of Market Harborough, plates, foxed, contemporary half morocco and decorated boards, rubbed, For the Subscribers, Leicester, 1875, 4to and folio (2)
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Maugham (W.Somerset) - The Moon and Sixpence, first edition, first issue , half-title, 4pp. advertisements at end, browned, modern half tan morocco, spine gilt with green morocco labels, t.e.g., [Stott A22a], 1919; Liza of Lambeth, limited edition signed by the author, original vellum-backed boards, t.e.g., others uncut , 1947; Cakes and Ale, limited edition signed by the author and artist, portrait by Graham Sutherland, original calf, t.e.g., others uncut,spine very slightly rubbed, slip-case, [1954] § Bennett (Arnold) The Old Wives' Tale, reproduced in facsimile from the author's manuscript , 2 vol., one of 500 copies, original vellum-backed cloth, t.e.g., London & New York, 1927; Riceyman Steps, first edition , modern half tan morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g., 1923 § De la Mare (Walter) Poems 1901-1918, 2 vol., number 84 of 210 copies signed by the author, original cloth-backed boards, roan labels, uncut, light spotting, vol.1 corners bumped, 1920 § Bridges (Robert) The Testament of Beauty, with loosely-inserted cheque from A.H.Bullen (publisher and founder of the Shakespeare Head Press) made out to Bridges for 15gns and signed by Bridges on verso, original vellum-backed marbled boards, uncut , 1930 § Housman (A.E.) A Shropshire Lad, original buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, spine slightly faded, 1906; and 14 others by or about Maugham, Bennett, de la Mare, Bridges and Housman, some bound, 8vo & 4to (24)
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[Brontë (Charlotte)] "Currer Bell". - The Professor, upper corner of title clipped, name at head of Preface, few ink marks, 8pp. advertisments at end, further advertisments on endpapers, original cloth, worn and marked, hinges cracked, 1861 (1860 on cover) § Gaskell (E.C.) The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispieces, 16 pp. advertisments at end of vol. II, little spotting, original cloth, rubbed, vol II spine damaged, some gatherings sprung, 1857 § Leyland (Francis A.) The Brontë Family, 2 vol., half-titles, rubbed , 1886 § Turner (Whiteley) A Spring-Tide Saunter round and about Brontë Land, frontispiece portrait, plates, illustrations, pictorial cloth, rubbed & marked, Halifax , 1913, and others by or about the Brontës and other Yorkshire writers, v.s . (c. 40).
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Belzoni (Giovanni Battista) - Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids [&c.] in Egypy and Nubia, vol.1 only, lithographed portrait frontispiece, contemporary half calf, spine chipped with loss, upper cover becoming loose, lower cover detached, 1820; and 4 others, assorted antiquarian, including Pennant's Tour of Snowdon, 4to & 8vo (5)
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Comte de ) Voyage Pittoresque dans l'Empire Ottoman, atlas vol Comte de ) Voyage Pittoresque dans l'Empire Ottoman , atlas vol. only (without the four octavo vol.), 2 parts in one, second edition, part-titles with engraved vignettes, engraved portrait, 2 engraved maps only (of 4), 14 unnumbered plates of engraved head-pieces, 288 engraved plates (only, of 290, lacking plates 18 & 70 in second part) on 170 sheets, first part title badly creased, damp-staining, browning and foxing affecting most plates to varying degree, a few old repairs, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards with vellum corner-tips, rubbed, spine worn and defective, [ Atabey 242; this edition not in Blackmer], folio, Paris, J. P. Aillaud, 1842. French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and an avid traveler and lover of antiquities, Choiseul-Gouffier first published his impressions of Greece and the Ottoman Empire as Voyage Pittoresque en Grece in 1782. In 1842, the work was posthumously republished as Voyage pittoresque dans l'Empire Ottoman . This second edition quite rare, with only the Atabey copy (selling for £14,000 in 2002) and one other in the auction records.
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Goldsmith (Oliver) - A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 4 vol., engraved portrait and 81 plates, contemporary half calf, gilt, rubbed, Glasgow , 1832 § Fitzsimons (F.W.) The Natural History of South Africa - Mammals, 4 vol., some spotting, original cloth , 1919 § Robertson (John) Animal Life on The Shores of the Clyde and Firth, original cloth, rubbed, Glasgow, n.d.; and 4 others, natural history, v.s. (13)
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Hardy (Thomas) - The Dynasts, 3 vol., one of 525 large paper copies signed by the author , etched portrait by Francis Dodd signed by him in pencil, printed in red and black, original vellum-backed batik boards, uncut, dust-jackets, spines a little rubbed but a good set, 4to, printed at the Chiswick Press for Macmillan & Co., 1927.
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Paxton (Joseph) - Magazine of Botany, vol.7 & 10 only, 96 hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, 1840 & 1843 § Johnson (C. Pierpoint) British Wild Flowers, hand-coloured illustrations and black and white, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, original spine laid-down, 1863 § Rhind (William) A History of the Vegetable Kingdom, engraved title, portrait and 45 engraved plates, many hand-coloured, numerous illustrations, contemporary half calf, gilt, slightly rubbed, 1872. 8vo (4)
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Summoned by Bells, number 117 of 125 copies signed by the author ( Sir John) Summoned by Bells, number 117 of 125 copies signed by the author , etched portrait, illustrations, original green roan blocked with semé of gilt bells, t.e.g., slightly rubbed at edges, covers a little splayed, 1960; Ghastly Good Taste, number 52 of 200 specially-bound copies signed by the author , long pull-out plate by Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh, original calf-backed cloth, slip-case, 1970; First and Last Loves, first edition , modern half russet morocco, spine gilt, with cloth from original binding and part of dust-jacket bound in at end, 1952; and 6 others by or with contributions by Betjeman, 4to & 8vo (9)
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Gibbon (Edward) - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 vol. in 6, engraved portrait and one folding map only (of 2, both foxed), contemporary half calf, spines gilt with green roan labels, 1820 § Macaulay (Thomas Babington) Critical and Historical Essays, 3 vol., contemporary half calf, spines gilt with green roan labels, 1843 § Trevelyan (G.O.) The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, 2 vol., second edition, engraved portrait, contemporary diced calf, spines gilt, g.e., 1877 § Carlyle (Thomas) Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches , 3 vol. including Supplement, engraved portrait (spotted), handsome contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with red and green roan labels, 1845-46; Reminiscences, edited by J.A.Froude, 2 vol., original green cloth, 1881 § Carlyle (Jane Welsh) Letters and Memorials, edited by Thomas Carlyle and J.A.Froude, 3 vol., contemporary half calf, spines gilt with roan labels, 1883, all but the first and third first editions , a little rubbed, some spines slightly faded ; and 26 others, history, mostly bindings, 8vo (45)
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Portrait of a Lady in Renaissance Style Oil on canvas 77 x 63cm Together with a modern portrait of a lady Condition Report: It is framed but in an awful modern gilt frame. There is a big hole above right shoulder clumsily restored, stretcher marks visible, a few rips especially to the edges, restoration and craquelure.
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Circle of Francesco Renaldi (1755-1798) Portrait of a young gentleman playing his cello in an interior' circa 1780, oil on canvas, framed, 'Zoffany' label fixed to base of frame, 76 x 64cm Francesco Renaldi was an English-born painter of Italian heritage about whose life little is known. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in London in 1776, aged twenty-one. For two years after 1781 Renaldi traveled in Italy, initially with Thomas Jones, the Welsh landscape painter and pupil of Richard Wilson. Evidently on at least one occasion Jones exploited Renaldi's name to pass himself off as an Irish catholic in order to gain access to the prior of a monastery at Caserta near Naples-which would normally have been inaccessible to him on sectarian grounds-but Renaldi seems to have accepted this with good grace, even affability. Years later, in 1798, he exhibited at the Royal Academy a workmanlike but affectionate group portrait of the Jones family, which is now in the collection of the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff; it may contain the artist's discreet but cheerful self-portrait. Upon returning to London in 1783, Renaldi attempted without success to establish himself as a portrait painter at 2, Portugal Street, a modest house tucked behind Lincoln's Inn Fields, on the Thames side. On November 3, Jones was pleasantly surprised to bump into Renaldi in Fleet Street, and the two dined together not long afterwards. In 1785, perhaps frustrated by commercial sluggishness, even sensing the prospect of professional failure in a highly competitive metropolitan market for portraits, Renaldi applied to the East India Company for permission to travel to Bengal. He supplied the names and addresses of two guarantors-Mr. Job Hart Price of Aldershot House, and Robert Codd of the 59th Regiment of Foot. These sureties were obviously acceptable to the company, because the following February Renaldi was given formal approval to go. He sailed aboard the Hillsborough, and reached Calcutta in August 1786. For ten years Renaldi lived in Calcutta, Lucknow (working, it is believed, for Asaf ud-Daulah, the Nawab Wazir of Oudh), and in Dacca (now the capital city of Bangladesh). He was therefore one of only a relatively small number of European painters-among them William Hodges, Johan Zoffany, Tilly Kettle, and Ozias Humphry (all of whom are represented in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art)-who spent extended periods painting portraits of and for the nabobs (English, Scottish, and Anglo-Irish gentlemen of the East India Company whose tendency was to “go native”) and their more or less official Indian mistresses, or bibis. By 1796 Francesco Renaldi was back in England. To the following year's summer exhibition at the Royal Academy he sent paintings of two Industany ladies, and one Mogul lady-all three were presumably bibis, possibly including this one-and also listed his address as 69, Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, very close to what is now Oxford Circus. In 1798 he may have exhibited a portrait of his own family, about whom we know nothing. Thereafter he vanishes from view, but completely.
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Alfred Edward Chalon (1780-1861) Portrait of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coberg and Gotha, The Prince Consort (1819-1861) water and body colour on paper, framed, (loose) 31 x 42cm According to Eugene Barilo von Reisberg, He believes the watercolour was painted after February 1840, when Albert arrived in England, and was made a Field-Marshall (hence he is painted wearing the red Field-Marshall's uniform), but perhaps before May 1841, when Albert was invested with the Order of the Golden Fleece (you would notice that almost all portraits of Albert after that date show him wearing both Orders of the Garter and of the Golden Fleece). Winterhalter did not arrive in England until June 1842. Hence, it is most likely that this watercolour can be attributed either to Alfred Edward Chalon, John Lucas, or perhaps even George Hayter, who all worked for the Queen and Prince at the time. However, stylistically, He is more inclined to attribute the work to Albert Edward Chalon, who is recorded to have painted watercolours of Prince Albert in August 1840 (he also painted Queen Victoria between 1838 and 1839; Chalon's head of Queen Victoria was most famously adapted for the use on British postage stamps). Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (in full Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel), later The Prince Consort, (26 August 1819 - 14 December 1861) was the husband and consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was the only husband of a British queen regnant to have formally held the title of Prince Consort. Upon Queen Victoria's death in 1901, the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha succeeded the House of Hanover on the British throne. The idea of a marriage between Albert and his cousin Victoria had always been cherished by their uncle, King Leopold I of Belgium, as well as Victoria's mother (Leopold's sister), the Duchess of Kent, and in May 1836 the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his two sons paid a visit to Kensington Palace, where Princess Victoria of Kent (as she then was titled) lived, for the purpose of meeting her. Alfred Chalon was born in Geneva from a father who soon was hired as professor at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, in England. With his brother John James (1778-1854), Alfred became an artist. Entered at the Royal Academy in 1797, he joined the Associated Artists in Water-Colours, a group of aquarellists. In the Academy, he was elected associated in 1812, then academician in 1816. Known for his portraits of the good society of London, he was chosen by Queen Victoria to paint a gift to her mother: Victoria in her State robes going to the House of Lords for her first official act, the prorogation of the Parliament, on 17 July 1847. After this task, Chalon was entitled Portrait Painter in Water Colour to Her Majesty and gained some celebrity. His 1847 portrait was engraved by Samuel Cousins and distributed to the public the day of Victoria's coronation, the 28 June 1848. Then, starting in 1851, the "Chalon head" appeared on some British colonies postage stamps. Bachelors, the Chalon brothers lived together. Alfred died in 1860 at Campden Hill, in Kensington.
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SIR JOHN LAVERY (1856-1941), a portrait of Mrs W F Burton, signed lower right, oil on canvas, 30" x 25". Provenance: The sitter - Mrs W.F. Burton nee Georgina Spencer Wellesley (d.1943), great Niece of the Duke of Wellington, daughter of Hon. Captain William Henry George Wellesley (1806-1875) and Amelia St. John Niblock. Thence by descent. This lot now includes the original receipt for the painting signed by John Lavery, an original letter between the sitter and Lavery and another from the sitter's sister describing the circumstances under which the painting was completed.
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