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A Bicorne hat believed to have been worn by Napoleon BonaparteAttributed to Poupart & Cie, Paris, circa 1806-07Of black beaver felt with black silk lining, the rounded crown between a tall arched flat section to the rear and a shorter curved arched section to the front, the crown with two pierced holes to the crown and two button holes to the front section, together with a detached black silk braid with gilded thread, inscribed to the interior ORIGINAL Napoleon I in red ink, circumference 59cm, width 47.5cm, height 24.5cm, stamped marks for Leopold Verch, Charlottenburg, BerlinFootnotes:Provenance:Leopold Verch, Charlottenburg, BerlinBerliner Auktionhaus, December 2017, sale 110, lot 2052A private Scottish collectionNAPOLEON'S BICORNE HATS'On the field of battle, his hat is worth forty thousand men!' remarked the Duke of Wellington. In history there are few significant figures who can easily be recognised by their hat. With the bicorne shape - or chapeau française - such a hat has become the classic image associated with Napoleon Bonaparte. Fondly known as his 'petite chapeau', unlike the customary usage of bicornes, which were worn with their points facing front to back (fore and aft) or at an angle (semi athwart). Napoleon wore his fully athwart with the points facing shoulder to shoulder. By contrast with his Marshals and other General officers whose bicornes were adorned with plumages of ostrich over gold and silver lacework, Napoleon's bicornes bore only a small circular tricolour cockade of red, white and blue, superimposed with a black ribbon in 'V' formation held in place by a small black cloth button. This seemingly insignificant decoration being set at an angle to the front right face of the bicorne.Differing only slightly in proportion, he wore the same model throughout the 15 years of the Empire. Its stark simplicity instantly distinguishing him from those grandly accoutred figures around him, it also made an important political statement. During his reign, he used about 120 of them, most of which manufactured by Poupart & Cie « Chapelier, costumier et passementier de l'Empereur et des Princes » whose shop was located at the Palais du Tribunal, now the Palais Royal. It is understood that Napoleon constantly had 12 operational hats, each with a lifetime of about 3 years with several believed to have been created each year.The present beaver felt hat was purchased as a curiosity from a military auction held by in Berlin in December 2017 with no published provenance. It was apparently consigned to the saleroom by an elderly widow as part of a house clearance. Based on the rectangular red ink stamp bearing the name Verch, it was assumed that it had been made in the 20th century for the theatre. The material of the hat however has since been confirmed as being pure beaver felt, a rare and expensive material. This is a hat of the highest quality. Further examination of the stamp revealed the inscription 'Original Napoleon 1'. Another larger red ink stamp inscription in capital letters was found higher up inside the bicorne which read ORIGINAL NAPOLEON 1.Recognising that the hat was of early 19th century manufacture, sharing all the characteristics of Napoleon's bicornes, the owner contacted the Musée de l' Armée in Paris to compare the present lot against the six provenanced bicornes owned by Napoleon, on display at the museum. The bicorne was examined and bore a striking resemblance to each of these hats and matched the precise inner circumference dimensions of the hats made by Poupard for the Emperor.A series of fragments of cotton threads running around the interior of the brim would originally have been the stitches which secured a leather sweatband, likely to have been made of shellac-polished leather as seen on the existing sweatband in an example, owned by Napoleon, at the Musée Napoléon in Brienne. It is known that Napoleon found the leather sweatbands uncomfortable and had them removed from his early hats, leaving the cotton ends of the remaining stitches in the felt brim. These tiny fragments in the present example show the stitches have been deliberately cut, not torn.The earlier examples bore the inner leather sweatband with an upper interior cap of fine black silk and rag paper. The black silk lining of the present hat matches that on the hat in the Musée Napoléon. His later bicornes were fully lined with a thinly padded greenish brown silk lining, eliminating the need for a sweatband. They vary slightly in form, but all bear the same distinctly recognisable shape. The dimensions of the current example - head circumference 59cm, width 47.5cm, height 24.5cm - are distinctly similar to all the known bicorne hats with secured provenance that belonged to the Emperor.A large letter 'N' inscribed in white, located in the top of the interior (between the crown and the silk lining), was discovered when the lining was removed for inspection. In addition, an impressed 'N' located beneath Verch's rectangular printed ink stamp was identified under UV light.Hats made by the Verch firm generally have an elaborate rectangular silk label bearing the company name and address stitched to the interior. The use of a printed mark together with the inscription 'Original Napoleon 1' is unusual and with the other inscriptions suggest personal inventory stamps. This may indicate that the bicorne was from the Verch private collection of originals. It would have been deliberately identified as such to avoid the item being used inadvertently for other purposes. A detached black silk ribbon braid with gilt decoration, dating to the early 19th century and which would have held a cockade, was discovered between the crown and the front peak.The hat maker, costumier and collector, Leopold Verch, born in 1845, established a theatrical costume business in Charlottenburg, near Berlin in the early 1880s. This business eventually became the premier theatrical and later film industry costumier in Germany employing 250 workers. Verch became the Purveyor for the Prussian Royal Court in Berlin and was well known in Europe and Great Britain. He travelled around Europe, avidly collecting original items to reproduce whilst also visiting major art galleries, sketching hats, shoes, and fabric patterns for inspiration. His son of the same name (1882-1951) was the successor in the business. The only surviving granddaughter of the younger Verch, Beatrice Huber, has confirmed that her family once possessed a large private collection of original items gathered by both her great grandfather and grandfather. Sadly, their large collection of 2000 originals, the archives and stock of the company in Charlottenburg are understood to have been destroyed during the Second World War.Coincidentally, situated also in Charlottenburg at the time of Napoleon was Charlottenburg Palace, the home of King Frederick lll and Louise Queen consort. On 14 October 1806, in the separate battles of Jena and Auerstädt, the Prussians were soundly defeated. On 27 October the Emperor marched his triumphant army into Berlin and took up residence in the palace. The present hat may have been one of those made for that campaign in 1806.The hat bears two small holes which have been made by the apparent use of a pointed object having been carefully forced through between the hat and the lining, only splitting the inner rag paper but not piercing the silk lining. These holes are distinctly T shaped in section, one being smaller than the other, indicating that the skewer was tapered. Beneath these holes are slight creases, made by the weight of something having been left there for a great deal of time. Most likely a triple edged bayonet as used during the period. It was not uncommon to find headwear with holes of a similar type which at one time hel... For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NAPOLEON ATTEMPTS TO CONQUER THE ENGLISH LANGUAGENAPOLEON BONAPARTE. Autograph letter to his companion in exile and English teacher, Emmanuel, Comte de Las Cases ('Count lascases'), in English, beginning '...it is two o'clock after midnight, j have enow sleep j go then finish the night into to cause with you...', going on to say '... he shall land above seven day a ship from Europa that we shall give account from anything who this shall have been even to day of first January thousand eight hundred sixteen. you shall have for this ocurens a letter from lady lascases...', ending by saying '...but j tire myself and you shall have of the ade at conceive my sur ce je prie [deleted] upon this j intercede god etc etc...'; autograph address on reverse ('Count Lascase/ at his bank/ very close/ or in haste') with remnants of red wax imperial seal, one page, on Curteis & Son 1805 watermarked paper, one small repair, small water stain lower right corner not affecting text, remains of guard, folio, Longwood, 4.30 a.m., 9 March 1816Footnotes:Provenance:Osenat, Fontainebleau, 10 June 2012, lot 89 Private Collection, ParisExhibited:Waterloo Memorial Museum, 'Napoléon: de Waterloo à Sainte-Hélène, la naissance de la légende', 5 May to 17 October 2021'IT IS TWO O'CLOCK AFTER MIDNIGHT, J HAVE ENOW SLEEP': NAPOLEON ATTEMPTING TO CONQUER THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE - ONE OF ONLY THREE KNOWN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS WRITTEN BY HIM IN ENGLISH.Whilst fully autograph letters by Napoleon in French are uncommon, this letter in English is indeed a rare survival and gives a fascinating insight into Napoleon's exile on St. Helena. Napoleon, for all his designs on the country of England, came to the English language itself relatively late in life. His battle with learning English is well documented by the recipient of our letter, Count Emmanuel de Las Cases, in his hugely successful memoir Le Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène (published in 1823 after Napoleon's death), in which he records their conversations and recounts daily life with the exiled Emperor. According to the Mémorial, Napoleon first expressed an interest to learn the language during the two-month voyage from Europe to the island in 1815 aboard the Northumberland. Las Cases, who had honed his English skills during his own exile in London after the Revolution, clearly had a good grasp of the language and gave him his first two lessons on 23-25 August 1815 and once established with his entourage on St. Helena, the tutorials began in earnest the following January.Not only was it a welcome relief from the boredom of life on the Island, Napoleon's determination to learn English was also born out of necessity. Whilst being well provided for materially by his English captors, he had virtually nothing to read in his native language. As time went on Napoleon soon realised the benefits of learning English. Not only could he avail himself of the variety of English books and newspapers available to him, it facilitated negotiations with his captors, and he would now have the added advantage of reading what the English press were saying about him. It also caused him to question the enormous sums he had spent on (possibly inaccurate) translations in the past. These lessons in consequence became a regular and important part of Napoleon's daily routine. The historian Peter Hicks has written extensively about Napoleon's attempts to learn English in his article Napoleon's English lessons (www.napoleon.org), and describes how Las Cases aimed to teach the Emperor to read the English newspapers without assistance in a month if only his pupil would commit to a programme of daily lessons. Firstly he showed him around the content and layout of the newspapers: 'the advertisements and the town gossip and the politics, and teaching him how, with the latter, to judge what was authentic and what was simply an unsubstantiated rumour' and then moved on to translations from French to English and back, making him verb tables and dictionaries and teaching him the rules of syntax and grammar. As one might expect it would seem that, judging from Las Cases' account, Napoleon was not the easiest student, alternating between conscientious and diligent application and visible dislike for the task, frustrated by his bad memory for languages and often threatening to abandon the project entirely. Las Cases describes phenomenal progress at first, rather immodestly putting it down to his own skills as a teacher, writing 'He often asked me if he deserved the cane, suspecting that it had a good effect in schools. He would have got on much faster, he used to say laughingly, if he had had a cane to fear'. For him as teacher 'the Emperor's acquisition of English was a real and significant victory'. Suffering from insomnia, and driven to succeed, Napoleon would amuse himself by secretly writing to Las Cases in English, for him to correct and return. Only three letters of this 'night correspondence' appear to have survived, all written within a few days of each other; one dated 6 March 1816 held in a private collection (the well-known 'anonymous' note suggesting amendments to Las Cases' Atlas historique..., a joke which Las Cases fell for to the great amusement of both parties), another from the following day held in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (complaining '...Since sixt week j learn the Englich and j do not any progress..'), and ours from the 9 March. Las Cases describes this last letter thus: '...He sent it to me signed and sealed. I corrected the errors and wrote back to him, also in English, by return of post. He understood me perfectly, which convinced him of his progress and proved that from now on he could, in all sincerity, correspond in his new language...'.It must have been a struggle for him to put our letter together, beginning it as he did at two in the morning and finally finishing it for delivery at four thirty. The result demonstrates a barely comprehensible, idiosyncratic style of English, with random punctuation and somewhat 'wayward spelling' as Hicks politely puts it. The letter is hard to follow, peppered as it is with French verbs, for 'to cause with you', he means 'to converse with you', 'causer' meaning 'converse' in French, and also confusing the word 'bank' for 'bunk' and 'pres' (close) for the English 'press', as in urgent. Fragments of Las Cases' study aids have survived. One page of exercises by Napoleon held in the Fondation Napoléon for example consists of phrases written in French followed by their approximate English translations. Interestingly here, as in our letter, Napoleon insists on writing 'J' – as in the French 'je' instead of 'I' throughout – stubbornly refusing to relinquish the French first person pronoun for the English.Whilst Napoleon achieved a certain command of written English, Las Cases admits that his spoken English left much to be desired, being almost completely incomprehensible. Apparently he refused to acknowledge that the same letters and vowels in French had a completely different pronunciation in English, thus creating an idiosyncratic Napoleonic style of speaking that, once formed, was impossible to correct, thus creating what La Cases describes 'a completely new language'. As Hicks concludes, 'The documents in the Las Cases papers and that in the Bibliothèque Nationale prove that Las Cases' account... of the great man screwing his courage to the sticking point to learn vocabulary like a schoolboy, mispronouncing foreign words, but also finally becoming proficient in the language of his great adversary, is essentially a faithful account of events'.... This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NELSON (HORATIO)Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Captain John Fyffe, approving of his conduct ('...I have read with much attention Your correspondence with the Popes Legate at Ancona and also Your correspondence at Venice relative to the very extraordinary and unjustifiable conduct of the Government at that place in seizing Your prizes, and from Your account of Your whole transactions in the Adriatic I have no scruple in saying that I most highly approve of Your conduct, and think that you have acted with that temper and forbearance which our Government must highly approve...'), and wishing that he had some good vessel to offer in place of the Cyclops, one page, 4to (235 x 180mm.), some staining, archival restoration, framed and glazed (unexamined out of frame), Victory off Toulon, 15 September 1803Footnotes:Provenance: Bonhams, Nelson & The Royal Navy 1750-1815, 5 July 2005, lot 129 Private collection, UK'I MOST HIGHLY APPROVE OF YOUR CONDUCT'Captain John Fyffe was appointed to the Cyclops in 1798 and participated in the disembarkation of troops at Abukir Bay in the Egyptian campaign of 1801, for which he received a gold medal from the Grand Seigneur. After a short period of peace, he was despatched in May 1803 to the Adriatic to disrupt the enemy's trade. Whilst conducting a convoy to Trieste in July, he became embroiled in two disputes over 'neutrality' in the area, the first regarding the legitimacy of captured prizes, the second '...concerning three British merchant ships taken into Ancona by a Cisalpine corsair. Technically Ancona was neutral, part of the papal domain, but the French had established a military camp outside the town and pretty much did as they wished. Fyffe complained that the privateer had been illegally manned by Roman subjects, but the town governor said that there was nothing he could do even if that were true... he managed to retrieve the crews of the tenders but failed to resolve either dispute. Nelson sympathised, and was so pleased with Fyffe's efforts to defend the British flag that he promised him a more active vessel...' (John Sugden, Nelson: The Sword of Albion, 2014, p.639). The following January Nelson wrote to the Secretary of the British Legation at Vienna: 'I have received your letter of 1st September last, acquainting me that every possible reparation has been made by the Austrian Minister for the outrage against the British Flag... I am very glad the Austrian Government have seen Captain Fyffe's conduct in its proper light, and that the necessary reparation has been made, as I was perfectly satisfied with the correctness of that Officer's proceedings on the above occasion' (Nicolas, v, p.393).Whilst our letter is not included in Nicolas, Dispatches and Letters nor in White's New Letters, it was published in full as part of Fyffe's obituary in June 1835: '...How well Captain Fyffe executed this duty may be conceived from the autograph letter of the immortal Nelson, who soon after succeeded to that command... Such communications from such a man, fully consoled our gallant officer for the pecuniary losses himself and crew sustained under this extraordinary breach of the rules of war; and we very soon after find him – the Cyclops being ordered home and paid off – commanding the Reindeer brig of 18 guns on the Jamaica station...' (The United Service Journal, June 1835, Part II, pp.287-288).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

After Christian Daniel Rauch (German, 1777-1857): An early 19th century German cast iron figure of General Blücher probably cast at the Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Berlin, circa 1825Probably cast at the Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Berlin, circa 1825The figure clad in a swirling cloak stepping forward with raised left hand and brandishing his sword in his right beside a rustic free stump, the stump inscribed C R F, possibly for Christian Rauch, Fecit) on rectangular base, the iron with bronze patinated finish, 68cm highFootnotes:Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt (1742-1819) was the Prussian General Feldmarschall who led his army against Napoleon at the Battle of the Nations, alongside Russian, Swedish and Austrian allies, at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.Following Napoleon's return from Elba, Blücher commanded the Army of the Lower Rhine. In the June 1815 campaign he sustained a serious defeat at Ligny on 16 June, just two days before the decisive battle at Waterloo. In the course of this battle he was seriously wounded but recovered sufficiently to rejoin his troops, despatching two corps to join Wellington and then led the remainder of his men, arriving on the battlefield in the late afternoon. With the battle hanging in the balance his army intervened with decisive and crushing effect; his vanguard drew off Napoleon's reserves and crushed the remains of French resistance leading the way to a decisive victory. The Prussians followed with a relentless pursuit of the retreating Armée du Nord.In the evening, after the battle, Wellington and Blücher met close to the inn at La Belle Alliance where Napoleon had abandoned his headquarters. During the meeting Blücher suggested the battle should be remembered as La Belle Alliance, to commemorate the European coalition formed to defeat the French Emperor. Wellington instead recommended Waterloo, the village just north of the battlefield, where he had spent the previous night, commenting that it would not do to name the battle after the Emperor's command post.Christian Daniel Rauch founded the Berlin school of sculpture and was the foremost German sculptor of the nineteenth century. This present lot is a reduced copy of a monumental statue cast in 1824 at the Royal Prussian Iron Foundry in Berlin, founded in 1804. The original was displayed in the city of Breslau. The use of iron, rather the more usual bronze used for public sculpture was utilised because it was considered more than just a sculptural material, being the very substance of the Prussian nation led by it Iron Chancellor.A copy of Rauch's figure of Blücher cast by the Royal Prussian Iron Foundry sculpture was acquired by the Earl of Clanwilliam on behalf of George IV in 1825 and is in the Royal Collection at Windsor. The Earl wrote to Sir William Knighton, the King's Private Secretary, that he had visited 'the iron foundry' in June of that year 'where I found the statue and pedestal of Blücher's monument at Breslau...' It was recorded as being received in London 17 September 1825 (Jutshams Receipts II 207) described as an 'iron cast of Blücher & pedestal' and was sent to the castle at the end of November 1828.Similar examples of this reduced model are in the collections at Corsham Court in Wiltshire and the Wellington Museum at Apsley House.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Sèvres gold-ground plate with classical figures painted by Drolling, circa 1804-1805Depicting a classical scene of Cupid and a woman in a landscape, painted by Martin Drolling, signed l.r., the rim with a burnished gilt border finely tooled with a scale pattern, 23.3cm diam., 'de Sevres/^' in iron-red, incised II and ccFootnotes:Martin Drolling or Drölling (1752-1817) was a French portrait and genre painter who also worked as a painter at the Sèvres manufactory between 1802 and 1813, where he worked on pieces such as the 'marli d'or' service (see T.Préaud, The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory - Alexandre Brongiart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847 (1997), p. 143). Drolling first studied painting under a smaller artist in Sélestat, but eventually moved to Paris and finished his training at the academy. His works were popular during his lifetime and many were published and popularised as engravings. Several of his paintings are now in the collection of the Louvre.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A GOLD AND AGATE CAMEO RING, EARLY 19TH CENTURYThe agate carved to depict Bacchus facing left with a ram's head at his shoulder, the gold band inscribed Wm Wood RN from Lucien Buonoparte, ring size PFootnotes:Lucien Bonaparte (1775–1840) was a younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte and a French statesman, who served as the final President of the Council of Five Hundred at the end of the French Revolution. Lucien held genuinely revolutionary views, leading to a fractious relationship with his brother Napoleon, who seized control of the French government in 1799, when Lucien was 24.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NAPOLEON AT SCHÖNBRUNNEngraved Imperial Decree with manuscript insertions, signed ('Charles Maurice'), prince de Talleyrand, as 'Vice-Grand-Electeur' and ('Fouche'), duc d'Otrante, as Minister of the Interior, appointing Paul Cadroy, Mayor of Landes, to the Assembly in the canton of Aire, arrondissement of St. Sever, docketed on reverse, on one sheet of vellum, light dust staining on outer portion where folded but otherwise in clean, fresh condition, folio, (410 x 530mm.), Schoënbrunn, 20 June 1809Footnotes:NAPOLEON CONDUCTS IMPERIAL BUSINESS FROM HIS TEMPORARY HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRIA & APPOINTS A NOTORIOUS REVOLUTIONARY TO THE ASSEMBLY.Napoleon occupied the Hapsburg palace of Schonbrunn in Vienna on two occasions, for a few days in late 1805 after his victory at Austerlitz and again for several months from May 1809, during which time he signed the eponymous treaty with Austria in October of that year. Documents issued from this palace therefore are relatively uncommon. Whilst enjoying the regal opulence of the palace and attending performances at the palace theatre, Napoleon also narrowly missed an assassination attempt at Schonbrunn by one Friedrich Saps, a pastor's son from Erfurt, who tried to stab the Emperor whilst reviewing the troops from the palace steps. Paul Cadroy (1751-1813) was a lawyer before the Revolution but after being elected to represent Landes in the National Convention and then Bouches-du-Rhône and Var, he soon 'earned a notorious reputation as a Reactionary in that region. While he denounced royalists in the Convention, in the Midi he offered them his protection. He organized his Company of Jesus, which terrorized and pursued republicans throughout the Midi, and he played a leading role in organizing many of the prison massacres in the region (especially the massacre at Fort St. Jean). Afterwards, he returned to Paris where he faced several denunciations for his actions in the Midi, particularly after he was elected to serve in the Council of 500. Having earned a detestable reputation in Paris, he became part of the Clichy Club. Sentenced to deportation in September 1796, he escaped abroad and returned to France at the end of 1799. During the Empire, he served as mayor of Saint-Server, where he died on 9 October 1813' (Karen L. Greene, The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary: The Political Career of Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron, Representative on Mission and Conventionnel, 1754-1802, 2004, PhD thesis online).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Sèvres plate from the dessert service for Pauline Borghèse (née Bonaparte), circa 1805The well decorated with a portrait medallion on a faux marble ground with a puce-beaded gilt border, the light-blue ground rim preserved with three green-ground panels containing swans flanking a fountain alternating with diamond-shaped panels depicting classical masks flanked by foliage and palmettes, between lilac beaded bands, 23.5cm diam., 'M.Imp.le/ de Sevres/^' stencilled in iron-red, incised II and M and painter's mark for Hirel de Choisy (active 1770-1811)Footnotes:Provenance:Ordered 6 November 1805 by Empress Joséphine and given to Princess Pauline Borghèse, sister of Napoleon ISee Camille Leprince, Napoléon Ier & la Manufacture de Sèvres, (2016), no. 72 for a full list of the service. Another example was sold at Christie's, New York, 9 April 2019, lot 127.Pauline Borghèse or Bonaparte (1780-1825) was the sixth child of Letizia Ramolino and Carlo Buonaparte, and one of Napoleon's three sisters. In 1797 she married General Charles Leclerc who died only a few years later in 1802. To solidify ties with French-occupied Italy, Napoleon therefore arranged for her to marry Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona. After Napoleon's fall, Pauline was the only one of his siblings to visit him on Elba during his exile. She moved to Rome after the Battle of Waterloo, where Pope Pius VII offered her and other family members his protection. In 1825 Pauline died from tuberculosis at the age of 44 in the Palazzo Borghese.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NELSON'S HAIRSeveral strands of hair believed to be that of Admiral Lord Nelson, contained in a paper packet bearing the manuscript inscription 'The Hair of Admiral Lord Nelson sent by Lady Hamilton after the death of the Hero to The Prince of Wales 17th February 1806', paper watermarked 'W King/ 1840', folded packet 60 x 102mm.; with a priced catalogue for the Portesham House sale, 17 June 1938 (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy (1769-1839)Thence by descentAccording to the inscription on the packet, presumably written by a member of the Hardy family, the enclosed strands of reddish-brown hair touched with grey were originally sent to the Prince of Wales by Emma Hamilton. Surgeon William Beatty records in his 'Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson' that Nelson requested that Lady Hamilton should have his hair, and it was Captain Thomas Hardy who was charged with this task after Trafalgar. The remnants of the pigtail are now held at the National Maritime Museum. The watermark on the paper dating it to 1840 would indicate that the strands were probably returned to Vice Admiral Hardy after the death of George IV in 1830, and subsequently packaged up and docketed during an inventory of Hardy's possessions after his death in 1839. It was offered in the sale held by Dukes at the Hardy family home, Portesham House, Dorset, on 17 June 1938 as lot 146 and was one of the more expensive lots in the sale, selling at £11. However, according to a note in the catalogue (a copy of which is included in the lot) the sale was cancelled and it was returned to the family ('Refudiated by bidder as wrapping paper is watermarked date 1840. He was under the impression that this was the lock of hair from Mr Bridge's sale at Puddletrenthide [sic] in 1911'). The sale he refers to is the sale of works of art and historical relics of John Bridges and John Gawler Bridge, The Manor House, Piddletrenthide, 20 September 1911.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

FROM NAPOLEON'S LIBRARY ON ST. HELENAHYDE, EDWARD. Histoire de la rebellion, et des guerres civiles d'Angleterre, 6 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece in each vol. (a few with caption shaved at foot), contemporary vellum, titled in ink on spines, vol. 1 spine chipped at head, modern morocco-backed solander boxes, 12mo, The Hague, L. & H. van Dole et. al., 1704-1709Footnotes:Provenance:Napoleon BonaparteRemoved from St. Helena by the British Government in 1821Martin Bossange, A catalogue of the library of the late Emperor Napoleon, 1823Sotheby's, 23 July 1823George Arnald R.A. (1763-1841)French private collectionAfter Napoleon's death on St. Helena, much of his last library was divided by the executors among heirs and friends, the remaining portion being removed from the island by order of the British Government and sold to the London-based French bookseller Martin Bossange who issued a catalogue. Almost half of the books in the catalogue did not sell, and Bossange consigned them to Sotheby's where they were offered on 23 July 1823.Each title page in the present set has a circular brown ink ownership stamp with the imperial eagle, and vol. 1 is inscribed on the front free endpaper by artist George Arnald R.A. (1763-1841), 'This work consisting of 6 vol's. was the property and part of the library of the late Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena and purchased by me at the sale.' In addition, tipped to the front pastedown is the auctioneer's bill, showing that Arnald also purchased lot 24 ('Fequeries, Memoirs') and lot 115 ('A Letter signed by Napoleon'). Originally published between 1702 and 1704 as The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, this work by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, was the first detailed account from a key player in the events it covered. Its republican subject matter would clearly have interested Napoleon.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WILLIAM IV & NELSONLetter signed ('William R'), written as King, to the widow of the Hon Sir Henry Blackwood, sending condolences on the death of her husband ('...the sad event which has deprived You of a most affectionate and exemplary Husband and me of a valuable, attached and loyal servant, distinguished also by a gallant and meritorious Service in the Profession...'), subscribing himself 'Yours Affectionately', 2 pages, very slight dust-staining, 4to (227 x 185mm.), Brighton, 24 December 1832; with a stipple engraving by W. Bromley of The right Honourable Lord Viscount Nelson, 1809, on laid paper, published by R Bowyer, London, dust staining, 660 x 410mm., framed and glazed, unexamined out of frame (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Bonhams, Nelson & The Royal Navy 1750-1815, 5 July 2005, lots 285 and 148Private collection UK'DISTINGUISHED ALSO BY A GALLANT AND MERITORIOUS SERVICE': A fine letter with links with both Nelson's early and late career.William IV, as Prince William, had extended his royal patronage to Nelson when both men served in the West Indies, giving away the bride when Nelson married Fanny Nisbet, and retaining a close interest in his career. Indeed, after the Hero's death, he went so far as to claim that they had lived together as brothers. He nearly usurped Nelson in one respect: Trafalgar Square was due to be called King William Square, with a statue of the Sailor King designated for the site of the present column, until an Admiralty architect suggested that it be dedicated to Nelson instead; a plan to which William himself gave his royal assent (see Flora Fraser, 'If You Seek His Monument' in The Nelson Companion, edited by Colin White, 1995, pp.129-30). The subject of this letter, Henry Blackwood, had commanded the Euryalus, the chief of Nelson's frigates keeping watch on the Combined Fleet before Trafalgar. It was he who with Captain Hardy witnessed Nelson's so-called 'Last Codicil' just before the battle. When Blackwood left the Victory, Nelson's last words to him were 'God bless you, Blackwood; I shall never speak to you again'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

TRAFALGAR AND DEATH OF NELSONThe London Gazette Extraordinary. Numb. 15858 [1365]... Wednesday, November 6, 1805, 4-page newspaper, red revenue stamp, small holes affecting a couple of lines of one leaf along old fold, some spotting, loose as issued, small folio (310 x 190mm), Printed by Andrew Strahan, [1805]Footnotes:A complete original issue of the London Gazette with the first news of the Battle of Trafalgar. A same-day printing, not disbound. As issued and sold on 6 November 1805.The first official public appearance of the announcement of the British success at the Battle of Trafalgar and 'the lamented Death of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, who, in the late Conflict with the Enemy, fell in the Hour of Victory'.The entire paper is devoted to Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood's dramatic account of the 'complete and glorious Victory', Nelson's death, thanksgiving to the valour of the officers, a proclamation of a day of thanksgiving, and a brief further account of the pursuit of the enemy in the aftermath of the battle.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare and large Union Jack Naval flag and pennantcirca 1810Made from bunting (loosely woven coarse wool), together with an early 19th Century navy blue frock coat with non-regulation buttons, the flag 244cm by 503cm, the pennant 190.5cm. long (3)Footnotes:Provenance:Captain Hyde John Clarke, R.N. (1777-1857) and thence by descent through the Clarke familyBorn in Jamaica in 1777, Hyde John Clark was a naval officer who saw active service against the French during the Napoleonic Wars. He entered the Royal Navy on 29 June 1791 at the age of 14 as Captain's servant on the 74-gun ship, HMS Bedford. Promoted to Midshipman in 1793, he served in the West Indies and later, after 1797, in the coastal waters off France and the North Sea where as First-Lieutenant in 1806 he was involved in the capture of two French privateers, La Henrietta and La Bellone. Following a posting to Jamaica and the East Indies, Clarke was invalided in 1807. He subsequently joined HMS Temeraire on 23 August 1810 where he was promoted to Commander in October of that year, on Trafalgar Day, serving in the Mediterranean. After resigning his Commission shortly after 1810, he retired to his family estate in Shropshire becoming the principal luminary in the township of Hyde. Following promotion to Captain in 1840, Clarke died in Shropshire in 1857 (O'Byrne's Naval Biography, 1849). By family repute this flag and pennant were thought to have been flown at the Battle of Trafalgar but as Clarke was serving in the West Indies in 1805 it is more likely that they are from the Temeraire. As he appears to have left the Navy shortly after 1810 it is more plausible that he kept this flag and pennant as souvenirs.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

After Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763-1810): A first half 19th century bronze bust of Napoleon together with a later veined rouge marble pedestalThe bust cast after 1812, the pedestal, probably late 19th / early 20th century The sitter modelled full face, a cross belt and military ornaments to his bare chest and shoulders, on integral herm base, mid to dark brown patination, the bust, 60cm, 29cm wide, 24cm deep, the pedestal, 120cm high, 35cm wide, 30cm deep overall (2)Footnotes:Provenance:The bust formerly the property of Victor Napoleon and Princess Clementine of Belgium.Thence by descent, sold Osenat, Paris, 24 March 2013, lot 79.Acquired by the present vendor in the mid 2010's along with the marble pedestal offered with this lot.The offered bronze bust is a rare cast bronze edition of a clothed variant derived from an original plainer plaster by Chaudet, arguably depicting France's most famous and influential historical figure in the guise of a Roman dignitary. In the earlier bust, dating from 1799, Chaudet depicts Napoleon with his plain shoulders tapering to a classically inspired 'herm' form base. A marble version of this bust was completed by Chaudet in 1804 and further copies were subsequently made in quantity in Carrara marble between circa 1807 and 1809. Ordered by Napoleon's sister Elisa Baciocchi, who had been presented the principality of Lucca and Massa Carrara by her brother to be displayed in public buildings, the number of these bust made was estimated to be in the region of approximately 1200 although many of these marbles were subsequently destroyed after Napoleon's defeat. From 1805, copies of this same bust in three sizes were also famously made in Sevres biscuit porcelain. The present lot is a semi-clothed bronze variant of Napoleon featuring a cross belt and military ornaments to Napoleon's chest (as opposed to the usual plain handling of this particular portrait) and this mirrors but is not a complete copy of a fully modelled plaster bust of Napoleon, raised on a socle base also featuring a crossed belt and military ornaments by Chaudet (albeit with a different handling of the face and features) from the turn of the 19th century. This distinctive belt and ornaments were also subsequently added to later Sevres biscuit porcelain cast busts of Napoleon on their herm bases dating from circa 1811 onwards dating the manufacture of this bronze bust to no earlier than 1812.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BELLASIS (GEORGE HUTCHINS)Views of Saint Helena, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on title 'With Geo. Hut. Bellasis best Compliments to Mr. Wilson, Surgeon', letterpress dedication to the Duke of Wellington, 3-page list of subscribers, 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Robert Havell after Bellasis (some watermarked '1811', text '1806'), some light toning and soiling, first 2 text leaves torn at edges, final text leaf creased, plates with stab-holes at fore-edges, untrimmed in modern blue quarter morocco, original printed wrappers bound in, wrappers strengthened at edges and with fraying repaired [Abbey Travel 309; Tooley 87], folio (340 x 450mm.), John Tyler, 1815Footnotes:Provenance: Joseph Rogers of Philadelphia, ink inscription on verso of each plateBellasis' fine aquatint views of St. Helena, dedicated to Wellington, and issued shortly after Napoleon's arrival on the island: 'at this time an object of interest to the whole world' (Dedication). The surgeon to whom Bellasis inscribes his work could be Robert Wilson (1787-1871), who in the 1820s became a close personal friend of Princess Pauline Borghese, née Bonaparte, the younger sister of Napoleon. Four Wilsons are listed as subscribers, but none with the title Dr. which appears for other subscribers.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Studio of Paul Hippolyte Delaroche (French, 1797-1856)NAPOLEON ABDIQUANT A FONTAINEBLEAU oil on canvas204 x 154cm Footnotes:Provenance:John C. Henderson Collection, New York.Private collection, Australia.Michael Kroger Collection, Australia.Sale, Osenat, Fontainebleau, The Michael Kroger Collection, 2 October, 2011, lot 36.Private collection, France.Sale, Osenat, Fontainebleau, The Empire at Fontainebleau: Historical Memories, 8 December 2019, lot 252.Exhibited:Melbourne, Treasures of Napoleon July-September, 1999.Waterloo Memorial Museum, Napoléon: de Waterloo à Sainte-Hélène, la naissance de la légende, 5 May to 17 October 2021In 1845 the German merchant Adolph Heinrich Scheletter commissioned Hippolyte Paul Delaroche (1797-1856) to paint Napoleon at Fontainebleau. Based on a description in Baron Norvin's Histoire de Napoleon of 1828, it depicts the Emperor on 31st March, 1814, the day Paris capitulated to the invading allied armies. His mud-spattered boots and overcoat bring to mind recent events and symbolise his soiled prestige.Delaroche was one of the most famous painters of the mid-nineteenth century, with patrons throughout Europe and beyond. Although the first of his portraits of Napoleon was produced over twenty years after his exile from Europe, (and Delaroche was barely an adult at the time of Waterloo) the authenticity of his portraits was attested by people who had seen the Emperor in his prime. Nineteenth-century patrons could not believe that the artist had not actually set eyes upon his powerful model, but there is no evidence that he had.The original version of this portrait is now in the Leipzig Museum of Fine Art. A smaller version, acquired by Queen Victoria in 1846 and now in the Royal Collection Trust, hangs at Osborne House.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * TP* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.TP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

1985 40th Anniversary VJ Day cover signed by 4 pilots who took part in the action against the Japanese. Address label, fine.

2004 Dambusters cover signed by Richard Todd who played Guy Gibson in the film. 1 of 24 covers. Unaddressed, fine.

Y A French satinwood, tulipwood banded, and gilt metal mounted compactum wardrobe, circa 1900, bird's-eye maple lined throughout, 220cm high, 222cm wide, 68cm deepCondition Report: Marks, knocks, scratches, abrasions consistent with age and useOld splits and cracks, some chips and losses,Some fading and colour variationThe central cupboard doors have had some alterations to the lock, there is some later inset timber in this areas too. There are three keys present with the lot, these appear to be for the central cupboard doors, the drawers, and the full-length doors respectively.The gilt metal areas with wear and discolouration, the handles appear to be original to the drawers, but are replacements to all the doors. There are some old plugged holes in these areas. This breaks down for transport, and it has to be to be removed from Dreweatts salerooms, it is held together by a collection of bolts and screws, we recommend the purchaser uses a transportation company who are aware of the time this will take to dismantle. The doors have not been attached whilst at Dreweatts salerooms, they were for the purpose of the illustration. This breaks down into 8-10 elementsPlease refer to additional images for visual reference to condition Condition Report Disclaimer

Pre-Raphaelite type oil on canvas Portrait Painting in gilt frame, overall size 44cm x 33cm. The sitter is similar to Marie Spartali (Marie Stillman (1844-1927) who was a British member of the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a painter and model including for Dante Rossetti.

Two cartons from a Royal Australian Air Force ex-serviceman who operated in the Pacific Theatre and Japan in the 1940s. Includes a book of Japan on vintage pages incl. flying geese, National Parks m/s, Offices in China, etc, along with neatly presented and typewritten-up ephemera related to the R.A.A.F. in Japan and the B.C.O.F. (7 pages). Also 15 large stockbooks (and a few smaller), one of which has his philatelic covers incl. a pair from the 1947 Antarctic research expedition, one registered from Heard Island, the other from Macquarie Island redirected to Japan, followed by a good series of earlier 1950s FDCs with rudimentary cachets. The other volumes have useful Australia including about AUD $800+ ($2 = £1 approx.) in MNH sets, multiples and m/s with denominations to $20. Please inspect.

An interesting collection in two small cartons, formed by a Post Office employee who kept his eye out for anything unusual over his 36 years' career. There are two volumes of Canada FDCs from 1949 onwards, a range of booklets, etc. Then the six volumes of GB including a group of pre-decimal printing faults on Machins and commems, useful control numbers, as well as a great range of out-of-the-ordinary commemorative covers inlcuding more than 60 FDCs and rail commem skillfully hand-illustrated by the postal clerk's wife. More here to discover, for example a complete 1937 Air Mail pamphlet for official use. A difficult holding to adequately describe, thorough inspection recommended.

Intriguing lot in an oversize carton, plastic crate and old deed box, 10s of 1000s, of stamps, much stored during the first half of the 20th century in envelopes in 14 small filing boxes, 19th century onwards country-by-country, often in cotton-tied bundles on- and off-paper, incl. British Commonwealth, E. Europe, Swiss, Italy, French Colonies, Latin America, Siam, China (100s from late Imperial to c1950s), India with States, revenues, officials, etc, as well as back of the book and even banknotes. Then the oversize carton with dense mostly off-paper later worldwide, as well as much GB on- and off-paper, as well as a very notable Romania component with dozens of sheets or large part sheets, for example 1939 New York World's Fair (SG.1407/08, approx. 500 sets = £1,500 cat.), and a book of approx. 650 miniature sheets, each x20 or so (valued by us at 15p a sheet). An exciting accumulation for those who like to explore a real hoard.

Stalag Luft III 8x12 inch photo of the North Compound of Stalag Luft III the legendary Great Escape Prisoner of War camp signed by the late Flt Lt Dick Starkey who arrived at Stalag Luft III just a few days after the escape. Est.

HMS Hood 8x10 inch photo hand signed by Ted Briggs who at the time of signing was the last living survivor of the sinking of Hood by the Bismarck. Est.

HMS Hood cover signed by Ted Briggs who at the time of signing was the last living survivor of the sinking of Hood by the Bismarck and this cover comes with an insert written by him. Est.

Russian Astronaut Boris Volynov hand signed 12x8 colour printed photo. Personally hand signed in gold marker pen on 20.05.2001. photo shows a close up of Volynov in his Russian Military Uniform. Boris Valentinovich Volynov (born 18 December 1934) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5 and Soyuz 21. He was the first Jewish person to enter space preceding American Judith Resnik. Following the death of Alexei Leonov in October 2019 he is the last surviving member of the original group of cosmonauts. Est.

B23 Signed First Edition Hardback Book Tales of My Time by Raymond Baxter in collaboration with Tony Dron. Raymond Frederic Baxter OBE (1922 2006) was a Spitfire pilot who saw combat with the RAF during World War Two and then became famous as an English television presenter commentator and writer. He is best known for being the first presenter of the BBC Television science programme Tomorrow's World continuing for 12 years from 1965 to 1977. He also provided radio commentary at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II the funerals of King George VI Winston Churchill and Lord Mountbatten of Burma and the first flight of Concorde. He was the instigator of the Dunkirk Little Ships Organisation. This interesting and entertaining first edition hardback book with a dust jacket is in very and is signed by Raymond Baxter and the journalist / racing driver Tony Dron approx 24 cm x 16 cm. Good condition Est.

WW2 Limited Edition 26/152 Lincolnshire Lancaster Association Canadian Mint Stamps and Original Photo cards. Hand signed by Mrs Rosemary Lapham who is the President of Lincolnshire Lancaster Association. Rosemary Lapham is the Daughter of Roy Chadwick CBE who was the Designer of the Lancaster Bomber. This is a Souvenir set superb small collection. well sought after signature. good condition. Est.

Commander Paul Chapman DSO OBE DSC RN multi signed FDC. Commemorating The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Award Of The Victoria Cross On The 4th March 1942 To Commander Anthony C C Miers VC KBE CB DSO. Also signed by Leslie Howard who was a Crew Member on HMS Torbay 1941 46. Series eight No. 8. Est.

Vice Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch, KCB DSO DSC (Commanding Officer HMS SPLENDID) Signed FDC. To The Memory Of The Men Of HMS SPLENDID (P 228) Who Lost Their Lives In The Cause Of Freedom And To Those Who Survived The Sinking On 21st April 1943. Series One No. 5. Est.

Multi Signed FDC. To The Memory Of The Men Of HMS SPLENDID (P 228) Who Lost Their Lives In The Cause Of Freedom And To Those Who Survived The Sinking On 21st April 1943. Signed by Lt K Burridge RN, Lt Cdr R Bannar Martin DSC RN, Seaman B R Williams, R Balkwill DSC and Chief Engine Room Artificer. Series Four No. 12. Est.

Battle Of Britain Relic. Piece of Metal from Spitfire Airplane P9469 that crashed near Salehurst on 7th October 1940 with P/O Broadhurst as the pilot who died in the crash. 3. 5inches in length. Good condition Est.

Lyman Louis Lemnitzer (American Army General) signed 10x8 black and white photo. Dedicated. Included is a printed biography. Superb collector's item. Lyman Louis Lemnitzer (August 29, 1899 November 12, 1988) was a United States Army general who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1960 to 1962. He then served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1963 to 1969. Good condition Est.

Test Pilot Mike Lithgow and others signed hardback book Mach One. Also signed by David Morgan, William Colquhoun and two not identified. Dedicated to J G Faulkner. Michael John Mike Lithgow, OBE (20 August 1920 22 October 1963) was a British aviator and chief test pilot for Vickers Supermarine who became the holder of the World Absolute Air Speed Record in 1953 flying a Supermarine Swift. He died when the prototype BAC One Eleven airliner crashed in 1963. Good condition.

Paul Tibbets Pilot of the Enola Gay Hiroshima Japan 6 Aug 1945 signed commemorative Envelope Well Win America Lets Go PM Honor Roll Halifax County War Memorial We Honor Those Who Gave All Dedication Station May 25, 2003, Halifax VA 24558. Est.

Jack Rose signed 6x4 World War II white card with black and white image. Jack Rose, CMG, MBE, DFC (18 January 1917 10 October 2009) was a British fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain who later in the Second World War pioneered the use of rockets fired from fighter bombers. One of very few pilots to survive having been operational on both the first and last days of the war, he later became a distinguished administrator in the British Colonial Office. He was Administrator of the Cayman Islands from 1960 to 1963. Good condition Est.

C87d Royal Star and Garter Home Signed Simon Weston ( Falklands War) Lester Piggott. 23rd June 1981 BFPS 1748 The Royal Star and Garter Home Special Postmark. The Royal Star and Garter Home for disabled Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen. Taxi Outing and Solo Wheelchair Sortie to Worthing 23 June 1981. Blue flown cachet Flown from Headquarters British Forces Post Office to The Royal Star and Garter Home, Richmond Upon Thames in Westland Whirlwind. Then carried by Taxi from Richmond Park to Worthing where her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent who took the salute from the members of the Royal Star and Garter Home. Then added red Cachet John O Groats to Lands' End. Carried alongside Charlie Hankins on his Eric Self-propelled Drive John O'Groats, Inverness, Perth, Edinburgh, Carlisle, Kendal, Morecambe, Blackpool, Southport, Liverpool, Shrewsbury, Ludlow, Hereford, Cheltenham, Bath, Taunton, Exeter, Torquay, Paignton, Plymouth, Truro, Penzance Lands' End. Personally Signed by Simon Weston OBE is a veteran of the British Army who became well known throughout the United Kingdom for his recovery and charity work after suffering severe burn injuries during the Falklands War. On 9 June 1982, he was boarded with other members of his regiment on RFA Sir Galahad in Port Pleasant near Fitzroy, just off the Falkland Islands. It was bombed and set on fire by the Argentine Skyhawk fighters during the Bluff Cove Air Attacks. His ship was carrying ammunition as well as phosphoric bombs and thousands of gallons of diesel and petrol, Out of his platoon of 30 men, 22 were killed. The Welsh Guards lost a total of 48 men killed and 97 wounded aboard the Sir Galahad. Weston survived with 46% burns, following which his face was barely recognizable: Also Signed by Lester Piggott Famous Jockey. Lester Piggott was the greatest English jockey of all time. He rode his first winner at age 12 in 1948, was a champion jockey in England 11 times and won the nation's most prestigious flat race, the Derby, a record nine times between 1954 and 1983. Some of the horses he rode to victory include legends of the Turf such as Nijinsky, Sir Ivor, The Minstrel and Roberto. He retired in 1995, aged 59. He was jailed in 1985 for a year for failing to accurately declare tax on his earnings. The scandal meant that the honour bestowed on him by Queen Elizabeth II in 1975, the Order of the British Empire (OBE), was taken away. Without the jail sentence and tax fraud investigation, he almost certainly would have become Sir Lester Piggott. Richard Jones Battle of Britain pilot 64 and 19 Sqns. Certified Copy No 278 of 530. Signed Gp Capt W S O Randle WW11 Wellington Pilot. Good condition Est.

Simon Weston CBE Hand signed 10x8 Colour Montage Photo. Photo shows Weston, a Welsh Memorial and a map. Weston is a Welsh veteran of the British Army who is known for his charity work and recovery from severe burn injuries suffered during the Falklands War. good condition. Est.

Japanese Torpedo attacker pilot Zenji Abe who flew off the aircraft carrier Akagi led the 2nd wave on Pearl Harbour. Special cover showing Curtiss P 4O aircraft added cachet 07. 58 (Local Time) Emergency broadcast by Commander Logan C. Ramsey from Marine Air Base at Ewa Ford Island, Air Raid Pearl Harbor This is No Drill. 7 Dec 1992 Mildenhall CDS pmk. Japanese Torpedo attacker pilot Zenji Abe who flew off the aircraft carrier Akagi led the 2nd wave on Pearl Harbour. Est.

Rare Lest we Forget X Craft & Chariots Signed 12 X Craft/Chariot WW11 members 22 Sep 1993 Gosport. Fiftieth Anniversary of the Attack on Tirpitz at Kaafjord on 22nd September 1943. Less We Forget The Thirty Nine Officers and Men of the X11th Submarine Flotilla who lost their lives while serving in X Craft and Chariots during the Second World War 1939 to 1945. Signed by 11 X Craft Chariots Vice Admiral Sir Ian McIntosh, Commander J P H Oakley, Commander D W Wills, Lieutenant Commander W Brown, Alan Kevan, J F P O'Sullivan, Lieutenant Commander W Morrison, Lieutenant Commander T K Hornby Priestnall, W D C Simonds, A J M Renouf, Guy Togg Full Details enclosed. Reference No RNCH29 Certified Copy no 3 of 120 Special issued. Est.

Rare Concorde Cover Signed by Barbara Harmer Concorde Female Pilot flown7 No 01 Heathrow Concorde Cover London - New York Flown personally Signed Senior First Officer Barbara Harmer Female Concorde Pilot. Barbara Joined the Concorde Fleet in 1992 and her elevation in 1993 to First Officer on Concorde Barbara Harmer, who left school at 15 and became a?trainee hairdresser. A few decades later, she became the?first woman?to?pilot Concorde, after obtaining her type rating on the?supersonic jet?on March 25, 1993 ?Died 20 February 2011 age 57. Details enclosed. Certified Copy no 10 - 17 £39. 95. Est.

40th Anniv Battle of Britain Signed by 14 Pilots, Crew, involved in the Battle of Britain. 20 Sep 1980 BFPS1719 Last Reunion of Biggin Hill Veterans Special Postmark 40th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain miniature sheet of Hurricane & Spitfire. Flown in Hurricane Personally Signed by 10 Pilots, Crew, RAAF involved in the Battle of Britain J A A Gibson 501 Sqn New Zealander Ace with 12 Victories in Hurricane. Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot W H Hodds 25 Sqn Air Crew Battle of Britain in Bristol Blenheim E R Barnard 600 Sqn Air Gunner Battle of Britain. Details enclosed. Wg Cdr D G S R Cox DFC, 19 Sqn, RAF Duxford, Battle of Britain and WWII Ace G Russell 43 & 145 Squadrons Battle of Britain fighter. Joined 43 Squadron at Unsworth 28 th September 1940. G W Benn 219 Sqn Air Gunner Battle of Britain John Keatings Air Gunner with 219 Sqn Battle of Britain Alan W Gear 32 Hurricane Sqn, Battle of Britain fighter pilot Gp Capt G H Westlake 213 Sqdn WW11 Ace Called up on 1st September 1939, Westlake completed his training and was posted as a flying instructor, firstly at 9 EFTS, Ansty and later 3 FTS, South Cerney. He was commissioned on August 31 1940 and arrived at 6 OUT, Sutton Bridge. After converting to Hurricanes, Westlake was posted to 43 Squadron at Unsworth on 21 September 1940. He moved to 213 Sqn at Tangmere on the 29th and he claimed a BF 109 destroyed on 15th November 1940. Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot A Ingle 605 Sqn Battle of Britain & WW11 Ace. Shoot down POW Stalag Luft 111 Sqn Ldr J G P Millard Nos 1 & 242 Squadrons Battle of Britain fighter pilot. Plt Off Peter Ayerst who achieved confirmed victories in the Battle of Britain and not eligible for the Battle of Britain Clasp Gp Capt F. R. Carey CBE DFC AFC DFM. Sgt Carey of 43 Sqn at Tangmere until April 1940. Awarded DFM 1st March 1940 and commissioned. Then with No3 Sqn at Kenley from April 1940, in France to return wounded early 1940. Flight Commander No 43 Sqn Kenley from June until November 1940Richard Haine No 25(F) Sqn 4 Sep 1939 First Blenheim fighter patrol of War. Also 600 Sqn Battle of Britain pilot. Est.

JSF9c 46th Anniversary Battle of Britain Signed by 9 Battle of Britain Pilots Crew 16 Sept 86 BFPS 2123 46th Anniversary Battle of Britain 1 June - 31 October 1940 Green Flown cachet flown in Andover Personally Signed by Gp. Capt. Dennis David, Battle of Britain fighter pilot with 89 Beaufighter Squadron Burma 1943 and 8 other Battle of Britain Pilots Crew WAAF G W Benn 219 Sqn Air Gunner Battle of Britain. Richard Haine No 25(F) Sqn 4 Sep 1939 First Blenheim fighter patrol of War. Also 600 Sqn Battle of Britain pilot John Keatings ( Air Gunner with 219 Sqn Battle of Britain ) Peter Ayerst who achieved confirmed victories in the Battle of Britain and not eligible for the Battle of Britain Clasp, R A McGowen 46 Sqn Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot North Weald J A A Gibson 501 Sqn New Zealander Ace with 12 Victories in Hurricane. Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot Avis Hearn awarded M M for Bravery during Battle of Britain whilst under stuka attack on poling radar station Aug 1940 (Slightly Smudged ) H. E. Green British Fighter pilot with 141 ( F ) Sqn. 1940 to 1942 Flew Battle of Britain Certified Copy No 0159 of 1000 Very few issued Additionally Signed by the other 8 Battle of Britains lots, Crew, WAAF. Est.

1st Landing of Jet Aircraft on Aircraft Carrier Signed Eric Brown Test Pilot Landed the Jet aircraft 7 May 09 London 1st Landing of Jet Aircraft on Aircraft Carrier Signed Eric Brown Test Pilot who Landed the 1st Jet aircraft on Aircraft Carrier. Certified Copy no 17 of 20. Est.

An unusual 19th century tapestry picture of a weeping willow above a stone monument, written on the monument "Sacred to the memory of Jacob Gwyer, who departed this life April 20, 1851, aged 57 years "I know that my Redeemer liveth" Job xix. 25" , on silk back, mounted, framed and glazed, the decorative carved frame probably being original, 37.3cm x 38cm

Late 18th century, English School, portrait of James and Molly Pobjay, oil on canvas, 57cm x 47cm Local interest, Frome, Somerset - James Pobjay was brewer/maltster who married Molly Perry at Badcox Lane Baptist Church on 19th November 1771. Molly died on 1st May 1794 and James 1806. They had no children and these portraits were passed to his sister Tryphena Newport, n'ee Pobjay, thence via the Newport family to Dorothy Abigail Pobjoy Newport

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JOAQUÍN SUNYER DE MIRÓ (Sitges, Barcelona, 1874 - 1956).Untitled.Oil on canvas. Relined.Presents restoration.Signed in the lower left corner.Measurements: 46 x 56 cm.We are in front of a landscape where it is possible to appreciate the compositional audacity and the freedom of the stroke, based on material touches and a special capacity to capture an atmosphere with the minimum elements. The landscape and the characters that make up the scene, seem to merge into a plot of textures generous in matter, built in rich earthy shades, giving the whole a halo of mystery permeating the natural world.After studying at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, Sunyer began his career as an illustrator of popular scenes in "La Vanguardia" in 1896. Shortly after, he settled in Paris, where he specialized in street scenes and intimate interiors, which he treated in a style influenced by prostimpressionism. In Paris he befriended Picasso and Hugué, and exhibited in the Salons. Between 1905 and 1906 he traveled through Castile, on the initiative of the art dealer Henri Barbazanges, who wanted Spanish themes. He returns in 1907 to Paris, and makes several exhibitions in the French capital and in Liege. He went to Sitges in 1910, at a time when his style had been losing its post-impressionist influences and was approaching the Mediterranean themes and the simplified canon figures of Cézanne. The following year, Sunyer organizes a personal exhibition in the Faianç Catalá that placed him, after Nonell's death, at the head of the Catalan painting of the moment. During the following years he travels and exhibits in Europe, but returns to Catalonia at the outbreak of the First World War. Settled in Sitges, he nevertheless took part in the Paris and Barcelona Salons. After fleeing Spain because of the Civil War, he returned to Spain and settled in Barcelona in 1942. In 1949 he was awarded the Legion of Honor, and later special rooms were dedicated to him at the Hispano-American Art Biennials in Barcelona. At the Havana Biennial in 1954, he was awarded the Grand Prize for a lifetime of work. An anthological exhibition was also held in Madrid in 1974, commemorating the centenary of his birth. As an easel painter he was the most representative of the "noucentisme". His landscapes and female nudes stood out especially, as well as his portraits, totally distant from traditional painting. Currently, Joaquín Sunyer is represented in the MACBA, the Fine Arts Museum of Bilbao, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and the Reina Sofía National Art Center in Madrid.

OTTO FRIEDRICH WEBER (Germany, 1890-1957)."Village". circa 1915Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower right corner.Measurements: 51 x 51 cm; 60 x 60 cm (frame).Otto Weber initially studied at the Werkkunstschule in Wuppertal, where Max Bernuth was his teacher. His first drawings were acquired by Baron August von der Heydt, father of Eduard von der Heydt, who also allowed the budding artist to attend the painting class at the Dresden Academy. In Munich, Weber became a pupil of Hermann Urban, where he learned the technique of wax color, which was still new at the time. A commissioned work took Weber, who accompanied the landscape painter Edmund Steppes on a trip through southern Germany, to Paris, where he was the only German artist to exhibit at the Salons d'Automne of 1911 and 1913. He lived with numerous Cubist artists at the artists' house La Ruche, in the Passage de Dantzig, and, like his compatriot Arno Breker, was a friend of the young Pablo Picasso. In 1914 Weber traveled to Spain. In Barcelona he joined the colony of artists around Robert Delaunay, who like him had escaped military service and who influenced Weber's work. Weber exhibited at the Josep Dalmau Gallery in 1915, and later in Madrid and Toledo. He made a living drawing caricatures for the Spanish press. In 1919, Weber returned with his family to Elberfeld, where Edmund Becher's Galerie Raumkunst offered him exhibition opportunities. In 1927 he returned to Paris, where the city of Wuppertal commissioned him to design a mural. The newspaper Le Soir called him "the greatest German painter of the time." During the Nazi era, Weber was forbidden to travel, which made it almost impossible for him to work, as he often spent several months of the year in Mediterranean countries for preliminary studies. His paintings, including Die Schreitende, were removed from museums, and his studies were destroyed in the phosphorus attack on Wuppertal in 1943, resulting in the loss of a considerable part of his life's work. Weber lived out the end of the war in Eindhoven. Otto Friedrich Weber was a member of the Rhenish Secession, the Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft and the Malkasten in Düsseldorf. The Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal dedicated a memorial exhibition to him in 1958.

SEGUNDO MATILLA MARINA (Madrid, 1862 - Teià, Barcelona, 1937)."Marina".Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower right corner.Measurements: 43 x 62 cm; 71 x 80 cm (frame).In this work, Segundo Matilla offers us an evocative coastal landscape, with a rotten wooden hut occupying the first line in front of the immense sea. Solitary sailboats are silhouetted against a horizon marbled with filtered light.Despite being born in Madrid, Matilla trained and developed his career in Barcelona. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, under the direction of Antonio Caba. An outstanding representative of Spanish impressionism, he participated in numerous exhibitions and official competitions held in Barcelona, such as the group exhibitions organized by the Círculo Artístico (1895), the International Exhibitions of 1891, 1894, 1896 and 1898 (honorable mention in 1891) or the Art Exhibitions of 1918 and 1919. In 1897 he obtained an honorable mention at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid for his painting "Washerwomen of Galicia". He also showed his work in Paris, taking part in exhibitions such as the French Artists' Salon of 1897. Among his individual exhibitions, those held at the Salón Vilches in Madrid and, in Barcelona, at the Sala Parés (from 1907) and the Pallarés Galleries (1942), the latter a posthumous tribute, stand out. Several of his works exhibited there were bought by the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid, and many others were exported to America. Of special success was his very large exhibition (one hundred and fifty works) held at the Sala Parés in 1914, received with unanimous praise by the critics of the time. The following year it was presented in Madrid at the Salón Vilches, where all the works exhibited were sold. He achieved great public and critical success thanks to his landscapes of the Ampurdán, Camprodón, Port de la Selva and Cadaqués. A painter endowed with astonishing skill, a marked personality full of sensitivity, a mastery of drawing and pictorial technique and an overflowing capacity for work, Segundo Matilla was an excellent painter who cultivated absolutely all genres, being a great landscape painter and sailor, painting portraits of great quality, especially of people from the world of show business, and his flower paintings and still lifes were also highly appreciated. His paintings of bullfighting themes, painted with great spontaneity and full of movement, demonstrate his great fondness for the art of Cúchares. Within the landscape genre, Matilla showed a predilection for the evening hours, in the manner of Eliseo Meifrèn. He always painted in a totally intelligible way and without any kind of reflexive complications, ignoring absolutely all the artistic trends of his time. Segundo Matilla was also the teacher of outstanding painters of the following generation, among them his nephew, Joaquim Terruella, and Antoni Rosell Altamira. His work is currently exhibited in various museums, such as the aforementioned Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid, the Prado Museum (works on deposit at the Economic Court of the Central Administration and the Municipal Museum of Malaga), the Pablo Gargallo Museum in Zaragoza and the National Art Museum of Catalonia, as well as in important international private collections.

JOSÉ VELA ZANETTI, (Milagros, Burgos, 1913 - Burgos, 1999). "Peasants resting after the harvest". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Size: 126 x 106 cm; 140 x 120 cm (frame). In this work the painter shows us all its essence, Vela Zanetti is considered the painter of the soul of Castile, since he knew how to masterfully portray his land through its heroic people, those hard-working human beings, workers from sunrise to sunset. He is the painter of the dignity of man, and in fact all his work revolves around the human being, both the work done in Spain and the works he painted during his long exile in the Dominican Republic. Thus, in each of his works one can appreciate the sacred and dignified condition of man. Born in Milagros, province of Burgos, he moved to León with his family when he was a child. There he held his first exhibition in 1931. Supported by his father, after finishing high school he traveled to Madrid for a few months to see exhibitions and visit the Prado Museum. Shortly afterwards he obtained a scholarship to visit Italy, granted by the Provincial Council of León. As a consequence of the Spanish Civil War he went to the Dominican Republic, where he remained until 1960. In Santo Domingo he started, together with other exiled artists, the National School of Fine Arts. During this period he held exhibitions and projects in Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico and the United States. In 1951 the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation of New York awarded him a grant for a singular project: the creation of a large-scale mural for one of the main spaces of the United Nations headquarters, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This project definitively catapulted the master from Burgos, and is today considered his most important work both for its symbolic relevance and for its expressiveness and artistic quality. He himself said of this work: "I hope that those who contemplate this mural will realize that peace must be won, not once and forever, but every day, remembering the sufferings of the past and making real what men aspire to for the future". Vela Zanetti also painted other important murals, such as those on historical themes for the Provincial Council of Burgos or the frescoes of the old Ercilia Theater in Barahona, Dominican Republic. He was an academician of San Fernando, and Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Burgos. The Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid held in 2001, under the title "Antológica", a retrospective exhibition on the work of Vela Zanetti, the most important to date. In 2009 an exhibition commemorating the tenth anniversary of his death was held at the Ángeles Penche gallery in Madrid. In short, an important exhibition dedicated to the work of Vela Zanetti, commemorating the centenary of his birth and the most complete anthology of this painter held to date, was held at the Fórum Evolución in Burgos. His works are currently preserved in the funds of the Caja Rural de Burgos and the Vela Zanetti Foundation in León, as well as murals in various cities in Spain, Santo Domingo, the United States, Colombia and Switzerland.

EDUARDO ARROYO (Madrid, 1937-2018)."Sherlock Holmes", 1991.Collage on paper.Signed and dated in the lower central area. Titled and dated on the back.Presents Metta gallery label (Madrid).Measurements: 46 x 30 cm; 55 x 37 cm (frame).In 2011 Es Baluard Museo d'Art hosted the exhibition; Eduardo Arroyo, painting literature. The exhibition included 193 works representing all those characters from literature that had inspired the work of the artist Eduardo Arroyo, who turned them into undisputed protagonists of the painting, thus creating a symbiosis between letters and drawing. He immortalized authors such as Flaubert, fairy tale characters, such as Little Red Riding Hood, and protagonists of literary classics, as in this work. With a totally personal language, Arroyo, rescues in this work the figure of Sherlock Holmes, only through the silhouette and a drawing that largely reminds the tweed, thus defining the British origin of the protagonist.Painter, sculptor and engraver, Arroyo stands out as an important figure within the neo-figurativist movement. A key figure in the new Spanish figuration, Arroyo came to prominence in the national art circuit belatedly, in the eighties, after a two-decade-long stay away forced by the Franco regime. Currently, his works hang in the most reputable Spanish museums and his creativity extends to theatrical scenographies and illustrated editions. Arroyo began his career in journalism, finishing his studies in 1957. He then left for Paris, fleeing the asphyxiating Spanish political climate of the time. Although his first vocation was as a writer, a task he continues to this day, by 1960 he was already making a living as a painter. That year, he participated for the first time in the Salón de Pintura Joven in Paris. His critical attitude towards dictatorships, both political and artistic, pushed him to controversial initiatives. He opted for figurative painting during the years of the overwhelming dominance of abstract painting in Paris, and his first themes were reminiscent of "black Spain" (effigies of Philip II, bullfighters, dancers), worked in a caustic and unromantic key. At the beginning of the sixties his plastic vocabulary moved under the North American influence of pop art, and in 1964 his break with informal art became definitive. His first public impact came in 1963, when he presented a series of effigies of dictators at the Third Paris Biennial, which provoked protests from the Spanish government. That same year, Arroyo prepared an exhibition at the Biosca Gallery in Madrid, which was inaugurated without his presence since he had to flee to France, pursued by the police; the exhibition was censored and closed a few days later. However, Arroyo's figurative option took a long time to be accepted in Paris. The painter rejected the unconditional devotion to certain avant-gardists, such as Duchamp or Miró, which he considered imposed by fashions. Actually, his interest is to demystify the great masters and defend the role of the market as protector and thermometer of art, as opposed to the network of museums and influences paid for with public money. In 1974, Arroyo was expelled from Spain by the regime, and would not recover his passport until Franco's death.

OTTO FRIEDRICH WEBER (Germany, 1890-1957)."Landscape with houses". circa 1915.Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower right corner.Measurements: 51 x 51 cm; 60 x 60 cm (frame).Otto Weber initially studied at the Werkkunstschule in Wuppertal, where Max Bernuth was his teacher. His first drawings were acquired by Baron August von der Heydt, father of Eduard von der Heydt, who also allowed the budding artist to attend the painting class at the Dresden Academy. In Munich, Weber became a pupil of Hermann Urban, where he learned the technique of wax color, which was still new at the time. A commissioned work took Weber, who accompanied the landscape painter Edmund Steppes on a trip through southern Germany, to Paris, where he was the only German artist to exhibit at the Salons d'Automne of 1911 and 1913. He lived with numerous Cubist artists at the artists' house La Ruche, in the Passage de Dantzig, and, like his compatriot Arno Breker, was a friend of the young Pablo Picasso. In 1914 Weber traveled to Spain. In Barcelona he joined the colony of artists around Robert Delaunay, who like him had escaped military service and who influenced Weber's work. Weber exhibited at the Josep Dalmau Gallery in 1915, and later in Madrid and Toledo. He made a living drawing caricatures for the Spanish press. In 1919, Weber returned with his family to Elberfeld, where Edmund Becher's Galerie Raumkunst offered him exhibition opportunities. In 1927 he returned to Paris, where the city of Wuppertal commissioned him to design a mural. The newspaper Le Soir called him "the greatest German painter of the time." During the Nazi era, Weber was forbidden to travel, which made it almost impossible for him to work, as he often spent several months of the year in Mediterranean countries for preliminary studies. His paintings, including Die Schreitende, were removed from museums, and his studies were destroyed in the phosphorus attack on Wuppertal in 1943, resulting in the loss of a considerable part of his life's work. Weber lived out the end of the war in Eindhoven. Otto Friedrich Weber was a member of the Rhenish Secession, the Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft and the Malkasten in Düsseldorf. The Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal dedicated a memorial exhibition to him in 1958.

JOSE ARPA PEREA (Carmona, 1858 - Seville, 1952). "San Antonio, USA". Oil on canvas. Re-colored. It has slight repainting. Signed and located in the lower left corner. Size: 98 x 82 cm. In this work of arid landscape, the artist deploys a palette rich in shades and color variations, which brings a great richness to the few elements that make up this desert landscape. Through touches with the brush he achieves an almost microscopic image of the small vegetation growing in the center of the scene. This solitary image has the presence of a child whose blue dungarees stand out against the warmth of the ochers. This work, located in San Antonio, speaks of a key facet in the visa of the artist, who had to leave Mexico due to the revolution, settling in the Texan city of San Antonio, where he created an art school. José Arpa Perea was a Spanish painter specialized in landscapes who developed much of his work in North America. He moved from Carmona to Seville when he was ten years old, where he combined his work as a brush painter with night classes at the School of Fine Arts of Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville from 1876, where he met Eduardo Cano. Between 1883 and 1886 he lived in the city of Rome, with great needs due to the meager scholarship granted to him by the Diputación de Sevilla, where he painted historical canvases. On his return to Seville, he set up his own studio and began to be recognized, obtaining commissions such as the decoration of the Mercantile Circle and the Military Casino of the city. He deepened his orientalist facet thanks to a trip to Morocco in 1895. He lived in Mexico between 1896 and 1910, leaving later to San Antonio (Texas, United States) because of the Mexican Revolution, setting up a painting academy in this city and receiving commissions, enjoying an economic situation that allowed him to make frequent trips to Spain, with long stays in Seville and visits to the Cantabrian coast. He stayed in this American city for more than 30 years. Throughout his life he was in frequent contact with the landscape painters of the well-known Alcalá de Guadaira School, and his work could be seen in numerous cities in all the countries where he lived (Seville...), and is preserved in important private collections around the world and in prominent institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville, the Cajasol Museum, the Museum of Huelva, the San Antonio Museum of Art (United States), the University Museum Casa de los Muñecos (Puebla, Mexico), etc.

HENRIC ANKARCRONA (Sweden, 1831-1917). "Equestrian scene at the foot of the Atlas Mountains, North Africa", 1872. Oil on canvas. It has slight damage. Signed and dated in the lower left corner. Measures: 53 x 95 cm 86 x 128 cm (frame). Oil on canvas in which the author represents a scene in which stands out the figure of a man on a horse in cabriole. The expressiveness of the posture of both, introduces the viewer into a battle scene, which is developing in the background. Orientalism was born in the 19th century as a consequence of the romantic spirit of escape in time and space. The first orientalists sought to reflect the lost, the unattainable, in a dramatic journey destined from the beginning to failure. Like Flaubert in "Salambo", painters painted detailed portraits of the Orient and imagined pasts, recreated to the millimeter but ultimately unknown and idealized. During the second half of the 19th century, however, many of the painters who traveled to the Middle East in search of this invented reality discovered a different and new country, which stood out with its peculiarities above the clichés and prejudices of Europeans. Thus, this new orientalist school leaves behind the beautiful odalisques, the harems and the slave markets to paint nothing but what they see, the real Orient in all its daily dimension. Along with the change of vision comes a technical and formal change; since it is no longer a question of recreating an imagined world in all its details, the brushstroke acquires impressionistic fluency, and the artists focus not so much on the depiction of the types and customs as on the faithful reflection of the atmosphere of the place, of the very identity of the North African populations. Henric Ankarcrona served as an officer in France and Spain and participated in several campaigns in North Africa. There he diligently drew motifs of country life and desert battles, camel caravans and Arab tribes. Sketches that after his return to Sweden formed the basis of a large number of paintings. Ankarcrona was part of the circle of artists around Charles XV.

Circle of Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659-1743 London)Portrait of a lady, said to be Lady Godstone, half-length, in a blue dress, her hands resting on a chair oil on canvas95.4 x 74cm (37 9/16 x 29 1/8in).Footnotes:ProvenanceAshton House, Beetham, Cumbria and thence by family descentAccording to family tradition the present lot and lot 223 depict two early visitors to Ashton House who were so charmed by their visit that they commissioned the portraits and presented them to the occupiers and that they remained with the family thereafter.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Ten various Staffordshire pottery printed children's plates, various dates first half 19th century; and another pearlware plateCondition Report: Pearlware Chinoiserie plate: 1cm lond rim chip at 5 o'clock. 'Poor Richard's Way': brown staining to the surface, small chips/wear generally to the embossed flowerhead field.'My Father, who took me......': minute rim chip at 8 o'clock.'Poor Mans Funeral': stained.'Robinson Crusoe' chipped at corners and stained.'The Dunce': stained and with two sizeable rim chips at 6 o'clock.'Going to School': large rim chip at 2 o'clock and a large underside rim chip at 9 o'clock.The remaining four plates are not chipped or cracked but are not in top condition.If clarification is needed or images of certain plates and/or damage are required then PLEASE contact the Dept. direct as this should prove more satisfactory then the main number.gscharles@dreweatts.com   Condition Report Disclaimer

19th century lustre teapot of globular form with bark effect transfer decoration and panels of mottos "Happy may you be and long may you live to drink out of me" and "Those who love good tea must please remember me, be sure allow the water to boil then the tea you will not spoil", 16cm high; also three other Victorian teapots.  (4).Condition report:Lustre Pot: Discoloured crazing to interior base and strainer. No visibkle chips but does not ring when tapped.White moulded: Cracked handle both where it joins body.Large Green: Very discoloured crazing to interior and base, pewter lid mis-shapen.Small green: Pewter lid cracked. fine hair crack and wear and scratches to body. two chips to footrim. 

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