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Lot 115
Daniel O'Neill (1920-1974)Circus ChildrenOil on board, 35.5 x 53.3cm (14 x 20¾'')Inscribed versoExhibited: Arthur Tooth & Sons, Colin Middleton, Daniel O'Neill - Recent Paintings, 4-29th May, 1954, No. 17.Provenance: Sale, Sotheby's, 11/05/06, lot 89, where purchased by the present owner.Following the successful exhibition of Daniel O’Neill’s first solo exhibition at Tooth’s Gallery in London in May, 1952 organised by his dealer Victor Waddington, Tooth’s contacted Waddington requesting a permanent representation of O’Neill. Picture sales were difficult in Dublin during the Post war economic climate but remarkably O’Neill sold over half of his pictures in London which indicated a new market for his work. Delighted with the news, Waddington told the writer John Hewitt, ‘the exhibition was very successful from a sales point of view…and they [Tooth’s] have ear-marked an exhibition time for 1954.’ In October, 1952, O’Neill’s friend, Colin Middleton also held an exhibition with Tooth’s and it seems after this exhibition it was decided that Middleton and O’Neill hold a joint show in 1954. Demand for O’Neill’s work at Tooth’s gallery in London led his work to be included in Tooth’s annual exhibitions Today and Yesterday until O’Neill left Ireland in the late 1950’s. Born in Belfast, O’Neill had little orthodox training except for a few classes at the College of Art, Belfast. He started painting with watercolours at the age of fifteen, and when possible spend all his spare time in the Belfast Reference library studying the Italian Renaissance painters. Working as an Electrical engineer in the Belfast Corporation Transport Department, he worked on the night shift so he could paint during the day. This continued for over five years until he was taken up with Dublin dealer, Victor Waddington in 1945. Several one man shows followed and his works were included in several exhibitions overseas; London in 1946, New York in 1947, and California in 1948. In 1948 he spent six months in France, mostly staying in Paris. Here he was given an opportunity to study painters he admired, such as Watteau, Rouault, Vlaminck, Utrillo and the Impressionists. In 1952 at just 32 years of age, he held a retrospective exhibition in his native city, organized by the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts(CEMA). Recognition for his work resulted in the Laing Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne and the Sutter Art Gallery in New Zealand and at home the Friends of the Down County Museum added his work to their collections in the 1950’s. In the early 1950’s O’Neill was living with his then partner, Sheilagh Deacon in a small village east of Downpatrick in Co. Down. From 1953-5, O’Neill moved away from darker moody romantic images to playful subjects with a fairyland narrative. This painting, Circus Children is similar in subject, mood and style to other works where the focus centered on visiting entertainers and children. In the foreground, three circus children have been interrupted by the artist’s request to paint their portraits. As with several works from this period, detail is not important and characteristically the appearance of short ‘broken’ brush strokes with unmixed colour to achieve colour vibration is in keeping with the Impressionists. The sweeter palette reveals O’Neill’s return to confidence and optimism after a dark period in his personal life. O’Neill painted a scene from the Thames in 1952 which suggests he may have traveled to London to view his exhibition at Tooths and at the same time visited the 19th century Impressionist masters at the Tate or the National Gallery in London.Karen Reihill, November 2019
Lot 16
CAMPBELL-ORDE FAMILY OF ARGYLLSHIREThe remaining estate and personal papers of the Campbell-Orde family of Kilmory House, Argyllshire, dating from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, an extensive collection loose and in bundles, contained in seven tin trunks, comprising:(i) Collection of family correspondence, notes and personal papers including a small quantity of correspondence to Peter Campbell relating to the family's estates in Jamaica c.1800, group of letters labelled 'from Jane, Lady Orde, first wife of Sir John Orde regarding Kilmory', correspondence between Sir John Powlett Orde, 2nd Bt. and his son John William Powlett Orde of the Royal 42nd Highlanders, Bermuda and Prince Edward Island, bundles of student notes dated 1818, several bundles of loose recipes ('Mildew Prevented in Cotton Canvas', 'Mr Souths mixture for Cholera 1855'), family trees and geneaology, various notebooks ('wine notes 1798')(ii) Financial and estate papers, including account books ('Lady Bolton's 1807' and 'Old accounts of Miss Caroline Campbell'), house book 1821, coachman's book dated 1842 ('Comb & brush... sponge & leather... harness & blacking...'), bundles of household receipts dating from 1740's onwards, bank books, share certificates, bundles of bonds dating from the 1750's; with legal papers regarding land and property, marriage settlements and wills dating from mid-18th century onwards, bundles of indentures (including an indenture signed by John Orde and Eliza Campbell, 1820), conveyance for the Holland Plantation, Jamaica, copy of the will of Admiral Sir John Orde; ground plans of Kilmory House, plans for estate cottages and a loch, inventories ('Property of John Yorke Esq, Feb. 1813'), bundles of late 19th century crofters' deeds, letters and agents accounts (iii) Papers of Sir Arthur John Campbell-Orde, 4th Bt., relating to his service in the 2nd Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, the Lovat Scouts Imperial Yeomanry and the South Argyll Volunteers, with various maps and papers relating to the Boer War and the First World War; with four military commissions signed by Queen Victoria, dated 1842, 1848, 1891 and 1903(iv) Quantity of printed and other ephemera including newspapers, Eton College list 1842, advertisements, auction catalogues, local maps etc.
Lot 94
A Baccarat glass dressing table service, colourless, decorated with wrythen gadrooning, comprises, three cylindrical perfum bottles in sizes; one large globular powder bowl and cover, a pair of smaller powder bowls and covers; two cylindrical cosmetic jars, covers and stands, ring bowl, two pin trays and two brush trays, moulded mark (23)
Lot 1600
An Edwardian crocodile skin travelling toilet case, containing approximately twenty eight silver gilt/silver/white metal mounted items, including watch case, barometer case, mirror and brush set, toilet jars, nail implements, hip flask, etc. (approx. 7 items missing), Aron Brothers, London, 1907, case 55cm.
Lot 372
Pip McGarry ARR Framed oil on canvas, signed, dated 2014 'Portrait of a Tiger' 86cm x 60cm Pip McGarry is recognised as one of the world's leading wildlife artists, Pip has an international reputation for his oils of big cats and African game. Pip first came to prominence in 2004 with his popular television series 'A Brush with the Wild' which was copresented with Annika Rice, the programme was filmed on location in Kenya and focused on teaching celebrities how to paint wildlife. His paintings occasionally arise at auction and in 2008 his painting 'Flight of the Zebra' sold for a record £29,300 at Christies in London. The oil paintings in our sale were purchased direct from the artist by the vendor.
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