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Lot 97
WW2 RAF Aircrew Europe Casualty Family Group of Medals. This father and son group of medals spans two world wars. Comprising: British War Medal, Mercantile Marine Medal 'A.J. CLOUGH', 1939/45 Star, Atlantic Star, War Medal. The WW2 medals have been privately named and are loose contained in the WW2 medal box addressed to A.J. Clough. ... Son's Group of Medals comprising: 1939/45 Star, Aircrew Europe Star, War Medal. These medals are privately named '923190 F/SGT W.L. CLOUGH RAF'. and contained in original forwarding box with typed addressed label to 'A.J. Clough'. Both boxes with the same address.Flight Sergeant William Leonard Clough enlisted into the RAF and volunteered for aircrew. Qualifying as an Observer. Joining 115 Squadron operating the Vickers Wellington Bomber he was tasked with a daylight op to Lingen. Three Wellingtons of the Squadron took off, but due to the lack of cloud cover, two returned early, however Clough’s pilot Squadron Leader Robert James Sealer Parsons, decided to press on the attack. Whilst over the Zuider Zee they were engaged by a FW190 10/JG1. The enemy raked the fuselage killing the WOP/AG and ruptured the fuel tanks, which bust into flames, Clough is known to have entered the cockpit with a fire extinguisher in an attempt to put out some of the flames, but this was in vain as the aircraft hit the sea, only the two gunners surfaced and were taken POW. The CWGC Roll confirm Mr Albert John Clough as his father.
Lot 473
Sir Peter Lely Bt. (Soest 1618-1680 London) and Studio Portrait of William, 3rd Baron Alington (c.1634-1684/85) and his third wife Lady Diana Russell, both standing three-quarter length, he holding a baton and gesturing to a distant castle and she beneath a curtain and beside a male bust upon a plinth a pair, each oil on canvas, in good English 18th Century carved and giltwood frames 123 x 100cm (48 x 39in) Provenance: By descent within the family of the sitters to the Little Barford line, Bedfordshire Literature: Miss Catherine Parsons, "Horseheath Hall and its Owners", in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Vol. LX1, 1948, p.22, and both illustrated as Plates I & II Other Notes: William Alington succeeded his elder brother in 1659 in the Irish peerage created in 1642 for their father by King Charles I. After the Restoration, William became M.P. for Cambridge in 1664 - for as an Irish peer without a seat in the House of Lords, he was in England effectively a commoner. By 1678 he had risen to the rank of Major General, despite Pepys's comment in 1667 that he was "a young and silly Lord." In 1679, he was appointed Constable of the Tower of London and then in 1681, he became Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. In 1682, he was given, by Charles II, an English peerage - that of Baron Alington of Wymondely in Hertfordshire, another of his many estates. Alington's third wife was the daughter of another ardent Royalist, William 5th Earl of Bedford, who was elevated to the Dukedom by William III. She was painted some years earlier by Lely - albeit three-quarter length - holding a houette, and that picture is in the collection at Woburn Abbey. Here, however, she is interestingly depicted by Lely in a virtually identical pose to that of her husband's sister, Elisabeth Alington - Lady Seymour of Trowbridge - which is dated to 1663-5 and which is in the National Trust Collection at Petworth House, as that Lady was mother of the 5th and 6th Dukes of Somerset. Lely is known, though, to have regularly re-used poses sometimes by simply reversing them and altering various accessories like curtains and background details. The composition of Lord Alington himself was used in the same direction more than once by Lely - e.g. in the portrait of Viscount Charmouth at Belvoir Castle and that of Henry Seymour, Lord Beauchamp at Longleat House. He reversed the pose and composition for a portrait of Charles Killigrew, now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, and for another, mistakenly later inscribed "Lord Alington", that is today at Ham House and now considered to be of John Murray, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquess of Athol. It would seem probable both from the style and the handling of the drapery and the fact of their marriage in 1675, that this Alington pair of portraits was painted around that time. Both very dirty and with bloom and some mould. William Alington - Oil on canvas which has been lined. Canvas has suffered from mould growth on the front and reverse but this does not appear to have affected the paint layer long term. The paint layer has been slightly softened during the lining process. The varnish has degraded causing it to become yellow and dull, affecting the tone and saturation of the painting. There are dark marks on the sitter's face which are likely to be darkened retouching. Frame has suffered from wear and abrasion with small chips and losses to the gilding. Diana Alington - Oil on canvas which has been lined. The canvas is in plane with good tension. The paint layer has been slightly softened during the lining process. There are a few scattered paint losses but overall the paint layer is stable. There are darkened retouchings in the sitter's face. The varnish has degraded causing it to become yellow and dull, affecting the tone and saturation of the painting
Lot 136
A cased 19th century hardstone cameo brooch in neoclassical style mount, the black and white oval agate carved to depict a young girl with ornately styled hair dressed with pearls and bandeaux, ringlets trailing over her naked nape and shoulder, and loose draperies over her bust, mounted in a yellow precious metal frame with applied bead, diaper and ropetwist decoration, verso glazed to show the back of the banded agate, safety chain, in original shaped and fitted dark green leather case, length of brooch 5.6mm
Lot 123
After Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A. Portrait of Sarah Siddons, bust length in a white dress with a blue cloak Pastel, oval in an ornate rococo revival frame 55 x 44cm; 21½ x 17¼in (sight size) (126 x 71cm frame size) With another Attributed to Catherine Read (1723-1778) Portrait of a lady, bust length, with a white shawl and bonnet Pastel, oval, in a matched frame 60 x 46cm; 23½ x 18in (sight size) (128 x 72cm frame size) (2)
Lot 48
John M. Field (1772-1848) Sir John and Lady Nicholl, both bust length Brown and bronzed silhouettes in profile, in ebonised rectangular frames 75 x 60mm Judge Sir John Nicholl (1759-1838) of 28 Curzon Street, fellow of St John~s College Oxford, was knighted in 1798 when he became King~s Advocate. He was an M.P. between 1802-32.
Lot 133
Beatrice Murray (contemporary), a bronze bust of Margaret Hilda Thatcher, signed BEATRICE dated (19)75, on a white marble plinth, 40cm high overall Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, FRIC (née Roberts 1925 - 2013) was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979-1990
Lot 150
Attributed to Sir William Charles Ross RA (1794-1860)PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN, HALF LENGTH SEATED, IN A BLACK COAT, CHEQUERED WAISTCOAT AND BLUE AND BLACK STOCKMiniature on ivory114 x 88mm;and another,English School, c.1840PORTRAIT OF A LADY, BUST LENGTH, IN A WHITE LACE CHEMISEMiniature on ivory90 x 70mm (2)
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