Circle of Richard Rothwell, Irish 1800-1868- Portrait of Mrs Jane Boswell Tucker 1780-1869, half-length, seated in a black dress and white lace bonnet, with landscape beyond; oil on canvas, 76.6x63.4cm, (unframed) Provenance: The family of the sitter; thence by descent CONDITION REPORT: the canvas has been relined, circa early 20th century verso: the stretcher appears to be the original with old tape residue wedges are lacking and or later replacements the canvas is stained and with defects which correspond with old repaired tears to the canvas recto top left and lower centre are raised areas corresponding to dents on the recto salvage a little frayed, roughly trimmed in places and loose tacking edge with copper tacks recto: multiple old repaired tears prominent on face of the sitter and to left of sitter's head the surface of the canvas is raised along the edges of these old repaired tears under inspection with uv lamp, there is significant over painting and retouching across the sitter's face and to the left of the sitter's head corresponding to the tears to the canvas the paint surface appears to have been cleaned probably at the time of lining, particularly in places where there is overpainting there is also much heightening and overpainting to the dress, particularly in the shadows some overpainting lower right edge some flaking to the paint surface top right corner canvas worn through lower left corner, front edge, and frayed dents are visible, lower centre and top right small hole lower left and lower right corner, both with associated flaking evidence of use of bitumen in the background centre right and in the dress some pigment separation to the lace work of the dress some superficial splatter marks centre lower section paint surface a little dry with surface scuffs
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Attributed to John "Old Taylor" Taylor, British 1739-1838- Lady in Grecian dress playing the tambourine, with five figures dancing beyond in a landscape; watercolour and bodycolour, 52.8x36.8cm Note: John Taylor was a pupil of Hayman and at St. Martin's Lane Academy. He specialised in pencil portraits, of which he drew an enormous number, many at Oxford 1767-71. He exhibited all kinds of portraits SA 1764-77; FS 1767; RA 1778-1824; BI 1808-38, as well as many themes from literature. See Ellis Waterhouse, "British 18th Century Painters", Woodbridge, 1991, p. 366 CONDITION REPORT: mounted in a glazed modern moulding frame line and wash mount sheet has slipped in frame to reveal the top edge, appears to have been hinge-mounted although unexamined out of frame browned and time-faded overall two imperfections on the lower edge of the sheet, centre right slight tear approx. 1cm in length, lower left corner otherwise in good original condition
Collection of 45 complete sets contained in 6 modern albums & slip cases, mainly military interest, cigarette & trade issues, sets include Oliver - German Orders & Decorations, Amalgamated Press - The Great War New Series, Wills - Recruiting Posters, V.C.'s (New Zealand issue), The World's Dreadnoughts, UK Tobacco - Officers Full Dress, British Automatic - Warships of the World, Reddings Tea - Warriors of the World, etc this lot includes several sets that are not catalogued VG - EX cat £1350+
Sword: A fine German 19th century court dress sword; Top of blade marked 'M. NEUMANN HOFLIEFERANT BERLIN' (purveyor to the Court of Berlin). Blade 32" of pipe back form with gilt and blued decoration. Ornate hilt in gilt brass with heraldic shield (3 birds and a leek?). Wirebound fishskin grip. Backstrap with ornate decoration, large lions head pommel with ruby? eyes. In its polished steel scabbard with rust patination A lovely sword and fine example of the German swordsmith art.
Dirk: A circa 1800s Naval Officers dress dirk. Plain curved blade 18" top flat marked by the maker J & R MOLE. Brass mounts with lions head pommel. Ribbed Ivory (?) hilt. In its brass mounted leather scabbard (mounts good, leather partly a/f). Worn condition overall, grip assembly a little loose.
A World War Two (WWII) Third Reich SS officer's dress sword (SS-Degan). With blade marked "Pet.Dan Krebs Solingen". Circa. 1935 -1944 . This sword has a single edged blade 84cm in length. Silver plated hilt with bullion-wired grip. Complete with nickel-plated hilt-guard, and having knotted wired short ribboned sash with macramé acorn finial, together with original black japanned steel sheath, ornamented nickel-plated decorative mount to top. Est £700 - £800
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