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Lot 13
William IV bronze bell by Wasbrough, Hale & Co of Bristol, bears cast inscription `Wasbrough, Hale & Co, Bristol, 1835`, 31cm diameter, on the original cast iron frame/bracket. The Wasbrough family with various partners were trading as brass founders in Narrow Wine Street, Bristol from 1797 to 1848, the business then continued as Thomas Hale & Sons until it closed in 1875. Pigot`s Directory for 1830 lists Wasbrough Hale & Co as not only brass founders but also gas fitters, clock makers, coach lamp makers and coppersmiths/braziers, all working from the same premises located west of Castle Green on the site of the Galleries Shopping Centre
Lot 284
A WEDGWOOD DRAGON LUSTRE LAMP DESIGNED BY DAISY MAKEIG-JONESof inverted baluster shape, decorated with the Celestial Dragon in crimson and richly gilt on a mixed blue lustre ground, 25cm h excluding fitment, gilt printed mark, painted Z4829, early 20th c++Professionally restored crack. Wedgwood lustre lamps are scarce
Lot 833
A VICTORIAN BRONZE MERMAN OIL LAMPof campana shape with merman handles and wave lapped lower body, on spirally fluted stem and shaped square foot, the Argand burner with embossed label BRIGHT LATE ARGAND & CO 37 BRUTON [ST] PATENT INDICATOR LAMP, the cylindrical reservoir embossed on the underside JS, later ebonised plinth, 67cm hAdapted from a design by Edmé Bouchardon (1698-1762).++Finely chiselled and in good condition but electroplated at later date, although not adapted or converted to electricity and apparently complete
Lot 36
William John Leech RHA (1881-1968) Interior of a Cafe (1908) Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 83.8cm (29 x 33") Signed and dated 1908 Provenance : Purchased at the RHA 1909 by the Hon. Lawrence Waldron; Subsequently bought by Senator Brennan who left it to Harry Clarke,who in turn left it to Lennox Robinson; Purchased from the Dawson Gallery, Dublin 11/12/1950 for £150 (A photocopy of the original receipt will be given to the new owner) by the present owner's father and thence by descent. Exhibited: Royal Institute of Oil Painters, 1908, Cat. No. 400 priced £80; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1909, Cat. No. 81 priced £63 where purchased by the Hon. Lawrence Waldron; Salon des Artistes Français, Paris, 1914; where awarded a bronze medal; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1969, "William John Leech Memorial Panel" No. 4; "Irish Art from Private Collections 1870 - 1930" Wexford Arts Centre, 1977, Cat. No. 29; "The Irish Impressionists", The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1984, Cat. No. 117; "The Irish Impressionists" The Ulster Museum, Belfast Cat. No. 117; 1996 The National Gallery of Ireland "William John Leech: An Irish Painter Abroad" Cat. No 4; 1997 Exhibition above toured to Musée des Beaux Arts, Quimper and the Ulster Museum Belfast. Literature: "Painters of Ireland: 1660 - 1920" by Anne Crookshank and The Knight of Glin 1979 P275 (Ill. p 278) 'The Irish Impressionists" by Julian Campbell NGI 1984 P260 "Leech in Brittany" by Dr Denise Ferran Irish Arts Review 1993 P227 "William John Leech" by Dr Denise Ferran 1992 p12 - 13 "Les Peintres de Concarneau" by H. Beleoch 1993 France P154 "William John Leech: An Irish Painter Abroad" by Dr Denise Ferran 1996 P103 (Ill p105) Some suspicion and slight distancing of the peasants from the artist/viewer can be detected in this work of 1908, which combines the group of peasants and their bar interior into a meticulously finished studio painting. The old peasant sitting becapped at the extreme left is the subject in 'A man with a bottle' (private collection). Since that is dated 1903, it seems probably that Leech worked on this painting for a long time. Here the man sits amicably drinking a cup of coffee with two of his friends - one of whom has a small liqueur glass on the table in front of him. All three look toil-worn with shoulders rounded by work in the fields, with bent backs and expressively painted boned hands. It is especially in the face of the standing figure that the viewer can detect distrust and suspicion. It is possible that Leech worked from a photograph or a postcard to complete the details of the bar interior, especially in the row of bottles above the bar, and added the figures from studio poses. The exaggerated space in the foreground, which directs the eye to the figures in the middle distance, suggests the angle of a camera lens, and the questioning gaze of the standing figure captures a momentary 'off guard' expression. The well stocked shelves of bottles and china cups which glisten in the reflected light and shine under the brass lamp may possibly be those of the Hotel des Voyageurs, where Leech stayed from 1907. Leech conveys the intimacy of this darkened interior, disturbed by the intrusion of light from the left, perhaps from a door, just opened. The gentle, withdrawn figure of a young girl reading, silhouetted against the lacy curtains of the lighted window, creating depth with light on dark, in a series of decreasing rectangles. The painting of the head and shoulders of a young red-haired woman in the framed picture on the wall of the cafe interior indicates the direction Leech's painting style was to take. Its simplified, bold areas of paint, lightened palette and strong play of light depart from the more academic treatment of the room's interior. 'Interior of a cafe' is a carefully constructed composition which combines drawing from life into a meticulously 'finished' studio panting. Here he makes use of sunlight and shadows to contrast the lighted areas of the three faces engrossed in conversation in dramatic chiaroscuro against the brown shadows which verge into black. To the right, enveloped in shadow, is the figure of a fourth man who waits, leaning on the counter, seeking service. When Leech exhibited 'Interior of a cafe' at the RHA in Dublin in 1909, the review in The Irish Times declared: "His interiors of French cafes are distinguished by a brilliance of execution, a realistic treatment, and a mastery of composition, which makes them singularly attractive." Leech had exhibited another work, 'Interior of a kitchen - Brittany' (whereabouts unknown) at the RHA in 1908, showing his interest at that time in the intimiste world of darkened interiors. The work failed to sell, however, and Leech exhibited it at the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil that October. It was possibly this work which was exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais in 1913, for which he was awarded a Bronze Medal. Leech later stated that the Salon work was bought by an American gallery in Philadelphia, but extensive research has failed to trace it. Leech also exhibited an Interior of a cafe in the Sinn Fein-organized exhibition 'Aonach', in Dublin, in December 1909. The review in Sinn Fein recognized that 'The picture of the Interior of a Cafe shows him to be a skilled draughtsman, possessing masterly technique..." Dr. Denise Ferran
Lot 54
John Hogan (1800-1858) Bust of Francis Sylvester Mahony ("Fr. Prout") Marble, 50cm high (19.75") Made in Rome 1846 and signed Hogan Provenance, by descent in the family of the subject Literature "John Hogan, Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome" (Irish Academic Press, 1982) where it is listed as No. 58 in the Catalogue Raisonné. Mahony wrote a description of Hogan's studio in Rome in the spring of 1847 which mentions his own portrait bust. "The locale which forms this sculptor's workshop (once tenanted by Canova) presents just now what may be termed a sort of Hibernian Valhalla…the bust of Father Mathew looks forth redolent of Christian philanthropy: on the same shelf is seen the mirthful brow of Father Prout…the late venerable Mr Beamish of Cork as well as his meritorious partner William Crawford, both models to any mercantile community, have their representations here, with several Murphies from that city." The bust was made before May 1847 so it is unlikely to have been this bust for which Mahony sat for Hogan in November 1847 as Turpin writes. The date is therefore likely to be 1846 rather than 1848. Turpin notes the low relief carvings on either side of the base. On one side an open chest with rolls of parchment and an antique lamp - an illusion to the 'discovery' of Fr Prout's literary remains in a chest - and on the other a book, a wine bottle, a chalice and a classical flask - apt symbols of Mahony's life. Francis Sylvester Mahony (Fr Proust) (1804-1866) "A very singular person, of whom the world tells a thousand and one tales, you know, but of whom I shall speak as I find him, because the utmost kindness and warmheartedness have characterised his whole bearing towards us….a most accomplished scholar and vibrating all over with learned associations and vivid combinations of fancy and experience - having seen all the ends of the earth and the men thereof, and possessing the art of talk and quotation to an amusing degree." Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 10th October 1848 Francis Mahony was born in Cork on 31st December 1804, the son of Martin Mahony a woollen merchant. He went to Clongowes in 1815, to the Jesuit college of St. Acheul at Amiens in 1819 and then to Paris as a Jesuit novice. From 1823-1825 he studied in Rome. He was "brilliant but intractable and ill-disciplined". Eventually he was told that he was not suitable for ordination as a Jesuit. Returning to Ireland still intent on ordination he was made Prefect of Studies at Clongowes and then Master of Rhetoric. Then disaster struck. He took a party of boys on an outing to have dinner in Maynooth. The boys got drunk and returned to Clongowes on turf-cutters' carts after midnight. Mahony resigned his post. He went abroad, continued his studies and was eventually ordained, but not as a Jesuit, in 1832. He served bravely in Cork during the Cholera epidemic of 1832 but again fell out with his superiors. After two years he went to London, gave up life as a priest and began the career in journalism for which he is remembered. His relations with the Church have continued to be uncertain. A friend wrote after his death that "he might have had a cardinal's hat but for that which is imputed to him as his one great fault - conviviality" Mahony loved the sociable, literary world of London. He wrote for Fraser's Magazine under the pseudonym of "Father Prout", allegedly the parish priest of Watergrasshill, near Cork. The editor William Maginn, Thomas Crofton Croker, the antiquarian and collector of Irish fairy stories and Daniel Maclise, the artist, were other Cork-born contributors. Mahony's writing shows him to have been a classical scholar, linguist and wit. He described himself as "an Irish potato seasoned with Attic salt." As a joke he alleged that Thomas Moore, then at the height of his success, was just a plagiarist, merely translating from French, Greek or Latin poems or other "originals" which Francis supplied. The Bells of Shandon - for long included in the Oxford Book of English Verse - was written as the supposed original of Moore's Evening Bells - a St Petersburg Air. Many of these articles were collected as The Reliques of Father Prout. From 1837 he wrote for Charles Dickens's Bentley's Miscellany from Italy. His contributions were collected and published in 1847 as Facts and Figures from Italy by Don Jeremy Savonarola - another pseudonym - with a brief foreword by Dickens. Mahony settled finally in Paris where for eight years he was the correspondent of The Globe and where he died in 1866. He is buried at Shandon in Cork. One of his obituarists wrote "Indeed Francis Mahony… was no common man, either in genius or expression. Many elements met in him, as in a mayonnaise, to make a piquant mixture. He was a Jesuit and a humourist; a priest and a Bohemian; a scholar and a journalist; a wag and a song-writer; a Cork man familiar to everyone in Rome, a Roman Catholic ecclesiastic well known in the convivial clubs of London."
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