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Lot 514
A LATE 19TH CENTURY ROSEWOOD INLAID SEVEN PIECE SALON SUITE comprising a double chair-back occasional sofa, a pair of elbow chairs and four single chairs, each having a turned top rail above a rectangular panel inlaid in satin and harewood with a ribbon tied spray of flowers above a plain spindle tie rail, upholstered seat, on square splayed legs. See illustration
Lot 526
A TWELVE PIECE OAK DINING SUITE circa 1930s comprising a refectory table on twin column legs of square section carved with acanthus and beading joined by moulded platform stretchers with claw feet 246 x 98cms; a set of eight single chairs and two carvers each having a studded hide upholstered back and seat with conforming carving and stretchers; a rectangular serving table having two drawers across with brass hexagonal back plates and pendant handles, on conforming framing 105.5cms wide
Lot 135
A pair of carved walnut and upholstered wing armchairs, in George III style, late 19th/early 20th century, each rectangular back above scroll arms above a loose cushion seat, on shell carved cabriole legs and stylised pad feet, each 93cm wide overall. Provenance: Wormsley Park; formerly in the Drawing Room Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 138
A set of eight carved mahogany dining chairs, in George III style, late 19th/early 20th century, carved with acanthus throughout, each shaped rectangular back with pierced vase splat, each serpentine fronted seat on cabriole legs with claw and ball feet Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 221
Thomas Gainsborough R.A. (1727-1788) Portrait of Henry Fane, Half length wearing a lilac coat embroidered with gold, a tricorn under his left arm, in a feigned oval, Oil on canvas 74cm x 62cm. Provenance: Wormsley Park, Literature: E.K. Waterhouse, "Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough", Walpole Society 1948-50, XXXIII, 1953, p. 38 (2); E.K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London 1958, p. 66 (no. 248); (unpublished) Catalogue of The Collection of Pictures & Drawings at Wormsley, The Property of F. W. Fane as "Portrait of Richard Luther Esq., Painted by T. Gainsborough". It is unusual for a regional auction house to offer a fine portrait by Thomas Gainsborough from the early 1760s. The portrait was painted at a time when the artist was rapidly establishing a national reputation in Bath. Gainsborough had visited Bath in the autumn of 1758 and decided that with so many visitors attracted by the spa it could sustain an ambitious artist better than Ipswich where he was then living. He returned to East Anglia in the spring of 1759, sold his belongings and returned to the West Country and set up his studio. Early the following year he leased a large property opposite the west front of the Abbey, renting out rooms to tourists and, a little later, his sister, Mrs Gibbon, opened a millinery shop in part of the building. The location was perfect. It provided a showcase for his work and a visit to his studio became an essential part of visiting Bath. Amongst his visitors in the early 1760s was Henry Fane who took the opportunity to commission two portraits from him. The canvases are almost identical, presumably made at the same time and painted brushstroke by brushstroke on two separate easels set up in front of the sitter. Fane, plump and self-possessed, wears a long bob wig with a pinkish-brown suit decorated with volutes of gold embroidery Ñ "lace" as the eighteenth-century termed it Ñ with, as contemporary etiquette dictated, his right hand is tucked into his waistcoat and his black tricorn held under his left arm. The better known portrait of Henry Fane, in a private collection, descended in the family of the sitter`s daughter, Mary, who married Sir Thomas Stapleton, 5th Bt. The painting on offer remained with the sitter and must have been one of the first pictures to decorate Wormsley Park on the border of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, an estate Fane had inherited in 1757, via his brother, from his maternal uncle. Henry was the third son of a Henry Fane born in 1669 and his wife Anne. In April 1752 John Scrope, Anne`s unmarried brother, died and, to quote Lord Pelham, he left "a vast fortune to Frank Fane; he will in all [probability get] at least £2000 a year in land and above £100000 in money". Frank was the eldest son and, together with his fortune, he inherited the two parliamentary seats at Lyme Regis which he shared with his brother Thomas. Frank died in 1757 and had property passed to Thomas and the parliamentary seat to his younger brother, Henry. In 1762 Thomas, now the eldest surviving son, succeeded a distant cousin and became the 8th Earl of Westmorland and marked his elevation by sitting to Thomas Gainsborough in his newly-acquired peer`s robes. It would have been at about this time that Henry sat for his two portraits. We would like to thank Hugh Belsey MBE for his assistance in cataloguing this lot. The present lot shall be included in Hugh Belsey`s forthcoming catalogue on portraits by Gainsborough which will be published by Yale University Press. Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 641
A set of six oak chairs designed by Edward Welby Pugin, cantilevered pegged legs on brass ball feet to front, curved pegged back splat, red velvet seat unsigned 84cm. high Pugin designed an identical chair for The Grange, his family home in Ramsgate in 1864. The Victoria & Albert museum has an identical chair, collection number W.1-1991. Literature Charlotte Gere & Michael Whiteway Nineteenth Century Design page 143 plate 172 for a comparable chair.
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