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Lot 1168
Of Sir Cedric Morris and Benton End interest; a collection of works to include drawings by Lucy Harwood (1893-1972), portraiture and figural sketches, pencil sketch of a female nude inscribed verso 'Bought from the estate of Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett Haines', 28cm x 11.5cm, a further pencil drawing of a female nude, possibly by Morris, inscribed verso 'from the fire at Benton End', 31cm x 24cm, together with other unframed works - 22 loose works and 29 works from a sketch pad
Lot 1187
*Sir James Gunn (1893-1964) oil sketch on canvas - portrait of a gentleman, Mr Edward Grindlay, (see lot 1186) 44.5cm x 34.5cm, in glazed gilt frame, together with pencil portrait by Gunn, inscribed verso 'Captain Edward Grindlay. Painted by H. James Gunn Lt. also of 10th Scottish Rifles, France 1917', signed and inscribed, in glazed frame, 37.5cm x 25.5cm (2)Provenance: The descendants of Edward and Evelyn Grindlay. Removed from Westcott, DorkingNB: Sir James Gunn and Edward 'Teddy' Grindlay met in 1917 when they joined the 10th Scottish Rifles, becoming life long friends and Grindlay, Gunn's patronCondition report: The oil sketch requires cleaning as under the glass are various spotting marks, possibly damp (see images). Otherwise good condition. The pencil drawing is in very good condition.
Lot 1191
*Sir James Gunn (1893-1964) oil on canvas - 'First sketch for Conversation Piece, Belloc, Chesterton & Baring. E. Grindlay deputising for Maurice Baring, 31-1-32', signed and dated, inscribed verso, 45.5cm x 35.5cm, framed. Also included is a black and white photograph of the finished work, inscribed 'To Edward Grindlay, March 1932, H. James Gunn', in glazed frame, 45cm x 39cm overall, together with a collection of ephemera relating to Maurice Baring, G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, together with seven books. Provenance: The descendants of Edward and Evelyn Grindlay. Removed from Westcott, Dorking Exhibited: Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd, Old Bond Street, May 1946 'First Impressions', No. 38'. NB: Sir James Gunn and Edward 'Teddy' Grindlay met in 1917 when they joined the 10th Scottish Rifles, and became life long friends and Grindlay, Gunn's patron. In the Scottish National Portrait Gallery publication of 1994, it states 'The idea for a portrait of the three writers came to Gunn in 1930 at a dinner to celebrate Belloc's 60th Birthday. He recalled the episode in a speech to University College School ..."Splendid, you shall show it in the Royal Academy and it will help to sell our books"... I arranged with a friend (Edward Grindlay) who was the right shape to deputise for Maurice and on that Sunday I made my first sketches...Conversation Piece was given to the National Portrait Gallery in November 1960'.Condition report: Generally very good original condition, it has not be re-lined. There is a slightly curious line above the standing figures head which looks like a scratch but firstly doesn't feel like one and doesn't look like one close up, it does not detract from the work in my opinion. The frame has some minor losses to the corners.
Lot 1192
*Sir James Gunn (1893-1964) oil sketch on canvas board - a Paris carriage at the Pont d'Alexandre, 22cm x 13cm, unsigned, in glazed frameProvenance: A gift from the artist to Edward Grindlay. The descendants of Edward and Evelyn Grindlay. Removed from Westcott, DorkingNB: Sir James Gunn and Edward 'Teddy' Grindlay met in 1917 when both joined the 10th Scottish Rifles, they became life long friends and Grindlay, Gunn's patronCondition report: Good untouched condition. There are some marks under the glass which needs removing and to be cleaned. The frame joints have opened up.
Lot 1194
An early 20th century sketch book containing a collection of amusing pencil caricatures, together with a letter dated 1901 regarding various works, another printed album, together with Edward Grindlay's Military sketching case Provenance: The descendants of Edward and Evelyn Grindlay. Removed from Westcott, Dorking
Lot 1195
*Augustus John (1878-1961) red chalk sketch of a standing figure, 40cm x 22cm, in glazed gilt frame, sold together with a letter from John dated December 8th 1954 'Dear Sir, The drawing of which you send me a photograph, is of a boy, I used to draw when a student at the Slade School. His name was Jimmy McAlpine, and I have written about him in my book, Chiaroscuro. Yours truly, Augustus John'. Also included is a copy of 'Augustus John Paintings and Drawings' with presentation inscription from Sir James Gunn 'To Teddy & Evelyn. Christmas 1944. From James & Pauline'.Provenance: The descendants of Edward and Evelyn Grindlay. Removed from Westcott, DorkingNB: Sir James Gunn and Edward 'Teddy' Grindlay met in 1917 when both joined the 10th Scottish Rifles, they became life long friends and Grindlay, Gunn's patron
Lot 1307
Attributed to Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976) watercolour view of The Lake, Regents Park, inscribed verso 'Probably a Sunday Morning, sketch painted in drawing room of 17 Manchester Square', 13.5cm x 22cm.NB: Shepard resided at Kent Terrace, Regents ParkProvenance: collection of the artist William Edward Riley (1852-1937) thence by family descent
Lot 275
20th Century British School - Bust portrait of a young man, inscribed 'Christchurch', and dated 1965, pencil; together with prints relating to Oxford University, 'Skating at Oxford', 'A sketch of Isis - The Oxford Crew at Home'; four engraved portraits of academics after J. Agar; and two photographs 'Christ Church Fist Eight 1964' and 'Second Eight 1963'; all framed. (9)
Lot 171
EARLY 20TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL 'Let's Stop There', a humorous pen and ink sketch with classic motor car pulling up by a tavern, indistinctly signed and titled, 16.5cm x 24cm At present, there is no condition report prepared for this lot This in no way indicates a good condition Please contact the saleroom for a full condition report
Lot 727
WILLIAM BODEN (ACTIVE CIRCA 1882-1918) a box containing three oils on board and three watercolours, comprising two cottage landscapes, one Winter cottage landscape, two lake view landscapes and a sketch of Towyn, largest size approximately 23cm x 31cm, smallest 11cm x 14cm, all initialled, together with six unsigned watercolours possibly by the same hand
Lot 731
PAINTINGS AND PRINTS etc to include Vic Bowcott Waterfall landscape, watercolour on paper, approximate size 12cm x 10cm, Alan Walford watercolour of Lichfield Cathedral, Venetian charcoal sketch indistinctly signed, Venetian etching signed Luca Tollo, David Binns print, large limited edition print of a landscape, indistinctly signed, size 69cm x 108cm including frame, framed tiles etc
Lot 751
PAINTING AND PRINTS, ETC, to include three pen and watercolour sketches of views of Devon - indistinctly signed, size approximately 16cm x 11cm, a coastal watercolour - indistinctly signed, a pen and watercolour sketch, indistinctly signed Vincent Van Gogh 'Avenue of Poplars' print, signed John Watson print, assorted prints of fruit and flowers, landscape oil on canvas (holed), unsigned, Penny Londop, hand made print, mirrors etc
Lot 706
*Peter Heard (1939-2021) 'Cricket Match' signed l.l., oil on panel 45 x 50cm Provenance: Portal Gallery, London, with their label verso *Artist's Resale Right may apply to this lot.Condition report: The varnish has yellowed slightly. A pencil sketch of a similar scene verso. A couple of small spots of damp near upper edge. No other obvious flaws, in good overall condition.
Lot 304
SELECTION OF ARTISTS PAINTS AND EQUIPMENTincluding a Winsor & Newton travelling set containing a mahogany palette, twenty one oil paints, two brushes, palette knife, bottles of linseed oil, picture varnish and distilled turpentine and a box of charcoal, all contained in a metal box; a box of seventy eight Valens Rembrandt watercolours, box of twelve Dali acrylic tubes of paint; box of twelve Crimson & Blake watercolour pencils; and a box Crimson & Blake sketch pencils; Crimson & Blake oil pastel starter set; box of twelve Vermeer watercolour watercolour tubes of paint and a box of thirty two soft artists pastels
Lot 486
Eddie Murphy signed 5x3 album page and 10x8 Beverly Hills Cop unsigned photo. Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and singer. He rose to fame on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which he was a regular cast member from 1980 to 1984. Murphy has also worked as a stand-up comedian and was ranked No. 10 on Comedy Central s list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 1312
WILLIAM POWELL FRITH, RA (1819-1909) SKETCH, POSSIBLY FOR `THE PRIVATE VIEW` (1883) Pen and ink, similar study verso 14 x 22cm.; with an ink drawing of author Alfred Ainger (1837-1904) by George Du Maurier, signed and dated Xmas 1882 (or 1884), inscribed from sitter to Mrs Henry Jones, 27.5 x 19cm. (2) ++ Frith with old creases; Du Maurier with some backboard staining
Lot 1
Colonial School. Mexico or Peru. 17th - 18th century."True portrait of Our Lady of the Estrella of Enciso"Oil on canvas. 142 x 103 cm. There is a handwritten inscription in the lower margin: "La Milagrosa imagen de Nª Sª de la Estrella de la Vª Dencisso"On the back is a sketch of a figure on horseback. In a carved, gilded and silvered period wooden frame. The Church of Our Lady of Enciso is located in la Rioja, Spain. In its main altarpiece, which was built between 1647 and 1652, there is the image of Our Lady of the Star, in late 15th century Hispanic Flemish style. The image of Nuestra Señora de la Estrella de Enciso (Our Lady of the Star of Enciso) became widespread due to the engraving of it which was created by the Flemish printmaker Ana Heylan in the mid 17th century. One of these prints is kept at the National Library in Madrid (Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid). As Antonio Moreno Garrido explains in his writing "La iconografía de la virgen de la antigua en el grabado granadino del siglo XVII: una plancha inédita de Ana Heylan":"In the 17th century, single prints and especially those for worship came from European workshops, except for those with very local themes. These, of course, were made by engravers working in Spain. Carrete Parrondo writes: "The sanctuaries, convents and chapels with the most popular or prestigious advocations of Mary commissioned the most outstanding engravers to reproduce the images that were worshiped. The same occurred in small towns, where they turned to the printmakers from large cities. The town of Enciso commissioned Ana Heylan, a Flemish engraver established in Granada, to make the print of their patron, the Virgen de la Estrella"Bibliography: Antonio Moreno Garrido. "La iconografía de la virgen de la antigua en el grabado granadino del siglo XVII: una plancha inédita de Ana Heylan": Pages. 207 and 209 Fig II.
Lot 1355
The sketchbooks of Hamilton Short, South African Gold Prospector, Merchant & Maritime Enthusiast.A 19th century gold tooled black Morocco bound sketch book 21x17cm, a linen covered hard back sketch book 16x24.5cm and one other small gilt edged notebook 12.5x7.5cm together with a later string bound 'Snapshots' album circa 1930s-1940s.These remarkable sketchbooks are the work of Hamilton & Maxwell Short who were born in Cape Town in 1846 and 1849 to John Bell Short and Emma Hamilton, both originally Scottish, who wed in Cape Town in 1842. Hamilton, their third child was employed as a clerk, though clearly was a very talented draftsman with a passion for ships and sailing.We know that John Bell Short was the Superintendent of the Convict Station in the Docks in Cape Town and we can see from a sketch in one of the books that the Shorts lived a house on the Breakwater. From this enviable location the comings and goings of all vessels using this busy harbour were keenly observed and skilfully documented by Hamilton & Maxwell. Every ship is beautifully drawn, all rigging accurately depicted and the name and date annotated. The linen bound book particularly documents known events such as the loss of 17 vessels in a great storm in May 1865. RMS Athens (lost with all hands) Galatea, Royal Arthur, Royal Minstrel are all illustrated including a painting of Capt. Smith of RMS Athens that must have been copied from a photograph in contemporary accounts.The Morocco bound sketchbook has approximately 120 well-filled pages of paintings and sketches of mostly maritime and nautical subjects, some early maritime photographs and newspaper cuttings. There are approximately 30 blank pages save the occasional pencil sketch. The painted frontispiece is annotated Hamilton Short 1871. This book contains the finer quality drawings and paintings of the collection. Many are pen and ink and of remarkably quality elevating them far above mere amateur sketches. The excellent penmanship and attention to intricate detail displays a draftsman of intelligence with a highly inquisitive mind married to artistic flair.The linen bound book contains approximately 105 well-filled pages with paintings and sketches from the 1860s. Although some of the drawings in this book are in the very fine style of Hamilton, the rest is most likely to be by the hand of Hamilton’s brother Maxwell. It is less stylised but more descriptive in its contents as it depicts places and events as well as beautifully painted ships.The smaller notebook is Hamilton’s. It contains some 55 pages, some loose, of notes, sums, co-ordinates and sketches of ships, much of which document a trip to England and Scotland in 1877.In 1867 gold was discovered in the Transvaal and the world was enflamed by gold fever. Hamilton Short married Emma Tucker in 1869, their fourth child was born by July 1880. At this time Short had been in business as a general merchant in Cape Town but he left for the Transvaal in 1884. Letters from Hamilton to his eldest son Herbert still held within the family archive paint a desperate picture of his struggles with debt, malaria, poor legal advice, the death of a friend, bad weather and all manner of deprivations. In a letter from Barberton dated April 6th 1888 he writes: ‘Heavy rain set in at 9.30 pm and lasted till 5am this morning and today we have a frightful hot day – Now Bertie fever is one thing and Worry another. Believe me the latter is the worse. Your loving Father Hamilton Short.In his last letter to his son dated September 16th 1888, he starts: ‘Mr Dear Bertie, Really I have not the heart to Write – as to mines in the neighbourhood of this town there is nothing doing, even the Bay Reef has stopped, though it is said that the extension of the Middleton has turned out rich – but little faith is to be placed in it.’After the family received this letter Hamilton Short disappeared and the family never heard from him again. Despite diligent enquiries into hospital records and the following of various leads placing Hamilton as a bookkeeper in Pretoria in 1892 and also as a brick maker in Natal, he was never located. In 1925 a court granted an order of presumption of death. Correspondence between the family and those looking for Hamilton concluded: “His whereabouts will be and remain one of the unrevealed mysteries”Sickness, depression, guilt, these may all have been contributing factors to Hamilton Short’s disappearance. All we have left are these beautifully filled sketchbooks that he sent back to his family and were referred to in his letters.
Lot 542
BOOTH, John, 'The Battle of Waterloo, Also of Ligny, and Quatre-Bras, Published by Authority with Circumstantial Details by a Near Observer. 10th Edition. London 1817. 2 vols in 1 vol with frontispiece portraits of Wellington & Blucher plus volume containing 7 maps, a fold out panoramic sketch, coloured and a series of 34 etched plates, original 1/2 calf and mbld bds (280 x 220mm) foxed throughout, bds stained and bumped ex Wick Episcopi Library, so labelled (2)
Lot 400
Emma Marie Cadwallader-Guild (1843-1911) United States born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1843. A large bronze bust of Peter Brotherhood (Peterborough) signed "Emma Cadwallader-Guild 1887" in green patination fair condition with minor scratches 66cm high, presented on a four gilt pillar pedestal stand 91 cm high. Cadwallader-Guild was an self taught American sculpture by 1875, she exhibited a sketch in plaster at the Women's Pavilion of the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. In the mid-1880s she moved to the UK, and is thought thereafter to have lived chiefly in Europe, only returning to the US to fulfill portrait commissions. Her preferred media were marble, granite and bronze. Cadwallader-Guild's known portrait commissions include G.F. Watts, President Lincoln, President McKinley and Andrew Carnegie. Between 1885-98 she exhibited portraits and ideal works at the Royal Academy in London.
Lot 408
JESSIE MARION KING (1875-1949) THE BRIDGE watercolour, unsigned 18.5cm x 21cm; together with SKETCH OF A HOUSE, watercolour and pencil, by the same hand, 18.5cm x 24.5cmFootnote: Provenance; Jessie M. King and E.A. Taylor: The Collection of Miss Merle Taylor, sold Sotheby's, Glasgow, June 21st 1977
Lot 690
A BRONZE BUST OF A YOUNG CHILD 'BUSTE D'ENFANT' AFTER AIME JULES DALOU (FRENCH 1838-1902) cast by the Hebrard foundry, signed 'Dalou', numbered '9' and with foundry mark 'Cire Perdue A. A. Hebrard', mounted on a verde antico marble plinth 40.8cm high, 30.5cm wide, 16cm deep Catalogue Note; This present lot relates to Dalou's commission to provide a marble monument celebrating Queen Victoria's children for a private chapel at Windsor Castle. This model served as a preliminary sketch for one of the figures in the monument. Both the terracotta maquette for the monument and the original study for 'Buste d'Enfant' are currently part of the Petiti Palais Collection in Paris. This bronze was cast shortly after Dalou's death in 1902, no lifetime casts were ever made.
Lot 120
A GEORGE IV BURR OAK WORK TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, C.1825-30 the tray top with a scroll carved edge, above a cedar lined frieze drawer to either end, with nulled mouldings, the frieze with a sliding frame for a work basket, above leaf and scroll carved lyre shaped supports, united by a dished tray stretcher, on leaf and cabochon carved legs, on pad feet with sunken brass castors 72cm high, 70cm wide, 48cm deep Provenance The Estate of the late Jane Sumner. Catalogue Note This table follows closely the original design by Gillows which can be found in their Estimate Sketch Book, 23th August 1822, for Sir. T. D. Hesketh. For a virtually identical table, see Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster & London, 1730-1840, p.303, pl.332 and a table of the same design appears on the front cover of Volume II. A similar example in mahogany was sold by Christie's, 'Parisian Taste in London', 10th September 2009, lot 343. Interestingly, the three cited examples all have a work bag slide but no evidence of a bag having been fitted and it seems that the clients preferred to make their own bag.
Lot 216
A Regency mahogany chamber tableAtrributed to GillowsWith a hinged ink well to the back of the top above a frieze drawer on reeded tapering legs with brass caps and castors, 83.5cm wide x 49cm deep x 73cm high, (32.5in wide x 19in deep x 28.5in high)Footnotes:A related design for a 'chamber table' appears in the Gillows Estimate Sketch Books for 1826, reference 3497. An example of a chamber table supplied by Gillows to Parlington Hall in 1811 is illustrated in C.Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam and Lotherton Hall, London and Bradford, 1978, p.381, no.502.Other similar models include those sold at Bonhams, London, 18th November 2009, lots 185 and 190, 4 June 2014, lot 95 and 3 June 2015, lot 226.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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