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Lot 807
An oil painting on canvas laid onto board by Peter Graham showing a brightly coloured still life with teapot filled with flowers, fruit etc., signed bottom left Peter Graham, with label verso "Studio Flowers" Peter Graham ROI, 34cm x 29cm in a reeded gilt frame with grey painted border and cream painted inner slip
Lot 808
A pastel by Christine Russell of a still life with vase of red roses and shells against a dark green background, signed bottom right C G Russell and with label verso "Chianti Roses and Shells", pastel, Christine Russell, and with Stone, Berkeley address details, 29cm x 36cm approximately, in a cream painted frame with gilt slip and further inner cream painted slip
Lot 816
A watercolour of a still life including cyclamen, fruit, candle etc., with label verso "Still Life with Grapes", Rosy Bailey, 38cm x 48cm, together with a further watercolour of still life by the same artist of a vase of pink flowers, with label verso "Bright Flowers", Rosy Bailey, 31cm x 21cm, both in simple wooden frames
Lot 820
A collection of 19th century and other pictures and prints including a large coloured print after Renoir of a beach scene in a burr wood frame, 71cm x 81cm overall, a pair of coloured prints of native American characters after Robert Wesley Amick, 34cm x 73cm, a pair of coloured Pears prints of a blacksmiths interior scene and a still life with a terracotta flower pot and summer flowers, a charcoal study of Arlington Row, Bibury by Charles Newbury, etc., various sizes, all framed
Lot 823
A pair of signed coloured limited edition screen prints after Ian King, still life of a vases of flowers - Afternoon and Summer Flowers, both editions out of 60 and signed bottom right Ian D King, 63cm x 48cm, a large signed coloured limited edition print of a musician signed bottom right Barbara Wood, limited edition 253/975, 94cm x 63cm, also together with a watercolour study of a scene at Winterbourne Down with farm buildings, signed bottom right Joan E Golding and with Downend address label verso, 29cm x 40cm. All framed
Lot 456
DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. Partial A.L.S., Daphne, ten pages (only the first two pages missing), 8vo, n.p., n.d. (c.1940), to [Foy Quiller-Couch]. The largely complete letter begins with the third page and Du Maurier discusses the death of a mutual acquaintance, in part, 'I believe great changes would have come to her, with her father's death, the burden of care, the leaving of Tredudwell, going away perhaps to uncongenial surroundings, and I believe that the accident in which that man was killed would have left a permanent shadow upon her. The only possible consolation, Foy, and a thing in which I passionately believe, and I think I have told you so before, is that people die when their moment has come, and their work is finished. I believe that there is something mysteriously merciful in this particular case, and that Anna was going to experience a lot of personal unhappiness had she lived. You may think this nonsense. I don't know. It is just what I feel. Some rare and very precious plants cannot bear another soil, they become withered and dulled. This might have happened to Anna had she been obliged to live a different sort of life. Now you can be certain that she is all right. If we cannot believe this, then there is no hope for you or I or any living soul, and mass suicide may as well be committed by humanity at once. As to personal grief of those who still go on living in this world, you know, from bitter experience, that there is no ready made consolation. I know what a hard and really hurtful blow this is to you, who have already had so many. And the very fact that you are not strong at the moment, and that the things that are happening in the world are almost unbearable anyway, makes the living daily routine practically a Hell….I wish I could join you on a quiet and simple holiday somewhere in the West, but at the moment, as you know, I am tied. The Guardsman (her husband, Frederick Browning) is, I think, worried about all these moves in Norway, and we feel any moment he may be called….I have my own small problem ahead of me, in that I think another infant is on its way. This is for your information only, I have said nothing even to my family. The realisation that if this should be so, it would arrive about November 11th, adds to the irony of life in general. It is hard to be optimistic of the future, I had a deep-rooted feeling before this war started, that our particular country might be going to face its greatest test, and the feeling is still with me. But, whatever happens, we have been born into this particular period of time for some particular purpose, and must, of course, endure whatever comes and achieve whatever we are meant to achieve….' An emotional letter of fine content, encompassing birth and death. Some very light, minor age wear to the final page of the letter, otherwise VG Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier. Indeed, Du Maurier was accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couch when she became inspired with the storyline for her novel Jamaica Inn. In 1930, apparently around the time of the present letter, the two ladies were staying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. They became lost in bad weather conditions and apparently sheltered for some time in a derelict cottage on the moor but were eventually led back to Jamaica Inn by their horses. Frederick Browning (1896-1965) British Lieutenant-General of World War II, deputy commander of the First Allied Airborne Army in Operation Market Garden, 1944. Husband of Du Maurier from 1932. Comptroller and Treasurer to Princess Elizabeth from 1948-52 and later Treasurer in the Office of the Duke of Edinburgh. Du Maurier gave birth to her third child, and only son, Christian 'Kits' Du Maurier Browning, a photographer and film-maker, on 3rd November 1940.
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