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Lucas van Leyden, Dutch 1494-1533- Joseph interpreting the Pharaoh's Dreams; engraving on laid paper, signed with initial 'L' (lower centre) 12.7 x 17 cm. Provenance: The estate of the late designer Anthony Powell. Literature: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (23.I) Note: Joseph, seen in profile and facing right, kneels at centre left before a table at which the Pharaoh sits in a throne before a meal. A servant is positioned on the right and a number of figures are gathered at a window behind. Please refer to department for condition report
Johannes Christianus Roedig,Dutch 1750-1802-Still life with fruit and flowers on a pewter plate and a glass of wine on a draped table;oil on panel, bears signature ‘J:D:DE:HEEM:f' (lower right), bears printed 'Thomas Baring' label on the reverse, bears further labels on the reverses of the panel and frame, 37 x 47.8 cm.Provenance:[Almost certainly] William Jones of Clytha, Clytha Castle, 1790s.;His estate sale, Christie's, London, 1852, as by Jan Davidsz. de Heem.;Where purchased by Thomas George Baring, later 1st Earl of Northbrook (1826-1904).;M. Bernard, by 1945 (probably the London dealer Montague Bernard).;From whom purchased by Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, no.1246;The Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor (1916-1980), no.141.; Estate of the Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1992, lot 322, as Manner of Jan Davidsz. de Heem.; Private Collection, UK.Literature:A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Belonging to the Earl of Northbrook, 1889, no.47 (illustrated), as by Jan Davidsz. de Heem (see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings/Catalog/Earl_of_Northbrook_collection,_1889).; RKD - see https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/277082.Note:The present work was painted after 1785. It was almost certainly purchased by William Jones of Clytha in the 1790s when he was furnishing Clytha Castle in Monmouthshire, the building of which was completed in 1790. After entering the Northbrook Collection in 1852, it most probably remained there until 1929 at least, when, after the death of Francis Baring, the 2nd Earl, it would have been amongst the numerous works sold by his widow in dispersals between 1929 and 1945. By 1945 it was with a M. Bernard who sold it to Arthur Tooth, with the work still ascribed to de Heem. Records next emerge from Sotheby’s in 1992 when it was sold as part of the estate of the Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor (who himself possibly purchased it from Arthur Tooth), where it was catalogued as 'Manner of Jan Davidsz. de Heem'. Around this time, following research by Dr Fred Meijer, it was re-ascribed and fully attributed to Roedig. The attribution is based in part on a closely related work by Roedig – also signed as by de Heem – which last appeared at Christie’s, Amsterdam, 14 November 1991, lot 166. In an extensive catalogue note to a pair of floral still life works by Roedig that sold at Bonhams, London, 9 December 2009, lot 81 (for £1,196,000) – establishing Roedig as an important if overlooked artist - Dr Meijer suggests that the present work and others are probably examples of deliberate forgeries by Roedig. Interestingly, as Dr Meijer has pointed out, the ‘forged’ paintings are clearly by Roedig and make no concentrated effort, other than the signatures, to imitate de Heem.By the end of his career, however, Roedig had clearly emerged as a fully established and highly respected Dutch painter in his own right, with his fame extending as far as Saint Petersburg. Indeed, from correspondence between Roedig's son and the nineteenth-century art historian Adriaen van der Willigen, we know that the artist sold a large number of his works to Russia during his lifetime, which explains why so few remained in his native Holland. For example, in 1783, Count Alexander Stroganoff commissioned two paintings from the artist which he then gave to Empress Catherine the Great. The present work therefore provides a rare opportunity to acquire an example of Roedig's work of this high calibre.Consistent with his reputational rise perhaps is the existence of examples of his paintings which are indeed signed under his own name. In addition to the Bonhams 2009 pair, see, for example, his Still life which sold at Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 1 December 2009, lot 68 (£54,750), which is strikingly similar to the present work, featuring the same halved peach and bunch of white grapes. The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge owns three of his signed works. One, ‘Basket of flowers with fruit’, shares distinctive similarities with the present work, particularly in the grapes, ears of wheat and morning glory flowers (PD.41-1966).We are grateful to Dr Fred Meijer for confirming the attribution of the present lot. Please refer to department for condition report
Mixed Lot: pair of Victorian Fiddle pattern table forks, London 1858 by Charles Boyton, a set of three William IV dessert forks in Fiddle pattern, London 1831 by William Chawner, and a further set of three Victorian period Fiddle pattern dessert forks, probably provincial/colonial, total wt 436gms (8)
Mixed Lot: pair of George II base marked Hanoverian pattern table spoons, London 1742 by Thomas Jackson I; pair of George III table spoons in Old English pattern, London 1781 by Hester Bateman; three George III table spoons, Old English pattern, London 1786 by Richard Crossley, total wt 429gms (7)
Mixed Lot: pair of George IV sauce ladles in Fiddle pattern with oval bowls, London, 1825 by William Chawner, pair of Victorian table spoons in Fiddle pattern, London 1857 by Elizabeth Eaton, two hallmarked souvenir spoons, set of six Continental white metal dessert spoons with cast detail to the handles and pointed ends, stamped 'I:C', set of six Continental (possibly French) white metal bladed cake knives with mother of pearl handles, napkin ring, pair of small glass condiments with 'sterling' lids, moulded baluster glass sugar sifter with pierced silver lid, Birmingham 1907, weighable hallmarked silver/white metal 498gms g/w, (22)
Mixed Lot: circular spirit burner base (incomplete a/f), London 1904, a pair of Edwardian sprung wishbone sugar tongs, London 1902, a Victorian christening fork and spoon, heavily chased with a grapevine pattern, Sheffield 1891 by Martin Hall & Co, small pair of Victorian cauldron salts, wrythen fluted and on three ball feet, Birmingham 1881, a miniature lighthouse pepperette, Birmingham 1912, Irish mustard spoon (a/f), cauldron salt with blue glass liner, Chester 1919, and a pair of broken dressing table candlesticks stamped 'sterling' (loaded), weighable silver 304gms (qty)
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