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Lot 902A
[DALRYMPLE] Court of Inquiry upon the Treaty of Armistice and Convention of Cintra; and upon the conduct, behaviour, and proceedings of Lieutenant - General Sir Hew Dalrymple, Kt. Commander in Chief of the late Expedition in Portugal . . . drophead title, 73pp. (d-column printing) & 12pp. Appendix, 3 (unrelated?) advert. leaves at end; recently rebound (unlettered) crimson half morocco & marbled boards. 1808. * the outcome was, in fact, an exoneration of the former (replacement) commander-in chief, who had secured Portugal by diplomatic means - after Wellington's (i.e. Sir Arthur Wellesley's) victory at Vimeiro.
Lot 908
STORY (Wm.) A Journal kept in France, during a Captivity of more than Nine Years, commencing . . . April 1805, and ending . . . May, 1814. First Edition. iv, 116pp.; newly rebound half calf & marbled boards, gilt decorated & panelled spine with red label. Sunderland: printed and sold by George Garbutt . . . 1815. * a detailed, first-hand account by a Sunderland merchant of life as a civilian prisoner. Bound for Quebec in his own vessel (with an Admiralty licence to sail without convoy), they were brought up off the west coast of Scotland by a Dunkirk fast corvette privateer (of eighteen guns), the passengers & crew made prisoners and the ship scuttled. Witnessing further depredations as they sailed southwards (apparently the Royal Navy was conspicuous by its absence), they were eventually landed in Spain, there beginning a long journey of almost three months across France to Verdun - their appointed place of incarceration. Much of interest on the various places of imprisonment en route - officers & passengers having higher status than sailors, who were treated as prisoners-of war. By dint of selling possessions & a French government daily allowance they were often able to rent private accomodation or hire a cart for journeying, and sometimes dine out quite well. Much also on the long imprisonment at Verdun & Valenciennes - correspondence with homeland via bankers, help from Lloyds 'Patriotic Fund' (evidently something of a Red Cross forerunner) which apparently funded churches, schools, dispensaries, etc.; as well as the attitudes of the various prison staff, & some social intercourse with the local populations - most of the time was spent in private lodgings; finally, on his return, the behavior of customs officials at Dover seeming to ring a familiar bell.
Lot 806
CHURCHILL (W.S.) Marlborough: his life and times. First 2 Volume Edition. 2 portraits, 14 facsimile letters (11 folded), 18 maps (mostly folded, some coloured) & text illus. of both; original gilt cloth. 1947. * signed by author on half title of vol. 1 - 'Inscribed by / Winston S. Churchill / 1948'; i.e. to the author & editor Raleigh Trevelyan (his armorial bookplate in both volumes); & with a 6 line typed note, signed by Elizabeth Gilliat (Churchill's private secretary, on headed Hyde Park Gate notepaper) to the effect that R.A. Butler had asked Churchill to sign the set; as M.P. for Saffron Walden the former probably knew Trevelyan - who spent some time in North West Essex.
Lot 7
As was customary Rings were produced for Vice -Admirals Family and friends to wear The bezel of the Ring shown here is decorated in red and white enamel with the letters N and B below 2 coronets and the Name TRAFALGAR the hoop is inscribed PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT the Latin motto of Nelson let him who has deserved it bears the palm The inside lost to his country 21st October 1805 aged 47 by John Salter prov The Matcham Family Sussex by descent. Several of the 58 rings made are in National Maritime museum. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO VIEW 360 DEGREE IMAGESCondition: Ring in generally good condition several wear chips
Lot 160
A pair of armorial Copeland plates, 19th century, each painted in an amateur hand with figures in rural scenes, titled Kirkandrews-on-Eden, Cumberland, with the crest and coat of arms for the Norman family, signed JB Norman 28 Aug 1879, 24.2cm. (2) It is believed these plates were painted by the Reverend John Burton Norman, rector of Little Stanmore in Middlesex in 1879, but who was born in Kirkandrews-on-Eden.
Lot 211
A Meissen satirical saucer, c.1765, painted with a pig wearing a bonnet and a black cape, seated at a table and admiring a bonnet on a mannequin, being waited upon by a cat who carries away a further selection of bonnets, blue crossed swords and dot mark, and a Meissen plate, mid 19th century, painted with a lioness and three cubs, 24.3cm max. (2) The saucer with a lot label for Christie's, 31st March 2008, lot 222.
Lot 25
An engraved firing glass, mid 18th century, engraved for the Hammermen Corporation of Inverness, the flared bowl raised on a short plain stem above a thick foot, 10cm. The 'Hammermen' were metal workers, or those who forged a living through the use of a hammer, including silversmiths, blacksmiths and goldsmiths. The Scottish National Archive holds the minute book for the Inverness Hammermen from 1690-1861.
Lot 904
Eight vintage LPs to include two Eddie Cochran 33 rpm with Liberty labels, My Way and Cherished Memories, The Who Best of the Sixties with Pop Karussell label, four Gene Vincent long playing High Fidelity recordings Record Date, The Blue Caps Roll, Crazy Times, The Crazy Beat Of, and The Troggs "Wild Thing" 33 rpm
Lot 322
English School 18th Century- A miniature portrait of William Barnard of Harwich:-, head and shoulders, with powdered hair and wearing a brown jacket with white lined stock oval, 7.5cm, in a gold frame with blue enamel, seed pearl and hair plait reverse, within a red leather case, together with one other miniature portrait of the same sitter by the same hand. [2] It is likely this is the shipwright and ship builder William Barnard [b.1735], who followed in his father, John's, footsteps and served his apprenticeship in the shipbuilding yards in Deptford
Lot 875
Coates, Hamilton, an oak longcase clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, with an unusual heavy, pinned date ring, the thirteen-inch brass break-arch dial having a raised silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals and Arabic five-minute markings, the matted centre with subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, with cast brass female-head spandrels to the corners and blued steel hands, the arch having a round silvered boss engraved with the maker's name Coates, Hamilton, with cast dolphin spandrels, the oak case having a swan-neck pediment with brass paterae and wood fretwork and having three-quarter fluted columns with brass capitals repeated to the trunk and with a plain base standing on bracket feet, height 217cm. * Biography There are a number of clockmakers recorded working in Hamilton, Lanarkshire with the name Coates, including Robert from 1857 who was admitted as a Burgess in 1761; his son John who was apprenticed to Robert in 1774 and Thomas who was apprenticed to him for four years from November 1768.
Lot 215
UP AND UNDER signed by author Gwyn Martin DFM. Wellington aircrew member who flew 50 bombing missions over Europe before being shot down over Norway. POW in Dulag Luft, Stalag Luft & Belaria. He tells his wartime story frankly and fearlessly vouched for by many other POW's including those who took part in the Great Escape and survived. POW inmate vignettes include Bob Van der Stok one of only three POW's to get home in The Great Escape, tunnellers Wally Floody, and the author's revealing confrontation with Wg Cdr Bob Stanford-Tuck DSO DFC** (1st edition 1989). Pristine condition. Greying on image due to scanning only. Good condition
Lot 31
Great Escaper signed 50th ann. Stalag Luft III cover JS50/55/3. Signed by Sqn Ldr Jimmy James MC who was 39th out of the tunnel and recaptured. Jimmy James flew a Wellington bomber of IX Sqn from RAF Honing ton on the night of 5th June 1940 when he was shot down South of Rotterdam and became a prisoner of war. He was involved several escape attempts before eventually ending up in Stalag Luft 3, where he became one of the ‘Great Escapers’ on 24th March 1944. Of the 76 escapers that day 50 were executed and Jimmy James was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was kept in solitary confinement. He survived the war and eventually became a RAF Regiment until his retirement from the RAF in 1958. Good condition
Lot 33
Rudyard Kipling & Laurence Bunion. A signature piece from a letter affixed to Kipling’s poem ‘Cities and Thrones and Powers’. The opposite side of the page a Laurence Bunion affixed to his poem ‘The Little dancers’. It is in fine condition with mild creases and toning to the page. Joseph Rudyard Kipling 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936 was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gung Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined. Robert Laurence Bunion, CH (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services. Good condition
Lot 634
ZEPELLIN HINDENBURG Great War series cover dedicated to the Zeppelin raids on Britain, signed by Theo Ritter who was a mechanic on board LZ129 'Hindenburg' and survived the Lakehurst disaster. Also signed to reverse by renowned German philatelic historian Hans Rossbach, who numbered and certified this cover. Good Condition
Lot 635
HINDENBURG SURVIVOR Great War series cover dedicated to the Zeppelin raids on Britain, signed by Eugen Bentele who was a mechanic on board LZ129 'Hindenburg' and survived the Lakehurst disaster. Signed to reverse by renowned German philatelic historian Hans Rossbach, who numbered and certified this cover. Good Condition
Lot 696
CONCORDE 1st FLIGHT COMMENTATOR 1999 Inventors FDC signed by Raymond Baxter (1922-2006) who is best known for being the first presenter of Tomorrow's World, continuing for 12 years, from 1965 to 1977. He also gave radio commentary at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the funerals of King George VI, Winston Churchill and Lord Mountbatten of Burma, and the first flight of Concorde. Good Condition
Lot 707
HMS HOOD Commemorative envelope produced by ourselves, dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the launching of HMS Hood, with matching 85th anniversary BFPO 2752 postmark dated 23 August 2003 with the ships crest inset and used by kind permission of the current Lord Hood, the stamp affixed is a 1st Class stamp. This has been signed by Ted Briggs, who at the time of signing was the last living survivor of the sinking of Hood by the Bismarck. Good Condition
Lot 736
MOTOWN LEGEND 8x12 inch photo signed by Motown legend Gwen Dicky, lead singer with Rose Royce who are best known for several hit singles during the 1970s including "Car Wash," "I Wanna Get Next to You," "I'm Going Down", "Wishing on a Star", and "Love Don't Live Here Anymore". Good Condition
Lot 113
c. 30 Autograph Letters signed, mostly to his father (Evelyn, Commander, Royal Navy, 1881-1970) c. 30 Autograph Letters signed, mostly to his father, Henry Hobart Culme Seymour, on board several ships including, HMS.s. Comus, Diana, Britannia, Resolution, Nautilus etc., numerous pp., 8vo, 1898-1900, on life in the Navy and social life, "I daresay you have seen in the paper about our accident, it was rather alarming, I was at the time standing right aft, and suddenly saw the Nile going full speed coming straight into us, we all ran forward and she put her helm over to get out of our way, and crashed into our stern, carrying away our boom, which snapped into 3 bits PS Have you done anything about my going with the Duke of York to Australia, I should very much like to go, as I know several fellows who are going", folds ; and 2 other collections of correspondence, including: collections of correspondence relating to the Princesse d'Avaray and letters to Emily, Lady Lucy, wife of Sir Henry Lucy (1843-1923), journalist, including, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Edward Terry, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Lord Roberts, Herbert Maxwell, E.V. Lucas etc., v.s., v.d. (qty).
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Lot 24
Jerome (Jerome K.) - The Diary of a Pilgrimage, illustrations by G.G.Fraser, Bristol & London, [1891]; The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 16pp. catalogue at end, 1898; My Life and Times, review copy with stamp on half-title, frontispiece, with tipped-in 3pp. A.L.s. from the author explaining how he got his middle name " Klapka was an Hungarian gentleman - something in the revolutionary line - who in some way became a friend of my father " and concerning German editions of his work, modern half russet morocco, spine gilt, [1926], first editions , the first two original cloth, the first a little rubbed and soiled ; and 3 others by or about Jerome, 8vo (6)
Lot 258
Fleming (Ian) - Thunderball, jacket spine lightly browned, some light creasing to head, 1961; The Spy Who Loved Me, jacket price-clipped and with 15s. price sticker, spine slightly darkened, some patches of browning and light surface soiling, 1962; You Only Live Twice, jacket spine slightly browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, lightly rubbed at extremities, 1964, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo (3)
Lot 286
Le Carré (John) - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, second impression before publication, slight shelf lean, jaket spine lightly faded, 1963; The Looking-Glass War, jacket faded at spine and head, very short closed tear to head of upper panel, 1965; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, jacket spine faded, short closed tear with accompanying creasing to foot, 1974; The Honourable Schoolboy, 1977; Smiley's People, jacket spine faded, 1980; Our Game, 1995, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets ; and 23 others first editions by or about the same, 8vo (29)
Lot 37
Chesterton (G.K.) - The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare, first edition , modern half morocco, 1908; Man Alive, first edition , original cloth, 1912; Magic: A Fantastic Comedy, number 13 of 150 copies on Japon signed by the author , original boards, [1913]; The Collected Poems, one of 350 copies signed by the author, original vellum-backed boards, t.e.g., others uncut, 1927; Autobiography, one of 250 copies, original calf-backed cloth, 1936 § Belloc (Hilaire) The Path to Rome, faint inscription on half-title, pencil note "From the library of Father O'Connor the original Father Brown" on front pastedown, original cloth with illustration mounted on upper cover, 1902, a few plates or illustrations, slighlty rubbed or faded ; and 24 others, mostly by or about Chesterton and Belloc, 8vo (30)
Lot 38
Wilde (Oscar) - Lady Windermere's Fan, 1908; The Importance of Being Earnest, 1908; Intentions and The Soul of Man, 1908; Reviews, 1908; For Love of the King: A Burmese Masque, 1922, limited editions, endpapers a little spotted, uniform original decorated cream buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, one or two with very slight soiling, the last a little browned, [Mason 425, 431, 435 & 445 (first four)] 8vo, Methuen & Co. (5) The first four are part of the first collected edition of Wilde's works, published in 1908 in 14 volumes. The last is a notable literary hoax attributed to Oscar Wilde, but not actually written by him; the Wilde bibliographer and literary critic Christopher Millard ("Stuart Mason")challenged the publisher's attribution of the play to Wilde and sued them in 1926. Apparently the play was actually written by Mrs. Chan Toon (née Mabel Cosgrove), who under the guise of "M. Wodehouse Pearse" had attempted to sell forged letters to Millard. Methuen never reprinted the book.
Lot 42
Drinkwater (John) - Abraham Lincoln, A Play, first edition, signed and inscribed by the author on half-title, also by J.William J.Rea who played the lead role in the play beneath a tipped-in portrait and a quotation by Lincoln "You can't do the right thing the wrong way"on facing leaf, book-label of John Henry v.Schröder, original boards, a little rubbed, spine faded, 1918; The Collected Poems, number 295 of 530 copies, signed and inscribed by the author with verse on limitation leaf, original cloth, dust-jacket, soiled, slightly defective at foot of spine, 1923; The Collected Poems, 3 vol., vol.1 & 2 number 90 of 230 copies signed by the author at end of Preface, original cream buckram, vol.3 red buckram and slightly smaller, 1923-37; The Collected Plays, 2 vol., number 198 of 230 copies signed by the author at end of Preface, original cream buckram, 1925; Inheritance [and] Discovery Autobiography, together 2 vol., vol.1 with tipped-in T.L.s. from the author to William McCready, vol.2 with A.L.s. from Eddie Marsh to Drinkwater thanking him for his congratulations on his knighthood "Thank you so much. I never wanted to be a 'K' before, but now it makes a good Finale - Allegro", both original cloth, dust-jackets, 1931-32, some plates, most spines slightly faded or browned ; and 4 others by Drinkwater, one signed, 8vo & small 4to (13) Abraham Lincoln was Drinkwater's first big success in the theatre, Lincoln's concerns with the American Civil War striking a chord with Britain's post-war feeling. First performed in Birmingham in 1918, it was brought to London the following year and, after a slow start, became a hit when the playwright himself stepped into the part for one night when Rea was indisposed.
Lot 49
Great Western Railway. - Cathedrals; Abbeys; Castles, together 3 vol., the second with title foxed, all bound in modern half morocco of different colours, spines gilt and a little faded, t.e.g., 1924-26 § Clifton-Taylor (Alec) The Pattern of English Building, 1962 § Sitwell (Sacheverell) British Architects and Craftsmen, 1945 § Parker (Eric) Surrey, signed and inscribed by the author to Harold Barnes, n.d. § Cannan (Joanna) Oxfordshire, signed by Alison Uttley (who wrote the Buckinghamshire volume), n.d., illustrations, some colour, the last four original cloth with dust-jackets, slightly rubbed, one or two frayed at edges ; and 30 others, topography etc. including 13 more volumes of The County Book series, 2 bound, 4to & 8vo (37)
Lot 55
Barrie (J.M.) - The Plays of J.M.Barrie. Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, original blue cloth, paper labels, cream dust-jacket, spine very slightly soiled and frayed at ends, still a very good copy, 1928; another copy, publisher's deluxe binding of original limp blue roan, gilt, 1928; The Little White Bird, frontispiece, original blue buckram, spine faded, 1902; A Window in Thrums, number 48 of 50 copies with an additional set of plates on Japon and signed by the author and artist , from an edition limited to 560, etched plates by William Hole, original buckram, uncut, spine a little faded, 1892; Courage [Rectorial Address], large paper copy , original cream cloth, t..e.g., others uncut, [1922] § Mackail (Denis) The Story of J.M.B., with tipped-in A.L.s. from Barrie to Horne dated 1910, modern half morocco, gilt, spine faded, 1941; Tales from Greenery Street, inscribed by the author to Barrie "For J.M.B. from Denis Mackail with more than meets the eye. May 1928" on front free endpaper, original cloth, 1928, first editions ; and 15 others by or about Barrie, 8vo (22) The first was issued as part of the Uniform Edition of Barrie's plays; the third contains the first appearance of Peter Pan.
Lot 304
Circle of Sebastiano Conca (1676-1764) Penitent Magdalene, oil on canvas, framed with an ornate gilt frame, 50 x 60cm He was born at Gaeta, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, and apprenticed in Naples under Francesco Solimena. In 1706, along with his brother Giovanni, who acted as his assistant, he settled at Rome, where for several years he worked in chalk only, to improve his drawing. He was patronized by the Cardinal Ottoboni, who introduced him to Clement XI, who commissioned a well-received Jeremiah painted for the church of St. John Lateran. Conca was knighted by the pope. He collaborated with Carlo Maratta in the Coronation of Santa Cecilia in the namesake's church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere (1721-24). He was elected in 1718 to the Accademia di San Luca and its director in 1729-1731 and 1739-1741. His painting was strongly influenced by the Baroque painter Luca Giordano. Among Conca's pupils were Pompeo Battoni, Andrea Casali, Placido Campoli, Corrado Giaquinto, Gaetano Lapis, Salvatore Monosilio, Literio Paladini, Drancesco Preziao, Rosalba Maria Salvioni, Gasparo Serenari, and Agostino Masucci He received widespread official acclaim and patronage. He worked for a time for the Savoy family in Turin on the Oratory of San Filippo and Santa Teresa, in the Venaria (1721-1725), for Basilica di Superga (1726), and Royal Palace (1733). He painted frescoes of Probatica, or Pool of Siloam, in the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala (hospital) of Siena. In Genoa, he painted large allegorical canvases of the Palazzo Lomellini-Doria (1738-1740). In 1739, he published a guide to painting: Ammonimenti (or Admonishments), which blended moralistic advice with technique. He returned to Naples in 1752, and enjoyed the royal patronage of Charles III. His studio was prodigious and he painted frescoes for the Church of Santa Chiara (1752-1754), five canvases for the Chapel in Caserta Palace (now lost), as well as many others including for the Benedictines of Aversa (1761), a History of Saint Francis of Paola for the Sanctuary of Saint Maria di Pozzano of Castellammare di Stabia (1762-1763), and many other altarpieces. He painted till late in life. Among the works that reflect his late-Baroque style are paintings such as The Vision of Aeneas in the Elysian Fields (c. 1735/1740); the scene is crowded with mythologic and classical figures, adrift in academic quotation, and enveloped by a world of overwrought with allegory. Dancing or flying putti proliferate. The landscape is often a billowing cloud. Even in a more intimate scene such as Rinaldo & Armida, instead of depicting the focused scene between two lovers, love itself has to be allegorized as an intruding, hovering cupid. Similarly, the somber introspection of the moment recounted by Christ at the Garden of Gesthmane is afflicted with a cascade of angels. It is an mannerist Baroque, not its distilled apotheosis, but a distanced elaboration from its roots in Carracci and Cortona.
Lot 308
Circle of Francesco Renaldi (1755-1798) Portrait of a young gentleman playing his cello in an interior' circa 1780, oil on canvas, framed, 'Zoffany' label fixed to base of frame, 76 x 64cm Francesco Renaldi was an English-born painter of Italian heritage about whose life little is known. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in London in 1776, aged twenty-one. For two years after 1781 Renaldi traveled in Italy, initially with Thomas Jones, the Welsh landscape painter and pupil of Richard Wilson. Evidently on at least one occasion Jones exploited Renaldi's name to pass himself off as an Irish catholic in order to gain access to the prior of a monastery at Caserta near Naples-which would normally have been inaccessible to him on sectarian grounds-but Renaldi seems to have accepted this with good grace, even affability. Years later, in 1798, he exhibited at the Royal Academy a workmanlike but affectionate group portrait of the Jones family, which is now in the collection of the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff; it may contain the artist's discreet but cheerful self-portrait. Upon returning to London in 1783, Renaldi attempted without success to establish himself as a portrait painter at 2, Portugal Street, a modest house tucked behind Lincoln's Inn Fields, on the Thames side. On November 3, Jones was pleasantly surprised to bump into Renaldi in Fleet Street, and the two dined together not long afterwards. In 1785, perhaps frustrated by commercial sluggishness, even sensing the prospect of professional failure in a highly competitive metropolitan market for portraits, Renaldi applied to the East India Company for permission to travel to Bengal. He supplied the names and addresses of two guarantors-Mr. Job Hart Price of Aldershot House, and Robert Codd of the 59th Regiment of Foot. These sureties were obviously acceptable to the company, because the following February Renaldi was given formal approval to go. He sailed aboard the Hillsborough, and reached Calcutta in August 1786. For ten years Renaldi lived in Calcutta, Lucknow (working, it is believed, for Asaf ud-Daulah, the Nawab Wazir of Oudh), and in Dacca (now the capital city of Bangladesh). He was therefore one of only a relatively small number of European painters-among them William Hodges, Johan Zoffany, Tilly Kettle, and Ozias Humphry (all of whom are represented in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art)-who spent extended periods painting portraits of and for the nabobs (English, Scottish, and Anglo-Irish gentlemen of the East India Company whose tendency was to “go native”) and their more or less official Indian mistresses, or bibis. By 1796 Francesco Renaldi was back in England. To the following year's summer exhibition at the Royal Academy he sent paintings of two Industany ladies, and one Mogul lady-all three were presumably bibis, possibly including this one-and also listed his address as 69, Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, very close to what is now Oxford Circus. In 1798 he may have exhibited a portrait of his own family, about whom we know nothing. Thereafter he vanishes from view, but completely.
Lot 349
Alfred Edward Chalon (1780-1861) Portrait of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coberg and Gotha, The Prince Consort (1819-1861) water and body colour on paper, framed, (loose) 31 x 42cm According to Eugene Barilo von Reisberg, He believes the watercolour was painted after February 1840, when Albert arrived in England, and was made a Field-Marshall (hence he is painted wearing the red Field-Marshall's uniform), but perhaps before May 1841, when Albert was invested with the Order of the Golden Fleece (you would notice that almost all portraits of Albert after that date show him wearing both Orders of the Garter and of the Golden Fleece). Winterhalter did not arrive in England until June 1842. Hence, it is most likely that this watercolour can be attributed either to Alfred Edward Chalon, John Lucas, or perhaps even George Hayter, who all worked for the Queen and Prince at the time. However, stylistically, He is more inclined to attribute the work to Albert Edward Chalon, who is recorded to have painted watercolours of Prince Albert in August 1840 (he also painted Queen Victoria between 1838 and 1839; Chalon's head of Queen Victoria was most famously adapted for the use on British postage stamps). Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (in full Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel), later The Prince Consort, (26 August 1819 - 14 December 1861) was the husband and consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was the only husband of a British queen regnant to have formally held the title of Prince Consort. Upon Queen Victoria's death in 1901, the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha succeeded the House of Hanover on the British throne. The idea of a marriage between Albert and his cousin Victoria had always been cherished by their uncle, King Leopold I of Belgium, as well as Victoria's mother (Leopold's sister), the Duchess of Kent, and in May 1836 the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his two sons paid a visit to Kensington Palace, where Princess Victoria of Kent (as she then was titled) lived, for the purpose of meeting her. Alfred Chalon was born in Geneva from a father who soon was hired as professor at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, in England. With his brother John James (1778-1854), Alfred became an artist. Entered at the Royal Academy in 1797, he joined the Associated Artists in Water-Colours, a group of aquarellists. In the Academy, he was elected associated in 1812, then academician in 1816. Known for his portraits of the good society of London, he was chosen by Queen Victoria to paint a gift to her mother: Victoria in her State robes going to the House of Lords for her first official act, the prorogation of the Parliament, on 17 July 1847. After this task, Chalon was entitled Portrait Painter in Water Colour to Her Majesty and gained some celebrity. His 1847 portrait was engraved by Samuel Cousins and distributed to the public the day of Victoria's coronation, the 28 June 1848. Then, starting in 1851, the "Chalon head" appeared on some British colonies postage stamps. Bachelors, the Chalon brothers lived together. Alfred died in 1860 at Campden Hill, in Kensington.
Lot 112
•GRAYSON PERRY "F*****g cow, how dare you say that" - The workings of the mind depicted as a motorbike in parts, pencil with black and red pen and ink, signed, 8.25" x 11.75". See illustration. This work was donated to Blandford-based mental support group, Willow Tree Group by Grayson Perry himself. Having seen the artist on BBC's Newsnight, Barrie Smith, a member of Willow Tree Group, wrote a letter to the Saatchi Gallery who represent Perry in the hope that they may be able to donate an artwork in order to raise much needed funds for the group. A few weeks later, a jiffy bag arrived containing the artwork with a yellow post-it note attached which read: 'Dear Barrie, This Drawing by Grayson Perry is for the Willow Tree Group Silent Auction. It is probably worth about £2000. Good luck!'. The sketch will be sold with the original packaging and Post-it note as received by Barrie Smith.
Lot 238
CIRCLE OF THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH R.A. (1727-1788) A portrait of John Parke (1745-1829), seated at a table beside an oboe and holding sheet music, three-quarter length, oil on canvas, 48" x 37.5", in a gilt gesso frame bearing namepiece "John Parke. Thomas Gainsborough. R.A.". John Parke (1745-1829) oboist, who studied the oboe under Simpson and musical theory under Baumgarten. John Parke was appointed principal oboe at the opera, and in the same year he played at the first Birmingham Festival, and also at the Three Choirs Festival at Hereford. He continued to perform at The Three Choirs Festival for 35 years. During his career he was also a concerto player at Vauxhall Gardens, first oboe at Drury Lane Theatre, and a chamber musician employed by the Prince of Wales. Provenance: The Batten family, Church Farm, Ryme Intrinseca, Dorset.
Lot 121
Chinese rhino horn libation cup, the horn of deep toffee tone, carved with branches and blossom, 16 cm x 8 cm high, 169 grams PROVENANCE; deceased Scottish Estate belonged to the father of the current vendor who was purchasing his collection in Glasgow in the1950s and 1960s A few slight chips and a small abrasion on the rim and another on the base, two petals chipped with losses
Lot 52
Chinese silver four piece tea service comprising tea pot, cream jug, sugar bowl, kettle on stand, with embossed chrysanthemum decoration, stand not marked 69oz, 2145g gross weight, marked 'WH 90' and with Chinese characters, with letter from Mr C J Cole Esq who travelled in China in the late Victorian period, Overall condition good various light scratches and tarnishing throughout apart from the stand which one of the forks has come away and needs repairing. All pieces marked.
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