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26 March | Old Master, British and European Art

Auction date Wednesday 26 March 2025 11:00 - 17:00 GMT

GASPAR PEETER VERBRUGGEN (FLEMISH, 1664-1730)

Wednesday 26 March
Lots 801- 1001 Old Master, British & European Art 11am

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Total lots: 200

Lot 898 Unsold
ATTRIBUTED TO KER XAVIER ROUSSEL (FRENCH, 1867-1944)
Deianeira abducted by the Centaur Nessus
oil on canvas
192 x 192cm

Provenance
Commissioned by Thadée Natanson;
Property of the late Michael Blyth-Whitelock
Estimate: £5,000 - £7,000
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 899 Sold
ALEXANDER BRANTINGHAM SIMPSON (BRITISH, FL. 1904-1931)
The Blue Vase
signed 'SIMPSON' (lower left)
oil on board
25.5 x 18.5cm
Condition reportInconsistency to the level of the board, lower right, otherwise the board is sound…
Hammer price: £800
Estimate: £400 - £600
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 900 Sold
THEODORE ROUSSEAU (FRENCH, 1812-1867)
Paysage des Landes
oil on paper laid down on canvas
26 x 40.5 cm

Provenance
Comiot collection, Paris;
with Galerie Aubry, Paris;
Purchased from the above by Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London, in January 1959, inv. no. 7293, titled Landscape at Fontainebleau with cloudy sky;
Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 5-6 July 1961, lot 30A, titled La Lande;
Purchased from the above by Walter Goetz, thence by descent to the present owner

Literature
L'Amour de l'Art, no. 4, February 1927, p.118, illustrated p. 114.
Condition ReportOriginal canvas; the paint surface is dirty with areas of discoloured, uneven…
Hammer price: £2,800
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 901 Sold
ANTOINE GUILLEMET (FRENCH, 1843-1918)
View of a village
signed 'A Guillemet' (lower left)
oil on canvas
32.5 x 40.5cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £600 - £800
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 902 Sold
ALBERT LUDOVICI JUNIOR (BRITISH, 1852-1932)
Men and women about town
signed 'Ludovici' (lower left)
oil on canvas
40.5 x 56cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £500 - £800
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 903 Sold
R*** BENTLEY HAMLYN
An extensive landscape
indistinctly signed (lower right)
watercolour
27.5 x 36.5cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £50 - £100
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 904 Unsold
AFTER JOHN CONSTABLE
Weymouth Bay, Bowleaze Cove and Jordan Hill
oil on canvas
50.5 x 76cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 905 Unsold
ATRIBUTED TO ADOLPHUS KNELL (2)
Shipping at sunrise; Shipping at sunset, a pair
oil on board
each 9 x 17.5cm
(2)
Estimate: £200 - £400
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 906 Sold
LÉON RODOLPHE BERTOUT (SWISS, 1822-1892)
Castel dell’Ovo, Naples
signed and dated 'Leon Berthoud 1867' (lower left), inscribed 'No.2 Castel dell'Ovo vu de la Villa Real/ NAPLES' (on the cradling to backboard)
oil on panel
20 x 36.5cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Condition reportPanel has been cradled.Craquelure, including a few fine, long cracks around the…
Hammer price: £250
Estimate: £300 - £500
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 907 Sold
JOHN BRETT (BRITISH, 1831-1902)
Irish Sea
incised inscription and indistinctly dated 'Irish Sea 9.1 Aug (?)' (lower right)
oil on board
18 x 35.5cm

Provenance
Sale, Bonhams, London, 16th September 1971, lot 157, as a pair with 'Welsh Coast';
The Old Customs House, Lymington, Hampshire (purchased from the above sale);
Private collection, UK (purchased from the above as a pair with 'Welsh Coast')

Literature
D. Brook-Hart, British 19th Century Marine Painting, Suffolk, 1974, p. 143, pl. 42.
FootnoteBrett's characteristic incised inscription gives details of the subject, day and month, but…
Hammer price: £650
Estimate: £500 - £800
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 908 Sold
GEORGE WILLEM OPDENHOFF (DUTCH, 1807-1873)
Loading the barges
signed 'G W Opdenhoff' (lower left)
oil on canvas
47 x 66.5cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Condition ReportThe canvas has been relined; paint surface in good, clean condition with a few…
Hammer price: £650
Estimate: £500 - £700
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 909 Sold
ATTRIBUTED TO FREDERICK CALVERT (BRITISH, C. 1785-C. 1844)
Off Scarborough
oil on canvas
46 x 61cm

Provenance
The selected contents of Coltmans House, Berkshire
Condition ReportCanvas relined; surface abrasions off the right, middle border; stretcher marks…
Hammer price: £700
Estimate: £400 - £600
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 910 Unsold
SAMUEL C. BIRD (BRITISH, D. 1893)
Fisherman with a woman on the shore
signed and dated 'SBird 1891' (lower right)
oil on canvas
51 x 76.5cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Estimate: £300 - £500
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 911 Sold
ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN CHRISTIAN SCHETKY (BRITISH, 1778-1874)
Shipping off the coast
oil on canvas
70 x 108cm
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £500 - £700
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 912 Unsold
AFTER JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER
The Sun of Venice Going to Sea
oil on board
22 x 31.5cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Estimate: £300 - £500
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 913 Sold
MANNER OF WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE
Yachts and steam ships
oil on canvas
79.5 x 137.5cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £300 - £500
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 914 Sold
JOHN WHITE (BRITISH, 1851-1933)
On Branscombe Beach
signed with initials and dated 'J White/96' (lower left); signed, dated and titled 'John White/ Branscombe 1896' (verso)
oil on canvas-board
25 x 35.5cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £380
Estimate: £200 - £400
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 915 Sold
HENRY SCOTT TUKE (BRITISH, 1858-1929)
Sailing ships at anchor
signed and dated 'H.S. TUKE 1914' (lower right)
watercolour
34 x 49cm

Provenance
Sale, Christie's, London, May 1968, lot 111 (sold for 22 guineas);
With The Fine Art Society, 1968, ref. M6765;
Ronald Molden, Tenby;
With the Canon Gallery, Petworth;
Sale, Desmond Judd, 23rd June 1997, lot 681, where acquired by the present owner
Tuke's register of paintings lists a number of watercolours which could be the present work; the…
Hammer price: £2,800
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 916 Sold
HENRY SCOTT TUKE (BRITISH, 1858-1929)
Wood boats from Dalmatia, Venice
signed and dated 'H.S. Tuke 1899' (lower right)
watercolour
24.5 x 45cm

Provenance
Probably Tuke register R315, bought by Cecil R.L. Brooks (based on an entry in Tuke's diary, September 1899);
By descent to Henry Cecil Brooks;
Sale, Bonhams, 23rd September 2004, lot 370, where acquired by the present owner

Literature
The Diary of Henry Scott Tuke 1923-1925, transcribed by B.D. Price;
Catching the Light - The Art and Life of Henry Scott Tuke, Catherine Wallace, 2008, p.80
FootnoteThe present work was painted by Tuke during his visit to Venice in May 1899 when he stayed…
Hammer price: £2,800
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 917 Sold
HENRY SCOTT TUKE (BRITISH, 1858-1929)
Samwell sitting on a blue dug-out
signed and dated 'H.S. Tuke 1924' (lower right)
oil on canvas
39 x 29cm

Provenance
Geoffrey Sainsbury (The artist's nephew);
Henry Shemilt;
Acquired from the above in 1963 by Brian D. Price;
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature
The Diary of Henry Scott Tuke 1923-1925, transcribed by B.D. Price;
Catching the Light - The Art and Life of Henry Scott Tuke, Catherine Wallace, 2008, plate 131.
FootnoteTuke painted the present work on 10th January 1924, and recorded the following entry in his…
Hammer price: £5,500
Estimate: £5,000 - £8,000
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 918 Unsold
HENRY SCOTT TUKE (BRITISH, 1858-1929)
Custom House Quay, Falmouth
signed with initials 'H.S.T.' (lower right); inscribed 'Custom House Quay/ Falmouth/ Guaranteed to be the work of H.S. TUKE/ W. Tuke Sainsbury/ November 1929/ executor' (on an old label attached to the backboard)
watercolour
17 x 23.5cm

Provenance
The Estate of Henry Scott Tuke, 1929;
With Chomé Fine Art, Bath, from whom acquired by the present owner
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 919 Unsold
ARTHUR JOHN TREVOR BRISCOE (BRITISH, 1873-1943)
Low Water, Brixham
signed, dated and titled 'A Briscoe 33' (lower right)
watercolour
37 x 52cm

Provenance
The Fine Art Society, London. November 1943, no. 75;
Nicholas Bowlby Watercolours 1869;
Private collection, UK
Estimate: £600 - £800
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 920 Sold
DUDLEY KIBBLER (BRITISH, EXH. 1915-1920)
Boys swimming off a rowing boat
signed and dated 'Dudley Kibbler 1917' (lower right)
oil on card
26 x 36.5cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £150 - £250
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 921 Sold
MARIA TUKE (BRITISH, 1861-1947) (7)
Henry Scott Tuke. R.A., R.W.S. A Memoir. London: Martin Secker, 1933. 8vo (218 x 140mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece portrait, plates (some staining to title). original blue buckram gilt. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, with separate note inscribed 'from Mrs M.T Sainsbury/ 5 Provost Rd./ Hampstead/ NW3/ With many thanks/ for your idea & cheque/ I do hope you will/ like the book/ Dec 5 1933 MTS'
Together with three letters from the author to Andrew Dennison and four from him in response
(7)
ProvenancePrivate collection, UKFootnoteDated between 7th September 1933 and 14th March 1934, the…
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £150 - £250
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 922 Unsold
ARTHUR BRISCOE (BRITISH, 1873-1943) THE COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF ETCHINGS AND DRY-POINTS BY JAMES LAVER
Published by Halton & Truscott Smith Ltd., 57 Haymarket, 1930; numbered 117 from a limited edition of 250 copies; including The Anchor, signed 'Arthur Briscoe' (lower right), original etching, 18 x 16cm (attached opposite frontispiece)

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Condition Reportsome damp staining to binding and fading to spine; tissue guard creased, otherwise…
Estimate: £400 - £600
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 923 Unsold
GEORGE OYSTON (BRITISH, 1861-1937) (2)
Near Pulborough, Sussex; On the Arun, Sussex, a pair
each signed and dated 'George Oyster 1925' (lower left)
watercolour
each 25 x 35cm
(2)

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Estimate: £80 - £120
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 924 Sold
CHARLES BROOKE BRANWHITE (BRITISH, 1851-1929)
A Frozen Ferry
signed and dated 'C Branwhite 69' (lower right) and with inscribed label (to backboard)
watercolour heightened with bodycolour
39 x 75cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £350
Estimate: £400 - £600
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 925 Unsold
ANTONIO DE SIMONE (ITALIAN, 1851-1907) (2)
Thetis in a Calm; Thetis in a Storm
a pair, each signed 'De Simone 88' (lower right)
gouache
31 x 46cm; and 32 x 45cm
Estimate: £600 - £800
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 926 Sold
AUGUSTUS OSBORNE LAMPLOUGH (BRITISH, 1877-1930) (2)
The Nile; An Oasis
a pair, each signed and indistinctly dated 'A Lamplough' (lower left)
watercolour
each 22 x 60.5cm
(2)

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £400 - £600
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 927 Unsold
HECTOR CAFFIERI (BRITISH, 1847-1932)
Off to the North Sea
signed 'H. Caffieri' (lower right)
watercolour heightened with white
45 x 58.5cm
Estimate: £600 - £800
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 928 Sold
JOHN MACWHIRTER (BRITISH, 1839-1911)
Mediterranean coastline
signed 'MacW' (lower right)
watercolour
22 x 33cm

Provenance
Property from the collection of art critic Terence Mullaly
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £100 - £200
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 929 Sold
ENGLISH SCHOOL. 19TH/20TH CENTURY
Lady reading by a river
signed with monogram 'THM' (lower right)
watercolour
22 x 31.5cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £50 - £100
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 930 Unsold
HENRY JOHN YEEND KING (BRITISH, 1855-1924)
The Watermill
signed 'YEEND KING' (lower left)
watercolour heightened with white
33.5 x 50cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Estimate: £150 - £250
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 931 Sold
ROWLAND WRIGHT ALSTON (BRITISH, 1895-1958)
Study of a Haileybury boy
signed with initials and dated 'Rwa 1922' (lower right); inscribed 'R.W Alston, of Compton. b.189-/ A Boy's head. signed with initials and/ dated 1922. An early drawing of a/ Haileybury boy made when Alston was teaching drawing there. D644. LGD' on and old label attached to the backboard
pencil on paper
20.5 x 16.5cm
ARR

Provenance
The Collection of L.G. Duke;
With Abbott & Holder, 1962;
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £100 - £200
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 932 Sold
ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES DANA GIBSON (AMERICAN, 1867-1944)
The Eternal Question
titled, signed with initials and dated 'D.G. 6/09' (lower centre)
pen and ink
31.5 x 19.5cm
ProvenanceThe Estate of the Late Kenneth Partridgehttps://www.bellmans.co.uk/story/the-collection…
Hammer price: £450
Estimate: £500 - £800
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 933 Sold
JOSEPH POWELL (BRITISH, 1780-1834)
Whitby
signed 'JOSEPH POWELL' (lower left)
watercolour
31.5 x 52.5cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £80 - £120
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 934 Sold
RICHARD HENRY WRIGHT (BRITISH, 1857-1930)
Market scene, Verona
watercolour
23 x 18.5cm

Provenance
Martyn Gregory, London;
Property from the collection of art critic Terence Mullaly
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £150 - £250
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 935 Unsold
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER (IRISH, 1871-1945)
Irish landscape
signed Douglas Alexander' (lower left)
watercolour heightened with white
18 x 26cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Estimate: £100 - £150
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 936 Sold
WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE (BRITISH, 1851-1931)
Holy Island from Vileann Point
signed and titled 'W.L. Wyllie' (lower right)
watercolour
19 x 43cm

Provenance
W.B. Simpson, Glasgow;
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £200 - £400
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 937 Sold
WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE (BRITISH, 1851-1931)
Fishing smacks in a calm
signed 'WL Wyllie' (lower right)
watercolour
10.5 x 20m

Provenance
Property from the collection of art critic Terence Mullaly
Condition reportThe sheet is sound, minor spots of surface dirt, lower right; glass is extremely…
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 938 Unsold
R*** MARKES (BRITISH, 19TH/20TH CENTURY) (2)
A steam tug; A collier barge
a pair, watercolour
each 9 x 11.5cm
(2)

Provenance
Wyllie Gallery, London;
Private collection, UK
Estimate: £80 - £120
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 939 Unsold
JAMES MCBEY (SCOTTISH, 1883-1959)
The Zuider Zee
signed 'James McBey' (lower left margin)
etching
21 x 37.5cm
ARR

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Estimate: £150 - £250
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 940 Sold
DOROTHY FULCHER (BRITISH, 20TH CENTURY)
The Houses of Parliament
signed 'Dorothy Fulcher' (lower right)
etching
10 x 15cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £50 - £80
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 941 Sold
ROWLAND LANGMAID (BRITISH, 1897-1956)
The Royal Air Force Memorial, Embankment
signed 'Rowland Langmaid' (lower right margin)
etching
23 x 16cm
ARR

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £50 - £80
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 942 Sold
WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE (BRITISH, 1851-1931)
Sea Scouts at Old Portsmouth
signed 'W L Wyllie' (lower left margin)
etching
15 x 25cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £170
Estimate: £100 - £150
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 943 Sold
WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE (BRITISH, 1851-1931)
Villefranche
signed 'W.L. Wyllie' ( lower left)
etching
16 x 37.5cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £100 - £150
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 944 Sold
WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE (BRITISH, 1851-1931) (2)
How the Fleet came to Anchor
a pair, each signed 'W L Wyllie' (lower left margin)
etchings
each 10 x 22cm
(2)

Provenance
W.B. Simpson, Galshow;
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £200 - £400
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Lot 945 Sold
WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE (BRITISH, 1851-1931)
Jamaica
signed 'W.L. Wyllie' (lower left margin)
etching
20 x 14.5cm

Provenance
Private collection, UK
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £150 - £250
26 March 2025
26 March 2025

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