Antiques & Collectors Items
The CANTERBURY AUCTION Galleries
Tuesday, December 08 2009
Chistmas Auction of Fine Art,Antiques and Collectors Items
Viewing Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 12pm-4pm, Monday 10am-7pm immediately prior to sale. Open on mornings of sale (Tuesday and Wednesday) from 8.30am until 10am for viewing. Sale starts promptly at 10am each day. Please remember that if you want to leave a commission bid or bid by telephone we need all instructions by Monday 6.30pm before sale.
Lot 86 SOLD FOR: £ 5600
John Bratby (1928-1992) - Oil painting -"John Lee's Boat in Blackheath Studio" - Interior of studio with a boat on a trailer and snooker table to foreground, canvas 54ins x 34ins, signed"Bratby" in blue, the edges of canvas with pine battening, bears artist's framing instructions especially for pictures pasted to rear of canvas with address 7 Hardy Road, Blackheath, London SE3 Provenance : Purchased by vendor direct from the artist in 1988, picture exhibited in London Gallery but not sold and vendor visited Bratby in his home in Hastings to view and purchase the picture
Guide Price: £3000-5000
Lot 87 SOLD FOR: £ 900
Carel Weight (1908-1997) - Oil painting -"Farm" - Figure shovelling silage with farmhouse to background, canvas 18ins x 24ins, signed in full to top left corner, in gilt moulded frame Provenance : Fieldborne Galleries, 63 Queens Grove, St. Johns Wood, London NW8 6ER, with copy of invoice dated 23rd October 1982, price
Guide Price: £800-1200
Graham Derbyshire (20th Century British) - Oil painting -"Dorset Road, Vauxhall (No. 1)" - View looking over roofs of houses, canvas 18ins x 24ins, with label to reverse, in narrow stained pine frame Note:- ARR. Provenance : Fieldborne Galleries, 63 Queens Grove, St. Johns Wood, London NW8 6ER, with copy of invoice dated 3rd December 1983, price
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 89 SOLD FOR: £ 500
Olwyn Bowey (born 1936) - Oil painting -"Artists and Flower Study" - Still life of jug of flowers and toilet mirror on a chest of drawers, canvas 24ins x 20ins, apparently unsigned, in original grey painted wide frame. Note:- ARR Provenance : Fieldborne Galleries, 63 Queens Grove, St. Johns Wood, London NW8 6ER, with copy of invoice dated 28th September 1982, price
Guide Price: £300-500
Edward Wolfe (1897-1981) - Oil painting - Abstract - Multi-coloured lozenges, 14.5ins x 17ins (circa 1950), in modern white painted box frame and glazed
Guide Price: £450-600
Lot 92 SOLD FOR: £ 650
Jean Young (1914-1995) - Oil painting -"Planting Bulbs" - Six figures in a field planting bulbs, canvas 30ins x 20ins, signed in full in blue, in original painted and grained frame Provenance : Bears Federation of British Artists label to reverse with address for 6 Gatehill Road, Northwood, Middlesex, also chalked on reverse of canvas"Durban R.B.A. Galleries, Suffolk Street Entrance" and label for James Bourlet & Sons, No. P5118
Guide Price: £450-600
Jean Young (1914-1995) - Oil painting - Still life with jug of mixed flowers and fruit, canvas 30ins x 20ins, signed in full in blue, in modern white painted deep moulded frame
Guide Price: £500-700
Lot 94 SOLD FOR: £ 180
J.T. Midgley (20th Century English School) - Oil painting - Heath scene with trees to foreground, canvas 12ins x 24ins, signed, in deep gilt moulded and swept frame and glazed (frame cracked and pieces missing in places)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 95 SOLD FOR: £ 900
Peter Brannan (born 1929) - Oil painting - Irish bar room interior, canvas 10ins x 14ins, signed in full and dated
Guide Price: £450-600
Lot 96 SOLD FOR: £ 220
E. Cloy Vincent (?) - Oil painting - Theatre interior with figures asleep in stalls, board 12.5ins x 9.25ins, signed, and with remnants of label pasted to reverse, in modern gilt moulded frame
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 97 SOLD FOR: £ 280
Friedrich E. Wolfrom (1857-1920) - Oil painting - Nude bather, board 15ins x 8.5ins, initialled and dated 1912 (?), in carved gilt frame with star to crest and dolphins to apron
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 98 SOLD FOR: £ 500
19th Century English School - Oil painting -"The Sad News" - Interior Drawing Room with a mother dressed in black and a child being comforted by a Nun, panel 20ins x 27ins, apparently unsigned, in gilt moulded and swept frame
Guide Price: £500-700
Lot 99 SOLD FOR: £ 290
James Greenlees (1820-1894) - Oil painting -"Loch Maree, Ross-Shire" - Landscape with loch to foreground and cloud covered mountains to background, canvas 12ins x 18ins, signed and dated 1882, and signed, dated and inscribed to rear of canvas in artist's hand, contained in modern gilt moulded and swept frame
Guide Price: £300-500
Lot 100 SOLD FOR: £ 320
Benjamin William Leader (1831-1923) - Oil painting - Moorland scene, board 12ins x 18ins, signed, in modern gilt moulded and swept frame Provenance : Regency Fine Arts, 123 Wetherby Road, Harrogate, purchased 5th December 1986, price
Guide Price: £350-500
Lot 101 SOLD FOR: £ 100
Sydney Seymour Lucas (19th/20th Century) - Oil painting -"Cellist" - Interior scene with a gentleman's in 18th Century dress playing a cello, canvas 12ins x 14ins, signed in full and dated 1877, in modern gilt moulded and swept frame, and 19th Century School - Oil painting - River landscape with boat and windmill, board 8ins x 11ins, apparently unsigned, in modern gilt moulded and swept frame
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 102 SOLD FOR: £ 240
J. Seymour Adams (fl. 1883-1888) - Oil painting -"A Quiet Moment" - Interior scene with a Cavalier seated at a table with a glass of wine and smoking a pipe, canvas 14ins x 10ins, signed in full and dated 1882, in gilt moulded frame (frame somewhat damaged)
Guide Price: £300-400
Lot 103 SOLD FOR: £ 170
Charles Faulkner (19th Century British) - Oil painting - Portrait of a bay horse in a stable, canvas 16ins x 20ins, signed and dated 1894 (?), in gilt moulded frame
Guide Price: £150-250
Lot 104 SOLD FOR: £ 840
19th Century Continental School - Oil painting - Two gun dogs putting up a covey of pheasants, oak panel 5.25ins x 14.25ins, indistinctly signed in black, in deep gilt moulded frame and glazed
Guide Price: £300-500
Lot 105 SOLD FOR: £ 250
Style of Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) - Oil painting -"The Mountain Daisy" - Full length portrait of a young child by a spring, canvas 24ins x 20ins, titled to reverse, in gilt moulded frame
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 106 SOLD FOR: £ 260
19th Century English School - Pair of oil paintings - Shoulder length portraits of a husband and a wife both wearing black, canvases 24ins x 20ins, unsigned, in modern gilt moulded swept frames
Guide Price: £250-350
19th Century English School - Oil painting - Full length portrait of a mother, her son wearing a grey suit and her daughter wearing a tartan dress, relined canvas 24ins x 20ins, in modern gilt moulded and swept frame
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 108 SOLD FOR: £ 760
17th/18th Century School - Oil painting - Half length portrait of"Mary Queen of Scots" wearing a jewelled headdress and an old gold jewelled dress, relined canvas 29.5ins x 24.5ins, in modern gilt moulded frame Provenance : By repute originally in Holyrood House, Edinburgh
Guide Price: £600-800
Attributed to George Harvey (1806-1876) - Oil painting - Shoulder length portrait of a young girl with a King Charles spaniel, relined canvas 9.75ins x 7.5ins, monogrammed in black, in gilt angled frame
Guide Price: £600-800
Circle of George Morland (1763-1804) - Oil painting - Chestnut and grey hunters by a stable door with sow and piglets to foreground, canvas 21ins x 30ins, in deep gilt moulded frame (one corner badly damaged)
Guide Price: £500-700
19th Century School after George Morland (1763-1804) - Oil painting - Cottagers in a woodland glade with mother and six children to foreground, canvas 14ins x 12ins, apparently unsigned, in modern gilt moulded frame
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 114 SOLD FOR: £ 700
Circle of George Morland (1763-1804) - Oil painting -"The Prodigal's Return" - Figures outside a cottage with a young boy returning and with landscape to background, canvas 36ins x 30ins, in original gilt moulded and bead pattern frame
Guide Price: £700-1000
Lot 115 SOLD FOR: £ 100
English School - Oil painting - Romantic river landscape with figures on bank and castle to background, board 16ins x 20ins, apparently initialled J.B., in modern gilt moulded and fluted frame
Guide Price: £125-160
Lot 116 SOLD FOR: £ 80
19th Century English School - Oil painting - View of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, from the river with paddle steamer and ship to foreground, canvas 7ins x 10ins, in modern gilt moulded and fluted frame
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 117 SOLD FOR: £ 600
18th/19th Century English School - Oil painting - Romantic river landscape with a figure on horseback and other figures on track to foreground, relined canvas 25ins x 36ins, in modern gilt moulded frame
Guide Price: £300-400
Lot 118 SOLD FOR: £ 840
Circle of Edward Robert Smythe (1810-1899) - Oil painting - Study of four horses watering, relined canvas 12ins x 16ins, unsigned, in gilt moulded frame with cloth covered slip
Guide Price: £250-350
W. Dunn (after Thomas Sidney Cooper 1803-1902) - Oil painting - Cattle at rest, canvas 10ins x 13ins, signed in red, in gilt moulded frame
Guide Price: £125-160
Lot 120 SOLD FOR: £ 1950
Charles Catton (1728-1798) - Oil painting -"Hastings" - View of figures on a cliff looking towards the town with the Channel to left side, canvas 14ins x 17.5ins, inscribed on stretcher to reverse in black ink"View near Hastings By C. Catton R.A." and also annotated"Bought at Sale of Jas. H. Anderson's Pictures at Christies, May 31st
Guide Price: £800-1200
Follower of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) - Oil painting - Landscape with figures and horses watering in river to foreground, oak panel 9.25ins x 13ins, bears two red wax seals to reverse of panel, in gilt moulded frame. Provenance - Purchased at Sotheby's New York, 16th February 2001. Notr: Vendor has revised estimate.
Guide Price: £1200-1500
Lot 122 SOLD FOR: £ 270
A. Locat (?) - Oil painting - French landscape with village to background, circular canvas 15.5ins diameter, signed in black, in gilt square frame
Guide Price: £200-300
Govert van Emmerik (1808-1882) - Oil painting - Marine scene with paddle steamer and two sailing boats in choppy seas off harbour, canvas 27ins x 34ins, signed in black, in gilt moulded and swept frame
Guide Price: £1000-1500
Lot 124 SOLD FOR: £ 280
Studio of William Lionel Wyllie (1851-1931) - Oil painting - Coastal scene with boats to foreground and church on cliff to background, relined canvas 16ins x 24ins, bears signature in red, in modern gilt moulded frame
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 125 SOLD FOR: £ 150
Frederick E. Jamieson (20th Century British) - Oil painting - Scottish loch scene, canvas 20ins x 30ins, signed in black, in gilt moulded frame
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 126 SOLD FOR: £ 200
Camille Vernede (19th/20th Century) - Oil painting -"A River Bank" - River landscape with bridge to background, canvas 17ins x 21ins, signed in red and dated 1890, in modern gilt moulded and swept frame
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 127 SOLD FOR: £ 180
R. Boyes (19th Century British) - Oil painting -"The Deer Forest" - Wooded track with deer to foreground, canvas 20ins x 24ins, signed in red, in deep gilt moulded frame
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 128 SOLD FOR: £ 440
Charles Henri Verburgghe (1877-1974) - Oil painting -"Capri" Mediterranean harbour scene with fishing boats, canvas 20ins x 24ins, signed and inscribed, in painted moulded frame
Guide Price: £300-500
Lot 129 SOLD FOR: £ 720
Phillip Sanders (born 1938) - Oil painting -"Hounds in Kennels - East Kent Hunt", board 60ins x 22ins, signed in black, in wide gilt moulded frame
Guide Price: £300-400
John Mallard Bromley (1858-1939) - Oil painting -"View in Cardiganshire, Wales" - River landscape with horse and cart and field of corn to foreground and low cloud obscuring hills to background, canvas 30ins x 50ins, signed in full in black, in modern gilt moulded and swept frame
Guide Price: £1500-2000
Lot 131 SOLD FOR: £ 2000
Maurice Canning Wilks (1910-1984) - Oil painting -"Summer Afternoon - Co. Antrim" - River landscape with arched bridge to background, canvas 20ins x 24ins, signed in full in black and inscribed to rear of canvas, in modern gilt moulded frame
Guide Price: £2000-3000
Campbell Archibald Mellon (1876-1955) - Oil painting -"Canterbury from Fordwych" - River landscape with view of Canterbury and Cathedral to background, board 19ins x 24ins, signed in black, in modern white painted deep moulded frame Note : Bears remnants of exhibition label pasted to rear of board"Institute of Oil Painters" with his name and address for 11 One Upper Cliff Road, Gorleston on Sea, Norfolk, and remains of a label for Bourlet & Sons
Guide Price: £1500-2000
19th Century Scottish School - Oil painting -"The Penny Wedding" - Interior of a barn with a young couple dancing and numerous figures drinking, canvas 24ins x 29.5ins, in original gilt moulded frame Note: Bears label to reverse on stretcher,"Manufactured by Hugh Paton, Princes Street, Edinburgh"
Guide Price: £1000-1500
Style of Martin Drolling (1752-1817 - French) - Oil painting - Kitchen interior with mother and two children, one seated by a window, canvas 25ins x 32ins, unsigned, in contemporary gilt moulded and swept frame
Guide Price: £1000-1500
Follower of Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743) - Oil painting - Three quarters length portrait of a Knight of the Royal & Military Order of St. Louis, in armour holding a baton in his right hand and with battle scene to background, relined canvas 52.5ins x 39ins, in modern gilt moulded and swept frame Provenance : Sotheby's Sale"Elton John and his London Lifestyle", 30th September 2003, lot 6
Guide Price: £3500-5000
Lot 139 SOLD FOR: £ 5000
Duncan Grant (1885-1975) - Watercolour - Half length study for a portrait of Vanessa Bell at Charleston, 20.75ins x 14.5ins, signed"D. Grant" and dated 1916 (paper watermarked 1915), in painted moulded frame and glazed Note : Study for large full length portrait of Vanessa Bell now in The National Portrait Gallery. Purchased - Christie's South Kensington - British & Continental Pictures - 22nd August 2007 - Lot 517
Guide Price: £5000-7000
Lot 140 SOLD FOR: £ 260
Gordon Davies - (1926-2007) - Watercolour -"The Via del Tempio di Giore, Rome" - View of a square with children playing to foreground, 12ins x 18ins, signed in full in pencil and inscribed Rome, in modern gilt moulded frame and glazed
Guide Price: £200-300
