16th Mar, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST

British, European & Sporting Art

 
  Lot 1073
 

1073

William Woodhouse (1857-1939)
Sportsman and dog walking up grouse
Signed, oil on canvas, 33cm by 45.5cm


Sold for £1,300
Estimated at £800 - £1,200


 

Good tension, all keys present. There is a fairly large scale brittle age craquelure and impact cracquelure throughout, with fewer cracks over the stretcher bars. Some cracks associated with the stretcher bars. The cracks are elevated in places but appear secure at present. There has been some minor wear over the elevated edges of the cracks, particularly in the sky (see images). There is a tighter diagonal pattern of cracking in the hills, and these and the cracks in the birds and foreground appear slightly dark. There has been some minor wear/abrasion in the sky and to the opaque scumbled glazes in the fathers. There is a tiny retouched losses in the sky top right. There is a passage of grey overpaint in the sky visible under ultraviolet light, leaving this area with a slightly uneven surface gloss.


There is a layer of dirt and debris, wipe marks to bottom edge, and minor orange loss above signature.


Examined in Frame

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Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 16th Mar, 2024

Coming up for auction this Spring are three notable works by Adolphe Valette (1876-1942), a French Impressionist artist who spent the majority of his career in the North of England. Whilst he is best remembered today as being the highly influential tutor to L.S. Lowry, Valette created a significant body of work in oils, watercolours and drawing media. All three works are sold with provenance from The Perera Collection, the largest collection of works by Valette to have been assembled in private hands.

Further notable works in the sale include an exquisitely detailed still life of a peach, black grapes and cobnuts on a marble shelf by Emilie Preyer (1849-1930), and a work by historical genre painter Edward Matthew Ward (1816-1879) that depicts the hero of a popular comic ballad, John Gilpin.

The sale will also see the final part of the Raymond Booth Studio, comprising 19 works. Raymond Booth (1929-2015) was perhaps the greatest botanical artist and illustrator of his generation, and his passion for the natural world shines through in his highly detailed oil studies of flora and fauna.

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