16th Mar, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1109
Jan Jacob Coenraad Spohler (1837-1894) Dutch
"Winter"
"Summer"
Signed, oil on panel, 20.5cm by 15.5cm (2)
Provenance: MacConnal-Mason, London
Sold for £1,800
Estimated at £2,000 - £4,000
Winter: The edge of the panel are concealed at the rear by no splits, damages or movement visible. Only fine vertical stable cracks inline with the wood grain evident. Scattered careful retouching to small losses inluding one above the tower, and one above the right hand skaters. Some abraision/wear to the brown tones and thin upper glazes and the sky. A careful campaign of retouching to the abrasion, (see images under UV), all of which are slightly matt in reflected light. Slighly uneven surface gloss where there is abrasion/retouching, with a light layer of surface dirt.
Summer: The edge of the panel are concealed at the rear by no splits, damages or movement visible. Only fine vertical stable cracks inline with the wood grain evident. Scattered careful retouching to small losses. Some abraision/wear to the brown tones and thin upper glazes and the sky. A careful campaign of retouching to the abrasion, (see images under UV), all of which are slightly matt in reflected light. And slighly heavier reinforcing to the top of the righ hand windmill and in tops of buildings. Slightly uneven surface gloss where there is abrasion/retouching, with a light layer of surface dirt.
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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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