16th Mar, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1134
Frederick Daniel Hardy (1826-1911)
The Letter
Signed and dated 1890, oil on panel, 19cm by 14cm
Provenance: Rowles Fine Art, Powys
Private Collection, North Yorkshire
Sold for £550
Estimated at £400 - £600
Panel mostly covered at reverse, but no splits evident at face. A couple of small holes to the reverse of the panel, which is held flat in frame. Paint and ground layers stable, no cracking or lifting.
There has been minor fresh abrasion/transfer to the upper layers down the right hand side from contact with the rebate. There is what seems to be the imprint of canvas to the sky in the window (see images), highlighted by dirt in the hollows. No major losses apparent, but a line of dark brown opaque retouching to the mid & lower right edge through the fireplace and teapot (see images), and to the bottom two inches of the left edge and a small patch to the top left corner.
Slight abrasion, unretouched to the darkest area of the fireplace, and possibly to the wall which may have some slight reinforcing.
An even surface and varnish layer, with a slighly milky wipe mark bottom left visible in reflected light. A layer of surface dust.
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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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