16th Mar, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST

British, European & Sporting Art

 
  Lot 1153
 

1153

Follower of Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1743)
A portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter length standing, before a draped curtain and pillar, wearing a powdered wig, a white lace cravat, and decorative armour
Oil on canvas, 125cm by 99.5cm

Not Sold

 

The painting has a fairly old lining, with a stretcher keyed far out. Several missing keys, but the canvases have fair tension.

The original tacking margins have been removed, and the painting has been filled out and retouched to the top and bottom edges (the sides are covered so can't be seen). There is a slight distortion to the top left corner, possibly where it is coming away from the lining canvas. Slight movement in frame has left some white abraded surface layers at the very edges of the painting.

There is a large old filled and retouched 'C' shaped tear measuring approx. 20cm x 9cm running through the extended finger and below through the drapery.

There is a finescale brittle age craquelure throughout, and there are some minor patches of micro-flaking associated with this (see images) in the background, and futher old minor patches of flaking to the bottom edge. Mostly secure.

There are scattered old minor filled and retouched losses throughout, but especially at the bottom edge, one in the bottom left corner, and in the sky top right. There is an old unretouched damage to the canvas to the lower left edge 30cm up.

There has been some abrasion to the upper paint layers, particularly in the darker areas of the drapery, and around the pale drapery at the shoulder (see images).

There is a line of spotty brown material around the long locks of hair, possibly associated with abrasion or old mould growth. Appears to be in a reddish brown layer of possible overpaint or damaged original paint (see images).

There is old ingrained dirt and varnish, and at least two old varnish layers, one of which has been removed from the face and pale drapery. The varnish layers are now slighly cloudy, with wipe marks visible in torch light. There are minor scuffs and scratches to the varnish, and a pair of drip marks approx. 10cm long to the background mid-left.

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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