16th Mar, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1166
Reginald Grange Brundrit RA, ROI (1883-1960)
Portrait of Harold Dewhurst Esq of Aireville, Skipton, head and shoulders, in hunt attire
Signed and indistinctly dated 1931?, with partial original artist's label verso, oil on canvas, 58cm by 47cm
Exhibited: Likely at Cratwright Hall, Bradford, unknown date, based on a label of the aforementioned to the reverse
Sold for £380
Estimated at £300 - £500
Unlined, one key missing, thick dust and debris between stretcher bar and canvas. Canvas fairly slack, and quilting evident from the reverse associated with the thicker paint of the drapery and head pulling the canvas. This has resulted in slight undulations to the canvas visible from the face.
There is an uneven network of brittle age craquelure; very little cracking in the face, patchy cracking in the background with more to the left side than the right, and more and larger scale cracking in the red drapery. Patches of the cracks in the background and most of the cracks in the drapery are lifting and actively flaking leaving scattered unrestored losses of paint and ground (see images). Most of the losses are in the drapery, with smaller losses along the left edge of the background. No apparent losses from the face. There are a few flakes adhered to the reverse of the glass along with a quantity of dirt and debris.
The signature appears to have been wiped over or been varnished differently to the rest of the picture - it is glossier than the surrounding slightly matte and a little opaque varnish, which is not significantly discoloured.
There is a layer of surface dirt and scattered minor accretions.
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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