15th Jul, 2023 11:00 GMT/BST

British, European & Sporting Art

 
  Lot 1217
 

1217

William Mellor (1851–1931)
Waterfall scene in an Autumnal landscape
Signed, oil on canvas, 64.5cm by 125cm

Sold for £1,000
Estimated at £800 - £1,200


 

Fairly stiffly relined, cleaned and re-varnished. Small retouches to the upper left corner, approx 1.5cm away from the upper left corner, the second being the larger 0.5-1cm across. Two further areas of retouching presumably to old damages. Approx centre, left-hand side edge, one approx 1cm away from left-hand side edge and although slightly irregular roughly rectangular at approx 1cm by 2cm overall. The second more linear band or patch or retouching is approx 7cm to the right of this and runs vertically approx length of 6cm and roughly 1cm across. Further patch of retouching towards lower left-hand side corner around 3cm at widest diameter although not a regular circle. Some general retouching throughout lower right-hand corner, across the rock. Two small retouches closer to the upper right-hand side edge, above the foliage. Retouches to the upper right corner. Further patch of retouching within sky just left of centre and approx 4cm away from the upper edge roughly 2-4cm by 1.5-2cm overall. Further more sporadic retouches to composition elsewhere. The surface is slightly flattened from the restoration process, areas of varying-sized stable cracquelure, more notable to sky. Light surface dirt and discoloured varnish. Otherwise in a stable and presentatble state of preservation.

 


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Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 15th Jul, 2023

The British, European and Sporting Art Sale at Tennants Auctioneers will see a fine equestrian portrait of ‘Lady Caroline Held by a Groom, Newmarket’ attributed to Thomas Spencer (1700-1763) go under the hammer. It will be joined by notable lots from the Estate of Martin & Felicity Mackintosh of Harrogate, including a rich and plentiful still life of game, fruit and flowers by Hendrik Reekers (1815-1854), and further works by the likes of Ford Madox Brown and William Holman Hunt from the Estate of the late Ian Stephenson of Laithes, Penrith, Cumbria. Other notable lots include Montague Dawson's “HMS Amethyst running the Yangtse Gauntlet, 30th July 1949”. 

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