PRIVATE VIEW
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6-8pm Thursday 17th October 2019
The exhibition continues through Saturday 16th November.
NOTE: Nothing will be sold before the exhibition opens at 6pm on Thursday 17th October.
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‘Portrait of C. Fox (Persian Scholar)’; Charles Fox (1749-1809). Chalk and watercolour. c.1798. Possibly a study for a mezzotint. Inscribed on the attached backing. Possibly commissioned by Joseph Cottle (1770-1853)*. 6.75x5.5 inches. Framed: 16.25x14.5 inches.
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*Charles Fox (1749-1809) of Bristol, explorer, linguist, collector of Persian manuscripts and author of the Poems…of Achmed Ardebeili, a Persian Exile, with notes historical and explanatory, published by Joseph Cottle in 1797. Cottle commissioned portraits by Bristol based Hancock of Coleridge 1796 (NPG), Lamb 1798 (NPG), Southey 1796 (NPG), Wordsworth 1798 (NPG) and himself 1800 (NPG) and may have also commissioned this.

‘War Requiem II: Victim’. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated, 2015. Exh: Bohun Gallery. 12x10 inches. £6750Click here to view the verso.

‘Raněný Čechoslavák’ (Wounded Czechoslovak). Snake-stone. Signed and dated, 1920. Dedicated on the plinth to ‘Pan Presidentu / T. H. Masarykovi / 18 Cervna 1920’; Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), President of the Czechoslovak Republic. Bust: 10.5x7x9 inches. Base: 4x5.75x6.75 inches. £4500

‘Young Andrew’, Sennen*. Oil on canvas. 1927. Signed. Prov: Artist’s Estate. Exh: Brook Street Art Gallery; Penlee House, A forgotten prodigy: Joan Manning-Sanders, Nov. 2011. Lit: Drawings and Paintings by Joan Manning Sanders, Faber & Faber, 1929, p.121 and plate IX. 20x16 inches. £5750
*The subject worked as a mason on the Manning-Sanders' house, Esther’s Field, Maria’s Lane, Sennen.

Head and shoulders of a thoughtful man. Oil on canvas. 26x22 inches. Framed: 31.5 x27 inches. WITHDRAWNClick here to view large framed photo.

Head of a Young Man. Pen and ink. Signed and dated, 1833. Exh: Maas Gallery. 8.5x7 inches. Framed: 14.25x12.5 inches. £2500Click here to view large framed photo.

The RAF officer: Flight Lieutenant Desmond Rarp (1924-1994). Oil on board. Signed and inscribed ‘Sylt, 1946’. Inscribed verso ‘Desmond J. Rarp geboren 3.10.1924 / gemalt von Hugo Köcke. Westerland-Sylt’. 17.25x14 inches. Framed: 19x15.75 inches. £1500Click here to view large framed photo.Click here to view the inscription.

‘Popolano Fiorentino’. Oil on card. Signed. Exh: XIX Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte - Venezia 1934. 33x26.75 inches. Framed: 39x33.25 inches. £8750Click here to view large framed photo.Click here to view the label.

Head of a Man. Pencil. Signed and dated, 1976. 30.5x21.57 inches. Framed: 43.5x34 inches. £19000Click here to view large framed photo.

‘Richard Puller’ (1747-1826). Oil on canvas. Prov: Major General Mark Bond (1922-2017) 14x12 inches. Framed: 18.5x16.5 inches. £2500Click here to view large framed photo.

Charles de Sousy Ricketts R.A. (1866-1931) Verso: A Woodcutter. Bronze. Signed and dated 1897. Diameter: 2.5 inches. £1600Click here to view the verso.

‘Susan, Countess of Westmorland’, née Lady Susan Gordon. Pastels. Signed and dated, 1772. Signed and inscribed verso by the artist, ‘Susan, Countess of Westmorland / 1772, W D Hamilton Delt’. Prov: The sitter’s daughter, Lady Mary Fludyer, née Fane; Sir John Fludyer 5th Bt.; his sister Katherine, Mrs Henry Finch, and by descent. Lit: Neil Jeffares Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, J.375.19725. 9.75x7.75 inches. Framed: 14x12 inches. £4750Click here to view large framed photo.Click here for the inscription

‘Miss Mary Duthy’. Oil on panel. Inscribed and dated, 1889. Signed verso. 9.5x7.5 inches. Framed: 15.5x14 inches. £3250Click here to view large framed photo.

Head of a Young Man. Watercolour and gouache. Stamped signature. Exh: Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, Nineteenth Century French Drawings, June/July 1978, No.55. 8.5x6.5 inches. Framed: 15x12.5 inches. £2250Click here to view large framed photo.

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997). Etching and aquatint. Signed and editioned 7/20. 10.75x7.5 inches. Framed: 24x18.5 inches. £1100Click here to view large framed photo.
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