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British & Continental | November 12, 2025

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2025-11-12 10:00:00 2025-11-12 10:00:00 America/New_York Brunk Auctions Brunk Auctions : British & Continental | November 12, 2025 https://live.brunkauctions.com/auctions/brunk/british-continental-november-12-2025-18260 Featuring a diverse collection of silver, fine art, furniture, decorative art, and rugs. Compelling fine art includes works by Allan Ramsay, Camille Pissarro, Dutch and Italian Old Master paintings. Silver highlights are an American Sterling Hot Water Kettle and a pair of George III Silver Dish Crosses with marks for Robert Hennell. Decorative Arts will be showcasing two large lots of Baccarat Crystal sets and a 40 Piece Rosenthal Versace Red Medusa Porcelain Table Service. A 16th/17th Century Augsburg Baroque Marquetry Table Cabinet will be featured among many other staple furniture pieces. Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com

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Allan Ramsay

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(Edinburgh, Scotland, 1713-1784)

Sir John Peachey (1720-1765), 3rd Baronet, West Dean, Sussex, wearing a silver brocaded plum velvet coat and yellow waistcoat, and holding a tricorn hat under his proper left arm, presented half-length in a feigned oval, signed lower right "A. Ramsay/1744", oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in.; gilt wood frame, 36-18/8 x 31-1/4 x 2-5/8 in.

Provenance: By descent in the Peachey family, Barons Selsey, West Dean, until 1871 when the house was purchased by Frederick Bower, until 1891, when purchased by William James (Inv. labels verso), and by descent to Edward James; Christie's London, December 15, 2016, Lot 72 (labels verso); Private Collection

Literature: West Dean Park, Inventory, 1912, Vol. I WDMS. 336, p. 170 - LANDING AND STAIRS - A half-length portrait of Sir John Peachey in brown velvet coat & flowing wig, 1744.

C. Aslet, "West Dean Park, Sussex - I", Country Life, 22 October 1981, p. 1381, fig. 12.

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By descent in the Peachey family, Barons Selsey, West Dean, until 1871 when the house was purchased by Frederick Bower, until 1891, when purchased by William James (Inv. labels verso), and by descent to Edward James; Christie's London, December 15, 2016, Lot 72 (labels verso); Private Collection

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British & Continental | November 12, 2025

Allan Ramsay

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