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Premier Catalog Auction Day 2

Fri, Jul 13, 2018 09:00AM EDT
Lot 795

British School

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

(late 18th/19th century)

Portrait of a Seated Boy with a Drawing, leaning on a table with a sculpture of the Farnese Hercules, unsigned, oil on canvas, 50 x 39-7/8 in.; gilt wood frame, 62-1/4 x 52-3/8 in.

Note: A label verso suggests the portrait was purchased at a sale "at Callander House Bristol/and was the property of Wollaton Brigham, Esq. May 18th 1897". The auction label verso the frame refers to a sale in circa 1905 (Covington Galleries?) in which a suggested attribution was Gainsborough.

Condition

lined with paste and linen, retouch, crackle; frame with abrasions