Old Masters Day Sale
London
Old Masters Day Sale 
Sale L20037
30 November – 5 December 2020 | London | full auction details
This winter’s Old Master Paintings Day Sale offers examples from all the major schools of Western European painting, from gold grounds of the early Italian Renaissance, to fine examples of German Renaissance paintings, through the Italian and Spanish Baroque and the Dutch Golden Age, to elegant 18th-century views, portraits and still lifes. The Day Sale will be on view in our galleries from 3-4 December, in the lead-up to bidding closing online on Saturday 5 December, and will feature lots with estimates ranging from less than £5,000 to £150,000. We are delighted to present a rich and varied selection of works that will appeal both to seasoned collectors and buyers new to Old Master Paintings.
Illustrated:
Studio of Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto
Architectural capriccio with ruins and the Colosseum
£30,000-50,000
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Georgina Eliot
Associate Specialist
Old Master Paintings
London
+44 20 7293 5894
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Selected Lots
Saint George and the Dragon
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The Madonna and Child
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Saint Roch
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Madonna lactans
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Madonna and Child
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The Raising of Lazarus
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Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519-74), bust-length
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The Holy Family with the young Saint John the Baptist
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Portrait of a boy, said to be Juan Luis de la Cerda, 5th Duke of Medinaceli (1544-94), full-length, holding a hat in his right hand
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The Annunciation
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Saint Anthony Abbot; Saint Sebastian
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Portrait of Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony (1503-54)
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The Deposition
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Pietà
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Noli Me Tangere
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Ecce Homo
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The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine
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Christ Entombed
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Saint Sebastian Tended by the Pious Women
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A kitchen interior with a sturgeon, a turtle, and the figure of an old man in red
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Rome, a view of the Piazza Navona
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Still life with watermelons, grapes, apples, pomegranates and other fruits, with two children
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A classical scene: a warrior prince leading a maiden away
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The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine
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Portrait of a child
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Saint John the Baptist
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Santa Rufina
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The Village Lawyer's Office
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Allegories of The Four Senses
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An Allegory of War
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A female merchant holding a cockerel, with game, asparagus, artichokes, utensils and a bowl of wild strawberries
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Portrait of Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquess of Los Balbases (1569-1630), three-quarter length, wearing a breastplate and the collar and badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece, a Field Marshal's baton in his right hand
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The Massacre of the Innocents, after Rubens
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Saint George
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A portrait of Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg (1594-1662) and his family, full-length, in the portico of a palace
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Still life with grapes in a porcelain dish and peaches on a tazza, with melons and snails
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Still life with an elaborate silver gilt standing cup, a basket of fruit, and a glass wine jug upon a partly draped table
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Portrait of Johann Jobst Schmidtmaier von Schwarzenbruck (1611-47); Portrait of his wife, Anna Maria (1605-64), both standing, full-length, in interiors with landscapes visible through windows beyond
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Still life with a façon de venise serpent-stemmed wine glass, a silver vessel, a block of sugar and lemons on a pewter plate, all on a draped table
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Christ presented to the people
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Double portrait of Henri (1603-77) and Charles Beaubrun (1604-92)
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Portrait of a lady by a fountain
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Equestrian Portrait of King William III (1650-1702), a battle beyond
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Portrait of George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison of Limerick (1618-99)
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Saint John the Baptist preaching to the Multitude
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The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
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River landscape with a gentleman on horseback, a drover with cattle, and Tobias and the Angel, beside a fortified building
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Figures outside a tavern with a woman sewing, travellers on a bridge beyond
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'The Introduction', or An officer making his bow to a lady
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A landscape with peasants resting by a watermill
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A man wearing a black cap
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Landscape with a cottage by a river and a woman scouring a pot, a gentleman on horseback on a path
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An elegant company merrymaking in an interior
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Figures in an interior with a grape-seller at the door
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Dune landscape with a hunter and his dog, a windmill, and sailing boats on the water in the distance
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A kitchen scene with a maid standing by a table laden with fish
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Still life with a roemer, timepiece, oyster and fruit
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A landscape with the ruined castle of Egmond, a river beyond
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Tronie of a bearded man
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A sailing boat and man-o'-war in choppy waters
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Portrait of Adriaen van de Velde (1636-72), bust-length, wearing a white cravat with red stripes
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Southern landscape with a man shooting by a pond, a gentleman on horseback with a boy, and a shepherd with his flock beyond
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Study of a sheep
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A winter landscape with figures skating on a frozen river
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A classical landscape with figures in the foreground, a castle beyond
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A classical landscape
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Arcadian landscape with figures on a path in the foreground, and beside a lake
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The Madonna and Child with the infant Saint John the Baptist
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Head of an old man
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The angel appearing to Hagar and Ishmael in the desert
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Mary Magdalene
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Abraham and the Three Angels; The Sacrifice of Isaac
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Venus, Cupid and putto
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A capriccio of Roman ruins with elements from the Forum, including the Temples of Antoninus and Faustina, and Castor and Pollux, Arch of Titus, and Temple of Saturn
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Architectural capriccio with ruins and the Colosseum
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Portrait of a dignitary, half-length
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Winter landscape with a waterfall and a peasant family by a cottage
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The abduction of the Venetian wives
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Venus and Cupid
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'La Boda' (The Wedding)
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View of a bullring
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Central European School, circa 1900
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Study of a man, bust-length
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'Les Amours Pecheurs' (The Love of Fishing)
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Venus and Adonis
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The Dream of Saint Joseph
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'Le Petit Mathématicien'
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'Une fillette avec pigeons', after Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745) as Chancellor of the Exchequer, standing three-quarter-length, in a black velvet coat, wearing the Star and Riband of the Order of the Garter
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A brindle Greyhound bitch in a landscape
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Portrait of Mrs Anthony Eyre (d. 1800), three-quarter length, wearing a white frilled satin dress, standing in a landscape
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The flagship 'Admiral of the Blue' firing a gun and another two-decker getting underway at dawn, with a self-portrait of the artist coming ashore in the foreground
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Portrait of Catherine Chichester (1765-91), half-length, wearing a white dress with a blue sash
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Lake scene with a cottage and a group of figures
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Henrietta Maria Vernon Atherton, 2nd Lady Lilford (d. 1820), of Atherton Hall, Leigh, with her two children
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A classical landscape with figures in the foreground, ruins and mountains beyond
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A capriccio landscape with travellers below a rocky outcrop
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A view over Villa Madama, Rome, and surrounding countryside
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A coastal landscape with figures dancing at the mouth of a river
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A capriccio view of the Canneto river valley at Cava de' Tirreni near Vietri with figures crossing a bridge over waterfalls
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Still life with a vase of peonies and tulips
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Venice, a view of the Grand Canal with the Chiesa di Santa Maria della Salute; Venice, a view of the Santa Chiara Canal, looking south-east along the Fondamenta della Croce
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Venice, a view of the Palazzo Ducale from the Bacino, with the Bucintoro returning to the Molo on Ascension Day
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Venice, a view of the Bacino di San Marco from the Riva degli Schiavoni, looking West
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Venice, the Bucintoro returning to the molo on Ascension day
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Venice, a view of the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, with the equestrian monument to Bartolomeo Colleoni and the Scuola Grande di San Marco in the background
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Valletta, a view of the Grand Harbour
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Southern Italian landscape by moonlight
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The Holy Family
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