https://artantiquesappraisals.com/about daily 1.0 2025-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/1710852797801-5VFICCT0V9CY7IF7QQXT/Hogarth.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/1710939785200-HTMPO51I7QR8FJI1DK1W/William_Wollaston_and_his_Family_in_a_Grand_Interior_-_1730_-_William_Hogarth.jpg About https://artantiquesappraisals.com/consultancy daily 0.75 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/1710860518129-B9B9S1A0J88QUSZI7DPQ/TM23-Atmosphere-AlixeLay-6+%288%29.jpg Consultancy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/677309e1-4da0-4201-96af-46dfe9a1584d/005.jpg Consultancy - Used as a doorstop in a country house in Essex & sold at The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) Maastricht Attributed to Simone Bianco An Idealised Female Portrait Marble, 12.6 x 3.35in This wonderful Italian Renaissance relief sculpture dating from around 1510, used as a doorstop in a country house in Essex, was attributed to the Venetian sculptor Simone Bianco (1512-53) by our consultants. We then sold it, through a specialist stand-holder, at TEFAF for a six-figure sum, to an Italian private collector. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/fa751981-e0b0-4a57-b2ed-049e361535cb/image008.jpg Consultancy - Re-discovered unpublished George Orwell (Eric Blair) letters to his lover Elizabeth Jacques in Southwold, saved for The Orwell Archive at UCL Art & Antiques Appraisals was engaged to sell this cache of letters re-discovered in Southwold, they were sold by private treaty, for a six-figure sum, to a private collector. Now published, they are on permanent loan to The Orwell Archive at UCL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/ea536d4e-ea90-4272-9168-fee6f669a599/image006.jpg Consultancy - Francis Bacon & his lover George Dyer on the Orient Express to Athens, 1965 This rare gelatin silver print by John Deakin (1912-72) was bought at Christie’s (£11,250 inc. premium) on behalf of an important archive. Image: Christie’s Images / Bridgeman Images https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/a5c953c1-b9b7-497d-bb5b-93c4737fc999/image012.jpg Consultancy - Collection of significant 19th century European paintings sold in Zurich On behalf of the estate of a London based collector, we consigned a small collection of 19th century European paintings, for a successful sale, to Koller Zürich, negotiating, reserves, special terms and the marketing strategy. This small work by Petrus van Schendel (1806-70) Junge Früchteverkäuferin bei Kerzenschein was among them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/3a8bd4c1-1704-43e7-a314-55c8a0488694/002.jpg Consultancy - Discovered in Suffolk & sold at The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) Maastricht Michelle Marieschi (Venice 1710-1743) The Grand Canal with the Churches of San Simone Piccolo and the Scaltzi Discovered when doing a routine insurance valuation for the Church of England, in Suffolk, by James Glennie & Nic Tyler (when insured for £1,000). We, with our specialist consultant, attributed it to the eighteenth century Venetian painter Michelle Marieschi (1710-43). We then sold it at TEFAF, on behalf of the church, for a substantial six-figure sum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/a261c4e3-68e8-4f61-8126-0a89526e6588/image014.jpg Consultancy - Re-discovered Alberto Giacometti chandelier sold for £2.92 million Having had doubt cast about its authenticity by a leading museum, Art & Antiques Appraisals were engaged by the Estate of John Craxton to establish its provenance and genuineness. After months of research we successfully presented our evidence to the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti in Paris, when it was re-named The Chandelier for Peter Watson and then wrote a paper establishing its place in the marketplace, after which it was subsequently sold through Christie’s. In light of its new-found significance the Export Review Committee placed a stop on in it, to provide the opportunity for the V&A to save it for the nation, however they were unable to do so. It is now in a private collection in Europe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/86815df3-d106-44e4-9442-7b7af4594cb7/image006.jpg Consultancy - Debden Manor: An Architect’s Eye, A Collector’s Passion Collectors Bobby & Virginia Chapman, when downsizing, asked our advice on the sale of their substantial and wide-ranging collection. We invited four salerooms to see the collection, tender their proposals and meet our clients. We negotiated the advertising and marketing strategy, advantageous commission rates etc. The result was a carefully curated sale of almost a thousand lots, reproducing the layout of the Debden Manor reception rooms in Sworders saleroom. Buyers from all over the world were attracted to the event, where a number of record prices were established. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/852548f0-f112-4e5a-add0-643504b90986/001-6.jpg Consultancy - Eugène Boudin Sold in Paris Eugène Boudin Bords de la Seine Oil on canvas Sold at Drouot, Paris on behalf of a UK collector. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/20abcee6-a546-4154-aebd-f94bfba9f18d/002-7.jpg Consultancy - World record at Goodwood Festival of Speed Sold with Bonhams at The Goodwood Festival of Speed for a world record £2 million (hammer price). Image: Bonhams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/4613c619-5fee-4155-bca8-e373b58ddd88/image010.jpg Consultancy - Record prices for academicians The Barbara Holliday Collection The contents of The Gale, Silloth, Cumbria comprising over 650 lots chiefly including a significant collection of late 20th paintings by Royal Academicians, antique furniture and jewellery. Removed from remote rural Cumbria for a single owner sale at Sworders where several artist record prices were set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/7e1add28-a4c2-4f10-b664-e49ac45ed432/004-8.jpg Consultancy - Success at home John Sell Cotman Salmon Spearing Oil on canvas We advised the executors of the late Sir Godfrey Milton-Thompson on the sale of his collection of East Anglian paintings, which involved removing them from his beloved Cornwall to East Anglia for sale, with a special viewing in Norfolk. Included was this lovely fishing scene by John Sell Cotman, originally in the collection of Sir Gavin Astor at Hever Castle, Kent. Exhibited | British Council 100 Years of British Painting, Lisbon & Madrid 1949 | British Council English Landscapes, Paris 1953 | Agnew’s Loan Exhibition J Crome & J S Cotman, London 1958 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/6abd9ba6-b1e8-40b7-959e-39fa5364f444/005-8.jpg Consultancy - Norfolk to Norway earns a world record Gert Jynge Interior with Figure Oil on canvas We arranged the consignment of a collection of Scandinavian pictures from Norfolk to Norway, where we achieved a world record for this work by Gert Jynge (1904-1994). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/c9d7b033-5e20-47fd-a003-c005168aca1e/image001.jpg Consultancy - Sold to a Scandinavian institution to benefit RCA scholarship funds Kurt Schwitters Book (1947) Collage 6 x 5in This tiny but important collage – Book by Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) – was donated to the Royal College of Art to benefit scholarship funds. Art & Antiques Appraisals were pleased to sell it for them privately, via an agent, for a six-figure sum, to a Scandinavian institution. Image: Art & Antiques Appraisals https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/70617c74-d68c-471a-b631-ac20abb6ef02/010-1.jpg Consultancy - Pissarro sold in Paris to an American collector Camille Pissarro Effet de Niege à Osny Oil on canvas This delightful snow scene was sold privately, for a six-figure sum through a Parisian agent to an American collector on behalf of an English collector. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/55f4767a-775e-4d86-b921-ff500084aca3/7.jpg Consultancy - Important Australian painting sold to an Australian pension fund This wonderful work by leading Australian painter Arthur Boyd (1920-99), in which you can feel the heat coming off the hills in northern New South Wales, was sold on behalf of the estate of a British collector, to an Australian Pension Fund. Image: Ken Adlard, New Moon Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/b8081f1c-bbe2-4def-b625-3964688d4d2a/image002.jpg Consultancy - Oskar Kokoschka goes home to Vienna Art & Antiques Appraisals represents the family collection of caricaturist Fritz Josefovics (later Fred Joss). This evocative portrait of his German Expressionist friend Oskar Kokoschka, who like him fled Vienna in the 1930s, was sold privately to a prominent collector based in Vienna. Image: Art & Antiques Appraisals https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/810f6662-027a-4ef1-a95f-e1e79733d82c/Caravans1.jpg Consultancy - Eric Ravilious watercolour goes to a public collection with help from the Art Fund This significant watercolour Caravans (1936) by war artist Eric Ravilious, was sold by private treaty to The Fry Gallery in Saffron Walden who collect his work, the purchase was made possible by a substantial grant from The Art Fund. Image: Art & Antiques Appraisals https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/711ee784-74fa-4a82-958e-ffe9fe53c686/15.jpg Consultancy - Almost abstract Cretan gorge by John Craxton finds private buyer In 2022 Art & Antiques Appraisals curated the only public exhibition in the UK celebrating Craxton’s centenary Craxton-Picasso (there were other centenary shows in Athens, Crete and Istanbul). This intriguing work from his Gorge series was one of the key works in the show, which we had sold privately, 15 years ago, for the estate of a British collector to another British collector. It was subsequently included in Ian Collins’ monograph and exhibited in the Fitzwilliam Museum retrospective in 2013/4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/1ecbf676-2876-4ce8-b92a-a373d4f19bd6/009.jpg Consultancy - German expressionist helps RCA scholarship fund Max Ernst Les Oiseaux Bleus (1959) Oil and panel, 15.5 x 12.5in, signed & dated This very striking painting Les Oiseaux Bleus by Max Ernst (1889-1949) was donated to the Royal College of Art to benefit scholarship funds. Art & Antiques Appraisals were pleased to sell it for them privately, via an agent, for a six-figure sum, to a Scottish Collector. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/7843884c-3451-4321-be78-273604f5ef36/008.jpg Consultancy - Drawing by seminal French artist Henri Matisse benefits RCA scholarship fund Henri Matisse Femme au Chapeau Pen and Indian ink 20.5 x 15.75in, signed & dated This moody drawing by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was donated to the Royal College of Art to benefit scholarship funds. Art & Antiques Appraisals were pleased to sell it for them privately, via an agent, for a six-figure sum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/123d5c48-29a5-48fd-a14b-4d6bd788640c/image001+2.jpg Consultancy - Norfolk paintings provide funding for the Assembly House Trust and its role facilitating an arts programme for Norfolk One of three early works by Sir Alfred Munnings, sold privately through Art & Antiques Appraisals, for a substantial six-figure sum, on behalf of one of Norwich’s leading Arts Charities. In 2016 Art & Antiques Appraisals curated an exhibition of early works Munnings Before the Great War, displaying works from private collections augmented by those from The Castle Museum, Norwich and The Munnings Museum, Dedham, Essex. Image: Art & Antiques Appraisals https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/408b76e1-58ee-4c09-9535-3718acc21ecd/Unknown.jpeg Consultancy - Pop artists’ acrobats raise money for Royal College of Music scholarship programme This early Sumi ink (1982) untitled work by American graffiti artist Keith Haring (1958-90), who helped re-define the boundaries of modern art in the 1980s, was sold privately, by Art & Antiques Appraisals via an agent, for a six-figure sum, to a Swiss collector, to raise funds for the scholarship programme at the Royal College of Music, London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/de534b0c-ca9e-40a6-b876-9bd04cbe271f/image003.jpg Consultancy - Early Nicholson from Jim Ede’s collection finds new home This wonderful just post-war still life by Ben Nicholson, formerly in Jim Ede’s collection, was sold to a private collector on behalf of a London based client. Angela Verren Taunt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/11e2a3a6-7e2a-4eff-840a-9d842da7f92d/image008.jpg Consultancy - Country house sale in Norfolk Art & Antiques Appraisals selected Lyon & Turnbull as auctioneers and negotiated special terms and the marketing package for the vendors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/2bdd0498-6c31-420b-a129-0dab1a030a5c/image013.png Consultancy - Snow scene by Suffolk artist makes Sotheby’s front cover This attractive painting titled Snow Shadows (detail) and dated 1930, by Suffolk born artist Thomas Wood (1887-1958) was bought on behalf of a private collector. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/d0557f15-3bef-49eb-b125-67fe0f169316/image015.jpg Consultancy - Rare work by Alan Beeton comes on the market and was quickly acquired for a private collector Works by the wonderful artist Alan Beeton (1880-1940) rarely come on the market, this amazing portrait was quickly snapped-up on behalf of a private collector, when it appeared in the window of the Fine Art Society in London. Art & antiques Appraisals negotiated a special price for the buyer. Alan Beeton, although little known these days, was very highly regarded in artistic circles in the 1930s, his work being in Tate Britain, The Fitzwilliam, The Hunterian and several provincial museums. He famously painted a series of portraits of his mannequin in a variety of poses, which were central to the Fitzwilliam’s exhibition Silent Partners, Musée Bourdelle’s (Paris) show Mannequin d’Artiste, Mannequin Fétiche and the Holt Festival exhibition Models & Muses, the latter curated by Art & Antiques Appraisals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/bb2c661e-bb1f-4723-811b-384359bc4527/image008.jpg Consultancy - Lady Eliza Fitzroy by Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A., perhaps the greatest 18th century portraitist Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS Portrait of Lady Eliza Fitzroy Oil on canvas, 91 x 71cm Self-taught, Thomas Lawrence was a brilliant draughtsman and known for his gift of capturing a likeness, as well as his virtuoso handling of paint. He became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1791, a full member in 1794, and president in 1820. In 1810 he acquired the generous patronage of the Prince Regent, was sent abroad to paint portraits of allied leaders for the Waterloo chamber at Windsor Castle, and is particularly remembered as the Romantic portraitist of the Regency. Lawrence’s love affairs were not happy (his tortuous relationships with Sally and Maria Siddons became the subject of several books) and, in spite of his success, he spent most of life deep in debt. He never married. At his death, Lawrence was the most fashionable portrait painter in Europe. Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) was the fourth President of the Royal Academy, chosen for his wonderful ability as a portraitist. This delicate portrait was sold by private treaty to a private collector. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/2bd36f13-1416-477d-8e92-da9bdecbbf77/image012.png Consultancy - South Sea pearl, set with diamonds in white gold finds new home This beautiful cultured pearl, over 15mm in diameter, set with diamonds in white gold, was sold privately for a UK collector. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/d0a9aea7-f71c-43ce-8114-ef1540c25a1d/image018.jpg Consultancy - Lavery portrait of heiress the Hon. Mrs Cunningham-Reid who was famously married to WWI flying ace Sir John Lavery RA Portrait of the Honourable Mrs Cunningham-Reid 1930 Oil on canvas, signed Mrs Cunningham Reid (Hon Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley) was daughter of multi-millionaire Lt-Col Wilfred Ashley (1st Baron Mount Temple) and sister of Edwina, Countess Mountbatten. She married the WWI flying ace, Captain Alec Cunningham-Reid in 1927. The couple later divorced and he sued her for half her fortune in 1930. Born in Belfast Lavery studied at the Haldene Academy in Glasgow and in Paris at the Academie Julian. Influenced by Bastien-Lepage, he worked in the painters’ colony at Grèz-sur-Loing. On his return to Scotland he became one of the leaders of the Glasgow School. In 1912 he was commissioned to pint the Royal Family for the National Portrait Gallery. He was knighted in 1918 and became one of the great British Impressionist society portrait interior painters. This great likeness from 1930 was sold privately on behalf of a Suffolk charity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/9ce3f063-698b-4c97-80b1-e68a72bc2dbe/image021.jpg Consultancy - Early 17th century view of Palazzo Reale, Naples finds Italian buyer This Baroque Neapolitan view attributed to the circle of the Flemish painter Sebastian Vranx (1573-1647), was conserved and sold privately, via an agent, to an Italian buyer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/589aca0a-14f1-487a-85b9-5e35fe1598a8/image022.png Consultancy - Lynn Chadwick bronze candlesticks go to private contemporary collection Sold on behalf of the estate of a prominent private collector, these distinctive candlesticks are now in another private contemporary collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/8dae9c13-481a-406c-b262-346d2e667917/image025.jpg Consultancy - Bought for an English collector at auction in Marseilles One of a pair of Boomerang chairs by Danish designers Peter Hvidt & Orla Mølgard Nielson, bought for an English collector in Marseilles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/81f465fb-50d8-42af-9b7f-be35fada7764/image026.jpg Consultancy - Rare Mystery Clock by Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin, sold privately for Edinburgh based client Mysterious because the hands don’t appear to be connected to the movement, this mid-19th century example by the French conjuror and clockmaker Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin, was sold by private-treaty for an Edinburgh based client. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/e2783ad1-47a2-4775-823e-512e8418574e/image027.jpg Consultancy - Striking carpet designed by Sonia Delaunay Pierrot Lunaire after a Delaunay design from 1925, sold for the estate of a prominent private collector. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/1b0d8f5e-a8f5-44da-9780-0e7540245a83/image030.jpg Consultancy - Peter Blake portrait of Ted Power ‘one of the great collectors of post-war international art’ (TATE) Bought for a private collection at the Leslie Waddington sale at Christie’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/1141683b-8cd8-49ee-9eaa-65e70a4460da/image032.jpg Consultancy - Wadsworth gouache Slipways among his best Edward Wadsworth Slipways c.1926 Tempera, 38 x 53cm Wadsworth was with one of the most successful art school groups ever at The Slade, Mark Gertler, Stanley Spencer, CRW Nevinson, William Roberts and Dora Carrington were among his contemporaries. His tutors were Henry Tonks and Philip Wilson Steer and he was taught art history by Roger Fry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/2545c5a6-0e4f-4cdc-93d9-74e5c8ee6e1a/image002.jpg Consultancy - Interior by Walter Gay (1856-97) bought at auction in New York, for a Massachusetts based American collector A private collector in Massachusetts, seeking a classic opulent interior scene by local American artist Walter Gay (1856-97), asked Art & Antiques Appraisals to find a suitable painting. Having sent images of a number of works coming on to the market, we reviewed the condition reports and bought this one at auction in New York and helped arrange the paintings carriage back to Massachusetts where it was painted. Image: Bonhams, New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/f44e806e-0da5-46b6-83ed-6f2178f0ffc7/all-1024x756.png Consultancy - A Pair of Qianlong Chocolate-Brown-Glazed Dishes Chinese (1736-1795) Six character underglaze blue seal marks of the period, with bracketed rims, glazed overall. Sold by private treaty from an Essex based collection, by Art & Antiques. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/587bdb5d-367b-4a8c-a10c-da118e41ae40/image006.png Consultancy - Window design attributed to Pre-Raphaelite Ford Maddox Brown (1821-93) sells privately This church window design for Morris & Co was eventually installed, not in Oakley Church – for where it was intended, but the church in the nearby village of Ugley in Essex. The drawing was sold privately by Art & Antiques Appraisals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/cad406a8-f53f-49b4-b955-070c9d93c7e0/image003.jpg Consultancy - Californian ceramics prove popular This valuable 1970s two-piece sculpture by Californian ceramicist Ken Price was sold privately to an American buyer, on behalf a London based collector. https://artantiquesappraisals.com/the-team daily 0.75 2024-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/1707131735354-HBSHLFCT0AS1PQG27KQB/image-asset.jpeg The Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/1707130713790-TVU8EJQCNPGSKJYK1R1F/nicT+copy.png The Team - Nic Stratton Tyler Nic has approaching 30 years of experience as a valuer in the world of fine art and antiques. After graduating from Edinburgh University with an MA Hons in History of Art, she trained at Christie’s, London. Specialising in drawings and watercolours, she also ran the successful book illustration sales. Nic worked as a general valuer for Bonhams, East Anglia for many years before joining Art & Antiques Appraisals in 2010. Nic sits on public art committees, judges art prizes and is a painter herself. She is based on the Essex/Suffolk borders but is also happy to undertake work in the West Country. nic@artantiquesappraisals.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/1707130712533-FMNMLHPNBLW1OMI2W0CJ/jamesG+copy.png The Team - James Glennie James is a qualified valuer with over 40 years of experience in the art valuation and auction field, many of which were with international auctioneers Bonhams, where he established their national Museums Department, their first office in East Anglia and the popular East Anglian View sales. He was responsible for many country house sales as well as single owner sales in London and New York. He left to establish Art & Antiques Appraisals in 2007. James lives in North Norfolk but is frequently in London and travels widely throughout the UK to undertake valuations and advise clients ranging from private collectors to major institutions and museums. james@artantiquesappraisals.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/1707130713479-FTWSMHW9OX42T18298SL/joanna+copy.png The Team - Joanna van der Lande With over 30 years of experience in the art and antiques business with particular expertise in antiquities, Joanna has conducted many valuations for institutions on behalf of Art & Antiques Appraisals. She has experience working for both auction houses and dealers and has been running her own consultancy business since 2006. She chairs the Antiquities Dealers’ Association and has chaired vetting committees for art fairs for many years. Joanna lives in the Surrey Hills and is available to carry out local home inspections for those wishing to have their art and antiques appraised for sale or insurance purposes. joanna@artantiquesappraisals.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/1707130712451-ZX6UNFD1FP310AQY4PAZ/caroF+copy.png The Team - Caro Flower A jewellery specialist for over 20 years, Caro holds a BA Hons in Art History and has a background in practical applied art, and as a general valuer for Bonhams, she decided to focus on jewellery. She studied at The Gemmological Association in Hatton Garden, becoming a Fellow (FGA) and Diamond Grading Associate (DGA). She has many years’ experience both as a dealer in antique and modern jewellery, and as an independent consultant for leading independent auction houses, assessing jewellery for insurance, for probate, and cataloguing pieces for sale. She divides her time between Norfolk and Devon, but is happy to travel beyond when occasion demands. caro@artantiquesappraisals.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/1711031486321-752AP3D6NO6N2RKSUL57/Team+5.png The Team - Clare Buxton Clare, a researcher and cataloguer, has worked for a number of auction rooms, including Bonhams East Anglia, but began her career as a newspaper and magazine sub-editor and writer. After several years in the publishing world in Scotland and London, she secured a place at the University of Stirling, and read English and Fine Art graduating with a BA Honours (First Class) for her dissertation on The Picturesque Tour and the topographical watercolours of the 18th and early 19th Centuries, a study which later resulted in an MA in Landscape History, expanding her knowledge of Sporting and Topographical works. She undertakes research, writing copyright and publishing roles for Art & Antiques Appraisals. https://artantiquesappraisals.com/for-sale daily 0.75 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/9bf239dd-3817-4d80-8456-3a63833fbf14/richard+lin.png For Sale - Relief painting 1964-5 | Richard Lin (1964-5) Oil and aluminium on canvas, signed and dated verso, 50 x 40in, framed £POA Provenance | Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London, Private collection by descent, Private collection since 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/f552f836-909a-4f6b-afe5-8246f9c3c8e4/frank+pond.jpg For Sale - Enigma, 1983-2003 | Frank Pond (1924-2021) Mixed media and collage, signed with initials, 22 x 17in, framed £980 +ARR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/8520d87d-e0c7-4bfc-aba2-954bd85ac43a/HansHartung.jpg For Sale - Composition in Black, Yellow & Green 1959 | Hans Hartung (Leipzig 1904-1989 Antibes) Oil pastel, 37 x 27cm, signed and dated in a fine early gilt frame Hartung lived and worked in France and he contributed to a renewal of abstract painting in France and was the primary figurehead of the School of Paris, developing gestural painting as early as the 1920s and 30s (ie before Pollock and Kline in the US). However, after substantial recognition in the 60s and 70s, interest in Hartung’s work waned and his work was relatively ignored until late into the second decade of this century. In 2018, after a successful retrospective at Perrotin’s New York gallery, his works were shown at the Kunstmuseum in Bonn, at Simon Lee in London, at Nahmad Contemporary in New York and at Brame & Lorenceau Gallery in Paris. Last year, marking the 30th anniversary of his death, the Museum of Modern Art, Paris organised a Hartung retrospective, including new acquisitions. These exhibitions have brought new momentum to the market of this essential artist, several of his major works have made in excess of £1m hammer price at auction. Sold on behalf of a charitable arts foundation to fund art scholarships at The Royal College of Art, Royal College of Music and elsewhere £PoA Provenance | Exhibited with Gimpel Fils, London 1960 where bought by Mr & Mrs Lionel Fraser (Trustee of Tate Gallery) by family descent to Robert Fraser (Groovy Bob) | Estate of Robert Fraser 1986 by family descent thereafter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/5c16bf2f-f7e0-4fe2-b5c1-9a3ac3341cfc/frank+pond+ii.jpg For Sale - Hiroshima, only our shadows were left, 1989-2009 | Frank Pond (1924-2021) Mixed media and collage, signed with initials, 28 x 18in, framed £1,200 + ARR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/f6f566af-158a-4fec-a1d6-583454e0eea3/john+kiki.jpg For Sale - Figures | John Kiki (b.1943) Mixed media, 26 x 26in, framed £5,000 + ARR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/7cc1630e-1f17-4601-ab3f-5652b4459a9b/tracy+williams.jpg For Sale - Anomalies Series 3 | Tracy Williams (contemporary) Mixed media on canvas, 52 x 18in, unframed £1,000 + ARR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/b3967bf5-d81d-435c-bcd4-e1d7e845d797/martin+battye.jpg For Sale - 7.IV.05 | Martin Battye (contemporary) Oil on canvas, signed and inscribed verso, 22 x 22in, framed £480 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/d7305272-376e-487e-a697-f349065584b7/emrys+parry.jpg For Sale - Abstract | Emrys Parry (contemporary) Oil on canvas, signed verso, 9 x 9in, framed £695 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/860a486b-c76e-467f-9e67-da75b81ede4b/peter+baldwin.jpg For Sale - Old lookout, Orfordness 2004 | Peter Baldwin (contemporary) Oil on canvas-board, signed with initials, 20 x 24in, framed £1,850 + ARR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/700f1411-27b6-405e-a8e9-6b1a79bc76c4/palliser.jpg For Sale - Female Torso | Herbert William Palliser (Northallerton 1883-1963 London) Charcoal, 40.5 x 30.5cm, signed Herbert Palliser, best known for his sculpture, trained at Central School then The Slade. Among his public works are those in Vintner’s Place, Southampton Row and King William Street in central London. £135 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/10fcaa14-1b49-401d-af07-fcc0151e96aa/muncaster.jpg For Sale - Southwold 1934 | Claude Muncaster (1903-74) Pen, ink and watercolour, 26.5 x 35.5cm, signed, inscribed and dated Son of Royal Acadamician Oliver Hall, Claude changed his surname to Muncaster, to avoid the suggestion that he gained from his father’s name. Like his father he carreid on “the best traditions of English Painting”. £390 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/ff8029fb-b622-46e9-a667-ccda3db99bf6/Mayer.jpg For Sale - On the Meuse, Holland | Luigi Mayer (1755-1803) Watercolour and gouache, 27.5 x 39cm, signed ‘Luigi Mayer, Roma, disegna’ Inscribed by the artist ‘Soborgo situate alle sponde della Mosa (Meuse) in Olanda. Copiato dal disegno originala del viaggio pittoresco del Sig Cav Robert Ainslie, fatto nel 1794.’ Mayer accompanied Sir Robert Ainslie (Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte from 1775-1791) on his return across Europe to Britain. £1,200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/6da06997-a821-4f18-ad58-a85d7bedda5c/wyllie.jpg For Sale - Queenborough, Kent | Charles William Wyllie (1853-1923) Watercolour, 36 x 51cm, signed, in a gilt slip inscribed ‘C W WYLLIE’ Overall size 44.5cm x 58.5cm Charles Wyllie was best known for his extensive maritime views particularly along the Thames. His works are in numerous British museums including the Tate, National Maritime Museum, Merseyside Maritime Museum and Portsmouth Museums. £320 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/7122a39c-ff4b-48e4-ad13-0a161133e378/009-new.jpg For Sale - Whisper in my ear; What the birds and winds are singing; In your sunny atmosphere ~ Longfellow Myles Birket Foster RWS (North Shields 1825-1899 Weybridge) Watercolour, 16.25 x 13.25cm, monogrammed Mount inscribed with the title in an ormolu frame within a velvet lined mahogany box frame, overall size 44 x 41cm Birket Foster illustrated several works for Longfellow (1807-92) including Evangeline and The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. £795 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/32d45ca7-4278-46ff-9e42-03fdfcbf1448/platenasty-replacement-words-and-following-items-1-1024x1009.png For Sale - Chinese Armorial Porcelain 中国外销纹章瓷 A set of six Qianlong (1736-95) Chinese armorial plates | A chevron between three unicorns with couped heads, surmounted by a crest of a unicorn with a couped head, about which is a green and red floral surround all within a gilt floral swagged border. Very probably the arms of the Rutton family of Kent. 9.1in (23cm) diameter, unmarked, some paint losses particularly to the field of the arms and minor imperfections associated with the manufacture (6) Chinese Armorial Porcelain has its focus on families having a direct connection to the East India Company as it was most frequently part of the ‘private trade’ carried to Europe in the personal cargo allowance of the captain. It was normally of a higher quality than the general chinaware that the East India Company imported for domestic use and usefully served as ballast for the cargo of tea. Orders were carried from Europe by the captains to Whampoa (the anchorage for Canton); the kilns were often over 500 miles away over the mountains in Jingdezhen and the ships returned with the goods often two or three years later. Dr Isaac Rutton is traditionally associated with Kentish silk and tobacco smuggling via the continent. He, one can speculate, might have had the contacts to secure such items. He lived behind a veil of propriety whilst discreetly operating the Seasalter Smuggling Company. £285 Provenance | The property of an English noble family until 2018. It has not been established to whom or at what date the arms were granted: the earliest use yet found is on the gravestone of Rev. Mathias Rutton (c1613-1686) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/dbd57ef4-53ff-470d-9e6e-02bb65f48f84/palliser2.jpg For Sale - Menton 1929 | Herbert William Palliser (Northallerton 1883-1963 London) Pen, ink, charcoal and wash, 35.5 x 24cm Signed in ink, inscribed and dated in pencil Herbert Palliser, best known for his sculpture, trained at Central School then The Slade. Among his public works are those in Vintner’s Place, Southampton Row and King William Street in central London. £150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/ce1a9ddc-0c20-4e41-aa45-0a558e489df1/newcombe.jpg For Sale - Off Goes the Groom Without his Dog | Mary Newcomb (1922-2008) Oil on board, 75 x 76cm, signed and dated, title inscribed verso, framed £13,800 + ARR Provenance | A gift from Mary Newcomb to her artist friends Tom & Bod Wright (who met at Benton End) | The Estate of Bod Wright 2015 | Private Collection, Norfolk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/10ce7901-1bb2-4451-8231-a507e3a279a3/Joss+nude.jpg For Sale - Nude circa 1928-30 | Fritz Josefovicz (1908-1967) Waxed crayon on paper, framed £1,200 Provenance | The artist’s estate and by familial descent To be included in the forthcoming exhibition German Expressionists and the Third Reich, Holt Festival 13-27 July 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/7c1c66e0-1915-4769-8f15-bbb32a9d90a8/dubery.jpg For Sale - Seaside window I | Fred Dubery (1926-2011) Relief panel, oil, 38 x 46in, framed, £1,500 + ARR Provenance | Private collection, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/b429a9a5-3b01-4308-a9f6-afb669c3ebe8/frank+borghese+.jpg For Sale - The Game | Franz Borghese (1941-2005) Oil on canvas, signed, 19 x 25in, framed £4,750 + ARR https://artantiquesappraisals.com/museums-houses-heritage daily 0.75 2024-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/1707404845135-P989QNLRQR6RUIK3TXGD/South_facade_of_Lyme_Park_house%2C_2013.jpg Museums, Historic Houses, Heritage Bodies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/b0a3843f-b388-4049-9393-0e4b69736cc5/Slide.png Museums, Historic Houses, Heritage Bodies - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://artantiquesappraisals.com/archive daily 0.75 2024-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/1707406527699-N9BVCF44X5M3OHJ90LYC/Study%2C_collection_of_antiquities%2C_Freud_Museum_London%2C_18M0141.jpg Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/e5753b20-0473-4da9-b871-f6b2b8bd7dd2/001-10.jpg Archive - Make it stand out James Glennie | Simplifying the Conundrum Aspects of Archives Management Seminar The Old Court Room, Lincoln’s Inn, London 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/e261bbe0-fcbb-4cb0-b00a-57b86e1a9552/002+copy.png Archive - Make it stand out Norwich Central Library & Archive 2nd August 1994 | Photos: BBC News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/32db4bfe-9c4f-4c82-8044-11d95aaec8b6/%C2%A9-Freud-Museum-London.-Freuds-study.-Photo-by-K.-Urbaniak-19.jpg Archive - Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud’s famous couch, library, letters & antiquities The entire archive and collection at The Freud Museum, London Images: The Freud Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/fd4c86b7-bb17-45fe-a044-cf3e4d23ac48/005-11+copy.jpg Archive - Philosophy The significant Iris Murdoch archive at Kingston University, London | Valued for insurance Image (L) Vogue | Image (R) Kingston University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/68e53cb9-7ce9-4d60-8366-c0a325164276/006-7.jpg Archive - …and the Mind Raving Madness Caius Cibber (1630–1700) Archives & entire collection at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London | Valued for insurance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/95e9c42f-0f43-474e-9a0f-03358653edfb/007-2.jpg Archive - Local Authority & County Archives The Berkshire Record Office | Entire collection valued for insurance Image: Berkshire Record Office https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/bd50762f-ef00-4473-83d7-e190a3ef2ac8/kv55711.jpg Archive - Commercial Archives The Ovaltine Archive | Dacorum Heritage Trust | Valued for insurance Image: Dacorum Heritage Trust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/5b7b4a4b-def9-4767-a6a6-6f4c151fd98a/009.jpg Archive - Private Archives Items from the Elizabeth Fry & Gurney Family Archive Sold by Private Treaty to the Norfolk Records Office https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/57b2de59-9fe6-496e-83ce-b6173c28effa/010.jpg Archive - Ecclesiastical Archives Items from the Hartfield Broad Oak Church Archive | Entire collection valued for insurance https://artantiquesappraisals.com/exhibitions daily 0.75 2026-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/1711637010105-BKK7H13A5VPTIFMMPNAY/image003.jpg Exhibitions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/a13744b3-08df-48f4-bfe9-b861bdb14cb9/image001.jpg Exhibitions - German Expressionists & The Third Reich We are delighted to present this fascinating exhibition, telling the story of Hitler’s suppression of selected artists in addition to writers, architects, musicians, theatre, filmmakers etc. The artists, stemming from several creative movements before the first war, reached their peak in the 1920s, however many were fleeing Eastern Europe, Germany & Austria by the 1930s. The exhibition will include over seventy sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by the German Expressionists and other artists labelled ‘degenerate’ by Hitler. We are delighted to have loans from private collections, the few public galleries in the UK, which focus on German Expressionism, other institutions and the London & European art trade. There will also be an extensive programme of talks, lectures and discussions, as well as expressionist music and a creative writing course in reaction to the exhibition. Pictured: Leopold Gottlieb (1883-1934) | Ecstasy | Oil on canvas Kindly loaned by the Ben Uri Gallery, London (Presented by L. Pilichowski, 1930) Image: Ben Uri Gallery © The Artist’s Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/168b1ba6-ddbf-4bcd-a90e-a4530d258eda/image001.jpg Exhibitions - Craxton-Picasso The only UK public loan exhibition celebrating John Craxton’s centenary year. Showing his work from the late 1930s for the next seven decades. With work by key 20th century artists who influenced him, in particular Lucian Freud, through drawings from private collections and Freud’s never-before-exhibited illustrated letters to Craxton; Picasso, through a dozen ceramics from the Sir Richard Attenborough Collection; with significant rediscoveries of works by Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, John Piper not exhibited for over 50 years; as well as works by the many artists in his circle, among them the first public showing of the massive bronze Chandelier for Peter Watson commissioned by Craxton’s benefactor from Alberto Giacometti; with the first UK exhibition of the photographs of Craxton’s close friend Joan Leigh Fermor. Pictured: John Craxton | Fish Hawker, Athens (1950) | Oil on canvas Image: Leicestershire County Council © The Craxton Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/200f9ddd-e0e2-4db3-954a-358963afa07e/019-dubery-1.jpg Exhibitions - Two Lives in Colour An exhibition of hundreds of works by Fred Dubery & Joanne Brogden, held to raise funds for the East Anglia Art Fund scholarships programme. Pictured: Fred Dubery | White Sunshade II | Oil on canvas Image: Ken Adlard © The Artist’s Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/30c1f33c-f9dd-4918-943f-8b0ad0ab4dba/018-rie.jpg Exhibitions - Lucie Rie & Hans Coper An exhibition of ceramics by these 20th century giants, mainly from private collections, including many hitherto unseen works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/00416b8c-f9d3-452a-9fea-2b8c0b0ff636/016-hurt-1.jpg Exhibitions - John Hurt as Artist Hurt, before launching into acting, trained as an artist and was to carry a sketchbook with him on his many travels thereafter. An exhibition of over fifty key paintings, drawings and prints, shown publically for the first time ever. Pictured: Sir John Hurt printmaking with self-portrait beyond Image: Andi Sapey © Andi Sapey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/df29c665-f7a4-4d21-8f0e-1b9c3b832b26/015-spencer-207x300.jpg Exhibitions - Blithe Spirit The Blythe Valley a Creative Haven Piper, Spencer, Nash, Steer, Arnesby Brown, Hambling, Herman & more + a highly significant hitherto unrecorded correspondence from George Orwell Pictured: Sir Stanley Spencer | Richard Carline (who met and married the artist’s sister at Blythburgh, Suffolk) | Oil on canvas Image: Rugby Museum & Art Gallery Collections © The Artist’s Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/2115569d-d664-44c9-9a31-a1d79f34ec1f/014-gordine-259x300.jpg Exhibitions - Head to Head Dora Gordine & Jacob Epstein – Exotic Influences Pictured: Dora Gordine | Pagan (1930/2) | Bronze Image: Dorich House Museum © The Artist’s Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/156d407a-5a49-4c8a-a7c5-45940bc01261/013-seago.jpg Exhibitions - The Instinctive Artist Edward Seago An exhibition of over thirty works by this amazing artist, who was selling-out his early London shows whilst still a teenager. Including never-before-exhibited works from private collections and favourites from museum collections, as well as interesting ephemeral items and sculpture. Pictured: Edward Seago | Near Base “F” Falkland Islands | Oil on canvas (painted when with HRH Prince Philip on his Antarctic Expedition 1956/7) © The Artist’s Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/fd7f6421-db94-48b2-a4b0-b558c99253fc/012-morris.jpg Exhibitions - Benton End & Friends Morris, Haines, Freud, Nash, Wood, Hambling, Nash, Boulestin, Morgan, Chopping, Colquhoun, Dismoor, Epstein, Reynolds, Styles, Ravilious, Wright, Harwood, Bawden, Aldridge, Skeaping, McBryde, Britten, Spender, the Nicholsons, Minton, Craxton, Nolan, Piper, Zadkine & others Pictured: Sir Cedric Morris | Benton Blue Tit | Oil on canvas © The Artist’s Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/fa2a5c9b-5400-4e55-a2be-467b5a224ca6/011-nicholson-215x300.jpg Exhibitions - The Lure of St Ives Hepworth, Nicholson, Frost, Wood, Leach, Wallis, Hamada, Hilton, Heron, Barns-Graham, Lanyon, Feiler & others Pictured: Ben Nicholson | Still Life (1948) | Oil & graphite on board Image: Leicester Museums & Galleries © Angela Verren Taunt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/4c1f9456-16b2-415f-8383-5ab4b1ca2559/010-munnings-199x300.jpg Exhibitions - Munnings Before the Great War An exhibition of thirty paintings from his early period, including loans from museums and never-before-exhibited works from private collections. Pictured: Alfred James Munnings | Angereau & Shrimp | Watercolour © The Artist’s Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/7bc5cad4-cb94-401f-ab2c-2b6993819d5a/009-carringhton-210x300.jpg Exhibitions - Bloomsbury Bell, Fry, Grant, Carrington, Lamb, Lessore, Tomlin & others Pictured: Dora Carrington | Frances Penrose | Oil, ink, silver paper on glass © The Artist’s Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/34f0a8b8-e1f1-4968-8e03-de8d81c69ba0/008-warhol-239x300.jpg Exhibitions - Pop Goes Art Blake, Warhol, Hockney, Dine, Lichtenstein, Self, Haring, Hamilton, Oldenburg & others Pictured: Andy Warhol | Pom (1976) | Acrylic on canvas © The Artist’s Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/5d9f4128-a9b4-4aa0-b72b-4d6e2d5a2417/007-eygpt-300x293.jpg Exhibitions - Howard Carter & Tutankhamun Egyptian antiquities dating from the 11th dynasty, Howard Carter and other exploration watercolours, ephemera and manuscripts relating to Tutankhamun, including the never previously exhibited original telegram from Carter to the Egyptian Authorities saying they have found the sarcophagus and inviting them to come the following day to see it opened. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/5499a023-8d91-4a21-916f-6002bdecd7ee/006-Cooper-Gotch-224x300.jpg Exhibitions - Models & Muses Matisse, Degas, Burne-Jones, Gainsborough, Romney, Gotch, Dine, Munnings, Russell-Flint, Andrews & others Pictured: Thomas Cooper Gotch | The Exile: Heavy is the Price I Paid for Love (1930) | Oil on canvas Image: Alfred East Gallery © The Artist’s Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/bf9244e4-4c4c-44a4-b2fe-d3459b8c79f5/henryMoore.jpg Exhibitions - Circle Moore, Hepworth, Gabo, Gropius, Nicholson, Piper, Le Corbusier, Breuer & others Pictured: Henry Moore | Reclining Figure (1938) | Bronze © The Artist’s Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/86d1dbb5-4d3d-4531-80d5-c3e43bdaa70a/004-Joss-1.jpg Exhibitions - Joss Cartoons & Caricatures Fritz Josefowitz (1908–67) by the time he was 25, had been expelled from Argentina and imprisoned in Spain and was back in Vienna, publishing the last anti-fascist newspaper. He fled to Britain in 1933, the same year as Einstein and went on to become of the most edgy and talented caricaturists of the 20th century. 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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/aa9a6f7d-a07a-42a0-9490-97edc0b24de3/029.jpg Research | Archived - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://artantiquesappraisals.com/heritage-projects daily 0.75 2024-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/baab8bd6-f655-4c9e-8b3f-82e065c6472c/German+Expressionists+front+cover+HR.jpg Projects - Wonderful German Expressionst work by Frans Marc on front cover of new catalogue This important picture is the centrepiece of Leicester Museum & Art Gallery’s collection of over 500 works by German Expressionists. Art & Antiques Appraisals is engaged in writing a fully illustrated catalogue of this special collection for the museum. In addition to the catalogue we are writing several sections, arranging the copyright of the images, the printing and many other elements of the publication. It will be available in July 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/fb6b3cc7-d779-4e70-93d1-98a2e1769c66/image003+copy.png Projects - Art & Antiques Appraisals’ Joanna van der Lande addresses 25th Anniversary of Convention on Cultural Property in Rome The 25th Anniversary of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Cultural Property was celebrated with a Conference in Rome in 2020. Joanna van der Lande [wearing her Chair of Antiquities Dealer’s Association hat], was invited to address this significant conference under the title The Antiquities Trade – A Reflection on the past 25 Years. Joanna’s conference address was published in 2021 in Cultural Property News and more recently in 2023 in the UNIDROIT’s publication on the Convention on Stolen & Illegally Exported Cultural Objects. In 2023 Joanna was appointed a member of the European Commission expert sub-group on Dialogue with the Art Market. In February 2024, she was appointed a member of the Working Group on Orphan Objects by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/977a99ee-f6ca-4341-88cc-a61ee0b632c1/image002+copy.png Projects - Audubon’s (£290,000) robin nests in Liverpool thanks to Acceptance in Lieu arrangement with HMRC, approved by Arts Council England’s panel America’s greatest artist of ornithology - John James Audubon (1775-1851), who was quoted three times by Darwin in On the Origin of Species, came to England in 1826 to raise funds for the publication of his magnum opus The Birds of America [a copy of which sold at Sotheby’s in 2010 for £7.3million, then a world record for a printed book]. Arriving in Liverpool with a letter of introduction to Richard Rathbone, a wealthy shipping merchant, he stayed with the Rathbone family, from whom he gained further helpful introductions to patrons and subscribers, leading to the successful publication of his great book. Whilst staying with the Rathbones he formed an attachment to Richard Rathbone’s sister, to whom he dedicated this and another watercolour and inscribed them [verso] with romantic poems. The robin itself was a family favourite, often coming into the house, so this charming provenance was just one factor in the decision of Arts Council England’s expert panel, to approve the acceptance in lieu of taxes. The two watercolours had been on loan from the Rathbone family to the Victoria Art Gallery & Museum in Liverpool since 1986, where they will now remain on display in their dedicated Audubon gallery. Art & Antiques Appraisals prepared a 2,000 word illustrated report and valuation [£410,000 for the two watercolours], supporting the application to Arts Council England’s AiL Expert Panel, enabling them to make an informed decision on behalf of HMRC. Along with the successful application to save the important Hogarth for the nation featured on the home page of this website, we have prepared several reports and valuations for Acceptance in Lieu purposes. Images: Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Liverpool University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/2cc6f67b-4000-4bd0-8658-e6195f0f85dc/image010%2Bcopy+copy.png Projects - Bristol slave-trader Edward Colston statue toppled – expert witness reports Colston Four cleared With tensions running high in Bristol, in the wake of the death of George Floyd and protests about the statue having started around a century ago, the world’s press was focussed on the trial. After toppling the statue, protesters had placed their knees on Colston’s neck, mimicking the death of Floyd. Art & Antiques Appraisals were instructed to prepare ‘before and after’ illustrated expert witness reports and valuations for the statue itself and a separate one for the plinth (total approaching 5,000 words). There were many factors to consider: The statue was created by John Cassidy in 1895, almost two centuries after Colston died [Cassidy’s sculptures have proved far from fashionable when they have come to the market: his rather smaller bronze sculpture of the Italian father-and-son slavers – John & Sebastian Cabot, who sailed from Bristol and are often credited with the discovery of America, made only £2,810 (hammer price equivalent) when offered at auction in America in 2018]. Colston himself was deeply unpopular too [despite that, had we been valuing the wonderful (now carefully guarded) Bristol sculptural memorial of him, created soon after his death, by perhaps the greatest sculptor of his time - John Michael Rysbrack (1694-1770), the valuation would still have been many hundreds-of-thousands of pounds]. Historian David Olusoga [Professor of public history at the University of Manchester, writer and BBC collaborator with Mary Beard] summed up many peoples thoughts when he said “This time last year it was a mediocre piece of late-Victorian public art, that said almost nothing truthful or of interest about Bristol, or Edward Colston… Now I think it’s the most important artefact you could select in Britain, if you wanted to tell the story of Britain’s tortuous relationship with its role in the Atlantic slave trade.” When considering what it was worth after being toppled and painted with heart-felt graffiti, there were again many factors to consider: In recent years, interest in the subject of controversial art has come to the fore, with the exhibition over nine rooms at Tate Britain – Art Under Attack, which dealt with toppled statues and, among others, the Whitney Museum of American Art’s show An Incomplete History of Protest. Meanwhile, Banksy has made Bristol the European home of graffiti art, the market for which has been stratospheric and Afro-Latino American artist Jean- Michael Basquiat’s graffiti based work is in great demand, the highest price for a work by him at auction is £85,572,568. There are many examples of the market rewarding oppressed artwork, among them the work by the German Expressionists, which is hugely enhanced and only slightly more recently, the cold-war protest art by Colin Self which, on the rare occasions that original works come to the market, is valued much more highly than his Pop Art for which he is much better known. Ultimately, we valued the statue itself at below £10,000, not that much more than its scrap value (the vacant plinth, with its original adornments, was considerably more). After the events of 7th June 2020, we valued it (unrestored) at in excess of £200,000. We were anxious that publicity surrounding our valuations might encourage widespread defacing of sculptures, but happily, whilst there is far too much protest in this way, the perpetrators have not used an increase in value as a motivation, or for that matter a defence. There is little doubt that this case, which was fascinating to be involved with, will be studied by law students for decades to come. The distinguished lead defence barrister Blinne Ni Ghralaigh, has moved on and is currently prosecuting Israel for genocide in the International Court of Justice. There has been much comment in the press and on the internet, much of it ill-thought-out. One of the more considered reflections is this video: The Colston Four | Full Documentary In the light of the result of the Colston Four trial, the Government has now published its guidance on how to deal with requests for removal of statues. This link is to the Museums Association’s summary of the mixed reaction to the guidance: Government finally publishes 'retain and explain' guidance - Museums Association. Images: Historic England / Sky News / Art & Antiques Appraisals https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/362b1b70-129a-47fd-a50a-6add0a629a3e/image012.png Projects - Works by the first black woman to win the Turner Prize – Lubiana Himid – secured for Rugby Art Gallery Lubiana Himid plays a leading role in Britain's Black Arts Movement, creating pieces which focus on racial politics and identity. She won the prestigious Turner Prize on 6th December 2017 for her works tackling issues such as colonial history, racism and the legacy of slavery. Rugby Art Gallery & Museum lost no time in starting the process of acquiring two works by her, the first black woman to win the Turner Prize, within a week they had approached Art & Antiques Appraisals to write a report and valuation to support their fundraising. Successful submissions to the Art Fund and Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund enabled the purchase of Man in a Paper Drawer and Man in a Pencil Drawer. Image: Hollybush Gardens / Art Fund https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/0fc28ba1-8c93-42bb-b0f1-8f56e421a56f/image018+17.01.10.jpg Projects - Elephant dung work by the first black winner of the Turner Prize – Chris Ofili – goes on loan to Tate Britain An eagle-eyed private client of Art & Antiques Appraisals bought a significant ‘elephant dung’ work from Ofili’s Seven Bitches series, from Christie’s, only three years after it was created - back in the nineties for £9,500 [hammer price]. Since that time Ofili has become the first black artist to win the Turner Prize (1998), was chosen to represent Britain at The 50th Venice Biennale (2003) [installation view, image above] and had a major retrospective at Tate Britain Chris Ofili (2010). Obviously I can’t discuss with readers what it might be worth now, but can say that over the decades things have changed and several of his ‘elephant dung’ works have made sums in the low millions. Art & Antiques Appraisals valued the work for Government Indemnity Insurance purposes, for the loan to Tate Britain. Here is a link to an informative short film made by Tate about Chris Ofili and their exhibition Chris Ofili – Exploding the Crystal. Ofili was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to art and he was included in the 2019 edition of the Powerlist, ranking the 100 most influential Black Britons. Images: Art & Antiques Appraisals / Cameraphoto Arte, Venice | Conceived by Chris Ofili, designed with David Adjaye, Adjaye/Associates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/c5e1048d-03f9-4027-b86e-e1870223cee4/image020+copy.png Projects - Colin Self – Cold War protest art diorama – Three Waiting Women and a B52 Bomber flies to Germany When Cold-War Protest and Pop artist Colin Self’s poignant diorama, created in 1963 (and enhanced in 2007), Three Waiting Women and a B52 Bomber was going from loan to the National Portrait Gallery, London, in January 2008 on to an exhibition in Germany and then back to the UK for his revealing retrospective COLIN SELF – ART IN THE NUCLEAR AGE, curated by Simon Martin and Marco Livingstone at Pallant House, Art & Antiques Appraisals valued the work for insurance. Colin Self was one of very few artists in those nervous times in the early sixties who reflected his thoughts in this striking way, a detail of this work was chosen for the front cover of the exhibition catalogue. Art & Antiques Appraisals has been involved in many collaborations with Colin Self over the years, including conducting charity auctions of his work to raise funds for The East Anglia Art Fund (including a version of his notorious sculpture Leopardskin Bomber) and, with Stephen Fry, to raise Funds for the Norwich Playhouse. His work, including this one, also featured prominently at the exhibition we curated at Holt Festival Pop Goes Art in 2015, when, alongside the exhibition during ‘In Conversation with Colin Self’ he regaled an enthralled audience with the stories about the nervousness of the early sixties, contrasted with the sense of freedom whilst on his well-documented trips to California with David Hockney, Patrick Procktor and others. We also showed his important Cold-War Protest sculpture Leopardskin Bomber No I 1962/3 [Leopardskin Bomber No 2 1963 was bought by Tate, London in 1963] alongside the work of designer Gerald Holtom (1914-85), who, in 1958, designed the globally important Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament symbol [which is now referred to as the Peace Symbol worldwide], at the exhibition Inventing the Future in 2018. Images: Art & Antiques Appraisals / Courtesy of Anna Scott & Colin Self https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/3db75929-ac56-4a7c-9c47-1052ac355a9a/image034.jpg Projects - Octo, 1978/9 by Wendy Taylor at Milton Keynes [Grade II listed, 2016] Part of an insurance appraisal of the entire public art collection at Milton Keynes. Image: Wendy Taylor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/63b42acd-6654-4a52-a9b4-cfc19fcbe60e/image005+copy.png Projects - Discovered in Suffolk, Edward Hase eventually finds his way home after 250 years Art & Antiques Appraisals re-discovered this handsome portrait in Bungay, Suffolk, where artist Thomas Bardwell had his studio at the time the portrait was painted and later his treatise The Practice of Painting and Perspective Made Easy was published and printed. Edward Hase was fortunate enough to have the Estate of Melton Constable in Norfolk settled on him, to which, in 1761/3, he added Salle Park. Art & Antiques Appraisals have undertaken the preparation of inventories and valuations of the entire collection, as well as conducting tours for a number of Art Fund and other visiting groups. Art & Antiques Appraisals arranged the private treaty sale of the portrait to Salle Park, where it is on display today (Salle Park is a private home, not open to the public, but is occasionally visited by heritage groups, courtesy of Sir John White). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/69e8a376-5728-4dd1-9e49-10e7d9e79313/image016.jpg Projects - John Craxton goes home to Athens & Crete, then on to Istanbul and back to Pallant House in Chichester In 2022 while Art & Antiques Appraisals curated Craxton’s highly successful UK centenary show Craxton-Picasso at Holt Festival, John Craxton - A Greek Soul was attracting huge crowds at The Benaki Museum in Athens too. It went on to The Municipal Gallery in Chania, perhaps the place Craxton enjoyed living most, and from there, in 2023, with additional artworks and acclaim, as John Craxton – Drawn to Light, to Istanbul. Finally, it made its way home, with another fresh injection of artworks (several from our Holt show) and more acclaim, to Pallant House in Chichester, as John Craxton – A Modern Odyssey. Art & Antiques Appraisals, among other things, undertook the inter-museum condition reports for the Greek & Turkish shows as well as a valuation of the Craxton Estate’s entire art holdings. This nicely crafted essay about the recent Craxton shows appeared in the Times Literary Supplement. Image: Meșher Gallery | Craxton’s motorbike, The Meșher Gallery, Istanbul https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/d66649b5-a818-4bca-ae67-5cf3efb3752f/image005+copy.png Projects - Alfred Sisley - near his home at Moret-sur-Loing, Degas’ Arabesque and a glorious depiction of Paddington station from Leicester’s 19th century collection These are just a small part of a fine collection of 19th century paintings and sculpture, alongside the famous German Expressionist Art Collection at Leicester. Both are within a highly significant Western Art collection, with important works ranging from the fourteenth to the 21st centuries. Art & Antiques Appraisals has undertaken valuations for insurance for the entire collection [of approaching two million objects] for Leicester Museums & Art Galleries. Images: Leicester Museums & Art Galleries / Art & Antiques Appraisals https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/02cf74b0-2ebc-45bf-a063-55a8bb510e81/image014.jpg Projects - Stella McCartney’s Lucky Spot goes on show at Belsay Castle Horse lover and designer Stella McCartney’s Lucky Spot, made from over 8,000 Swarovski crystals. Image: English Heritage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/65694a0c-23fb-43e0-b63f-a5360087c2e1/image004.jpg Projects - Louis Marcoussis’s wonderful modernist painting from 1928, part of the Adeane Bequest to the Tate in East Anglia Foundation (now EAAF) This painting and works by other luminaries including Warhol, Rodin, Picabia, Sutherland, Nolde, Ernst, Laurencin, van Dongen and Ayrton were part of Lady Adene’s bequest, now the property of the East Anglia Art Fund. Art & Antiques Appraisals curated an exhibition of the works at Holt Festival in 2010 and has undertaken insurance valuations of the collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/7372fc28-e05e-43d1-9b69-6884db596c4c/image009+copy.png Projects - Midweek Practice at Stamford Bridge by Laurence Toynbee (c.1952) acquired by The National Football Museum, Manchester When the National Football Museum wanted to buy this painting, Art & Antiques Appraisals went to see it in a West End gallery in London and prepared a condition report, market analysis and valuation to support their applications for the funds needed for the acquisition. The purchase was made with grants from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Art Fund and the Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund. Art & Antiques Appraisals has undertaken an insurance valuation of the entire collection at The National Football Museum in Manchester and also valuations for many other sporting collections, such as The Players Foundation, The Fred Perry collection in Stockport and the Museum of London’s Harry Kane exhibition. Images: FA Cup Trophy (cast from the maker’s mould as the original was stolen in 1895); England’s 1966 World Cup winning ball; Pele’s World Cup Medal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/fe3e4124-51a3-46cc-b653-a4dfab55ed8e/image023%2Bcopy+copy.png Projects - Robert Adams Counter Balance no.2, part of the 2023 touring exhibition Rhythm Geometry from the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Art & Antiques Appraisals supplied the Government Indemnity insurance valuations for the 66 items on loan from the Sainsbury Centre for this exhibition. From where Art & Antiques Appraisas have enjoyed several significant valuation instructions. Images: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts / Metalocus.es https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/48f8c71a-e767-456c-b7cf-07d6256ff14c/image002.jpg Projects - Walter Sickert (1860-1942) St Marks Venice 1896/7. One of the earliest works at the important collection at the British Council Art & Antiques Appraisals undertook a valuation and photography project of thousands of the paintings and prints the British Council has collected since 1938. Image: Simon Difazio for Art & Antiques Appraisals / British Council https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/fb797b27-1dbf-48c1-a1b5-aed86d7f6196/image028+copy.png Projects - Discovered near Ampleforth in 2020, this small but nationally important group of Roman artefacts is now highly cherished at York Castle museum This assemblage of copper alloy artefacts comprises a bust (thought likely to depict Marcus Aurelius), a horse and rider figurine, a plumb bob and forequarters of a horse (likely a key handle). Joanna van der Lande of Art & Antiques Appraisals prepared a 17 page illustrated valuation and report, with description, discussion and comparanda for each object, to support the acquisition for York Museums Trust. Images: Jikta Erbenová / The Portable Antiquities Scheme https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/672fd33d-3311-465b-8a21-f0730eef2fb7/image034+copy.png Projects - A 13th Century Limoges gilt bronze and champlevé Corpus Christi, ‘found in the ruins of St. Mary’s Abbey at York in 1826’ This small statuette had been in the significant private collection of Hans Monheim (1891-1969) and thereafter by descent, in the German city of Aachen, until coming on the market in 2019. Found in the ruins of the once magnificent Benedictine St. Mary’s Abbey, we can only speculate how it might have arrived there - one can be sure that wealthy ecclesiastical pilgrims will have visited, before the abbey’s demise following the dissolution. Limoges enamels form the richest surviving corpus of medieval metalwork and were highly prized for their bright colours. When offered to the York Museums Trust, Art & Antiques Appraisals, wrote a 1,200 word illustrated report supporting the Trust’s application for funds to help acquire it. Images: York Museums Trust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/4b194ee3-ad24-4c7d-9162-904beb283baa/image036+copy.png Projects - One of Britain’s most important Bronze Age finds: The Hove Amber Cup (c.1650-1450B.C.) The Hove cup, discovered in 1856 during the construction of Palmeira Square in Hove, made from a single piece of amber, is one of only two found in Britain. This three-and-a-half-thousand year old artefact was valued for insurance, by Joanna van der Lande of Art & Antiques Appraisals for The Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust. Images: Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/6da23309-847b-45ee-a77c-5a02d3f547da/image011.jpg Projects - Art & Antiques Appraisals advised the BBC on valuations in The Treasure Hunters Art & Antiques Appraisals was engaged by the BBC to advise on the valuations in their two part documentary programme The Treasure Hunters. Presenters Dallas & Ellie travelled all over the world, making short films about man-made-treasure, recovering treasure from shipwrecks, finding Tutankhamun, the Amber Room and more; as well as natural finds including amazing archaeological natural history objects, pearl diving, gold refining, diamond mining and much more. In the course of their interviews they the discussed values, Art & Antiques Appraisals’ task was to reign-in some of the superlatives and fact-check the valuations, as far as was reasonably possible. Ellie Meets Sue – the largest, most complete and best preserved T-Rex ever found Image: BBC Images https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/eb5a1e3e-06bf-4233-aa9c-874b8b370c4e/image040+copy.png Projects - Fine Old Master paintings from the Chalmers Bequest and items from the Social History & Civic Regalia collections at Hackney, London This fine quality late seventeenth century seascape by Ludolf Backhuysen I (1631-1708) is among the treasures from the Chalmers Bequest at Hackney. Art & Antiques Appraisals has undertaken a valuation of the Fine Art, Social History and Civic Regalia collections. Images: Art & Antiques Appraisals / Hackney Borough Council https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/b192addc-057b-466c-9d26-92af8d2869d4/Canon.png Projects - An early carronade at Dover Castle This and other carronades at Dover Castle were valued for English Heritage, as well as cannon at Etal Castle and elsewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/3a767791-ffa6-4578-83ad-e888c8c13991/House.png Projects - Magnificent furniture and artworks at Lyme Park, Cheshire Art & Antiques Appraisals were engaged to value hundreds of items on loan to the National Trust’s magnificent Lyme Park, to enable their acquisition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/1690a15f-39ed-46de-bb52-88ff97d630ad/image003.jpg Projects - 13th century sculpture Christ in Majesty from Rievaulx Abbey Art & Antiques Appraisals was engaged by English Heritage to value a significant group of treasures from Rievaulx Abbey, which was destroyed by Royal command in 1538. Many of the objects are now on display in the English Heritage Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/d7751462-e406-4297-a5b5-ffcf137d92c3/Sundial.png Projects - William & Mary sundial in Bedfordshire tells the time in Mexico, Constantinople, Vienna, Rome, Barbados and beyond… This amazing 1682 horological ring by Henry Wynne at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire (where a replica is now in place), tells the time all over the known world in the late 17th Century. Valued with other items at Wrest Park, for English Heritage. Images: English Heritage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/d19bb517-5696-4e81-9c35-03b7aa24af54/image048+copy.png Projects - Important decorations grace Lauriston Castle near Edinburgh 16th century Lauriston Castle boasts fabulous views over the Firth of Forth, but it is hard to take your eyes off the collection that adorns this charming castle and mansion. Displaying perhaps the best collection of Blue John ornaments ever assembled, highly decorative 18th century Dutch and Italian furniture, the most eye-catching of all is the spectacular pietra dura table top [illustrated] - dating from about 1590. Large decorative verdure Brussels tapestries by Henri Reydams (1650-1719) adorn the dining room and Old Master paintings the entrance hall. The last owner, Mrs Ried also owned the highest quality cabinet makers in Edinburgh, Morison & Co., so bespoke furnishings compliment the elegant look throughout. There are thousands of small collectors items, all left in Trust to the nation, so after she died in 1926, the Castle became a museum. Art & Antiques Appraisals made an illustrated inventory and undertook a market and insurance valuation of the entire collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/3ad474e1-254e-478f-aec6-2643373ffc56/image011+copy.png Projects - Cheshire’s medieval manor Bramall Hall reveals seven centuries of history March 2024: Arts Council England have stepped in to safeguard the collection, with £1.6 million for essential building repairs. Art & Antiques Appraisals have undertaken a valuation for insurance of the entire wide-rangiing collection. Image: Joseph Nash | The Drawing Room, Bramall Hall, Cheshire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/9a80f23b-a412-4761-aac4-3e017f887e2b/image003.jpg Projects - The Paston Treasure – the ultimate mid-17th century schatzkammer This quite wonderful, large and luxurious painting by an unknown Dutch artist c.1665, depicting a few of the treasures at Oxnead Hall, near Aylsham, Norfolk, is a highlight of the collection at Norwich Castle Museum, where Art & Antiques Appraisals is undertaking a valuation of the entire collection of oil paintings. Image: Norfolk Museums Service https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/7b3a6bf2-4425-4d5f-9f03-eef327da8088/image025.jpg Projects - Church of England sends 12th century Caen stone carvings back to Caen St Michael fighting the Dragon Carved around AD 1120 in Jurassic limestone (c.170 million years old) from Caen The Church of England lent this and other Caen stone carvings to an exhibition in Caen in northern France, Art & Antiques Appraisals valued them for insurance. Image: The Church of England https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/8017ccda-032b-46a5-9386-b6545a53f64c/Heritage.png Projects - Lindisfarne Priory’s world-renowned Viking-Raider stone dating from AD793 Art & Antiques Appraisals was engaged to value this highly important carving, along with other treasures from Lindisfarne Priory. Stone image: English Heritage. Painting: Lindisfarne Abbey (1797) by Thomas Girtin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/23e42907-388f-41ca-8f4a-50cf6abe5ea8/image013.jpg Projects - Horse Racing and Fair at Lodmoor, Dorset, c.1870 This historic painting is one of the treasures at Weymouth Museum, where Art & Antiques Appraisals has undertaken an entire collection valuation. Image: Weymouth Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/aef305ff-16e4-49bc-9c5c-2a1840b015c9/image012.jpg Projects - Packing the Hats by Amy Browning (1881–1978) at Manchester’s The Hat Works Museum Art & Antiques Appraisals has undertaken an entire collection valuation at this specialist museum. Image: Stockport Heritage Services https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/d6985a39-4a63-4cdb-b98c-7d122e90c8a8/image029.jpg Projects - Glorious Pugin interior that inspired Agatha Christie Abney Hall, near Manchester, owned by Agatha Christie’s nephew, inspired her descriptions of life upstairs and down in many of her novels. Her nephew James Watts appointed the designer-of-the-moment Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, to re-design the interior (Pugin was also responsible for much of the design of the Houses of Parliament including Big Ben. Sadly he didn’t live to see them built, but spent the final part of his life at Bedlam. He died aged 40 having married three times). Art & Antiques Appraisals have undertaken the valuations for insurance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/30aef60f-e854-4752-a324-a835b85a5cce/image014.jpg Projects - 2nd century Roman mosaic in Ratae Corieltavorum will soon be brought to life Art & Antiques Appraisals has undertaken a valuation of the entire collection of Roman artefacts at The Jewry Wall Museum, which is undergoing a major multi-million pound re-development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/5d6d87c5-d9ce-419a-b129-13ab50dcc197/image005+copy.png Projects - A collection of 1830’s illustrated travel diaries to Egypt, with scores of paintings & drawings, valued for The British Museum A large collection of drawings and archive material, valued by Art & Antiques Appraisals, for Government Indemnity Insurance for the British Museum. Additionally, Art & Antiques Appraisals has, on occasion, represented the British Museum when bidding at auction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/bbceb03c-04ed-4a14-b113-f3a58f82dfd0/image020.jpg Projects - Bedlam’s evocative 17th century Portland stone sculptures by Caius Gabriel Cibber Melancholy Madness & Raving Madness Cibber’s highly important sculptures, completed in 1676, for the original gates at Moorfields, now adorn the entrance to London’s Bethlem Museum of The Mind. Based on Michelangelo’s recumbent figures in the Medici chapel in Florence, they form a fitting entrance to this unique, world renowned collection and archive, which promotes the understanding of mental illness. Art & Antiques Appraisals regularly values the collection for insurance purposes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/44f55cb4-06dd-4e09-8ac0-fce91da18c83/image018.jpg Projects - The Burning of the Royal James at the Battle of Sole Bay, 28th May 1672, by Willem van der Velde the Younger (1633-1707) This depiction of East Anglia’s most important sea battle, was loaned by the National Maritime Museum for the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts’ exhibition Masterpieces – Art and East Anglia. In addition to writing the object entry for the award winning catalogue, Art & Antiques Appraisals has sourced loans for this and other exhibitions at the region’s most edgy museum. Image: National Maritime Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/8c80a2c1-ff48-4419-b019-74d18adae824/image031.jpg Projects - Rare flagon by Norwich silversmith William Cobbald (1530–86) among the highly important collection at Norwich Castle Museum Art & Antiques Appraisals are currently undertaking a valuation of the Museum’s collection of Norwich Silver. Image: Norwich Castle Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/e3907172-80a1-44ee-9f70-aeef70ec2e6a/image029+copy.png Projects - Dora Gordine Javanese Dancer 1927/8 at the Dorich House Museum, London This significant bronze by Dora Gordine was created when she lived in Paris in the late ‘20s, where it was photographed by Man Ray, who lived nearby. Dorich House was her studio–home with Richard Hare in London and, now a museum, it houses a large collection of her bronzes and plasters, as well as their interesting collection of Russian items. Art & Antiques Appraisals has conducted an insurance valuation of the entire collection. Images: Dorich House Museum, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/cb80e937-92a3-4866-9c58-7c08278768d7/image015+copy.png Projects - Valuations for The Supreme Court of Great Britain Detail of a clock, valued with other artefacts for The Supreme Court of Great Britain, Parliament Square, London. The Court is housed in the Middlesex Guildhall, the clock detailed above, formed part of the decorative sheme in place, before the 2005 re-modelling, which includes carpets designed by Pop artist Peter Blake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/62b2db1f-657b-4759-9992-de36542eed9c/image017+copy.png Projects - One of thirty watercolours of apple varieties by Thomas Andrew Knight (c.1810) from the pomology collection and an invitation from David Garrick The special collections at Hereford museum, contain many treasures, among them a delicious collection of historic illustrated pomology books and watercolours, demonstrating the influence of the Normans on this early centre of the English cider industry. A fascinating archive relating to David Garrick (1717-1779), who was born in Hereford and went on to be so influential in nearly all aspects of European theatre in the 18th century. Also the important holdings of the artist Brian Hatton (1887-1916), whose life was tragically cut short by the great war, including over 100 oil paintings by him, among them a significant bequest from the USA. Art & Antiques Appraisals has undertaken a valuation of the entire collection for Hereford Museums, as well as the library’s incunabula and the local archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/b2efeb69-886d-4a36-a01c-4b0e8f1289dd/image031+copy.png Projects - Fort Elmo from the Upper Barracca, Valletta, by Giancinto Gianni at the Museum of the Order of St John, London Fort Elmo, the subject of this painting, which is today the Maltese Museum of War, witnessed severe fighting during the Great Siege of Malta in 1565. It is one of a magnificent collection of historic Maltese paintings and artefacts and those reflecting the role of the Order of St John in more recent times. Art & Antiques Appraisals has conducted a valuation of all the paintings, the furnishings and highlights of the artefacts too. Images: Museum of the Order of St John https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/3ad06d16-4edc-49e0-ac9b-fb05f9b6b34e/image026+copy.png Projects - Watercolours by Constable, Turner, Sandby and other giants from the Charles Lees Collection at Gallery Oldham These watercolour drawings of Bellinzona, The Bridge over Ticino by J M W Turner, A Lugger & Hog Boat, Brighton by John Constable and Old House with Figuresby Paul Sandby are just a few examples from the Charles Lees Collection of 18th & 19th century paintings, given to what is now Gallery Oldham in 1888. Gallery Oldham, like many local authority museums, has an extensive and wide ranging collection, for which Art & Antiques Appraisals has undertaken the valuation across all disciplines. Images: Gallery Oldham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/556e1283-72dd-4593-b1a0-f2d5e17493a9/image020.jpg Projects - Very rare 17th century Bellarmine ‘witches’ bottle, found with its original contents, valued for the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Halle, Germany Valued by Art & Antiques Appraisals, for the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Halle in Germany, when they borrowed this intriguing object, which was found in Church Street, Greenwich. Image: Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/e95474fe-c941-4c97-8cb1-a511dc847957/image083+copy.png Projects - The correspondence between Sigmund Freud, Abert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer, Thomas Mann & illustrated letters from a young Lucian Freud at the Freud Museum, London An Egyptian bronze statuette of Bastet the goddess of welfare and his extensive collection of antiquities, his world famous couch, the archive of his correspondence and that of Anna Freud, their libraries, the photographic archive and much more, at the Freud Museum in London. Art & Antiques Appraisals conducted an insurance valuation of the entire collection. Images: Art & Antiques Appraisals / The Freud Museum https://artantiquesappraisals.com/sold daily 0.75 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/88a74398-49a5-47a4-ae8a-fc97e94f04ad/Edward-Seago-The-River-Thurne-.jpg Sold Items - The River Thurne | Edward Seago (Norfolk 1910-1974 Norfolk) Oil on board, signed, 10.75 x 14in The River Thurne runs south-west from Hickling Broad passing about a mile from Ludham where Edward Seago lived and painted. Download PDF with more details Sold Provenance | Marlborough Galleries, London 1968 | Private Collection UK | Estate of Joan Baker Deceased https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/cb285d49-f4e0-4131-9934-e9558e2d05e9/Edward-Seago-A-Norfolk-Regatta-at-Blakeney.jpg Sold Items - A Norfolk Regatta [at Blakeney] | Edward Seago (1910-1974) Oil on board, signed, 16 x 20in Download PDF with more details Sold Exhibited | Edward Seago – The Instinctive Artist, Holt Festival 2017 Provenance | Marlborough Galleries, London, 1968 | Private Collection, London/Cambridge | Estate of Joan Baker Deceased, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/be541234-6703-4c69-9ea0-aa3d872d200b/eveningatcaserta.jpg Sold Items - Evening at Caserta 1945 | Edward Seago (1910-1974) Oil on board, signed with initial “S” and dated 1945 This small oil sketch was painted at Caserta in Italy where the Supreme Allied Commander (Mediterranean Forces) Field Marshall Alexander had based his headquarters and received the German surrender to the Allies on April 29th 1945.Seago, having been ill with heart problems in the autumn of 1944 was retired from the army by the medical board. Sold Provenance | Derek Hamblen Collection | Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/f4860920-0f47-40f0-8653-1fd06657f69c/004-13.jpg Sold Items - Primrose & Viola 1992 | Carolyn Sergeant (1937-2018) Oil on card, 20.3 x 29.2cm, framed, monogrammed and dated 1992 Carolyn Sergeant studied fine art at Wimbledon then the RA Schools. Highly regarded she had one man shows at many of London’s leading galleries including the Waterhouse and Waterman Galleries, Hazlett, Gooden & Fox, The Fine Art Society and with Sir Jack Baer at Colnaghi’s. Sold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/0be56897-1471-4d2b-91de-70b047a687ae/sorrell.jpg Sold Items - Meadowsweet c.1926 | Richard Sorrell ( b. 1948) Oil on board, 40 x 30cm, signed and dated 1994, framed Sold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/7be6be7a-51e7-4e85-bd46-4252533695c6/Edward-Seago-Street-Scene-Dieppe-watercolour-2-1.jpg Sold Items - Street Scene, Dieppe 1951 | Edward Seago (1910-1974) Watercolour, 10.5 x 14.5in (27 × 37.5cm), signed and framed In the years after the war Edward Seago sailed his studio-boat Capricorn across the Chanel to paint in Holland, Belgium, France & Italy. In 1951 he painted for a few days in the Normandy coastal town of Dieppe, before sailing west & up the Seine towards Paris. Sold Provenance | Laing Galleries, Toronto, Canada (where purchased by Murray Bell, Toronto, Canada) | Private Collection, Norfolk, UK | Glennie’s – Impressionist & Modern Paintings – 6th April 1990 Lot 2 (where purchased by the present owner) | Private Collection, Norfolk, UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/519f3864-bd9d-458c-8411-105a862dbd40/Edward-Seago-Grand-Rue-Petit-Anderlys-1951-1-2.jpg Sold Items - Grand Rue, Petit Anderly 1951 | Edward Seago (1910-1974) Oil on board, signed Painted on one of his many painting trips on his studio-boat Capricorn, on this occasion sailing up the Seine towards Paris, he moored for a couple of days at the Normandy village of Petit Anderlys, below the ruin of Chateau Gaillard, built by Richard Coeur de Lion. Jean Goodman writes of this subject in her biography Edward Seago – The Other Side of the Canvas [pp 215-6], she recalls his words from his last book With Capricorn to Paris “…For Me, this glimpse of it was a wish come true Seago wrote, remembering the first time he had seen a painting of the Chateau. It was in the book by Sir Alfred East which, as a boy, had stirred his imagination and he had longed to visit it and other far-away places, instead of carrying his paints down to the familiar meadows behind his Norfolk home. On that trip up the Seine he painted the Chateau and the view from the top of its hill…” Sold Provenance | Private Collection UK | Bonhams Modern Pictures & Sculpture 29th November 1995 Lot 104 (where bought by the present owner) | Private collection Norfolk, UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/dbd57ef4-53ff-470d-9e6e-02bb65f48f84/palliser2.jpg Sold Items - Menton 1929 | Herbert William Palliser (Northallerton 1883-1963 London) Pen, ink, charcoal and wash, 35.5 x 24cm Signed in ink, inscribed and dated in pencil Herbert Palliser, best known for his sculpture, trained at Central School then The Slade. Among his public works are those in Vintner’s Place, Southampton Row and King William Street in central London. £150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/e7653c80-69a0-4246-b1e4-3a4a9c7927a5/dubery.jpg Sold Items - The White Sunshade | Fred Dubery (1926-2011) Oil on canvas, 19 x 12.3cm, unframed For sale on behalf of East Anglia Art Fund to raise funds to support great art in the region and scholarships for art & design students. £380 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/b9e02fe3-1016-47d3-9f6c-46af5f24f6f6/Edward-Seago-Boats-at-Rye-oil-on-board-1927-1.jpg Sold Items - Boats at Rye 1927 | Edward Seago (1910-1974) Oil on board, signed with initials, 10.25 x 13in, framed At the age of ten Edward Seago announced to his parents he intended to be a painter. Three years later he wrote to Bertram Priestman RA, who during the summers lived at Walberswick, not far from his prep school in Suffolk, who took him under his wing, giving him his first lessons. At sixteen in 1926, he had two paintings accepted for the Norwich Art Circle exhibition, shown alongside loans by the already important East Anglain artists Arnsby Brown and Munnings. A year later, encouraged by Priestman, he submitted his first painting to the Royal Academy. Still a teenager in 1929, his first one-man show in London was held at The Arlington Gallery in Old Bond Street, twenty-three paintings sold on the first day (some priced as highly as £150). This very charming early work was painted when he was only seventeen, in the same year as his first submission to the Royal Academy. The view across the estuary towards the town is much the same today. £9,360 Provenance | Given by the artist to Dr Kirk Bryce, 112 All Saints Green, Norwich in lieu of payment. [Seago had suffered from heart & chest problems throughout his childhood, so Dr Bryce had played an important part in his life. The doctor’s practice at All Saints Green, also had Alfred Munnings as a patient.] | Sold on behalf of the estate of Dr Bryce by New Mill Gallery, Morton-on-the-Hill, Norwich in 1992 | Thereafter: Private Collection Norfolk, UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/7f5b9786-e0c3-4515-a99f-dcdbfef164d6/003.jpg Sold Items - Iris 1985 | Elizabeth Blackadder (Falkirk 1931-2021 Edinburgh) Watercolour Sold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/ce1a9ddc-0c20-4e41-aa45-0a558e489df1/newcombe.jpg Sold Items - Off Goes the Groom Without his Dog | Mary Newcomb (1922-2008) Oil on board, 75 x 76cm, signed and dated, title inscribed verso, framed £13,800 +ARR Provenance | A gift from Mary Newcomb to her artist friends Tom & Bod Wright (who met at Benton End) | The Estate of Bod Wright 2015 | Private Collection, Norfolk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/cd32c52f-ab55-4965-91d0-8b5c1d178834/frost.jpg Sold Items - It’s a Good Space 1998 | Sir Terry Frost RA (Leamington Spa 1915-2003 Newlyn) Six colour silkscreen, 48cm x 44.5cm, white mount in an oak frame overall framed size 80.5 x 75.5cm, signed in pencil and numbered 38/150 Download PDF with more details Sold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/551d2e16-b1fd-4ff2-867d-a368c88f433a/Dame-Paula-Rego.jpg Sold Items - Doctor Cat 1982 | Dame Paula Rego (b. Portugal 1935) Lithograph, 71 x 104cm, float mounted in original black frame, inscribed with title, numbered 16/50, signed and dated Published by Edward Totah Gallery, London Sold Provenance | Collection of Henry & Jane Burke until 2004 | Private collection, Norfolk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/05ced9f3-a460-40de-9dfa-7723b0e16b35/006.jpg Sold Items - Eléments trop hétérogènes c.1933 | Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957) Gouache, 11.5 x 11.5in, signed lower left and inscribed as title Sold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/8fc8f30a-ce29-4d3e-8e0d-6f4c16a114a7/011.jpg Sold Items - Vera Brittain Playing the Piano | Winifred Nicholson (British 1893-1981) Immortalised in her memoir Testament of Youth Sold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bfb4432ad27c3db5cc1445/ca1d857f-491d-4335-81e9-40ce7e333f0f/Tidman.jpg Sold Items - Clown 1984 | Bruer Tidman (b. Norfolk 1939) Watercolour and pencil, 73 x 58cm, signed and dated 1984 This work is one of a series of Circus related paintings created by Bruer Tidman in 1984. Sold Provenance | Collection of Richard G C Draycott (1948-2020) until 1994 | Private Collection, Norfolk https://artantiquesappraisals.com/store daily 0.75 2025-02-05