From Old Masters to Islamic Art at Roseberys, London

Roseberys London June sales comprise a rich selection of high-quality lots, form old masters and 19th century paintings, Islamic and Indian art to decorative furniture, jewellery and watches.

Among the highlights of the "Old Master, 18th & 19th Century Pictures" are major paintings by René Princeteau, the tutor of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec who famously captured bohemian Paris, and a fine portrait miniature thought to depict Napoleon’s youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte which forms part of a comprehensive private collection of British and European portrait miniatures spanning a period of nearly 300 years.

The Fine & Decorative sale will include nearly a dozen lots recently restituted to the heirs of Lucy Sophie Yvonne de Jonquet, an English woman who rose from humble beginnings to marry into European royalty in the early 1900s. A pair of 18th century Sevres porcelain plates with possible links to the Duke and Duchess of Parma lead the group. Further highlights will include rare Russian silver, handsome 18th century English and French furniture and fine continental works of art.

SELECTED LOTS

Left: René Charles Pierre Princeteau - Early morning, bringing out hounds with huntsmen in attendance; Right: Circle of Cornelis de Vos - Portrait of a young girl standing three-quarter length wearing a black dress with lace collar

René Charles Pierre Princeteau (French 1843-1919) - Early morning, bringing out hounds with huntsmen in attendance
Oil on canvas, signed, 131 x 98cm. René Princeteau (1843-1919), tutor of the famous French painter and poster artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, was a master in the depiction of equestrian subject matter. Born deaf and mute into a wealthy noble family in Libourne, he is considered one of the most highly sought-after academic French artists of the late 19th century. Princeteau was well known for his depictions of horseracing, equestrian portraits, military scenes and hunting scenes, with some of his earlier works inspired by Alfred de Dreux and George Stubbs. Such themes were highly popular among the upper classes and his unique approach to equestrian subjects meant he was never short of work. Early morning, bringing out hounds with huntsmen in attendance, is typical of Princeteau’s style. A balanced and engaging composition, it shows figures emerging out of the frosty and misty morning at speed towards the viewer. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Old Master, 18th & 19th Century Pictures | Date: 04 June

Circle of Cornelis de Vos (Flemish 1584-1651)- Portrait of a young girl standing three-quarter length wearing a black dress with lace collar;
Oil on panel, 103 x 80cm. This portrait displays an elegantly dressed young woman, clutching a pair of gloves and resting her other hand on a chair, with a distant landscape visible through the window to the left. De Vos completed a number of portraits similar in layout to the present work, creating engaging compositions which became increasing fashionable during the 2nd half of his career. The elaborately decorated gloves suggest that this is a portrait to celebrate a marriage and was most likely to be one of a pair, the male sitter now lost. Wedding gloves and portraits were often kept together as symbols of the union and it is documented that during the first half of the century brides would wear their ring on the first finger or little finger, here the sitter is evidently wearing a ring on her little finger. Based on the costume of the sitter, it is believed the work was completed around 1635-40. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Old Master, 18th & 19th Century Pictures | Date: 04 June

Left: Sebastiaen Vrancx, Flemish 1573-1647- Soldiers raiding a village; Right: Francis Wheatley RA - Figures in a cart in a wooded landscape

Sebastiaen Vrancx (Flemish 1573-1647) Soldiers raiding a village
Oil on cradled panel, signed with monogram, 48.3 x 65.5cm. Considered to be the pioneering artist of the battle scene in Northern European art, Vrancx's crowded and detailed compositions display an advanced understanding of the illusion of perspective for this period. More than half of his known paintings are believed to be military themed. (Rubens collected a number of his paintings that may have informed his own artistic development). Vrancx became an officer in the Antwerp Civic Guard in 1613 and was promoted to captain 1621, his first-hand military experience no doubt leading to his fascination in depicting the battles and skirmishes of the Dutch wars.
The present work typically showcases his style, with a dramatic view of soldiers on foot and horseback attacking villagers. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Old Master, 18th & 19th Century Pictures | Date: 04 June

Francis Wheatley RA (British 1747-1801) Figures in a cart in a wooded landscape
Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 83.5cm. Following trips to the Low Countries and Ireland throughout the 1760s, Francis Wheatley (1747-1801) settled in London as a Fellow of the Society of Artists and was appointed as the director in 1774, going onto exhibit at the Royal Academy in 1778. Over the next 10 years he became renowned for his landscapes and rustic subject matter, as seen in the work shown here, and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1790, and an academician the following year. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Old Master, 18th & 19th Century Pictures | Date: 04 June

Left: John Frederick Herring - The Ducklings, 1851; Right: Franz von Stuck - Portrait of the Artist’s Daughter Mary

John Frederick Herring (Snr. British 1795-1865) - The Ducklings, 1851
Oil on panel, bears labels verso, 25.4 x 30.5 cm. Farmyard scenes featuring draught horses, pigs, poultry, ducks or pigeons, were the preferred subjects of John Frederick Herring Snr. (1795–1865) in later life, particularly after his retirement to the Kentish countryside in the early 1840s. This oil painting, The Ducklings, dates to 1851. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Old Master, 18th & 19th Century Pictures | Date: 04 June

Franz von Stuck (German 1863-1928) - Portrait of the Artist’s Daughter Mary
Black and white chalk, pastel, watercolour and touches of gouache on cardboard. This striking portrait by the German artist Franz von Stuck (1863-1928) depicts his only child Mary when she was 14 years old. Mary Stuck (1896-1961) posed frequently for her father in the 1910s and 1920s, often dressed in costume as a Greek or Spanish girl, bullfighter or gypsy for works that have become much prized by collectors. In this c.1910 chalk, pastel and watercolour drawing from a private German collection Mary wears her new deep blue motoring bonnet. She also appears wearing the same hat in several of the artist’s photographs of her. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Old Master, 18th & 19th Century Pictures | Date: 04 June

Left: John Robertson Reid RI ROI - Idle Moments; Right: Thomas P Hall - Young Love, circa 1860

John Robertson Reid RI ROI (Scottish 1851-1926) Idle Moments
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 76, 61.5 x 46cm. In 1874, the year of the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris, Reid began painting 'en plein air'. Reid was pioneering in Britain for publicly propagandising this method and extoling their virtues. He often hired local villagers to pose in his scenes, fascinated with the gestures of candid social activity and the subtle expression of character in his subjects. In this painting, golden light falls on the back of young female figure, focusing the eye on her quiet, playful interaction with kitten on the pedestal below. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Old Master, 18th & 19th Century Pictures | Date: 04 June

Thomas P Hall (British fl.1837-1867) - Young Love, circa 1860
Oil on canvas, signed with monogram, bears label to the reverse of the frame, 76.2 x 63.5 cm. Provenance: Christie’s, South Kensington, 23rd March 2016, lot 109; Masterpiece Art, London. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Old Master, 18th & 19th Century Pictures | Date: 04 June

Left: John Lewis-Brown - Attelage sur la plage, 1872; Right: Antoine Bouvard - Grand Canal, Venice

John Lewis-Brown (French 1829-1890) Attelage sur la plage, 1872
Oil on panel, signed and dated, 48.7 x 64.5cm Provenance: Beaussant-Lefevre, Paris, 1st June 2005, lot 81 Note: John Lewis Brown was born in Bordeaux to a Scottish family. Largely self-taught and best known as a horse painter and painter of elegant equestrian scenes, he exhibited at the Salon for the first time in 1848. He was a socialite and society painter, who became a chronicler of Parisian high society before the war of 1870. The present work combines these two sides of his career, showing an elegant couple taking a break during their journey in a horse-drawn carriage. The influence of the Impressionists can be seen in his large brushstrokes, which are a feature of his later works. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Old Master, 18th & 19th Century Pictures | Date: 04 June

Antoine Bouvard (French 1870-1956) - Grand Canal, Venice
Oil on canvas, signed, 24.5 x 33cm. Bouvard frequented Venice during the 1920’s and 1930’s, returning to Paris to sell his work. A recluse, he had little contact with the public, selling his views through art dealers. He painted exclusively Venetian views, having clearly identified a market in which he was to achieve considerable commercial success. Bouvard also worked under the pseudonym of Marc Aldine, allowing him further success through alternative markets for his work. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Old Master, 18th & 19th Century Pictures | Date: 04 June

Left: Follower of Robert Dodd - The Quebec and Surveillante in Action, 6 October 1779; Right: A Regence ormolu and boulle cased bracket clock by De Lorme of Paris, circa. 1735

Follower of Robert Dodd (British 1748-1815) - The Quebec and Surveillante in Action, 6 October 1779
Enamel on steel panel, 51 x 74.5cm. Painted with enamels on a steel panel, this is a copy of Robert Dodd’s (1748-1815) dramatic oil painting The Quebec and Surveillante in Action in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. The action depicted was a minor but famous and furious naval engagement between the frigates HMS Quebec and Surveillante that took part in the early stages of the war between Britain and France in the American Revolutionary War. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Fine & Decorative | Date: 05 June

A Regence ormolu and boulle cased bracket clock by De Lorme of Paris, circa. 1735
This exquisite Regence ormolu and boulle cased bracket clock characterises the French Rococo style. It features a square brass five pillar twin barrel movement and is lavishly decorated with floral and foliate swags, a figure of a winged trumpeter riding a hippocampus to the finial and a frieze of two cherubs representing astronomy. It was made in c.1735 by De Lorme of Paris. The workshop produced some fine clocks for such prestigious figures as the Duchesses du Maine and d'Halincourt, the Prince de Ligne and Président Joly de Fleury. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Fine & Decorative | Date: 05 June

Left: A Russian cut glass dish raised on a silver stand, by Faberge, the navette-shaped cut glass dish; Right: Porcelain from the collection of Lucy Sophie Yvonne de Jonquet

A Russian cut glass dish raised on a silver stand, by Faberge, the navette-shaped cut glass dish
Fabergé are the creators of this fine Russian cut glass dish and silver stand. Scalloped edges and sides decorated with stars are etched into the glass while the 42oz base is decorated with a reed and cross-ribbon pattern and a band of laurel. 39cm x 19.5cm, weight (of stand) approx. 42.7oz. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Fine & Decorative | Date: 05 June

Porcelain from the collection of Lucy Sophie Yvonne de Jonquet
A pair of Sevres porcelain plates that come from one of two possible services produced in 1761 by the Sèvres factory. Both services were decorated with the same floral decorations found on these plates and were delivered to Florent-Louis-Marie, Comte du Châtelet-Lomont (Commander of the elite Guards unit of the Royal Military Household) and Claude Bonnet, the Paris agent/dealer for the Duke and Duchess of Parma. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Fine & Decorative | Date: 05 June

Left: A large late Mamluk brass bowl, Syria or Egypt, late14th-early 15th century; Right: A large Iznik pottery dish with three large blue flowers, Ottoman Turkey, late 16th-early 17th century

A large late Mamluk brass bowl, Syria or Egypt, late14th-early 15th century
Hammered and engraved brass, with slightly rounded base, inverted sides narrowing to rim, the exterior engraved with a large honorific thuluth inscription, alternating with roundels containing blazons on a ground of lotus flowers and leaves, 38.5cm diam. at base. Provenance: Private collection, London, formed in the late 1970s. Inscriptions: ‘‘Glory to our Lord, the Sultan, the King, the Learned, the Diligent King, the Just, The Holy-Warrior, the Defender, The Protector of Frontiers, the one Supported [by God], Sultan of Islam and the Muslims, the Slayers of Infidels and Polytheists, the King al-Mu’ayyad’ This inscription could refer to the Rasulid Sultan of Yemen Sultan al-Mu’ayyad Da’ud bin Yusuf (r.1297-1321) or to Sultan al-Malik al-Mu’ayyad Shaykh al-Mahmudi who reigned over Egypt between 1412 and 1421. The blazon within the large circular medallions depicts a stylized penbox suggesting that the basin belonged to or was commissioned by the Dawadar (‘Penbox-Bearer’) of al-Malik al-Mu’ayyad. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Islamic Art & Manuscripts | Date: 16 June

A large Iznik pottery dish with three large blue flowers, Ottoman Turkey, late 16th-early 17th century
Shallow form, underglaze painted in cobalt and turquoise on a slightly bluish-white ground, with central spray of flowers to interior well surrounded by a wave and cloud design, the slightly everted rim with a zig-zag design filled with partial flowerheads, 33.5cm. diam. Provenance: Private Collection, Greece. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Islamic Art & Manuscripts | Date: 16 June

Left: An illustration to a Ragamala series, Chandra Ragaputra, son of Hindola by a Pahari artist, Chamba or Bilaspur, Punjab Hills, North India, early 18th century; Right: A portrait of a bearded European in Ottoman or Greek dress, 19th century

An illustration to a Ragamala series, Chandra Ragaputra, son of Hindola by a Pahari artist, Chamba or Bilaspur, Punjab Hills, North India, early 18th century
Opaque watercolour and gold on paper, with a vivid red border, painting 18.9 x 12 cm., with red border 21.6 x 14.8cm. An illustration to a Ragamala series. Chandra Ragaputra, son of Hindola by a Pahari artist, Chamba or Bilaspur from North India, created in early 18th century. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Arts of India | Date: 17 June

A portrait of a bearded European in Ottoman or Greek dress, 19th century
Oil on canvas, three-quarters view, the head turned to the left, depicted wearing an ochre coloured shirt, brown robe and red cloak, a white cloth with embroidered ends wrapped around his head, 54 x 30 cm. Note: Europeans of many kinds- diplomats, soldiers, merchants, romantic adventurers, and artists- travelled in increasing numbers to the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onward. Frequently, they adopted local dress for many reasons: courtesy to their host country, security in traveling to remote regions, curiosity. Among the garments that have survived is a complete Albanian dress which George Gordon, Lord Byron, purchased in Epirus in 1809 and which he was painted wearing in a portrait by Thomas Phillips in London in 1814, currently in the National Portrait Gallery. See Price Estimate...
Catalogue: Islamic Art & Manuscripts | Date: 16 June

BROWSE ROSEBERYS FULL CATALOGUES

Old Master, 18th & 19th Century Pictures | Date: 04 June

Fine & Decorative | Date: 05 June

Islamic Art & Manuscripts | Date: 16 June

Arts of India | Date: 17 June

Jewellery & Watches | Date: 23 June

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