Results: British, European & Sporting Art Sale

‘Europa and the Bull’ by the Circle of Jean-Francois de Troy was one of the top lots at Tennants Auctioneers’ British, European and Sporting Art Sale on 13^th November, when it sold for £18,000 (plus buyer’s premium). The sale was well attended in the room, with a wide range of private buyers bolstering prices throughout the sale. Further highlights of the sale included a view of ‘St Mark’s Square, Venice’ by Antoinetta Brandeis, which sold for £11,000, and ‘The Welsh Harp’ by Algernon Cecil Newton, which sold for £11,500. 

A good offering of Sporting Art in the sale was led by ‘Shamming’ by William Henry Hamilton Trood, painted in 1887. Once owned by Joseph Harger Mitchell, managing director of the Halifax Building Society, the painting sold for £8,500. Selling well above estimate at £5,900 was Lillian Cheviot’s ‘Portrait of Shortcoming’, the winner of the 1921 Waterloo Cup. Painted in the year of the greyhound’s victory, Shortcoming was owned by Osbert Cecil Molyneux, 6^th Earl of Sefton and the Countess of Sefton, descendants of The 2^nd Earl of Sefton who founded the Waterloo Cup in 1836.

Paintings with a Yorkshire connection continue to perform well at Tennants, as demonstrated by the sale of Edmund John Niemann’s landscape depicting Richmond Castle looming over the River Swale, which came with provenance from Richard Green, London and sold for £4,500. Peter de Wint’s ‘View of Whitby looking sown the river to the sea’ sold for £9,000. Peter de Wint was one of the finest English watercolour painters of his era, greatly admired for his expansive views of the English countryside executed in a muted palette of warm earthy colours.

The top lot of the sale, however, was a 17^th Century British School Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria, After Sir Anthony van Dyck. The portrait sold for £32,000, a notable price for a work after van Dyck.

The sale achieved a total hammer price of £193,340 with a 90% sold rate for 119 lots.

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