Work by Circle of Rubens gallops to £72,500 at Parker Fine Art Auctions
Circle of Peter Paul Rubens, Study of a Man on a Rearing Horse fetched £72,500.
FARNHAM
.- An oil on panel Study of a Man on a Rearing Horse catalogued as Circle of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) fetched £72,500 at Parker Fine Art Auctions in a sale of Fine Paintings and Frames today (Thursday, May 13, 2021) in Farnham, Surrey. The framed painting, which measured 13.75 x 9.75 (35 x 24.7cm) had come from a private collection and was bought by a member of the trade bidding on the phone.
Auctioneer Buffy Parker commented: What a great start to the sale this is a house record for us. Although the painting was damaged, the main areas werent affected and obviously that didnt put people off bidding. It received 87 bids in total.
Jonathan Richardson the elder (1667–1745) National Portrait Gallery, London
Horace Walpole, who based his account of Kent on George Vertue s unflattering biography, regarded his work as a painter as below mediocrity . This has been the nearly unanimous verdict of posterity.
Yet, it should not be forgotten that Kent had trained as a painter in Rome. According to Vertue, who is probably a reasonably reliable source for this, after an initial apprenticeship as a coach painter & house painter he migrated to London and travelled out to Italy in July 1709 in company with John Talman, son of the leading architect of the time, and Daniel Lock, who was, like Talman, a person of wide artistic tastes.
GEMS FROM THE ARCHIVE: A great eye for colour
| Updated: 08:10, 09 March 2021
When is a tapestry not a tapestry? Technically, itâs a form of weaving in which the warp threads are hidden in the completed work; weft threads of different colours are worked over portions of the warp to form the design.
The worldâs most famous example, the Bayeux Tapestry, is by this definition not a tapestry at all, but an embroidery.
No-one knows when the first tapestries were produced, but it was almost certainly thousands rather than hundreds of years ago.
The Head of Christ, held at Spalding Gentlemenâs Society.
Orsola Maddalena Caccia,
Fruit and Flowers (c. 1630). Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, bequest of Errol M. Rudman.
Thanks to an unexpected bequest, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art now boasts the largest collection of works by the Mannerist painter and nun Orsola Maddalena Caccia (1596–1676) outside the artist’s native Italy.
Upon hedge-fund manager Errol M. Rudman’s death last year, he surprised the Met with a gift that included three works by Caccia, whose art is rarely represented in US museum collections or even outside of the convent in Moncalvo, Italy, where she lived and worked.