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the most important pewterer there at the time – the wreck
of the Mary Rose contained his work, too. The other pewter
on the sunken Spanish merchantman bears marks from
makers in London, Antwerp and Bruges. The surface condition
is said to be exceptional, retaining its original silver colour.
Three quarters of the extensive cargo will remain in the
Dominican Republic, the portion allowed for sale by the
divers being intended to fund further research and
excavation. See www.wilkinsons-auctioneers.co.uk for details
The small fishing town of Wick in Caithness was painted by
L. S. Lowry in a work that is estimated to sell for £500,000 to
£800,000 at Bonhams on 20 November in London’s New
Bond Street. The image and occasion is commemorated with
an engraved plaque at the site in Wick. It bears the legend:
‘This is the original site where L. S. Lowry painted Black Steps,
Wick in 1936.’ Lowry used to holiday in Scotland during the
1930s.The oil on canvas measures 43.2 x 53.3cm. (17 x 21in.).
William Holman Hunt, Tuscan Girl Plaiting Straw, 1869.
Courtesy Sotheby’s
series of half-length depictions of women in Venetian-style
dress playing musical instruments. Estimated at £4-6 million,
the 1867 oil on panel combines female beauty, music, and the
fashion for exotic decoration and costume. Tuscan Girl Plaiting
Straw by Holman Hunt was painted in Fiesole, outside
Florence, in the winter of 1869 and depicts an Italian peasant
girl standing in a Tuscan landscape with a pet collared dove
perched on her shoulder. It comes to the market with an
estimate of £3-5 million and in its original gilt frame. Painted
in London, Tissot’s A Visit to the Yacht, estimated at £2-3
million, is a splendid oil on canvas which shows a group of
figures assembled on the deck of a boat framed by a
dramatic network of masts and ropes.
The paintings will be exhibited outside Britain for the very
first time in their history, prior to the sale.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A Christmas Carol, 1867.
Courtesy Sotheby’s
On 4th December, Sotheby’s will offer at auction three
Victorian masterpieces: oil paintings by Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and James-Jacques-Joseph
Tissot. The three works, which have a total estimate of £9-14
million, come to sale from the collection formed by the 1st
and 2nd Viscounts Leverhulme.
The paintings are being sold by the Trustees of the 3rd
Viscount Leverhulme Will Trust. Following Sotheby’s sale of
The Leverhulme Collection in June 2001, the three works
were placed on loan at the Lady Lever Art Gallery by the 3rd
Viscount’s Executors. They will be offered in Sotheby’s Evening
Sale of Old Master & British Paintings in London on 4th
December 2013.
Rossetti’s A Christmas Carol is one of the artist’s earliest of a
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Sotheby’s announced the discovery of a previously unknown
album of photographs by the foremost female pioneer of
nineteenth-century portrait photography, Julia Margaret
Cameron. The album of 32 large scale portrait photographs –
containing images of leading Victorian celebrities and two
unrecorded photographs – represents a major addition to
Cameron’s oeuvre. Estimated at £250,000-350,000, it will be
offered at Sotheby’s auction of English Literature, History,
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