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and early 20th century, particularly the Orientalist school and
the Belle Epoque, and Galerie Alexis Bordes with 18th and
19th century French art.
Teaming up with local dealer Trinity Fine Art this Summer
is new participant Georg Laue, Kunstkammer Ltd (Munich/
London) to show a highly important Renaissance Court
Casket from the famed Lothian collection of Newbattle
Abbey, near Edinburgh. The Casket is by the Nuremberg
Master of Perspective, one of the earliest Northern European
cabinetmakers to use perspective in marquetry.
Sculptures
Centrepiece at Ben Elwes Fine Art is a beautiful sculpted white
marble portrait relief roundel of Jenny Lind c1866 (the Swedish
Nightingale, featured in The Greatest Showman) by American
artist Margaret Foley (c1827-1877). Sculpture highlights will
also be found at dealers including Tomasso Brothers Fine Art,
Brun Fine Art and Galleria Carlo Virgilio & C. which will
feature works by well-known and well-regarded Italian artists
of the 20th century, including Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti
and Leoncillo, with a small selection of 21st century works.
Drawings
Among exhibitions of drawings, dealers James Mackinnon,
Guy Peppiatt Fine Art and Karen Taylor Fine Art will show
an exceptional range of works. Mackinnon will have European
drawings from Henry Fuseli in the 18th century to Henry
Moore in the 20th, while Peppiatt’s British drawings and
watercolours include Landseer Drawings from the Collection
of the artist F.R. Lee R.A. (1798-1879). Karen Taylor has works
by Gainsborough, Rowlandson and Lear, many of which reflect
the influence of European art and travel on British artists.
F. Baulme Fine Arts; English School, first quarter 19th century,
Elegant Figures admiring the Ruins of Tintern Abbey, oil on
canvas, Paolo Antonacci Roma
EXHIBITIONS
The exhibitions at LAW Summer 2019 cover a broad variety of
art spanning more than 5,000 years.
German Artists
German artists come under the spotlight at several galleries.
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art presents ‘A World Caught with the
Eye and Held by the Pencil’: Drawings by Adolph Menzel, an
important exhibition featuring one of the greatest draughtsmen
of the 19th century, Adolph Menzel (Breslau 1815-1905 Berlin),
and the first solo show in the UK for Menzel since 1984 at
The Fitzwilliam Museum. Andrew Clayton-Payne is devoting
an exhibition to a re-discovered group of drawings by Johan
Zoffany (Frankfurt 1733-1810 London), one of the founders
of the RA. Originally from Germany, Zoffany became one of
the most original and celebrated artists of the Enlightenment,
and worked in both England and India at the end of the 18th
century. Hitherto, there were only around 30 known drawings
by the artist, the majority being in museums. This exhibition
will double that number, and give a fascinating insight in to
the artist’s working methods and his close relationship with his
patron in Lucknow, Claude Martin (1735-1800), an interesting
figure in 18th century colonial India.
Early Art
At Ariadne Galleries Taking Shape – Form and Function in
Ancient Sculpture will include a Mesopotamian weight in
the form of a duck from the second millennium BC. Oliver
Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd. presents Works of Art from the
Ancient World - around 35 Greek, Roman and Egyptian works
of art dating from 400 BC to 400 AD, some of which come from
famous collections. At Sam Fogg, Medieval Art in England is
a major new exhibition devoted to English art from a period
spanning the 6th to the 16th centuries, when England was a
key player on the cultural stage and a thriving hotbed for artists
whose surviving works together tell the story of immigration,
trade and cross-cultural ex- change. S Franses will show The
Lost Tapestries of Charles I, owned or commissioned by him,
some when he was Prince of Wales, and other smaller textiles
of the period, including a newly discovered tapestry of “Dido
and Aeneas” from a major lost series of Mortlake from circa
1640’s. Many of them have been in private hands and not seen
for decades.
Court Casket from Newbattle Abbey, Master of Perspective,
Nuremberg, 1565, Georg Laue, Kunstkammer Ltd. & Trinity
Fine Art
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