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| Auction House | Phillips (Harry) -- from catalog: Mr. Phillips | | Sale Location | No.73 New Bond St., London, England, UK | | Seller(s) | Berwick, Thomas Noel-Hill, 2nd Baron
from catalog: Rt. Hon. Lord Berwick; and a Foreign Nobleman | | Lugt Number | 10914 | | No. of Painting Lots | 167 | | Notes | (Preliminary notes B Fredericksen )The catalogue identifies lots 130 to 160 as deriving from Lord Berwick. Redford identifies the owner of lot 84 as Ld Clinton, and Delahante as the owner of lots 72 & 88. He also identifies the subject of the Claude (lot 159) as Salmacis and Aphrodite and says it was ex-Calonne, which the catalogue does not say. The short descriptions and the lack of the auctioneer's copy of the catalogue, presumably destroyed, make it difficult to identify the paintings or draw many conclusions about them. However, the prices recorded in the RKDH copy of the catalogue, evidently by John Smith, indicate that the bidding was relatively good, inferring that some good pictures were present. On the other hand, most of the prices are given in guineas, an indication that the lot was probably left unsold. The pictures belonging to Ld. Berwick were clearly the most important, although the prices varied from low to fairly high. A few lots must have belonged to the auctioneer, Harry Phillips, but most of the remainder canot be traced.
Among the few lots so far identified are lot 157, a Madonna and Child by Murillo recently imported from Spain and sold for £1890. It is now in the Metrpolitan Museum. Also from the Berwick collection was lot 159 by Claude Lorrain depicting Cupid and Psyche in a landscape that had arrived in England from the Colonna collection in Rome at the end of the previous century. It was sold for £ 1165.10 and is now in the Wallraf Richartz Museum in Cologne. A third picture, no.158 by Rubens and illustrating The Continence of Scipio, was bought in at £1785. It was unfortunately destroyed in a fire eleven years later. | | Catalog Location(s) | BMPL [annotations used in Sales Contents] Annot. with many prices.
RKDH [annotations used in Sales Contents; photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with a few buyers and most prices, often in guineas. The catalogue belonged to the dealer John Smith and annotations are probablu his.
VAL I Not annot.
VAL II Not annot.
YCNH [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. in pencil with a few notes as well as a few asterisks by certain lots. It belonged to Lord Northwick and the asterisks may correspond to pictures in which he was interested.
CIL Not annot.
EBNP Not annot. It belonged to the dealer C.J. Nieuwenhuys.
FLNY I Not annot.
FLNY II Not annot.
AAP Annot. in ink and pencil with some prices.
Redford [annotations used in Sales Contents; photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Gives the sellers, buyers and prices for a few lots. | | Photocopies | NGL (of CIL) and BMPL (of YCNH) | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | Digitized Catalog - Frick | | | |
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