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| Auction House | Christie's -- from catalog: Mr. Christie | | Sale Location | At his Great Room, in Pall Mall, London, England, UK | | Seller(s) | Browne, Lyde
from catalog: Lyde Brown, Esq. | | Lugt Number | 4323 | | Notes | The seller was the antiquary and banker Lyde Browne, d.1787. Browne formed one of the most important collections of antiquities at the time, in Italy, with the assistance of Thomas Jenkins. He brought the collection to England and housed his museum in his country house in Wimbledon. In 1784 he sold the majority of the collection to Catherine II, Empress of Russia, and it forms the nucleus of the Hermitage collection (because his agent went bankrupt, he only got half the money he was supposed to). This posthumous sale is the remainder of his collection.
"A catalogue of the reserved collection of Statues, Busts, Vases, Urns, Sarcophagi, &c. and other select and valuable pieces of antiquity; also sundry modern busts of exquisite sculpture, and highly finished, comprising a bust of Venus de Medicis -- Shakespear -- Stern -- Cato the Censor -- Scipio Africano; and other renowned and admired characters. Several elegant statuary marble chimney pieces, and curious and scarce marble slabs, the property of Lyde Brown, Esq; removed from his late residence in the City. Also a small collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures, prints, drawings, &c. and a capital set of brussels tapestry from Teniers, in excellent preservation. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, in Pall Mall, on Friday, May 30, 1788, and following day." | | Catalog Location(s) | BIB [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Not annot. apart from 2 additional handwritten pages of lots. Previously owned by W. Roberts, art critic.
BML Not annot.
CL Auctioneer's copy, annot. with all buyers and prices.
NGL Typescript of a copy previously owned by Captain Spencer-Churchill of Northwick Park, Gloucestershire. Incomplete, 2nd day only and not annot.
RKDH Typescript. | | Photocopies | CIL, BMAL and BMPL (of ???) | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | |
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