| | | | | | | | Document | Sale Catalog Br-A1774 | |
| Auction House | Anonymous -- from catalog: [Anonymous] | | Sale Location | Great Rooms, No. 8, King Street, St. James's Square, London, England, UK | | Seller(s) | Strange, John
from catalog: A Gentleman, a great Lover of the Fine Arts, during a long Residence Abroad
from other sources: [John Strange] | | Lugt Number | 4650 | | Notes | Francis Russell cites a letter from Captain William Baillie to Lord Bute, dated 29 January 1791:
"Your Friend Mr. [John] Strange took the Lead this Winter having opened an Exhibition in the great Auction Room King's Street, St James's square where he exposed to View, about 200 Pictures amongst which there was not one Capital, the best was a large circular One representing portraits of a noble Venetian Family by Tintoret marked at 100£ tho' his favorite piece was a huge pannel painted by Giorgione the subject the Ascension, ye worst Composition I ever saw of a great Master; for the Christ was perched on an immense Block of Marble like a Centinel guarding it, with other Absurdities. For this the Man who has the are of ye Collection assured me that Mr Strange had refused 1200 Zequins. On the whole his success must have been much worse this year than the last as I am informed he sold very few." ("Early Italian pictures and some English collectors" in Burlington Magazine Feb. 1994, p. 88) This also appears in Russell's book on Lord Bute, pp.209-210.
The above letter does correspond to this sale, so John Strange is probably the seller and proprietor. It is a private contract sale and the introduction states and the proprietor's collection is supplemented by that of another collector, who contributed some productions of the Flemish, Dutch, and English schools.
"A Catalogue of a valuable collection of original pictures, by the most celebrated masters of the Roman, Venetian, French, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, and English Schools; pricipally collected by a Gentleman, a great lover of the fine arts, during a long residence abroad, and now brought to The Great Rooms, No. 8, King Street, St. James's Square; where they will be exhibited and sold by private contract, on Wednesday the 12th of January, and following days, (Sundays excepted) from ten o'clock in the morning till five in the afternoon." | | Catalog Location(s) | FLNY [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with two buyers and a note for lot 105. | | Photocopies | NGL (of FLNY) | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | Digitized Catalog - Frick | | | |
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