| | | | | | | | Document | Sale Catalog Br-595 | |
| Auction House | Christie's -- from catalog: Mr. Christie | | Sale Location | [No.125] Pall Mall, London, England, UK | | Seller(s) | from catalog: [None]
from other sources: [James Heath?] | | Lugt Number | 7422 | | No. of Painting Lots | 46 | | Notes | Lugt treats this and the preceding catalogue as two parts of the same sale. However, since they had different sellers, contents and typographical styles, we have listed them separately. The present sale consisted of 45 lots of paintings with Shakespearean subjects by modern British artists -- especially Stothard -- the owner of which is not named in the auctioneer's copy of the catalogue. He would clearly have been a publisher, and there is good reason to think he was probably the engraver James Heath (1757-1834), who published prints after pictures of these subjects by the same painters between 1802 and 1804. The catalogue does specify that some of them had never been engraved, but it is known that Heath commissioned such pictures and he may simply have decided to dispose of them after the conclusion of the publication, as had similar publishers such as Boydell, Bowyer and Macklin in preceding years. According to the CL copy of the catalogue, all of the lots were sold for prices ranging from £1 to £10, to two buyers, "Walker" and "Messenger." However, virtually all of the paintings reappear in approximately the same order and with the same wording in the catalogue of a sale held by the auctioneer Saunders on Feb.28, 1812. One must conclude that Walker and Messenger were employed to buy the paintings in for the owner in 1808. (B. Fredericksen) | | Catalog Location(s) | CL [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Auctioneer's copy, annot. with all buyers and prices. | | Photocopies | RKDH (of CL) | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | |
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