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| Auction House | Coxe (Peter) -- from catalog: Peter Coxe | | Sale Location | [No.1] Maddox St., Hanover Square, London, England, UK | | Seller(s) | from catalog: John Trumbull, Esq. | | Lugt Number | 8202 | | No. of Painting Lots | 8 | | Notes | This sale, which was the first of three sales held on the same day by the auctioneer Peter Coxe, consisted of eight "most valuable" pictures, the property of the American painter John Trumbull, who had acquired them in Paris in 1795. At least six of them had appeared in Trumbull's sale held at Christie's on Feb.17/18, 1797, at which time they failed to find buyers. Trumbull held the paintings during the interval, selling a few at a time. (Three were put up for sale on May 27, 1811 -- no.890 -- at Squibb's, for instance.) The present sale probably included the most valuable of the remainder, although Trumbull may in some cases have overestimated their importance. Only one of the lots, a Musical Party by Teniers, succeeded in finding a buyer, albeit at the very high price of £220.10. The remaining seven lots were bought in at even higher figures, including a Madonna by Raphael at £2100. Six of these were kept by Trumbull until May 6, 1824, at which time they appeared in a sale held by Stanley. The seventh, a Madonna and Child in Glory with Sts. Mary Magdalen and Lucy by Guido Reni, must have been sold to John Webb since it appeared in his sale of May 31, 1821. (This was evidently a version -- or perhaps the original [?] -- of the painting now in the Uffizi.) (See also Wm. Buchanan, Memoirs, 1824, I, p.270.) (B. Fredericksen) | | Catalog Location(s) | OGA [annotations used in Sales Contents; photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with all prices, indicating which lots were sold and which bought in. The annotator was Geo. Watson who was working from a marked set of catalogues deposited by the auctioneers in the Excise Office.
RKDH [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. by the dealer John Smith with all prices in guineas.
CIL [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with all prices in guineas.
VAL I Annot. with all prices.
JPGM [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Not annot. The catalogue belonged to Wm. Seguier and perhaps earlier to his father David.
VAL II Not annot.
VAL III Not annot.
BIB Not annot. | | Photocopies | BIB (of CIL), FLNY (of VAL I) and NGL (of unknown original) | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | Digitized Catalog - Frick | | | |
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