| | | | | | | | Document | Sale Catalog Br-1273 | |
| Auction House | Squibb (George) -- from catalog: Mr. Squibb | | Sale Location | Saville Place, Saville Row, London, England, UK | | Seller(s) | from catalog: The late Edward Coxe, Esq.
from other sources: [Mrs. Arnold] | | Lugt Number | 8676 | | No. of Painting Lots | 53 | | Notes | This was a three-day sale devoted primarily to the drawings, prints and books of Edward Coxe who had died in 1814. The third day of the sale, which included 53 lots of paintings, was in some cases printed as a separate catalogue, an indication that this was considered the most important part of the sale. Most of the paintings had appeared in an earlier and much larger sale of Coxe's paintings held by his brother, the auctioneer Peter Coxe, on Apr.23/25, 1807 (Br-483), at which time they had been bought in. During the interim a few more had been purchased by Coxe at C.F. Greville's sale on Mar.31, 1810 (Br-742). Since two lots -- nos.88 and 89 -- are marked by Geo. Watson (in the OGA copy of the catalogue) as belonging to a Mrs. Arnold, it is possible that the auctioneer (who for some reason was not Peter Coxe) added other lots as well. In spite of the fact that this sale consisted of the remains of what had once been a much larger and more important collection, the prices realized were still quite impressive, albeit lower than at the sale in 1807. A landscape by Ruisdael (changed to Everdingen in the OGA catalogue) brought £162.15, and Rembrandt's Good Samaritan was sold to Ld. Yarmouth for £147. (It is now in the Wallace Collection, London.) Geo. Watson gives the totals as £2032.3. (B. Fredericksen) | | Catalog Location(s) | YCNH [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. by Wm. Alexander with some buyers and most prices.
VAL II Includes only the third day. Annot. by the dealer Woodin with the initials of some buyers and most prices for the paintings only.
VAL III Annot. with a few buyers and most prices. It includes only the third day of the sale.
RKDH [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. by the dealer John Smith with a few buyers and most prices on the third day only. Some of the prices are in pencil.
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, as well as many notes about subsequent provenance, etc. The annotator was Geo. Watson who was working from a marked set of catalogues deposited by the auctioneers in the Excise Office.
BIB Annot. in pencil with all prices.
VAL I Annot. with a few prices for the prints, but not for the paintings.
CIL [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Not annot. It belonged to J. Galpine.
FLNY Not annot. | | Photocopies | BMPL (of YCNH) | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | |
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