| | | | | | | | Document | Sale Catalog Br-586 | |
| Auction House | Christie's -- from catalog: Mr. Christie | | Sale Location | [No.125] Pall Mall, London, England, UK | | Seller(s) | from catalog: John Lenthall, Esq.
from auctioneer's copy: [Same] | | Lugt Number | 7409 | | No. of Painting Lots | 12 | | Notes | According to the title page, the twelve paintings comprising the contents of this sale were part of the collection formed by William Lenthall, speaker of the Long Parliament, who died in 1662. The collection had supposedly remained in the family mansion at Burford until the present sale. Most of the lots were portraits of English sitters from the seventeenth century, but there were also two Italian religious pictures from the preceding century. The one lot of particular interest was Holbein's Portrait of Sir Thomas More and His Family. This painting is now recognized as a contemporary copy, and doubts about its authenticity must also have existed in 1808 since it failed to find a buyer and was bought in at 1000 guineas. (After being removed from Burford Priory in 1828, it was put back in 1926 and is still there.) Altogether, only four of the Lenthall paintings were sold at the present sale. (See also Redford, Art Sales, 1888, I, p.101; and Wm. Roberts, Memorials of Christie's, 1897, I, pp.80-81.) (B. Fredericksen) | | Catalog Location(s) | CL [annotations used in Sales Contents] Auctioneer's copy, annot. with most buyers and all prices. The reserve for lot 12 is also given.
AAP [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. by J. Galpine with the buyers of lots 1 and 4 as well as all prices. Most lots also have notes giving the approximate dimensions.
FLNY Annot. in pencil by J. Galpine with the buyer of the first lot and all prices. Most lots also have notes giving the approximate dimensions.
OGA [annotations used in Sales Contents; photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. by Geo. Watson with one buyer and all prices, indicating which lots were sold and which bought in. Watson was working from a marked set of catalogues deposited by the auctioneers in the Excise Office.
VAL I [annotations used in Sales Contents; photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. in pencil by the dealer Woodin with the initials of one buyer and all prices.
VAL II Not annot.
VAL III Not annot.
RKDH Not annot. | | Photocopies | CIL and NGL (of VAL I) | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | Digitized Catalog - Frick | | | |
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