| | | | | | | | Document | Sale Catalog Br-1532 | |
| Auction House | Phillips (Harry) -- from catalog: Mr. H. Phillips | | Sale Location | No.73 New Bond St., London, England, UK | | Seller(s) | Delahante, Alexis
Campbell, James
from catalog: A. Delahante, Esq.
from other sources: [James Campbell?] | | Lugt Number | 9151 | | No. of Painting Lots | 199 | | Notes | The catalogue's title page specifies that the paintings in this sale -- all of which are described as cabinet pictures -- had been collected "in part" by the French dealer Alexis Delahante, who had returned to France in 1814/15 after spending the war years in England. The current group of pictures is stated to have been acquired on the continent during the three years prior to the sale. The title page also indicates, however, that "some fine specimens of the Spanish school, from the Marquis of Santiago's collection," were also included, implying that these came from a different source. Within the catalogue only one lot, no.100 by Murillo, is described as having come from the Marquis of Santiago, and it is identical with a painting owned by Rose Campbell of Cadiz that had failed to sell at Christie's on July 9, 1814 (Br-1211). In fact, all four of the paintings bought in at that sale can be found in the present auction: lots 71 and 72 by Cano, lot 77 by Velazquez and lot 100 by Murillo. In addition, two others lots, nos.199 and 200 by Velazquez, are known to have come from the same group of pictures belonging to Campbell, but were not included in the 1814 auction. Although only one of these six paintings came from the Santiago collection, no doubt they are the same pictures referred to on the title page. It is uncertain how many other consigners to the sale there may have been. Unfortunately, our knowledge about the results of the sale is very incomplete. The prices are recorded for most of the lots sold on the first day -- though not for the Murillo, which was supposed to be the star of the sale -- and these indicate that while almost everything sold for less than about £50, a relatively large proportion went for more than £20. We do not know whether some of these were bought in, but it would appear that the sale followed the pattern set by other sales of this period, where the less expensive works sold reasonably well, but everything above a certain price had difficulty finding buyers. Campbell's three pictures by Velazquez, as well as lot 1, John accusing Herod of Adultery by Preti, were exhibited the following year at the Leicester Square Picture Gallery (no.1732); however, their consigner is unrecorded. A few of the other pictures, presumably belonging to Delahante, appeared at a sale held by Phillips just two weeks later, on June 12, 1817 (no.1545), that at least in part also consisted of his stock. (B. Fredericksen) | | Catalog Location(s) | NGL [annotations used in Sales Contents] Annot. in pencil with the initials of a few buyers as well as most prices for the first day only.
VAL [annotations used in Sales Contents; photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. in pencil with most prices for the first day only. | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | Digitized Catalog - Met | | | |
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