| | | | | | | | Document | Sale Catalog Br-5752 | |
| Auction House | Christie's -- from catalog: Christie | | Sale Location | London, England, UK | | Seller(s) | Lake, Edward William
from catalog: Edward W. Lake, Esq. | | Lugt Number | 17853 | | Notes | [Preliminary notes by B. Fredericksen] The propiretor, Edward W. Lake, was alive at he time of the present sale and residing at No.40 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park. He died just two years later, which led to a posthumour sale in April, 1848. This latter sale included a similarly large number of pictures, but limited to less valuable pieces and those that had failed to sell on the present occasion. Even then, the two sales do not appear to have included all of the paintings recorded as having been sold to "Lake" between the years 1826 and 1845. Other collectors of this name are so far unrecorded during this time, which suggests that our Lake may have been speculating in pictures, but there is no other indication that he was actively on a large scale. The procès-verbaux of two sales held by the auctioneer Harry Phillips in 1826 include references to two pictures owned jointly by [E.W.] Lake and "Richardson & Co.", which might support this hypothesis, but cannot constitute conclusive proof..
The present sale included a few paintings that brought reasonably good prices. The most costly was the final lot, a landscape by Berchem (now in the Louvre) that sold for £ 399. Lot 111, a "Horse Fair" by Wouwerman (recorded in a private German collection in 1993) was sold for £ 304.10. Four other Dutch pictures brought prices betwen 200 and 300 pounds, as did two paintings by Greuze and another by the British painter Francis Danby. Lake's Italian pictures were deliberately kept for another sale, as stated on the title page, but these were generally of less importance than the Dutch pictures. What we would today consider the most valuable painting in the group, an Interior with a Young Lady playing the Harpsidhord by Vermeer (lot 5, now in the National Gallery in London) was sold to the dealer Farrer for just £15.15. | | Catalog Location(s) | CL [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Auctioneer's copy, annot. with all buyers and prices.
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EBNP The first day is annot. with some buyers and all prices; the second day is not annot.
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JPGM [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. by Sit Ellis Waterhouse with some buyers and prices.
???? [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] JPGM has two photocopies of catalogues whose location is unknown. | | Photocopies | BMPL | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | |
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