| | | | | | | | Document | Sale Catalog Br-600 | |
| Auction House | Coxe (Peter) -- from catalog: Peter Coxe | | Sale Location | Mr. Squibb's Great Room, Saville Passage, Saville Row, London, England, UK | | Seller(s) | from catalog: [None]
from other sources: [Richard Troward; Thomas Hammersley] | | Lugt Number | 7427 | | No. of Painting Lots | 15 | | Notes | This was a small sale of just 20 lots, the first five of which were drawings by Rubens and the others old master paintings. No owner is given, but Geo. Watson has annotated the OGA copy of the catalogue as follows: "The Property of Mr Troward of Pall Mall." Troward's ownership is confirmed by the fact that most of the pictures had been left unsold at his sale of Apr.18, 1807 (Br-479). The exceptions were lots 6-10, a series of sketches by Rubens from the life of Constantine that almost certainly belonged to the banker Thomas Hammersley and not to Troward. They had been offered for sale at Christie's on Mar.7, 1801 (Br-16), as Hammersley's property and are recorded as still being his property in 1811 (letter sent to Ld. Northwick, now in the Hereford and Worcester County Record Office). The same sale in 1801 also included pictures belonging to Troward, so there must have been an association between the two collectors, perhaps dating from the time of the Orléans sale, at which both were purchasers. So we have given Hammersley as their owner at the present sale.
As before, the paintings of both consigners fared poorly. The set of Rubens sketches were once again bought in, as were most of those lots belonging to Troward. Just three pictures changed hands, but all of them at high figures. Sacchi's St. Bruno Holding a Crucifix (present location unknown) brought £315 from "Anderton," and Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn paid £267.15 for Rubens's Four Doctors of the Church (now in the Speed Museum, Louisville). The third picture was a Marriage of St. Catherine (untraced and now considered a copy) by Parmigianino from the Orléans collection for which Ld. Grosvenor paid £215.5. A few of Troward's unsold pictures reappeared at Christie's on May 26, 1810 (Br-771) and then again on Mar.9, 1811. (B. Fredericksen) | | Catalog Location(s) | OGA [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. by Geo. Watson with some buyers 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.
CIL [annotations used in Sales Contents; photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. by J. Galpine with a few buyers, all prices and many notes giving the approximate dimensions.
NGD Annot. with one buyer, all prices and notes with the approximate dimensions. The catalogue is contained in a volume that evidently belonged to Geo. Meade and the annotations may be his.
VAL I [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with one buyer and most prices. The annotations are in pencil and probably by the dealer Woodin.
JPGM [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Not annot.
YCNH [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Not annot.
VAL II Not annot.
VAL III Not annot.
RKDH Incomplete, lacking pp.7-8. It is annot. by J. Galpine with a note stating that lots 1-5 did not sell, but none of these were paintings. | | Photocopies | MECL (of JPGM?) | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | Digitized Catalog - GRI | | | |
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