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The Summer Art Sale On 16/06/2023

The Summer Art Sale

16/06/2023

We are delighted to present the catalogue for our Summer Art Sale: three hundred and fifteen oils, watercolours, drawings, and prints available to browse and bid. The sale features a hand-picked selection of works by local, national, and international artists, spanning over three hundred years from the 17th century to the present day.

Highlights include a good selection of Scottish and North-Eastern oils from a local private collection; a single-owner collection of Helen Jacobs illustrations; over seventy works by Staithes Group artists; three superb paintings by Alfred de Breanski; and much more...

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Lot 92

Attrib. Sir Walter Westley Russell CVO RA (British 1867-1949): The Duck Pond, oil on canvas indistin...

Attrib. Sir Walter Westley Russell CVO RA (British 1867-1949): The Duck Pond, oil on canvas indistinctly signed 29cm x 49cm Notes: Russell exhibited a painting titled 'The Duck Pond' at the New English Art Club in 1900 No.71, and in 1905 exhibited another titled 'The Edge of the Forest' No.71 - both could possibly be the present picture.

B53741

SOLD £360

Lot 218

Ralph Hedley (Staithes Group 1851-1913): Study for 'The Veteran', oil on canvas signed with initials...

Ralph Hedley (Staithes Group 1851-1913): Study for 'The Veteran', oil on canvas signed with initials and dated '96, 35cm x 48cm Notes: a working study for the finished painting of the same title and date which hangs in the Laing Gallery Newcastle.

B12075

SOLD £750

Lot 302

Edward Holroyd Pearce (British 1901-1990): Coastal Seascape, oil on canvas board signed with initial...

Edward Holroyd Pearce (British 1901-1990): Coastal Seascape, oil on canvas board signed with initials and inscribed to Mr & Mrs Rood 25cm x 29cm Notes: Edward Pearce, though best known as a distinguished Law Lord & Privy Counsellor, was also a talented artist. He first took up painting in 1932 when as a young barrister he was recovering from tuberculosis. He was the son in law of Bertram Priestman, and a friend of Edward Seago. Together they made a number of painting tours to the Continent, travelling in Seago's Austin Seven

232

SOLD £200