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Title: Memorials of Christie's : a record of art sales from 1766 to 1896
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Roberts, W. (William), 1862-1940 Christie, Manson & Woods
Subjects: Christie, Manson & Woods Art
Publisher: London : G. Bell and Sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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olding apug dog, realized a sum much below its estimatedvalue, 480 guineas; and Mrs. Fielding, wife ofCaptain Fielding, in white dress and muslin tippet,30 X 25, 330 guineas ; G. Romney, Portrait of JaneViscountess Melville, daughter of the Earl ofHopetoun, in white dress and cap, with powderedhair, 28 x 24, 1,200 guineas ; J. Hoppner, Portraitof Mrs. Robinson as Perdita, in gray dress,seated in a landscape, 30x25, 900 guineas. Ofthe five pictures from the late Miss Romneys salein 1894, we may mention G. Romneys Portrait ofhis brother. Colonel James Romney, in uniform,110 guineas ; and A Conversation, portraits ofthe artists brothers James and Peter, 200 guineas—at the 1894 sale these two pictures sold for 33guineas and 70 guineas respectively, but they havesince been cleaned and suitably framed; and twoPortraits by Sir H. Raeburn, Lord William Russell, J. HOPPNER, THE HURDY-GURDY PLAYER. Portrait of Miss Matilda Fielding, daughter of Captain Fielding, R.N.May gth, 1896 (p. 282). V,
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MR. JOHN MORLKys DRAWINGS. 283 grandson of the fourth Duke of Bedford, murderedin 1840 by his valet Courvoisier, 50x40, 280guineas ; and John, sixth Duke of Bedford, bornin 1766, died in 1839, in blue coat, 50x40, 130guineas. A few choice modern pictures and drawingswere included in the sale of May i6th, when theproperties of the late John Morley, of UpperClapton ; and the late Charles T. Lucas, of 9,Belgrave Square, and of Mr. W. Houldsworth weredispersed. The Morley property included thefollowing drawings :—Birket Foster, Holm WoodCommon, with sheep, ducks, and figures cartingbracken, 13x28, 300 guineas; and a view nearArundel, with children and a fiock of sheep,13 X 28, 2IO guineas ; six examples of W. Hunt,Plums and Apricots, 8^ x 12, 166 guineas; Blow-ing Bubbles, 1835, 11 x 7^, 128 guineas; Pink andWhite May Blossom, with Chaffinchs nest,9I-X14I-, 200 guineas; Grapes, Pear and HollyBerries, oval, 9 x 11^, 135 guineas—the fourforegoing drawings, which now realized a total of6

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