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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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rought over ^7,000. The last sale of any consequence of the season(July 13th) comprised pictures by old masters andof the early English school, from a great manysources. It was, on the whole a very remarkablesale. The first nineteen lots offered were from thecollection of the late Sir John Chandos Reade,sixth baronet, of Shipton Court, Oxon. The twochief pictures in this collection were portraits byRomney of Sir John Reade, the fifth baronet, andLady Reade, his wife, the latter in white and golddress; these realized 510 guineas and 1,050 guineasrespectively. As an illustration of the value of apedigree to a picture, it may be mentioned thatthe portrait of Lady Reade was offered at Christiestwo years previously, simply as that of a lady ina white dress, when it was bought in for 500guineas. Sir W. Beecheys portrait of Sir Johnand Lady Reade brought 320 guineas and 235 J. HOPPNER, PORTRAIT OF LADY COOTK,WIFE OF SIR CHARLES COOTE OFDONYBROOK, 2ND BARONET. James Price collection (p. 259).
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PICTURES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. 265 respectively. J. Hoppner, whole-length portraitof Admiral Viscount Nelson, the battle of Copen-hagen in the background, 2,550 guineas ; Sir J.Reynolds, Portrait of Admiral Viscount Hood, 520guineas; and his Portrait of Captain Winter, 725guineas. W. Van de Velde, a View on the RiverY during a Calm, painted in his early time, andformerly in the collection of the Marquis of Buteat Wroxton, 16x22, Smith, No. 165, 810 guineas;M. Hobbema, a View of a canal in Winter, 19x27,Smith, No. 104, 1,450 guineas ; and Watteau, LesPlaisirs du Bal, one of many repetitions, 1,050guineas ; both these works were also at WroxtonAbbey for many years. Three pictures, with-drawn from the Clewer Manor sale in 1876, werenow offered, and will be found mentioned in vol. i., p. 255- Among the choicer examples of the early Englishschool in this sale, none created so much interestand, it may be added, surprise, as the appearanceof a second portrait by Gainsborough of LadyMulgrave.

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