25th Mar, 2024 11:00
The House & Garden Sale
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Peter Sperwer (Antwerp 1662-1727), a pair of portrait paintings
A portrait of a seated lady, children and a spaniel with a maid behind proferring a bowl of ripe fruit. Together with a family portrait of a seated lady holding a rose with husband and child, signed and dated ‘1699’.
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Dimensions: 181 x 137cm
Provenance:Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 10 December 1976, Lot 16 & 17 as Pieter Van Der Verff.
Sold for £5,000
Estimated at £6,000 - £9,000
A portrait of a seated lady, children and a spaniel with a maid behind proferring a bowl of ripe fruit. Together with a family portrait of a seated lady holding a rose with husband and child, signed and dated ‘1699’.
(1)
Dimensions: 181 x 137cm
Provenance:Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 10 December 1976, Lot 16 & 17 as Pieter Van Der Verff.
Craquelure across the painted surfaces. Damage to the canvas on the seated lady on her neck. the young girl in the lilac dress has been cut out and then reattached to the main canvas. Signs of retouching throughout both pictures, notably the young boys face. damage to the painted surface around the stretcher marks. We suspect that at one stage, this was a single painting that has been cut into the two that it now is. Some scratches to the painted layer in the top right of the right hand canvas.
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Auction: The House & Garden Sale, 25th Mar, 2024
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