The Art of Nature
Lots: 187
Nature – as an art form, as inspiration to create art – is celebrated in its full diverse glory in this, our second Art of Nature auction.
Inspired by the natural world, we present a sale spanning photographs and books, jewellery and silver, bronzes and geodes.
While nature’s ‘first green is gold’, it is also the intense blue of a lapis lazuli specimen, the rich hues of flowers in an Old Master still life, the glimmering gilt on a bronze sparrow’s plumage, and the attractive grain of a blonde river turtle’s shell.
Highlights include an important collection relating to naturalist, photographer and inventor, Cherry Kearton,
As well as works from Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Dylan Lewis, Natasha Kissel, Alfred Dunhill, and Stuart Devlin.
Lot 1 - Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Oudry (Paris 1686- Beauvais 1755) Etude de Fleurs
Estimated at £5,000 - £8,000
Lot 4 - § Isaac Dobrinsky (Polish/French, 1891-1973) Still life of flowers
Sold for £403
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 9 - European School (19th century) Still life of apples on a marble table
Estimated at £300 - £500
Lot 10 - § Carlos Laharrague Rodriquez-Bauza (Spanish, 1936-2018) A pair of still life
Sold for £1,008
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 12 - William Simpson (British, 1823-1899) Mount Ida, Island of Crete
Sold for £378
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 13 - Samuel Howitt (British, 1756-1822) Dogs on the outskirts of an Indian village
Estimated at £300 - £500
Lot 15 - Circle of Richard Wilson (British, 1752-1807) Figures in a landscape, with church
Sold for £630
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 17 - Archibal Thorburn (British, 1860-1935) Ptarmigans in winter plumage
Sold for £76
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 19 - George Stanfield Walters (British, 1838-1924) Shipping off Dordrecht
Estimated at £400 - £600
Lot 22 - British School (late 19th-early 20th Century) Fishing at sea
Sold for £101
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 23 - David Bates (British, 1840/41-1921) At the Old Hills, Maddresfield
Sold for £189
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 26 - Manner of Benjamin Williams Leader (British, 1831-1923) Cottage by the river
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 27 - William Bright Morris (British, 1844-1912) Pathway with rabbit
Sold for £252
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 28 - John Marshall (British, 19th Century) Mountain waterfall, Westmorland
Sold for £176
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 32 - Ludwig Koch (Austria, 1866-1934) Fruajaprs Parade, Kaiser Franz Josef I on the Road
Sold for £819
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 33 - Samuel Williamson (British, 1792-1840) Fisherfolk and cattle on the seashore, 1831
Estimated at £800 - £1,200
Lot 37 - § Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly (British, 1896-1971) Golden Eye Drake
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 38 - Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly (British, 1896-1971) Goldeneyes Linlithgow
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 39 - § Richard Robjent (British, b.1937) Pair of Tufted Duck
Sold for £63
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 40 - § Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly (British, 1896-1971) Oyster Catchers Baltany Firth of Forth
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 41 - British School (late 19th Century) A collection of botanical and floral studies
Sold for £126
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 42 - British School (late 19th Century) Collection of bird studies
Sold for £189
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 43 - Edward Julius Detmold (British, 1883-1957) Lovebirds
Sold for £126
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 44 - Edward Julius Detmold (British, 1883-1957) Lovebirds on a grape vine
Sold for £126
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 46 - David Clyde Dridan (Australian, b.1932) Virgin Slope
Sold for £277
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 47 - Leonard Hugh Long (Australian, 1911-2013) Mount Roland, Sheffield
Sold for £315
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 49 - European School (Early 20th Century) Tigers Drinking
Sold for £504
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 52 - § Ben Shearer (Australian, b.1941) On Yellow Waters, Kakadu, Northern Territory
Sold for £403
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 53 - William George Jennings (British, 1763-1854) Figures by the water's edge, hills beyond
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 55 - Alexander Kellock Brown (Scottish, 1849-1922) Snow Day
Sold for £101
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 58 - Joseph Bishop Pratt, (British, 1854-1910) after Heywood Hardy (British, 1842-1933)
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 62 - § Tessa Newcomb (British, b. 1955) The Worshiped Cat
Sold for £227
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 67 - A Tropical Detective Box Camera From the estate of Cherry Kearton
Sold for £1,197
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 68 - Cherry Kearton's Kodak 3A Autographic Special Model B
Sold for £277
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 70 - Cherry Kearton F.R.P.S (1871-1940) Flashlight Photograph of a Maneless African Lion c.1909
Sold for £126
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 79 - A Selection of 35mm Nitrate Cine Film from the archives of Cherry Kearton
Sold for £101
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 81 - Kearton. From the Library and Collection, many signed and inscribed (80)
Sold for £630
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 86 - Cherry Kearton, WWI Medal trio and small collection of related items
Sold for £2,394
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 88 - A Selection of Binoculars from the estate of Cherry Kearton
Sold for £101
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 89 - A Brass Dollond Four-Drawer Telescope Signed Henry De La Poer Beresford, Bedale Hall
Sold for £214
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 94 - Ethnographic interest - collection of tribal weapons
Sold for £945
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 95 - Alfred Dunhill (British 1872-1959) Service Size Aquarium lighter, circa 1950s
Sold for £3,150
Includes Buyer's Premium
