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Click here to subscribeBalthazar Nebot (active England, 1730-1765)Gentleman playing shove ha'penny signed and dated 'B.Nebot 1755' (lower right)oil on canvas41.2 x 51.2cm (16 1/4 x 20 3/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceSale, Phillips, London, 24 November 1998, lot 9A painting of a similar subject and composition by Nebot hangs at Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
English School, 19th CenturyPortrait of William of Wykeham, half-length holding a bishop's crozier oil on canvas92 x 71.5 cm (36 1/4 x 28 1/8in).Footnotes:The present composition is most likely to be after a painting described in 1738 as at Winchester College which was engraved by Jacob Houbraken (1698-1780).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Circle of Francis Barlow (Lincolnshire 1626-1702)A red kite with cockerels in an extensive landscape oil on canvas, trimmed109 x 137cm (42 15/16 x 53 15/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceSale, Bonhams, London, 8 December 1994, lot 20The red kite that appears in the present painting is a repetition of that found in Barlow's The Decoy at Clandon Park, Surrey.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
After Guido Reni, 18th CenturyThe Holy Trinity with Christ on the Cross, flanked by angelsoil on copper 23.2cm (9 1/8 in). diameterFootnotes:The present painting is based on a detail from Reni's altarpiece of 1625 for the church of the Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
AN ALBUM OF FIFTY-NINE WATERCOLOUR PAINTINGS OF SIKH SUBJECTS, INCLUDING MAHARAJAH RANJIT SINGH, MONUMENTS INCLUDING THE GOLDEN TEMPLE AT AMRITSAR AND THE TOMB OF RANJIT SINGH, AND NUMEROUS TRADESPEOPLE AND ENTERTAINERS PUNJAB, circa 1850-60watercolours on paper, endpapers watermarked 1865, all with English identifying inscriptions, probably contemporary and local brown leather binding with floral motifs 285 x 210 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceA. Kerr, 1868, a gift from a Captain B. Smith (partially indistinct pencil inscription in front endpaper).Private UK collection.For similar albums, apparently often acquired by British visitors to the Punjab, see the sales in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 30th April 2019, lot 212; 26th October 2020, lot 268; 30th March 2021, lot 124; and various other instances of single paintings or groups of paintings from dispersed albums.There is one less painting than the sixty which is standard for this type of album.The subjects of the paintings are as follows, in order:Maharajah Ranjit Singh, 'ex-King of Lahore', and Maharajah Kharak Singh.Maharani Jindan Kaur, and Maharajah Duleep Singh.Rajah Dhian Singh, and Maharajah Gulab Singh.Shere Singh Atariwala, and Sirdar Chattar Singh.Rajah Suchet Singh, and Rajah Hira Singh.Rajah Shere Singh, and Maharajah Moon Mahal Singh.Phula Singh Akali, 'Sikh Priest', and Rajah Labh Singh.Fakir Noor-ud-Din, and Dost Muhammad Khan.Ranbir Singh, 'Cashmere Wallah', and Sham Singh Atariwala.Rajah Dina Nath, Nabob Shere Khan, 'Mooltan Wallah'.The Jama Masjid, Lahore.The Masjid of Wazir Khan, Lahore.The Tomb of Ranjit Singh, Lahore.'Amitsar, Gurus Darbar' [The Golden Temple].Shala Bagh.The Mausoleum of Jahangir, Lahore.The Taj Mahal.The Jumma Masjid, Delhi.The Qutb Minar, Delhi.Badshahi Takht, Lahore[?]Two men at a distillery.A man churning oil.Two hunters.Embroiderers.A millstone being turned by an ox.A maker of metal vessels.A man and two women sieving and pounding grain.Comb manufacturers.A barber.A carpenter.A drummer and a Sepoy rifleman.A potter.A dyer of cloth.A bookbinder.Silk weavers.Rope dancers, with one of their number in an outlandish costume.Masons.Two beggars.A muleteer and his wife.'Hoondee wallah' (a banker or accountant).A blacksmith.Two female silk weavers.Grain sealers [?]Goldsmiths.Cotton spinners and carders.A man milking a cow.An irrigation mechanism and water supply system turned by oxen.A bear dancer.A butcher.A cutter of timber.A female acrobat and a drummer.Boot and shoe makers.A cloth weaver and his wife.Opium smokers.Ribbon makers [?]Dancing monkeys and their handler.A bhishti (water-seller) at a well.A dancing girl with three musicians.A doctor: this also labelled Punjabee Book containing pictures of workmen etc, etc.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Muhammad 'Ali Pacha, Khedive of Egypt and Sudan (reg. 1805-48), seated with a plan of the proposed railway between Cairo and Suez British School, after Thomas Brigstocke (1809-1881), mid-19th Centuryoil on canvas laid down on panel 121 x 78.5 cm.Footnotes:Muhammad 'Ali (1769-1849) was the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan, and is often cited as the viceroy who most reformed and modernised the state. In the lower right of the painting the partially unrolled plans outline the proposal for a railway between Cairo and Suez. This route was put forward in 1833, but postponed due to pressure from Linant de Bellefonds and the Suez Canal Company. After 'Ali Pacha's death in 1849, his successor, Abbas I, contracted Robert Stephenson to build a section between Alexandria and the Nile, which was completed in 1854 and was the first railway line in the Ottoman Empire, Africa and the Middle East.Thomas Brigstocke (1809-1881) was a British portrait painter. After some brief tuition at the studio of Henry Saas, he studied painting at the Royal Academy Schools, and was subsequently a pupil of Henry Perronet Briggs and John Prescott Knight. In 1847, he travelled to Egypt with a letter of introduction to Muhammad 'Ali Pacha. He stayed in Egypt for approximately sixteen months at the Palace of Shoubra, wherein he painted a number of portraits of the Pacha and his family. Between 1842 and 1865 he exhibited at the Royal Academy and at the British Institution. The portrait of the Khedive was engraved as a mezzotint in 1852 by George Raphael Ward (1799-1879).Another version (perhaps after the print), with the Khedive in the same pose and the with the plans at lower right, but replacing the landscape view at right with a blank wall, was painted by the Italian artist A. Lecchi (see Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 20th October 2016, lot 135). The Khedive was also painted by Sir David Wilkie in 1841 (the work is now in Tate Britain, London).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Baba Deep Singh by Shankar Lal (India, 20th Century), circa 1950-60oil on board, signed lower right, painted white border painting 71.5 x 49 cm.; board 76 x 61.5 cm.Footnotes:Baba Deep Singh (1682-1757) is a famous Sikh hero, who was initially a close companion of Guru Gobind Singh. He combined religious life and devotion to the scriptures with military duties in the Khalsa army. He fought under Banda Singh Bahadur against the Mughals, but his best-known actions were against the Afghans during their incursions into India under Ahmad Shah Durrani. At the battle of Amritsar in 1757 (which the Sikhs fought in part to avenge the desecration of the Golden Temple), Baba Deep Singh (who had come out of scholarly retirement in his old age) was decapitated in combat, but according to legend fought on.For another depiction of his exploits, see the sale in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 30th March 2021, lot 120.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A portrait of Sir Ranbir Singh, Maharajah of Jind (1879-1948, reg. 1911-47), by the artist Toka Kam Punjab, early 20th Centuryoil on canvas, signed lower right 119 x 74 cm.Footnotes:The painting is based closely on a photographic portrait of 1906 by Lafayette Ltd., Bond Street, London.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A high official of the Qajar Persian government, perhaps 'Ali Asghar Khan Amin al-Sultan (1858-1907), Prime Minister under Nasr al-Din Shah Qajar Qajar Persia, signed by Aqa Mirza Musa, dated AH 1312/AD 1894-95oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left 60 x 50 cm.Footnotes:The signature reads: khanah-zad musa 1312, '[Serving] at court, Musa 1312 (1894-5).'The identification is not certain, but the sitter appears to be 'Ali Asghar Khan Amin al-Sultan (1858-1907), who was Prime Minister to no fewer than three late Qajar Shahs, with interruptions and even temporary exile. He was the son of Muhammad Ibrahim Amin al-Sultan and helped his father in his various posts. He was given the titles Amin al-Mulk in AH 1299/AD 1881-82, and inherited his father's title Amin al-Sultan, together with all his father's posts in AH 1300/AD 1883-84. He was made Prime Minister in AH 1306/AD 1888-99) and titled Atabak-e A'zam in AH 1318/AD 1900-01 (under Muzaffar al-Din Shah). The artist is recorded as Musa ibn Mirza Hasan, known as Aqa Mirza Musa (d. AH 1319/AD 1901-02), skilled in portraiture in oils and in siyah qalam. Most of the illustrations, generally of officials and noblemen, in the Sharaf newspaper were done by him in siyah qalam. His recorded works in oil consist of: an old man walking accompanied by his servant carrying a lamp at night, dated AH 1312/AD 1894-95; and a painting of an old woman spinning with two young girls helping her and also working on spinning machines, dated AH 1314/AD 1896-97. See M. A. Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran, vol. 3, London 1991, pp. 1234-1235. He was supposed to have developed junun (insanity) towards the end of his life.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A portrait of the Sikh artist Ishar Singh (1860-1910) European School, signed by M. B., early 20th Centuryoil on board, signed M. B. lower left, label with nagari inscription pasted on backboard 37.5 x 33 cm.Footnotes:Ishar Singh Mahant was the son of Bhai Ram Singh mussavar (painter). He worked in a Kangra style and was responsible for the decoration of the interiors of many Sikh and Hindu temples in Amritsar. See K. C. Arayan, Punjab Painting, pp. 107-108, and Musarrat Hasan, Painting in the Punjab Plains, Lahore 1998, p. 146.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Maqbool Fida Husain (Indian, 1915-2011)Untitled (Horse) signed upper leftoil on canvas120.5 x 120cm (47 7/16 x 47 1/4in).Executed in the early 1980sFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate Indian Collection: presented by the artist to the singer, Mohammed Rafi. Thence by descent.Private Dubai Collection: acquired from the above by the owner in 2015.Born in Maharashtra, India in 1915, Maqbool Fida Husain's initial interest in art was piqued through his study of calligraphy at a Madrasa, and his interest was further developed during his studies at the Sir J J School of Art. He honed his skills in the 1930s painting posters for the Bollywood industry whilst also painting landscapes in Gujarat. As a founding member of the 1947 Progressive Artists Group, formed after the partition of India, he sought to create a new movement in art that was in direct opposition to the nationalistic rhetoric espoused by the Bengal School.He held numerous exhibitions over his career, notably his first solo exhibition in Zurich in 1952, at India House in New York in 1964 and the São Paulo Biennale in Brazil in 1971.Over a career that straddled decades, he employed his modified Cubist style to depict themes and topics that include the Ramayana, Mother Teresa, the Mahabharata, the British Raj and motifs of Indian urban and rural life.He was the recipient of multiple awards, some of which include honorary doctorates from the universities of Benares, Mysore and Jamia Millia, the Padma Shri in 1955, the Padma Bhushan in 1973, the Padma Vishushan in 1989 and the Aditya Vikram Birla Kala Shikhar Award for lifetime achievement in 1997.The horse has been one of the key elements in the artist's oeuvre over the course of his career, and is here portrayed with a gaping mouth and wide staring eyes. The crazed animal has been executed in opposing colours exemplifying its vigour and strength. 'Like his bulls, spiders and lamps on women's thighs, boastful snakes and blackly passionate suns, Husain's horses are subterranean creatures. Their nature is not intellectualized; it is rendered as sensation or as abstract movement, with a capacity to stir up vague premonitions and passions, in a mixture of ritualistic fear and exultant anguish.' (R. Bartholomew and S. Kapur, Husain, New York, 1972, p. 42)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Mohan Samant (Indian, 1924-2004)Untitled inscribed Mohan Samant '76 on reverse oil, watercolour and sand on canvas169 x 197cm (66 9/16 x 77 9/16in).Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate New York Collection.Gifted directly from the above to the present owner.Born in Goregaon, Maharashtra in 1924, Samant trained at the Sir J.J School of Art under Shankar Balwant Pasikar and graduated in 1952. From the outset of his career, Samant exhibited his work alongside his fellow Indian modernists, in seminal shows such as Progressive Artists' Group: Gaitonde, Raiba, Ara, Hazarnis, Khanna, Husain, Samant, Gade' at Bombay's Jehangir Art Gallery in 1953 and Eight Painters: Bendre, Gaitonde, Gujral, Husain, Khanna, Kulkarni, Kumar, Samant, curated by Thomas Keehn in New Delhi in 1956.Samant is known for an incredibly diverse body of work. He derived inspiration from a wide variety of sources – including the cave paintings of Lascaux and Pre-Columbian ceramics – and has boldly experimented with mixed media, incorporating acrylic, oil, wire and sand on his canvases. The present lot is an illustration of these influences and is perhaps best explained by Samant himself when he says: : '[...] I fuse the symbols of Hindu mythology and ancient Egyptian wall paintings with the modern-day art world of New York City. My aesthetic relationship to the vast, visual resources from antiquity to the present day has helped form my unique style of painting and serves to provide an ongoing stimulus to its continuous development.' (speaking in 1997, quoted in Y. Dalmia, The Making of Modern Indian Art: the Progressives, New Delhi 2001, p. 69).For a similar work sold in these rooms, see Bonhams, Dubai, Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian, Indian and Pakistani Art, 3rd March 2008, lot 97.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Bashir Mirza (Pakistani, 1941-2000)Lonely Girl signed and dated '71 upper leftoil on canvas91 x 91.5cm (35 13/16 x 36in).Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate Pakistani Collection: acquired from the artist in 1975. Private Pakistani Collection: acquired by the owner from the above in 2019.Bashir Mirza spent the years 1969-70 in Germany, where he produced a number of erotic images of young women. In 1971 he returned to Pakistan and embarked on his Lonely Girl paintings, in which 'she was still dressed in German colours, but [he] draped her scantily in order not to outrage tender sensibilities' (Ijaz Ul Hassan, Painting in Pakistan, Lahore 1996, p. 99). Ul Hassan continues: 'The Lonely Girls with their lithe bodies, dreamy eyes and pouting mouths, 'sensuous as an exotic perfume', are essentially reminiscences of the women the artist confides he has met or known'.Bashir Mirza's work ran the gamut of styles throughout his career. After producing a good deal of abstract painting and symbolic reactions to the 1965 war with India, he began a completely figurative style after his return from Germany in 1971, epitomised in the Lonely Girls and Flower Flower series of the early to mid-seventies, which seem to capture a rather seventies hippyish mood. This stood in contrast to the largely non-figurative work being produced in Pakistan at that time (though as Akbar Naqvi notes, he had no difficulty in shifting backwards and forwards between these trends as the mood took him). Naqvi draws a parallel between the female heads which Mirza painted from 1977 to 1979 and the late paintings of Amrita Sher-Gil which looked towards Mughal miniatures; but more especially American Pop Art and billboards. Certainly the present work seems to resemble such imagery in its colour, starkness and almost enamel-like cleanness. (For discussion of Bashir Mirza, see Akbar Naqvi, Image and Identity: Fifty Years of Painting and Sculpture in Pakistan, Oxford 1998, pp. 480-495).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
* ALEXANDER GOUDIE RP RGI (SCOTTISH 1933 - 2004),BRITTANY LANDSCAPEoil on canvas, signed, titled versoimage size 49cm x 74cm, overall size 64cm x 89cmFramed. Note: Alexander Goudie was born in 1933 at Paisley and, as a child, showed a prodigious talent for drawing. He studied at Glasgow School of Art when William Armour was head of drawing and painting and David Donaldson was the ubiquitous influence. Goudie, as a student at Glasgow, demonstrated his extraordinary ability. He received the Somerville Shanks Prize for Composition and, later, his draughtsmanship and sense of colour was recognized with the award of the Newbery Medal. As a young artist he grew up admiring three great masters, Sir John Lavery, George Henry and James Guthrie; all artists who had bridged the gap between Glasgow and Paris. It was these artists’ glorious virtuoso control of oil paint that appealed to Goudie, as well as their genre and realist subject-matter. Alexander Goudie was elected a member of the Glasgow Art Club in 1956 and a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1970. He painted a portrait of the Queen for the Caledonian Club, London (1992/93), and exhibited widely, showing at Harari and Johns, in London, the Fine Art Society, Glasgow, and the Musee de la Faience, in Quimper. Sir Timothy Clifford, former Director of the National Galleries of Scotland, said: ''At his best, Goudie could draw better than any of his rivals in Scotland. There was magic and vision in his art and, I expect, history will be kind to him.'' Collections: 79 of Goudie's paintings are held in UK public collections.Condition report: Condition is very good overall, with no visible signs of restoration, damage, or known issues. Provenance is from a private Scottish collection.
* PHILIP RASKIN (SCOTTISH b. 1947),WINDSWEPT SKY IIoil on canvas, signed, titled label versoimage size 76cm x 76cm, overall size 89cm x 89cm Framed.Note: Born in 1947, Philip studied at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1960s. However, due to his father's untimely death, he had to postpone his career in art and left art school to enter the business world where he stayed for the next 30 years. For 20 of those years, he was the well known proprietor of The Inn on the Green, a celebrated jazz restaurant, in Glasgow. During this time, he maintained his contact with the world of art however, by running a schedule of art exhibitions and openings within the venue. Upon leaving the restaurant in the 1990s, Philip returned to his easel and brushes and since then has become a successful full time artist with broad appeal. He now lives and works from his studio just outside Glasgow. Philip's unique style is instantly recognisable combining a heavy impasto application of the paint alongside more delicate and sensitive brush strokes. Focussing mainly on landscape painting, his inspiration comes from the islands of the west coast of Scotland with Barra, Islay, Jura and Arran being some of his favourite locations. He deftly captures the essence and light of the landscapes through his work, the rugged shorelines, dramatic seascapes and ever changing skies. "I tend to paint very private places for the viewer to own and enjoy. No people, no houses, no telegraph poles; just expansive skies, mist tumbling on a distant hillside and a silence broken only by lapping water and gulls ascending".
* SAUL ROBERTSON (SCOTTISH b. 1978),MORNING HAS BROKENoil on linen, initialled, further signed, titled and dated 2001 label versoimage size 36cm x 41cm, overall size 56cm x 61cm Framed and under glass. Provenance: Thompson's Gallery, Aldeburgh, Suffolk.Note: A rare appearance at auction for a painting by the much collected Saul Robertson. The most recent example by Robertson to appear in our auctions was lot 863 27th September 2020 which sold for £1300 (hammer).
* JOHN BYRNE RSA (SCOTTISH b 1940),SELF PORTRAIToil on board, signed 'Patrick'image size 55cm x 40cm, overall size 83cm x 68cm Framed and under glass.Note: John Byrne was born in 1940 in Paisley, Scotland and attended the Glasgow School of Art from 1958 - 63 where he excelled. In his final year he was awarded the Bellahousten Award, the school's most prestigious painting prize, and spent six months in Italy. John Byrne has combined several careers - playwright, theatre designer and artist. In his most famous play, 'The Slab Boys', Byrne drew on his experience as a paint mixer in a Paisley carpet factory. During the 1980s Byrne wrote the cult television series 'Tutti Frutti', followed by 'Your Cheatin' Heart', which used country and western music as a backdrop to a comedy of Glasgow life. His work is held in major collections in Scotland and abroad. Several of his paintings hang in The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, the Museum of Modern Art and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. In 2007 he was made a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy and is an Honorary Fellow of the GSA, the RIAS, an Honorary Member of the RGI and has Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Paisley, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Strathclyde. Byrne often signs his paintings "Patrick" and he is unquestionably one of Scotland's most celebrated living artists.
* ALEXANDER GOUDIE RP RGI (SCOTTISH 1933 - 2004),THE BAPTISMgouache on board, signed and dated '56image size 40cm x 50cm, overall size 56cm x 67cm Framed and under glass.Note: Alexander Goudie was born in 1933 at Paisley and, as a child, showed a prodigious talent for drawing. He studied at Glasgow School of Art when William Armour was head of drawing and painting and David Donaldson was the ubiquitous influence. Goudie, as a student at Glasgow, demonstrated his extraordinary ability. He received the Somerville Shanks Prize for Composition and, later, his draughtsmanship and sense of colour was recognized with the award of the Newbery Medal. As a young artist, he grew up admiring three great masters, Sir John Lavery, George Henry and James Guthrie; all artists who had bridged the gap between Glasgow and Paris. It was these artists’ glorious virtuoso control of oil paint that appealed to Goudie, as well as their genre and realist subject matter. Alexander Goudie was elected a member of the Glasgow Art Club in 1956 and a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1970. He painted a portrait of the Queen for the Caledonian Club, London (1992/93), and exhibited widely, showing at Harari and Johns, in London, the Fine Art Society, Glasgow, and the Musee de la Faience, in Quimper. Sir Timothy Clifford, former Director of the National Galleries of Scotland, said: ''At his best, Goudie could draw better than any of his rivals in Scotland. There was magic and vision in his art and, I expect, history will be kind to him.'' Collections: 79 of Goudie's paintings are held in UK public collections including at Glasgow Museums & Galleries, The Hunterian, Rozelle House Galleries, Paisley Museum & Art Galleries and The Fleming Collection (London). Numerous prestigious corporate collections in the UK and France and in private collections around the world.
* BILL GILLON PPSSA (SCOTTISH, 1942 - 2021),GHOSTLY FIGURES IN A MYTHICAL SCENEoil on board, signed and dated '65image size 178cm x 159cm, overall size 180cm x 161cm Framed.Note: As a teenager Bill Gillon was encouraged by his art teacher Richard Demarco to train at art college. Few would doubt that Ricky Demarco recognised raw talent when he saw it. At art college Bill quickly gravitated towards figurative painting but latterly he had thought of studying sculpture. Both are dominant in the subject work of his paintings. Bill did not always work well with authority and towards the end of his college career found himself in the probably unique position of being suspended from college at the same time as being awarded a major painting prize. After college Bill taught at number schools including his old school Scotus before settling at Telford College (Edinburgh) for 30 odd years. Bill was a past president of the SSA (Society of Scottish Artists). The subject matter of Bill's work was often very dark (especially during the 70s). This and his uncompromising attitude towards showing and selling his work, led to controversy and a reputation for being difficult. The family believes that Bill had a stroke while in Amsterdam about 10 years ago and he was unable to paint or draw in the last decade of his life. Only a few years after the first, The Scottish Arts Club (Edinburgh) staged their second retrospective exhibition of Bill Gillon's work in 2018. The Scottish Arts Club website stated "We are delighted that our current exhibition of work by Bill Gillon is sufficiently exciting that it is generating wonderful feedback, encouraging sales and press attention". We have only offered two works by Bill Gillon in recent years, both small examples from the personal collection of the late Jan Morrison (Proprietor The Leith Gallery, Edinburgh) which achieved hammer prices of £420 & £460 (both May 2021).
* JOHN NICHOLSON (SCOTTISH 1921 - 2004),M.V. "SEA PRINCESS"oil on canvas, signed and titledimage size 45cm x 60cm, overall size 54cm x 69cm Framed.Note: John Nicholson was only five when his love affair with ships began. John was fascinated by the workings of a paddle steamer on a day trip to the Isle of Man in 1925 and he was still enjoying sailing on the paddle steamer PS Waverley 78 years later. Drawing was also an interest from a very young age and family holidays on the Clyde in the 1930s provided the subject matter for many of his early paintings. John served in WWII and spent four years as a POW. In the early 1950s he began receiving commissions. Pen and ink drawings appeared in several shipping magazines and from 1984 until 1987, John was commissioned to paint all new vessels to the Cal/Mac fleet. His attention to detail in all his pictures often led to extended correspondence with those wanting a painting of a ship in a particular livery or location. His regular trips to the Isle of Man resulted in a commission from Captain Jack Ronan to paint three Steam Packet ships for him. In 1993 he was commissioned to do a set of paintings of The Isle of Man Steam Packet ships for postage stamps issued by the Isle of Man Post Office. John was a renowned marine artist and his works will remain as a permanent memorial to his abiding interest in all things to do with the sea and, for more than 25 years, he provided the PS Waverley with artwork for their postcards, posters, timetables and advertisements - and all completely free of charge. Early in 1990, the publishers Hart, Maclagan & Will were printing their first book in The Memories of the Clyde series, The Duchess of Fife. They were searching for a suitable front-cover illustration and contact was made with John Nicholson. In 1992 the second title, Steamers of the Clyde, featured all 24 illustrations painted by John Nicholson. In 1994, Liners of the Clyde was published. This book contained illustrations of 24 liners all painted by John with his own authoritative descriptions. He followed this with another work on the steamers of the Clyde and Western Isles with the words provided by himself, Robin Boyd and Iain Quinn. We have only offered two examples of John Nicholson's work in recent years. Both were smaller watercolours (rather than oil paintings) and prices achieved were £200 & £420
ERNI UPTON FRSA,PLOCKTON, ROSS & CROMARTY oil on canvas, signed, further signed and titled versoimage size 46.5cm x 61.5cm, overall size 71cm x 86cm Framed.Artist's label verso.Note: A Scot, born in Ayrshire in 1936, Erni Upton has been painting since childhood. Schooled at Ayr Grammar & Ayr Academy, much of his youth was spent with the fisherfolk of West Scotland and their boats and he still cruises these waters each year. He trained at Glasgow School of Art, where he studied under Donaldson, Mathieson and Robertson. His work reflects their influences and those of the Scottish colourists who like him, spent much time in the wonderful light and colours of the West Coast. Painting in this tradition, he works with oils on canvas, using both brush and knife. In 1985, after many years in banking, he returned to Art & Design when he established an interior design company in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He continued to work in oils, mainly commissions for corporate and private clients, but it was not until 1999, when the company was sold, that more time became available for painting. His work is successfully shown in many galleries in England, Scotland and abroad, most recently in Istanbul, where he was invited, as a result of commission work, to have a solo exhibition at the British Embassy, and a subsequent solo at one of the premier galleries in the city. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, London, in November 2004. In recent years exhibition venues have included: Rowles Fine Arts, Strathearn Gallery, Greens & Blues Gallery, Morningside Gallery, Annan Gallery, Iona House Gallery, Alpha Gallery, Queens Gallery, Gigha Gallery, Holyrood Gallery and Frames Gallery. In The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction of 9th May 2021, two Iona paintings by Erni Upton (lots 787 & 789) sold for prices of £2000 & £2800 (hammer).
* LAURENT VIALET (FRENCH b. 1967),MORET SUR LOINGoil on canvas, signed, titled versoimage size 38cm x 46cm, overall size 55cm x 62cm Framed. Note: Laurent Vialet is a contemporary French artist, born in 1967. Having passed the usual schools, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and subsequently undertook extensive study trips to Normandy and Britany, thereby studying nature very intensively. Vialet enjoys painting marine scenes and landscapes but is also known for his Paris scenes. One can recognize the influence of his uncle, the well-known artist Jean Kevorkian in both his motives and impressionistic style. Vialet is a great admirer of Corot, whose works he has studied intensively in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.
* JOHN BELLANY CBE RA HRSA (SCOTTISH 1942 - 2013),THE PORTRAIT OF JULIET AND DAVIDoil on board, signed and dated '76overall size 154cm x 92cmUnframed, as intended.Provenance: This deeply personal portrait is of Juliet Lister, who became John Bellany's second wife, and her son David (Gray). After Juliet's tragic suicide this painting was held by her family and in recent times it passed to David Gray, Juliet's son and the current owner of the picture.Note: By 1973 Bellany was head of the faculty of painting at Croydon College of Art. His marriage to Helen had foundered, his personal life was in disarray and eventually, in 1979 he married Juliet Lister, a mature student. Juliet however was beset by mental health problems which necessitated frequent and lengthy spells of time in hospital. Bellany’s work during this period predominated in dark themes dealing with fate and the passing of time. Despite the torment in his personal life, Bellany’s paintings were finally gaining recognition and in the same year he was a joint winner of the Athena Art Award, at the time the most valuable art prize in the UK. Alongside a host of solo exhibitions in galleries, in 1986 a major retrospective of his work was held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and in 1988 at the Hamburg Kunsthalle. A crisis in his health brought Helen back into Bellany’s life. A distant presence over the years as the mother of their three children she, by necessity, now would prove his saviour, forcing him to seek medical attention for the chronic liver disease that was seriously endangering his life. After Juliet’s death in 1985 John and Helen remarried but Bellany’s health continued to deteriorate. By the end of 1987 the only remaining medical option was a liver transplant for which he was eventually considered and tested. He then joined the waiting list for a donor. On 30 April 1988, an extraordinary opportunity presented itself. Exceeding all expectations, the transplant granted the artist a further 25 years of life.
* ANTHONY BAYNES (BRITISH 1921 - 2003),PORTRAIT OF A LADYoil on board, titled and attributed label versoimage size 41cm x 36cm, overall size 47cm x 41cm Framed. Note: Anthony Baynes was born in New Zealand. Came to England and studied art at the Slade School of Art. War evacuation meant that the school moved to the Ashmolean in Oxford where Baynes studied under the professorship of Randolphe Schwabe. Fellow students included Kyffin Williams and Bernard Dunstan. Lifelong friends were Allan Gwynne-Jones, then tutor at the school, his wife Rosemary, Eldred Bartlett and Nancy Carline. In 1946 his painting 'The Betrayal' (now in the collection of the UCL Art Museum) won the Mary Richgitz Prize. During the war served in the Royal Navy. After the war taught art at the Badminton School. In 1949 travelled to Greece, became the first art student at the British School of Archaeology. In the fifties lived in Crete. Held one-man show in Athens in 1955 and in London in 1958. An accomplished painter in gouache and oils, producing a number of notably fine portraits. Also a designer of both murals, theatrical sets (briefly for Sadler's Wells in the 1940s). Baynes was a notable designer of dust jackets from the 1950s to the 1970s, working for publishers including John Murray, Capes and Eyre and Spottiswoode. He painted murals at the London Stock Exchange and the Guildhall in Portsmouth in 1959. In the late 1980s and 90s mainly exhibited locally particularly in Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds specialising in portraiture.
* ALEXANDER GOUDIE RP RGI (SCOTTISH 1933 - 2004),MONT VEYRIERmixed media on paper, signed, further signed, titled and dated '94 label versoimage size 30cm x 47cm, overall size 43cm x 59cm Framed and under glass.Label verso: Artbank, Glasgow.Note: Alexander Goudie was born in 1933 at Paisley and, as a child, showed prodigious talent for drawing. He studied at Glasgow School of Art when William Armour was head of drawing and painting and David Donaldson was the ubiquitous influence. Goudie, as a student at Glasgow, demonstrated his extraordinary ability. He received the Somerville Shanks Prize for Composition and, later, his draughtsmanship and sense of colour was recognized with the award of the Newbery Medal. As a young artist he grew up admiring three great masters, Sir John Lavery, George Henry and James Guthrie; all artists who had bridged the gap between Glasgow and Paris. It was these artists’ glorious virtuoso control of oil paint that appealed to Goudie, as well as their genre and realist subject-matter. Alexander Goudie was elected a member of the Glasgow Art Club in 1956 and a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1970. He painted a portrait of the Queen for the Caledonian Club, London (1992/93), and exhibited widely, showing at Harari and Johns, in London, the Fine Art Society, Glasgow, and the Musee de la Faience, in Quimper. Sir Timothy Clifford, former Director of the National Galleries of Scotland, said: ''At his best, Goudie could draw better than any of his rivals in Scotland. There was magic and vision in his art and, I expect, history will be kind to him.'' Collections: 79 of Goudie's paintings are held in UK public collections including at Glasgow Museums & Galleries, The Hunterian, Rozelle House Galleries, Paisley Museum & Art Galleries and The Fleming Collection (London). Numerous prestigious corporate collections in the UK and France and in private collections around the world.
* PETER HOWSON OBE (SCOTTISH b 1958),HENRIKoil on canvas, signedimage size 80cm x 95cm, overall size 85cm x 100cm Framed. Note: The portrait of legendary Celtic striker Henrik Larsson with his signature celebration pose after scoring a goal. Henrik Larsson was one of the most successful Celtic strikers of all time. He played for Celtic between 1997 and 2004 and scored 242 goals in 315 matches, including 15 against Old Firm rivals Rangers. He played in the team which reached the 2003 UEFA Cup Final against FC Porto and earned the nickname “The King of Kings” amongst Celtic supporters. This painting was offered by Sotheby’s in 2017 with an estimate of £10,000 - 15,000.
* IAN MACINNES (SCOTTISH 1922 - 2003),SCOTTISH COAST (probably Orkney)oil on board, signedimage size 38cm x 49cm, overall size 43cm x 53cm Framed.Note: Painter, teacher, political cartoonist, born and lived in Stromness, Orkney Isles. MacInnes attended Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, 1939–41 and 1945–7, teachers including Robert Sivell and D M Sutherland. He went on to Head the Art Department at Stromness Academy, becoming Second Master and then Headmaster until retirement. MacInnes was a member of the 47 Group, which included Alberto Morrocco; took part in other mixed shows; and had numerous shows in Orkney, Aberdeen and Edinburgh, notably at the Torrance Gallery. MacInnes was a painter of the landscape and people of Orkney. He was a close friend of George Mackay Brown from childhood and illustrated many of his books and dust covers. After his retirement he carried on painting with even greater zeal, and was preparing for another eagerly awaited exhibition in Edinburgh when, in 1997, he suffered the first of the strokes that crippled and ultimately killed him. For his memorial he leaves us a richly evocative display of paintings on countless Orcadian walls - and far beyond his islands. Eleven of his paintings are held in Scottish Public Collections. In The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction of 1st August 2021, three examples of the artist's paintings sold for £650, £700 and £900 (all hammer prices). Condition report: Condition is very good overall, with no visible signs of restoration, damage, or known issues. Picture will benefit from a surface clean.
* NEIL DALLAS BROWN (SCOTTISH 1938 - 2003), REFLECTION (VESSEL FOR TEARS), 1992oil, sand and acrylic gel on canvas, signed verso, titled labels versoimage size 179cm x 50cm, overall size 180cm x 51cm Framed.Artist's labels verso.Note: Neil Dallas Brown was born in Elgin, Moray and studied at Dundee College of Art, Patrick Allan Fraser School of Art in Arbroath and the Royal Academy Schools. He won a travelling scholarship to the continent and a number of notable awards and prizes. In 1967 he visited New York with a Scottish Arts Council bursary; in 1970 took part in the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Open winning a major prize, and in 1981 won a bursary to the Scottish Arts Council studio in Amsterdam. From 1968-78 he was visiting lecturer at Dundee's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, then joined Glasgow School of Art where he taught for some 20 years. He lived in Fife until his death in 2003. Dallas Brown participated in dozens of group shows but also had a series of prestigious solo shows, notably at Compass Gallery in Glasgow, a series in the late 1960s at Piccadilly Gallery in London, a touring retrospective in 1975 from Stirling University, Perth Art Gallery 1987, Thackeray Gallery London in 1989 and Glasgow School of Art 1998. Birds and humans are featured in Dallas Brown's pictures, which are tinged with mystery, menace and surrealism. He said ''Painting is love. Painting is an affectionate devotion''. More than 50 of Neil Dallas Brown's paintings are held in major public collections in the UK including at Glasgow Museums & Galleries, Fife Council, Hospitalfield, The Glasgow School of Art, Edinburgh City Collection, Nottingham Art Gallery, The Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool), Aberdeen Museums & Galleries, Dundee Museums & Galleries, The Fleming Collection (London), Paisley Museums & Galleries and The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
* LEON MORROCCO RSA RGI (SCOTTISH b 1942),FISHING BOATSoil on board, signedimage size 92cm x 92cm, overall size 94cm x 94cmFramed.Note: Leon Morrocco is a highly skilled draughtsman with an international reputation whose paintings in oil, gouache and pastel, feature landscapes and still lifes inspired by his travels to Spain, France, South America and Australia. Leon Francesco Morrocco was born in Edinburgh in 1942, the first son of the artist Alberto Morrocco. He studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Slade School of Art in London and Edinburgh College of Art. In 1968 he won an Italian government scholarship to study at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. He was lecturer in Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art from 1965 to 1968, and then at Glasgow School of Art from 1969 to 1979. In 1979 he moved to Australia as Head of the Department of Fine Art at the Chisholm Institute in Melbourne. He retired in 1984 to devote all of his time to painting. In 1991, he returned permanently to Britain. His work can be found in many notable public and private collections including the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, H.R.H Princess Margaret, Leeds Art Gallery, The Nuffield Foundation, The Scottish Arts Council, Lillie Art Gallery, the Australian Government Collection, Queensland Art Gallery and numerous prestigious corporate collections.
* PHILIP BRAHAM (SCOTTISH b. 1959),SIC TRANSIT GLORIA SCOTIAE (SO PASSES AWAY THE GLORY OF SCOTLAND)oil on canvas, signed, titled and dated 1990 versoimage size 97cm x 127cm, overall size 103cm x 134cmFramed.Note: A graduate from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Philip Braham first came to prominence in the 1980s with the rise of figurative painting in Scotland, which culminated in "The Vigorous Imagination" an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 1987. His career includes 22 solo exhibitions to date; in addition to numerous group shows both nationally and internationally. Among the awards received are the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy Guthrie Award for painting and the Royal Scottish Academy Morton Award. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Raab Gallery Berlin, The Scottish Gallery and at the Royal Scottish Academy for the Edinburgh International Festival contribution in 2010. A longstanding interest in continental aesthetics informs his pedagogical role as Course Director for Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices at the University of Dundee. Philip Braham is represented by the prestigious Scottish Gallery (Edinburgh) and his most recent highly successful solo show "Closer to Home" at The Scottish Gallery (his sixth at the venue) was in January 2021. It was subsequently announced that this exhibition would also be presented at Perth Museum & Art Gallery from 30th April to 5th June 2021.
* MURIEL BARCLAY,VENICEoil on canvas, signed image size 126cm x 100cm, overall size 149cm x 124cm Framed.Note: In the inaugural Scottish Contemporary Art Auction staged by McTear's on 22nd November 2008, "Pink Tutu Tune" by Muriel Barclay sold for £7475 (premium) which was widely reported to be a record price for any maiden painting at public auction by a Scottish artist (past or present). Muriel Barclay is one of Scotland's most successful living artists and her exhibiting history is impressive. Her paintings are enthusiastically collected around the UK and auction appearances of her larger paintings, such as "Venice", are extremely rare. Collections include: Sir Arnold Clark, Lord Harris, The Sultan of Brunei, Alex McLeish, Sir Jack Harvey, HBOS, Biggart Baillie, Arisaig Partners, Ernie Els (golfer) and numerous other prestigious corporate and private collections worldwide. In The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction of 13th December 2020 "Peace Delegation" (a 77 x 87cm oil, lot 612) by Barclay, sold for £5500 (hammer).
* STUART MCALPINE MILLER,UNTITLEDoil on canvas, signedimage size 138cm x 123cm, overall size 153cm x 138cm Framed and under glass.Note: Stuart McAlpine Miller grew up in Stevenston, Ayrshire and graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1990. He was shortlisted for the Provost's Award. From the outset, several astute and influential art professionals and critics could see that McAlpine Miller was a special talent and he earned sporadic exhibitions at top end London, New York, Chicago and provincial UK galleries. In 2004, he was commissioned to paint Sir Paul McCartney's piano used throughout the 2004 European Tour. This project involved working closely and consulting with Paul on a daily basis. Despite critical acclaim and growing sales, McAlpine Miller had never sold a painting for more than £7000 but by 2010 he had developed a style and subject matter of work which moved him from "niche" to "internationally important". In 2012 he was selected by the Savoy Hotel, London to be their artist in residence which culminated in a major exhibition within the hotel in September that year. By now his paintings were routinely achieving up to £25,000. By mid 2013, there were waiting lists for his originals and prices were "starting at £35,000". Solo exhibitions followed including at Hoerle-Guggenheim Gallery (New York) in March 2016 and at frontline galleries in London and Glasgow. Success brings rewards and Stuart and wife Nikki now live in a Perthshire baronial mansion – with 13 bedrooms, turrets and 12 acres of land. A commission for eight major works was delivered to JK Rowling and numerous other celebrities are rumoured to be collectors. In terms of pounds sterling per square inch, McAlpine Miller is probably one of Scotland's two or three most valuable living artists. The examples offered are from an exceptional private collection of Stuart McAlpine Miller's early work.
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