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Lot 390
Lady Janet Clark (20th Century English school) - Oil painting - Shoulder length portrait of Charles Murray Beazley, younger son of George Arthur Beazley, canvas 17.25ins x 14.25ins, signed, in ebonised moulded frame, and Christopher Hall (20th Century English school) - Oil painting - Half length portrait of Arthur Stuart Beazley wearing a green jacket, canvas 26.75ins x 22ins, in gilt and painted frame Provenance: From The Collection of the late Stuart Beazley of Broome Park, Barham, Canterbury, Kent, and thence by family descent Note: Inscribed to verso with details of sitter and artist
Lot 437
School of Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768) known as Canaletto - Oil painting - View of Santa Maria de la Salute, Venice, with figures to foreground, two ships and gondolas, and St Mark's Square to the background, relined canvas, 21ins x 36ins, in gilt carved frame Note: Handwritten ink note to stretcher states - "Originally came from Woodgate family c.1760. Said to have come from Somerhill near Tonbridge"
Lot 444
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef (South African 1886-1957) VASCO DA GAMA SEIL OM KAAP PUNT signed and dated 49; signed, dated and inscribed with the title on the reverse oil on canvas laid down on board A Pretoria Art Museum label is adhered to the reverse 29 by 39cm Vasco Da Gama’s first expedition to the east passed the Cape of Good Hope in November 1497. The Portuguese Commander’s fleet consisted of three caravels and a crew of 148 men. Vasco Da Gama Seil Om Kaap Punt memorializes this historic event that was to shape the destiny of our country and indeed change the fortunes of Europe. Captured against a palette of blue sea, sky and land, three billowing caravels sail across the choppy sea. Emblazoned with the sovereign insignia of Portugal, the small ships are presented in the face of a gale as they round Cape Point. Completed in 1949 the small oil painting was gifted in the same year to a couple who appear to have been neighbours of the artist at Henley-on-Klip. Aan Jean en Dirk van May en Henk 1949 is inscribed on the back in pencil, and countersigned and dated by the artist above that. As an affirmation of all that embodied nationalism in South Africa, the subject emphasizes Pierneef’s belief that South African artists should have their own style and set of rules to follow. In this he was particularly against the influence that the colonial government exerted on art education, depending heavily on the so called “English” approach to art. The formal qualities of the seascape - sweeping vista, and tonal gradations, voluminous sky with a focal point of light, angular ships convey Pierneef’s signature style. However, the unusual nature of the subject matter may be partly explained by Dirk Lion-Cachet’s lineage and history. An engineer and head of the Rand Show in Johannesburg, Dirk Lion-Cachet built an acclaimed collection of art including many works by his friend and neighbour, Henk Pierneef before his death in 1985. He was descended from a lineage of Portuguese ancestry, an influential family of missionaries and protagonists for the development of Afrikaner Nationalism. These circumstances and interests coalesce in the lyrical painting of Lusitanian sailing caravels on the azure and windy Cape coast created by the artist as a tribute to his friend in 1949. Vasco Da Gama seil om Kaappunt was loaned to the Pretoria Art Museum, most likely for the opening exhibition in 1965. The same year a bronze model of Vasco da Gama’s caravel was presented to the museum by the Portuguese community. - C. K. https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-citizen-gauteng/20161125/282789241041441 The work was gifted to Jeanne and Dirk Lion- Cachet “friends and supporters of Pierneef’s work.
Lot 425
Pieter Willem Frederick Wenning (South African 1873-1921) GROEN LANDSKAP signed oil on board 19,5 by 29,5cm Pieter Wenning lived a short life, yet his acclaimed period of landscape painting was by comparison fleeting. A modest and congenial man, Wenning, who had a Dutch upbringing, came to South Africa already married in his early 20’s. In some ways his life was tragic, as he was virtually unrecognized and unable to make a living from both his art and his career in publishing. His health was not good and he was childless although he married twice. Sadly, he never realized his dream of owning a home in which to raise a family due to enduring poverty. These circumstances shaped his world view as well as his artistic production. Lacking any pretentions of social grandeur, Wenning found ample subject matter in the bucolic and decaying landscapes around him, particularly in the Cape during its “Green Season”. He acutely observed and recorded the remnants of the early colony as it disappeared at a time of global turmoil at the turn of the century. Looking at the artists’ Cape landscape paintings it is difficult to reconcile these pastoral views with the urban, gentrified world we know a century later. Malta Farm, Salt River is a case in point. A favourite subject of the artist’s, he returned to paint it frequently, and it has since become an iconic work. Regrettably, the 17th century Cape farmhouse was destroyed in the 1970s to be replaced by a huge industrial park. Groenlandskap is characteristic of Wenning’s style in which the sky encompasses two thirds of the canvas and a cluster of modest farm buildings gives way to an intensely green foreground. It was in the green African vistas that Pieter Wenning found his true expression and acclaim as the foremost South African landscape painter of his time. - C. K.
Lot 546
Large, Ornate Gilt Framed Original Oil Painting by Dominik Schofried 'A River Scene'. Approx. measurements of outer frame - W134cm x H109cm. Approx. measurements of canvas board, W100cm x H74cm. Comes with documents from 'Apollo Galleries', information card reads "A German River Scene. Signed: Dominik Schufried: Landscape and genre painter born in Vienna in 1810. Pupil of The Academy of Vienna. He Exhibited from 1857 to 1869 and from 1838 to 1855. He has works in the museum of Vienna." Potential Buyers maybe subject to the Droit de Suite (Artist Resale Right) which will be in addition to the buyers premium.
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