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Mid 20th Century American Made Ebonised and Polished Brass Easel

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Mid 20th Century American Made Ebonised and Polished Brass Easel

Attractive lines with soft black tones and softened shine to the brass

The easel stands gracefully in the corner with your art placed, complimenting your painting, not competing.

Placed today is a rare foggy Buckmaster with hints of green on the grasses’ edge

H.170cm W.65cm D.56cm

The Exercise of Armes – de Gheyn

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The Exercise of Armes – de Gheyn

An important and early work on military arms commissioned by Maurice of Orange (unframed).

1607

Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum Cultura et Usu Libri Quatuor’

Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum Cultura et Usu Libri Quatuor’

Giovanni Baptista (also Battista) Ferrari

(1584 in Siena – 1 February 1655 in Siena), was an Italian Jesuit and professor in Rome, a botanist, and an author of illustrated

botanical books and a Latin-Syrian dictionary. He was born to an affluent Sienese family and entered the Jesuit Order in Rome in 1602. His career, besides the authoring of two important works, included being professor of Hebrew and Rhetoric at the Jesuit College in Rome and horticultural advisor to the Pope.

Mr Nathl Oldham – 1730

Mr Nathl Oldham Mezzotint by John Faber published 1730-50. Nathanial Oldham of Middlesex was a noteworthy character who served with the British Army in India and ‘inherited a fortune which allowed him to indulge his love of field sports and fine art’ (Tate Gallery). The print by Faber is after an oil by Highmore, which is now lost, Highmore and Oldham enjoying a friendship described as ‘very intimate’ (Einberg Edgerton, p. 48). Oldham was a compulsive collector, he spent his vast fortune assembling a variety of objects including natural history specimens which early reports describe as ‘whimsical gimcracks’ rather than articles of merit to men of knowledge and science. His love for curiosities bankrupted him, and despite auctioning off his collection in 1747 was sent to the King’s Bench prison where he died in debt.

John Faber the younger moved to England from Holland at a young age and studied engraving under his father, also John Faber. He became well known for his fine quality mezzotint portraits, completing about 165 in his lifetime. The portrait of Oldham, after the lost oil painting, shows the eccentric gentleman out shooting with a male companion and his loyal dog. It is probably set on his estate at Ealing, where Oldham resided from 1728-1735.

Mezzotint: a manner of engraving on copper by scraping a roughened surface to produce light and shade.

61 cm x 80 cm (framed)

Charles Barnett Esquire – 1862

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‘Charles Barnett Esquire’

Engraved by James Scott after a painting by Stephen Pearce

Published by Henry Greaves & Co ‘London’ 1862

Print sellers to the Queen.

Original hand coloured engraving, very high quality and rare.

81.5 x 96.5 cm

Sir Richard Sutton & the Quorn Hounds – 1860

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‘Sir Richard Sutton & the Quorn Hounds’

Original hand coloured engraving by Frederick Bromley.
Many of his works are in the collection of the ‘London National Portrait Gallery’

This image has been reproduced to meet the demands for this popular subject,
but the original such as this is hard to come by.

Engraved by Frederick Bromley after a painting by Sir Francis Grant.

Published by John O’Malley & Sons, London.

1860

80 x 112 cm

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