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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 6, 2018 | Christie's | London | Old Masters Evening Sale | 52 | $****** - ****** | A harbour at sunrise |
paintings
100.4 x 137.8 cm (39.53 x 54.25 in)
oil on canvas
signed, inscribed and dated 'Joseph·Vernet·f· / Roma·1747' (lower left)
Commissioned in February 1745 by William Drake (1723-1796), later M.P., and by descent at Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire to the following,
Captain Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake (1783-1852); The Tyrwhitt-Drake Settlement; Christie’s, London, 25 July 1952, lot 158, as a pair with A Rocky River Scene (800 gns. to Agnews, with lot 157, a second pair of Vernets).
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, where acquired by the following,
Sir Brian McGrath (1925-2016), and by inheritance to the present owner.
London, Kenwood House, Claude-Joseph Vernet, 1714- 1789, France’s most famous landscape and marine painter of the eighteenth century, 4 June-19 September 1976, no. 14 (catalogue entry by Philip Conisbee).
J. Vernet, Livre de Raison, Avignon, Médiathèque Ceccano, Ms. 2321, fol. 6r., ‘Pour Mr Draik Anglois, quatre tableaux toile d’empereur representant les quatre parties du jour deux en marines un broüillard et deux en paÿsages a 200 ecus les quatre ordonnez au mois de fevrier l’an 1745’.
L. Lagrange, Joseph Vernet et la peinture au XVIIIe siècle. Avec le texte des Livres de raison, et un grand nombre de documents inédits, Paris, 1864, pp. 32 and 324.
F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet: Peintre de Marine, 1714-1789, Paris, 1926, I, p. 46, nos. 123-126 (reproduced as fig. 38 a copy incorrectly assumed to be the Drake picture).
P. Oppé, ed., ‘Memoirs of Thomas Jones’, Walpole Society, XXXII, 1951, p. 33, as ‘four very Capital pictures of Vernet, which were painted for Mr Drake during his residence in Rome’.
J. Ingamells, A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy 1701-1800, New Haven and London, 1997, p. 312.
signed, inscribed and dated 'Joseph·Vernet·f· / Roma·1747' (lower left)
oil on canvas
39 ½ x 54 ¼ in. (100.4 x 137.8 cm.)
