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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 29, 2015 | Sotheby's | New York | Master Paintings: Part I | 98 | $****** - ****** | London, a view of the old horse guards and Banqueting Hall, Whitehall seen from St. James' Park | |||
Jul 4, 1997 | Christie's | London | Important Old Master Pictures | 121 | $****** - ****** | London, Old Horse Guards and Banqueting Hall, Whitehall | |||
Nov 17, 1989 | Christie's | London | British & Old Master Pictures - Paul Mellon Collection | 4 | Estimates not disclosed | Old Horse Guards and Banqueting Hall, Whitehall, from St. James's Park |
paintings
47.3 x 76.8 cm (18.62 x 30.24 in)
oil on canvas
Possibly Dr. Richard Mead (1673 - 1754) and bequeathed to his son-in-law
. Dr. Edward Wilmot (1693 - 1786), created Baronet in 1759
. By descent to Sir Henry Sacheverel Wilmot, 4th Baronet (1801-1872), by 1857
. By descent to Sir Robert Wilmot, 8th Baronet (1939-1974)
. His estate sale, London, Christie's, 27 June 1975, lot 31 (for 100,000 gns.). With Roy Miles, London, 1975
. From whom purchased by Paul Mellon, K.B.E. (1907 - 1999)
. His sale, London, Christie's, 17 November 1989, lot 4
. Where acquired by a UK pension fund
. By whom sold, London, Christie's, 4 July 1997, lot 121
. There purchased by the present collector.
Manchester, Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857, no. 821 (leant by Wilmot family, according to a label on stretcher at time of 1989 sale);. London, Guildhall Art Gallery, Canaletto in England, June-July 1959, no. 23;. New Haven, Yale Art Center; London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Canaletto in England. A Venetian Artist Abroad, 1746-1755, 19 October - 31 December 2006; 24 January - 15 April 2007, no. 16 (exhibited in London only; due to its success, the exhibition was extended until 22 April 2007).
F.J.B. Watson, Canaletto, London and New York 1949, p. 20, reproduced fig. 25;. F.J.B Watson, "Some Unpublished Canaletto Drawings of London", in The Burlington Magazine, XCII, 572, Nov.1950, p. 316 and 314, reproduced fig. 12;. W.G. Constable, Canaletto, Oxford,1962, and 2nd ed., revised by J.G. Links, 1976, I, p. 142, reproduced plate 76; II, cat. no. 416 and under nos. 735 and 736; ed. 1989, I, p. lxvii and II, p. 738;. L. Puppi, L'opera completa del Canaletto, Milan 1968, cat. no. 280, reproduced;. A. Bettagno, Venetian drawings of the eighteenth century, exhibition catalogue, London 1972, p. 36, under cat. no. 53;. Christie’s Review of the Season 1975, London 1975, p. 9; reproduced on the jacket cover and p. 40;. J.G. Links, Canaletto and his patrons, London, 1977, p. 69, reproduced plate 100 (erroneously described as formerly in the collection of the Earl of Malmesbury and with incorrect measurements);. J.G. Links, Canaletto. The Complete Paintings, St. Albans 1981, p. 68, cat. no. 222, reproduced;. J.G. Links, Canaletto, Oxford 1982, pp. 161-2, reproduced plate 151; 2nd, ed., London 1994, pp. 172 - 173, reproduced plate 154;. A. Bettagno, Canaletto, Disegni-Dipinti-Incisioni, exhibition catalogue, Venice. 1982, p. 46, under cat. no. 44;. A. Corboz, Canaletto. Una Venezia immaginaria, Milan 1985, II, p. 716, cat. no. P405, reproduced;. Sotheby’s Art at Auction. The Market Review 1993-1994, London 1994, p. 32 reproduced in reverse;. M.J.H. Liversidge, "Canaletto and England', in Canaletto and England, exhibition catalogue, Birmingham 1994, p. 21;. E. Garberson, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue: Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Washington 1996, p. 223, note 14;. S. Reyburn, "Stepping forward a century - the remarkable rise of 'newer' Old Masters", in Antiques Trade Gazette, August 1997, p. 33;. J.G. Links, A Supplement to W.G. Constable's 'Canaletto' Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1768, London 1998, pp. 37, 39 cat. no. 416;. C. Beddington, Canaletto in England. A Venetian Artist Abroad, 1746-1755, exhibition catalogue, New Haven 2006, pp. 18, 27, 45, 82 - 85, cat. no. 16. .
