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Z'/.Z-P-i^^^-’ , -//^/ -. -/^y- ^y, ZZzr ' / PZzPZ/^ . ■ Z-Z,,^z zz^ ■ S . /yf - 3/£ CATALOGUE The Very Choice and Precious COLLECTION, OF (chiefly) high-finished cabinet OF THE LATE General. CRAIG, OF CHESTERFIELD STREET, MAY FAIR, DECEASED. The acknowledged fine Taste of the late Proprietor, renders it almost unnecessary to add, that these Pictures are of the finest Class, and in the purest Condition. THEY COMPRISE EXQUISITE SPECIMENS OP THE POLLOWIN G GREAT AND CELEBRATED MASTERS : ScfflArONEy Carracci, Guercino, Albano, P. Vechia, Mola, F. Lauri, S. Rosa, Poussin, Claude, Vernet, Rubens, Vandyke, Teniers, J'V. VAWJJBrELDE, WOUVERMANS, Ruysdael, Hobbima, Both, Wynants, CUYP, De Vlieger, Sn'ANEVELDT, BrEesiberg. tuill he ^olD tv Auction BY ORDER OF THE REPRESENTATIVE By Mr. CHRISTIE, AT HIS GREAT ROOM, PALL MALL, On Saturday, April 18 th, 1812 , AT ONE o’clock. The Pictures may be Viewed on the Premises in Chesterfield Street, on Monday and Tuesday preceding the Sale by Tickets to be had of Mr. Christie; after which they will be removed to Mr. Christie’s Room. Conditions of Sale TThE highest Bidder to be the Buyer; and if any Dispute arise between two or more Bidders, the Lot so in dispute shall be immediately put up again and re-sold. II. No Person to advance less than Is. — Above Five Pounds, 2s. 6d. and so on in Pro- portion. III. The Purchasers to give in their Names and Places of Abode, and to pay down 5s. in the Pound, in part of payment of the Purchase Money: in default of which, the Lot oi- Lots so purchased, to be immediately put up again and re-sold. IV. The Lots to be taken away with all Faults at the Buyer’s Expence, within One Day after the Sale. V. To prevent Inconveniences that frequently attend long and open Accounts, the Remainder of the Purchase Money to be absolutely paid on or before the delivery. VI. Upon Failure of complying with the above Conditions, the Money deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited, all Lots uncleared within the Time aforesaid shall be re-sold by public or private Sale ; and the Deficiency - (if any) attending such re-sale, shall be made good by the Defaulter at this Sale. CA TALOGUE, Sec. &c. &.C. SATURDAY, APRIL \m, 1812. /2 P* Bordon 1 ^ Wootlon 2 ^^V.Dyck 3 ^ Poelemberg 4 ^ Gonzales 5 ^ / Bout and Bodwyns ..... 6 ^ ^ Rubens 8 ^ — — Schidone 9 Patel 10 ^ Bassano 11 /J — Mey er .,..., 12 -'F. Lauri. 13 / Du Jardin. . 14 MAN’S Head A woody Landscape, with water and figures Portrait of himself when young A small Landscape and figures Portrait of Guercino, small ; in an oval A small upright Landscape, with cattle and figures Ditto, the Companion Portrait of Jordaens, in an oval Head of St. Peter An uprightLandscape with ruin’s and figures by Le Sueur The Flight into Egypt A Swiss Scene, with a cottage, a cow and sheep Jupiter, lo and Juno, oval A Spaniel and Greyhounds ( 4 ) Rubens ✓ t— ^ S. Rosa A small study of Lions A Harbour, with Boatmen 7 — Pietro Vechia, 1649 . ,... 17 Portrait of a Mathematician, with the name of the painter and date inscribed *T 2- " An upright view in Venice, not inferior to Canaletti 2 ~®i^to The Companion — . Klomp A peasant Boy, with sheep — Ditto Cows in a Landscape, the Companion ^ jjf ^ Rembrandt A Portrait /2 Titian Portrait of Martin 'Luther — Cangiagio Heads of a Virgin and Child ^ ^ Wynants . . . A small Landscape and figures, style of _ - ( Greffier A View on the Rhine, with figures ] Ditto The Companion — Meyer A Landscape, with a water mill, and Swiss peasants, highly finished F. Lauri Tritons and Nymphs, small y^ 2 ~ Swaneveldt A srnaU Landscape with figures and fowlers yy Mignard Holy Family, with a cradle 3 yZ Vemet A Storm and Shipwreck, with figures y / -• ^'cbalken St. Peter, denying Christ, very highly finished 3^2 CarlettoCagliari The Adoration of the Shepherds y ^ 2 Domenichino . . . . . Infant St, John, with the Lamb y S/ S. Rosa A rocky Landscape, with water and figures C. Marratti The Transfiguration c ( 5 ) — Old Teniers # • . 38 A Flemish Festival, 'with many figures ^ Rubens...... . 39 Finding the Tribute Money, very richly coloured Claude , 40 A Harbour, v. ith a vessel at anchor, and a party landed ^^2 . 41 A small Landscape, with figures and sportsmen hawking, ^2 ^ Hobbima , 42 by Lingelback A small Forest Scene, with cottages and figures So ‘ . 43 A River Scene with a Ruin and Figures in a boat 22 2 Claude 44 designing, and the Town of Dort in the distance A small Landscaj)e with a reposo / C. F. la Fargue, 1777 . . 45 A small View in Am^rdam with figures y/ 1 Ditto 46 The Companion i^2 Cuyp Ph. Wouvermans , 47 A Magdalen with Cherubim in a Landscape, small , 48 circular A small Summer Evening Scene with Peasants and , 47 Cows, octagon A small Landscape with a Sportsman on a White Horse " Albano 50 St.John preaching. Landscape with many Figures : oval ^ ^ G. Poussin , 31 Small upright Landscape with figures, the Flight into ^2^ Teniers. 52 Egypt, the Figures by F. Laurr Small upright View of Teniers’s Country Seat , 53 Susanna and the Elders, oval, on copper -Rubens ^^•Guercino 54 St. Mathew with the Angel, spirited and finely colored 55 Virgin and Child, a small altar piece, bequeathed by So 0 — DeVlieger, . 56 Guercino to the Gennari family, and brought from Bo- logna by Mr. Dalton A Dutch Harbour with a pier, and Vesels and figures 57 >'4 . Dyck 57 Virgin and Infant Cliiist in her laji, richly and beautifully colored H- Ditto 58 Portrait of Henry Baron Mowbray and Maltravers Son of the Earl of Arundel and Father of Henry Duke of ^ Norfolk Rubens. 59 Portrait of the Marquis de la Vergne seated in a Chair, spirited and very fine Vr Teniers 60 A Landscape, Sun-set, with figures, in the rich manner of Rubens ■J* Huysdael 61 A Wood Scene, with figures returning from the Chace, by Asselyn 4/ — Carracci 62 Holy family, with St. Francis in adoration, a charming and high finished picture ^ H. Teniers 63 A spirited small Landscape with figures; from the collection of Lady B. Germaine - A. Cuyp 64 A Cavalier preparing to mount, with other figures ^ V. Dyck 65 Portrait, half length, of Sir W. Killigrew' — very capital 22 — Backhuysen 66 A Brisk Gale ~ V. Dyck 67 The Virgin with the Infant at the breast; sweetly painted from nature, and very finely colored - — Both 68 A warm Landscape with figures. Evening Scene /3f- Teniers . 69 An Interior with card players; very spirited and fine ' //.J- J. Ru YSDAEL 70 An over-shot Water Mill, a beautiful scene from nature in his best manner 3S(2^ Ph. WouvERMANS .... 71 A halt of Cavaliers, and a Lady at a Farrier’s Shop, in a beautiful Landscape, painted in a sweet pearly tone on copper ; an exquisite gem \ / 3 /- ( 7 J W, V. DE VELDE. ... 72 A CALM ; view of an Harbour with vessels at anchor? a beautiful chef d’ceuvre ; extremely pure and fine N. Poussin 73 A romantic woody Landscape with figures ; the subject Orpheus and Eurydice ; grand and fine A.SOHIAVONE 74 THE BIRTH OF ST. JOHN, WITH A CON- cert' of SHEPHERDS, IN A GRAND LANDSCAPE; one of the females presenting a Lamb which is licking the hand of the Infant; a finely composed picture, and the fig ures designed wih perfect grace and elegance ; a capital chef d’cBuvre F I JiT I S. «. SMEBTONy PRINTMRy ST. XJRTIJf’s LAJfX. ,v.o,;vav. # 4 ^:. pwjm