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CATALOGUE 
 
 OF 
 
 PICTURES, 
 
 FROM THE COLLECTION OF 
 
 JOHN GIBBONS, ESQ, 
 
 Late of Hanover Terrace, Regent’s Park, 
 
 (Who died in 1881.) 
 
 ALSO, 
 
 THE WILLES FAMILY PORTRAITS, 
 
 By GAINSBOROUGH, LAWRENCE, HUDSON, and others: 
 
 WHICH 
 
 Mill be ^olti b v auction b|> 
 
 Messrs. CHRISTIE, MANSON & WOODS, 
 
 AT THEIR ©REAT R<3QM8» 
 
 8 KING STREET, ST. JAMES’S SQUARE, 
 
 On SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1894, 
 
 AT ONE O’CLOCK PRECISELY. 
 
 May be viewed Three Days preceding, and Catalogues had, 
 at Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods’ Offices, 8 King Street t 
 St, James’s Square, S. W. 
 
 
 ID p-53-1 
 
 
CONDITIONS OF SALE. 
 
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 I. THE 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 la.; above Five Pounds, 5s.; 
 
 and so on in proportion. 
 
 III. In the case of Lots upon which there is a reserve, the Auctioneer 
 shall have the right to bid on behalf of the Seller. 
 
 IY. The Purchasers to givo in their Names and Places of Abode, 
 and to paydown 5s. in the pound, or more, in part of payment, 
 or the whole of the Purchase-Money, if required ; in default 
 of which, the Lot or Lots so purchased to be immediately put 
 up again and re-sold. 
 
 Y. The Lots to be taken away and paid for, whether genuine and 
 authentic or not, with all faults and errors of description, at 
 the Buyer’s expense and risk, within Two days from the Sale; 
 Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods not being responsible 
 for the correct descriptions, genuineness, or authenticity of, 
 or any fault or defect in, any Lot, and making no warranty 
 whatever. 
 
 VI. To prevent inaccuracy in delivery, and inconvenience in the 
 settlement of the Purchases, no Lot can on any account be 
 removed during the time of Sale; and the remainder of the 
 Purchase-Money must absolutely be paid on the delivery. 
 
 VII. Upon failure of complying with the above Conditions, the Money 
 deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited ; all Lots un¬ 
 cleared within the time aforesaid shall be re-sold by public or 
 private Sale, and the deficiency (if any) attending suoh re-sale 
 shall be made good by the Defaulter at this Sale. 
 
CATALOGUE 
 
 -ooKKo 
 
 On SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1804, 
 
 AT ONE O’CLOCK PRECISELY. 
 
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 ^4 
 
 PICTURES. 
 
 E. BEOMPTON. 
 
 1 Portrait of John Horne Tooke 
 
 JO -*4 0 '/j/t 
 
 SIE A. W. CALLCOTT, E.A. 
 
 2 THE SHEIMPEE 
 
 38^ in. by 55 in. 
 
 Exhibited, at Burlington House, 1890 
 
 
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 6 
 
 
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 ,£*^A^^SIE A. W. CALLCOTT, E.A. 
 
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 3 A View on the Clyde, with boats and figures 
 
 ? fa/’- /Kenzos 
 
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 10^ in. by 13£ in. 
 
 W. COLLINS, E.A. 
 
 ^ 3 # 4 CEOMEE SANDS, coast of Norfolk yL^z^e^*/' 
 
 15^ in. by 20£ in. 
 
 Referred to in Wilkie Collins' Life of his Father 
 
4 
 
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 W. COLLINS, /( R.A. A^'W ) 
 
 % RETURNING FEOM THE HAUNTS OF THE 
 FOWL 
 
 /trz^-aSo^/- 181 in, by 15 ^ in. 
 
 Painted for Rev. E. Coleridge of Eton , 1833 
 See 1 Life of Collins ,’ by Wilkie Collins 
 
 SEA 
 
 * . J. CONSTABLE, R.A. 
 
 6 YARMOUTH JETTY ^ ) 
 
 12^ in. by 20 in. 
 
 Signed, and dated 1820 
 Exhibited at Burlington House, 1890 
 
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 J?T. S. COOPER, R.A. 
 
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 7 Canterbury Meadows, cows watering 
 
 11 in. by 20^ in. 
 
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 ■ T. CRESWICK, R.A., 1848 , . . 
 
 8 A SQUALLY DAY: a coast scene, with pier in the distance; 
 on the left are some fishermen, one on a white pony; in the 
 foreground a dog carrying a stick. Figures and animals ^by 
 R. Ansdell, R.A. 
 
 ^ ^^41 in. by 591 
 
 m. 
 
 Exhibited at South Kensington, 1873 
 Exhibited at Burlington House, 1890 
 
 CRESWICK, R.A. 
 
 9 EARLY SPRING 
 
 1G in. by 19J in. 
 
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 T. CRESWICK, R.A. 
 
 y ■ j, ~ /A . Purchased from the Artist. 
 
 10 WlNDERMERE 
 
 4 in. by 6 in. 
 
 11 Llanberis Lake 
 
 4 in. by 6 in. 
 
 ^ -s 
 
 12 Glendalough 
 4 in. by 6 in. 
 
 13 Lucerne Lake 
 4 in. by 6 in. 
 
 14 Lago Maggiore 
 4 in. by 6 in. 
 
 15 Loch Katrine 
 
 'v. 4 in. by 6 in. 
 
 E. DANBY, A.R.A. 
 
 16 CALYPSO LAMENTING THE DEPARTURE OF 
 ULYSSES 
 
 46 in. by 71 in. 
 
 Exhibited at the International Exhibition, Paris, 1855 
 
 Exhibited at Burlington House, 1890 
 Purchased from the Artist 
 
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 F. DANBY, A.R.A. 
 
 17 St. Vincent’s Rocks, near Bristol, on the River Avon 
 9^ in. by 14 in. 
 
 
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 18 Head of an Old Woman 
 
 Originally in the possession of Charles VI. 
 Exhibited at the British Institution , 1839 
 
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 Wr<r~/t/^ f. JPSISSS' 
 
 19 Heai^s of an Old Man 7 and Woman— a pair 
 
 3f in. by 3^ in. 
 
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 S~<- / ^ Zie/^uL/ w. ETTY, R.A. ^zL 
 
 20 Grecian Warrior^ c 
 
 30 in. by 24 in. / 
 
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 21 A STAGE COACH ADVENTlfRE IN 1750: Scene, Bagshot 
 
 11 oath 
 
 “ Fie ! A soldier, and afeard ! ” 
 
 Shahspere. 
 
 22 in. by 20 in. 
 
 Exhibited at the JRoyal Academy, 1848 
 Exhibited at Manchester, 1857 
 
 
 
 ‘‘Smollett’s, ‘Roderick Random’ suggested one of the best of my 
 smaller productions; it was called ‘ A Stage Coach Adventure,’ and 
 represented the interior of a lumbering vehicle that required three 
 days to go from York to London, and was named the ‘York and London 
 I ast Coach, the High-flyer.’ The passengers represented were a quaker 
 and his family, a British officer, and a lady with her daughter. One 
 great difficulty of the subject arose from the necessity for removing 
 one side of the coach in order to show the occupants, thus causing the 
 coach to resemble too much, perhaps, the interior of a small room. 
 Through the coach window appeared the masked face of a highway¬ 
 man, who, with pistol thrust forward, made his usual demand. The 
 quakeress screams and throws herself back in the coach; the quaker 
 hides his pocket hook under the cushions; the mother of the young 
 lady, the vis-a-vis of the quakeress, offers her purse to the robber ; and 
 the young lady fulls fainting on to the shoulder of the captain, who 
 is paralysed with fright. The motto from ‘Macbeth,’ which I quoted in 
 the catalogue, ‘What! A soldier, and afeard,!’ seemed very appro¬ 
 priate.”— Frith’s Autobiography. 
 
 Bought from the Artist 
 
7 
 
 W. E. FROST, R.A. 
 
 y - * .ijuiNA 
 
 10 in. by 16£ in.—arched top 
 The Engraved Subject 
 
 One of the pictures exhibited in 1845 at the Boyal 
 Academy, No. 325, with these lines — 
 
 “ She, guiltless damsel, flying the mad pursuit 
 Of her enraged step-dame, Guendolen, 
 
 Commended her fair innocence to the flood, 
 
 That stayed her cross-flowing course. 
 
 The water nymphs, that in the bottom played, 
 
 Held up their pearled wrists, and took her in, 
 
 Bearing her straight to aged Nereus’ hall.”— Comas. 
 
 W. E. FROST, R.A. 
 
 / z 23 PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST 
 
 5J in.—circle 
 
 
 ^^7^^'"‘^% AI NS B0 R0UGH, R.A. / 
 
 24 4hE MARKET CART. A waggon drawn by two horses is 
 going along a road at the edge of a wood; in the waggon are 
 three women and two children, while a man, leaning over the 
 side, helps a girl (the painter’s daughter) to climb up ; a boy 
 holds the foremost horse, a dog stands behind the waggon and 
 several sheep near it; cloudy sky 
 
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 47 in. by 58 in. 
 
 Said to have belonged to Qeorge IV. 
 Exhibited at Burlington House, 1890 
 
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 T. GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. / 
 
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 25 A GIRL WITH PIGS. A small full-length figure of a girl 
 sitting at a cottage door, in a wooded landscape, leaning her 
 head on her left hand and watching three pigs feeding out of 
 a howl 
 
 “Sir J. Reynolds writes in July 1786 to the Earl of Upper Ossory— 
 
 ‘ Gainsborough's Pigs ’ is by far the best picture that he ever painted 
 or perhaps ever will.”—‘ Life of Sir J. Reynolds,’ by Leslie and T. Taylor. 
 
 39 in. by 48 in. 
 
 Engraved by Earlorn 
 
 From the Collection of Sir Joshua Reynolds, who purchased 
 it from the Royal Academy, afterwards in the Collection of 
 M. de Calonne 
 
 Exhibited at Burlington Rouse, 1890 
 
 A** {<•*//*/* 
 
 {Ad- //T. GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. 
 
 26 A View in Suffolk, with a ruined abbey, peasants and donkeys 
 25 in. by 31 in. 
 
 Added to the Collection since Mr. Gibbon’s death 
 
 
 
 4 w. HUNT. 
 
 27 A Gkoup of Fruit 
 
 In water-colours —7 in. by 11 in. 
 
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 28 Auld 
 
 A 
 
 Robin Guay 
 
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 “ My father conldna work, 
 
 My mither couldna spin, 
 
 I toil’d day and night, but their bread I couldna win, 
 Auld Rob maintain’d them baith, 
 
 And wi’ tears in his e’e, 
 
 Said, ‘ Jenny, for their sakes, will ye marry me ? ’ 
 
 Rut my heart it said na, for I look’d for Jamie back.” 
 
 24 in. by 29 in. 
 
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9 
 
 UNKNOWN. 
 
 29 Black and White Grapes and Peach 
 
 12^ in. by 17^ in. 
 
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 SIR E. LANDSEER, R.A., 1827. 
 
 JET'' -£**■ S if, ^ fal /'/tnrzr/^J 
 
 30 A Landscape : Moonlight 
 10 in. by 14 in. 
 
 Exhibited, at the Boyal Academy, 1874 
 
 F. R. LEE, R.A. 
 
 31 View on the Dart, with angler 
 24 in. by 29 in. 
 
 
 C. K. LESLIE, B.A. 
 
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 32 MOTHER AND CHILD 
 
 
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 22 in. by 19 in. 
 
 Painted for Mr. Gibbons 
 
 Exhibited at the Boyal Academy, 1846 
 
 Exhibited at Burlington House , 1890 
 
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 Engraved by J. H. Bobinson, A.B.A. 
 See Tom Taylor's * Life of Leslie ’ 
 
 This picture is one of the best examples of Leslie’s few works, in 
 which subject as well as embodiment is of his own imagining. No 
 mother, I should think, can see this little picture, in which a lovely 
 young woman nestles her face in the chubby neck of the crowing baby 
 on her knee, without a thrill of maternal love at her heart. 
 
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 C. R. LESLIE, R.A. 
 
 33 BEATRICE //W/wW 
 
 “ Look where Beatrice, like a lapwing, runs close to the ground.” 
 
 Much Ado About Nothing, Act III. Scene 1. 
 
 18^ in. by 14^ in. 
 
 Exhibited at the JEtoyal Academy, 1850 
 Exhibited at Burlington House, 1890 
 Painted for Mr. Gibbons 
 
 See Tom Taylor's ‘ Life of Leslie ' 
 
 “ If Leslie ever painted a sweeter head than the ‘ Perdita ’ (in the 
 National Collection, South Kensington) it is certainly the * Beatrice, 
 running like a lapwing, her mantilla thrown over her shining brown 
 hair, through the sun and shade of the pleached garden alley to listen 
 to the gossip of Hero and Ursula. No wonder he was often called ou 
 for repetitions of this bewitching picture. The original is in the 
 gallery of Mr. Gibbons, and I have often wondered how it has so long 
 escaped the graver. This is Beatrice in her arch, natural loveliness of 
 feature and mieu—not Benedick’s biting, gibing persecutrix. In its 
 sober, yet sunny harmony of colour, the slightly painted garden back¬ 
 ground forms a setting worthy of the sweet face and lovely sloping 
 figure.” 
 
 34 The Sentky- Box : a finisbed'replica of the large picture 7 
 
 14 in. by 10 in. 
 
 See Taylor'8 ‘ Life of Leslie ' 
 
 “ ‘ I protest madam,’ said my Uncle Toby, ‘ I can see nothing whatever 
 in your eye.’ ‘ It is not in the white,’ said Mrs. Wadman. My uncle 
 looked with might and main into the pupil. ‘ Tristam Shandy ’ was one 
 of Leslie’s favourite books, and has furnished the subject of one of his 
 best pictures.—Uncle Toby in the sentry box, innocently undergoing 
 the fire of Widow Wadman. Three versions of this subject are in the 
 National Collection, bequeathed respectively by Mr. Sheepshanks, Mr. 
 Vernon, and Mr. J. Bell, and the plate, by Lumb Stocks, is one of the 
 most popular engravings after Leslie. 
 
 “As usual the three pictures vary in detail. In the Vernon picture, 
 for example—the second painted—Uncle Toby wears a red waistcoat, and 
 the widow has no apron, while her lawn kerchief is thicker and more 
 closely pinned than in the earliest and latest versions, in both of which 
 Uncle Toby wears a buff waistcoat, and the widow a lawn apron as well 
 as kerchief (the same as the one at Hanover Terrace). On the 
 whole the Sheepshanks picture must be pronounced, I think, the most 
 vigorous in colour and the most perfect in expression, but Uncle Toby’s 
 hands are too delicate for the rest of his figure, and inferior to those in 
 either of the later pictures. ‘ Inimitable Jack Bannister,’ one of tho 
 pleasantest of actors, most genial of companions and kindest of men, and 
 genuine lover of Art into the bargain, 6at for tho Uncle Toby, and it 
 would be hard to find a better model for him.” 
 
t ( , ^ 1 ^u:<^ JzA^£ *^ k -“ 4^" 
 
 j. LINNELL, Sen. 
 
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 fo j - ' 6 S Mil-day 
 
 “ While nature lies around, deep lulled in noon.”— Thomson. 
 
 Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1847, jVo. 245 
 
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 Bought from the Artist 
 
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 7 J. LINNELL, Sen., 1817. 
 
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 36 BARKING TREES : a clearing in a forest; a number of figures 
 in the foreground, some of whom are stripping off the bark 
 from the trunks of fallen trees ; blue sky with clouds 
 
 J? /o sjSrT' / y/ ' 
 
 Referred to in ‘ Life of John Linnell,’ by A. P. Story. There called, 
 see vol. ii. 362, “A Fall of Timber (or ‘ Falling Timber ’), Spring Gardens, 
 1817.” In the Summer Exhibition of the “ British Institution,” 1825, 
 being “ Pictures by Living Artists of the English Schools.” Title in 
 catalogue, “Woodcutters”—A Scene in Windsor Forest. Purchased 
 in 1817 by J. Allnutt, Esq., of Clapham (for 50 guineas), who sold it 
 through Mr. Colls to Mr. Gibbons for 250h (1816). See aho vol. i. 98. 
 
 30 in. by 41^ in. 
 
 Signed and dated Jno. Linnell, 1817 
 
 Exhibited at Burlington House , 1890 
 
 
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 J. LINNELL, Sen. 
 
 y /) 37 THE MILL, a view over wild heath-land, with a windmill in 
 
 the foreground, and a cart with figures 
 
 ^ in. by 19 in. 
 
 Exhibited at the Boyal Academy, 1847, No. 101 
 
 Exhibited at Burlington House, 1890 
 
 Painted for Mr. Gibbons. Called in Storys ‘ Life of 
 Linnell “ The Gateshead Windmill ” 
 
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 38 SUNSET 
 
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 J. LINNELL, Sen. 
 
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 67 / 
 
 1 *'7' y i*S £ 
 
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 : cloudy sky, view over a heath, with a pond and'figures yt 
 
 foreground ; a clump of trees in the middle distance ; 
 
 ft. 
 
 windmill seen on the horizon 
 15 in. by 22^ in. 
 
 Signed “ J. Linnell ” 
 
 Said by Linnell to be over part of what is now the Regent's 
 Parle 
 
 Exhibited at Burlington House, 1890 
 
 See Story’s ‘ Life Linnell,’ Vol. II. 263 
 
 “Evening: storm clearing off, 1819. To Mr. Hall of Southampton, 
 in exchange for the picture of ‘ Itchen Ferry,’ painted for him. In 1846 
 in the possession of Mr. Gibbons.” 
 
 
 7 „ , . . w. LINNIG. 
 
 39 The Sleeping Schoolmaster 
 18 in. by 15 in. 
 
 
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 W. MULEEADY, E.A. 
 
 
 
 front of which some < * ’■ 
 
 children are playing near some felled trees 
 13^ in. by 18 in. 
 
 Exhibited at Burlington House, 1890 
 
 
 t, s F* MULEEADY, E.A., 1809. 
 
 I'M*- j; 
 
 4-1 >!■' T i n YW‘ , 1*1 PE , with two figures on horseback at a waysido 
 
 inn 
 
 16^ in. by 13 in. 
 
 Exhibited at Burlington House, 1890 
 
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 W. MULREADY, R.A. 
 
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 42 A Roadside Inn, with hay cart, and horses baiting 
 /^w4v- 13 in • b y 16 * n - 
 
 Painted in 1810 for the late Thomas Welsh, 
 Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1811 
 
 Esq. 
 
 
 S yy W. MULREADY, R.A. 
 
 43 IIi!)iij!eC Ba it ihc 
 
 16 in. by 13 in. 
 
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 Exhibited at Burlington House , 1890 
 
 W. MULREADY, R.A. 
 
 44 A Landscape, with gipsies 
 
 12 j in. by 16 *w. /J 1 /# 
 
 A */■*> p a i n t e( q j" or f] ie i a f e Thomas Welsh, Esq. 
 
 
 ‘XA ■ ,/ //G. MORLAND. 
 
 45 A E ARM YARD 
 
 Signed, and dated 1791 
 ^' f/ 271, in. by 35 in. 
 
 Exhibited at Burlington Rouse, 1890 
 
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 MORLAND. 
 
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 46 A Landscape, with cottages, carrier’s 
 
 donkey, and man on white horso 
 11 in. by 15| in. 
 
 cart, woman driving 
 
 
 PATRICK NASMYTH, *y**4~i £■~~ 
 
 47 VIEW IN A VALLEY, with old cottages at the edge of a 
 wood; a rustic bridge over a brook in the foreground 
 jijn 11 in. by 21 in. 
 
 
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 G. B. O’NEILL. 
 
 48 The Ddet : The Favourite Tune 
 24 in. by 19^ in. 
 
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 G. B. O’NEILL. 
 
 49 The Ghost Story 
 
 17 j in. by 16 in. y 
 
 tpa. /sjy 
 
 G. B. O’NEILL. 
 
 50 The Blind Girl, reading the scriptures ^ 
 
 “ To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of 
 death to guide our feet into the way of peace.”—S. Luke i. 79. 
 
 18 in. by 14^ in. 
 
 Exhibited at the Royal Academy , 1850, No. 170 
 
 51 The Hippodrome '" 
 
 G. B. O’NEILL. 
 
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 5£ in. by 9£ in. 
 
 Sketch for a large picture belonging to John S. Gibbons, 
 Esq., of Boddington Manor, Gloucestershire. 
 
 R. REDGRAVE, R.A. 
 
 52 Fashion’s Slaves 
 
 24 in. by 29£ in. 
 
 Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1847 
 Referred to in * Life of Redgrave ,’ by F. M. Redgrave 
 
 “ Mr. Redgrave was fond of painting pictures on this kind of subject, 
 for he longed to fight for the oppressed and to help the weak, and 
 could do it only with his brush. Other pictures on the same kind of 
 subject were ‘ The Reduced Gentleman’s Daughter,’ ‘ The Sempstress,’ 
 and * The Poor Teacher.’ ” 
 
 
 Painted for Mr. Gibbons 
 
' y, , R- REDGRAVE, R.A. 
 
 S3 u A Place Where thf lunir Ltf ” r 
 
 15^ in. by 31 in. 
 
 Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1846 
 Referred to in ‘ A Memoir of Redgrave,' by F. M. 
 Redgrave 
 
 SIR J. REYNOLDS. 
 
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 54 NELLY O’BRIEN 
 /w 30 in. by 24 in. 
 
 SIR J. REYNOLDS. 
 
 55 THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER AND CHILD 
 50 in. by 39 in.—arched top 
 Exhibited at the Guelph Exhibition, 1891 
 
 “ Stated in the catalogue of that Exhibition to have been exhibited 
 at the Royal Academy in 1774, and entitled ‘Maria Walpole, Countess 
 Waldegrave, Duchess of Gloucester (1737-1S07) and her daughter, 
 Princess Sophia (1773-1844).’ The Duchess was niece to Horace 
 Walpole, who frequently refers to her extreme beauty. She sat often 
 to Reynolds, and there are at least, four portraits of her by his hand.” 
 
 SIR J. REYNOLDS (After). 
 
 56 The Infant Hercules ^ ^ 
 
 16^ in. by 13£ in. 
 
 Copy by W. Collins, Bjy£~ , 
 
 /^c E. V. RIPPINGILLE. 
 
 57 The Post Office r r 
 
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 Signed, and dated 1829 
 17J in. by 27 in. 
 
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 E. V. RIPPINGILLE. 
 
 58 The Opera Box 
 
 5 in. by in. 
 
 
 
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 W. WALLACE SCOTT. 
 59 Thomas Webster, R.A .—miniature 
 8 in. by 5£ in. 
 
 
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 R. SMIRKE, R.A. 
 GO The Rival Waiting Women 
 
 7£ in. by 6 in. 
 
 Engraved 
 
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 X 
 
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 <~*£CA 
 
 
 
 
 
 ■*f~~**f J. M. W. TURNER, R.A. 
 
 61 BONNEVILLE, the capital of Savoy; Mont Blanc / in tlio 
 distance ; River Arve in the foreground 
 j < n > i n by 48 in. 
 
 
 3-. M. W. TURNER, R.A. 
 
 G2 A SEA PIECE, with fishing, boats lowering sail in a 
 17J in7by 23 in. 
 
 
 squall 
 
 Painted for “ </te inimitable Jack Bannister,” the comedian, 
 bought from his family 
 
 Exhibited at Burlington House, 1890 
 
 VAN DE VELDE, Sen. 
 
 63 The Dutch Fleet 
 
 Jn Wacfc and white 
 13 in. by 19£ in. 
 
 
 <£3£^ 
 
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 E. VERBOECKIIOVEN. 
 
 ^7 64 A Ewe and Lambs 
 
 15^ in. by 18 hi. 
 
 v 41. "f. 
 
 
 .y _ y E. M. WARD, R.A. 
 
 65 Daniel Defoe Receiving Back the Manuscript of ‘ Robinson 
 Crusoe ’ 
 
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 41 m. by 52 m. 
 
 Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1849 
 
 
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 E. M. WARD, R.A. 
 
 66 John Gilpin 
 
 “’Twas long before the customers were suited to their mind.” 
 
 24 in. by 39^ in. 
 
 4j' . 7. 
 
 T. WEBSTER, R.A. 
 
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 67 THE SLIDE 
 
 29£ in. by 60 in. 
 
 Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1849 
 Exhibited at Manchester, 1857 
 Exhibited at Burlington House, 1890 
 Engraved by R. Graves 
 
 
 Bought from the Artist 
 
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 T. WEBSTER, R.A. 
 
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 68 The Intercepted Letter 
 24 in. by 19£ in. 
 
 Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1835 
 
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 T. WEBSTER, R.A. an^Ij^HARDY. 
 
 os s /< i ^£.1 ;/?/>’/yJ , 
 
 f^ 69 Interior of a Cottage, with au old peasant—a portrait of 
 
 Webster’s father, seated smoking 
 
 13 in. by 18 in. 
 
 
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 70 St. Cecilia 
 
 30 in. by 25 in 
 
 R. WESTALL, R.A. 
 
 7~* 
 
 
 
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 R. WILSON, R.A. 
 
 71 SION HOUSE. A view looking across a bend in the Thames, 
 with Sion House on the right; numerous figures in the fore¬ 
 ground, some of them seated beneath high trees; buildings in 
 the distance ; sunset sky 
 
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 40 in. by 53i in. 
 
 Exhibited at Burlington ITouse, 1890 
 
 R. WILSON, R.A. ' 
 
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 72 AN ITALIAN RIVER SCENE, with ruined buildings and 
 bridge 
 
 . , on • 
 
 21 in. by 33 in. 
 
 /— f R. WILSON, R.A. a/ '^ 
 
 73 A VIEW AT TIVOLI, figures with a dog in the foreground 
 24 in. by 32 in. 
 
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 Silt D. WILKIE K.A.. 1817. 
 
 74 SHEEP WASHING: A pool iu the foreground, into which two 
 men are driving sheep, while two others standing in the water 
 are washing them ; mill beyond ; on a road to right are a shep- 
 herd boy and dog watching a small flock of sheep; blue sky 
 ' with clouds 
 
 35 in. by 53 in. 
 
 r /. From the Collection of Sir Thomas Baring 
 
 Exhibited at Burlington House , 1870 and 1890 
 
 Engraved by Finden 
 
 Boyal Gallery of British Art 
 
 See Allan Cunningham's 1 Life of Wilin'e ' 
 
 “Sir D. Wilkie writes to Sir George Beaumont in December 1816, 
 ‘ When you come to Loudon you will most likely find two of my pictures 
 at the gallery. The one is Dr. Baillie’s ; the other a scene of sheep- 
 washing, from a sketch I made in Wiltshire. With regard to the sheep¬ 
 washing, it is of course, being a landscape, entirely new to me. I 
 certainly wish to get practice and to obtain some kind of proficiency in 
 this way ; but my ambition is not more than that of enabling myself to 
 paint an outdoor scene with facility, and in no respect whatever to 
 depart from my own line.' 
 
 “ Critics have sought and found the subject iu the sheepwashing scene 
 of Thomson; but the painter would scarcely seek in poetry for what he 
 would find without the help of song. T1 e scene includes a mill, such 
 as Rembrandt or Constable loved, and which Wilkie, it is likely, remem¬ 
 bered to have seen grinding corn on Eden water. The mill, aga ; n, is a 
 sort of‘out-shoot ’ or ‘to-fall ’—as we word it in the north—to a strange 
 rickle of a dwelling house, which is at once old and new, two stories and 
 yet only one. Into the mill stream, which is turned aside from its 
 proper purposes, two rustics are forcing a flock of sheep, while a couple 
 of vigorous peasants stand up to the middle in the pool below, seizing, 
 sousing, and plunging them about, till with purified fleece they are 
 allowed to swim to the bank, and regain as they best may the fold, where 
 a black brother, whose fleece all the waters of the Eden could not 
 whiten, seems to stand and inquire what all this unusual pudder is about. 
 A shepherd with a staff in his hand and a white mouthed colley at his 
 foot, stands on the watch that none of the flock escape from his care. 
 This is said to be the sole landscape of Wilkie; yet, as in the back¬ 
 grounds of Reynolds and Raeburn, there are snatches of landscape 
 scattered about his pictures of very peculiar beauty.” 
 
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 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY. 
 
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 75 Portrait cti Lieutenai^t Colonel Morrison, in dress of a Major 
 
 of 7th Dragoon Guards 
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 76 Scheveningen Beach, with stranded fishing boats, and numerous 
 figures selling fish 
 
 _ Signed, and dated 1633 
 
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 26 in. by 41^ m. 
 
 Exhibited at Burlington House, 1888 
 
 PORTRAITS OF THE WILLE8 FAMILY. 
 
 T. HUDSON. 
 
 77 Sir John Willes, Chief Justice, in his robes—1744 — r 
 
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 78 EDWARD, JUDGE WILLES, in his robes . . ^ 
 
 ^ ^ Aoo in. by 40 in. 
 
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 79 John Willes, Esq. 
 
 50 in. by 40 in. 
 
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 80 Edward Willes, Esq. 
 
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 81 Portrait of Mrs. Willes, wife of the preceding — in crayons, 
 
 
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 82 The Bev. W. Willes, of Astrop 
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 83 Mrs. John Willes 
 
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 84 A Boy with a lamb, in a landscape y 
 
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 85 Portrait of a Gentleman, in a brown dress 
 49 in. by 39 in. 
 
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 86 A Boy and Two Girls, in a landscape 
 
 Signed with monogram , and dated 1783 
 30 in. by 25 in. 
 
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 FINIS. 
 
 Loudon: Printed by William Clowes & Sons, Limited, Stamford Street 
 
 and Charing Cross.