Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Getty Research Institute https://archive.org/details/catalogueofallth02pete Cataloflue OF ALL THAT PERFECT and BEAUTIFUL ASSEMBLAGE CABINET PICTURES. THE PROPERTY OF THE GREFFIERS FAGEL, SEljECTED WITH INFINITE T STF AND JUDGEMENT, BROUGHT FROM THE HAGUE to ENGLAND. Wif)icf) toill lit bp 3[uctiott, BY Peter CoxE, Burrell, and Foster Mr. Squibb' s Great Room^ Saville Passage^ CONDUIT STREET. On FRIDAY, the 22 '^ of MAY, 1801, and following Day, AT ONE O’CLOCK. May be Viewed Two Days preceding the Sale, when Catalogues may be had at Saville PafTage, and of Meffrs. Peter Coxe, Burrell and Foster, Throgmorton Street, Pric- One Shilling, to be returned to Purchafers. ConliitiottS of 1 ‘ jT'hAT the highest Bidder be the Purchaser; but should any Dispute arife between two or more Bidders, the Lot or Lots, to be put up again. I-I. That no Person advance less than One Shilling. Above Five Pounds, Two Shillings and Sixpence, and fo on in Proportion. IIL That the Purchasers give in their Names iind Places of Abode, if required,. and pay down immediately Twenty per Cent, in Part of the Pur- chase Money ; and the Remainder on or before the Delivery. IV. That the Lots iliall be abfolutely taken away within Two Days after the Sale, with all Faults, and under all Descriptions, and at the Expence of the Purchafer. And Laflly. That upon Failure of complying with these Conditions, the Money deposited in Part of Payment shall be forfeited : all Lots uncleared after the Time limited shall be .re-sclcl by Public or Private Sale ; and the Deficiency, if any, attending such Re-sale, together with all Charges, be made good by the Defaulter of the present Sale>- JLF ever, it is refpedfully remarked, an assemblage of Pictures were brought before the Public, indisputably genuine, valuable for variety and merit, and of unsullied purity, it is the selection enumerated in this catalogue. They were collected by the Greffiers Fagel during a period of more than a century, under the combined advantages of their acknowledged taste and judgement j were purchased by them, in Holland and Flanders, countries abounding in rich works of art : and admired equally by the intelligent and unlearned, they stood cele- brated at the Hague as a selection of the first importance. In preparing the Catalogue for their Sale in London, the gratifying reflection naturally arises, that in all the consequences issuing out of the recent events on the Continent, which disturbed the social com- pact of Nations, scattered persons and dispersed property ; cruelly and sacrilegiously, if the term may be used, tearing away the mofl: valuable works of genius from the very places they were originally executed to adorn : this Country has to boast, that no one collection in her possession has been the plunder of her fleets or armies. All the variety of interesting performances which have been introduced among us, have been brought over for the choice of British British taste and liberality — free-will offerings : and these very works of incomparable merit, are an additional instance, and may rank fore- most in the schedule of perfection. Every expression should be admitted by the candid mind, accord- ing to the sense intended to be conveyed, and in that just com- mendation of their excellence, it is by no means designed, what indeed would be madness in the attempt, to derogate from the ac- knowledged reputation of the great and masterly schools of Italy, in the Perfection of Leonardi da Vinci, Michael Agnola Buonaroti, Raphael, Titian, Correggio, or the Caracci I But in forming an Assemblage of pictures, it should be recollected (for no man forms a collection merely for his own gratification) that the highest Regions of Poetry and Sublimity are not suited to every observer. The comparatively few only, can feel the extreme per- fection of taste, in an accurate discrimination in those early Masters of the clear light of the art from the false glare, while Pidtures executed from the standard of universal life, in general occurrencies apply to every one’s conception. The ranks and degrees of human order and ex- istence, their pursuits, their passions, their humours and their ex- cellence are perpetually passing in review : and on this principle works of human ingenuity which embrace all nature, not only catch” at the moment, “ the living manners as they rise,” but like history, be- come faithful records of local situations, past habits and appearances, and and former transactions ; and what is a well chosen selection displayed to advantage, but ** walls,’* as Sir Joshua Reynolds happily expressed, ** hung round with thoughts” — a collection of the best authors, whose entertaining or instructive works lie open before us as the finest pas- sages. Accordant with such sentiments, it may surely be asked with- out presumption, who would be without pictures, who has the power of purchasing? with such a beautiful and perfedt assemblage before them of the Dutch and Flemish Schools as these of the Greffiers Fag EL, who will not be eager to select, who will not avail them- selves of the favorable opportunity that ix)w offers ? . - ^ ^ t ::,:VSv; '' ' "''V.-',:i-K:.;n'l^^x- •<• '• j-V!- ^'v ';-'.A'' .■ r'i.' • . ■■ . ■ * ■ ■ :■' ;' .■■''V-A' , ." .'A*'' ■ '■ V '>mr ■■ 1 ■ .iiv^ f' . ■■: -^r ■ ,,'.■ , . . V ^:-.:r 'H . « i. 5..' ' • : v>jA ■ ■ ig:7A'T ' ■ • . ■ •. ‘Vi • r ' Wi- '^i -0 ■ ' - Wi ■< ’ ■ ■!>;/ ./ '.'1 ■■' k: ■ ^ A CATALOGUE, See. &c. &c» First Days Sale^ FRIDAY, MAY the 22d, 1801. ^^ictures?. Unknown 1 A. PAIR of Heads. f • ^ J. Pocue 2 Alexander’s Visit to Diogenes. Claude 3 A Landscape, after. IM Van Os 4 A Sea Piece. /S Ditto — 5 The Companion. P. Gysons — Landscape, on Copper. J. Greffier — 7 View on the Rhine, M Cannaletti — 8 View of Westminster Bridge, Ditto 9 London Bridge, the Companion, 7 Poelemberg n Lairesse — Eglon Van der Neer 4 Hemskirk n Wyck s Unknown S' Carlo Maratti 772 Unknown Unknown Rosenberg Ditto — /2 F. Mile // Ditto Van der Uift 7^ Birk Heyde Antonissen // Limberg 27 Ditto Landscape with Nymphs Bathing. Saul and David. The Incantation of Circe. A Man smoaking. Figures, a Sea Port. Diana bathing. A Magdalen, after. Small Half-Lengths, Portraits, a Pair. A Castle and Figures, in a Landscape. A View in the Canton of Berne. The Castle of Fribourg, the com^ panion. Landscape and Figures. The Companion. Small Historical, with innumerable Figures. The Town-Gate of Haerlem. Landscape, Cattle and Figures. Historical. Jupiter and Europa. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 25 23 25 26 27 - ,-■■ ■ ■; ■.■ -1 -i 'V ..,?■ ■,. c..' ;’ ■ ■■ ■ ■'■ ■ 'Ci' ■■ . ■' ■ 'i^-' - ' i . ;•■ ■ ^ ^ .' • -V : ' . V .>' -X ■■.* '-y'.' ■■ ’■•; •• ;' 'C'A ■ y ' • . ■ X \ ( 9 ) // Roepel — . 28 2 ''/z Goltzius — 29 G. Netscher — 30 2J Poelemherg 31 Frank Hals < — 32 Ditto . — . 33 Adrian Van de Velde 34 ^0 Philip Van Dyke 35 Ditto 36 // Rothenhamer\ and V 37 / Breughel / // '"i F. Mil6 — 38 77 Philip Wouvermans 39 so Van Huysum 40 23 Van der Werlf — 41 /O Victor — ' — 42 40 . Teniers — 43 A Fruit Piece. A Head crowned, after. Vertumnus and Pomona. Landscape with an Arch and Figures, Children at Cards. Children teazing a Kitten. Cattle, with a Cow-Herd sleeping. Females feeding a Parrot. A Musical Conversation — the com- panion. The Nativity. A Landscape and Figures — pastoral. The Return from the Chace- Landscape and Figures, Diana’s Festival, on Copper. A Magdalen. The Discovery of Achilles. The Alchymist. B ( 10 ) Berchem ==— U Cattle and Figures at a Cottage -14 ^ Door, an evening Scene, Laistman «« 45 Sophonisba, Historical. Van der WerfF — » 46 Figures, a Pastoral Scene, //' Ditto — — * 47 Bacchus and Ariadne. J. de Koeninck 43 An Interior, a Man studying. Bassano *— • 49 A Night Scene^ JZ Jan Steen 50 The Village Marriage. Abraham Mignon 51 Flowers, Birds and Insects^ capital. it Francis Mieris 52 The Portrait of a Man habited in black Silk. /60 Adrian Van Ostade 53 The Interior of a Cabaret— -a Group of happy and contented People 132 enjoying Refreshment. ‘Fanl Patter — 54 Landscape, Cattle and Figures, milk- /ss/- ^ End of the First Dafs Sale. ing Cows ;■ fn ' Evening Scene. Second Days Sale, SATURDAY, MAY the 23d, 1801. Perrelle 1 JLzIANDSCAPE, Figures and Archi tecture. 2 , K. de Moor — « 2 A Conversation. / Unknown ' — 3 A Head. Piazzetta •--= 4 A Boy studious. 7 Unknown — 5 Darius refusing Water. Titian • — Q La Cochile, after. /// Holbein 7 Head, after. 3 Pellegrini 8 Moses striking the Rock. Schweichardt — 9 Landscape, Figures and Waterfall. M Ditto 10 A Grand Scene, the Companion. J. de Roore “-=» R. Fournier /So M. Sorg — Rothenhamer^ Breughel ) 7 Poelemberg Zaftleven •— /A Unknown ^ — • j Priesler ^ — Van der Does ' — • /a Ditto // F. Mile L Slingeland — ■ /$ Brouwer — - / Foelembere /4 Gerard Doiiw * — ■ Poelemberg 4/f Muytens = — ■ The Sacking of Rome. The Finding of Moses. A Dutch Courtship, r Cupid’s Festival k Children Dancing. A Landscape with the Magdalen. View on the Rhine. Student Drawing. Acliiiles at Lemnos. Figures and Cattle. The Companion. Landscape with Sacred Flistory. A small Portrait. Fighting Boors. Diana and Caiista, in a Landscape^ A Portrait. His own Portrait. Charles I. his Queen, and the Prince 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 of Wales. ( 13 ) 20 Steenwick — - 28 A Church Piece, n Paul Ferg — - 29 A View on the Rhine, 30 Ditto, the Companion. 6^ Ad. van der Velde 31 Landscape, Cattle and Figures, ait AO Ferdinard Boll — 32 Upright. A Portrait of a Boy, A! De Heiisch •— 33 A Sea Port. William Mieris — 34 An Interior, the partaking of Oysters. Vernet — 35 Morning, a Sea View with Nymphs Ditto ' — ’ 3.6 Bathing. Evening, a Sea Port with Groups of 3/ 66 Cornells Bega ^ >o 37 Fishermen, the Companion. An Interior, a Musical Party. Ditto 38 The Lullaby, the Companion, r, , ^ Gerard Douw — ■ 39 A Girl Drawing Water at a Weil s/ Schalcken — 4-0 with a Dog Snarling. A Female weighing and prizing her favorite Bird, ( > Francis Mieris Philip Woiivermans Barrocio =*— UJaJUihi- /3^- 40 - ' ■ ifS Francis Mieris Jan Steen u r- Philip Wouvermans Vander Heyde' and A. Van de Velde Metzu Lingelback 41 A Female amusing herself with a Bird. 42 A Restive Horse with Groups of Figures at an Inn Door. 43 A Holy Family the Virgin present- ing Fruit to the Saviour. 44 Jacob’s Dream. 45 The Female Emissary delivering David’s Letter to Bathsheba. 4b Landscape and Figures, the Falconers, 47 A Palace and Garden with Figures. a* ( 48 The Sleeping Female disturbed. ^ " 49 The Outside Cf an Italian Inn, in an extensive Landscape — with Groups of Figures refreshing and amusing themselves — extraordi- nary fine. C ' ( IS ) Adrian Van Ostade 50 Q -j l>T' " ‘ ' .1 m Nicholas Berchem 51 A Dutch Advocate perusing a Deed, a Servant attending holding a Present of Game. Croups of Figures and Cattle dis- persed along a winding Road in various Directions, with a grand Mountain Scene in the Distance. •Sir Peter Paul Rubens 52 The Grecian Daughter. /SS^ /S afW -i'' •.» Pniutil b> J. Suicclon, HS, St. Maitin’s Lane. I: I-. It ■■m I I is-'i. [ ; I 9 t-' «k I •V