Joseph Highmore
Portrait Of A Lady
Estimate: 3.000 - 5.000 GBP
Price realised: 9.375 GBP
Price realised: 9.375 GBP
Description
Joseph Highmore
LONDON 1692 - 1780 CANTERBURY
PORTRAIT OF A LADY
Oil on copper, gilt-metal frame;
signed and dated lower right: Jof Highmore / pinx / 1732
109 by 80 mm.
Greta Shield Heckett (1899-1976); | her executor's sale, London, Sotheby's, 24 April 1978, lot 498; | sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 December 1985, lot 200
LONDON 1692 - 1780 CANTERBURY
PORTRAIT OF A LADY
Oil on copper, gilt-metal frame;
signed and dated lower right: Jof Highmore / pinx / 1732
109 by 80 mm.
Greta Shield Heckett (1899-1976); | her executor's sale, London, Sotheby's, 24 April 1978, lot 498; | sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 December 1985, lot 200
Upper estimate price exceeded by 88 %.
This artwork by Joseph Highmore achieved an unexpectedly high price at Sothebys in London in December 2018. In the Part I auction, the work Portrait Of A Lady sold for GBP 9,375.00 (€ 10,444.58) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 5,000.00. Admittedly, works by Joseph Highmore have also been auctioned for a multiple of this price - according to our records, the highest result so far was achieved by the work Three girls, three-quarter-length, in blue, pink and oyster satin dresses, in a landscape in December 2000 with an auction result of GBP 44,650.00 (€ 71,127.05).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 88 % übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Joseph Highmore erzielte im Dezember 2018 bei Sothebys in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Part I wurde die Arbeit Portrait Of A Lady für GBP 9.375,00 (€ 10.444,58) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 5.000,00. Freilich wurden Arbeiten von Joseph Highmore auch schon für ein Vielfaches dieses Preises versteigert – das bisher höchste Ergebnis erzielte nach unseren Aufzeichnungen die Arbeit Three girls, three-quarter-length, in blue, pink and oyster satin dresses, in a landscape im Dezember 2000 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von GBP 44.650,00 (€ 71.127,05).
Joseph Highmore - Auction history
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