Samuel Shelley
A lady called Mrs William Bayly, in blue satin Van Dyck dress, yellow tabbed shoulder-wings, white chemise and starched linen Van Dyck collar, pearl strand and gauze scarf attached to her bodice, upswept powdered curling hair
Estimate: 800 - 1.200 GBP
Price realised: 5.000 GBP
Price realised: 5.000 GBP
Description
SAMUEL SHELLEY (1750/56-1808)
A lady called Mrs William Bayly, in blue satin Van Dyck dress, yellow tabbed shoulder-wings, white chemise and starched linen Van Dyck collar, pearl strand and gauze scarf attached to her bodice, upswept powdered curling hair
on ivory
oval, 2 5/8 in. (66 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame, the glazed reverse with seed-pearl monogram 'FL' laid down on hairwork; hinged moroccan red leather case
accompanying paper note reads 'M r s . W m . Bayly nee Anne Swift of Baldoyle Gt. Grandmother of M r s . C. A. Bayly whose mother was Anne Isabel Walsh whose mother was Anne Walsh ie. Anne Bayly.'; the reverse reading 'By Samuel Shelley about 1790' in script and '1/E.' in type
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A lady called Mrs William Bayly, in blue satin Van Dyck dress, yellow tabbed shoulder-wings, white chemise and starched linen Van Dyck collar, pearl strand and gauze scarf attached to her bodice, upswept powdered curling hair
on ivory
oval, 2 5/8 in. (66 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame, the glazed reverse with seed-pearl monogram 'FL' laid down on hairwork; hinged moroccan red leather case
accompanying paper note reads 'M r s . W m . Bayly nee Anne Swift of Baldoyle Gt. Grandmother of M r s . C. A. Bayly whose mother was Anne Isabel Walsh whose mother was Anne Walsh ie. Anne Bayly.'; the reverse reading 'By Samuel Shelley about 1790' in script and '1/E.' in type
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Artwork auctioned at four times the upper estimate price
The work A lady called Mrs William Bayly, in blue satin Van Dyck dress, yellow tabbed shoulder-wings, white chemise and starched linen Van Dyck collar, pearl strand and gauze scarf attached to her bodice, upswept powdered curling hair by Samuel Shelley was worth GBP 5,000.00 (€ 6,321.99) to a buyer in September 2008. This price was achieved in the auction The Sunday Sale at Christies in London and exceeded the previously set upper estimate of GBP 1,200.00 many times over. Admittedly, works by Samuel Shelley have also been auctioned for a multiple of this price - according to our records, the highest result so far was achieved by the work The Aston sisters: Lady Legard and Mrs Hedges as Flora and Ceres, their arms around one another, in white dresses and pink and green stoles, ears of wheat and flowers in their upswept powdered hair, one sister holding a basket of fruit and the other in April 2002 with an auction result of GBP 16,450.00 (€ 26,615.67)
Kunstwerk zum Vierfachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Die Arbeit A lady called Mrs William Bayly, in blue satin Van Dyck dress, yellow tabbed shoulder-wings, white chemise and starched linen Van Dyck collar, pearl strand and gauze scarf attached to her bodice, upswept powdered curling hair von Samuel Shelley war einem Käufer im September 2008 GBP 5.000,00 (€ 6.321,99) wert. Dieser Preise wurde in der Auktion The Sunday Sale bei Christies in London erzielt und übertraf den zuvor angesetzten oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 1.200,00 um ein Vielfaches. Freilich wurden Arbeiten von Samuel Shelley auch schon für ein Vielfaches dieses Preises versteigert – das bisher höchste Ergebnis erzielte nach unseren Aufzeichnungen die Arbeit The Aston sisters: Lady Legard and Mrs Hedges as Flora and Ceres, their arms around one another, in white dresses and pink and green stoles, ears of wheat and flowers in their upswept powdered hair, one sister holding a basket of fruit and the other im April 2002 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von GBP
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