Samuel Shelley
The Waldegrave Sisters; Lady Elizabeth Laura, Lady Charlotte Maria and Lady Anna Horatia seated at a table, wearing lace-bordered white dresses, their powdered hair upswept; Lady Elizabeth Laura and Lady Charlotte Maria winding wool and Lady Anna Hor
Found at
Christies,
London
IMPORTANT PORTRAIT MINIATURES, GOLD BOXES & OBJECTS OF VERTU, Lot 40
28. May - 28. May 2002
IMPORTANT PORTRAIT MINIATURES, GOLD BOXES & OBJECTS OF VERTU, Lot 40
28. May - 28. May 2002
Estimate: 2.500 - 3.500 GBP
Price realised: 13.145 GBP
Price realised: 13.145 GBP
Description
SAMUEL SHELLEY (1750/56-1808)
The Waldegrave Sisters; Lady Elizabeth Laura, Lady Charlotte Maria and Lady Anna Horatia seated at a table, wearing lace-bordered white dresses, their powdered hair upswept; Lady Elizabeth Laura and Lady Charlotte Maria winding wool and Lady Anna Horatia sewing, draped red curtain background, pillar, trees and sky background beyond
signed and inscribed on the backing paper 'p[a]inted by Sam: Shel[ley] No. 7. Henrietta Street Cov.t Garden London' and signed in full on a label attached to the reverse of the frame 'The Countess of Waldegrave in the centre [...] of Euston [...] on the left Ly. Horatia Seymour with [.....]born Daughters of James Earl Waldegrave painted by Shelley from the original at Strawberry Hill by Sir Joshua Reynolds'
rectangular, 3 1/8 x 3 13/16 in. (79 x 97 mm.), gilt-metal mount within black-lacquered wood frame with gilt-wood waterleaf and tongue border
The Waldegrave Sisters; Lady Elizabeth Laura, Lady Charlotte Maria and Lady Anna Horatia seated at a table, wearing lace-bordered white dresses, their powdered hair upswept; Lady Elizabeth Laura and Lady Charlotte Maria winding wool and Lady Anna Horatia sewing, draped red curtain background, pillar, trees and sky background beyond
signed and inscribed on the backing paper 'p[a]inted by Sam: Shel[ley] No. 7. Henrietta Street Cov.t Garden London' and signed in full on a label attached to the reverse of the frame 'The Countess of Waldegrave in the centre [...] of Euston [...] on the left Ly. Horatia Seymour with [.....]born Daughters of James Earl Waldegrave painted by Shelley from the original at Strawberry Hill by Sir Joshua Reynolds'
rectangular, 3 1/8 x 3 13/16 in. (79 x 97 mm.), gilt-metal mount within black-lacquered wood frame with gilt-wood waterleaf and tongue border
Artwork auctioned at three times the upper estimate price
When the work The Waldegrave Sisters; Lady Elizabeth Laura, Lady Charlotte Maria and Lady Anna Horatia seated at a table, wearing lace-bordered white dresses, their powdered hair upswept; Lady Elizabeth Laura and Lady Charlotte Maria winding wool and Lady Anna Hor by Samuel Shelley was auctioned at Christies in London in May 2002, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - GBP 3,500.00 but the actual price achieved was mor Despite this good result, it is not the highest hammer price for an artwork by Samuel Shelley; that achieved among the auctions we observed the lot 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 sold at auction in April 2002 with the realized price of GBP 16,450.00 (€ 26,615.67).
Kunstwerk zum Dreifachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Als die Arbeit The Waldegrave Sisters; Lady Elizabeth Laura, Lady Charlotte Maria and Lady Anna Horatia seated at a table, wearing lace-bordered white dresses, their powdered hair upswept; Lady Elizabeth Laura and Lady Charlotte Maria winding wool and Lady Anna Hor von Samuel Shelley im Mai 2002 bei Christies in London versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – GBP 3.500,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit GBP 13.145,00 (€ 20.585,25) mehr als dreimal so hoch. Trotz des guten Ergebnisses ist dies nicht der höchste Zuschlag für ein Kunstwerk von Samuel Shelley; den erzielte unter den von uns beobachteten Auktionen 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
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