Thomas Girtin
View Of The North Front Of Chalfont Lodge, Buckinghamshire
Estimate: 40.000 - 60.000 GBP
Price realised: 75.000 GBP
Price realised: 75.000 GBP
Description
Thomas Girtin
SOUTHWARK 1775 - 1802 LONDON
VIEW OF THE NORTH FRONT OF CHALFONT LODGE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Watercolour over traces of pencil, heightened with bodycolour;
signed, lower right: Thos. Girtin
420 by 549 mm
Commissioned by Thomas Hibbert (1744-1819), | by descent to Leicester Hibbert, by 1909; | possibly, C. Wyndham Tryon; | Harry Littlewood, M.R.C.S., C.M.G. (1861-1921), circa 1910, | by family descent to the present owners
SOUTHWARK 1775 - 1802 LONDON
VIEW OF THE NORTH FRONT OF CHALFONT LODGE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Watercolour over traces of pencil, heightened with bodycolour;
signed, lower right: Thos. Girtin
420 by 549 mm
Commissioned by Thomas Hibbert (1744-1819), | by descent to Leicester Hibbert, by 1909; | possibly, C. Wyndham Tryon; | Harry Littlewood, M.R.C.S., C.M.G. (1861-1921), circa 1910, | by family descent to the present owners
Upper estimate price exceeded by 25 %.
The work View Of The North Front Of Chalfont Lodge, Buckinghamshire by Thomas Girtin was auctioned at Sothebys in London in July 2018. It achieved a price of GBP 75,000.00 (€ 84,091.49), exceeding the upper end of the estimate range by 25%. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Thomas Girtin - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Durham Cathedral And Castle, which sold at auction in July 2010 for GBP 265,250.00 (€ 318,933.24).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 25 % übertroffen
Die Arbeit View Of The North Front Of Chalfont Lodge, Buckinghamshire von Thomas Girtin kam im Juli 2018 bei Sothebys in London zur Auktion. Sie erzielte dabei einen Preis von GBP 75.000,00 (€ 84.091,49) und übertraf damit das obere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne um 25%. Für andere Arbeiten von Thomas Girtin mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Durham Cathedral And Castle beobachtet, die im Juli 2010 für GBP 265.250,00 (€ 318.933,24) versteigert wurde.
Thomas Girtin - Auction history
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