CHATSWORTH SUMMER FINE ART SALE 18th & 19th June 2025

84 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 730. John Teasdale (1848-1926) “Caesers Tower, Kenilworth Castle,”O.O.B., Signed lower left, in gilt frame, 45cms x 33cms (18” x 13”). (1) €180 - €220 731. In the Style of George Morland (1763-1804) “Taking a Break,”Wooded Landscape with Figures in foreground resting, with cattle and drover by cottages in the distance, approx. 35cms x 43cms (14” x 17”), in contemporary gilt frame. (1) €350 - €420 732. A pair of William IV mahogany carved shield back Hall Chairs, with solid seats on front turned legs. (2) €180 - €220 733. Henry Richard Graves (1818–1882) “Portrait of a Boy in Kilt with Fishing Rod” c. 1860, O.O.C., approx. 55” x 39” (1) Dressed in a tailored brown suit, with jacket, white shirt, red cravat, waistcoat and kilt, a boy in his early teens prepares to go fishing. The boy stands before a high wooded bank, holding a fishing rod. To the left can be seen an extensive landscape, with mountains overlooking a river. Although the scene depicted has not been identified, and may be generic, it is can be read as a Scottish scene. In his right hand, the boy has the fishing hook held between thumb and forefinger. The kilt suggests a Scottish provenance, an idea reinforced by another related portrait, probably of the same boy, that shows him with a ‘Balmoral Bonnet’. Recent cleaning of this work has revealed the signature ‘Henry Graves’. Born in 1818, the portrait painter Henry Richard Graves was a successful portrait painter in London in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The son of Thomas North, 2nd Baron Graves and Lady Mary Paget, (sister of the Marquess of Anglesey), he initially worked as a clerk for the India Board. In 1843 he married Henrietta Wellesley, and soon after began to establish himself as a portrait painter, exhibiting over seventy works at the Royal Academy between 1846 and 1881. His clients including members of the Royal Family and the Aristocracy. Many of his sitters had connections with Ireland, and, as with this work, he was particularly adept at painting portraits of children: his 1850 portrait of the young Lady Florence Paget (1842–1881), later Marchioness of Hastings, is at Plas Newydd, while his portrait of Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart, later 6th Marquess of Londonderry, painted a decade later, is at Mount Stewart. His 1873 portrait of Charlotte Marion Baird, Countess of Enniskillen, is at Florence Court, in Co. Fermanagh. Dr. Peter Murray 2025 €1500 - €2000 734. A fine quality 19th Century English pedestal Sideboard, of narrow proportions, the shaped top with central hand painted panel depicting figures with animals over a central frieze drawer with floral decoration, with conforming bowed side drawers with press release mechanism above pedestals with decorative hand painted panel doors, opening to reveal two drawers in each with ornate brass turned handles, on bracket bases, 150cms w x 95cms h x 51cms d (59” x 37½” x 20”). (1) €800 - €1000 735. 20th Century French School “Standing Nude with hand aloft wearing a flower Veil” bronze, on a moulded circular marble base, Unsigned, approx. 51cms (20”) high. (1) €250 - €320 736. 20th Century Continental School “Female Nude standing with Ewer on Shoulder, with shawl at feet,” bronze, approx. 49cms (19”) high, on moulded circular marble base. (1) €250 - €320 737. Attributed to James Arthur O’Connor (1792-1841) “Figures on a Forest Pathway, Co. Wicklow,”O.O.C., extensive landscape with two male figures in foreground, forest to right, and mountains in distance, including View of the Sugarloaf, approx. 41cms x 57cms (16” x 22½”). (1) €800 - €1200 738. 19th Century Italian School “Capriccio View of the Colosseum, Rome,”O.O.C., depicting scene with ancient ruins in foreground, colosseum in distance with other buildings around, approx. 34cms x 45cms (13¼” x 17¾”). (1) €350 - €500 734 737 738