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

90 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 774. A fine quality pair of Irish George III period walnut Open Armchairs, the floral tapestry padded back issuing scroll arms with carved tops above a conforming padded seat with brass studding, on front shell capped carved feet. (2) Provenance: Kilshannig House, Co. Cork, formerly home of the Devonsher Family. €1000 - €1500 773. Nathaniel Grogan (1740-1807) (Attributed.) “View over Macroom, Co. Cork,” c 1790, O.O.C., approx. 34cms x 43cms (13 ¼” x 17”). (1) Provenance: Mealys’ sale, 13 May 1982 Lot 862 (illustrated) From Private Collection. The artist has chosen, as a vantage point, a hill above the river and low-lying fields. On the left, on a bluff in the distance, stands a four-storey ruined mill. This may be the original mill at Bealick, built by the Harding family in the late eighteenth century, to meet the demand for milled grain during the Napoleonic Wars. If it does represent Bealick, the mill was subsequently extended, and now has three gable fronts. Below the mill, to the right, is a three-arched bridge. The problem of identification is compounded by the winding river below the mill. In reality, Bealick Mill was served by a river that had been effectively canalized, into a straight line. In the painting there is a cottage also by the river. On the right, surmounting the hill, is the ruined gable wall of an abbey or church, and below it a graveyard, with tombstones leaning in different directions. Coming up from the river towards the graveyard, is a man wearing a cape and carrying a staff. In the distance can be seen fields and hedges, and in the far distance, the spire of a church or perhaps the chimney of a mill building. In the eighteenth century, Nathaniel Grogan painted many views of scenes in or near Cork City. His subject matter included Kilcrea Abbey, paper mills near Blarney, Carrigrohane Castle and scenes on the River Lee, including Blackrock Castle, Carrigrohane Castle and Tivoli. His masterpiece, Boats on the River Lee at Tivoli, is in the National Gallery of Ireland, and there are several paintings by him in the Crawford Art Gallery Cork. Dr. Peter Murray 2025 €1000 - €1500 775. William Salder II c. 1782-1839 “Castle and Bridge by a Lake - probably a Killarney ‘Capriccio’ O.O.P., 20cms x 31cms (8” x 12¼”). In this charming landscape, Sadler depicts a picturesque and slightly dilapidated castle beside a lake. The castle, or more properly, tower house, stands on a rocky outcrop, or island, connected to the mainland by a three arched bridge. To the right can be seen a two story building with a pedimented center. The castle is not a ruin; it has its roof, and also the distinctive tall crenellations of an Irish Tower House. At the entrance is a small guardhouse, and a drawbridge. From one of the corner towers flies a Union flag. Although the topography, with lakes and mountains, suggests the Lakes of Killarney (the subject of several works by Sadler) Ross Castle, while set on a rocky outcrop in Lough Leane, has quite a different profile and is surrounded by a bawn. Nevertheless, in this work Sadler may have set out to crate a Killarney ‘capriccio,’ with the tower house representing Ross Castle, the pedimented building suggesting Killarney House, and the rustic bridge inspired by a the OldWeir Bridge,. Another possibility, based on the appearance of the tower house, is Clarecastle in County Galway, where there is a bridge and a nearby tower house that still bears its original tall corner crenellations. Born in or around 1782, son of a mezzotint artist of the same name, William Sadler II taught art and exhibited in Dublin through the first four decades of the nineteenth century. When Sadler was just six years old, his father died, leaving him to embark early on a career as a painter. In turn, Sadler had a son, also calledWilliam, who was born in 1808 and is known for a painting of the barracks at Fermoy. Although best- known for his small landscape and genre scenes, depicting scenes in Wicklow, Dublin and Killarney, William Sadler II was also capable of tackling ambitious subject matter, as with his panoramic paintings, The Battle of Waterloo, The Embarkation of George IV at Kingstown 1821, and A London Capriccio inspired by the Burning of the Custom House 1814 - the last of these is one of only three known Signed works by Sadler. For his smaller paintings he generally used mahogany or copper panels and his paintings often depend upon effects of light, either sunlight or firelight, to silhouette buildings, trees and figures. He painted recognizable landscapes, as with the Sugarloaf Mountain or Howth Head, and also as partly in this work, ‘capriccio’ where he invented buildings or landscapes. Invariably there is activity in his work, with ships heeling in the wind, banditti gathered around a fire, or travelers making their way along a country road. In this painting, three figures, one mounted on a horse, add animation to the landscape. Dr. Peter Murray 2025 €1200 - €1800