Lot 9
  • 9

Sawrey Gilpin

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Sawrey Gilpin
  • A Bay Horse in a Landscape
  • oil on canvas
  • 76 by 96.5cm., 30 by 38in.

Condition

STRUCTURE The canvas has been relined. PAINT SURFACE The paint surface appears to be in good overall condition, clean and ready to hang. There are traces of a craquelure pattern throughout, consistent with a work of this age. ULTRAVIOLET UV light reveals scattered patches of retouching to the sky and some further in the foreground. There is also evidence of a small repair, 2cm in length, in the upper left corner. FRAME Under glass and held in a plaster gilt frame in fair condition; unexamined out of frame.
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