Gainsborough, Velázquez and More Important Old Master Highlights

Gainsborough, Velázquez and More Important Old Master Highlights

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  Thomas Gainsborough, R.A., Going to Market, Early Morning.
  Estimate £7,000,000–9,000,000.

  With a distinguished provenance this is arguably the greatest landscape by this titan of British art left in private hands. It beautifully evokes the early morning journey to market of rural folk as they rise out of the still, misty valley into the watery sunlight.

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  Diego Rodríguez De Silva Y Velázquez, Portrait Of Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj (1591-1657), Half Length, Wearing Black.
  Estimate £2,000,000-3,000,000.

  Only recently rediscovered, this portrait of the formidable Donna Olimpia Pamphilj was painted in Rome by perhaps the greatest portrait painter who ever lived at the same time as his most admired works; the portraits of Innocent X (Palazzo Dorin Pamphilj, Rome) and Juan de Pareja (Metropolitan Museum, New York).

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  Peeter Baltens, Called Custodis, Landscape with Satan sowing Tares – an Episode from the Parable of the Weeds among the Wheat (Matthew 13:25).
  Estimate £1,000,000–1,500,000.

  This exceptionally large panel is one of less than fifteen autograph surviving paintings by Peeter Baltens, and unquestionably the finest left in private hands, and is in remarkably good original condition for a work that is almost exactly 450 years old. Baltens was the almost exact contemporary of his townsman Pieter Bruegel the Elder, although he outlived him by some fifteen years.

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  Jusepe de Ribera, Girl with a Tambourine.
  Estimate 5,000,000–7,000,000.

  One of Ribera’s most celebrated paintings, this arresting depiction of a girl singing a tune while tapping a tambourine, embodies his extraordinary powers of expressive characterisation. It was probably one of five works originally depicting the five senses.

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  Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael, Diana and Actaeon.
  Estimate £4,000,000–6,000,000.

  Wtewael was the supreme exponent of the last great phase of Mannerist painting in Northern Europe. The small dimensions of this little masterpiece, together with its meticulous details and smooth finish, mark it out as a work of consummate skill intended for very personal enjoyment by the spectator.

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  Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Head of Young Man Wearing Armour.
  Estimate £2,500,000–3,500,000.

  This is a vigorous head study that Rubens likely kept in his studio throughout his life for use in larger compositions. The head here was used in a large canvas now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Painted in the early 1610s it shows an artist in complete control of his medium, his brush, and his subject.

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  Jean-Etienne Liotard, A Woman in Turkish Costume in a Hamam Instructing a Servant.
  Estimate £2,000,000–3,000,000.

  This is one of the most famous images created by Liotard, a truly cosmopolitan artist who worked in most of the main cultural centres of Europe during his six decades as an artist. He excelled in exotic subjects such as this, which would have excited the senses of the 18th century viewer as a window into a different world.

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