Lot 27
  • 27

Duncan Grant

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
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Description

  • Duncan Grant
  • Lismore Castle with Mrs Hammersley in the Foreground
  • signed and dated l.l.: D. Grant ./54
  • oil on board laid on panel
  • 37 by 50cm.; 14½ by 19¾in.

Literature

The Duchess of Devonshire, Chatsworth, The House, London, 2002, p. 165.

Condition

The panel appears sound. There are instances of surface dirt and studio detritus. There are some nicks and nips to the board, with instances of resultant loss, most visible to the centre of the right edge. There is a small scratch in the upper left quadrant, and previous possible frame abrasions visible throughout. There is an uneven varnish. This excepting the work appears in good overall condition. Ultraviolet light reveals areas of fluorescence which appear in keeping with the artist's materials. Housed in a thick wooden frame.
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Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Richard Shone for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

The Duchess had this work hanging in her bedroom at Chatsworth, she writes (op. cit. p. 165) 'Lismore [Castle] is hung too high to see Mrs Hammersley in the shadow of the Irish yew, but she is there all right wrapped in shawls as usual.'