Lot 114
  • 114

Philip Mercier Berlin 1689 or 1691 - 1760 London

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Philip Mercier
  • School Master and his students
  • signed and dated lower left above the table Ph. Mercier fecit. / Ano. 1738.

  • oil on canvas
  • 40 by 50 in.
  • 101.5 by 127 cm.

Provenance

R. Robson, London, Christie's, May 24, 1902, lot 151, for 93 gns. to 'V. Parsons';
With Messrs. Laurie & Co., London;
Their sale, London, Christie's, January 28, 1905, lot 36, for  £21 to 'Schroeder';
Dr. Felix Graefe, Heppenheim, Germany, circa 1922;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, July 14, 1993, lot 97, unsold.
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, July 11, 1997, lot 9;
Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's East, May 29, 2001, lot 74.

Literature

J.R. Green, The Short History of the English People, 1894, IV, p. 1617, illustrated;
J. Ingamells, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings or Philip Mercier, Walpole Society, XLVI, 1976-78, p. 61, cat. no. 261. 

Condition

Lined canvas. Surface in good condition; with very fine craquelure. Under UV light: only few retouches at the edges and a few very small ones to the figures, particularly the second figure from the left.
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