Lot 17
  • 17

George Henry Laporte

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • George Henry Laporte
  • Noblemen before Constantinople
  • signed and dated G.H. Laporte 1835 lower left
  • oil on canvas
  • 64 by 76.5cm., 25¼ by 30¼in.

Provenance

Bute Gallery, Houston
Douglas B. Marshall (purchased from the above)

Condition

The canvas has been relined. There is a pattern of fine, faint craquelure visible primarily in the clouds. Ultraviolet light reveals notably areas of old retouching in the right half of the sky, strokes along the right framing edge, and other minor scattered strokes, and the old even varnish fluoresces quite opaquely elsewhere obscuring a clear reading of the surface. The old varnish has yellowed somewhat with age however the work is otherwise ready to hang. Presented in an elaborate gold-painted frame.
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Catalogue Note

Son of the landscape painter John Laporte, G.H. Laporte specialised in painting the Arabian Horse in an eastern setting. When the present work was completed in 1835, Laporte was painting Arabian horses for King William IV.