Old Master and British Works on Paper

Adam Buck

An Elegant Couple Admiring Lely’s Venus

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January 25, 07:47 PM GMT

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5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Adam Buck

Cork 1759 - 1833 London

An Elegant Couple Admiring Lely’s Venus

Watercolor heightened with white over black chalk;

signed and dated, lower left: Adam Buck / 1801

412 by 320 mm; 16 by 12 ½ in.

Paula Peyraud,
her sale, New York, Bloomsbury Auctions, 6 May 2009, lot 15

The ‘Lely’ Venice was acquired by King Charles I from the Gonzaga family in 1627-8. When the Royal Collection was sold during the Commonwealth period it was acquired by the painter Sir Peter Lely. In 1682, it returned to the Royal Collection but since 2005 it has been on long-term loan to the British Museum, London.

Adam Buck was born in Ireland but worked principally in London as a painter in watercolor and a portrait miniaturist.