Ventes d'œuvres le 1833.07.13

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  • 1833.07.13/ maison de ventes : Christie's. Vente de l'œuvre décrite comme [[The Very Celebrated Picture of the Family of Sir Thomas More This most interesting Picture (in favour of which Walpole has decided) was for many years at Gubbins in Hertfordshire, the seat of the Mores, whence it passed into the Collection of the Speaker, at Burford. "But for nothing has Holbein's name been oftener mentioned than for the Picture of Sir Thomas More's family: yet of six pieces extant on this subject, the two smaller are certainly copies, the three larger probably not painted by Holbein, and the sixth, though an original picture, most likely not of Sir Thomas and his family. That Holbein was to draw such a piece is indubitable; a letter of Erasmus is extant, thanking Sir Thomas for sending him the sketch of it; but there is great presumption that though Holbein made the design, it was not he who executed the picture in large, as will appear by the following accounts of the several pieces. The most known is that at Burford, the seat of the famous Speaker Lenthall. It is larger, and there are more figures than in its rival the piece in Yorkshire, and some of these Vertue thought were painted from the life. This was kept at Gubbins in Hertfordshire, the seat of the Mores; but by what means the piece passed into the hands of Lenthall is uncertain." -- Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i (Holbein)|The Very Celebrated Picture of the Family of Sir Thomas More This most interesting Picture (in favour of which Walpole has decided) was for many years at Gubbins in Hertfordshire, the seat of the Mores, whence it passed into the Collection of the Speaker, at Burford. "But for nothing has Holbein's name been oftener mentioned than for the Picture of Sir Thomas More's family: yet of six pieces extant on this subject, the two smaller are certainly copies, the three larger probably not painted by Holbein, and the sixth, though an original picture, most likely not of Sir Thomas and his family. That Holbein was to draw such a piece is indubitable; a letter of Erasmus is extant, thanking Sir Thomas for sending him the sketch of it; but there is great presumption that though Holbein made the design, it was not he who executed the picture in large, as will appear by the following accounts of the several pieces. The most known is that at Burford, the seat of the famous Speaker Lenthall. It is larger, and there are more figures than in its rival the piece in Yorkshire, and some of these Vertue thought were painted from the life. This was kept at Gubbins in Hertfordshire, the seat of the Mores; but by what means the piece passed into the hands of Lenthall is uncertain." -- Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i]] réalisée par Holbein, vendue par W.J. Lenthall, Esq., achetée par [[Mr Crawley Custom He [?] Auctioneer]] au prix de 105.0 £. [18]