Dear blog reader.
Here is the eleventh part of the series on the sale of the contents of Shandon House, also known as the Shandon collection.
This blog post (and the next) describe the second portion of Robert Napier’s painting collection which were sold on the 4th day of the sale of the contents of Shandon House.
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GLASGOW HERALD, MONDAY 16TH APRIL 1877
THE SHANDON SALE IN LONDON
The sale on Saturday at Messrs Christie, Manson & Wood’s comprise the second portion of Mr Napier’s paintings, and realised a total of £9000. The highest sum given was 740 guineas for Louis Haghe’s watercolour ‘The Audience Chamber in the Hotel de Ville at Bruges’ (574 in the catalogue) and the next highest prices were 600 guineas and 530 guineas respectively, for Koekkoek’s magnificent forest landscapes. The purchaser in the first case was Mr Smith, and in the other Mrs Lawrie, of Messrs Thos Lawrie & Sons, of Glasgow, who has bought quite a third of the collection so far as it has yet been put to the hammer. It is a gratifying circumstance that though it has been found necessary to to disperse the Shandon art treasures, no inconsiderable portion of them is likely to return to the West of Scotland.
Mr Lawrie, amongst other purchases, on Saturday secured the following – Ruben’s Portrait of Helen Foreman and two children (652), 31 guineas; Lucas Van Leyden, twelve miniatures illustrating the passion (643), 52 guineas; G Netscher, portrait of a girl (620), 51 guineas; H Koekkoek, a set piece (572), 75 guineas; P Van Schendell, market scene in Rotterdam (568), 200 guineas; P Van Schendell, another market scene in Rotterdam (567), 205 guineas; Horatio McCulloch, Highland moorland scenery (563), 155 guineas.
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Dear blog reader
There is some information available online about Thos Lawrie & Sons, the art dealers. I do hope you find it interesting.
http://www.glasgowwestaddress.co.uk/1891_Book/Lawrie_Thomas_&_Son.htm
Shandon People and History 