Catalog of Goods for Sale, late seventeenth Century
At the Bell-Tavern over against the Gate-House in Kings-Street Westminster. Will be exposed to sale a curious collection of paintings; being most originals, by the best masters of Europe, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 13th 14th 15th and 16th of this instant October, 1691
Wing (2nd ed., 1994) / C7654
Great list, including:
1. Winter piece, an orig.
2. A fire piece, ditto.
3. A Man feeding Children.
4. A Woman’s Head well done.
12. A fine piece of Peaches by a great Master
17. a Ruine, an orig.
22. a Fruit piece with a Fly, finely done.
24. a Bitch and Puppies, by Hundios
29. Diana with the Golden Shower
34. Venus and Cupid, by an Italian
35. an orig. in black and white Colours
36. a Fish piece, by Robinson
37. a Collation finely done
38. King William’s mother, by a good Master.
39. a Fruit-piece, very fine
42. a Satyr, by an Italian
47. The Pope, curiously done
52. a fine piece of still Life
55. Moses in the Bull-rushes, orig. by young Frank
61. King James in an oval frame
67. a Winter-piece, very pleasant
68. an Italian Landskip
69. a Turkish Sea-Port, an orig.
71. an orig. Ruine by a good Hand
72. a piece well done
74. Memento mori, very fine.
75. a Dead Hare well done (2x)
76. Greenwich, very finele done.
79. Doctor Paracelsus, after Rembrandt (?)
85. a Pheasant on a Deal-board, by the Life
86. a Magdalene, an orig. very neat
88. a French Doctor, and a Lady of the Town
89 Two Senetors on Copper, very fine
99. a Landskip in little
110. Some men a reading
118 an orig. piece of still Life
124 a fine Landksip of Fowling
125 a still Life with a Bird
130 Our Saviour’s Apostles Fishing
141 a Tomb very fine
153 a large original Frost piece (2x)
several “Droll pieces”
160 a Sea=piece well done
152 The Fire of London, by Lotton (?), an orig.
165 A Fruit Market very fine
171 a Bear-Baiting, by Hunion (?)
180 a Madona by Blomart
185 King David by a good Master
195 a Conversation by Dagroot [3x)
197 Some Singers orig. by old Hemskerck
200 a Bible story in a neat black frame
238 A Rock, by an Italian, an orig.
255 The City of Venice
275 Curious Still life with a Corpse
281 a Dutch Breakfast finely done
282 an English Breakfast, ditto
282 a fine strong Slate Table
285 St. Sebastian, by an Italian (2x)
292 a large piece of the three wise Men, after Rubens
295 a fine Italian market place
308 Conversation of music by Degroos(?)
330 an orig. piece of Cows
STRIKING: very few religious images. Lots of still lives, landscapes, genre scenes. Some grouping of images, but not very systematic.
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