Classic Week: London | Christie’s

SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRISTOL 1769-1830 LONDON)

Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, K.G., K.B., M.P. (1769-1852), bust-length, in civilian dress with a military cloak, wearing the insignia of the Order of the Golden Fleece

JAN VAN HUYSUM (AMSTERDAM 1682-1749)

Peaches and grapes in a wicker basket, with fruit and flowers arranged on a marble ledge, including plums, raspberries, redcurrants, melon, hazelnuts, poppy, morning glory, forget-me-not, cockscomb and jasmine, a stone column and terracotta urn beyond, decorated with putti, holding an opium poppy, with butterflies and insects

JAN VAN HUYSUM (AMSTERDAM 1682-1749)

Roses, orange blossom, peonies, narcissi, poppies and other flowers in a terracotta vase decorated with putti, and a bird’s nest on a marble ledge, before a niche

AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE PAIR STATUE OF THE ROYAL ACQUAINTANCES NEBEFWY AND MES-SAT

OLD KINGDOM, MID TO LATE 5TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 2400-2300 B.C.

SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN 1577-1640 ANTWERP)

Aeneas helping Dido from her horse - a sketch

The Master of the Liège Apocalypse

The Clermont-Tonnerre Grail, in French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Metz, c.1290-1310]

JOHN MELHUISH STRUDWICK (LONDON 1849-1937)

'Thy Music, faintly falling, dies away, Thy dear eyes dream that Love will live for aye'

[BRONTË, Emily (1818-1848) and Anne (1820-1849)]

Wuthering Heights. A Novel. By Ellis Bell. – Agnes Grey. A Novel, by Acton Bell. London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847.

ADRIAEN COORTE (IJZENDIJKE C. 1659⁄64-1707 VLISSINGEN)

A bowl of wild strawberries with gooseberries on a stone ledge

ADÉLAÏDE LABILLE-GUIARD (PARIS 1749-1803)

Portrait of Marquise Marie-Thérèse-Odile de la Valette (1761-1788), half-length, seated, in a silver grey satin dress with a lace shawl and bonnet, playing a harp

MERCATOR, Gerard (1512-1594)

Tabulae Geographicae . Duisburg: 1585-1589.

LOUIS-LÉOPOLD BOILLY (LA BASSÉE 1761-1845 PARIS)

Thirty-five expressive heads ( Réunion de 35 têtes diverses )

NEWTON, Isaac (1642-1727)

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica . Edited by Edmond Halley (1656-1743). London: Joseph Streater for the Royal Society [at the expense of Edmond Halley], to be sold by Samuel Smith and other booksellers, 1687.

ATTRIBUTED TO ISAAC BETTS (fl. 1677-d. 1706) AND WORKSHOP

THE CORONATION, A RARE AND FINE NAVY BOARD MODEL OF 1685

PIETER BRUEGHEL II (BRUSSELS 1564⁄5-1638 ANTWERP)

The Payment of the Tithes

JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON (1741-1828), 1778

Bust of François Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire (1694-1778)

GIROLAMO DA SANTACROCE (SANTA CROCE, BERGAMO, C. 1480⁄85-AFTER 1556 VENICE)

Mehmed II and the Patriarch Gennadius outside the Walls of Constantinople

AERT VAN DER NEER (GORINCHEM C. 1603-1677 AMSTERDAM)

A winter landscape with a view of the Oude Schans and Montelbaanstoren, Amsterdam

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Autograph letter signed ('Albert') to Michele Besso, Prague, 26 March [1912]

SEBASTIAN VRANCX (ANTWERP 1573-1647)

A fête champêtre

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Two autograph letters signed ('Einstein' and 'A. Einstein') to Ludwig Hopf, [Prague, after 20 February 1912] and Zurich, 16 August 1912

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Le Peintre et son modèle

A ROMAN MARBLE FUNERARY RELIEF

LATE REPUBLIC TO EARLY IMPERIAL PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.

BALTHASAR VAN DER AST (MIDDELBURG 1593⁄4-1657 DELFT)

Grapes, apples and peaches in a blue and white porcelain bowl, with a vase of tulips, roses, irises and other flowers on a stone ledge covered with flowers, shells, fruit and insects

JAN DAVIDSZ. DE HEEM (UTRECHT 1606-1684 ANTWERP)

Herring and shrimp on a silver platter, with onions, bread, a lemon, an orange, grapes, a butterfly, cherries, a glass of wine and a glass of beer, on a draped ledge

WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)

The Grave: The soul hovering over the body reluctantly parting with life

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.170)

In hoc opere haec continentur geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei … Nova orbis descriptio ac nova Oceani navigation qua Lisbona ad Indicum pervenitur pelagus Marco Beneventano monacho caelestino aedita. Nova et universalior Orbis cogniti tabula Joa. Ruysch Germano elaborata. Sex Tabulae noviter confectae. Rome: Bernardinus Venetus de Vitalibus, 8 September, 1507 [colophon], 1508 [title].

JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (1775-1851)

The Lauerzersee with the Ruins of Schwanau and the Mythen, Switzerland

MELCHIOR D'HONDECOETER (UTRECHT 1636-1695 AMSTERDAM)

A peacock on a branch with a squirrel in a tree, monkeys, a parrot, a pigeon and fruit on a marble ledge, and a hawk, a dove and a swallow flying

WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)

The Grave: Death's Door

DUTCH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY

Two skulls with a quill and paper on a marble ledge

SIR ALFRED JAMES MUNNINGS, P.R.A., R.W.S. (MENDHAM, SUFFOLK 1878-1959 DEDHAM, ESSEX)

After the race, Cheltenham

GOVERT FLINCK (KLEVE 1615-1660 AMSTERDAM)

Head of a bearded man

PIETER BRUEGHEL II (BRUSSELS 1564⁄5-1638 ANTWERP)

A village landscape with figures conversing in the foreground

FRANS FRANCKEN II (ANTWERP 1581-1642)

The Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite

ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)

Adam and Eve

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

The Three Trees

JAN VAN MIERIS (LEIDEN 1660-1690 ROME)

The Art of Painting (Pictura)

ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)

Melencolia I

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL AND FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A CUBAN AMBOYNA, FRUITWOOD, BOXWOOD AND IVORINE INLAID HUMIDOR

CIRCA 1940-45

PIETER BRUEGHEL II (BRUSSELS 1564⁄5-1638 ANTWERP)

The Misanthrope

JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY, A.R.A. (DERBY 1734-1797)

Portrait of Harry Peckham (1740-1787), three-quarter-length, in the livery of the Markeaton Hunt, holding a hat, with a terrier at his side

HANS BALDUNG, CALLED GRIEN ( CIRCA 1484 / 85 - 1545)

The Witches' Sabbath

Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci (1339-1399)

Sts Peter and Paul, historiated initial 'N' from an illuminated Gradual on vellum, Italy, Florence, Santa Maria degli Angeli, 1371-1374

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)

Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true original copies. The third impression. And unto this Impression is added seven Playes, never before Printed in Folio . Edited by John Heminge (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627), except for the 7 additional plays. London: Printed [by Roger Daniel, John Hayes or Thomas Ratcliffe, and Alice Warren] for P[hilip]. C[hetwind], 1664.

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