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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE HON. PATRICK AND LADY AMABEL LINDSAY (LOTS 5, 26 & 33)Lots 5, 26 and 33, with two outstanding fourteenth-century Italian illuminations, which will be sold on 8 July, and other significant pictures, are from the collection partly inherited and partly formed by Patrick Lindsay and arranged with characteristic taste by Lady Amabel, whom he married in 1955, in their house in Lansdowne Road. The three pictures in this catalogue represent three strata of the collection: lot 26, the Girolamo da Santacroce, was acquired by Alexander, Lord Lindsay, later 25th Earl of Crawford, whose outstanding collection of early Italian pictures reflected his interest in the history of Christian art; lot 33, the impressive Hondecoeter, is from the notable collection assembled for his London house by the financier Lewis Loyd, Lord Overstone, which his daughter bequeathed to her great-nephew by marriage, David, 27th Earl of Crawford, Patrick’s grandfather; while lot 5, the intriguing Vanitas, was purchased by Patrick Lindsay himself. Brought up with great works of art, Patrick spent some time with his father’s friend, Bernard Berenson, before becoming a director of Christie’s in 1955. As head of the picture department, he made a very significant contribution to the post-war revival of Christie’s. No one who knew him will forget his instinctive response to great works of art, the conviction with which this was expressed, or the flair with which he pursued the interests that mattered to him.
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
Details
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
oil on canvas, unframed
76 3⁄8 x 51 5⁄8 in. (194 x 131 cm.)
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
oil on canvas, unframed
76 3⁄8 x 51 5⁄8 in. (194 x 131 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired in 1863 by Samuel Jones Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone (1796-1883), London, and by descent to his daughter,
Harriet Loyd-Lindsay (née Jones-Loyd), Lady Wantage (1837-1920), 2 Carlton Gardens, London, by whom bequeathed with the contents of the house to,
David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres (1871-1940), and by descent to his son,
David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres (1900-1975), by whom given to his son,
The Hon. Patrick Lindsay (1928-1986).
Harriet Loyd-Lindsay (née Jones-Loyd), Lady Wantage (1837-1920), 2 Carlton Gardens, London, by whom bequeathed with the contents of the house to,
David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres (1871-1940), and by descent to his son,
David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres (1900-1975), by whom given to his son,
The Hon. Patrick Lindsay (1928-1986).
Literature
A Catalogue of Pictures forming the collection of Lord and Lady Wantage at 2 Carlton Gardens, London and Lockinge House, Berks and Overstone Park and Ardington House, London, 1902, p. 72, no. 106, illustrated; 1905, p. 83, no. 106, illustrated, where listed at Carlton Gardens, as signed and dated 'M. D. Hondecoeter, An. 1685'.
C. Villiers-Stuart, 'Painters of Fowl, Fruit and Flowers', Country Life, CXVIII, no. 3059, 1 September 1955, pp. 440-1, fig. 2, as signed and dated '1685'.
Country Life, CLXV, no. 4255, 25 January 1979, illustrated on the cover.
C. Villiers-Stuart, 'Painters of Fowl, Fruit and Flowers', Country Life, CXVIII, no. 3059, 1 September 1955, pp. 440-1, fig. 2, as signed and dated '1685'.
Country Life, CLXV, no. 4255, 25 January 1979, illustrated on the cover.
Exhibited
London, British Institution, 1864, no. 80.
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition: Dutch Pictures 1450-1750, 22 November 1952-1 March 1953, no. 431, as signed and dated 'M. D. Hondecoeter, An. 1685' (lent by the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres).
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Dutch and Flemish Pictures from Scottish Collections: A Loan Exhibition in Aid of the National Trust for Scotland, 8 November-8 December 1978, no. 35 (lent anonymously).
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition: Dutch Pictures 1450-1750, 22 November 1952-1 March 1953, no. 431, as signed and dated 'M. D. Hondecoeter, An. 1685' (lent by the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres).
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Dutch and Flemish Pictures from Scottish Collections: A Loan Exhibition in Aid of the National Trust for Scotland, 8 November-8 December 1978, no. 35 (lent anonymously).
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