Lot Essay
Sitters are as follows: violinists Ludwig Strauss, J. Niedzielski, Louis Ries, Count Alfredo Piatti, Antoine de Kontski, Pablo de Sarasate y Navascues, Johannes Wolf (2), and Madame Norman-Neruda (Lady Hall); the musician and conductor, Anton Seidl; the child pianist and composer, Josef Casimir Hoffman; the Irish American bandmaster, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore; and group portraits of the Monday Concert Quartet (2), one of the latter by Bridge of Dalston with printed credit and title including taken in St. James's Hall in half a second, on a foggy November afternoon.