Young's Auctions

Lot 735

Description:
A pair of 19th C. portraits, a gentleman and lady, she wearing a lace trimmed dress, he holding a letter, oil on board, apparently unsigned, 19 x 14 cm, in period gilt frames, with labels for Samuel Coombes, carver and gilder.
Reference National Portrait Gallery
*Samuel Coombes, 49 Holywell St, London EC 1869-1870, 331 Strand 1869-1901, 175 Strand (‘opposite Australian Commonwealth’) Manufacturing carver and gilder.
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Our two day first fine sale of the year includes the Margaret Bide Collection of antique textiles and art from the estate of Paul Wengraf (1894 - 1978) Austrian émigré art dealer and others including works by Giacometti, Souza, Schiele, Josef Herman, Johannes Fischer, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis; silver, jewellery, furniture, ceramics, a gentleman's collection of glass and wine related antiques.

Margaret’s passion for her subject ignited on her first day studying and never diminished. Her association with Farnham Art College, now UCA, lasted for over thirty years, as student, lecturer and finally department head. To learn more about Margaret Bide, listen to Crafts Lives on The British Sound Library 


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