Take Home a Proven Masterpiece European Art & Old Masters June 18, 2013 Philadelphia
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REEMAN’S is pleased to announce the launch of its newest department: European Art & Old Masters. These sales will include paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture from the Continent and the UK, spanning across at least four centuries, from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, culminating with works from the early 20th century. Previously included in the Fine Painting and Old Master auctions, the European sales will be held biannually and provide a specialized market dedicated solely to all manner of artworks from the Old Country. A historically resilient area of the art market, these sales signal Freeman’s continued emergence on the international stage. Featured in the inaugural June auction are two finely rendered paintings, each from private collections: Louis Bosworth Hurt’s ‘Braes at Orchy, Argylshire’ – a traditional Scottish scene replete with Highland cattle and one of the larger canvases by the famed Royal Academician to appear on the auction market; and ‘Elegant Woman with Bonnet in a Landscape’ by Frederick Hendrik Kaemmerer, a popular Dutch painter who studied with Jean Léon Gérôme and worked in Holland and Paris. A Salon medalist, his meticulously painted genre and figural works depicting elegantly dressed figures appealed to his bourgeois clientele and still resonate with collectors today. Whether you are in the market for an elegant continental landscape or nature morte painting, a fine Italian or Dutch drawing, or a Rembrandt etching, the June 18 auction will be your opportunity to come home with a proven masterpiece.
Top: LOUIS BOSWORTH HURT (BRITISH 1856-1929)
'BRAES AT ORCHY, ARGYLLSHIRE' Signed and dated 'Louis B. Hurt 1896' bottom right, oil on canvas 50 x 39 3/4 in. (127 x 101cm)
$25,000-40,000 (£15,625-25,000)
Bottom: FREDERICK HENDRIK KAEMMERER (DUTCH 1839-1902)
ELEGANT WOMAN WITH BONNET IN A LANDSCAPE Signed 'FH KAEMMERER' bottom right, oil on canvas 22 x 15 in. (55.9 x 38.1cm)
$15,000-25,000 (£9,375-15,625)
SPECIALISTS David Weiss +1 267.414.1214 dweiss@freemansauction.com
Alasdair Nichol +1 267.414.1211 anichol@freemansauction.com
Nick Curnow +44 (0)131 557 8844 nick.curnow@lyonandturnbull.com
Charlotte Riordan +44 (0)131 557 8844 charlotte.riordan@lyonandturnbull.com
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