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Auction archive: Lot number 50

Philip Mercier (Berlin 1689/91-1760 London)

Estimate
£20,000 - £40,000
ca. US$25,355 - US$50,710
Price realised:
£25,000
ca. US$31,693
Auction archive: Lot number 50

Philip Mercier (Berlin 1689/91-1760 London)

Estimate
£20,000 - £40,000
ca. US$25,355 - US$50,710
Price realised:
£25,000
ca. US$31,693
Beschreibung:

Philip Mercier (Berlin 1689/91-1760 London) Double portrait of a boy and girl, full-length, the boy in a brown suit and breeches, holding a whip, and the girl in a red dress with a sash of flowers, seated on a rocking horse waving a flag, a landscape beyond oil on canvas 39 ¼ x 49 ¼ in. (99.6 x 125.1 cm.) in the original 18th century carved, pierced, swept and gilded frame Provenance with J. Leger & Son, London, 1954. Almost certainly supplied by John Fowler as part of an interior scheme for Joan Dennis in 1954, from whom acquired in situ by Mr and Mrs Heinz circa 1955.

Auction archive: Lot number 50
Beschreibung:

Philip Mercier (Berlin 1689/91-1760 London) Double portrait of a boy and girl, full-length, the boy in a brown suit and breeches, holding a whip, and the girl in a red dress with a sash of flowers, seated on a rocking horse waving a flag, a landscape beyond oil on canvas 39 ¼ x 49 ¼ in. (99.6 x 125.1 cm.) in the original 18th century carved, pierced, swept and gilded frame Provenance with J. Leger & Son, London, 1954. Almost certainly supplied by John Fowler as part of an interior scheme for Joan Dennis in 1954, from whom acquired in situ by Mr and Mrs Heinz circa 1955.

Auction archive: Lot number 50
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