This spring Roseberys are immensely looking forward to presenting our Old Master, British & European Pictures auction to the market. The 29th of March sale includes 382 lots across a variety of media, ages, and artistic movements.

19th-century British and European paintings form the strongest grouping of the sale, led by lots 243, 350, 251, 262, 169, 358, 210, and 227. The sale also boasts some important 17^th- and 18th-century works, including lots 42, 11, 50, 75, and 51.

Other pictures which are sure to garner interest are some wonderful and attractively-priced Dutch and Flemish oils with highlights including lots 58, 62, 63, 65, 66, and 67. An important collection of English 17th- and 18th-century miniatures are also coming to auction, spanning lots 150 through 154.

Lara L’vov-Basirov, Head of Department, is “thrilled to be offering up these 382 lots to the market, and greatly looks forward to following their progress on 29th March”.

_{Lot 243: Federico del Campo,  Peruvian 1837-1927-  The Doge's Palace and the Grand Canal, Venice}

Lot 243 is a standout highlight of the upcoming Old Masters Pictures sale. The exceptional view of Venice’s Grand Canal was made by one of the leading ‘vedute’ painters of the 19th century, the Peruvian painter Frederico del Campo. Del Campo’s painting comes to Roseberys with a £55,000-£65,000 estimate.

_{Lot 66: Paul de Vos,  Flemish 1596-1678- Hens, cockerels, ducks and chicks by a hen-house with a bird of prey swooping}

Lot 66 is a fabulous painting by Flemish Baroque artist Paul de Vos, which is striking and highly energetic, displaying the artist working at his best. With the attribution confirmed by Dr Fred Meijer, the ambitious composition is exceptionally executed, with strong detailing and a high finish. Specialising in hunting scenes, still life scenes and depictions of animals and birds, this canvas betrays de Vos’s keen interest in the movement of birds and his skill in capturing their frenetic behaviour. Lot 66 is estimated between £25,000-£35,000.

_{Lot 350: Charles Knighton Warren,  British 1856-1893-  Boy playing a twin armed flute, or 'diaulos'}

Lot 350 is a fine work by Charles Knighton Warren who was celebrated for his Orientalist scenes in oil. Particularly sensitively rendered, this painting depicts a boy playing a twin armed flute, or 'diaulos'. This oil on canvas has estimates of £10,000-£15,000. Another very fine oil coming to sale in March is lot 76, by the English master maritime painter Pieter Monamy, which has a £5,000-£7,000 estimate.

_{Lot 251: Hermann David Solomon Corrodi, Italian 1844-1905-  The Acropolis, Athens}

The next highlight is a carefully executed and high-quality preparatory study for – or version of - a large oil by Italian artist Hermann David Salomon Corrodi. That work was sold at Christie’s, London, 15 June 2015 (as lot 46). Corrodi gained international acclaim as a painter of Orientalist subjects through his commissions from the British and Austro-Hungarian royal families. He travelled extensively throughout Europe, North Africa and the Near East, exercising his remarkable talent for subtlety in the gradation of colour, shadow and light, as evidenced in the present lot. Although Corrodi's career belongs to the second half of the century, his style is closer to the academic traditions of the first half of the Ottocento. Lot 251 is sure to garner great interest and comes to Roseberys with an estimate of £8,000-£12,000.

_{Lot 262: Wright Barker, RBA, British 1864-1941-  Maternity;  oil on canvas}

Bradford-born artist John Wright Barker was celebrated for his characterful and bold depictions of animals, predominantly horses and dogs. His work is defined both by his technical proficiency, and the great tenderness and sympathy with which he bestows his subjects. Barker frequently worked on large canvases and lot 262 ranks amongst his finest works. The painting which depicts horses at rest in dappled sunlight is an excellent example of Barker’s style and is estimated between £8,000-£12,000.

_{Lot 42: Giovanni Paolo Panini,  Italian 1691-1765- View of Piazza Colonna with the Column of Marcus Aurelius, Rome}

By contrast with his extensive output of capricci, Giovanni Paolo Panini’s detailed topographical ‘vedute’ of Rome, like lot 42, are rare. In this drawing, several important symbols of modern Rome can be identified around Piazza Colonna: the Palazzo Chigi and the Curia Innocenziana to the right, the Residenzia di Monsignor Vicegerente at the centre and the Chiesa dei Santi Bartolomeo e Alessandro dei Bergamaschi to the left. With an estimate of £5,000-£7,000, this drawing will be popular with Italophiles and collectors of 18^th-cenutry topographical drawings.

_{Lot 358: Edward Robert Hughes, RWS, British 1851-1914- A pair of portraits: Thomas Webb, holding a black hat; and Elizabeth Webb, holding a vase of flowers}

Lot 358, a pair of portraits of Thomas and Elizabeth Webb shows the influence of Pre-Raphaelite portraiture and the impact of artists such as Frederick Sandys and William Holman Hunt on the artist Edward Robert Hughes. The pair is estimated at £5,000-£8,000.

_{Lot 11: After Francesco Vanni, Italian 1563-1610-  The Flagellation of Christ}

Lot 11 is a previously unidentified and unrecorded 17^th-century copy of Francesco Vanni’s lost flagellation scene in oils, which was once housed in the Church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome, of which preparatory drawings and various copies remain.

_{Lot 124: John Constable, RA,  British 1776-1837-  The ruins of St Botolph's Priory, Colchester}

Roseberys are thrilled to present a rediscovered drawing by John Constable RA. Constable executed drawings in Colchester on a number of occasions towards the beginning of his career, returning to Suffolk and Essex on a regular basis to stay with his family and to continue his sketching from nature. Lot 124 dates to around 1808 and presumably relates to a number of other pencil sketches he made of St Botolph’s Priory in the same year. We are grateful to Anne Lyles for confirming the authenticity of the drawing, which is presented with a £4,000-£6,000 estimate.

_{Lot 227: James Baker Pyne, RBA,  British 1800-1870-  The Gulf of Spezia}

A final highlight in the 29th of March auction is lot 227, a stunning oil by James Baker Pyne. A methodical artist who dated every picture (lot 227 is dated 1855), Pyne was an admirer of J.M.W. Turner, whose influence is evident in the colouring and composition of this panoramic view of Spezia. This beautiful Pyne work has an estimate of £4,000-£6,000.