10th Dec, 2025 12:00
Fine Paintings, Works on Paper and Sculpture | December 2025
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FREDERICK HALL (BRITISH 1860-1948)
VILLAGE STREET, NEWLYN, CORNWALL
signed Fred Hall lower left
oil on canvas
44 x 54.5cm; 17 1/4 x 21 1/2in
66 x 76cm; 26 x30in (framed)
Property from a Private Collection, Stratford-on-Avon
Provenance
Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin
Leslie Mellon, Dublin (purchased from the above in the 1980s)
Thence by descent to the present owners, grandchildren of the above
In this early work Fred Hall brought an almost photographic luminosity to painting en plein air. A leading member of the Newlyn School in Cornwall in the mid-1880s alongside Stanhope Forbes (1847-1957) and Frank Bramley (1857-1915), like others there Hall was influenced by the work of Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848- 1884), in particular his social realist themes and his use of a square brush.
Sold for £2,400
VILLAGE STREET, NEWLYN, CORNWALL
signed Fred Hall lower left
oil on canvas
44 x 54.5cm; 17 1/4 x 21 1/2in
66 x 76cm; 26 x30in (framed)
Property from a Private Collection, Stratford-on-Avon
Provenance
Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin
Leslie Mellon, Dublin (purchased from the above in the 1980s)
Thence by descent to the present owners, grandchildren of the above
In this early work Fred Hall brought an almost photographic luminosity to painting en plein air. A leading member of the Newlyn School in Cornwall in the mid-1880s alongside Stanhope Forbes (1847-1957) and Frank Bramley (1857-1915), like others there Hall was influenced by the work of Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848- 1884), in particular his social realist themes and his use of a square brush.
Auction: Fine Paintings, Works on Paper and Sculpture | December 2025, 10th Dec, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
From Rembrandt to David Bowie, Tracy Emin and Alison Wilding, our December sale offers an astonishing range of work from the last 400 years. Highlights include a rare re-discovered watercolour by Léon Bonvin (1834-1866) - left - painted at the age of 31, the year he died; some 20 works by George Richmond RA (1809-1896) which have remained with the family for the past 175 years, including his engraving The Shepherd of 1827; and the characterful Retainer from Cutch by Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938) painted during the Delhi Durbar in 1903. The sale also includes sculpture from a Private Collection, Surrey (lots 106-119).
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